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⚡️ Thai SEC tells Bitkub crypto exchange to improve platform after trading outages. The regulator ordered the Bitkub exchange to close and fix issues that caused several outages as prices spiked this month.

⚡️ Tether produces more than 2.5 Million documents to NYAG. Tether and Bitfinex have produced millions of documents but claim they need more time to produce additional papers.

⚡️ Players from the Dutch Eredivisie league are getting tokenized on Ethereum. The players will be available as NFTs on the fantasy soccer game Sorare.

⚡️ Pornhub has added support for more cryptocurrencies, including XRP and BNB. In total, the company now supports about sixteen digital currencies.

⚡️ Crypto market maker Wintermute raises $20 million from Pantera Capital and Fidelity's Avon.
⚡️ Kraken adds 26 new crypto trading pairs to capture growing UK and Australia Markets. Kraken's biggest ever expansion of trading pairs is aimed to grow its presence in the two promising markets.

⚡️ Top Russian bank Sberbank plans to launch its stablecoin by spring 2021. Sberbank has applied with the Central Bank of Russia to launch a blockchain platform for its Sbercoin stablecoin.

⚡️ Grayscale has accumulated 32,710 BTC in 1 week and 8,762 Bitcoin in 24 hours. The accumulation is happening alongside a Bitcoin correction to the lower $30k levels.

⚡️ Silvergate took nearly $3B in deposits from Digital Currency Customers in Q4 2020. Most of the new deposits came from cryptocurrency exchange clients.

⚡️ Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager with $7.81 trillion under management, is getting into bitcoin.

⚡️ Bitcoin's biggest mining pool may be behind BTC price drop, but buyers stepped in.
⚡️ VanEck is making another attempt to launch a digital asset-related exchange-traded fund. The firm has filed with the SEC to launch the Digital Assets ETF related to the performance of top cryptocurrency companies.

⚡️ Hut8 borrows $12M from DCG’s Foundry to order new bitcoin miners. The Canada-listed firm is using the loans to order 5,400 units of MicroBT's WhatsMiner M30S model.

⚡️ Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital asset manager looks to be preparing for possible launches of new single-asset trusts for a number of cryptocurrencies.

⚡️ The Mayor of Miami is building out his cryptocurrency team. He has been open to cryptocurrencies and aims to make Miami the most competitive crypto city in the world.

⚡️ Finlaw Associates to submit draft cryptocurrency regulation to Indian Government as community demands for clarity.
⚡️ Microsoft, India’s Tanla Launch Encrypted Messaging Infrastructure Built With Blockchain

⚡️ Institutions and "whales" have continued their bitcoin purchases, on-chain data shows.

⚡️ Another Pro-Crypto Appointment in the Biden Administration. Chris Brummer – author of a volume on crypto assets and frequent speaker on digital currencies – will chair the CFTC.

⚡️ Ethereum whales holding 10k or more ETH increased in number by 32 in 30 days. The total number of addresses in this category has also reached a 13-month high. ETH balances on exchanges continue to drop and are at a 13-month low.

⚡️ Bitstamp introduces KYC regulations for its Netherland users. Bitstamp's users in the Netherlands will now be required to present photographic ID to withdraw their crypto funds to external wallets.

⚡️ Coinbase announces to launch a secondary market for its private stock. The secondary market for its private stock will launch on Nasdaq Private Market.
⚡️ BSP tightens rules on cryptoassets to guard against money laundering.

⚡️ Coinbase Custody to support Dvision Network. Blockchain platform Dvision Network has revealed that digital asset custodian platform Coinbase Custody will be providing a cold-storage solution for its native token DVI.

⚡️ Secure Messaging App Signal reportedly toying with crypto payments. Staff at the firm are said to be worried the addition would bring bad actors and unwanted regulatory attention.

⚡️ DeFi Exchange Startup dYdX raises $10 Million in Series B. Three Arrows Capital and DeFiance Capital led the round.

⚡️ Bitmain Co-Founder exits, resolving years-long power struggle as mining firm prepares IPO. Jihan Wu is stepping down from his role as part of a settlement.

