🇺🇸📊 Despite the stock market's meteoric rise, money market funds received an influx of $16.7 billion last week, pushing assets under management to a new record high of $6.018 trillion. This is due to rising yields after falling expectations for rate cuts. #macro zero hedge

🤝 #DREP DREP cooperate with Rehide to improve user privacy protection.

🇦🇺⚖️ An Australian court has ruled that Block Earner will face fines for offering its “Earner” product in 2022 because it did not hold an Australian financial services license. cointelegraph

🎮👀 #WLD Community Gaming, a blockchain-based esports tournament platform, will integrate World ID and will be able to use it to verify the identity of esports players. decrypt

🤖 #AI Google announced that the Bard chatbot has been renamed Gemini, and a paid version has also been launched. cointelegraph

👀🗣 #ETH Taiko: We are pleased to announce that we have become the first L2 to adopt PGP and will be donating 1% of our tokens to Protocol Guild to support the continued development of Ethereum.

👀🗣 #PANDORA Pandora: Finally finished the last documents. Audit today. Then we'll release something really interesting. We've only just begun.

🇩🇪 #macro Consumer Inflation (CPI) (Jan):
- m/m: 0.2% (expected: 0.2%; prev: 0.1%)
- y/y: 2.9% (expected: 2.9%; prev: 3.7%)

📈👀 Daily #XRP transaction volume reached $600 million in Q4 2023, and the number of transactions on the network increased by 34%. ripple.com

📈 #PENDLE TVL Pendle reached $991 million, up 47.08% in 7 days.

🇺🇸📈 #BTC #ETF On February 8, the total net inflow into spot BTC-ETFs amounted to $403 million.
Over the entire period, the inflow reached $2.106 billion

📈👀 TVL Puffer Finance is approaching $800 million, up 336% in 7 days.

📊 Santiment: crypto markets are recovering well after falling 4 weeks ago. #BTC, in particular, reached $46.3 thousand for the first time since January 11. Social volume of BTC is growing while the crowd shows less interest in #ETH, #DOGE and #XMR.

🕵️‍♂️ 16 hours ago whale withdrew 200 billion #SHIB ($1.85 million) from Binance.
In just 1 month, he accumulated SHIB 1.14 trillion ($10.61 million).

🤖💰 #AI Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is reportedly in talks with investors around the world in an attempt to raise trillions of dollars to develop AI chips.
cointelegraph.com

🇬🇧🕹 #CBDC The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority need to reconsider some proposals to regulate stablecoins, several industry groups say.

Crypto industry groups in the UK say local regulators' proposals for overseeing stablecoins need to be reworked.
coindesk.com

📊 #BTC K33 Research: February 8, 2024 - Strongest daily net inflow into BTC investment instruments since January 19, 2021.

4.52% of BTC in circulation is currently owned by investment firms.

🔄👀 #ETH Ethereum's Dencun update will introduce proto-danksharding (EIP-4844) to make L2 solutions like zkSync cheaper to use.

Boojum, a STARK-based proof system, will allow zkSync to publish more data to Ethereum, thereby improving performance.
theblock.com

📊 Call options on #ETH on Deribit are centered at $4,000 with both June and September expirations.

⚠️👀 #OP On February 15, Optimism will pause #ETH withdrawals for one hour to test the updated incident response system.

The goal is to improve the ability to respond to security incidents in a coordinated manner across multiple networks in the Optimism ecosystem.