🔥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

Biden administration prepares to release initial nationwide digital currency strategy as early as February

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-21/white-house-is-set-to-put-itself-at-center-of-u-s-crypto-policy

BTC balances of exchanges continue to be at lows, Glassnode reports balances at monthly lows of 2500kk BTC

📉Crypto market cap loses $680 billion in 2022 as BTC slumps under $34k

Notably, the crypto market is down 7.42% decrease over the last day, while the overall crypto market volume has decreased by 11.71% in the previous 24 hours to $94.83 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.

https://finbold.com/crypto-market-cap-loses-680-billion-in-2022-as-btc-slumps-under-34k/

💰BBG: after breaking through multiple supports, people's next focus is on the $30,000 BTC level

Santiment: BTC 'Buy The Dip' Sentiment Seen Soaring

🔥 Ethereum Foundation abandoned the terms "Ethereum 1.0" and "Ethereum 2.0"
The new roadmap adopted the names "execution layer" (executing layer) and "consensus layer" (consensus layer), respectively, which corresponds to the transition from PoW to PoS

🔥Bloomberg Intelligence Chief Strategist: BTC and ETH are still at an early stage of implementation. Demand for them is growing, supply is falling. Prices will rise in the long term

​📈Similarities of the weekly charts of the NASDAQ index (before the dot-com bubble) and bitcoin

Chart - Matthew Hyland

💰Glassnode: BTC outflows from exchanges have increased again

hodlers started accumulating again

Data from GWI published in the new Digital 2022 Global Overview Report reveals that the number of people who own cryptocurrencies has jumped by more than a third (+37.8 percent) since this time last year.

More than 1 in 10 working-age internet users now owns some form of “crypto”, with that figure rising to more than 2 in 10 in Thailand.

https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-big-rise-in-cryptocurrency-ownership?rq=crypto