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The CFTC released the DeFi report and made five recommendations to mitigate risks:
1. Resource assessment, data gathering and mapping: increase technical capacity and understanding of DeFi; map existing DeFi to measure and highlight interconnections and threat vectors (the use of leverage, concentration, and potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities); develop continuous data gathering, monitoring, information sharing, and regulatory partnerships.
2. Survey the existing regulatory perimeter: use the mapping exercise to determine whether DeFi products and services are within the U.S. financial regulatory perimeter; assess the level of compliance; identify regulatory gaps and whether frameworks should be expanded to address risks; partner with self-regulatory organizations; evaluate international peer jurisdictions’ regulation.
3. Risk identification, assessment, and prioritization: including risks posed by asymmetric information and conflicts of interest, operational, technical and security vulnerabilities, liquidity and maturity mismatches, over-leverage, algorithmic discrimination, wash trading, front running and other types of market manipulation, oracle exploitation, vulnerabilities in consensus protocols, hardwired algorithmic failures, reliance on key service providers and other forms of concentration risk; financial and technological complexity of DeFi compositions; hardwired procyclicality; and illicit finance.
4. Identify and evaluate the range of potential policy responses to address risks: including disclosure, regulatory reporting, third party auditing, entry restrictions, regulatory supervision, governance regulation, conduct regulation, product regulation, balance sheet regulation, activity restrictions, structural regulation, and resolution planning.
5. Foster greater engagement and collaboration with domestic and international standard setters, regulatory efforts, and DeFi builders.
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/romerostatement010824b
Magic Square token sale on TokenSoft has been canceled due to technical issues.
Magic Square plans to shift the token sale to different platform.
/channel/magicsquare_announcements/873
XAI airdrop claim gonna go live in ~15 hours.
https://twitter.com/xai_games/status/1744415050436399593
💧Top Cosmos Ecosystem Funding Rounds in 2023
👉 https://dropstab.com/tab/cosmos-ecosystem-fundraise-8r0hcj9ayp
Binance conducted its Proof of Reserves audit.
https://www.binance.com/en/proof-of-reserves
The SEC posted an article titled "NO GO to FOMO" warning people about the dangers of investing.
https://x.com/sec_investor_ed/status/1743633594067619970
Top 100 losers in 24 hours: MANA (-18%), ASTR (-17%), ICP (-14%), AXS (-13%).
https://dropstab.com/insights/top-performance
Vitalik Buterin gave 4 financial advices:
▫️Diversification is good.
▫️Save. Get to the point where you have enough to cover multiple years of expenses. Financial safety is freedom.
▫️Be boring with most of your portfolio.
▫️Don't use >2x leverage. Just don't.
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1743991285214527532
Rumors: BlackRock is expecting approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission for its new Bitcoin "spot" ETF on January 10.
https://x.com/eleanorterrett/status/1743720554308231523
BlackRock is going to lay off 600 employees (3% of its global workforce).
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/blackrock-layoffs-coming-firm-matures-esg-pullback-bitcoin-etf-approval
An unknown user bought 27 BTC on Binance and sent them to Satoshi Nakamoto's address.
https://mempool.space/tx/d7db4f96a4059c8906b953677ce533493d7b9da0f854a21b99f5772910dd0a31
Bloomberg: SEC staff said to have no more feedback on several key filings.
SEC commissioners plan vote on exchange-rule filings next week.
The issuers need the SEC to sign-off on the final versions of their S-1 filings, which are the prospectus documents for the ETFs. The SEC gave issuers a deadline of Monday at 8 a.m. Washington time to file updated S-1s, one of the people said. SEC approval of the 19b-4 and S-1 forms may or may not happen at the same time, though typically the S-1s are approved after the 19b-4s.
A representative for the SEC declined to comment.
Should both approvals be obtained, the ETFs could start trading as soon as the next business day.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-05/bitcoin-btc-etf-issuers-clear-major-hurdle-for-sec-approval
Manta Network has revealed the Into the Blue Campaign, an airdrop of 50,000,000 MANTA tokens, equivalent to 5% of the total supply.
