📊 At the end of 2022, PayPal held $604 million worth of customers' cryptocurrencies. coindesk.com

🥳 #AVAX Ava Labs and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are teaming up to work together on Web3.
avax.network

💰 Web3 gaming platform Ajuna completes $5M funding led by CMCC Global.
coindesk.com

⛏ Miner BitNile (Ault Alliance) dismantled 6,572 mining rigs from a Texas facility formerly owned by Compute North, calling the site "economically unviable."
coindesk.com

🥳 #UNI Uniswap DAO voted to deploy Uniswap v3 on the BNB network.

🤝 #SUSHI #ATOM SushiSwap acquire the Vortex trading platform based on the Cosmos protocol.
decrypt.com

📊 Several exchanges saw an increase in dollar-denominated trading volume in January, with total spot and derivatives trading volume up 70.3% to $2.90 trillion.

Bybit surged 115% to $301 billion to become the second largest derivatives exchange with a 14.6% market share, second only to Binance.

🇺🇸 US Open S&P500: -0.20% Nasdaq: -0.60% Dow: +0.05%

📊 Top DeFi storages by TVL.

🇵🇬🤝 Blockchain Trade Association of Puerto Rico partners with the Blockchain Foundation to promote digital and financial literacy.
globenewswire.com

🔄 #ETH Ethereum Foundation: The Shanghai+Capella (Shapella) mainnet upgrade is moving into the final pre-launch phase of public testnets. In addition, Sepolia's first public testnet update is scheduled for February 28th.
blog.ethereum.org

🚀 Today's leaders.

📊 #ETH Top 10 Ethereum Beacon Chain contributors.

💰 Tower Pop game studio has raised $2.1 million.
theblock.com

👀 You are in the moment

🕹 ToSEC Commissioner Hester Pierce situations with Kraken: We did not try to sit down with industry representatives to discuss staking. The SEC has known about staking for a long time, and its decision to strike now was "arbitrary." Yesterday's decision basically said "let's just shut it down".

📊 Upcoming events in February

💳 Bit2Me and Mastercard launch a debit card with cryptocurrency cashback. cointelegraph.com

📊 #AAVE released a financial report for January 2023:
- Revenue grew by 32% m/m;
- total treasury assets $152 million;
- Annual revenue is $16.3 million

📊 #MKR Report MakerDAO for Q4:

- The number of MKR holders holding 1+ tokens continued its uptrend, which began in May 2022 and is approaching all-time highs;
- there has been a slight improvement in MKR decentralization performance since last quarter;
- most MKRs with overdue delegated contracts moved to new delegated contracts last quarter;
- there is a long-term trend of management by moving from direct participation to participation through delegation;
- the number of 1MKR+ participants represented in the management contract is steadily growing, mainly due to delegation (the number of delegates has also increased).