With BTC back above $54K and a look at asset class performance so far this year, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here.This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Casper and The Sun ExchangeToday's stories:How the NFT Boom Explains Square’s Tidal BuyCoinbase’s Valuation Nears $100B Ahead of a planned March Nasdaq ListingPayPal Confirms an earlier CoinDesk scoop: It's Buying Crypto Security Firm Curv Bitcoin Has Zero Intrinsic Value. Some People Are OK With That (Bloomberg) Stock Futures Rise, Pointing to Tech’s Rebound (WSJ)Nexo.io lets you borrow against your crypto at 5.9% APR, earn up to 12% on your idle assets, and exchange instantly between 75+ market pairs with the tap of a button. Get started at nexo.io.-Launching in mid-March, Casper is the future-proof blockchain protocol that finally address the blockchain trilemma. Learn more at Casper.Network.-The Sun Exchange is offering Markets Daily listeners a free solar cell with your first purchase and automatically lease them to power businesses in sunny, emerging markets.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.