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.