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📊 Top winter fundraising rounds.

🥳🔓 Tor of upcoming unlocks (March 04-12):
#NEAR ~$22.8 million
#GAL for ~$4.06M
#GMT at ~$36.99 million
#ICP for ~$19.32M
#APT for ~$57.66M

📊 Top 15 dapps by revenue in February.

🌪🥳 Tornado Cash early contributor Amin Soleimani created Primacy Pools, a new app that works the same as Tornado Cash, but when users click on the withdrawal option, they can create a zero-knowledge proof that publicly shows they don't use a criminal blockchain address, but without disclosing who they are.

🤝 #COIN Coinbase buys digital asset management company One River.
bloomberg.com

👀 BitMart offers zero commission for BTC, ETH and 100 other spot trading pairs from March 3rd to 13th. cointelegraph.com

🇺🇸 US Senate Commission to Consider the Impact of Cryptocurrency Mining Next Week

🇺🇸 US Open S&P500: +0.40% Nasdaq: +0.50% Dow: +0.25%

🇺🇸 Composite/Services PMI (Feb) -
50.1 (before 46.8)/50.6 (pre 46.8)

📈👀 #BNB BNB Smart Chain (BSC) daily transactions surged from 3.5M earlier this week to over 5M today

🇺🇸 ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI (Feb) - 55.1 (pre 55.2)

🔛 Web3 developer platform Thirdweb announces support for Polygon zkEVM scaling solution twitter.com

👀 ConsenSys is set to release its zkEVM on the public testnet on March 28, allowing developers to build, migrate, and test decentralized applications using L2 scaling technology. cointelegraph.com

🇪🇺 EU focuses on NFTs in latest anti-money laundering bill
New amendments to the European Union bill on combating money laundering make NFT platforms the status of mandatory entities.

📊 CryptoCompare: Report for February
- January-February futures volumes rose 13.9% to $66.6 billion, also 112% higher than average daily volumes in December;
- while overall trading activity (volume) increased, open interest remained unchanged in February, reflecting ongoing risks in the market;
- note the success of Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solutions such as Optimism and Arbitrum (whose TVL grew by 88.3% and 92.0% respectively in the first two months of the year);
- despite low investor interest in #BTC and #ETH, assets have fixed positive funding rates

🔛 #ETH Flashbots has created a new open source block constructor running on the Ethereum Sepolia testnet. coindesk

👀 #UNI Uniswap Labs Plans to Launch a Mobile Crypto Wallet for iPhone Users, But Apple Doesn't Greenlight It Yet

📊 Top DeFi projects by Unique Monthly Twitter Audience

🇨🇳 China hopes to encourage cross-border use of its digital currency by offering shopping discounts to Hong Kong tourists who open and pay with e-CNY wallets. scmp

🔛 #LINK Chainlink launches on Base, Coinbase's L2 testnet.
Base also joins the data provider's Scale program, allowing developers to create smart contracts that can respond to outside information at a subsidized price. coindesk.com