🇭🇰🕹 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.

📊 Top 10 projects by TVL growth in January.

🗣👀 Grayscale: FINRA is currently facing an issue that impacts trading reporting for OTC securities, including products at Grayscale. This does not apply to Grayscale or our products.

✅ #ALCX DeFi lender Alchemix approves ALCX token buyback plan.
The new model aims to match Alchemix synthetic tokens to their underlying assets.
#DeFi coindesk.com

👀 PeckShield has issued a warning about fake tokens for Damus Applications for social networks. the block

🆕Coinbase added to the Voxies roadmap (VOXEL)

👀 #FTT Cybersecurity firm Sygnia is advising FTX on a breach investigation.
The current chief executive of the crypto exchange has criticized the weak cybersecurity controls at the company, led by Sam Bankman-Freed. coindesk.com

⚠️ Binance will suspend bank transfers in USD for a "couple of weeks" from February 8th.

🙋‍♂ Revolut will support Polkadot (DOT), Tezos (XTZ), Cardano (ADA) and Ethereum (ETH) staking with returns up to 11.65%.

🤝 Yuga Labs has reached a settlement on the Bored Ape NFT trademark lawsuit.
The lawsuit involved a developer of websites and a smart contract for the sale of "misleading" NFTs RR/BAYC. coindesk.com

🆕 Coinbase will add support for Axelar (#AXL) tomorrow. twitter

🥳 Genesis and parent company DCG have reached an initial agreement with major lenders: CoinDesk

👀 Decentralized Lending Protocol #CPOOL Clearpool Launches Institutional Borrowing Platform
coindesk.com