Our CrossTower Research Analyst, Martin Gaspar, walks us through the top news highlights to go into the weekend.

Here are the headliners:

• U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo has asked House Speaker to amend the crypto tax provision in the Senate’s infrastructure bill in an open letter on Thursday.

• The Poly Network hacker has now returned $258 million to the cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol and conducted a question-and-answer session detailing how the initial hack went down.

• Asset management firm Neuberger Berman has given its $164 million commodities-focused mutual fund the go-ahead to invest indirectly in both Bitcoin and Ethereum for the first time Valkyrie has submitted a draft prospectus for a bitcoin EFT to the SEC.

• Powerbridge Technologies, which is a China-based technology ...