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Bitwise has announced 10 crypto predictions for 2024.
Prediction 1: Bitcoin will trade above $80,000, setting a new all-time high.
Prediction 2: Spot bitcoin ETFs will be approved, and collectively will be the most successful ETF launch of all time.
Prediction 3: Coinbase’s revenue will double, beating Wall Street expectations by at least 10x.
Prediction 4: More money will settle using stablecoins than using Visa.
Prediction 5: J.P. Morgan will tokenize a fund and launch it on-chain as Wall Street gears up to tokenize real-world assets.
Prediction 6: Ethereum revenue will more than double to $5 billion as users flock to crypto applications.
Prediction 7: Taylor Swift will launch NFTs to connect with fans in new ways.
Prediction 8: AI assistants will use crypto to pay for things online, affirming crypto as “the native currency of the internet.”
Prediction 9: More than $100 million will be staked in prediction markets as they emerge as a new “killer app” for crypto.
Prediction 10: A major upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain will drive the average transaction cost below $0.01, paving the way for more mainstream uses.
Bonus Prediction: 1 in 4 financial advisors will allocate to crypto in client accounts by the end of 2024.
https://bitwiseinvestments.com/crypto-market-insights/the-year-ahead-10-crypto-predictions-for-2024
Bitwise Asset Management has become the latest firm to have its spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) listed on the DTCC under the ticker name BITB.
https://watcher.guru/news/bitwise-spot-bitcoin-etf-listed-on-dtcc
https://www.dtcc.com/products/cs/exchange_traded_funds_plain_new.php
Vitalik Buterin has introduced an article about the current Layer-2 EVM solution.
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1734947774343332116
🔥The Bitcoin price has risen above $42,000 once again.
BTC is now trading at $41,870.
https://dropstab.com/coins/bitcoin
Worldcoin now supports integrations for its World ID with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify and Mercado Libre.
The company already supports integrations with Discord, Talent Protocol and Okta’s. Launched to the public about four months ago, the protocol recently was updated to World ID 2.0, which, the company says, makes it easier to distinguish between bots and “verified humans” online.
The new integrations will, for example, let Reddit moderators give special permissions to those who use their World ID “so they know you’re not spamming,” Sada said. Or, Shopify store owners can use World ID for fraud prevention or one-time promotions.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/13/worldcoin-integration-reddit-telegram-shopify/
Su Zhu, co-founder of the now-defunct crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), is set to be released this month following his arrest in September for not cooperating with liquidation efforts, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
https://www.theblock.co/post/267382/3ac-co-founder-su-zhu-set-to-be-released-faces-singapore-court-questioning
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The market is down. Market cap is $1.57T. Bitcoin is trading at $40.8K
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Binance has asked the court to dismiss the SEC's notice, arguing it is not relevant to the allegations in the case.
https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/status/1734746575409484198
The criminal investigation unit of the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has listed four crypto-related cases among the top ten of its “most prominent and high-profile investigations” in 2023.
The cases included investigations into the Silk Road marketplace, OneCoin, Oyster Protocol founder “Bruno Block,” and a money laundering scheme using Bitcoin kiosks.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/irs-crypto-crimes-top-cases-2023
My Neighbor Alice, a long-running blockchain game launched in 2021, has migrated from BNB Chain to the new Chromia network in the run-up to Chromia’s mainnet launch.
https://decrypt.co/209399/my-neighbor-alice-game-migrates-bnb-chain-chromia-new-season
Analysts with investment manager VanEck have said they expect former U.S. president Donald Trump to retake the White House next year—helping the bitcoin price soar to $100,000 by December 2024 and giving it a market capitalization of around $2 trillion.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/12/11/donald-trump-predicted-to-trigger-a-2024-100000-bitcoin-price-boom/
Starknet founder urges users to be cautious about fakes.
The date of token distribution has not been officially announced yet.
https://twitter.com/0xAA_Science/status/1734538022786421118
BNB has released BNB Greenfield Roadmap.
Between Q4 of 2023 and Q1 of 2024, Greenfield will enable smart contracts as resource owners for better permission control from the BSC/opBNB, improve SP performance for sealing objects and garbage collection, and simplify SP exit processes.
https://chainwire.org/2023/12/12/bnb-chains-greenfield-roadmap-unveiled-targets-mass-web2-adoption-and-ai/
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Kaiko's report
DEX monthly trade volume rose to $29bn in November, recovering from a multi-year low hit in September. This is still far below all time highs of more than $124bn reached in May 2021.
The market share of DEX to CEX trade volume has also decreased over the past year, closing November at just 3%, down from 5% in January.
