CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (14/05/24)

✦ Tether Freezes Approximately 5.2 Million USDT across 12 Addresses

✦ Over 852,000 Active Wallet Addresses Interacted With the Solana Ecosystem in the Last 24 Hours

✦ Coinbase Investigating Widespread System Outage; Assures User Funds Are Safe

✦ USDT Circulation on TON Reaches $200 Million in Less Than a Month

✦ Block Production Halts for 10 Hours on L3 Chain Degen Chain According to Blockscout Data

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (29/02/24)

✦ Silence Laboratories Raises $4.1M in Funding Round Led by Pi Ventures and Kira Studio

✦ Aptos Launches L2 SuperLumio Supporting EVM and Move

✦ SEC Questions Terraform Labs' $166 Million Suspicious Payment to Lawyers

✦ BlackRock's IBIT Sees $612.1 Million Inflow, Surpassing Previous Day's $520.2 Million

✦ TRON's TVL Surpasses $23.4 Billion, Reaching a Historic High

✦ IoTeX Receives $100 Million Investment from Borderless for DePIN Project

✦ Lorenzo Protocol Partners With Babylon For Bitcoin L2 Services

✦ MicroStrategy Founder Michael Saylor's Wealth Increases by $700 Million

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (23/02/24)

✦ Data from the website growthepie shows that Layer 2 (L2) networks paid a total of $2.1 million in gas fees yesterday, setting a new high for this year.

✦ Decentralized Perpetual Contract Trading Platform OX.FUN Raises $4 Million in Funding Round

✦ DYdX Trading Volume Surpasses $40 Billion

✦ Ethereum Staking Protocol Renzo Surpasses $400 Million in TVL

✦ Starknet TVL Surpasses $1.4 Billion, Setting New Historical High

✦ Ethereum Layer2 Solution Scroll's Mainnet TVL Surpasses $100 Million

✦ A sizable transaction involving Curve tokens (CRV) has taken place. An investor, from an address beginning with 0xd4a, sold 2.11 million CRV in the last 14 hours, exchanging these for 1.17 million USDC.

✦ Merlin Chain's Mainnet Staking Event Surpasses $1.97 Billion TVL in 14 Days

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (21/02/24)

✦ Aevo Options Trading Platform Surpasses $60 Million in TVL

✦ Egypt's Commercial International Bank Partners with Ripple for Blockchain-Based Cross-Border Payments and NFTs

✦ ZeroLend Raises $3 Million in Seed Funding at $25 Million Valuation

✦ Shibarium Sees Strong Adoption with Increasing Transactions and Wallet Addresses

✦ Decentralized derivatives trading platform Hyperliquid reported a 16.84% increase in the price of its W perpetual contract within 24 hours, with the current price at $1.81.

✦ Binance Futures to Launch USDⓈ-M MAVIA Perpetual Contract with 50x Leverage

✦ Nethermind: Lido Node Operator Sells Over 954,000 STRK Tokens for 2.3 Million USDC

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (17/02/24)

✦ Decentralized over-the-counter (OTC) trading platform Whales Market has officially announced the launch of STRK OTC trading on February 17. Based on the information available on its trading page, the current transaction price for STRK is above $1.8.

✦ MicroStrategy's Stock Prices Soar, Sparking Speculation on S&P 500 Entry and Bitcoin Impact

✦ US SEC's Bitcoin ETFs Attract Over $4.2 Billion in Net New Flows

✦ Layer2 Network Blast Announces Mainnet Launch Date to Be Revealed Next Week

✦ Ether.fi, an Ethereum staking protocol, has announced that it has staked 450,000 ETH, with the scale continuing to grow.

✦ VanEck and ARK/21Shares Submit Revised Documents for Ethereum ETFs

✦ OpenAI Releases Text-to-Video AI Product Sora, Inspires Ethereum-Based Meme Coin

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (13/02/24)

✦ According to Foresight News, a whale sold 3360 Ether (ETH) at a price of $2,615 per token, approximately five hours ago. The sale earned the whale around $1.3 million in profit.