⚡️ Genesis clocked in $8 billion in spot volumes, originated $7.6 billion in loans during Q4.
⚡️ Pomp launches crypto jobs board with Gemini, Coinbase and BlockFi. Morgan Creek’s Anthony Pompliano aims to list 10,000 openings by the end of the year.

⚡️ The central bank of the Philippines recently announced new crypto regulations. The bank will now offer licenses to crypto businesses involved in trading and custody.

⚡️ Melvin Capital takes huge loss on GameStop position. The fund has finally exited its GameStop short position, taking heavy losses. But it hasn't gone bankrupt.

⚡️ DeFi market registers 160% growth over last month. UNI leads along with AAVE, MKR and SUSHI.

⚡️ South African Regulator seeks more crypto powers after alleged ponzi schemer’s collapse. VYSYN
⚡️ Dogecoin becomes most mentioned crypto on Twitter ever as price soars. Tweet volume for the shiba inu-themed cryptocurrency surpassed previous records for Bitcoin.

⚡️ Philippines central bank has issued new guidelines for the digital currency industry based on the Financial Action Task Force guidelines.

⚡️ MicroStrategy won’t stop at 70,784 BTC. The firm is planning to hold more Bitcoin. The CEO said they are exploring more ways to buy BTC.

⚡️ Bitcoin developer Jonas Schnelli receives a $96,000 grant from Marathon Patent Group.

⚡️ Bitcoin shoots to $38K on boost from Tesla's Elon Musk. VYSYN
⚡️ Robinhood users are still limited to one GameStop share. As the U.S. SEC looks into how Robinhood has handled GameStop trading, the platform has narrowed its list of restricted stocks.

⚡️ Bitcoin miners generated over $1.09 billion revenue in January alone. Meanwhile, there has been a slight drop in the network’s Hashrate after the ATH on January 17th.

⚡️ Swiss regulator FINMA has awarded a securities house license to Crypto Broker AG. This will enable the brokerage company to better serve institutional clients in crypto.

⚡️ Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk has said that bitcoin is a "good thing" and that it is set to get mainstream attention from traditional finance people.

⚡️ Crypto exchange Kraken announced Monday that it will run its own Chainlink node to provide spot price data to decentralized finance applications and others. VYSYN
⚡️ Brave browser active user base doubled in 2020, hits 25M per month. The privacy-centric browser allows users to opt out of the surveillance economy, said Brave CEO Brendan Eich.

⚡️ Bitwise files for approval to publicly trade its Bitcoin Fund. The fund aims to compete with Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust and others by offering a 50 basis point lower expense ratio.

⚡️ Ethereum has just posted a new all-time high of $1,500. At the same time, the value of ETH staked on ETH 2.0 hits $4.3 Billion. This could be the beginning of more gains.

⚡️ Yearn Finance votes to inflate YFI Token supply by 20%. The vote to mint an additional 6,666 YFI in order to fund future development on the Yearn protocol has passed.

⚡️ Mark Cuban talks Bitcoin HODLers and blockchain stocks in recent AMA. Stocks will be on the blockchain in the future, predicted the billionaire. VYSYN
⚡️ WallStreetBets and The Power of DeFi. Crypto and DeFi, are a social and monetary paradigm change, fueled by the advance of technology.

⚡️ P2P trading to spike in Nigeria following crypto ban. Following the Central Bank of Nigeria’s ban on banks from processing cryptocurrencies, P2P trading activities increased immensely.

⚡️ Snoop Dogg and Gene Simmons join Elon's Musk's Dogecoin army. DOGE is rallying once again after Elon Musk, Snoop Dogg, and Gene Simmons tweet Doge Army memes.

⚡️ MicroStrategy held a conference to share their Bitcoin playbook with other global companies. The event attracted 8,197 attendees from 6,917 enterprises.

⚡️ Mexico’s third wealthiest man just changed his Twitter Bio to Bitcoin. Ricardo Salinas Pliego is falling deeper into the Bitcoin rabbit hole. VYSYN
⚡️ Stone Ridge CEO says our reserves are now in Bitcoin. Our liquid reserves are in bitcoin the CEO said while talking to Michael Saylor during MicroStrategy’s bitcoin conference.

