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It's been an exciting start to the year 2023 with the market seeing strong gains. While it's always important to remain cautious and diversified in one's investments, the current market outlook looks promising for the short-term. We'll be keeping a close eye on the latest economic developments and providing updates in this newsletter.

As always thank you for reading and taking a seat at The Girls Table.

Here is a breakdown of today's newsletter:?

• ???Events & Community
• ??? New Podcast Episode
• ???TLDR - This Week in Crypto
• ?? NFT Alpha
• ?? Start-Up Investment Opportunities
• ?? Venture Capital News

????Events & Community:?

Did anybody see World of Women announce their LA official meet-up in February?! We have been speaking with the planners and will have more information to share next week.?

We are always looking for sponsors to be able to plan more events for Women in Web3. If you or your company might be interested, please reach out!

Below we have provided our tentative list for 2023 but if you want to see a larger list of crypto events check out a larger list one of our community members made?here:

• ETHDenver?
• NFT LA
• SXSW?
• NFT NYC?
• Consensus?
• VeeCon

Also, if you don't want to miss out on future events we will be hosting during 2023, join our Telegram group to stay up-to-date. The chat has been growing and it is so amazing to have such an awesome group of inspiration Women!

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???? New Podcast Episode:?

In this week's episode of The Girls Table,?TradingFemale?is joined by?Angelic Vendette?who is the Head of Marketing at our favorite athleshire brand Alo Yoga. Angelic was Recently named “CMO to Watch” by Business Insider, and identified as Brand Innovators “40 under 40”. Angelic has been creating award-winning campaigns on the brand, retailer, and agency sides for the past 15 years. Prior to joining Alo Yoga as Chief Marketer, Angelic held marketing strategy and leadership roles at LVMH, Sephora, and fashion tech start-up Stitch Fix.

Watch the Latest Episode Here

????TLDR - This Week in Crypto:

• Coinbase announces 950 layoffs
• Ethereum Shanghai update draws near
• Mark Cuban to be deposed for bankrupt Voyager partnership
• Judge allows Binance US to buy Voyager

????Crypto News:

Liquid Staked Derivatives Rally

• Staked ETH providers have been seeing a massive rally in token prices due to recent discussions about their potential revenues following the Ethereum Shanghai hard fork
• The Lido LDO token is up 60% in the past seven days and Rocket Pool’s RPL is up over 20%?
• With the Shanghai upgrade slated for march, staked ETH will finally be eligible for withdraw

Microsoft looking at $10B investment in OpenAi

• After already investing $1B into OpenAI in 2019, Microsoft is looking at an additional $10B investment in OpenAI
• OpenAI is the parent company behind the popular artificial intelligence chatbot, Chatbot GPT that has recently opened for public access
• Microsoft is rumored to be looking at integrating Chatz GPT into its Bing search engine in order to seriously compete with Google?

Ondo Finance Announces Tokenized Bonds

• A tokenized risk-free rate is finally coming to DeFi?
• Ondo Finance has announced that it is launching tokenized Treasuries and Bonds with 3 offerings, short-term US treasuries, short-term investment grade corporate bonds, and high yield, corporate bonds
• The offerings however will be permissioned, with KYC and AML requirements alongside a $100k minimum deposit to mint

Gemini Ends Gemeni Earn Program?

• In part of its recent battle with Genesis Trading, Gemini has ended its master loan agreement in which Genesis borrowed users deposits in Gemini Earn?
• Genesis will be forced to return all locked-up assets as the Winklevoss twins publicly battle with Gary Silbert, the CEO of Digital Currency group which is the parent company to Genesis.

????NFT Alpha:?

Fidelity files for NFT trademarks?

• Fidelity has officially submitted 3 trademark applications for its crypto endeavors?
• The trademarks are for NFTs and an NFT Marketplace, Metaverse Investment Services, and Crypto Trading?

ENS recaps massive 2022

• ENS proudly announced over 80% of all ENS domains were minted in 2022, topping a record 2.2 million ENS names

??? Start-Up Investment Opportunities

Please keep this confidential.

The author of this newsletter,?TradingFemale, works at Red Beard Ventures. Red Beard Ventures is a Web3 Venture Capital Firm that has invested in over 150+ companies including Sandbox, Dapper Labs, SuperRare, Unstoppable Domains, LayerZero, and more! If you are an accredited investor and interested in expanding your start-up portfolio, we have provided some investment opportunities that are currently active through the?Red Beard Ventures Syndicate.?

Conjure Games: Founder of Kabam Games Starts his Next Venture;?

• The founder Tim built his career at Microsoft, Electronic Arts, and Capcom working on titles like SSX, Need for Speed, and Call of Duty before becoming the leader of Kabam Games
• At Kabam, Tim built and launched one of the most successful mobile games of all time - Marvels Contest of Champions which grosses $300m+ annually ($2b+ lifetime), with over 300m players worldwide?
• Tim’s newest company, Conjure is a next-generation mobile, video game production platform focused on console-level fighting RPG (role-playing) games?
• The first game, WAR GODS, includes a first-of-its-kind marketplace to encourage in-app purchases that further your unique character's progression, fighting style, and opportunities for side quests and in-game social structure
• The economics will be underpinned by blockchain technology allows players globally to build unique characters, own their likenesses, and will offer additional economic upside to players
• The game offers a host of opportunities for sponsored partnerships to drive early revenue growth
• Seed, $22M Post-Money Valuation
• Link to Invest

Loupe: Digital Video E-Commerce Infrastructure Enabling Real-Time Shopping of Sports Cards and other Alt Assets. $37M GMV in First 18 Months

• Loupe is a new card-collecting experience like no other! It's a unique, innovative sports card collectorverse that combines e-commerce, streaming, and community into one platform
• The platform allows users to buy packs, watch live openings, connect with other collectors, and participate in a growing community of rapid collectors.
• In 2022: $45M GMV is projected
• More than 50% of Loupe sellers do >$500,000 in sales; 12 sellers have surpassed $1M in sales
• Series B, $65M Post-money Cap
• Link to invest

Azteco: Democratizing Bitcoin access to 1.7B globally

• We are co-syndicating with two of the top industry players; Sequoia Capital and Jack Dorsey (leading round with $4M)
• Grown GMV 400%: July 2021: $255,659 >> Sep 2022: $1,038,109
• Completed the installation of 200,000 BTC voucher outlets across South Africa
• Completed the installation of 200,000 BTC voucher outlets across Brazil
• Online exposure to 4.6M mobile banking app users
• Link to invest

??? Venture Capital News

Pitchbook Report: VC firms Stockpile Cash

• VC firms are sitting on $585.5 Billion at the end of 2022
• This “Dry Powder” is mostly funds raised but not allocated
• This implies investor confidence has not waned, but VC firms are faced with unfavorable investment opportunities
• It could also be explained that downturns in traditional markets are leading investors to non-traditional investment vehicles

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