🔛 The founders of Three Arrows Capital (3AC) teamed up with the co-founders of CoinFlex to create the Open Exchange, touting it as "the world's first public cryptocurrency market." trade in claims and derivatives”. coindesk

🇮🇹 LBank has registered as a provider of virtual assets in Italy. news.bitcoin

🖼 Ordinal Punk NFT minted by Protocol Ordinals for BTC, was sold for 9.5 BTC (~$214,000).

🥳 Kraken agreed to shut down crypto staking service as part of SEC settlement: Coidnesk

🕹🗣 Gensler (SEC): Betting as a service providers must register and provide complete, accurate information and investor protection.

🍿 Digest and events for tomorrow:

🔓 Unlock: Demole (#DMLG) - 8%
- Heroes Empires (#HE) - 11%
- Meta Gaming Guild (#MGG) - 4%
- Moonbeam (#GLMR) - 0.3% ($1.5m)
🔛 PRIMAL (#PRIMAL) - Mainnet Bonanza with the reveal of the Main App launch
🙅‍♂️ Binance Margin remove #JST #SNM #SUN
📝 Voting ends: Cosmos (#ATOM) - Fund the #ATOM Accelerator DAO grant program (95)
Synthetix (#SNX) - Liquidation (V3) (SIP 304); update 1inch Fusion Contracts (SCCP 276)
🇨🇳 Consumer Price Index (CPI) (M/M) (Y/Y) (Jan) - 04:30 GMT
🇬🇧 GDP (q/q) (y/y) (Q4) - 10:00
🇬🇧 Interest rate decision (Feb) - 13:30 Moscow time
🇺🇸 Speech by K. Waller from the Fed - 20:30 Moscow time

👀 Kraken to close US crypto staking and pay $30M fine to SEC coindesk.com

👀 Paxos is under investigation by the New York City Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). coindesk.com

👀 IRS seeks court approval to identify Kraken crypto clients coindesk.com

👀 Founder of Three Arrows Capital launched Open Exchange, a bond trading marketplace twitter.com

👀 Coinbase General Counsel: Coinbase collateral service is not a security and will continue to provide collateral service in the future. bloomberg.com

👀 US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman: Collateral-as-a-Service Service Providers Must Register and Provide Disclosure and Investor Protection sec.gov

👀 US Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner: The SEC's punishment of Kraken is a "lazy" approach to regulation, and collateral guidance must be issued for registration. sec.gov

👀 Bitcoin miner CleanSpark reported a net loss of $29 million in the December quarter. theblock.com

👀 Voyager Digital plans to allow users to recover assets through accounts Binance.US. decrypt.com

👀 Web3 entertainment platform Matr1x completes $10 million Series A funding with Hashkey Capital and other companies. premint.xyz

👀 Optimism launches the second round of airdrops, 11.7 million OP will be distributed to over 300,000 addresses. twitter.com

👀 Foreign media: OpenAI CEO's Worldcoin intends to raise up to $120 million at a $3 billion valuation. theblock.com

🍿 Paxos include Pax Dollar (#USDP) and Binance USD (#BUSD), a Binance-branded stablecoin offered through a white-label service.

A spokesperson for the NYDFS said the agency could not comment. ongoing investigations.

🥳📉 Affected by US regulatory policies, Coinbase shares fell about 14% by close, the biggest drop since July 26, 2022.