🪙 Crypto and Blockchain News (December 29, 2023):

1️⃣ Michael Bouhanna: According to the results of 2023, digital art sales at Sotheby's reached nearly $35 million. This was announced by the Vice President and head of the corresponding department of the auction house, Michael Bouhanna. He stated that the outgoing year has been one of the most exciting for digital art. Sotheby's managed to set a new price record in the segment – $6.2 million for the #nft Ringers 879 (The Goose) by artist Dmitry Chernyak. 🎨 This opens up new opportunities for artists and investors.

2️⃣ REN-TV: A gang of extortionists kidnapped a cryptocurrency #miner in Izhevsk and demanded a ransom of 15 million rubles. The incident occurred on December 25. Three men abducted a 23-year-old guy in the courtyard of his house. The young man was placed in a "Niva" registered to a pensioner from Perm and taken in an unknown direction. 🕵️‍♂️

3️⃣ DLNews: As of the end of 2023, the European Union (EU) registered about two thousand virtual asset service providers (VASP). However, in total, not less than 11,597 new cryptocurrency companies appeared in Europe, but only 1,988 firms obtained VASP licenses. 🌐

4️⃣ Vedomosti: The Russian fintech service CarMoney, providing loans secured by cars, issued digital financial assets (DFA). This is the first implementation of a new tool in the microfinance segment. According to the company's press service, several investors and firms have already fully purchased all digital assets. 💳

5️⃣ Thor Hartvigsen: The native token of the second-layer (L2) network MetisDAO (METIS) surged by more than 50% at the moment. Meanwhile, the total value locked (TVL) in the protocol surpassed $695 million. The cryptocurrency community is actively discussing the launch of a $360 million incentive program. This significantly fuels investor interest in the #metis token, which continues to grow along with the entire project's ecosystem. 🚀

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