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- Metaplanet, a Japanese listed company, announced that it has adopted Bitcoin as its strategic reserve asset to cope with Japan's continued economic pressure, especially high government debt levels, long-term negative real interest rates, and the subsequent weakness of the yen. .
Metaplanet’s strategy clearly prioritizes a Bitcoin-first, Bitcoin-only approach and may use long-term yen liabilities and periodic equity issuances as strategic financial options to continually accumulate more Bitcoin rather than retain an increasingly weakening yen . This approach aims to increase the value of each Bitcoin share, solidifying shareholder value in the long term.
It is reported that Metaplanet is engaged in hotel development and operations, as well as various other areas of IR and Web3 consulting, real estate development, investment and distribution business. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- North Korean hacker group Kimsuky has carried out a series of targeted attacks against at least two cryptocurrency companies using new malware called "Durian," according to a May 9 threat report from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. This was accomplished through a "sustained" attack utilizing legitimate security software specific to the South Korean encryption company.
According to Kaspersky, "Durian has comprehensive backdoor capabilities that allow it to execute sent commands, download additional files, and exfiltrate files."
- Gitcoin’s funding round GG20 for Open Source Software has officially ended, with donations amounting to $ 632,091. It is reported that GG20 will operate based on the v2 version of the community resource allocation protocol Allo.
- Options protocol Lyra published a blog post stating that LDX is Lyra’s new utility token. The first round of LDX airdrop rewards traders and liquidity providers, using a points system to distribute LDX to users in proportion over 4 weeks. The airdrop will last for at least 3 rounds, which is 12 weeks. Users can earn points through transactions, yields and invitations.
LYRA has completed its snapshot and the points earned by staking and locking LYRA have stopped accumulating.
- OSL Group announced that its digital asset trading platform OSL Digital Securities Limited has become the first company to be granted a license under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (AMLO) by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).
- Galxe officially launched the [GP25] proposal on Snapshot, intending to migrate the token symbol and token contract, and convert the token symbol from GAL to G. The motivation for this move was the strategic needs and market applicable to the Galxe ecosystem. Consideration driven. Additionally, the Galxe team has reviewed this proposal and recommended adding the following:
- Exchange GAL tokens for G tokens at 1:60. This means that for every 1 GAL token, 60 G tokens will be awarded to the holder.
- The total supply of G tokens will change to 12,000,000,000, which is 60 times the current total supply of GAL tokens of 200,000,000.
- On-chain detective ZachXBT said on the social platform that the fraud team that stole tens of millions of dollars from Magnate, Kokomo, Lendora, Solfire and other websites deployed the new project Leaper Finance on Blast.
Last week, the fraud gang funded an address on Blast with about $ 1 million in funds laundered from previous Rugs and began providing liquidity to lure users into being scammed. Over the past period of time, the fraud team increased its TVL to over a million dollars, then stole all user funds deposited into the protocol, forged KYC documents, and used low-level auditing companies.
Currently, the fraud team has launched scams on platforms such as Base, Solana, Scroll, Optimism, Arbitrum, Ethereum, Avalanche, etc.
- Web3 game distribution platform GameCene announced the completion of a US$ 1.4 million seed round of financing. The investor information has not yet been disclosed. Its platform mainly helps developers to easily build and distribute blockchain games by building a full-chain game software development kit (SDK).
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- Crypto lending platform Goldfinch has suffered its third default, with damaged users calling on Goldfinch to withdraw funds from the protocol’s $ 107 million coffers to repay it. Borrower Lend East previously secured a $ 10.15 million loan through support from Goldfinch users. Warbler Labs, the parent company of the Goldfinch Protocol, is currently hiring outside legal counsel to explore all rights and remedies available to the community to maximize recovery. Lend East’s incident is the third breach experienced by users of the Goldfinch protocol since it began operations in January 2021.
- Scopescan posted on social media that the Estonian government decided to extradite Ivan Turogin and Sergei Potapenko to the United States in January. Following the transfer of Silk Road-related Bitcoin, the U.S. government has moved more than 600 Bitcoin to new addresses in the past three days, worth more than $ 40 million.
- Sports metaverse platform Gameplan announced the completion of a seed round of financing, with participation from P2 Ventures (formerly Polygon Ventures), Emchain, OXFUN and Double Peak. The amount of financing has not yet been disclosed.
It is reported that Gameplan is a sports metaverse platform founded by UFC mixed martial arts superstar Khabib Nurmagomedov. It aims to provide mixed martial arts fans with a collection of activities, games, shopping and interaction with sports idols. A one-stop destination for deeper connections between high-profile athletes and their supporters.
- Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng (@sandyzkp) posted on the X platform that 4844, DA Compression, Proof Aggregation and more user-centered innovations will be launched on Scroll in the next fe
- The Binance contract will support FDUSD as a joint margin asset from 17:00 on March 8, 2024, and will stop supporting USDP as a joint margin asset at 14:00 on March 14, 2024 (Eastern Eighth District Time).
Due to the above changes, the USDP transfer limit under joint margin mode has been updated to zero. After 14:00 on March 14, 2024, the remaining USDP balance in the U-based contract wallet will be automatically converted to USDT at a ratio of 1:1. The conversion process will take approximately 24 hours.
- Coinbase adds Akash Network (AKT) to its currency listing roadmap.
Akash Network is a marketplace for distributed peer-to-peer cloud computing, offering users GPUs including models such as the Nvidia H100s and A100s, as well as consumer-grade chips capable of handling compute-intensive workloads for training artificial intelligence and data science models.
- The NFT lending protocol JPEG'd community initiated a voting on the proposal "Using treasury funds for airdrop mining", intending to allow the project team to use part of the funds in the treasury for airdrop mining, such as Eigenlayer, Blast, etc., to allow the project team to use the treasury to At most 50% of Ethereum is used for airdrop mining strategies.
- According to Bitcoin.com, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said: “Every institution is now starting to hold cryptocurrencies, and the asset class will become a standard part of every diversified portfolio.”
Additionally, Brian Armstrong noted that institutions will eventually use cryptocurrencies in other ways, such as keeping them on their balance sheets, paying suppliers, and doing payroll.
- According to BTC.com, the current block height is less than 60 days away from the Bitcoin halving time. Since halving occurs every 210,000 blocks, the next Bitcoin halving is expected to occur in April 2024. When the block height reaches 840,000, the block reward will drop from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC.
- Bitcoin ZK Rollup Layer2 solution SatoshiVM officially stated that it will extend the unlocking time of SAVM tokens for teams, advisors and launch partners.
SatoshiVM stated that SAVM tokens for launch partners will be locked for 3 months and will be gradually unlocked by 4% every month for the next 12 months; SAVM tokens for consultants will also be locked for 3 months and then for 2 years. Linear token unlocking; SatoshiVM contributors’ tokens will be locked for 6 months, followed by a 2-year linear token unlocking.
- According to The Economic Times, Web3 esports fan engagement platform Stan has raised $ 2.7 million in financing, with participation from Aptos Labs, Pix Capital, Maelstrom Fund, GFR Fund, CoinDCX Ventures, Climber Capital, TDV Partners and Coinswitch Ventures.
It is reported that Stan helps users purchase collectibles and interact with popular esports figures (whether players or KOLs) through chat and audio rooms, as well as exclusive communities on its platform. Some of these collectibles are also Web3 projects, such as NFTs, and the company charges a 15% to 20% commission on in-app purchases made by users on the platform.
- GameStop, a retailer of video games and related products, said it would close its NFT market due to "regulatory uncertainty," The Block reported. GameStop’s NFT marketplace will close on February 2, 2024. It is reported that the company closed its NFT wallet in August last year.
- According to the 2023 mining report released by CoinShares, Bitcoin mining computing power increased by 104%, raising questions about its environmental sustainability and profitability, especially the efficiency and energy costs of the network; it is expected that every Bitcoin after the halving The average production cost is $ 37,856. Most miners will be challenged by the cost of selling and administrative expenses and will need to reduce costs to remain profitable. Unless Bitcoin prices remain above $ 40,000, only Bitfarms, Iris, CleanSpark, TeraWulf, and Cormint will remain profitable.
- Solana Joint Venture: Solana’s core focus is scaling Layer 1, Layer 2 solutions or non-essentials
- ARK Invest once again reduced its holdings of Coinbase shares worth approximately US$ 4.16 million yesterday
- , Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart posted on social media that VanEck has submitted the latest revised S-1 filing for its spot Bitcoin ETF. With this update, the Bitcoin spot ETF applied for by VanEck has officially been converted to cash creation, but the authorized trader (Authorized Participant) has not yet been officially named.
James Seyffart added that this does not mean they will not be approved. Prior to an offering, each issuer must file a valid prospectus. Essentially this already means they can go live, it's just that APs (along with fees and other details) must theoretically be specified within them.
- The first issue of Sleepless AI NFT started to be auctioned on the AI-driven UGC creator platform NFPrompt at 13:00 HKT on December 31, 2023. The highest bid has exceeded 250 BNB only ten minutes after the auction started, and the current price exceeds the floor price of some Bored Ape.
