Bankless Nation, we got the 10 biggest events in crypto in 2023.

Call it the yearly roll-up because it is the last week of December of the year and it has been quite a year

I'll say in January of this year the wounds that FTX gave us were wide open it was not a good

2022 and 2023 did not look like it was going to be any brighter.

We had just delivered the anti-cripto regulators of the world the best possible leverage they could have ever

asked to suppress the crypto industry.

The incoming onslaught of overly aggressive crypto regulation felt inevitable.

Meanwhile, the macroclimate was not good.

Interest rates were climbing without signs of slowing down,

conversations of the looming recession were growing louder, consumer credit was rising

and consumer sentiment was down bad. We all entered 2023 with PTSD, all waiting with anticipation for the next

shoe to drop. And then, after all that, the drop never came. What seems like one of the worst moments in crypto's history turned out to be the bottom.

The bomb of Genesis and DCG turned out to be a dud.

Rising interest rates began to decelerate in Q1 and stopped completely in Q2.

The SEC took its first L in the courts and sellers literally ran out of coins.

Halfway through the year, Black Rock filed its Bitcoin E. T.F. on June 16th in

2003. And at that moment in time, Bitcoin was already up 200% on the year, recovering

from 15,000 to 30,000 and the dark clouds from the demise of

2022 began to lift and the path forward started to reveal itself.

Now here we are just 12 months later. Bitcoin is under one month away from a generally assumed spot Bitcoin EDF approval.

Salana, after flirting with death from capital fleeing the network,

has risen from the ashes in an unprecedented

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