🇮🇹 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.

🍿🥳 Kraken: Starting today, Kraken will automatically unstake all customer assets in the US, this applies to all staking assets except for ETH, which will be unstaken after the Shanghai update. Kraken will continue to offer staking services to customers outside the US