HyperDAO will have IEO on Okex on February 25, 04.00 UTC — link

Bakkt aims to turn your rewards points into a wallet you can spend anywhere — link

Japan needs closer cooperation with the U.S. to curb the potential influence of China’s planned digital currency — link

The heads of six central banks and the Bank for International Settlements in mid-April will hold their first meeting on developing their own digital currencies — link

Bakkt's BTC futures open interest reaches a new all-time high — link

Year Progress:
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Grayscale total AUM: $3.0 billion — link

Bitcoin is up on 19/36 days to start the year. This is the EXACT same start 2019 had, however:

2020:
Avg. up day: +2.9%
Avg. down day: -1.5%
YTD return: +35.3%

2019:
Avg. up day: +1.6%
Avg. down day: -1.8%
YTD return: -7.3%

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[SCOOP!!] Blockchain Capital's first four funds have IRRs to LPs at 49%, 53%, 60%, 17%. To date, it has raised a total of $173 million with $295 million AUM across its four funds. — link

Coronavirus shuts down Chinese Bitcoin mine — link

Binance Futures Will Launch BNB/USDT Perpetual Contract With Up to 50x Leverage — link

Binance Launches Thirteenth Phase of Binance Lending Products — link

Switzerland to require ID for crypto exchange transactions over $1K — link

$79.8M Tether flowing into binance in the last 24 hrs.

What's interesting is avg. txn value into binance trends 📉 while # of txns per day trends 📈

142K $ETH withdrawn from exchanges over past 2 days. Largest net outflow over 2-day period since Nov 12. It's +15% vs $BTC.

900K ETH left exchanges from Oct 27-Nov 19 when ETH had its last brief rally vs btc. This is also when exchange balances bottomed at 8.7M

Some misunderstandings about S2F model:
1) That it predicts $100k by May2020. No, it predicts $100k May2020-2024 average, like the chart shows
2) Why $100k, it was $55k? Yes, the original model on monthly data (Mar22) says $55k, but a new model on yearly data $100k. Your choice. — link

Despite the recent surge in funding rates across the board, Bitfinex's BTC Perp funding is staying stubbornly low, currently at 0.00% vs an average of ~2.5bps/8hr on the other venues.

Google trends data for 'bitcoin halving'

Australian government issues national blockchain roadmap to help drive adoption — link