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⁠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?

⁠Solana announces DeFi hackathon offering $200k in seed funding Solana will host a DeFi hackathon offering a $200,000 prize pool and $200,000 in seed funding to aspiring developers.

⁠Binance Labs backs Polkadot ecosystem with $2.4m investment in Plasm Network Binance has mobilized nearly one-quarter of its Polkadot ecosystem fund to lead Plasm Network’s Series A funding round.

⁠Bitcoin's Twitter-volume spikes to new all-time highs on Elon pump Elon Musk has pushed Bitcoin’s social sentiment into new highs on Twitter.

⁠ETH represented 80% of last week's institutional crypto inflows Institutions were aggressively accumulating ETH in the lead up to the launch of CME futures, with Ether products representing 80% of last week’s institutio…

⁠ Bitcoin volatility almost returned to 'Black Thursday' levels in January A report from Kraken has identified last month’s BTC volatility at levels not seen since the ‘Black Thursday’ crash of early 2020.

⁠G7 to discuss CBDC and digital taxation this week The G7 will begin its Feb. 12 meeting on the subject of central bank digital currencies, before moving to digital taxation and accelerating global debt.

⁠Bitcoin price hits $46,794 as altcoins, stocks rally to new highs Bitcoin price hit a new all-time high at $46,794 on the same day Tesla revealed its $1.5 billion investment into BTC and stock markets rallied to new hig…

⁠Rising Bitcoin futures funding rate signals traders expect $50,000 BTC Bitcoin perpetual futures buyers are paying a 5.4% weekly funding rate to keep their positions open, but is this sustainable?

⁠Bitwise files intent with SEC to launch ‘Crypto Innovators ETF’ A recent SEC filing by Bitwise reveals plans to launch a new crypto innovators fund.