Although the largest DEX Uniswap saw its market share retreat relative to Coinbase, it still remains fairly significant at 40%.
https://research.kaiko.com/insights/diving-into-dexs
CFTC plans to require clearing firms to keep customer funds separate from their own.
https://www.theblock.co/post/267532/cftc-votes-to-propose-rule-that-would-bolster-customer-protections-in-wake-of-ftx-collapse
SEC delays Invesco/Galaxy Ethereum ETF application until Feb. 6.
https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1735039904910840016/
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Blockchain development firm Coti is planning to launch an Ethereum Layer 2.
In an update, Coti’s infrastructure will shift from its DAG protocol to a Layer 2 network.
The initial test network for Coti V2 is scheduled for release in 2024.
https://www.theblock.co/post/267416/coti-plans-expansion-to-ethereum-ecosystem-with-layer-2-network
Coinbase is rolling out spot crypto trading on its international exchange as part of a global expansion, saying some users are wary of US venues due to the country’s uncertain regulatory backdrop.
Institutional investors can initially trade Bitcoin and Ether against the USDC stablecoin.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-13/coinbase-coin-to-start-spot-bitcoin-btc-trading-on-international-exchange
Binance suspends token deposits and withdrawals on the Cosmos network today due to network upgrades.
https://www.binance.com/zh-CN/support/announcement/%E5%85%B3%E4%BA%8E%E6%94%AF%E6%8C%81cosmos-atom-%E7%BD%91%E7%BB%9C%E5%8D%87%E7%BA%A7%E7%9A%84%E5%85%AC%E5%91%8A-fa144e3505b84e2486d1d2175bb7a4d1
OKX DEX users lost over $400k due to the old contract.
https://twitter.com/okxchinese/status/1734787911789502826
SEC held a meeting with BlackRock and Franklin Templeton regarding applications for a spot BTC-ETF.
https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1734679896746758219
Donald Trump announced a new NFT collection – the "Mugshot Edition".
Those who buy 47 Trump cards or more will get to have dinner with the former resident at Mar-a-Lago and receive a piece of the suit Trump wore for his mugshot when he was arrested in August.
Price: $99
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/12/12/donald-trump-unveils-new-mugshot-nfts-stirring-up-prices-for-his-previous-nfts/
Crypto exchange KuCoin has agreed to pay $22 million to the State of New York and to bar residents of the state from using its platform, according to a stipulation and consent order filed in the New York Supreme Court on Dec. 12.
According to the order, KuCoin admits that it “operates a cryptocurrency trading platform on which users, including users in New York state, can purchase or sell cryptocurrencies which are securities or commodities as defined under the laws of New York state and that Kucoin is not registered as a securities or commodities broker-dealer.”
In addition, KuCoin “admits that it represented itself as an ‘exchange’ and was not registered as an exchange pursuant to the laws of New York State.”
https://cointelegraph.com/news/kucoin-cryptoccurrency-exchange-ban-new-york-residents-pay-22-million-settlement
S&P Global has launched a stablecoin stability assessment.
Dai (DAI), First Digital USD (FDUSD), Tether (USDT), Frax (FRAX), TrueUSD (TUSD) and USD Coin (USDC) were assessed.
At the top of the list were USDC, USDP and GUSD, which received high marks “2(strong)”.
USDT, DAI and FDUSD were assessed as average or "4(constrained)", with scores indicating they were near the weak end.
FRAX and TUSD were assessed as “5(weak)”.
None of the stablecoins included in the first assessment received the highest rating of "very strong".
https://cointelegraph.com/news/s-p-global-launches-stablecoin-ratings-ranks-gusd-usdp-usdc-highest
https://press.spglobal.com/2023-12-12-S-P-Global-Ratings-Launches-Stablecoin-Stability-Assessment
Coinbase and Coinbase Asset Management announce Project Diamond, a smart contract-powered platform for institutions to create, buy, and sell digitally native assets.
The platform leverages the Coinbase technology stack and Base to deliver secure, compliant, capital market activity that will continue to unlock institutional adoption of the global cryptoeconomy.
https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-and-coinbase-asset-management-announce-project-diamond-a-smart
Clearpool Prime, Clearpool’s institutional-grade credit marketplace, has gone live on Optimism’s OP Mainnet.
https://medium.com/clearpool-finance/clearpool-launches-clearpool-prime-transforming-private-credit-for-institutions-live-on-optimism-c2f1b2fa9b9a
Upbit lists Creditcoin (CTC).
Creditcoin is a token issued in 2017. In its early days, the company focused on lending. It has recently transformed into RWA and claims to run on Nominated Proof of Stake (which is a type of PoS consensus mechanism that also uses a staking system to incentivise validators to act honestly).
https://upbit.com/service_center/notice?id=3920
The table showing which big Ethereum validators continue to process transactions linked to Tornado Cash, sanctioned last year by OFAC.
https://twitter.com/jp_koning/status/1734194339390120029