Spot bitcoin ETFs are live in a first day of trading in the U.S.
Bloomberg Intelligence analyst James Seyffart said the ETFs crossed $1.2 billion of volume in the first 30 minutes of trading.
The Bitcoin price reached $48,834.
BTC is now trading at $47,661.
https://www.theblock.co/post/271944/bitcoin-price-rises-as-spot-etfs-start-first-day-of-trading
Franklin Templeton, the $1.5 trillion asset manager, gave its logo a glowing, crypto-y tweak after the SEC approved bitcoin ETFs.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/01/11/ben-franklins-laser-eyes-suggest-a-tough-battle-for-bitcoin-etfs/
https://x.com/FTI_US/status/1745229093082190295
NEAR Foundation will reduce its team by approximately 40%, impacting 35 colleagues, primarily across the marketing, business development, and community teams.
https://pages.near.org/blog/an-update-from-the-near-foundation/
🔥Ethereum has reached $2,623.
ETH is now trading at $2,606.
https://dropstab.com/coins/ethereum
Gensler said that he approved Bitcoin ETF largely due to his loss in court with Grayscale.
https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-statement-spot-bitcoin-011023
Elon Musk says he is "open to using Bitcoin on X but thinks about it very little".
https://x.com/cryptomacro14/status/1745250225605009727
Top 100 gainers in 24 hours: ETC (+35%), ARB (+23%), RPL (+21%), MNT (+20%), BLUR (+20%).
https://dropstab.com/
SEC Statement on the Approval of Spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Products
“Today, the Commission approved the listing and trading of a number of spot bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) shares.”
“While we approved the listing and trading of certain spot bitcoin ETP shares today, we did not approve or endorse bitcoin.”
https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-statement-spot-bitcoin-011023
⚡️Bitcoin ETFs Likely Approved by the SEC
But at the moment the document on the SEC website is no longer available
https://x.com/jseyff/status/1745187087752572986
https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/sro/nysearca/2024/fg-89shlq.pdf
The airdrop for participants of the TinFun NFT sale will be held on January 12 at 12:30 UTC.
https://m.theblockbeats.info/flash/214458
EigenLayer adds restaking support for three new Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs): Frax Ether (sfrxETH), Mantle Staked Ether (mETH), and Liquid Collective Staked Ether (LsETH).
EigenLayer will reopen for restaking at the existing cap of 200k ETH for each LST.
Restaking Window: Available from Jan 29th, 20:00 UTC to Feb 2nd, 20:00 UTC.
https://www.blog.eigenlayer.xyz/introducing-new-lsts-and-unpausing-restaking-caps/
X removes support for NFT profile pictures.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/x-removes-support-for-nft-profile-pictures/
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is neutral. Market cap is $1.73T. Bitcoin is trading at $45.9K
dropstab | icodrops | twitter | telegram
Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas: “Maybe someone put pre-canned tweet in one day early.”
https://x.com/ericbalchunas/status/1744833362814996503
Rumours: USDC stablecoin issuer Circle has confidentially filed for an initial public offering of its equity securities.
https://www.theblock.co/post/271907/usdc-stablecoin-circle-ipo
Magic Square trading has started on Bybit.
SQR is now trading at $0.26.
https://www.bybit.com/en/trade/spot-m/SQR/USDT
Injective’s first AMM Launchpad DojoSwap has raised $25 Million via a public sale.
https://x.com/dojo_swap/status/1745326301945405789
ZKFair has announced that the remaining 131,883,870 ZKF has been burned automatically.
https://x.com/zkfcommunity/status/1745283847477244205
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is growing. Market cap is $1.78T. Bitcoin is trading at $46.1K
dropstab | icodrops | twitter | telegram
Vitalik Buterin wants to increase Ethereum's gas limit by 33%.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/191kke6/comment/kh7ekx3/
OpenAI is launching the GPT Store.
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-gpt-store
«Grayscale team has received necessary regulatory approvals to uplist GBTC to NYSE Arca», Grayscale spokesperson
https://x.com/fintechfrank/status/1745187406964281792
SEC decision on spot Bitcoin ETFs expected to be made in the coming hours
https://x.com/ericbalchunas/status/1745059713224454248
MultiversX has introduced tokenomics and Ta-da token sale details on Xlaunchpad.
Public sale
Price: $0.022
Raised: $1.1M
Private sale
Price: $0.0175
Raised: $2.2M
Seed
Price: $0.0125
Raised: $1.25M
Staked EGLD snapshots: January 3 - 19
KYC: January 18
https://xlaunchpad.com/ta-da/project-overview
Magic Square public sale on ChainGPT has been canceled due to technical reasons.
/channel/magicsquare_announcements/897
Nomura’s Laser Digital and WebN Group have unveiled Libre protocol, which is fund tokenization infrastructure powered by Polygon technology.
Laser Digital is the crypto arm of financial services firm Nomura, while WebN Group is an incubation hub for fintech and web3 innovators, backed by Laser Digital and Brevan Howard co-founder Alan Howard.
https://www.theblock.co/post/271230/nomura-laser-digital-unveils-polygon-powered-libre-protocol-brevan-howard
Clearpool has introduced its latest product — Credit Vaults.
Benefits:
- Empowering borrowers with greater flexibility: Credit Vaults allow borrowers to set their own parameters, including interest rates, repayment schedules, and KYC requirements.
- Attracting new lenders with increased interest rates.
- Unlocking new borrower types and loan opportunities.
https://medium.com/clearpool-finance/introducing-credit-vaults-unlocking-new-borrower-types-higher-yield-opportunities-6327ef25dd3c
X: “We can confirm that the account SEC was compromised and we have completed a preliminary investigation. Based on our investigation, the compromise was not due to any breach of X’s systems, but rather due to an unidentified individual obtaining control over a phone number associated with the SEC account through a third party. We can also confirm that the account did not have two-factor authentication enabled at the time the account was compromised”.
https://x.com/safety/status/1744924042681897343
BitGo obtains in-principle approval in Singapore for digital asset license.
https://www.theblock.co/post/271148/bitgo-singapore-inprinciple-approval-digital-asset-license