- SEC plans to sue crypto firm Paxos for issuing BUSD, claiming it’s an unregistered security. Paxos has ceased the issuance of new BUSD, but will continue to allow redemption of existing BUSD.
- PayPal holds 604 million US dollars worth of customer’s encrypted assets, including 291 million US dollars worth of bitcoin.
- SushiSwap has acquired the Vortex Protocol, a Cosmos-based derivatives trading protocol.
- The Uniswap DAO has passed a vote to deploy Uniswap V3 to the Binance Smart Chain (BNB Chain).
- Optimism has launched its governance portal, Optimism Agora, which supports on-chain voting.
- Polygon is exploring the integration of ZK technology into the Polygon mainchain in order to enhance the transaction security of its PoS chain.
- Temasek-backed Partior raises $31m in StanChart-led Series A round, led by UK-headquartered bank Standard Chartered, joined by investor trio Temasek Holdings, DBS and J.P. Morgan.
- Binance addresses are holding approximately 14.4 billion BUSD, with a net outflow of over 81.4 million within 7 days.
- On February 10th, the GMX fee reached a new high of 5.64 million dollars, surpassing the Ethereum fee and setting a single-day record.
- Justin Sun’s labeled address has deposited approximately 33 million USDT into Aave lending pool V2.
- Nexo will stop Earn Interest products to all US customers on April 1st, 2023.
- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) states that the risks of Bitcoin in El Salvador should be addressed and tokenized securities should be avoided in the purchase of Bitcoin.
- Domain registration service Namecheap was attacked and phishing emails were sent disguised as Metamask and DHL.
- dForce attacker has returned approximately 3.6 million dollars of stolen funds.
- Atem Network twitted that their official Discord channel has been compromised and is currently being invaded. Users are advised not to trust any private messages.
- The Arweave 2.6 version has been released and will undergo a hard fork at block height 1,132,210, approximately on March 6th, 2 PM UTC. The new version will make Arweave mining more energy-efficient.
- The blockchain designer cordellsy.eth from Shopify has tweeted that the team has released a set of blockchain business tools to help Shopify merchants build token-based applications and integrate blockchain features in their Shopify storefronts.
- The national securities law firm Faruqi & Faruqi is investigating potential claimants who have suffered losses of up to 100,000 dollars in Argo.
- The Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and others are requesting the SEC to provide all records and communications related to the SBF event.