Today's Headlines:
- Starknet to launch 700 million STRK tokens airdrop on February 20, with approximately 1.297 million eligible wallet addresses
- US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury: Hopes to cooperate with Congress to eradicate illegal financial activities in the virtual asset market
- Bitcoin futures open interest breaks $21 billion, reaching a new high since November 2021
- NFT trading volume of Pandora_ERC404 exceeds $70 million in the past week
- Token unlocking in the Web3 gaming sector expected to reach $175 million in February
- MicroStrategy transitions into a Bitcoin development company: holds a total of 190,000 bitcoins, with an unrealized profit of $3.5 billion
- PlayDapp suspends PLA smart contract and conducts asset snapshot after being hacked
- Craig Wright claims in COPA trial that holding the private key does not prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto
Regulatory News
US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Brian E. Nelson mentioned the threat of virtual assets in his speech to Congress on February 14, stating that every recent financial risk assessment has a substantial section on virtual assets, such as ransomware, fraud, terrorist organizations, and other illegal actors. Nelson expressed the Treasury's hope to work with Congress to update tools and powers to eradicate illegal financial activities in the virtual asset market.
Project Updates
Starknet officially announced that the native token STRK of the Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet will be distributed through the Starknet Foundation's Provisions program starting on February 20. The total airdrop amount is approximately 700 million STRK, mainly targeting individual addresses, with about 1.297 million wallet addresses eligible for the airdrop. Eligible users will have four months to claim the tokens before June 20. This airdrop is not only for Starknet ecosystem users, but also includes ETH stakers on the Ethereum mainnet, holders of liquidity staked tokens, and some developers outside of the Web3 ecosystem.
Web3 content creation platform RepubliK launches $RPK deposit and staking activities
RepubliK platform announced that users can now deposit and stake $RPK tokens. The staking activity will last for 30 days with no hard cap limit. Additionally, RepubliK will launch a staking reward activity this week. RepubliK is a Web3 content creation platform that secured a $6 million seed round at a valuation of $75 million in October last year. Several well-known investment institutions participated in this round of financing, including OKX Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Arcane Ventures, CMS Holdings, and Comma3 Ventures.
OKX Web3 wallet now supports Bitcoin Stamps protocol, enabling display and transfer of SRC20 assets
According to official sources, the OKX Web3 wallet plugin now supports the Bitcoin Stamps protocol, enabling the display and transfer of SRC20 assets, as well as access to ecosystem applications through the Bitcoin section of the discovery section. Users can experience this by updating to the latest version of the OKX Web3 wallet.
It is worth noting that the OKX Web3 wallet is a leading all-in-one Web3 gateway that currently supports 85+ public chains, with unified app, plugin, and web interfaces covering wallet, DEX, DeFi, NFT market, and DApp exploration, and supports Ordinals market, MPC and AA smart contract wallets, gas exchange, hardware wallet connection, etc. The current OKX Web3 wallet supports multiple chain ecosystems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Aptos, Solana, providing users with a one-stop convenient experience.
The dYdX Grants Program proposes to request $12 million worth of DYDX tokens from the community treasury. The proposal suggests using this fund to support dYdX Ecosystem Development Projects (DEP) for a period of 24 months, primarily supporting dYdX's partnerships, infrastructure, chain services, protocol development, and growth.
PlayDapp suspends PLA smart contract and conducts asset snapshot after being hacked
Following a hack on the blockchain gaming platform PlayDapp on February 9, which resulted in the illegal minting of 200 million PLA tokens (worth $36.5 million), the platform announced the suspension of the PLA smart contract and requested the halt of all transactions for a migration snapshot. PlayDapp stated that this action aims to protect holders' assets and will continue to provide updates to the community. According to blockchain analytics company Elliptic's report, negotiations with the hacker failed, and on February 12, the hacker minted an additional 1.59 billion PLA tokens, worth approximately $253.9 million, and began laundering activities on cryptocurrency trading platforms.
According to Spot On Chain data, approximately 11 hours ago, a wallet associated with the Polygon Foundation, 0x57f, deposited 9 million MATIC tokens worth approximately $7.75 million into Binance. In the past 5 days, a total of 2 wallets associated with the Polygon Foundation have deposited 15.5 million MATIC into Binance, with a total value of approximately $13.2 million calculated at a price of about $0.85.
Important Data
Bitcoin futures open interest breaks $21 billion, reaching a new high since November 2021
According to coindesk, the value of open interest in the Bitcoin futures market has surpassed $21 billion for the first time since November 2021. Based on CoinGlass data, the nominal open interest volume of Bitcoin (BTC) futures contracts has reached the highest point in 26 months. Since the beginning of this year, the total open interest of Bitcoin futures contracts has increased by 22%, approaching the record of $24 billion set in mid-November 2021 when the price of Bitcoin exceeded $65,000.
Token unlocking in the Web3 gaming sector expected to reach $175 million in February
Token Unlocks
TokenUnlocks' latest data predicts that by the end of February, the total token unlocking amount in the Web3 gaming industry will reach $175 million. The details include:
- The Sandbox is set to release approximately 205.59 million SAND tokens worth about $99.2 million.
- ApeCoin (APE) plans to unlock 15.6 million tokens on February 16, valued at around $23.1 million.
- Immutable will start releasing 1.22 million IMX tokens daily from February 22 for 28 days, with an estimated total unlocking value of $29.3 million.
- On February 27, Yield Guild Games will release approximately 16.69 million YGG tokens worth $7.89 million.
- Parallel will unlock around 1.66 million PRIME tokens worth approximately $16.1 million on February 28.
- Starting from February 29, STEPN's GMT tokens will initiate a 31-day linear unlocking, with a daily average of 3.22 million tokens unlocked, totaling approximately $8.33 million.
Robinhood's Fourth Quarter Revenue Reaches $43 Million, Exceeding Expectations
According to coindesk, Robinhood's cryptocurrency trading revenue in the fourth quarter reached $43 million, a 10% year-on-year increase, benefiting from increased user trading volume. This growth also bodes well for Coinbase, indicating a potential similar revenue increase. Robinhood's cryptocurrency trading volume increased by 89% month-on-month, driving an 8% year-on-year increase in its transaction-based revenue. The company's total revenue was $471 million, with earnings per share of $0.03, both exceeding market expectations.
NFT Trading Volume of Pandora_ERC404 Exceeds $70 Million in the Past Week
According to Cryptoslam data, the non-fungible token (NFT) trading volume of @Pandora_ERC404 has exceeded $70 million in the past 7 days, making it the highest trading NFT project in the past week.
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