👀 The Ethereum Sepolia testnet is expected to activate the Shapella update on February 28th. blog.ethereum.org

👀 New York State Department of Financial Services Announcement: New monitoring tools are being used to track illegal crypto activity. dfs.ny.gov

👀 Data: USDC share of Binance reserves rose to 55.78%, about $1.877 billion. portfolio.nansen.ai

👀 Sources: US stock exchange IEX is in talks with Coinbase to jointly build a regulated crypto trading platform. foxbusiness.com

👀 Upcoming $176 million Seven Seven Six crypto fund evaporated to $6 million last August. forbes.com

👀 NFT project founder rektguy sold a large number of NFTs for profit, including 71 BAYC and 11 MAYC opensea.io

👀 Blur Founder Public Identity: He worked at Y Combinator when he was 17 and graduated from MIT. twitter.com

👀 Delphi Digital: The average NFT selling price on the Blur platform is $1,365, almost 4 times that of OpenSea. twitter.com

👀 Hong Kong will establish a virtual asset development working group to promote the development of the Web3 ecosystem. flash.jin10.com

👀LayerZero has launched a testnet bridge to implement ETH exchange between the mainnet and the Goerli testnet. twitter.com

👀Coinbase General Counsel: The company's staking product is fundamentally different from Kraken's cointelegraph.com

👀 SBF refuses to testify in Voyager Digital bankruptcy case bloomberg.com

📈 #ETH Arbitrum transaction count was around 1.1 million yesterday, surpassing Ethereum for the first time dune

🎮 Microsoft and Nvidia have signed a 10-year deal to bring Xbox games to chip maker GeForce Now's gaming streaming service.

👀 Coinbase Wallet launches Coinbase Faucet (multi-faucet) feature.
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🥳👀 #SOL Solana Space will close its physical stores in New York and Miami at the end of February twitter

📉👀 US stocks showed the worst day in two months due to concerns about rate hikes - ft #macro

🕹🇺🇸 Bloomberg: Traditional financial companies are expected to benefit from new U.S. cryptocurrency custody rules, and major banks may partner with crypto companies to launch services Bloomberg

👀 #BUSD Paxos CEO: The company is filing an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), through which it seeks to obtain a bank charter, as well as an application with the SEC, through which it intends to act as a clearing agency.
Paxos has secured over $2.8 billion worth of BUSD redemptions without disrupting the crypto market.
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🤝💳 #USDC Mastercard is partnering with the Web3 Immersve payment protocol. USDC will be used to settle transactions on the Mastercard network.