Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 Coinbase has beaten revenue expectations for the fourth quarter of 2022. Microsoft has signed a 10-year contract to bring Xbox games and Activision titles to Nintendo consoles. Want more from us at Waivly? Join Waivly+, the premium Waivly membership that gives you exclusive Web3, NFT, and crypto content, insights, and news, full access to Waivly Jobs and Learn, and so much more, all blended together into one super low-cost and quick to join membership 🎉 Click here to get onboard and to become a Waivly+ Crew member! Enjoy a huge 50% off saving on your membership by joining today. Coinbase Q4 revenue and earnings beat expectationsCoinbase, the second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, released its Q4 2022 earnings on Tuesday. In the fourth quarter of 2022, Coinbase generated $605 million in total revenue, beating analyst expectations that revenue would come in at around $589 million, according to FactSet. The firm lost $557 million during the quarter on a GAAP basis (net income) worth -$2.46 per share, and an adjusted EBITDA deficit of $124 million. Our Q4 and FY'22 financial results are in. Our letter to shareholders can be found on the Investor Relations website at While transaction volumes decreased 12% compared to the prior quarter, Coinbase reported that its “subscription and services revenue” grew 34% to $283 million. The U.S.-based exchange noted that 2022 was "a challenging year for the crypto market, with two “idiosyncratic events” — the depegging of $LUNA and collapse of FTX — driving a series of bankruptcies in the industry. The Waves🤦♀️ Friendsies NFT project accused of rug pull 😔 Polygon Labs cuts 20% of jobs 👗 NFTs take the runway at NYFW 2023 🖼️ CryptoPunk #1484 sold for 286 ETH Discover more Waves in the Waivly Discord. Click here to get onboard! 🌊 Tech SpecialKaito AI raises $5.3M to build an AI-powered search engine Kaito AI, an AI-powered search engine for crypto, has raised $5.3 million in a round led by Dragonfly Capital. Other Participants in the round include Sequoia Capital, Jane Street, Mirana Ventures, Folius Ventures, and Alpha Lab Capital. According to a report from TechCrunch, the capital will be used to scale the team and accelerate development of the product. "With so much information and data available, it can be overwhelming to identify the most valuable insights for informed investment decisions," said Gengmo Qi, partner at Dragonfly. "Kaito is solving this challenge by not only aggregating information, but making it readily accessible and actionable.” In Q2 2023, the startup plans to launch a retail investor-focused search engine. The retail product will be free to everyone, while the institutional one will run a subscription-based model. Microsoft signs a 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo Microsoft has signed a “binding” 10-year agreement to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo platforms “the same day as Xbox, with full feature and content parity.” The company’s president, Brad Smith, shared the news on Twitter, noting this new agreement is “just part of [Microsoft’s] commitment to bring Xbox games and Activision titles like Call of Duty to more players on more platforms.” We’ve now signed a binding 10-year contract to bring Xbox games to Nintendo’s gamers. This is just part of our commitment to bring Xbox games and Activision titles like Call of Duty to more players on more platforms. Under the agreement, Nintendo players will be able to “experience Call of Duty just as Xbox and PlayStation gamers enjoy Call of Duty”, according to Microsoft. It’s not the first time we've heard of such an agreement. 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