Into the Blue Details
The rewards from Into the Blue are divided into two categories:
▫️Airdrop Rewards: 30,000,000 MANTA (3% of total supply) is allocated for airdrop rewards to supporters and users in the Manta ecosystem on both Manta Atlantic and Manta Pacific.
▫️Airdrop Bonus Rewards — The Great Treasure Hunt: 20,000,000 MANTA (2% of total supply) will be allocated as bonus rewards that can be obtained by supporters and users in the Manta ecosystem.
▫️Participants from the United States and other restricted regions are not eligible to participate
▫️The airdrop claim period will last for a total of 180 days.
https://mantanetwork.medium.com/into-the-blue-the-official-manta-airdrop-59dc9f938575
Later today, Binance will convert collateral assets of Binance-Peg BUSD to FDUSD at a 1:1 conversion rate.
https://x.com/binance/status/1743152934089625674
Blogger Logan Paul promises to refund money to CryptoZoo holders if they don't sue him.
In an X (formerly Twitter) post on Thursday, Paul announced that he is “personally committing” more than $2.3 million to buy back NFTs purchased through CryptoZoo.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/04/logan-paul-cryptozoo-nft-buy-back-class-action-lawsuit/
Prospective spot bitcoin ETF issuers revealed new details about initial funding amounts in the latest round of amended forms.
Investment firm VanEck has taken the lead with direct investment, noting that it has seeded its potential spot bitcoin ETF with $72.5 million, according to its amended S-1 form.
Bitwise has seeded its proposed ETF with $500,000, according to its amended S-1 form, but Pantera Capital has also said that it is interested in putting $200 million into the fund if approved. That carried a disclaimer that it's an indication of interest and not legally binding.
BlackRock has seeded its potential spot bitcoin ETF with $10 million, according to its amended S-1 form.
https://www.theblock.co/post/270964/vaneck-seeds-potential-spot-bitcoin-etf-with-72-5-million-while-bitwise-lines-up-200-million-of-interest
🔥Bitcoin has reached $47,154.
BTC is now trading at $46,942.
https://dropstab.com/coins/bitcoin
TokenSoft is still working on the problems on their platform.
Magic Square sale postponed to a new time tomorrow.
/channel/magicsquare_announcements/869
Bybit will list Manta Network (MANTA).
Manta deposits ends on January 16 at 1:00 UTC.
https://twitter.com/Bybit_Official/status/1744299154929594780
Dymension launched Genesis Rolldrop of 70 million DYM for active Cosmos, Solana and Ethereum L1/L2 users.
Claiming is available for 13 days.
https://genesis.dymension.xyz/
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is down. Market cap is $1.66T. Bitcoin is trading at $44K
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Friend.tech TVL is down nearly ~50% compared to ATH in October.
https://defillama.com/protocol/friend.tech?denomination=ETH
A proposal to restrict BTC Inscriptions failed and was closed.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28408
Bounce Brand is gearing up to integrate Binance Web3 Wallet.
https://x.com/bounce_finance/status/1743866732698038437
Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas said that the approval process for the Bitcoin spot ETF is basically complete. The U.S. SEC is working hard to prepare all applicants for the January 11 launch finally.
https://x.com/wublockchain/status/1743455049488162931
Rumours: BlackRock has $2 billion of capital lined up from existing bitcoin holders that want to rotate into spot bitcoin ETFs in week one.
https://x.com/timccopeland/status/1743358421540208655
Bounce has announced PORT3 launch on Bounce Launchpad by Port3 Network.
Details:
Total Raise: $100K
Start Time: Jan 7, 14:00 UTC
Token Release Time: Jan 8, 8:00 UTC
Blockchain: Ethereum
Token Supply: 2M PORT3
PORT3 will be listed on Bybit, KuCoin, Gate, CoinEx simultaneously at 8:00 UTC on Jan 8.
https://x.com/bounce_finance/status/1743449125767782899
⚡️ Top Funding Rounds In the Last Week
👉 https://dropstab.com/insights/latest-fundraising-rounds
Certik's official X account was compromised.
https://x.com/certikalert/status/1743202025771327740
Celsius will unstake a large amount of ETH in the coming days to offset certain costs incurred throughout the restructuring process.
https://x.com/celsiusnetwork/status/1743023399201362256