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⁠Helium (HNT), Avalanche (AVAX) and Pickle rally on partnership announcements Partnership announcements, improving fundamentals and growing interest in DeFi are driving the price of Helium, Avalanche and Pickle higher.

⁠Altcoins move higher as Bitcoin bull flag points toward $50K BTC price Select altcoins continue to hit new yearly highs, while a bull flag on Bitcoin suggests traders are preparing for a run at $50,000.

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⁠TORN soars 200% as Tornado.Cash’s governance token becomes tradable Apes rejoice as yet another token airdrop fattens their portfolios

⁠FTX CEO claims competitor responsible for racist messages delivered to Blockfolio users 'Teflon' Sam Bankman-Fried illustrates why the crypto community holds him in high regard, as Blockfolio exploit results in clear co…

⁠Former British MP says central banks should ban Bitcoin Nick Boles, who served as a Member of Parliament from 2010 to 2019, believes the world would be better off without Bitcoin.

⁠ECB leader floats 3K threshold for digital euro holdings The central bank said it will reach a decision on releasing a digital euro "towards the middle of 2021."

⁠Record $584M Litecoin futures open interest signals institutional inflow Open interest on Litecoin futures hit a record $584 million, a signal that institutional investors like Bitwise and Grayscale Investments are inte…

⁠Press and internet freedom advocates join crypto users in support of Wikileaks' Assange Digital and journalistic rights are at stake in the trial for Julian Assange's extradition, say 24 major advocacy groups.

⁠Bitcoin flippens Russian ruble after Tesla purchase The crypto asset's market capitalization has also overtaken Tesla's again, following an overnight price surge.

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⁠Amid hiring spree, Blockchain Association adds Token Taxonomy Act guru to team The former aide to Representative Davidson will join crypto's leading trade association.

⁠Shift to DeFi and cross-chain integration back Elrond’s (EGLD) 700% rally The Maiar wallet release and DeFi integration with Binance Smart Chain are just a few of the new developments backing Elrond’s 700% rally to $216…

⁠ConsenSys introduces major AirSwap upgrades The peer-to-peer trading system has introduced new technical upgrades, including staking options on Codefi Activate.

⁠Curve Finance coming to Equilibrium's Polkadot parachain Decentralized finance exchange platform Curve Finance will soon be implemented on Equilibrium’s Polkadot parachain.

⁠IDEO CoLab Ventures files with SEC for new $100M crypto fund Early stage investment fund IDEO CoLab Ventures is looking to launch a $100 million crypto investment fund.

⁠Ethereum hits a new all-time high as CME futures go live: Why is ETH price rallying? The price of ETH, the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, achieved a record-high on CME launching dedicated futures.

⁠Yearn.Finance puts expanded treasury to use by repaying victims of $11M hack DeFi protocol Yearn.Finance repaid victims of its $11M hack by opening a Maker vault with YFI tokens from its newly expanded treasury.

⁠Can the launch of Colony v2 relieve DeFi’s governance woes? Years in the making, Colony aims to solve DAO pain points and bring decentralized governance to the masses

⁠Matic rebrands to Polygon in pursuit of ‘Polkadot on Ethereum’ strategy The Layer-two protocol plans to become an aggregator and interoperability facilitator for Ethereum scalability solutions.

⁠Crypto-friendly US senator invites Elon Musk to move to Wyoming Saying the state has "the best laws for digital assets" in the United States, Senator Lummis asked the Tesla CEO if he would consider relocating.

⁠Rhode Island introduces ‘vital’ blockchain growth act A new Rhode Island House bill aims to revamp state legislature to create a regulatory environment more conducive to “vital” blockchain growth.

⁠Tesla's $1.5B Bitcoin purchase leaves treasury experts scratching heads Some treasury experts are finding it difficult to understand why Tesla recently bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin — the best performing asset of…

⁠South Africa learns a hard crypto lesson amid fast growing demand South African authorities will be keeping a close eye on the cryptocurrency space in 2021 in the wake of major scams and booming markets.

⁠French official wants to change how Europe regulates crypto and blockchain According to one French official, crypto and blockchain projects should be supervised at the European level.

⁠Binance quietly drops ‘multi-million’ Forbes defamation lawsuit Binance Holdings has dropped its defamation lawsuit against Forbes regarding the publication of an article that alleged the exchange purposely sought to ev…

⁠Stablecoin flows hint at $50K Bitcoin after Tesla pump liquidates $500M in BTC shorts Around $500 million worth of positions were liquidated within hours as the Tesla news caused Bitcoin to spike over $46,000.

⁠Hackers post racist and offensive messages to Blockfolio users A breach of Blockfolio’s signal feed saw racist messages sent to some users of the crypto portfolio platform.

⁠Major Thai bank's venture arm sets up $50M fund to invest in blockchain, DeFi Siam Commercial Bank, over a century old, doesn't fail to keep up with the times.

⁠OKEx integrates .crypto domain-based payments from Unstoppable Domains As more exchanges start to support the simplified address format, will error-prone text-string addresses become a thing of the past?