✦ MicroStrategy to Rebrand as Bitcoin Development Company Amid ETF-Driven Demand Surge

✦ Bitcoin has broken through the $50,000 mark, reaching a new high since December 28, 2021. The current price is reported to be $50,120.

✦ Stratis Launches $1 Million EVM Dapp Incentive Program for Developers and Protocols

✦ Cross-chain interoperability protocol Analog has completed a $16 million seed and strategic funding round, valuing the company at $120 million.

✦ Decentralized Computing Network io.net to Launch IO Token After Bitcoin Halving

✦ Polygon Announces Upcoming Launch of AggLayer v1 Mainnet

✦ Metaco CEO and CPO Depart Following Ripple Acquisition

✦ Magic Eden to Launch Ethereum NFT Marketplace on February 27

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (12/02/24)

✦ The waitlist for new Ethereum validators has reached its longest since early October, with the validator entry queue jumping to 7,045. This represents over 225,000 ether ($562 million) and is expected to be cleared in just over 48 hours.

✦ The Solana-based exchange, Backpack Exchange will roll out an account trading volume points system. This implementation aims to reward and engage traders by recording their transaction volumes.

✦ Open Positions of BTC and ETH Options Across the Entire Network Total Over $22 Billion

✦ Ex-CEO of Kansas Bank Faces Charges for Embezzling $47 Million for Crypto investments

✦ SyncSwap Launches 404 Wrapper for NFT Conversion on zkSync

✦ Ronin To Upgrade Neo And Implement Miko Hard Fork On February 26

✦ Optimism will suspend ETH withdrawals for one hour on February 15th to test its upgraded event response system, as reported by The Block. The temporary suspension aims to ensure the smooth functioning of the system after the upgrade.

🎆 Blockchain, Happy Lunar New Year! 🎆

新年快乐
新年快樂
Selamat Tahun Baru
Manigong Bagong Taon
새해 복 많이 받으세요
สวัสดีปีใหม่
Chúc Mừng Năm Mới

Wishing you happiness and good health in the Year of the Dragon 🐉🎊🎇

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (08/02/24)

✦ Terraform Labs Co-Founder Do Kwon Wins Second Appeal Against Extradition Requests

✦ The cryptocurrency market has experienced a resurgence, with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies adding over $60 billion in a day. Cardano's native token, ADA, has emerged as the top performer.

✦ Jupiter Removes JUP Tokens and Retains $63.5 Million USDC for Liquidity Support

✦ South Korean Game Company Wemade Under Investigation for Alleged Legal Violations

✦ Deus X, Bridgetower Launches $250M Digital Asset Venture in Middle East

✦ NBA Sued Over Marketing Ties with Failed Crypto Lender Voyager Digital

✦ BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Volume Peaks, Crossing the $1B Mark

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (06/02/24)

✦ Solana has released a new version v1.17.20. This update was announced by Solana Status on February 6, with a strong recommendation for mainnet validator operators to upgrade and restart their operations to ensure optimal functionality.

✦ CertikAlerts has issued an alert concerning the activities of a hacker responsible for the ZB exchange attack. According to Certik's notification, the hacker has deposited approximately 320.1 ETH (approximately $4.4 million at current prices) into the dex mixer, Tornado Cash.

✦ El Salvador's incumbent President Nayib Bukele has claimed a landslide victory in the recent Presidential election held on February 4, 2024.

✦ South Korean Authorities Arrest Haru Invest Executives for Alleged $828 Million Crypto Theft

✦ Taproot Wizards' Quantum Cats Digital Art Sale Generates Nearly $13 Million Despite Technical Issues

✦ British Columbia Supreme Court Upholds Moratorium on Crypto Mining Projects

✦ Binance Announces Airdrop of 1 Million Polyhedra Network Tokens Via Web3 Wallet

✦ Zora Launches on Arbitrum and Introduces Commemorative NFT 'Arb Zorb'

✦ Starknet announced that it began conducting a stress test on the public Starknet Goerli testnet today at 9:00 UTC (17:00 Beijing time). The test is planned to last for several hours, which may cause congestion on the Starknet Goerli testnet, leading to longer waiting times for transactions to be executed on the testnet.

