● Binance CEO Richard Teng: The team has successfully frozen $4.2 million of XRP from Ripple’s stolen funds
Richard Teng, CEO of Binance, said in a post on the X platform that 213 million XRP were stolen from the personal account of Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen, and the Binance team has successfully frozen $4.2 million worth of XRP. Binance will continue to support follow-up investigations and work hard to help recover funds, including closely monitoring the majority of the remaining funds in the attacker's external wallet to prevent them from being deposited in Binance.
● Binance Web3 wallet officially launches the inscription market
Binance announced the launch of the Binance Inscription Market, which is integrated into the Binance Web3 Wallet, a self-hosted wallet built into the Binance App, providing users with an easy-to-use, user-friendly platform for trading and minting a range of inscription tokens. The Binance Inscription Market provides features such as trading or inscribing tokens, one-click token transfers, and smooth transactions. The Binance Inscription Market integrates the API of UniSat (a pioneer in ordinals and inscriptions), bringing users UniSat's deep liquidity and more than 60,000 BRC-20 tokens, while maintaining the simplicity, convenience, and security of the Binance Web3 Wallet.
● As of the close of the U.S. stock market, BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF's daily trading volume exceeded GBTC for the first time
According to Golden Finance, according to data from Bloomberg Intelligence, as of the close of U.S. stocks on February 1, the daily trading volume of BlackRock's Spot Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) exceeded GBTC for the first time, with IBIT slightly exceeding US$300 million and GBTC approximately US$290 million.
● US Bitcoin spot ETF holds a total of 653,247 BTC
According to the Daily Planet, Vetle Lunde, a senior analyst at K33 Research, posted on the X platform that as of January 31, the nine newly launched Bitcoin spot ETFs in the United States held a total of 170,000 BTC. After four consecutive days of net inflows, all Bitcoin spot ETFs in the United States held a total of 653,247 BTC, a record high.
● US Department of Justice says FTX's missing $400 million was stolen due to SIM card swapping attack
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said that the missing $400 million from FTX was stolen due to a SIM card swap hack. Three people have been charged with planning a SIM card swap scam that embezzled more than $400 million from FTX.
● Bank of America: Adjust the forecast of the first Fed rate cut to June
According to Jinshi, Bank of America said it has adjusted its forecast for the Federal Reserve's first interest rate cut from March to June.
● El Salvador's Vice President confirms Bitcoin will continue to be legal tender
El Salvador’s Vice President Felix Ulloa said Bitcoin will remain El Salvador’s legal tender during President Nayib Bukele’s second term, according to Foresight News, after El Salvador made a $12.6 million profit on its Bitcoin investment.
● In February, the crypto community will see over $870 million worth of tokens unlocked
According to PANews, the crypto community will see a large amount of token unlocking in February, including popular tokens SUI, APT, SAND, APE, MANTA, and AVAX, with an unlocking value of over $870 million. Other unlocking tokens include GAL, ID, YGG, and AGIX.
● Sanctor Capital completes $10 million fundraising and launches pre-acceleration program
According to the Daily Planet, Sanctor Capital announced that its early Web3 investment fund has completed $10 million in fundraising. At the same time, the company also announced a partnership with Press Star to launch a pre-acceleration program called "The Multiplayer Fellowship" that aims to fund 100 teams in the next 18 months.
● Vietnamese venture capital company report: More than 70% of Asian investors have cryptocurrencies accounting for more than half of their asset portfolios
According to TechFlow, a report released in December 2023 by Vietnamese venture capital firm Kyros Ventures with the assistance of 10 media organizations in China, Thailand, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. In a survey of 5,268 participants, more than 70% of participants stated that cryptocurrencies accounted for more than half of their asset portfolio.
