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There is a heated debate between Ethereum fanbase and Solana fanbase, and Solana peeps are giving reasons why Solana will overtake Ethereum in valuation soon, I will curate an article with some facts andy opinion on the matter later today.
BarnBridge DAO Agrees to Stop Unregistered Offer and Sale of Structured Finance Crypto Product. - BarnBridge DAO, a purportedly decentralized autonomous organization, and its two founders, Tyler Ward and Troy Murray, will pay more than $1.7 million to settle charges that they failed to register BarnBridge’s offer and sale of structured crypto asset securities known as SMART Yield bonds. The Commission also charged the respondents with violations stemming from operating BarnBridge’s SMART Yield pools as unregistered investment companies. To settle the SEC’s charges, BarnBridge agreed to disgorge nearly $1.5 million of proceeds from the sales, and Ward and Murray each agreed to pay a $125,000 civil penalties.
Dencun testnet upgrade scheduled on January 17th- Ethereum developers set Jan. 17 as target date for the Dencun upgrade on Goerli testnet. Dencun upgrade will make Eth cheaper for transactions which means scalability which means high demand for transactions, which means Eth to new ATH.
Nigerian central bank lifts ban on crypto trading - Nigeria's central bank has lifted a ban on transacting in cryptocurrencies, while saying global trends had shown a need to regulate such activities, the bank said in its latest circular.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Feb. 2021 barred banks and financial institutions from dealing in or facilitating transactions in crypto assets, citing money laundering and terrorism financing risks.
Subsequently Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in May last year published regulations for digital assets that signalled Africa's most populous country was trying to find a middle ground between an outright ban on crypto assets and their unregulated use.
Project Updates
- PSA if you have funds on MEXC remove them - This is not a financial advice but a warning to all concerned parties.
Paraluni exploited- Attackers use price manipulation to over collaterize assets.
SturdyFinance announces Sturdy Surge- Sturdy Surge: kicking off V2 with a bang
Sturdy V2 will be launching January 16th with $800,000+ in incentives and 750,000 STRDY tokens to be airdropped to early aggregator depositors.
Polkadot partners with Unity games - Polkadot will integrate with the Game Engine powering Pokemon Go and Call of Duty Mobile. The collaboration increases the visibility of Polkadot as a contender in the Web3 gaming space. The Unity Asset store is used by over 1.5M developers for a wide variety of applications in the creator economy, such as animation and architecture.
AstriaOrg introduces Rollup-as-a-Service - Rollups deployed with the Astria RaaS use the shared sequencer network for block production, so they’re decentralized by default, inheriting censorship resistant fast confirmations from Astria, with @CelestiaOrg underneath for data availability.
Arbitrum Orbit integrates Near protocol's DA solution - arbitrum Orbit integrates NEAR DA, unlocking new opportunities for Ethereum Rollup Developers.
Curve Finance vote executed to reimburse victims - $7.2M worth of ETH recovered by whitehats to the DAO being distributed
$42M worth of CRV compensating unrecovered parts (vested)
Other whitehat-recovered funds distributed before vote.
??Launches
Radpie TGE
Hokum Mainnet
??New Projects
Cryptomaze | L2,Game Fi
Moneypenny | Solana | Trading Bots
Aethos network
Flash Protocol
Nance | DAO Management
Pier Protocol | Solana | Token Generator
CoinLev | Derivatives
Coconut Chicken | Tron | Memecoin
d4x | Polygon,Optimism | Derivatives
UniRouter | Bitcoin,Ethereum | Bridge
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