An interview with Sky Mavis co-founder Aleksander Larsen on staying play-to-earn after the hack, unfair criticisms, improving security, raising funds, and more (Ryan Weeks/The Block)

Financial Times:
A look at a spreadsheet SBF used in November that lists ~500 alleged VC investments by Alameda, including in Genesis, Sky Mavis, Paxos, StarkWare, and Anchorage  —  A look inside Sam and Caroline’s grab-bag of crypto, etc.  —  As well as running a crypto exchange that didn’t exchange crypto …

Brian Feldman / Bloomberg:
Gamers, who have embraced pay-to-play models and paid digital goods, have largely succeeded in rejecting the video game industry’s efforts to incorporate NFTs  —  Nick Kaman’s video game development studio, Aggro Crab, has tied its image closely to making fun of cryptocurrency.

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Earnings from Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Intel, and others signal boom times are over, as inflation, lower demand, and interest rates weigh on results  —  Tech giants embark on belt tightening to ease investor concerns over slowing growth  —  A week of Big Tech earnings has been a rout …

Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The US Fed raising interest rates faster than expected is driving the crypto crash, tech layoffs, and more, as companies value “money now” over long-term bets  —  Higher interest rates drive the Bitcoin crash, tech layoffs, and everything else

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
The SEC charges Sam Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors and concealing diverting FTX customer funds to Alameda while raising over $1.8B  —  Defendant concealed his diversion of FTX customers’ funds to crypto trading firm Alameda Research while raising more than $1.8 billion from investors

Clothilde Goujard / Politico:
The US’ candidate to lead the UN’s International Telecommunication Union, which sets global tech and telecom standards, beat Russia’s by 139 to 25 votes  —  BUCHAREST — A top U.S. official won a massive majority to lead the United Nations agency that sets global standards for telecoms and tech infrastructure.