🍿👀 Cryptocurrency lender Genesis is laying off 30% of its staff.

⚖️ 3AC founders received subpoenas via Twitter.
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📊 Cryptocurrency trading volumes on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) fell sharply in the last month of 2022.

Total crypto derivatives volume fell 49.2% to $14.2 billion, the weakest since October 2020. BTC futures volume fell 48.3% to $13.2 billion, while Ether futures volume fell 55.3% to $481 million.

🔄 #HBAR Hedera mainnet will be updated to version 0.33.x on January 12th.

🕹 French Villeroy calls for mandatory licensing of crypto companies.

📊👀 Mike McGlone: ​​The consequences of the global recession for BTC. The growing potential for a severe global economic downturn could be a major driver of cryptocurrency performance in 2023. Our bias is that BTC is more likely to come out ahead in most scenarios, but if an inverted yield curve is the indicator, economic growth will drop sharply, with implications for all assets.

💰 Candy Digital announces A1 series fundraiser, amount undisclosed. Candy Digital announces A1 series fundraiser for an undisclosed amount. The round was led by Galaxy Digital and ConsenSys Mesh.

📉 #BUSD lost a quarter ($5.5 billion) of its market cap in a month amid Binance's FUD. Major competitors USDT and USDC have increased their market share.
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⛏ Riot Platforms mined 659 BTC in December, which is about 55% more than in December 2021.
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👀📉 #USDD #HT #TRX Justin Sun's tweets are not working yet.

🕹 #CBDC Fabio Panetta (ECB) calls for the development of CBDC for the benefit of cryptocurrency and consumers.
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📉 Digital asset fund flows were -95% in 2022 compared to 2021.

👀 #HT Huobi has closed internal employee communication groups and feedback channels.
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🍿 Digest and events for tomorrow:

🔓 Unlock: DAFI Protocol (#DAFI), Dark Frontiers (#DARK), delta.theta (#DLTA), Ispolink (#ISP), VAIOT (#VAI)

🎮 Illuvium (#ILV) - launch mob game testing

📝 Voting ends: Moonbeam (#GLMR) - Register WBTC, ETH and USDC as xcWBTC.multi, xech.multi and xcUSDC.multi.

🖼 Metaplex (#MPLX) - Authors will be allowed turn on forced royalty

👀 DollarMoon (#DMOON) - Important partnership announcement

🇪🇺 Consumer Price Index (CPI) (y/y) (Dec) - 13:00 Moscow time

🇺🇸 Unemployment Rate (Dec) - 16:30 Moscow time

📊🐳 #BTC What do online whale behavior metrics show since the beginning of 2023? The whales have practically stopped selling their coins since the beginning of December. This puts less pressure on the price.

However, it remains to be seen how the whales accumulate coins. Total whale ownership is still 10% below the peak reached in June 2022. In order for prices to recover and grow, it is necessary that the number of whales increase.

👀 Genesis cuts another 30% of staff, sales and business development departments are suffering the most coindesk.com

👀 Data: CME cryptocurrency trading volume fell to a two-year low in December coindesk.com

👀 Governor of the Bank of France calls for mandatory licensing of crypto firms news.bloomberglaw.com

👀Three Arrows Capital liquidator sends subpoenas to two founders via Twitter theblock.com

👀 The Central Bank of Nigeria plans to develop a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies www.punchng.com