📊 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

📊 February 22 #BUSD briefly dropped to $0.2 on Binance. The reason remains a mystery, as there were no major BUSD selloffs that caused the drop.

In the minutes leading up to the sudden crash, traders were buying large amounts of BUSD, represented by large green circles. This drop appears to have been caused by liquidity, possibly by a market maker or a large trader who canceled orders as volume increased.

👀 #LDO After Justin Sun put 200,000 #ETH on Lido, MultiSig address withdrew 60,300 ETH ($99M) from Binance today and staked on Lido

👀 #SSV Data: 21% of unlocked tokens that were sold to institutions have not yet been sold twitter.com

🕵‍♂ #TRX Global Ledger: Approximately $775 million in stablecoin #USDT was allegedly stolen as a result of a phishing scheme on the Tron network.
The funds were laundered through the TRX staking mechanism (scammers used the SunSwap exchange).
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👀 #MKR MakerDAO rejects $100M loan to Cogent Bank.
The rejection comes less than a year after Maker approved a loan with a similar structure to Huntingdon Valley Bank.
#DeFi coindesk.com

📊 TOP 15 smart contract platforms by number of unique addresses

🇬🇧 The UK banking regulator will propose rules for the issuance and storage of cryptocurrencies. coindesk.com

🏴‍☠ #LZ LaunchZone DeFi Protocol declaredthat the attacker drained 80% of his $700,000 liquidity pool

🥳 #ETH L2 zk-EVM Scroll launched on Ethereum Goerli testnet the block

🤝 #MATIC Ripio, a crypto pioneer in Latin America with over 7 million users, is integrating with the Polygon network. twitter

💰 Blockchain Founders Fund raises $75M. The venture fund will potentially be distributed to more than 200 companies over the next 12 months. cointelegraph.com

👀 Binance denies use of client assets without their consent: "Identified on-chain transactions are related to the internal management of the wallet." the block

🤝 BitKeep partnered with Arbitrum. cointelegraph.com