- Sam Bankman-Fried’s remaining charges from his tenure as head of FTX, which included allegations of bank fraud and international bribery, have been withdrawn, so there won’t be a second trial for him in March.
- Tellor exhibited extreme volatility leading to $68M in liquidations, which in turn sparked speculation of market manipulation. The large concentration of 76% of the TRB token supply, held by 14 whale wallets, increases the possibility of pump and dump scams.
- Early Access is available for SHIB domains, first-come, first-served. As per a recent update from D3, a domain name startup and Shiba Inu’s latest partner, SHIB’s campaign for decentralised identification is going strong.
- Norges Bank has completed the fourth round of CBDC research. According to the study, tokenized deposits might operate in a manner as that of a retail CBDC. This is the service that will be the subject of future experimentation.
- GIFT city in India has declared its intention to create a regulated marketplace for tokenizing assets. GIFT City’s financial authority declared that the tokenization platform will use blockchain technology to combine Web 3 and conventional finance.
- After releasing 1 billion XRP, or roughly $610M, on Jan. 1, 2024, Ripple returned 800 million XRP, or roughly $492.5M, to its escrow system. This is a part of Ripple’s monthly process to unlock and release a predetermined quantity of XRP from its escrow.
- On the first day of the new year, the price of Bitcoin shot up more than 6%, breaking $45,000 for the first time since early April 2022. BTC ETF news could propel the pioneering cryptocurrency to new highs in 2024.
- The use of Polygon NFTs increased significantly in December 2023. Higher volumes are being driven by NFT collects related to a Stepn-linked game. In terms of NFT sales, Polygon continues to lag behind Solana, Ethereum, and Bitcoin.
- 10 Bitcoin mining operations have been shut down by Indonesian police, who accused the operators of stealing electricity worth close to $1M.
- As per reports, Twitter account of Compound Finance, a decentralised finance (DeFi) platform has been hacked.
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