🥳 Cryptocurrencies are resilient despite weakening stock markets and increased regulatory activity: Citi

The report states that the market capitalization of stablecoins has stabilized while #ETH’s share of smart contracts continues to rise. coindesk

📊👀 3AC (Three Arrows Capital) owns over $107,442,050. They recently bought:
17,162,797 #MATIC = $23,976,838
116,160 #LDO = $250,804
499,999 #FXS = $5,134,995
139,999 #ENS = $2,231,595

Currently, stablecoins account for almost 65% of all wallet assets. Twitter

👀 Bitget will launch the second phase of Launchpad on February 28 and launch the Haloworld (#HALO) project.

🥳 The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange plans to allow clients to trade cryptocurrencies. coindesk.com

👀 Vault gets another creditor protection extension until March 24th. the block

🖼 TOP NFT sales for February

🖼 TOP 15 blockchains by NFT sales in the last 30 days

🇺🇸 An agreed-upon pair of bills have been introduced in both houses of the Illinois General Assembly that would establish a cryptocurrency license for the state, as well as consumer protections that would include information disclosure and customer asset protection.

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🖼 Popular Twitch streamer Kyle Jackson aka Mongraal has received an offer of 999 ETH ($1.6M) for an NFT key he received after winning Yuga Labs' Dookey Dash game. the block

👀 In 2022, Binance quietly transferred $1.8 billion of B-peg USDC collateral intended to back its clients’ stablecoins, diverting the assets to other undisclosed uses. forbes

🆕 #AVAX Coinbase: Coinbase customers can now send and receive ETH, USDC, DAI, and WBTC on Avalanche C-Chain.

👀 #STX Open Interest in STX Perpetual Futures Doubles to $80M as Traders Go Short
One analyst suspects that traders are betting that there will be no continuation of the Bitcoin NFT, and the launch of STX is a flash in the pan. coindesk.com

📊 Deribit for options:
- #BTC Long Call positions still dominate upside potential;
- #ETH option flows remain sluggish, interest in Shanghai upgrade low

📊 CryptoCompare: There is a significant drop in ATS (Average Transaction Size) for major assets such as #BTC and #ETH on Binance (implying declining confidence among market participants).
The exception is $LDO and $STX.

📊 #ETH #BLUR #NFT Report glassnode:

The renewed interest in NFTs has not yet attracted new users or generated a significant influx of new capital into the Ethereum ecosystem. However, depending on the level of future NFT trading activity, this could still lead to net value creation for the Ethereum network, with potentially higher MEV rewards and arbitrage opportunities, as well as the creation of new infrastructure in the future.

🤖🌐 Amazon registers 2 trademarks for AI robots in the Metaverse
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🌐 #SAND Playboy plans to launch a MetaMansion virtual world in the Sandbox metaverse this year

⚠️ #BUSD #BNB Coinbase will suspend trading on Binance USD (BUSD) on March 13, 2023

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📊 Report Kaiko:
- Coinbase increased its market share from 40% to over 50% last year;
- Since November, L2 tokens have outperformed the broad market, while leading DEX tokens have performed worse;
- daily volume in 2023 is consistently higher than at the end of 2022;
- BTC and ETH market depth reached the lowest level since May 2022;
- crypto markets remain largely uncorrelated with Chinese equities