NFP and Sleepless AI have launched a linkage activity, and you can get AI airdrops by staking NFP. There are currently 30,260 addresses pledged, with 38,290,952 NFPs pledged, amounting to over $ 41 million.
- According to News.bitcoin, Rostin Behnam, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said that under current laws, many digital assets or tokens are considered commodities. However, Rostin Behnam lamented the emergence of regulatory gaps and urged the US Congress to step in. He also emphasized that he and SEC Chairman Gary Gensler "get along very well."
- ALEX, the one-stop DeFi service platform for Bitcoin, tweeted that the ALEX Bitcoin oracle will support Stacks Inscription STX20. ALEX will support trading once liquidity is sufficient.
- MetaMask said on social platforms that it has cooperated with payment platforms from many countries to support cryptocurrency, including VietQR and Mobile Money in Vietnam, GCash in the Philippines, QRIS in Indonesia, Thai QR in Thailand, Vodafone Cash in Egypt, and Webpay in Chile.
MetaMask also stated that its wallet service currently supports local transfers in four countries: Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan and South Korea. Users in relevant countries can use it on the MetaMask mobile application, browser extension or directly on MetaMask Portfolio.
- According to the Snapshot governance page, the Aave community has voted to approve the ARFC proposal to "list ETHx on the Aave V3 Ethereum network." ETHx is Stader's liquidity pledge token to enhance LST liquidity and asset diversity.
- Options and perpetual contract trading protocol Aevo announced the launch of Spot Swaps functionality. This feature allows users to redeem their collateral, including ETH, USDC, USDT, and WBTC, directly within the Aevo app. Prior to this, users had to first withdraw assets from Aevo, then exchange them on an external DEX, and then re-deposit into Aevo.
- Fiatjaf, the developer of the decentralized social protocol Nostr, issued a statement on social media warning users to avoid interacting with the platform called NostrAssets. According to fiatjaf, NostrAssets is a fully managed service under the name Nostr, which is essentially an affinity scam. NostrAssets has no actual relationship with the Nostr protocol itself, it only borrows Nostr in naming. fiatjaf stressed that users should not deposit any sats to the platform.
In addition, fiatjaf also accused the Token named nostr issued on the platform of being 100% fraudulent and having no connection with the founder and team of Nostr.
- The official website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosed two memorandums (Memorandum).
A memo shows that on November 20, Eastern Time, the SEC and Grayscale were discussing proposed rule changes for the listing and trading of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF.
Another memo showed that on the same day, the SEC met with BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, to discuss proposed rule changes for the listing and trading of the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF. Among them, the memo shows two ETF redemption methods: In-Kind Redemption Model or In-Cash Redemption Model. The physical redemption model means that the final redemption is the Bitcoin shares held by the ETF, while the cash redemption replaces the Bitcoin shares with equivalent cash. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart tweeted that BlackRock appears to be leaning toward the former.
- Axie Infinity has announced a partnership with ride-sharing app Grab to provide additional benefits to users, who can earn Grab reward points and receive discount codes that can be used to purchase certain items from the Axie Merch Store by accessing the Axie Merch Store through the Grab app.
- According to the latest data from Dune, the cumulative fee revenue from the minting of Ordinals inscriptions on the Bitcoin NFT protocol has reached 2,844.1375 BTC, which is approximately $ 104,077,265. The current total number of minted inscriptions reaches 41,882,377.
- Fabian Gompf, the new CEO of the Web3 Foundation, the Polkadot development organization, said in an interview that Polkadot is about to undergo a major transformation. Polkadot will abandon parachain slot auctions in favor of a new mechanism that allows application developers to rent block space as needed. Polkadot’s parachain system “will undergo fundamental changes by the end of this year and early next year.”
Previously, Parity research analyst Joe Petrowski said in the Polkadot Governance Forum that Agile Coretime (Polkadot 2.0) is expected to be launched on the Rococo test network by the end of the year, the Kusama pilot network in the first quarter of next year, and the Polkadot main network in the second quarter.
