- FTX Japan has announced that it will resume user fiat and cryptocurrency withdrawals on February 21st local time. In the statement, it was also mentioned that the withdrawal process may take some time to complete due to a large number of customer requests. Additionally, FTX Japan plans to announce the resumption of other services as soon as possible.
- NFT trading platform Blur has exceeded OpenSea in daily transaction volume for 5 consecutive days. On February 19th, Blur had 65,359 daily transactions, while OpenSea had 39,835 daily transactions, resulting in Blur having 69% more daily transactions than OpenSea.
- The Bank for International Settlements reports that over the past 7 years, the median loss for cryptocurrency investors has been about $430, which is almost half of their total investment.
- ARK Invest’s Coinbase Purchase During Week of Feb 13-17 Totaled 133,321 Shares of Coinbase stock last week. Coinbase’s stock price closed at $65.20 on Friday, up 17.4% for the week.
- OpenSea protocol’s lead developer, 0age, announced on Twitter that the deployment of OpenSea Seaport v1.4 is now complete and ready for use. This version includes improvements addressing some of the issues present in v1.2 and v1.3. However, the “Developer Preview” version is not recommended for use in production.
- Certik alerts, the NFT project CyberBotsNFT is promoting a fake Mint event that will deplete funds from users’ wallets.
- Decentralized exchange infrastructure 0x is set to launch a new smart contract system called ZEIP, designed to fully bind governance on-chain. This system will provide complete control over the 0x protocol, treasury, and governance, with plans to introduce a formal program incentivizing active on-chain voting participation (both individually and through delegation) in 0x protocol governance.
- Arbitrum index product Arbitrove has completed the public offering through Launchpad, raising a total of 8,222.2178 ETH, about 14 million US dollars, and the public offering price is 0.0000411 ETH.
- FTX Bankruptcy Claims Sell for 20 Cents on the Dollar in Private OTC Markets. The sales suggest distressed asset funds are projecting recoveries of about $0.50 over five years.
- Coinshares’ consolidated total revenue for 2022 is £3 million, with a 97% decrease from £113.4 million in 2021.
- The Interchain Foundation, the foundation that supports Cosmos, said in its 2023 funding budget that an estimated $40 million is needed to fund various engineering teams to develop and maintain Interchain’s core stack, including supporting projects that drive adoption and use cases.