📊 At the end of 2022, PayPal held $604 million worth of customers' cryptocurrencies. coindesk.com

🥳 #AVAX Ava Labs and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are teaming up to work together on Web3.
avax.network

💰 Web3 gaming platform Ajuna completes $5M funding led by CMCC Global.
coindesk.com

⛏ Miner BitNile (Ault Alliance) dismantled 6,572 mining rigs from a Texas facility formerly owned by Compute North, calling the site "economically unviable."
coindesk.com

🥳 #UNI Uniswap DAO voted to deploy Uniswap v3 on the BNB network.

🤝 #SUSHI #ATOM SushiSwap acquire the Vortex trading platform based on the Cosmos protocol.
decrypt.com

📊 Several exchanges saw an increase in dollar-denominated trading volume in January, with total spot and derivatives trading volume up 70.3% to $2.90 trillion.

Bybit surged 115% to $301 billion to become the second largest derivatives exchange with a 14.6% market share, second only to Binance.

🇺🇸 US Open S&P500: -0.20% Nasdaq: -0.60% Dow: +0.05%

📊 Top DeFi storages by TVL.

🇵🇬🤝 Blockchain Trade Association of Puerto Rico partners with the Blockchain Foundation to promote digital and financial literacy.
globenewswire.com

🔄 #ETH Ethereum Foundation: The Shanghai+Capella (Shapella) mainnet upgrade is moving into the final pre-launch phase of public testnets. In addition, Sepolia's first public testnet update is scheduled for February 28th.
blog.ethereum.org

🚀 Today's leaders.

📊 #ETH Top 10 Ethereum Beacon Chain contributors.

💰 Tower Pop game studio has raised $2.1 million.
theblock.com

👀 You are in the moment

🕹 ToSEC Commissioner Hester Pierce situations with Kraken: We did not try to sit down with industry representatives to discuss staking. The SEC has known about staking for a long time, and its decision to strike now was "arbitrary." Yesterday's decision basically said "let's just shut it down".

📊 Upcoming events in February

💳 Bit2Me and Mastercard launch a debit card with cryptocurrency cashback. cointelegraph.com

📊 #AAVE released a financial report for January 2023:
- Revenue grew by 32% m/m;
- total treasury assets $152 million;
- Annual revenue is $16.3 million

📊 #MKR Report MakerDAO for Q4:

- The number of MKR holders holding 1+ tokens continued its uptrend, which began in May 2022 and is approaching all-time highs;
- there has been a slight improvement in MKR decentralization performance since last quarter;
- most MKRs with overdue delegated contracts moved to new delegated contracts last quarter;
- there is a long-term trend of management by moving from direct participation to participation through delegation;
- the number of 1MKR+ participants represented in the management contract is steadily growing, mainly due to delegation (the number of delegates has also increased).

👀 #USDT Tether Holdings Ltd., the secretive Hong Kong owner of the USDT stablecoin, uses Cantor Fitzgerald (one of Wall Street's most famous bond trading houses and one of 25 primary US Treasury bond dealers) to manage its $39 billion bond portfolio . wsj