🤝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

Coinbase Pro will list Aventus (AVT), Render Token (RNDR) & Quantstamp (QSP).
Trading will begin on or after 9AM PT on Thurs 2/3, if liquidity conditions are met.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CoinbaseAssets/status/1488966890424778761

✅Santiment: BTC-SPX correlation

📈The Block: The total supply of stablecoins in the system (including cryptocurrency-backed and algorithmic stablecoins) exceeded $170 billion

📈Santiment: XRP is +37% the past 4 days, and finally is reacting to its daily active address uptick that started in mid-January. XRPNetwork's coin currently sits a tick above $0.82 and is outputting the same addresses as it did in early November at $1.18.

https://twitter.com/santimentfeed/status/1490839810981830660

Bitcoin’s “fair value” is around 12% below the current price, based on its volatility in comparison with gold, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategists led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou.

The strategists calculated the fair-value level at around $38,000 based on Bitcoin being roughly four times as volatile as gold, they wrote in a note published Tuesday.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-09/bitcoin-s-volatility-versus-gold-implies-38-000-value-jpmorgan#:~:text=Bitcoin's%20%E2%80%9Cfair%20value%E2%80%9D%20is%20around,strategists%20led%20by%20Nikolaos%20Panigirtzoglou.

🔥 ANNOUNCING THE PROJECT GALAXY TOKEN SALE ON COINLIST 🔥

Project Galaxy is built on open and collaborative infrastructure with the mission to help Web 3 developers use digital credential data and NFTs to build better products and communities.

The sale begins on February 17, 18:00 UTC and has one public option. We invite all eligible users to register.

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✅Cryptorank: Top 10 Metaverse Crypto Projects by Market Cap

💰Astar (Polkadot Parachain) Launches $100M Incentive Program for Smart Contract Developers

https://medium.com/astar-network/astar-network-announces-100m-astar-boost-program-e6d56099cfcd