😐The State Bank of Pakistan and the federal government have decided to ban the use of all cryptocurrencies, according to a report submitted to the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday.

https://www.samaa.tv/money/2022/01/sbp-govt-pakistan-ban-cryptocurrencies/

💥Bitcoin exchange outflows see biggest daily spike since September 2021

Data from on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant shows that on Jan. 11, 29,371 BTC left exchange order books — the most since Sep. 10.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-exchange-outflows-see-biggest-daily-spike-since-september-2021

🚀 ANNOUNCING THE STADER TOKEN SALE ON COINLIST

Stader provides smart contract infrastructure for staking, helping users stake their assets conveniently and safely through its platform by building key staking middleware infrastructure for Proof-of-Stake networks. The sale begins on January 25 at 18:00 UTC and has two public options. We invite all eligible users to register.

🗓 Register by January 24, 23:59 UTC

https://blog.coinlist.co/announcing-the-stader-token-sale-on-coinlist/

📈Hashrate BTC = ATH

💥Cardano will soon present plans for scaling for 2022 and creating new projects

https://twitter.com/timbharrison/status/1481697776534753280

😵‍💫Someone just sent 26 bitcoins to a scammer who, on behalf of Michael Saylor, promised to double all the bitcoins that would be sent to him.

https://mobile.twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1482369659911483395

❄️After Celo’s success, Polkastarter integrates Avalanche

This new decision is primarily part of its effort to become a global multichain, as integrating Avalanche would make it available for IDOs and fixed swaps.

With this integration, users of the platform can now take part in even more IDOs by having access to the Avalanche ecosystem. Interestingly, users will now pay lower network charges after the integration

https://cryptonews.net/3026697/?utm_source=CryptoNews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=shared

💰23% of Americans own crypto-assets while 56% own stocks.

The former market is 12 years old while the latter is 203 years old.

This is a rising political force

https://mobile.twitter.com/woonomic/status/1482340289566023681

🔥Walmart appears to be venturing into the metaverse with plans to create its own cryptocurrency and collection of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.

“They’re super intense,” said Josh Gerben, a trademark attorney. “There’s a lot of language in these, which shows that there’s a lot of planning going on behind the scenes about how they’re going to address cryptocurrency, how they’re going to address the metaverse and the virtual world that appears to be coming or that’s already here.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/16/walmart-is-quietly-preparing-to-enter-the-metaverse.html

🥎The Australian Open is now live in the metaverse.

Tennis Australia has created a virtual replica of Melbourne Park and Rod Laver Arena in Decentraland, the pioneering crypto/Web 3.0 project.

https://stockhead.com.au/cryptocurrency/australian-open-jumps-into-the-metaverse-recreating-rod-laver-arena-in-decentraland/

🧮Messari: Cardano has surpassed Ethereum in terms of transaction volume.

Notably, Cardano users have paid only $66,058 in transaction fees in the last 24 hours compared to $44.74 million in ETH.

🍴Binance will support the Polygon @0xPolygon $MATIC Network Upgrade & Hard Fork.

https://twitter.com/binance/status/1483024398106132482

🔥Binance : We have completed our 17th quarterly BNB token burn of 1,335,888 BNB (roughly $639,462,868 equivalent).
The latest quarterly burn includes the actual burning of 1,318,049 BNB, plus an additional 17,839 BNB that was effectively burned via the Pioneer Burn Program.

17th Quarterly BNB Burn Txid:
https://explorer.binance.org/tx/C65EBACD22FB804DADABD0A4BDF4245D25F70B0B923A1A2064596F06E3BA54E3

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/39e8f691d64d468fbab1591fdf2aa343

Have you tried #SaitoArcade yet?
Play now: https://saito.io/dotarcade/ https://saito.io/arcade/

https://twitter.com/SaitoOfficial/status/1483339331691741184?s=20

UFC heavyweight noscript holder is stacking sats!

Francis Ngannou has announced he will take half of his UFC 270 prize purse in Bitcoin via Cash App.

https://ct.com/a9ct

🤝Bloomberg and Grayscale Launch Future of Finance Index

New index built with Bloomberg Intelligence analysis tracks the performance of financial services companies projected to be leaders of the emerging digital economy

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bloomberg-and-grayscale-launch-future-of-finance-index-301463338.html

🤷‍♂ASIC boss warns of ‘risky’ crypto investments

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Joseph Longo has warned that retail investors face potentially large losses on risky crypto assets and dodgy managed investment schemes that will be exposed during big market sell-offs.

https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/asic-boss-warns-of-risky-crypto-investments-20211220-p59iwl

💰El Salvador buys 410 more bitcoins amid falling market, President Bukele says

El Salvador bought 410 bitcoins for $15 million, President Nayib Bukele said on Twitter.

“Some guys are selling really cheap,” he added in a tweet.

The country now has over 1,500 bitcoins and is planning to issue a $1 billion 10-year bitcoin bond this year.

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1484651539587289091?s=20

🧮IntoTheBlock: Nasdaq BTC and ETH Positive Correlation Rises to Extreme High of 0.86