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (04/02/24)

✦ Sun Yuchen Announces Destruction of 20 Million HT Tokens Worth $60 Million

✦ Polygon's On-Chain Stablecoin Market Cap Exceeds $1.35 Billion, Reaching 6-Month High

✦ Canadian Crypto King Associate Sentenced to 5 Months in Prison for Contempt of Court

✦ Bitcoin NFT Protocol Ordinals Accumulates Over 6000 BTC in Fees

✦ BlackRock's IBIT Bitcoin ETF Assets Under Management Surpass $3 Billion

✦ Puffer Finance's LSD protocol has reached a total value locked (TVL) of over $300 million, currently standing at $320 million, as per official website data.

✦ Genesis Seeks Court Approval to Sell $1.4 Billion in Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Stocks

✦ Tether Records $2.85 Billion Net Profit in Q4 2023, Eliminates Secured Loan Risks

✦ Kodiak Finance Announces $2 Million Seed Funding Round Completion

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (02/02/24)

✦ Blast Native DEX Thruster Launches on Testnet

✦ Pyth Network Supports THL/USD Price Feed, Available on Over 50 Blockchains

✦ Ionic Digital Community, formerly known as Celsius, announced that it will issue and mail checks for USD-denominated claims to select Celsius creditors. Creditors who fall into this category should have already received a related email.

✦ Meta's Stock Rises 14% After Positive Earnings, Boosting AI Tokens

✦ Matcha Resumes Cross-Chain Transactions and Temporarily Waives Gas Fees

✦ The hybrid cryptocurrency trading platform GRVT has seen a surge in interest, with nearly 1.7 million people on its waiting list. The platform's official website data shows that the current number of individuals waiting to join stands at 1,690,433.

✦ On-chain analyst ai_9684xtpa has reported that the suspected wallet address of PORK token issuer PAULY has reached a floating profit of $55.68 million. In addition, three addresses spent a total of 9 ETH to purchase 88.9 trillion tokens on the day PORK token was launched.

✦ Puffer Finance's LSD Protocol Surpasses $150 Million in TVL

✦ Alan Howard to Sell Crypto Company Shares and Reinvest in Brevan Howard Digital

✦ Arkham Partners with Consensys to Integrate Linea and MetaMask Snap

✦ Two addresses have fallen victim to phishing attacks, resulting in a combined loss of approximately $340,000 in assets. The address starting with 0x09e5 was robbed of 47.23 stETH, valued at around $109,000, while the address starting with 0xd548 lost 100 stETH, worth approximately $231,000.

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (01/02/24)

✦ Astar Network Announces Upcoming Launch of zkEVM Mainnet

✦ Blockchain-Driven Privacy Solution BlokID Raises $1.25 Million in Seed Funding

✦ Ordiswap, a Bitcoin DeFi project, has announced its collaboration with DWF Labs and has received strategic investment to develop DeFi infrastructure and ecosystem for Bitcoin.

✦ Port3 Network's SoPad Launches First Accelerator Project Synthetech

✦ Germany's DZ Bank to Launch Cryptocurrency Trading Pilot

✦ Pundi X Launches 1 Billion PURSE Ecosystem Pool to Build DePIN Infrastructure

✦ A Chinese-British woman named Jian Wen is facing charges in London for allegedly helping a fugitive, Yadi Zhang, launder Bitcoin (BTC) obtained from proceeds of a previous investment fraud that affected nearly 130,000 investors.

✦ Sui Mainnet Upgrades To V1.17.3 And Protocol To Version 35

✦ Statistics from PeckShield reveal that in January 2024, hackers stole approximately $182.54 million through more than 30 attacks. This represents a staggering 771.39% increase compared to the $20.95 million stolen in January of the previous year.

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (31/01/24)

✦ Binance announced its plans to list the Jupiter (JUP) digital asset beginning from 2024-01-31 15:30 (UTC). The spot trading pairs to be offered include JUP/USDT, JUP/FDUSD and JUP/TRY.

