​​Dusk Network has released its Mainnet rollout plan. According to the recent tweets by Dusk's founder we will see the final release candidate at the beginning of April. Based on a prior blog, the full Mainnet release is expected later this year.

​​My Neighbor Alice (ALICE) will have a public sale round on DAO Maker on February 2. My Neighbor Alice is a multiplayer blockchain builder game, where anyone can buy/own virtual islands, collect/build items, and meet new friends.
$100k in ALICE tokens will be available through DAO Maker platform. Allocation per participant: $500. Available allocations: 200. Sale format: lottery among whitelisted wallets.

​​January 2021 performance of different digital assets by category.

​​Tether activity has increasingly shifted over to the Tron version of the stablecoin.

The shift is likely related to fees - as Ethereum transaction fees have grown due to rising demand from DeFi, Tron fees have remained miniscule.

​​Comparing daily number of mentions of “Bitcoin” and “$BTC” keywords on Twitter during 2016-2021. Keyword “$BTC”, that used mostly by the active traders, has reached its ATH in number of mentions in January 2021. While keyword “Bitcoin” is still far from its ATH in December 2017.

​​Privacy focused DEX Manta Network has closed $1.1M private fundraising round. Polychain Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, Three Arrows Capital, Defiance Capital, Multicoin Capital, TRG Capital, Genblock Capital and Alameda Research are among investors.

Manta Network is building a cross-chain, privacy-preserving decentralized exchange based on Polkadot.

​​Ethereum hits new all time high of $1,500 on February 2, 2021. ETH crushed previous peak that was recorded last month.

​​Balancer V2 is expected to launch this March. According to the blog post all interactions with Balancer V2 will be done through one single access point: the vault. Trading will become more gas efficient. Pools will have full control over the underlying tokens they add to the vault. Balancer V2 will allow users to hold internal token balances that can be useful for high-frequency trader efficiency as ERC20 transactions will not be involved.

​​The Latest Breaking News 📣

#1 India plans to introduce law to ban Bitcoin, other private cryptocurrencies - link

#2 Crypto exchange Coinbase has chosen Nasdaq as its direct listing venue — link

#3 Former Bank of China executive joins BitMEX’s parent firm as a non-executive board director — link

#4 USDC on exchanges doubled in January while Tether's dominance fell to new lows — link

#5 Robinhood Raises $2.4 Billion After Gamestop Incident — link

#6 Uniswap logs more than $30 billion in monthly trade volume for January — link

#7 Kraken to run its own Chainlink node to provide price data to DeFi apps — link

​​Binance will list Prosper (PROS) on February 3rd. PROS/ETH trading pair will go live at 8:00 AM (UTC). Prosper is a non-custodial prediction & hedging platform based on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain.

​​KuCoin will list Ren (REN) and Loopring (LRC) on February 3rd. REN/USDT and LRC/USDT Trading will go live at 10:00 AM on Feb 3 (UTC).

​​DAOventures (DVG) will have a public sale on Polkastarter on February 18. A robo-advisor and automated money manager platform will offer $100K allocation of DVG tokens at $0.225 per token. The startup will enter the market on the same day with $430k initial circulating supply.

​​Top 20 most discussed cryptocurrencies on Twitter in January 2021. In the chart below you can find a share of mentions of each coin. Top 150 coins by market cap were analyzed.

​​Performance of the tokens that entered the market in 2021. Only tokens first time listed in 2021 were analyzed. Not all tokens are included.

​​Ethereum futures open interest shoots up nearly 40% overnight, hits a record total of $5.4 billion.

​​📈Market Overview

Bitcoin continues its upward movement. The price increased by +4.12%. At the moment, the price is above $38,000. The local peak, which was formed on January 29 after Elon Musk's tweet, is still $500 away.

According to Michelle, three coins from the Top-10 have updated ATH over the past day. Among them, Ethereum - $1690, Polkadot - $21.48, Chainlink - $25.93.

Market capitalization: $1.19T (+5.52%)
The BTC dominance: 59.64% (-1.31%)
Fear & Greed Index: 80 (Extreme Greed)

​​For the past few days, Grayscale investors added more Ethereum than Bitcoin.

Grayscale $ETH trust now holds $5 billion worth of Ethereum, 2.6% of the total supply.

​​The Latest Breaking News 📣

#1 Visa Partners with Black-Centered Bank for Crypto API Pilot - link

#2 China’s Central Bank Is Partnering With SWIFT on a New Joint Venture — link

#3 Saylor, MicroStrategy Offer Playbook for Corporate Bitcoin Adoption at Annual Summit — link

#4 PayPal is investing in a new business unit focused on crypto and digital currencies — link

#5 Retail interest soars as ‘Buy Crypto’ Google searches explode to new ATHs — link

#6 Tezos records highest number of contract calls in January with several dApps set to launch — link

​​FTX Listed Linear Finance

Linear Finance (LINA) is now available on FTX Exchange. Trading is opened for Spot and Futures markets.

​​Umbrella Network Partnered with YOP Finance

Umbrella Network, a community-owned Layer 2 Oracle solution for the DeFi market, partnered with YOP Finance, a yield-optimization platform & protocol.

​​Total Value Locked in DeFi Hit New ATH🚀

Total value locked across the spectrum of smart contracts, protocols and DApps built on Ethereum hit a new ATH of $32.10B.

Since the February of 2020 TVL in DeFi has surged by +3032%