🔄 #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

🖼 Seedify, the main launch pad and incubator, has unveiled The Mounts of Seedworld NFT collection. cointelegraph.com

📝 #EQ Equilibrium plans to launch staking by the end of this month. medium

👍 Security firm Unciphered has hacked the popular OneKey hardware wallet. theblock.com

🙋‍♂️ #AR Arweave published more information about network update v2.6

🙋‍♂️ #SNX Offer Synthetix v3 on protocol redesign - accepted and to be implemented

📊 #SNX Report Messari by Synthetix:
- Synthetix volume decreased in the fourth quarter of 2022, but the number of active users increased;
- Synthetix's inflation rate rose significantly in the first months of 2022, but fell below 10% year-on-year in the fourth quarter;
- SNX developer activity has increased significantly in the last 30 days.

🕹👀 The Fed Governor supports the desire of US regulators to keep cryptocurrencies separate from banks.

Christopher Waller noted that the split has kept the US financial system out of the crypto drama and he hopes the sector can resolve its recent problems.
#macro #regulation
coindesk

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👀 #SCRT SecretDAO votes for fund restructuring.

The vote followed a public dispute between two different organizations promoting the Secret Network.
cointelegraph.com

👀 PayPal suspends the development of the crypto stablecoin.