📊 The total balance of #WBTC in #Ethereum has decreased by more than 35% since the collapse of the LUNA/UST project. At its peak, there were 285k Bitcoin in Ethereum, and since then this amount has fallen by 101.55k WBTC compared to last year.

📊 #ETH CQ: Significant increase in ETH smart contracts over the past 4 months: “This can be considered fundamental good news for Ethereum.”

📈 #APT The total number of transactions on the Aptos network currently exceeds 70 million, currently 70,506,479, and the TPS is 6.51.

💩 #WAVES #USDN Waves DEX users keep complaining that they can't withdraw USDT or USDC from the exchange. In the Waves blockchain explorer, withdrawing USDT and USDC seems to be working fine, but users are struggling to make their transactions real.

Looking at the Waves DEX Ethereum Bridge, it appears to be exhausted all your USDC and USDT. Users took to Twitter to ask Sasha Ivanov, Waves founder and Waves DEX administrator, to ask about their balances, but received no response.

🙋‍♂️ Waves?
😁 Scam 🔥 Gem

👀 Aptos DeFi Ecosystem Protocol - Thala Labs Launches Thala OSS Development Tools Collection twitter

📊 Market

📈👀 TVL DeFi topped $50 billion for the first time in ten weeks. In addition, the total value locked (TVL) has grown by almost 20% since the beginning of the year.   beincrypto.com

💰 Web3 Syky completes $9M Series A funding led by Seven Seven Six techcrunch.com

📈🥳 The beginning of 2023 was bullish. #BTC and #ETH are currently vastly outperforming all traditional assets.

🥳 Davos 2023: Cryptocurrency has fallen, but not disappeared
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📢 #CORE HuobiGlobal: Huobi and CoreDAO officially start strategic cooperation.

⚠️ #ORT OMNI Real Estate Token project on BSC under attack

🕹🇪🇺 EU Parliament final vote on MiCA cryptocurrency bill delayed until April theblock.com

💰 Web3 platform SYKY completed a $9.5 million seed round led by Seven Seven Six.

🧯 #BNB ~$575 million worth of BNB was burned during the quarterly auto-burn.

🇨🇳 #CBDC The digital yuan (e-CNY) was first used to buy securities.
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🔛 #AAVE Aave team member: Aave V3 is expected to launch this week.
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📊 #USDC Circle released report "State of the USDC Economy": From inception to December 2022, more than 213 billion USDC have been redeemed; 80% of USDC reserves are held in three-month Treasury bills; Circle was audited by Grant Thornton and will be audited in the future by Deloitte.

💰 The Ethereum Foundation launches the second round of the Academic Grants Program with $1 million in Ethereum academic research funding. ethereum foundation

🏦 Bernstein says custodial services are the backbone for institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies.

The report states that by 2033, the possibility of earning income from holding cryptocurrencies could grow to $8 billion.
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🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ A UK court has sentenced four men to 15 years in prison for a $26 million cryptocurrency scam.
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