As of 4pm EST today, Grayscale’s #Ethereum Trust re-opened.

10x - 2x on-chain leverage long/short on any asset listed in Aave, Cream, Compound, or Iron Bank

Choose your own base & quote asset

Margin accepted in any listed asset

Funding rate = net interest received on base - interest paid on quote asset

Will start work on a UI — link

South Korea's government (Ministry of Science and NCT) published a research paper on DeFi.

This is the first government-led DeFi research.

FEW. — link

- Citadel received $200 million from taxpayers money in 2008 bailout.

- Bernanke, who granted the bailout, now works for Citadel.

- Citadel paid Yellen nearly $1 million “speaking fees”.

- Yellen now advices Biden on the GME situation where Citadel was losing on shorts. — link

Bitcoin bull market checklist

Tether FUD
India crypto ban
Chinese new year FUD
Coinbase server down
Binance overloaded
Random alt run (DOGE)
Asia dumping

All check — link

7.2 million $ETH is locked in DeFi.

2.8 million $ETH is locked in eth2.

This means that 10 million $ETH (8.8% of the current supply) is being put to work to power the Ethereum ecosystem.

That's $13.4 billion at current prices. — link

Coin buyers right now are extremely strong HOLDers. Coins moving to RED means HODLers who seldom sell. — link

While we are in the first great consolidation of the 2021 bull market, here's a bunch of charts to get the feel of where we are in this bull cycle. 👉 — read more

Times Square an hour ago

Google search volumes for "Uniswap" are at their highest level since DeFi Summer.

The top post on r/WallStreetBets is a HODL meme and everyone is commenting that it's misspelled! 😂

Elon Musk liked this tweet

New subscribers to the Bitcoin subreddit, r/Bitcoin.

This selling feels relentless but in the past 24 hours exchange deposits slowed (to literally zero at one point). With HODLers staying strong & $5B of stablecoins on exchanges waiting to buy the bottom. The data suggests the worst is now behind us — link