🔥 Stripe is in talks with investors for a new funding round valued at up to $60 billion.
wsj.com

📊 Report Glassnode: The digital asset rally continued last week and #BTC prices peaked at $23.9K on Sunday evening. In the month of January, the #BTC markets posted the best monthly price performance since October 2021, reaching +43% YTD. This puts #BTC prices at their highest level since August 2022 and up +6.6% from weekly lows of $22.4k.

👀 Coinbase Wallet will now show transaction previews to protect against NFT fraud. #NFT the block

👀 #NEAR NEAR is now integrated into Ledger Live

🥳 Twitter begins applying for regulatory licenses to operate its payments business in the US.

🥳 Musk said he wants Twitter payments to be fiat but built to add crypto functionality: FT

💰 Sovereign Labs is raising $7.4 million to make it easier for developers to create new ZK builds using the SDK.
#invest the block

👀 #DOGE #MASK

💸 Pantera Liquid Token Fund fell by 80% during 2022.
coindesk.com

📝 XRP Ledger vote new offer (XLS-35d), which involves replacing the existing NFT format with a lighter alternative to URIToken. Complexity is cited as the main reason for dissatisfaction with the XLS-20.

📊 Report Kaiko per week:

- #BTC is up over 40% YTD and is on track for its second best January in ten years.
- Market depth for #APT orderbooks on Binance has fallen despite the token hitting all-time highs.
-#ETH options markets expect near-term volatility as call volumes dominate.
Coinbase bond prices are recovering from December lows, but investors remain cautious.

👀 The stock market faces a crucial week as investors try to hold onto the latest rally amid Fed action and big gains.
“We believe the rally is backed by heavyweights Apple, Amazon and Alphabet,” said Cathy Stockton of Fairlead Strategies.
#macro market.businessinsider.com

🗣 The rise in stocks in 2023 suggests that investors seem to have forgotten the main rule "do not fight the Fed" - Mike Wilson of Morgan Stanley.

📊📉 #Bitcoin $BTC The number of addresses holding more than 100 coins hit a 1-month low of 16,058.
#analysis @cryptoattackbot

🥳 #ATOM Cosmos Hub will start updating Lambda in the first quarter of 2023. more about changes

👀 The CEO of LayerZero has denied allegations that LayerZero, due to its Stargate bridge, has two critical vulnerabilities.
theblock.com

#GBTC Osprey Funds is suing Grayscale, alleging that the company misled investors about its services in an attempt to steal market share.
blockworks.com

⚖️ Prosecutors have shared copies of SBF communications with FTX CEO John Ray III and an unnamed witness in new court documents.
theblock.com

🥳 Unbanked has partnered with Mastercard to work on accelerating the issuance of crypto cards and expanding choice in Europe.
bitcoinist.com

📆 Digest and events for tomorrow:

🔓 Unlock: 1inch (#1INCH)

🔛 Vega Protocol (#VEGA) - launch Mainnet Simulations
- Mars Protocol (#MARS) - launch main network
- WEMIX (#WEMIX) - MIR M Launch

🙋‍♂️ Secret (#SCRT) - Live Alpha

🔄 Zignaly (#ZIG) - Profit Sharing 2.0 update

📝 Voting ends: Render Token (#RNDR) - Implementation of Burn-and-Mint (RNP 001)
- Tezos (#XTZ) - Offer for updating Tezos Mumbai

🇨🇳 Composite/Manufactring, Non-Manufactring PMI (Jan) - 04:30 GMT
🇩🇪 Retail Sales (MoM) (Dec) - 10:00 Moscow time
🇩🇪 Change in the number of unemployed (Jan) - 11:55 Moscow time
🇪🇺 GDP (q/q), (y/y) - 13:00 Moscow time
🇩🇪 CPI prominence (prev) ( m/m), (y/y) (Jan) - 16:00 Moscow time

👀 Financial Times: Twitter plans to support cryptocurrency payments theblock.com