The week of 01/23 in short – The news about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is constantly boiling. It can happen that crucial information gets lost in the daily information flow and that you miss important points. This format is there to remedy that. We return to thenews from the past week‘Crypto Weekly to keep you informed about the current situation of cryptocurrencies.
Crypto news in brief
▶ Binance accused of mixing its funds with those of customers. According to Bloomberg, 539 million would be involved and mixed within a single wallet.
▶ Waltio offers help with free crypto tax filing. To be eligible, you must have made less than 50 transactions this year. Waltio estimates that around 1 million French people could benefit from it.
▶ Cardano loses 50% of its network nodes for a moment. Fortunately, the network managed to resynchronize. Cardano teams said that “the systems behaved as expected”.
▶ Uniswap v3 could land on the BNB Chain. Thus, in a preliminary vote, users were enthusiastic about the deployment of DEX on the BNB Chain.
▶ It is possible to be reimbursed for your Porsche NFTs. Thus, it would be possible to use the right of withdrawal, because the launch was made within the framework of European law.
▶ Sami and Benoît received Marc Zeller on the occasion of the launch of version 3 of the Aave protocol on the Ethereum network.
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The 5 metrics of the week
➤ $45 millionit’s about amount that will be paid by Nexo to the American SEC. This settlement was proposed by Nexo in order to end the investigation that targets the company.
➤ 40%, it is the decrease in the amount stolen via ransomware in 2022. Thus, 457 million dollars were extorted in 2022, against 766 million dollars in 2021.
➤ $6.3 millionit’s about amount stolen by the NFT Animoon project. Several French influencers would be singled out for promoting the project.
➤ $1.2 billionit would be BlockFi’s exposure to Alameda and FTX. This information is taken from records that were uploaded in error. This sum is 20% higher than that initially disclosed by BlockFi’s lawyer.
➤ $300 millionit is the amount in dYdX token whose release has been postponed. Thus, the dYdX platform has extended the lock period of investor-owned tokens.
Tweet of the week
Tweet of the week goes to @neumi85_btc and his photo of Bitcoin logo projected in Berlin on the Fernsehturm tower.
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