🇫🇷 Registration conditions for French crypto firms to be tightened from January 2024

📊 CryptoCompare: The crypto derivatives token market continues to be dominated by #LDO with a market share of 64.7% in January, while #RPL has seen a decline. #FXS and #ANKR have made significant progress as well.

🇺🇸 US Open S&P500: +0.15%; Nasdaq: +0.35%; Dow: +0.12%

🤝 #MKR Venom Blockchain is partnering with DAO Maker to incubate Web3 startups focused on real-life use cases. cointelegraph

🗽 Fed's Bowman expects further rate hikes to hit inflation target - Bloomberg

🎮 #AVAX DOS Labs, a game studio with over 400k daily active players and a large network of Web3 game developers, today launched its subnet on Avalanche. medium

🙋‍♂️ #ATOM Cosmos approves proposal to establish the ATOM Accelerator DAO funding program

📊WuBlockchain. January 2023 CEX Report:
- Spot trading on major exchanges rose 57.8% in January compared to the previous month. The three biggest gains are: Upbit +166%, BitMart +110% and KuCoin +90%. The three smallest increases: Mexc +4%, Bitget +4% and Gate +10%;
- +26%. Derivatives trading on major exchanges rose 47.6% in January compared to the previous month. Three biggest gains: Phemex +190%, Bybit +98% and Gate +85%. The three smallest gains: Mexc -28%, Huobi +22% and Crypto .com +26%;
- traffic on the websites of major exchanges in January increased by 4.5% compared to the previous month. Three biggest gains: Upbit +35%, Deribit +22% and Coinbase +13%. The three smallest gains were Mexc -43%, Huobi -33% and Gate -22%.

👀 Paxos Treasury Burned Over 140 Million BUSD on Ethereum twitter.com

👀 #DOT Polkadot is considering creating guidelines that other projects could use to replicate their claimed success with the SEC. theblock.com

🤝 GMO Trust has partnered with Hex Trust, a leading institutional custodian of digital assets, to provide institutional investors with fully licensed and highly secure custody support for GYEN, the first regulated Japanese yen stablecoin. medium

🥳 #USDT Tether minted another 1 billion on the TRON #TRX network

🇧🇸 Galaxy Digital receives approval to open a subsidiary in the Bahamas amid growing regulatory uncertainty in the US theblock.com

🙋‍♂️ #RPL Rocket Pool community proposal for self-limiting guidelines for managing Rocket Pool was taken by voting.

⛏ Iris Energy bought 4.4 EH/s machines from Bitmain for $67 million and now expects to triple its hash rate. the block

🖼 The price of DigiDaigaku NFT increased after the Super Bowl advertisement.

DigiDagaku, an NFT project from game company Web3 Limit Break, aired an ad during the game promoting free minting of their Dragon Eggs collection. By scanning a QR code, viewers could create a free NFT.

📊 Messari. State #ETH in Q4:
- Gross emissions decreased by 87%;
- blocking in accordance with OFAC requirements decreased to 61%;
- share of level 2 transactions approaching 50% year on year

📊 Kaiko Report:

- ETH options markets look optimistic, but more volatile than BTC;
- the correlation of BTC with gold is at the annual maximum, but remains weak;
- volumes of tokens associated with ZK are growing on the DEX;
- A few months ago, we noticed eerily consistent patterns in XRP trading volume across multiple exchanges that could be related to Blockworks analysis.
We noticed that two XRP trading pairs, XRP-MXN and XRP-EUR, saw regular spikes in trading volumes at regular intervals.

🆕 Coinbase will list BLUR tomorrow

📊 Glassnode report:
The digital asset market has experienced its first significant downturn this year, along with news of tough U.S. regulatory action and SEC crackdown. At the same time, the emergence of Ordinals NFTs on BTC is creating new and unexpected demand for block space.