Bitcoin
Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart expects the SEC to approve the projects en masse between January 8 and 10.
DeFi
The Crypto Fear and Greed index, which aims to gauge current market sentiment, is at a level not seen since Nov. 2021.
The crypto exchange giant was already enjoying a strong month before its rival agreed to pay $4.3 billion in penalties to regulators last week.
Regulation
The presidential candidate wants to “put the Fed in its place,” reducing staff by 90% and focusing on stabilizing the dollar with a basket of “actual hard commodities” potentially including Bitcoin.
Antpool plans to refund the 83 BTC transaction fee presumably sent accidentally by an anonymous user on Nov. 23.
Business
Circle sent a letter to U.S. Senators Brown and Warren refuting claims that it facilitated terrorist financing and denied banking TRON’s Justin Sun.
The software company founded by Michael Saylor now holds about 174,530 BTC, worth roughly $6.5 billion.
Year-to-date, the crypto industry has lost $1.8 billion to hacks and fraud, according to a new report from Immunefi.
Ethereum
The Celo blockchain has proposed a framework for its transition to a Ethereum Layer 2 network, with Optimism, Polygon and Matter Labs all competing to provide the underlying infrastructure.
FTX and affiated debtors intend on selling $691 million from five Grayscale trusts and $53 million from one Bitwise trust.