✦ Hong Kong Investigates Worldcoin for Alleged Irregular Collection of Customer Iris Data

✦ Navin Gupta Announces Departure From Ripple After Seven Years

✦ Ethereum infrastructure startup Yet Another Company has announced the completion of a $1 million funding round.

✦ Neo Launches Neo X Alpha Testnet With Stability Improvements And Interoperability Layer

✦ Sui Blockchain Enters Top 10 DeFi Rankings with Over $430 Million TVL

✦ Argentinian Government Removes Cryptocurrency Legalization Proposal from Bill

✦ ZetaChain Announces Native Support for BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Bitcoin Networks

✦ Keplr Wallet's New Mobile App Rejected by App Store, Purchase Feature Temporarily Removed

✦ Uniswap Labs Updates Website to Support Direct Token Transfers

✦ PYTH Staking Surpasses $305 Million With 48% of Circulating Supply

✦ Kore.ai Raises $150 Million in Funding Led by FTV Capital, Plans for IPO in Two Years

✦ The attacker behind the KyberSwap incident has moved an additional 400 cbETH (equivalent to approximately $988,900) to an address starting with 0x9760 and added liquidity to Uniswap.

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (30/01/24)

✦ Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley announced on Twitter that the company's Bitcoin spot ETF, BITB, has surpassed $600 million in assets under management.

✦ The circulation of TRC20-USDT has reached a new historical high, surpassing 51.8 billion tokens. As of now, the number of TRC20-USDT holding accounts has reached 37.25 million, with a cumulative transfer count exceeding 15.2 billion transactions.

✦ dYdX Foundation Requests $30 Million Funding From DAO For Three-Year Plan

✦ THORChain to Support Solana Network

✦ Optimism Chief Growth Officer Ryan Wyatt has initiated a community proposal to migrate Treasure to the OP Superchain and build Treasure Chain on the OP Stack.

✦ Data from Cryptoquant indicates that the adoption rate of the Bitcoin network Taproot has risen from 1% a year ago to 39%. Currently, most addresses are now using SegWit.

✦ Puffer Finance's official Discord channel has revealed that the platform currently only supports MetaMask wallet connections and does not support wallets like Rabby.

✦ ARK Invest Purchases 58,468 Shares of ARK 21Shares Bitcoin Spot ETF

✦ Eigenpie's Total Value Locked Surpasses $100 Million

✦ SEC Accuses HyperFund Founders of Fraud and Unregistered Securities Issuance

✦ an Australian and two Americans have been charged with orchestrating a $1.9 billion cryptocurrency scam based around a purported DeFi platform, HyperFund. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) accused Australian citizen Sam Lee of co-founding HyperFund and Rodney Burton and Brenda Chunga of promoting it, together defrauding investors of $1.89 billion by claiming that investment returns would come from non-existent cryptocurrency mining operations.

✦ Cross-chain interoperability protocol LayerZero has announced the launch of its V2, featuring new functionalities such as universal message passing, modular security, permissionless execution, unified semantics, and V1 compatibility.

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (29/01/24)

✦ Data from IntoTheBlock reveals that despite a net inflow of $820 million into Bitcoin ETFs this month, crypto whales or large investors have accumulated approximately $3 billion worth of Bitcoin.

✦ Stellar Blockchain Likely to Delay Upgrade Due to Bug Discovery

✦ Curve Founder's Locked CRV Tokens Set to Unlock on February 1

✦ Lybra Finance Stablecoin PeUSD Price Drops to 0.8087 USDT

✦ Manta Pacific TVL Surpasses $1.7 Billion, Gains 8.03% Market Share in Ethereum Layer2

✦ DWF Labs Co-founder Andrei Grachev's Twitter Account Restored After Hack

✦ Solana-Based DeFi Aggregator Jupiter Token Futures Price Rises 4.61% in 24 Hours

✦ Data from Coinglass reveals that approximately $81.2 million worth of cryptocurrency liquidations occurred across the network in the past 24 hours. Out of this amount, $56.84 million were long positions liquidations.

