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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Circle says $3.3B of its ~$40B USDC reserves remain at Silicon Valley Bank and that the crypto payments firm will follow state and federal regulators' guidance — - After being largely silent on Friday, Circle said it has $3.3 billion in exposure to Silicon Valley Bank …
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| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase “temporarily” pauses conversions of USDC into USD during the weekend; USDC depegged and traded at ~$0.90 as investors reacted to Circle's SVB exposure — The second-largest stablecoin in crypto fell from its intended $1 peg on Saturday, trading as low as 81.5 cents …
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Circle's USDC has seen $1B in net redemptions since SVB's collapse and lost its $1 peg, after Circle said SVB is one of six banks managing USDC cash reserves — Stablecoin issuer Circle held an undisclosed amount of USDC's cash reserves at now-failed Silicon Valley Bank.
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| TechCrunch: |
How startup founders are reacting to Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, as some worry about frozen funds, operating expenses, and paying employees full salaries — Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Filing: Roku held $487M, or ~26% of its $1.9B in cash and equivalents, at SVB, “largely uninsured”, and says the $1.4B left “will be sufficient” for 12+ months — About one-fourth of Roku's cash and equivalents — nearly half a billion dollars …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roblox and other companies disclose their exposure to SVB in SEC filings; Roblox says ~5% of its $3B cash and securities balance was at SVB as of February 28 — The fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is impacting a range of startups and larger firms including …
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Filing: crypto lender BlockFi, which filed for bankruptcy in November 2022, has $227M in uninsured funds in SVB; BlockFi may have violated US bankruptcy law — - Crypto lender Blockfi has millions in uninsured funds because the cash is a money market mutual fund, according to a bankruptcy document filed on Friday.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality — Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but: bank run! — SVB
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| Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: |
Filing: investors and depositors tried to pull $42B from SVB on March 9; the bank had a $958M negative cash balance on March 9, per a taking possession order — Investors and depositors tried to pull $42 billion from Silicon Valley Bank on Thursday in one of the biggest US bank runs in more than a decade … | Marc Rubinstein / Net Interest: |
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
How the FBI proved that NetWire was a Remote Access Trojan and not a legitimate remote admin tool, leading to the seizure of the website selling the malware — On Thursday, the U.S. government announced that it had seized a website used to sell malware designed to spy on computers and cellphones.
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Krebs on Security, Department of Justice, and MacSecurity.net
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| Giovanni Colantonio / Digital Trends: |
ChatGPT seems to have plagiarized at least one mobile game to “invent” a game called Sumplete, after being prompted to create a Sudoku-like puzzle — ChatGPT can add another job to its résumé: game developer. With just a few simple prompts from a user …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
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