📊 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

📊 Kaiko: News about Silvergate has not yet had a strong impact on liquidity. The last 30 days the market depth is stable, except for the fall at the end of February, but it is still at the annual minimum

🙋‍♂️ #LDO Online began discussing the Lido team's proposal to approve the plan for the upcoming V2 update.

🔛 #PYTH data is integrated into Cronos networks. twitter

🤝 #ASTR Astar partnered with StellaSwap. medium

🤝 #BIT Bybit and Talos team up to 'optimize' institutional digital asset trading

🍿 Digest and weekend events:

Saturday 4 March:
🔓 Unlock: Blockasset (#BLOCK) - 6%

Sunday 5 March:
🔓 Unlock: Vega Protocol (#VEGA) - 2.78%
- Aluna Social (#ALN) - 2%
- My Neighbor Alice (#ALICE) - 3%
💃 MOOI (#MOOI) - Ambassador Program
🇦🇪 Start of the Blockchain and Youth Summit in Dubai

👀 Silvergate Bank will return $9.85 million to BlockFi theblock.com

👀 Musk: Now interested in artificial intelligence twitter.com

👀 Gemini: A phishing scam targeting European users caused by a third party data leak. theblock.com

👀 Wall Street Journal: Tether used fake documents and shell companies to open bank accounts wsj.com

👀 Moody's has downgraded Silvergate and it may be downgraded again in the future bnnbloomberg.ca

👀 Polygon Labs partners with Mercy Corps Ventures to fund blockchain pilot projects polygon.technologies

👀Silvergate suspends SEN service, deposit service continues to operate as usual

👀 BAYC Postpones Call of Call Launch to March 15th

👀 Uniswap releases its own wallet available via Apple TestFlight twitter.com