📊 #XRP Coinglass: Ripple open interest rises to $843M, highest since December 2021 (+90%)

🇺🇸 USA - Pending Home Sales (Feb): +0.8% m/m (prev +8.1%)

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🕹 Beaxy is being charged by the SEC for not registering as a securities exchange. theblock.com

💰 AI-focused encryption protocol Fetch .ai completes $40M funding coindesk.com

📈🥳 #FET on news

✅ #SAFE Offer on redistribution of unclaimed airdrop received.
50% of unclaimed Safe airdrops will be redistributed to the addresses of those who previously received them

⛏📊 Stronghold Digital Mining (SDIG) raised its year-end #BTC mining power forecast to 4 EH/s from 3 EH/s.
In the fourth quarter, the company's net loss increased by 45% compared to the previous quarter. coindesk

🇺🇸 Kaiko: This year, the market share of Binance US, compared to the top three competitors, almost tripled from 9% to ATH at 28%. The exchange also demonstrated a wider spread in price.

Earlier in the report: price discrepancies and price slippage increased on US exchanges

📊 Since November last year, Binance has been taking away market share in the perpetual futures market, which has consistently exceeded 60%

📊 Crypto Quant: The Net Taker Volume indicator shows positive outlook for #BTC in the short term.

When the indicator crosses above zero, it means that on a 30-day moving average, the volume of buy orders is higher than that of sell orders. Over the past year, Net Taker Volume has crossed the zero line four times, and in all cases it has had a positive result.

📊 dune: 5 days after launch, zkSync Era had over 149,000 contributors with over 1,651,000 transactions and TVL of ~$42.7M (23,730 #ETH).

📊 #SFM #BIT #BNB Santiment: SafeMoon is the hottest topic in the crypto space after yesterday's hacking liquidity pool. Bybit and Binance также пережandвают бурную дandскуссandю, что в целом свandдетельствует о том, что трейдеры скептandческand началand относandться к бandржам.

📊 glassnode: By isolating the age groups of short-term holders, we note the ongoing transfer of wealth to the STH cohort, typical of the transition cycle.

🖼 #AVAX Avalanche Foundation launches Avaissance, a ground-breaking NFT initiative featuring artist residencies for 50 digital creators
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🗽 Users of VPNs and similar technologies could face a 20-year prison sentence in the US under the new law. beincrypto

📊 CryptoQuant: Reasons for the slowdown in the price rally #BTC:
- Short-term holders decide to sell #BTC and get some profit or go to 0;
- The whales spent more than their #btc, than usual, когда цена была около 28 тысяч $. В результате их ежедневные траты превысили 320 тыс. #btc, достигнув 34%, что является самым высоким показателем с 22 декабря 2019 года;
- the realization price of 6-12-month-old coins ($26.8k) seems to define the midpoint of the new price range that BTC reached recently. It functions as a support and resistance level when volatility increases.

🇨🇱 Latin American e-commerce giant Mercado Libre is expanding crypto trading in Chile.
The company launched the service in partnership with regional crypto firm Ripio. coindesk.com

🥳 Saudi Arabia enters into a trade alliance with China, Russia, India, Pakistan and four Central Asian countries to further move away from dependence on the US dollar.

🐳 Sentiment: Since February 22, the number of addresses holding 10+ #BTC has increased by 10,279 (7.1%). The total percentage of available BTC held in these wallets has been fairly stable and has been approaching ATH since September 2019.

🇺🇸 Nelly Liang, U.S. Undersecretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, does not believe the digital asset sector should be blamed for the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank.
coindesk