📊⏳ ~2 months until #BTC halving

📝 #ZEN Horizen Community carry out voting on proposal ZenIP-42400, which introduces the "New Horizen" initiative - a phased approach to updating the Horizen technology structure, starting with the development of a modular proof verification layer. Voting ends on February 18.

🇩🇪💰 #AI Over the next two years, Microsoft has promised to invest €3 billion in the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure in Germany.
cointelegraph.com

📊 Top 15 projects for network growth over the last 30 days #PROM #XCAD #KEY

🤝 #DIA #XFI DIA partners with CrossFi.
CrossFidiadata.org

👀 #BTC Cobo is launching a standard BTC L2 bridge co-management solution and will provide technical and financial support to the BTC ecosystem.

💰 RW3 Ventures raises $60 million in funding with support from Mubadala and Raptor Group Fortune.com

📈 #COIN JPMorgan upgraded Coinbase shares to neutral.
coindesk.com

💰 #Web3 Exverse raised $3 million in a private round.

🇺🇸 #macroUSA. Initial Jobless Claims: 212 thousand (prog 219 thousand; pre 220 thousand)

- Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index (Feb): 5.2 (prog -8; pre -10.6)

- Retail sales (Jan): -0.2% (prog -0.8%; pre 0.4%)

💰 #MSTR #NFT NFT lending platform MetaStreet has completed $25 million in funding. twitter

🖼 #NFT #SEI Cumulative NFT sales on the Pallet Exchange (Sei Network's flagship platform) reached 26.5 million SEI, driven by nearly 306,000 transactions by 25,000 unique buyers.

💰#NFT Helika raised $8 million led by Pantera Capital and with the participation of Sparkle Ventures, Diagram Ventures and Sfermion.

🤝 #APT Aptos Foundation partnered with Jambo.

🥳 #CHESS #LDO Tranchess launched Tranchess V3 - in partnership with Lido.

🤝 Core Chain with D3 will create the .core domain. chainwire

🤝 #SUI Stardust adapts its proven wallets-as-a-service infrastructure and user acquisition platform for game developers on Sui.

🏴‍☠🇰🇵 Chainalysis Annual Report:
- YoMix became a replacement for the sanctioned Sinbad and Tornado Cash mixer for the North Korean hacker group Lazarus;
- in 2023, the influx of funds into YoMix increased fivefold, with about a third coming from wallets associated with crypto hacks;
- last year, cryptocurrency money laundering decreased by 30%;
- there was also an increase in the use of blockchain bridges and a decrease in the use of crypto-mixers for money laundering;
- 71.7% of all illegal services came from just five centralized platforms.

🙋‍♂#NTRN Neutron: Perpetual Incentive Contracts are now available on Astroport.

🖼💰 #ARCD Arcade will give away 3 million ARCD tokens to owners of selected collectible NFT series (Pudgy Penguins, Lil Pudgys, Sappy Seals, Bitcoin Puppets, NodeMonkes, Runecoin, Mad Lads, Tensor). twitter.com

🎁🥳 #DEFI First season of De.Fi Airdrop launched.