Market
Exchanges
Report: How Coinbase profits from its coin listings
DESO’s value briefly spiked to new highs after it listed on Coinbase, the value of the asset has now plummeted to less than 65% of its ATH.
Hacks
$2 million in crypto recovered from hacked Trezor wallet
An engineer and hacker has helped an entrepreneur to recover around $2 million in lost crypto in a Trezor hardware wallet.
Investments
Despite market crash, investors keep flocking to crypto startups
Investors have kept flocking crypto startups despite the value of digital assets falling drastically in January.
Mining
Extreme weather conditions force crypto miners to halt operations
Riot Blockchain’s data center in Texas has been powered down to help the state.
Gaming
Public backlash forces “Worms” game NFT to be canceled
Community backlash has forced Team 17 to withdraw its plan to integrate NFT features into its game.
Metaverse
McDonald’s celebrate Chinese New Year in the metaverse
McDonald’s is celebrating the Chinese New Year in the metaverse.
Regulation
SEC postpones decision on Bitwise Bitcoin spot ETF application again
SEC postponed its decision on Bitwise application citing the need for more information on salient matters.
Taxes
No more crypto tax in Thailand
Thailand’s government has been forced to cancel its 15% crypto tax regime.
Stablecoins
Circle’s USDC is silently closing the gap to Tether
Circle-backed stablecoin, USDC, now controls around 30% of the stablecoin market share after minting its 50 billionth token.
Regulation
Why the SEC is investigating these crypto lending firms
The SEC is investigating some crypto lending firms over their operations and high interest rates.
Adoption
MicroStrategy to hold second edition of Bitcoin for corporations
MicroStrategy’s second Bitcoin conference would have panelists from Coinbase, Paxos and other top crypto firms.
NFTs
NFT trades on LooksRare are mostly wash trading, accounts for over $8 billion
Of the over $9 billion dollar worth of trades on LooksRare, over 80% of them were wash trading.