Bitcoin
For at least the next ten years, VanEck will donate 5% of its profits from its yet-to-be-approved spot BTC ETF to Bitcoin-focused nonprofit Brink.
DeFi
The surge in Arbitrum’s daily volume likely stems from the upcoming Ethereum upgrade dubbed Dencun, not the memecoin frenzy experienced by other blockchain networks.
Even if the SEC approves spot Bitcoin ETFs in the coming weeks, DeFi must make some effort to gain mass acceptance of crypto overall, writes Ramon Recuero.
After taking a beating post-FTX, Bitcoin liquidity could “see a real recovery” with the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs, research firm Kaiko concluded in its Q4 report.
As anticipation of SEC approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF heats up, a new survey reveals surprising pessimism among U.S. financial advisers.
Ethereum
Starknet’s upgrade aims to substantially reduce transaction fees and lays the groundwork for users to pay for their gas consumption with the zero-knowledge rollup’s native token STRK.
EigenLayer increased its restaking capacity in the middle of December, and since then the number of liquid staking tokens (LSTs) and ETH deposited into the protocol’s smart contracts has increased more than fivefold from about $250 million.
The banking giant is reportedly considering an authorized participant role for spot bitcoin ETFs, which many expect to receive SEC approval this month.
BTC retreated to as low as $41,800 Wednesday morning, down from a high of $45K Tuesday as pundits, quants and other crypto gadflies analyze every utterance, rumor and on-chain metric to make sense of the price swing.
The first Bitcoin block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto, the cryptocurrency’s pseudonymous creator, in 2009, and there are several interesting mysteries associated with it.