- **According to the latest data from Coinglass, several cryptocurrency trust products owned by Grayscale have experienced significant premiums. Among them, the premium rate of FIL (Filecoin) trust is as high as 901.67%, the premium rate of SOL (Solana) trust is 869.29%, and the premium rate of LINK (Chainlink) trust also reaches 250.50%.**
- According to the latest report from Matrixport, there will be several important events in the first half of 2024 that may have a significant impact on the trend of Bitcoin. This includes potential approval of a Bitcoin ETF by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Circle’s potential stock market listing, and FTX’s efforts to return to the top three trading platforms. In addition, the Bitcoin halving cycle and Ethereum’s upgrade in the first quarter of 2024 have brought optimistic expectations to the market. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve rate may be cut in mid-2024, in line with market expectations. Driven by the US CPI data, Bitcoin may usher in a wave of gains, aiming to break through $36,000, and then look towards $40,000, and may even touch $45,000 by the end of the year. Stable buyer activity in the United States and the possibility of a Santa Claus Rally further enhanced the market's positive sentiment.
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- Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allarie said on social platforms that Circle will soon launch new products on Solana, including its euro stablecoin EURC and cross-chain transfer protocol CCTP.
Implementing CCTP on the Solana chain will be a major breakthrough, allowing users to send and receive USDC via Ethereum, Cosmos, Avalanche, and other EVM-enabled L2 networks.
- According to official news, the Taiko team will attend the "Devconnect · Istanbul" event and participate in more than 24 offline activities in various forms within 6 days (November 13-18), involving partners including but not limited to: Ethereum Foundation, Lido, EigenLayer, StarkWare, zkSync, RISC 0, IOSG and more. Among them, Taiko has been invited to participate in roundtable discussions, workshops, keynote speeches, etc. in multiple events. More important guest information and event details will be announced one after another.
It is reported that this Devconnect · Istanbul event has attracted much attention. As one of the leading projects of the Ethereum Layer 2 network based on zkRollup, Taiko will have an in-depth discussion with many industry builders on the development path of Ethereum expansion, the development prospects and application scenarios of ZKP, and Views on the future market, etc., to contribute more value to the industry.
- On October 31, Starknet announced the launch of an early community member program, dedicated to recognizing community contributors who have contributed to Starknet so far, and plans to distribute 50 million STRK tokens to those who contributed in the early stages of the network, including reward incentives Individual contributor to technical discussions, organizes Starknet-related events, and regularly publishes Starknet-branded content.
- On October 31, the UK Treasury released its final proposals for crypto asset regulation, outlining the UK government’s intention to bring some crypto asset activities into the scope of financial services regulation for the first time. “The government’s position is that companies that deal directly with UK retail consumers, No matter where you are, you should be required to obtain authorization."
The document describes how companies engaging in crypto-asset activities must now obtain authorization from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, including a provision for cryptocurrency exchanges to set out detailed requirements for entry standards and mandatory disclosures when listing new assets.
- Bitcoin options market makers are shorting Gamma, making it easy to rise in the short term and difficult to fall sharply
- According to the Radiant governance platform, Radiant Capital launched a proposal to "use strategic ARB reserves to incentivize long-term dLP lock-up users" early this morning, and the current opposition rate is 92.19%.
- Jacob Creech, head of developer relations at the Solana Foundation, said on his social platform that "a $400,000 reward is provided to anyone who can find the code that can shut down Solana."
Previously, a fake KOL Inner City Press account posted rumors that former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison testified last week that FTX developers can "turn on and off" the Solana blockchain at will.
- NFT project y00ts announced on its social platform that the cross-chain bridge to migrate y00ts from Polygon back to Ethereum has been launched. The team will bear all gas fees on the first day and randomly distribute 10 coins to wallet addresses that perform cross-chain within 24 hours. y00ts. After October 22, trading y00ts on Polygon will charge a 33.3% royalty, and users are advised to migrate y00ts within 7 days.
- DWF Labs managing partner Andrei Grachev said on social media that it has partnered with the Dubai Multi Commodities Center (DMCC) to become a financial partner of its ecosystem.
- According to The Block, Solana’s v1.16 update introduces the “Confidential Transfers” feature, which enhances user privacy through encrypted SPL token transactions. This is a new token program introduced by Token2022 to enhance Solana’s current token functionality. This allows people to conduct blockchain transactions without revealing key details of the transaction, such as the transaction amount.
After ten months of development and an audit by blockchain security firm Halborn, the v1.16 update of the Solana Layer 1 proof-of-stake blockchain has recently achieved more than half validation, according to a blog post from Solana infrastructure provider Helius Labs. adoption of the device.
v1.16 has been running on the test network since June
- According to official news, LSD stablecoin protocol Lybra Finance announced the launch of Lybra DAO.
It is reported that esLBR and LBR holders will be able to make key decisions on the future of Lybra by submitting governance proposals and voting on them. Each proposal has a 7-day voting window. If the DAO votes "yes" to the on-chain proposal, the proposal will be automatically executed by Time Lock 2 days after the voting is completed.