eToro has noted a huge spike in the open positions of Bitcoin and gold trades, hinting that Iran could be the culprit.

https://bit.ly/36cyrtg

Main News

1. Venezuela to get crypto-run casino, according to Maduro. link

2. Binance will list TokenClub (TCT)(+29.24%) and open trading for TCT/BNB, TCT/BTC and TCT/USDT trading pairs at 2020/01/21 2:00 PM (UTC). link

3. Telegram CEO's 18-Hour Deposition Transcript Is Published Online. link

4. Tezos Aims To Jump On DeFi Bandwagon Via StakerDAO. link

5. Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex introduces a new feature that allows its customers to manage up to 100 "sub-accounts" under one "master account". link

6. Deloitte’s EMEA blockchain lab says it has delivered the world’s first-ever enterprise blockchain solution for certificate authentication in partnership with DNV GL. link

7. South Korea Considering Taxing Crypto as 'Other Income'. link

https://cryptorank.io/news

#crypto market recap - week 3 t.me/unfolded

EOS is still not fit to host dApps as it remains in congestion mode. It can wave bye bye to being the Ethereum killer.

https://bit.ly/2G7n2Aw

EOS daily active users have fallen 80%

https://bitcoinist.com/eos-suffers-huge-dapp-user-drop-out/

Vodafone Becomes 8th Company to Exit Libra Association
https://news.bitcoin.com/vodafone-becomes-8th-company-to-exit-libra-association/

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BNC launches Bitcoin ‘Twitter Sentiment’ data

Total Value Locked (USD) in DeFi Hits an All-Time-High

Decentralized Finance DeFi protocols have been gaining popularity with the high returns they give for the users who lock their cryptocurrencies on them.

The Total Value Locked(TVL) reached $815M, and there's almost no question that it will reach 1 billion soon.🚀

According to Bloxy data, the Uniswap exchange has been especially popular recently. In this post, we wrote about the interest that you could get by locking the funds in DeFi protocols. Uniswap's interest rate was one of the highest in 2019.

The traditional synthetics & derivatives market is $640T, imagine if 1% of that will be built with ETH as bandwidth. It's $6.4T. The potential is enormous.🔥

The most successful project in the Defi sector last year was Synthetix Network Token. On CryptoRank, we have created the DeFi category to track such projects easily.

@CryptoRankNews

$97,000,000,000 in Bitcoin (BTC) Has Not Moved in 365 Days

✔10.7 million Bitcoin worth over $97 billion have remained stagnant over the last year.

✔That number represents roughly 60% of the 18.1 million Bitcoin in circulation.

✔It’s the highest level of untouched Bitcoin since the end of 2017, when the entire crypto market surged in a major bull run.

✔21.6% of all Bitcoin, nearly 3.9 million BTC, have remained inactive over the last five years.

#BitcoinFact

Interesting numbers on MakerDAO and the rest of the lending protocols

https://ournetwork.substack.com/p/our-network-issue-5

This actually pretty big news. The idea isn't that much of an original one, but the fact that it's backed by Tether, the seemingly teflon covered stable coin that's deflected all attempts on its life in the last few years and the fact it will will be traded on Bitfinex, at least at face value, makes this the best option for crypto traders looking to get exposure to a physical asset like gold.

The fact you can now trade a volitile crypto assest like BTC, into a stable synthetic USD and/or a less volitile (yet still gainable) synthetic Gold asset, with significant liquidity, is actually a massive leap forward in this space.

Tether Gold will be available both as an ERC-20 token and a TRC-20 token.

"The XAU₮ token will represent ownership of one troy fine ounce of physical gold on a specific London Good Delivery gold bar. The company claims the token is the only gold-backed coin that guarantees direct control over the physical gold storage. All XAU₮ tokens will be stored in a vault in Switzerland, guarded with best in class security and anti-threat measures, it said in the announcement."

...there's a Peter Schiff joke somewhere in this for sure...

https://cryptoslate.com/tether-announces-the-launch-of-tether-gold-a-gold-backed-cryptocurrency/

MakerDAO Executive Vote Today:

- Set the DSR to 7.75% 🔥
- Raise the Dai Stability Fee from 6% to 8% 🤔
- Lower the Sai Debt Ceiling by 25 million to 45 million Sai 🤔
- Raise the Dai ETH Debt Ceiling by 25 million to 125 million Dai 🎉