👀 Investment firm Cherokee Acquisitions has begun offering put options to crypto investors to protect their funds on the Binance, Coinbase and Kraken crypto exchanges in the event of bankruptcy.
coindesk.com

🇬🇧 Great Britain. Central Bank rate (Jan): 4% (prog 4%)

🤷‍♂️ Orion Finance demanded $320,000 from investors who invested in the pre-sale of the project. Crypto investors were warned in advance that the project could be a scam.
theblock.com

🖼⛏ Luxor mines the largest BTC block ever containing the Taproot Wizard NFT.
theblock.com

💰#MKR MakerDAO has created a 5 million DAI protection fund to fund the costs incurred in connection with litigation and regulatory disputes.
twitter.com

🇮🇩 Indonesian Commerce Minister: We hope to launch a cryptocurrency exchange by June. jakartaglobe.id

🗣 Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger says the US should follow in China's footsteps and ban crypto: Cryptocurrency is not a currency, a commodity, or a security.
cnbc.com

💰 Web3 infrastructure provider Sumi Network raises $3M at $30M valuation.
theblock.com

📈 Lens Protocol has reached the milestone of over 100,000 profile owners. In January, the platform recorded a record number of interactions: 299,446 posts, 63,914 comments.

🇪🇺 EU. ECB rate: 3% (Prog 3%)

🥳 Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Web3 specialist who specializes in "applying blockchain to gaming technology."
Amazon.jobs

🗽🇺🇸 USA. Initial Jobless Claims: 183K (prog 200K)

- Nonfarm Productivity (prev) (QoQ) (Q4): 3% (prog 2.4%)

📊 Monthly derivatives trading volume increased by 66% in January.

🦊 MetaMask announced a new feature where users can click "Set Advanced Privacy Options" to change their RPC providers and toggle features that send requests to third-party services that aid in phishing detection and identifying incoming transactions, among other things.

📊 #BTC/#USDT The BTC/USDT supply/demand ratio increased from 67.6% to 74.1% after the FOMC conference, reflecting high buying interest.

🔄 #EVMOS Evmos held mainnet update v11.0.0

🤝 #METIS Metis has integrated with the Banxa fiat-to-crypto gateway, making it easy to connect to Ethereum Layer 2.
theblock.com

🔛 Developer ZK Nil (= nil) has introduced a set of tools that will reduce the time it takes for developers to build platforms that use zero-knowledge cryptography.
theblock.com

🔛 Cryptosecurity Web3 Builders has released five new APIs designed to prevent financial crime in the web3 space.
theblock.com

🇺🇸 US Open S&P500: +1.05% Nasdaq: +2.15% Dow: +0.05%