Binance Futures launched the USDⓈ-M MOVR Perpetual Contract at 2023-12-26 12:30 UTC, with up to 50x leverage.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-futures-will-launch-usd%E2%93%A2-m-movr-perpetual-contract-with-up-to-50x-leverage-711588ec360e460d840d7a18472c9617
ZKFair's Airdrop Gas Fee event is complete, with total gas consumption totaling more than $109 million.
ZKF claiming will begin on Jan. 1
https://zkfair.io/airdrop
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is down. Market cap is $1.68T. Bitcoin is trading at $42.6K
dropstab | icodrops | twitter | telegram
Crypto VC funding plummeted by 68% in 2023 to $10.7 billion, compared to the $33.3 billion invested in 2022.
https://www.theblock.co/post/268972/crypto-vc-funding-2023-recap
Tether minted $1 billion USDT.
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc46a29dc6d919b322fa18ea022f1bc816a9850c77aac45929d3662a2bb63c20c
Indian officials, in alignment with the RBI, affirm that the regulator’s position on cryptocurrencies remains unchanged, emphasizing the necessity of an absolute prohibition.
https://coincrypto.news/rbi-tells-india-to-heed-crypto-worries/#google_vignette
The zkSync Era network is now fully operational.
https://twitter.com/zkSyncDevs/status/1739231136780263916
💧 Top Funding Rounds in the Last Week
👉 https://dropstab.com/insights/latest-fundraising-rounds
Rumours: The CEO of MEXC deactivated his account a week ago.
MEXC: “The Twitter account MEXC_CEO was never officially verified by the MEXC platform, and due to its minimal content and followers, MEXC did not make a specific announcement (this is the fundamental reason for the widespread misunderstanding caused by the deletion of this account).”
https://x.com/eljaboom/status/1738806100848189866
https://twitter.com/MEXC_Official/status/1738988390899700017
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is down. Market cap is $1.69T. Bitcoin is trading at $43.1K
dropstab | icodrops | twitter | telegram
FUD: WSJ ran a piece on Yi He "The Crypto Queen Pulling the Strings at Binance".
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/the-crypto-queen-pulling-the-strings-at-binance-1e6dfeb5
Manta Network has announced that Lucky Box opening temporarily paused.
https://twitter.com/MantaNetwork/status/1738780699501453727
Crypto exchange MEXC has allegedly frozen several traders’ accounts and seized their funds, according to multiple reports on X (formerly Twitter). The exchange claims the actions were motivated by "abnormal trading activities.”
https://cointelegraph.com/news/traders-report-frozen-assets-account-blocks-mexc
Justin Sun plans to launch a new memcoin on Tron, which will be called Coconut Chicken Coin.
https://x.com/justinsuntron/status/1738436680435339287
Optimism TVL hit a new ATH today - $6B.
https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/optimism
Creditors of the long-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox have reportedly started to receive fiat repayments for their Bitcoin, which had been trapped on the exchange since February 2014, according to emerging reports on social media.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/mt-gox-creditors-repayments-received-social-media-reports
💧Crypto Fundraising Highlights in 2023
👉 Dropstab.com/insights/latest-fundraising-rounds
Bithumb has listed Osmosis (OSMO).
https://twitter.com/BithumbOfficial/status/1739467811184108028
Institutional investors will take a more active interest in the cryptocurrency sector in 2024, according to analysts from the crypto exchanges and a crypto lending platform.
This will be driven by the potential approval of a spot bitcoin ETF, expected U.S. Federal Reserve rate cuts, and greater regulatory clarity, they said.
https://www.theblock.co/post/265684/institutional-investors-poised-for-increased-crypto-activity-in-2024-analysts-say
Blast TVL has exceeded $1B.
https://debank.com/profile/0x5f6ae08b8aeb7078cf2f96afb089d7c9f51da47d
Uniswap founder: “Today, Uniswap volume was higher than NYSE and NASDAQ combined.”
https://x.com/haydenzadams/status/1739297558889894332
U.S. SEC officials met on Thursday with representatives of at least seven companies hoping to launch exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to spot bitcoin early in 2024, and told at least two to submit final changes by the end of next week.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sec-tells-spot-bitcoin-etf-hopefuls-make-final-changes-by-year-end-sources-2023-12-22/
Solana Name Service is now integrated on Injective, enabling both .sol and .inj domains to be used on Injective.
This is the interoperable domain name protocol built together with Bonfida, Imperator.co and Wormhole.
https://x.com/injective_/status/1738593012807057459
New Paradigm TVL by Manta is reaching $250M.
https://dune.com/hashed_official/manta-pacific
Following its token’s 100% gain from last month’s price, the Solana network has also set records for new and active addresses on the network.
https://www.theblock.co/post/269188/solana-sets-records-for-monthly-new-and-active-addresses-amid-price-rally
Arthur Hayes closed his long on SOL, shorted the pump and got REKT.
https://twitter.com/CryptoHayes/status/1738698948418957579
The Solana price has increased by ~20% in 24 hours.
SOL is now trading at $114.7.
https://dropstab.com/coins/solana
Stargate's proposal to integrate NEAR into the crosschain bridge was accepted.
https://snapshot.org/#/stgdao.eth/proposal/0xe21e8d82840271de57e3a04aa8ab6a083d7e1c08fe198ed3a08d7901f8e4cde6
Arthur Hayes published a new article “Expression”.
https://cryptohayes.medium.com/expression-f580605ebccd
OpenAI is in early discussions to raise a fresh round of funding at a valuation at or above $100 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-22/openai-in-talks-to-raise-new-funding-at-100-billion-valuation