text: SEC clocks an L, NPCs clock a W, L2 Summer cont.
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  Live look at us “taking meetings” this week.
  Many, many happenings:
  Listen to the latest Feelings Check-In podcast where we unpack Threads vs. web3 social, Dior’s web3 experimentation, and overshare on our personal feelings as per usual.
  Save the Date. August 6. Los Angeles community event. More details soon!
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  Taking Howey for a Spin. It was the kind of ambiguous, but also kind of optimistic news heard ‘round the timeline this week. XRP isn’t a security, the people proclaimed! Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. A federal judge said that the “retail” XRP token sale wasn’t an unregistered securities sale, however that is not true of their sales to institutions. A smart person sums it up - how, and to whom, a token is sold matters a lot. Regardless of all this, the SEC undoubtedly took an L here. Meanwhile, the XRP army is happy that their bags are pumping. Time to find the 25 XRP I bought in 2018.
  Big Money Moves. The BlackRock ETF filing that is edging crypto twitter has been officially “received” by the SEC. What does that mean? Not much! Who cares though, BlackRock’s CEO is on a media tear, spreading the gospel of digital assets. Fuck me up Larry!
  WE R SO BACK? Rapid fire news for the attention impaired. NPC streamers piss off tech bros, and get paid (goals.) Hot L2 summer continues, this time with Celo. GHO mainnet ghets started. Sound.xyz raises a grip of cash to build a new model for music discovery to help artists make a living. Speaking of creators, a platform acquisition caused a kerfuffle on the timeline. Finally, Celsius agreed to pay out a $4.7B settlement for its sins, its former CEO arrested on charges of fraud. Bye bitch!
  👏 We love to see it pt 1. Congrats to the SheFi team on their summit today!
  🌴 We love to see it pt 2. Speaking of Sound.xyz, check out Lindsey’s first drop.
  🤡 We love to see it pt 3. JokeRace v3 glow up, offering new and improved tooling for community shenanigans.
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