💰 Phantom has raised $150 million in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital and Paradigm that values the startup at $3 billion, more than double its previous valuation. bloomberg
Читать полностью…🔎📉 BNB Chain DeFi Ecosystem Overview
BNB Chain DeFi ecosystem has reached a total TVL of $7.43B, marking a 3.31% loss in the last 30D. Leading the ecosystem are PancakeSwap ($1.97B), Venus ($1.82B), and Wrapped Beacon ETH ($608M). #BNB #CAKE #XVS
🕵️♂️ Whale transactions:
- Sigil Fund brought out #PENGU worth $3.56 million from Binance;
- Smartmoney, who previously made $5.16 million from the LUNA crash and ~$7.4 million from trading BTC, today sold 4,192 #ETH bought last September for a profit of $3 million;
- Two more whales sold ETH for >$20 million: 0x0945...4Cec sold 4,216 ETH, and 0x0121...fDb7 - 2,010 ETH.
🇺🇸🙅♂️ Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says there is no reason for the government to create CBDC.
Читать полностью…💰 Today's fundraisers:
- DEX GTE based on MegaETH attracted $10 million from Maven 11, Wintermute, etc.;
- Hyve Labs, which deals with Web3 games, completed $2.75 million Pre-Seed funding round led by Framework Ventures.
📊👀 In 2024 Q4, CoinGecko's annual report revealed that the top 10 L2s averaged 15M daily transactions. Base accounted for 48.3% of these transactions, followed by Taiko at 20.6% and Arbitrum at 13.7%.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🚀 #LTC #ETF Nasdaq filed a 19b-4 for Canary's Litecoin ETF, starting SEC's review process.
Читать полностью…🕵️ 10,557 #BTC (worth $1.04B) transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase Institutional
Читать полностью…🇧🇪🇵🇱 #BNB Binance implements extra info requirement for Belgian, Polish users on €1,000+ crypto transactions. binance
Читать полностью…🔮 61% of financial advisors surveyed by Bitwise believe #BTC will be worth in the $100,000-$250,000 range by the end of 2025
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🗣 #BTC Bitgo CEO: If there's one guy that doesn't need a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, it's the US Treasury. Bitcoin will go up regardless of whether there's a US SBR or not.
Читать полностью…💰 Notable Funding Rounds in 2024
These projects not only attracted substantial investment but also defined the thematic and technological trends that will likely influence the crypto market moving forward.
🇺🇸👀 #macro Waller at the Fed:
- Possible 3 or 4 rate cuts this year;
- Doesn't rule out a rate cut in March;
- Doesn't expect Trump's duties to affect inflation.
📊📉 In Q4 2024, #BTC's correlation with stocks, gold, and the dollar index decreased, largely due to the impact of the elections.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
#BTC-ETFs:
NetFlow: +7,066 BTC ($703.6M) 🟢
Fidelity inflows 4,629 BTC ($460.97M) and currently holds 209,070 BTC ($20.82B);
#ETH-ETFs:
NetFlow: +14,425 ETH ($48.32M) 🟢
Fidelity inflows 8,499 ETH ($28.47M) and currently holds 404,003 ETH ($1.35B).
🇸🇾👀 #BTC Syria after the fall of Assad is considering the legalization of Bitcoin, including partially backing the Syrian Pound and mining with excess energy reserves. bitcoinmagazine
Читать полностью…📈🥳 #XRP has just reached a new 7-year high, crossing a $3.39 market value for the first time since January, 2018. With this rise, we have just seen 2,365 $100K+ XRP transactions in the latest 8-hour span, the highest spike since December 34rd. Total holders are also skyrocketing.
Читать полностью…🥳 #USDT Tether has tapped Kraken’s native Ethereum scaling layer, Ink, for the first deployment of its cross-chain USDT0 token. theblock
Читать полностью…🆕👀Coinbase International will add support for perpetual futures on #AIXBT, #PNUT and #VET
Читать полностью…🏦 #ETH Swiss state bank PostFinance is expanding its crypto business by launching Ethereum staking. Bloomberg
Читать полностью…🇺🇸👀 #macro USA:
- Retail sales (Dec): 0.4% (prev: 0.7%);
- Initial Jobless Claims: 217 thousand (previous: 201 thousand);
- Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index (Jan): 44.3 (prev: -16.4).