✦ Multi-Chain Yield Protocol Magpie Accumulates Over $50 Million in LST

✦ An address has fallen victim to a phishing attack, resulting in a loss of approximately $107,800 worth of WETH and USDC. PeckShield monitoring detected the cyber attack on the address.

✦ Decentralized Yield Protocol Barley Finance Suffers Token Theft Due to Vulnerability

✦ A whale has sold 2,658 MKR tokens in exchange for 5.37 million DAI over the past four days. The current price of MKR is $1,951.11, with a 24-hour decline of 3.30%. The whale still holds 2,007 MKR tokens, worth approximately $3.9 million.

✦ Ethereum Layer 2 Total Value Locked Stands at US$21.38 Billion; Manta Pacific TVL Up by 11.05%

✦ Bmaker Raises $1.2 Million in Pre-Seed Funding Round

✦ Justin Sun Transfers $2.16 Million Worth of BNB from Binance and Moves $650,000 into Poloniex

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (28/01/24)

✦ Ola, a second-layer programmable privacy and scalability solution based on ZKVM, has released its 2024 roadmap. As per the roadmap, Ola will soon launch a public testnet, followed by the mainnet launch in mid-2024.

✦ The dYdX community has voted in favor of upgrading the dYdX Chain software to version 3.0.0. The voting turnout was 88.5%, with a support rate of 98.9%.

✦ BNB Chain has recently proposed the introduction of atomic object updates to BNB Greenfield, as stated in their latest tweet. The primary objective behind this update is to significantly boost the efficiency of object modifications on Greenfield by ensuring atomicity and consistency.

✦ MakerDAO Co-founder Rune Christensen Sells 2235 MKR Tokens for 454.2 Million DAI

✦ Polygon to Upgrade Etrog Mainnet Next Month, Becoming Type 2 ZK-EVM

✦ Jupiter Surpasses Uniswap V3 in Trading Volume, Becoming Top DEX

✦ Stellar Development Foundation Discovers Vulnerability in Stellar Core v20.1.0 Software

✦ Injective to Launch New Ecosystem DApp on Mainnet Next Week

✦ Stellar Blockchain's Smart Contract Upgrade Faces Potential Delay Due to Bug

✦ Diablo III-Inspired Island Created in NFT Game Nifty Island

✦ NEAR Becomes Compatible With MetaMask Wallet

✦ Ava Labs Outlines Vryx Scaling Solution to Boost Avalanche's TPS

✦ Citadel.one Hit by Attacks on Arbitrum Chain, Loses Approximately $93,000

✦ ApeCoin Proposal for Temperature Check Rules Fails to Pass

✦ Approximately 12,504 BTC To Be Transferred to ETF Custody Addresses As U.S. Stock Market Opens

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (27/01/24)

✦ Starknet plans to conduct a stress test on the Goerli testnet at 17:00 Beijing time on January 30. The test is expected to last several hours, which may cause congestion on the Starknet Goerli testnet, leading to long waiting times for transactions to be executed on the testnet.

✦ Magic Eden Set to Launch Multi-Chain Wallet on January 29

✦ Data from SoSo Value revealed that Grayscale's Bitcoin spot ETF, GBTC, experienced a net outflow of $671 million on January 26th (Eastern Time), setting a record for the largest single-day net outflow. The previous record was set on January 22nd, with a net outflow of $640 million.

✦ Ripple Seeks Business Development Manager to Drive Crypto ETF Plans

✦ US Government to Sell Over $130 Million in Bitcoin Linked to Silk Road Forfeitures

✦ A Bitcoin trader with the address starting with 3EHeQx has made a profit of $62,617,366 by buying Bitcoin at relatively low prices and selling some of it at higher prices. The address currently still holds over 5,554 Bitcoins.

✦ Ethereum's Solidity Releases v0.8.24 Version With Support for Cancun Upgrade

✦ Yield Protocol Announces End of Official Support, Advises Users to Close Positions

✦ A significant shift is occurring in the Bitcoin mining landscape as the fourth halving event approaches, set to reduce the supply subsidy of BTC from 6.25 BTC for every block to 3.125 BTC per one.

