🇺🇸 The US Department of the Treasury is close to publishing a risk assessment examining the criminal use of DeFi.

The department has considered the role of decentralized finance in incidents such as North Korean ransomware attacks and will release a risk assessment, the senior official said.
coindesk

🍿 Digest and events on Tomorrow:

🔓 Unlock: Convergence Finance (#CONV) - 2%
- DragonSB (#SB) - 5%
- MOCHI (#MOMA) - 2%
- BitDAO (#BIT) - 2% ($91.5m)
- Euler (#EUL) - 0.4% ($647.4k)
🔄 Optimism (#OP) - Bedrock Upgrade
- Aleph Zero (#ZERO) - Mainnet update v9.0
- Cosmos (#ATOM ) - Cosmos Hub will updated to V9 Lambda
🔁 MultiverseX (#EGLD) - Ad-Astra portal will become MultiversX Bridges
🙋‍♂️ Stargate (#STG) - Migration #STG to a new address
- Seedon (#SEON) - Upcoming fiat deposit release
🔛 Bitindi Chain (#BNI) - Launch of Bitindi Multichain NFT Platform
- Punchy Token (#PUNCH) - Launch of Punchword 1.0 for Android
🧯 Mindsync (#MAI) - Token burning
🛠 Bitstamp will hold Maintenance
📝 Voting ends: Osmosis (#OSMO) - Codebase update to v15.0.0
🇺🇸 Speech by FOMC member Bowman - 0:20 GMT
🇨🇳 Industrial production (Feb); Unemployment rate (Feb) - 5:00 Moscow time
🇪🇺 Industrial production (Jan) - 13:00 Moscow time
🇺🇸 Prom Inflation PPI (Feb); NY Empire State Manufacturing Index (Mar); Retail sales (Feb) - 15:30 Moscow time

👀 Cryptocurrency platform Anchorage Digital lays off 20% of employees: Bloomberg
The firm said U.S. regulatory uncertainty played a role in its decision.
coindesk.com

🦊📈 Metamask saw a record number of swaps over the weekend as the demise of Silvergate, SVB and Signature unfolded.
the block

🙋‍♂️ #STG Stargate DAO accepted a proposal to cancel the reissue of the STG token.

🧯 #USDC Circle had the largest ever burn of $723.5 million

More than 6.2 billion USDC has been redeemed since Friday, with about 1.66 billion minted, bringing net redemptions to just over $4.5 billion.

👀 Fed will consider tougher rules for mid-sized banks after SVB and Signature #regulation wsj

🥳 “We think the Fed is close to its peak.” He speaks SEB strategist
#macro

🥳 #ETH Ethereum Shapella Upgrade activated on the Goerli testnet

🧯👀 The total amount of Ethereum burned exceeded 3 million #ETH

🙋‍♂️ #DAI MakerDAO Delegates vote for proposing a debt ceiling cap on collateral assets used to mint DAI

👀 Ethereum Goerli testnet activated the Shapella update, but the update is not yet complete coindesk.com

👀 Filecoin FVM virtual machine launched on the main network, and Filecoin now supports smart contracts mp.weixin.qq.com

👀 OpenAI launches ChatGPT-4: it can parse text and images at the same time and supports Microsoft's new Bing. baijiahao.baidu.com

👀 Sources: Signature Bank lost $17.8 billion in deposits last Friday, about 20% bloomberg.com

👀 Ethereum Goerli Testnet Completes Shapella Update goerli.beaconcha.in

👀 Coinbase Launches Free Local Bank Transfer Service for Singapore Users Reuters.com

👀 OpenSea has added NFT protection measures: before accepting an offer, it will check if the NFT is in a stolen state twitter.com

👀 Data: USDC Net Buybacks Surpassed $4.5 Billion Since Last Friday theblock.com

👀Limit Break, the parent company of the DigiDaigaku NFT project, has acquired FreeNFT to improve the Free to Own environment. twitter.com

👀 Bankruptcy attorneys for 3 firms considering moratorium on SBF Robinhood stock lawsuits theblock.com