⛏ 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.

📊 Sentiment: The amount of $ETH on exchanges continues to fall. Since #merge, there have been 37% fewer coins on exchanges.

🥳🔓 Upcoming releases this week:
- $246.5 million worth of #SANDs will be unlocked tomorrow;
- also tomorrow #DYDX for $15.7 million;
- #BIT worth $103.2 million will be unlocked on February 15;
- $36M #APE on February 17th.

🛸 #UFO When the US military shot down a UFO over Lake Huron, the respective cryptocurrencies began to rise.

🎮 👀 Web3 game Omen will collaborate with Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. cointelegraph.com

💰 Caldera, which provides infrastructure for Web3 applications, has raised $9M in two funding rounds led by Sequoia Capital and Dragonfly. coindesk

📊 BSC network TVL fell below $5.42 billion, 7-day change -10.22%. #BNB $286.7 (24h: -10.43%).
Active protocols: 541
TVL, Mcap, Mcap/TVL: $5.42B, $44.94B, 8.29
TVL % (1D/7D/30D): -6.31% / -10.22% / -5.5%

🎮 P2E projects with the highest user growth in 30 days

🗣CEO Coinbase Brian Armstrong tried to meet with lawmakers and regulators today to clear things up on crypto regulation, but the meeting was cancelled. twitter

🤔 Elliptic announces that the sanctioned blender blender has been relaunched under the name Sinbad. coindesk

🗣 Last fall, Circle alerted the watchdog to issues its team found in blockchain data that showed Binance was not holding enough cryptocurrencies in reserve to back its issued tokens. Around the time that Binance stopped supporting USDC and started automatic conversion to BUSD - BBG

🇧🇷 Bitget has partnered with fintech company Capitual to explore the possibility of participating in Brazil's central bank's CBDC programs. Capitual is one of the designated CBDC partners of the Central Bank of Brazil. benzinga.com

🤝MoonPay partnered with Magic Eden

💵 Wormhole Launches xGrant Program

👀 #FTT The former FTX CEO was at the center of one of the biggest online poker fraud scandals and was a campaign sponsor for George Santos. market.businessinsider.com