✦ BlackRock iShares Bitcoin ETF Becomes First to Reach $2 Billion in AUM

✦ Arkham Launches DeFi Lending Data Tracking Feature

✦ Algorand Foundation CEO's Twitter Account Hacked, Attacker Urges Community to Buy Ethereum

✦ Micro3io Joins Chainlink BUILD to Enhance Cross-Chain NFT Security

✦ UK Supreme Court Rejects Craig Wright's Appeal in Legal Dispute with Bitcoin Podcaster

✦Ankr Launches Ethereum L2 Blast RPC for Decentralized Blockchain Infrastructure

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (26/01/24)

✦ Bitcoin Domain TNA Protocol Auctions Off 9 Domains for 12.5 BTC

✦ Solana Foundation Partners With CoinCDX To Launch $3 Million Funding Plan In India

✦ Finschia and Klaytn Mainnet Merger Proposal Open for Voting on LINE Blockchain Scan

✦ Polyhedra Network Partners with EigenLayer to Build Cross-Chain Protocol Between Ethereum and Bitcoin Networks

✦ Stablecoin Protocol Reserve Establishes ABC Labs and Confusion Capital, Joins MobileCoin and Best Friend Finance

✦ Canaan Secures $50 Million Funding Through Preferred Shares

✦ Arbitrum One Integrates Chainlink Functions Mainnet Beta

✦ Espresso Systems Launches Gibraltar Testnet with Arbitrum Integration

✦ Base And OP Labs Activate Ecotone Hard Fork On Goerli Development Networks

✦ LK Venture Invests in Bitcoin RGB Infrastructure BiHelix Through BTC NEXT Fund

✦ Data from CryptoQuant reveals that the holdings of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) have decreased by approximately 15% in the past seven days. Currently, GBTC still holds around 512,644 Bitcoins.

✦ Algorand Foundation CEO's Twitter Account Hacked

✦ Axiom Raises $20 Million in Series A Funding to Develop Off-Chain Computation Protocol

✦ OneCoin Lawyer Mark Scott Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Money Laundering

✦ Celo Blockchain Nears Decision on Ethereum Layer-2 Network Migration

CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (25/01/24)

✦ Hedge Fund PSE Trading Reports 148.5% Profit Growth in Core Strategy Product for 2023

✦ SatoshiVM's SAVM Faces Controversy Over Wallets Controlling Initial Token Supply

✦ Avalanche ecosystem launchpad platform Avalaunch has announced that Web3 game developer Aether Games has secured $300,000 in strategic sales financing. Previously, Aether Games completed a $5 million seed funding round with participation from Mystenlabs and Polygon.

✦ Ozys Accuses Former CISO of Weakening Firewall Prior to $81.5M Hack

✦ Orbiter Finance Integrates ZetaChain into Layer2 Cross Rollup Bridge

✦ Cathie Wood Calls Bitcoin One of the Most Important Investments of Our Lifetime

✦ Tesla's Bitcoin Holdings Remain Unchanged in Q4 2023

✦ CoinShares announced that the management fee for its physical bitcoin product will be reduced from 0.98% to 0.35% per year, starting from February 1st.

✦ A smart money investor has purchased 386.94 trillion SNOW tokens, equivalent to 43.5% of the total supply, for 1.31 ETH (approximately $2,931). The investor then sold 72 trillion SNOW tokens for 53.4 ETH (about $119,000), making a profit of 52.09 ETH (around $116,000).

✦ Four Pudgy Penguins Stolen on Blur Platform, Valued at Approximately 20 ETH

✦ 1inch Co-founder Anton Bukov Unlocks and Sells ILV Tokens Worth $1.86 Million

✦ Saga DAO Fan Club Loses $60,000 in Solana Tokens Due to Security Oversight

✦ Gitcoin Passport Launches New ETH Stamp to Distinguish Genuine Users

✦ EigenLayer Introduces Three New LSTs and Removes 200,000 ETH Personal Cap

✦ LayerZero Integrates With RARI Chain, Expanding Cross-Chain Interoperability