- Optimism conducts a second round of airdrops to users who participate in governance and actively use the Optimism main network.
- New York regulatory agencies are investigating stablecoin issuer Paxos.
- Kraken to Discontinue Unregistered Offer and Sale of Crypto Asset Staking-As-A-Service Program and Pay $30 Million to Settle SEC Charges.
- Digital asset protection company Coincover has completed a 30-million-dollar funding round, with Foundation Capital leading the investment.
- Web3 entertainment platform Matr1x has completed a 10-million-dollar funding round.
- Modular blockchain network Dymension has completed a 6.7 million dollar seed round financing and will launch public testing on February 15th.
- Tether latest report: Profits of 700 million dollars in Q4 of 2022.
- Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase: Coinbase’s Staking Program Not Affected by Kraken’s Termination of Staking Services.
- Meta officially restores former President Trump’s social media account on the 9th local time.
- Aave launches native stablecoin GHO on Ethereum test network Goerli.
- Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, the founders of failed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), have teamed with the co-founders of crypto exchange CoinFlex on the creation of Open Exchange.
- OpenAI CEO’s cryptocurrency company Worldcoin aims to raise up to 120 million dollars in funding.
- Coinglass data: the total liquidations were about $278 million in the past 24 hours. Approximately 70.28 million dollars worth of bitcoin was liquidated.
- An early liquidity provider of 1inch locked 100M 1INCH($55.3M) for 1 month.
- Github announced: it will lay off 10% of its workforce before the end of the company’s fiscal year, and will close all offices when the lease ends, shifting to remote work.
- The development team behind Sui, Mysten Labs, has entered into a partnership with Tencent Cloud to expand the Sui ecosystem in GameFi, payments, and cloud services.
- In the past month, the amount of locked liquidity in Ethereum’s staking categories has seen a significant increase, with Lido’s increase surpassing 20% to nearly 8.4 billion dollars.
- LocalBitcoins, a peer-to-peer bitcoin trading platform established in 2012, has announced that it will no longer be able to provide bitcoin trading services.
- Binance’s custody service, Binance Custody, has been renamed to Ceffu.
- Over the past 24 hours, more than 47 billion USDC has been transferred from Coinbase addresses to Circle.