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December 29, 2022, 8:05 AM

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Court records: SBF is expected to enter a plea before a new judge on January 3; the original judge recused herself because her husband's law firm advised FTX  —  Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to enter a plea next week to criminal charges he defrauded investors and looted billions of dollars …
CNBC:
The SEC says FTX made two $100M investments using customer funds in fintech company Dave in March 2022 and blockchain startup Mysten Labs in September 2022  —  - FTX and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried made two $100 million venture investments using customer funds through an FTX subsidiary, the SEC said in a pair of complaints.
Bloomberg:
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Twitter resolves widespread issues reported by users; Downdetector shows the issues began around 7pm ET on December 28 and mainly affected Twitter's website  —  The issues surfaced several days after Elon Musk said he had shut down one of the company's major data centers.
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
TSMC begins mass producing its next-gen 3nm chips in Taiwan, which need ~35% less power than 5nm chips, following Samsung, and also promised to build 2nm plants  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. kicked off mass production of next-generation chips Thursday, ensuring the island remains …
Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
Solana cofounders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal scramble to move past FTX's stain on their token, down 96% from November 2021; FTX and Alameda bought 58M+ SOL  —  Solana, the blockchain network once championed by Sam Bankman-Fried, is drawing immense scrutiny as industry watchers wonder whether …
Sam Kessler / CoinDesk:
A hacker leaks 10K+ API keys belonging to users of crypto trading service 3Commas, which had said its users were “phished”; 3Commas CEO confirms the leaked data  —  The leak comes after 3Commas repeatedly told users that they had been “phished” after widespread hacks.
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg:
A look at the US case against Avraham Eisenberg, who claimed his “highly profitable trading strategy” was legal, over allegedly exploiting Mango Markets  —  Criminal charges against a crypto trader who claimed to have walked away with about $50 million worth of digital assets …

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