🧯 #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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📊 Monthly storage costs per terabyte of storage from various providers.

🤝 #HERO Metahero partnered with Aidar Solutions.
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👀📝 Binance Research has identified the top topics to watch in 2023:

Macroeconomics - 2023 will show whether the macro environment will positively affect crypto or vice versa

Real World Assets (RWA) - In 2023, #RWA will be included in product offerings and roadmaps of various projects

Liquid Staking Derivative (LSD) – LSD Gaining Momentum as #Ethereum Moves Closer to Shanghai Upgrade

NFT Utility - New innovations for 2023 including use cases like soulbound tokens, blockchain game utilities, partnerships with web2 companies and more

Gameplay at Blockchain Games – Development of Gameplay, Sustainability of Tokenomics and Innovative Blockchain Use Cases

Regulators – Regulators will move closer to a comprehensive framework that will help bring more clarity to the space

📉 Silvergate Capital reported a $1 billion net loss in Q4 2022.
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🔄 Hyperlane released update V2.
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🏦 #CBDC BofA says CBDC is the future of money and payments. The report states that CBDCs have the potential to revolutionize global financial systems.
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🔄 #DAMM dAMM Finance has updated its borrowing features.
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🤝⚽️ #ACM #INTER Socios.com, in collaboration with Lega Serie A partners, will use EA Sports Supercoppa Italiana so AC Milan and Inter Milan Fan Token holders can earn rewards.
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📊 #BTC is trading above the strike price again.

👀 #RON Ronin Network: Starting February 7th, emission rewards from WETH pairs will be transferred to new RON pairs on Katana DEX. This will increase the liquidity of RON and support more activity on the Ronin blockchain.
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📈 #ETH The number of Ethereum validators reaches 500,000 ahead of the planned Shanghai update.
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🙋‍♂️ #OSMO Plan phasing out OSMO incentives to reduce EEUR liquidity due to E-money

🔁 #FLX #SEDA Flux Protocol is renamed to Seda Protocol.
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👀 #FIL Filecoin Foundation is set to deploy a decentralized file system in space. Deployment will check IPFS for in-space communications.
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