💰 Nigerian payment fintech startup Cleva received $1.5 million in pre-seed funding.
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🐳 Whale purchased 1,794 ETH ($4.2 million) over the past five days, with an average purchase price of $2,338.

🥳 #MATIC Polygon: Introducing Libre, an institutional Web3 network powered by Polygon CDK for alternative assets

📈 #BNB BNB Chain report for Q4: In December 2023, BSC registered a record number of daily active users (DAU) - ~1.2 million.

🕵️‍♂️ Keith 0x78 withdrew 4 thousand #ETH ($9.35 million) from Kraken. He has been accumulating ETH for 8 months and currently has 16.58k ETH ($40.43 million).

🤝 #ONT Ontology has partnered with StackUp
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📊 #BTC Glassnode: Exchange activity remains significantly elevated with 76.4% of on-chain Bitcoin volume flowing in and out of exchanges, just shy of the ATH of 77.4%.

💰 #EOS NoahArk Tech Group received $2.4 million in strategic investment from EOS Network Ventures. coindesk.com

🔄 #STRK #ETH Starknet V0.13 update launched on mainnet.
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🗣 #LQDX LiquidCrypto: We weren't hacked. This was a problem with smart contracts. Which is now redistributed. We have already redeployed new smart contracts which fixed the issue.

🗽 #ETF #BTC iShares also reduced the proposed spot BTC-ETF fee to 0.25% from 0.3%

😁 Coinbase has publicly offered to help the SEC sort out the security of its social media accounts.

📊 CEX data for December:

- The total volume of the spot market exceeds $1 trillion +27% m/m;
- Total futures trading volume exceeds $3 trillion +22% m/m

🤝 #SAND #ID #EDU The Sandbox partners with Open Campus.
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📊 #MANTA Top 10 projects on Manta Network by TVL

🙅‍♂️🖼 Platform X (twitter) announced the end of support for the #NFT feature in the account profile.

⛏ Phoenix Group will purchase mining machines from Bitmain for $187 million.
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🗽🍿 #ETF #BTC Bloomberg analysts expressed their opinion on the timing of possible approval of the spot BTC-ETF:

- Eric Balchunas: Most likely, we will see official approval today from 0:00 - 2:00 Moscow time, and trading will begin on Thursday

- James Seyffarth: This will happen after the market closes, but technically it could happen any time between now and ~2:00 Moscow time

📊🙈 #ETF #BTC Market waiting for spot BTC-ETF

🤝 #AI BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes joins decentralized artificial intelligence platform Ritual as a consultant.
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