🔛 African digital payments project Paychant launches localized payment solution Paychant.
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🚀 Today's leaders.

📊 Report CoinShares on financial flows in crypto for the last week:

Digital asset investment products posted inflows totaling $76M last week, the 4th consecutive week of inflows, with YTD inflows now at $230M, signaling a decisive change in investor sentiment in early 2023. AuM is up 39% year-to-date and is now $30.3 billion, the highest since mid-August 2022. and $24 million in a week.

- #BTC inflow amounted to $69 million
- #ETH minor inflow of $0.7M

Minor altcoin inflows: #SOL ($0.5M), #ADA ($0.6M) and #MATIC ($0.3M).

⚖️ An FTX Bankruptcy Judge will consider allowing an independent investigation into FTX.
Reuters.com

🇰🇿 The President of Kazakhstan signed a law on digital assets, obliging miners to license their activities.
#mining #regulation

🤝 Brazilian fintech Capitual has partnered with Azimut to expand its crypto service offering to Europe.
news.bitcoin.com

🤝 #STRK StarkWare have partnered with Chainlink Labs to expand application development across their StarkNet network.
theblock.com

🕵️‍♂️📈 #AI is back in the spotlight thanks to massive investments from tech giants:

Google invested $300 million in Anthropic. Previously Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT OpenAI. AI tokens rose strongly after the news, despite the #BTC price decline earlier in the week.

Today, SingularityNET (#AGIX) is in the top 100 by market capitalization. This followed a rise of 28.55% in 24 hours, 130.86% in 7 days and 730.77% in a month.

Top 10 AI by daily growth:
#ANW (+74.84%)
#GNY (+50.00%)
#MAN (+35.00%)
#ALI (+34.84%)
#SDAO (+32.82%)
#ORAI (+30.03%)
#FET (+28.10%)
#AGIX (+26.65%)
#DBC (+26.59%)
#GRT (+16.94%)

Top 10 AI by Weekly Growth:
#SNS (+329.75%)
#GNY (+157.14%)
#AGIX (+125.87%)
#SDAO (+97.66%)
#ANW (+95.14%)
#ORAI (+81.64%)
#MAN (+63.50%)
#ASTO (+58.20%)
#ALI (+55.24%)
#FET (+51.81%)

👀 #BNB #UNI Li.Fi urged the Uniswap community not to proceed with the current vote to complete the deployment of Uniswap v3 on the BNB network with Wormhole as sole bridge provider
theblock.com

🖼 Last week, Blur became the top Ethereum NFT market by volume, with $89M in 7 days, followed by OpenSea with $76M, but with more traders (279K vs 105K).

🇮🇹 Italy is creating a crypto environment that complies with the new EU laws.
coindesk.com

🌐 Disney's subsidiary in India, Disney Star, has announced Starverse. The company wants to bring India's biggest sporting competition, the Premier League, to the metaverse.

🇭🇰🕹 The Hong Kong regulator plans to hire 4 more employees to improve monitoring of the activities of local virtual asset providers.
cointelegraph.com

📊 Top 15 staking providers by total amount staked.

🙋‍♂️ Blockchain company Figure delisted from SPAC and is looking for a $100 million investment. bloomberg.com

🇺🇸 US Open S&P500: -0.50% Nasdaq: -0.80% Dow: -0.30%

🌐 Walmart filed trademark applications for SamsClub, including crypto and Web3.

🖼 OpenSea is launching a Private Beta Testing Program that allows members to try out new features in advance, as well as helping OpenSea conduct stress tests and find vulnerabilities.
opensea.io

⛏ Riot said that the implementation of the 12.5 EH/s hashrate forecast for the first quarter will be delayed due to damage from a winter storm that hit the US in December.
#mining theblock.com

📊 Report Kaiko per week:

- Celsius allegedly spent $558 million to buy #CEL, causing the price of the token to rise by more than 14,000%.
- #DYDX is up 130% since the decentralized exchange announced it was postponing its scheduled token unlock.
- BUSD market share has remained stable since Binance acknowledged mismanagement of reserves.
- The ratio of open interest to market capitalization suggests that the Optimism #OP token is highly leveraged.
- European ETPs experienced strong capital inflows in January.