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Fabrice Grinda says he never intended to run a venture firm. He just really (really) enjoyed angel investing. In fact, by late 2013, when he was on the verge of selling the global classifieds marketplace OLX — his third business — he says he had already written checks to more than 150 startups with his longtime friend and OLX cofounder Alec Oxenford. “We’d been working together forever. It was really a family office that was angel investing at a massive scale,” Grinda recalls.

Walmart is preparing to spend over $2.5 billion in India as the retailer doubles down on the opportunities it sees in India’s e-commerce and payments markets even as the firm contends with rising costs amid the market downturns.

Walmart spent about $780 million earlier this month to the Indian tax authorities after PhonePe, in which the retailer owns a majority stake, moved its domicile to India from Singapore. Walmart is also looking to invest between $200 million to $300 million in PhonePe’s ongoing funding round, according to a source familiar with the matter. (PhonePe declined to comment.)

Six tried and tested on-chain metrics are repeating patterns last seen at the bottom of the past three bear markets.

Several on-chain metrics from the Bitcoin (BTC) network are flashing buy signals following this year’s rally.

Bitcoin has broken out of its torpor to notch up a 37% gain since the beginning of 2023. However, on-chain data is still signaling it could be a “generational buying opportunity” according to analysts.

On Jan. 24, researcher and technical analyst “Game of Trades” identified six on-chain metrics for his 71,000 Twitter followers.

The first metric is an accumulation trend score highlighting zones of heavy accumulation in terms of entity size and the number of coins bought.

“Large entities have been in deep accumulation mode ever since the FTX collapse,” the analyst noted before adding “similar accumulation took place in the 2018 and 2020 bottoms.”

The story begins 13 to 14 years ago, with the formation of a company called Theleme. One of the co-founders of Theleme is a man named Rishi Sunak. Who just so happens to now be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The company quickly made a “wise” investment, putting millions of dollars into a small biotech firm called Modern.

At the time, Moderna only had a handful of employees, but Theleme apparently saw the potential for growth.

Years passed, and the UK government suddenly found itself in need of a reliable Covid-19 vaccine whilst Sunak was Chancelor of the Exchequer.

When Moderna claimed that its vaccine candidate was 94.5% effective, the government immediately struck a deal to purchase 5 million doses.

As time passed, Theleme’s investment in Moderna continued to pay off.

12 January 2023 | SAINT HELIER, Jersey – As announced on 30 December 2022, the Board of Directors of CoinShares International Limited (“CoinShares” or the “Company“) (Nasdaq Stockholm Market: CS; US OTCQX: CNSRF), Europe’s largest and leading digital asset investment and trading group, resolved to implement a share buy-back program and repurchase shares on Nasdaq Stockholm Market during the period 3 January 2023, up to and including 3 April 2023 for total maximum amount of SEK 25 million in accordance with the authorisation from the Annual General Meeting on 20 June 2022.

The Board of Directors’ resolution to implement the share buy-back program was made after the Board’s review of the Company’s capital structure and was implemented for the purposes of reducing the capital of the Company.

• Who will be affected most?
• Business sectors and price-sensitivity
• Why now?
• How Singapore compares with other countries

Come Jan. 1, Singapore will raise its goods and services tax, otherwise known as the GST, from 7% to 8%. It’s the first of two scheduled hikes of the GST, with the second slated to take place in January 2024, when the GST will be raised from 8% to 9%.

The GST is a consumption tax imposed on nearly all goods and services in Singapore. Starting Jan. 1, 2023, GST will be imposed on imported low-value goods valued up to S$400. Currently, only imported goods valued above S$400 are subjected to the GST. With the change, all goods and services imported into Singapore, including imported goods purchased online, will be subject to the tax.

 

• ‘A stake through the heart of this abuse’

The $1.7 trillion federal spending bill includes a new change that will curb the abuse of tax incentives for land conservation. Pictured, Montana.

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The $1.7 trillion federal spending bill includes a change designed to curb the abuse of tax incentives for land conservation.

Federal conservation easements enable property owners to take a charitable deduction when they give up certain rights to develop land. The incentives, which were made permanent by Congress in 2015, help offset the owners’ financial loss for other potential uses for the property.

 

However, misuse of those deductions has been a persistent problem, whereby groups of investors may obtain inflated land appraisals and receive higher tax deductions.

• There are opportunities in the stablecoin and wallet ecosystems
• There is an opportunity in the technical development of Ethereum

Ethereum co-founder has identified three key areas that would provide huge opportunities in the crypto space next year. Vitalik Buterin believes stablecoins and wallets present exciting opportunities for innovators in the space. Technical developments that contribute to the Ethereum blockchain are also another excellent opportunity. There are opportunities in the stablecoin and wallet ecosystems Vitalik
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Ethereum co-founder has identified three key areas that would provide huge opportunities in the crypto space next year.

• Ethereum Integration



On Wednesday, December 14, ConsenSys, the company behind MetaMask, announced that PayPal aims to "seamlessly integrate within the MataMask wallet," in an effort to provide customers the ability to purchase cryptocurrency -- primarily only Ethereum at the time of the announcement.

The new function is currently being rolled out to select customers in the U.S. with a broader U.S.-based release said to be taking place in the coming weeks.