Adoption
Number of ETH holders grew 3.6x to 87M in 2022
Ethereum holders account for 20% of the 425 million global crypto investors, while BTC holders account for 52%.
Monika Ghosh 1 min read
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Tokenization
OKX reports $7.5B Proof-of-Reserves in BTC, ETH, USDT
OKX reserves are 100% clean, meaning that the exchange reserves do not contain the exchange's native token, according to CryptoQuant data.
Stablecoins
National Australia Bank to launch AUD-backed stablecoin
The stablecoin, AUDN, will focus on reducing settlement time, bringing down cost of international transfers, and carbon credits.
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Adoption
Deployed ETH smart contracts surge 453% in Q4 2022
The year-over-year growth of deployed smart contracts also emerges as 293%.
Layer-2
Ethereum mainnet hits record-breaking 32B weekly gas expenditure
Ethereum L2 networks spent a record-breaking 32 billion gas to validate transactions and activate bridges between Jan. 9 and Jan. 15.
DeFi
Alameda liquidators lose $11.5M due to DeFi liquidations over 2 weeks
Over $4 million of losses were preventable if liquidators closed positions instead of pulling collateral, according to Arkham Intelligence.
Featured
Ric Burton received 10k ETH from Buterin for a month of work in 2014
Burton spent one month in 2014 helping with the Ethereum design and got compensated for it two years later.
Technology
Shiba Inu Shibarium on verge of beta version launch
Shiba Inu calls for patience as Shibarium readies for imminent beta version release expected by Shiba Inu community.
Hacks
Binance assists in recovering $3M from Harmony bridge hack
North Korea's Lazarus Group moved 41,000 Ethereum (roughly $64 million) from the Harmony Bridge hack over the weekend, according to ZachXBT.
