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⁠Bitcoin price reverses gains on New Year's Eve; hodlers continue stacking sats The BTC price dipped below $46,000 after seeing highs north of $48,500 earlier in the day. Altcoins suffered a similar decline.

⁠Cointelegraph Consulting: Crypto events of 2021 in retrospect With 2021 coming to a close, it might go down as the year that brought the most mainstream attention to cryptocurrencies.

⁠NFTs find true utility with the advent of the Metaverse in 2021 Nonfungible tokens have one of the biggest innovations that have spread across the cryptoverse in 2021. The Metaverse is set to push its utility further in…

⁠Estonia’s new AML laws set to clamp down on crypto industry The new guidelines reportedly expand the definition of Virtual Asset Service Providers to include decentralized applications, ICOs and other related services.

⁠Airdrop culture could pose integral threat to DeFi industry The sobering fallout of rug-pulled YEAR token has provided an acrimonious ending to a commendable 12 months of growth for decentralized finance.

⁠Going meta: Paris Hilton, Times Square, and ETFs Decentraland and Paris Hilton plan competing virtual New Year's Eve celebrations, while ProShares plans to launch an ETF tracking the performance of metaverse-focused fir…

⁠Will US regulators shake stablecoins into high-tech banks? U.S. stablecoin issuers might soon face liquidity, customer protection and asset reserve rules — and maybe even a deposit-insurance mandate like banks.

⁠Centralized systems are here to stay, says Binance CEO CZ Binance CEO CZ debates Ponzi schemes, DeFi and how Binance chooses coins for listing in a new year video.

⁠Valereum acquires Gibraltar-based Juno to expand on crypto-fiat bridge The agreement is an essential step toward creating a fully regulated link between the fiat and crypto worlds, said Valereum.

⁠Bitcoin gains $1.5K in under an hour as BTC price erases days of downtrend Bitcoin rises above $48,500 in a show of strength as over $6 billion of options expires.

⁠Shanghai includes Metaverse in its development plan Shanghai's five-year plan calls for the use of metaverse in public services, business offices, entertainment and industrial manufacturing, among others.

⁠Fractal: 110K join Discord of Twitch founder’s new NFT gaming marketplace After launching the Fractal NFT gaming marketplace, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan labeled NFTs as the "future of gaming."

⁠Cross chain DeFi hub Umee raises $32M with Coinlist token sale The Cosmos-inspired DeFi platform Umee set records for a Coinlist public sale with nearly one million unique applicants and 63,000 total contributors.

⁠Eth2's Rocket Pool reaches $350M TVL and 635 node operators in five weeks “In the staking market, there was significant latent demand for a decentralized option — it just needed our launch to spark an inferno,” said Roc…

⁠Finance Redefined: Polygon fixes $24B bug, Hoskinson optimistic for Cardano in 2022, Dec. 24–31 This week's Finance Redefined features the latest developments concerning Polygon, Interlay, Bent Finance and Grim Finance.

⁠Bitcoin has risen 7% to 36% in the first week of January each year since 2018 Some analysts are expecting big things for Bitcoin in the near future when all the institutional selling has completed and capital gets deplo…

⁠DAO treasuries surged 40X in 2021: DeepDAO DeepDAO ranks the Uniswap DAO, BitDAO and Lido Finance DAO as the top three in terms of treasury value at $2.9 billion, $2.4 billion and $602 million each.

⁠OpenSea freezes $2.2M of stolen Bored Apes Art gallery owner Todd Kramer had his valuable NFT collection stolen from his hot wallet yesterday, so OpenSea froze the stolen assets worth about $2.2 million.