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After an impressive $749 million was raised last week, funding totals came back down to earth to $228 million. Zero-carbon Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf completed a $32 million public equity sale, representing the largest deal of the week. Additionally, mining company Pow. re completed both a Series A and Strategic fundraising round this week, valuing the company at $150 million. The uptick in mining deals over the last two weeks...

Equities have continued to rally following the Fed's 25 bps rate hike and Chair Powell's press conference yesterday. The S&P 500 gained 1.31% to reach its highest level in 5 months, while the Nasdaq gained 3.31%. Investors perceived Powell's comments as less hawkish compared to earlier conferences, as he alluded to "easing" inflation and shifted the focus from the "pace" to the "extent" of future rate hikes. The ECB and...

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BACK TO LIFE If you were 100% deployed on January 1st and decided to lock in your returns for the year, frankly, we wouldn’t blame you, especially not after the carnage witnessed last year. However, as we discussed last week, we view this current rally as a sign of more opportunities to come and are excited to help our clients navigate the crypto market in 2023. The choppy, directionless crypto...

For the first time in over a year, we’ve seen mining dominate crypto funding, comprising $625M of this week’s $746M of funding. There were two mining deals, Core Scientific and Blockstream, which received $500M and $125M, respectively. This heavy funding in mining caused total funding this week to skyrocket from last week, increasing nearly 4x from $194M to $746M (one of the most funded weeks in months). Aside from mining,...

Stocks are reacting positively to this morning’s U.S Q4 GDP release, which showed GDP grew 2.9% annualized, beating Dow Jones’ 2.8% estimate. The S&P was up 0.27%, while the Nasdaq gained 0.74%. Although the growth rate slowed compared to Q3, the beat above expectations gives bulls additional ammo in their outlook for a soft landing. Attention now turns to the remaining Q4 earnings releases and next week’s Fed meeting, where...