⚡️ ConsenSys introduces major AirSwap upgrades. The peer-to-peer trading system has introduced new technical upgrades, including staking options on Codefi Activate.

⚡️ Dogecoin search volume on Baidu has increased to 10x the levels witnessed in 2017. The high search volume is associated with Elon Musk being popular in China.

⚡️ Virtual Property sells for $1.5M in Ether, smashing NFT record. The eye-popping 888 ETH virtual land sale is said to mark the largest NFT transaction of all time.

⚡️ Matic rebrands as Polygon to take on Polkadot Network. Polygon has set its sights on the Polkadot market as part of its new strategy. VYSYN
⚡️ Crypto lender Nexo is partnering with Ledger, a crypto wallet provider. Nexo says Ledger’s Vault product will shore up security for existing systems. It’s a new infrastructure addition for Nexo with $4B AUM.

⚡️ SCB 10X, the venture capital unit of Thailand's oldest Siam Commercial Bank, has launched a new $50 million fund to invest in blockchain and decentralized finance startups.

⚡️ Grayscale, the digital assets management firm, announced that the total value of its cryptocurrency assets under management had reached $36.5 billion.

⚡️ Exeedme has announced that it is entering into a strategic partnership with Elrond to accept eGold by facilitating Maiar payments.

⚡️ BNB hits $148. CZ says Binance Smart Chain has flipped Ethereum on daily transactions. VYSYN
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⚡️ Mastercard will start supporting cryptocurrencies directly on its network. Customers, merchants, and businesses will no longer need to convert cryptocurrencies into fiat currencies to transfer through the Mastercard network.

⚡️ Amazon to launch cryptocurrency payments product in emerging countries. The e-commerce giant has already begun assembling a team to lead the initiative in Mexico.

⚡️ BNY Mellon announces crypto custody and spies integrated services. The world’s biggest custodian bank beats rivals JPMorgan and Citi to the punch.

⚡️ Seoul court orders Bithumb to refund victims of a withdrawal accident in 2018. The court says the victims should be paid $996,332 for their loss.

⚡️ Binance Smart Chain has grown at a rapid pace since its launch last year. A total of $4.325 Billion is now locked on the Binance Smart Chain. VYSYN
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep, because of #Blockchain and #Crypto. 🤑

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⚡️ CREAM Finance, one of the more popular projects in the field of Decentralized Finance, has been exploited. The price for its CREAM token has dropped by 30% in less than a few minutes after the news broke out.

⚡️ German-based Deutsche Bank is working on a crypto asset custody and trading platform. The bank intends to launch the platform in four stages.

⚡️ Miami passes a resolution that will allow Bitcoin payments in the city. Miami is also considering paying its employees through BTC.

⚡️ Twitter Stock jumps 20% following reports the company is weighing the possibility of adding BTC. The company’s stock surged to a new 52-week high of $73.18.

⚡️ WallStreetBets Reddit Spinoff is launching its own cryptocurrency. SatoshiSwap tokens will go to subreddit members whose posts get upvoted. VYSYN
⚡️ Why Several Cryptos Are Reaching New ATH Levels? In this VYSYN Ventures Newsletter, we will be taking a closer look at some of the cryptocurrencies that have achieved significant price movements.

⚡️ SEC's Crypto Mom demands clear rules for the industry. A well-defined crypto regulatory regime is urgently needed as major companies embrace the alternative asset class.

⚡️ Coinbase Ventures, Paradigm invest $12M in Synthetix DeFi Platform. Three prominent venture capitalist firms bought tokens directly from the DAO's treasury.

⚡️ Morgan Stanley’s $150 billion arm contemplates Bitcoin investment. In January, Morgan Stanley boosted stake in MicroStrategy to 10.9%.

⚡️ Andrew Yang has big plans for Bitcoin. He pledges to make New York Hub for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency. VYSYN
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⚡️ Umbria Network, a decentralized finance platform on the Ethereum blockchain is proud to announce that it will be deploying its suite of applications on Polygon.

⚡️ Hong Kong proposal to ban retail crypto traders sees backlash. Hong Kong's new crypto regulatory framework is being critiqued by industry experts.

⚡️ Uniswap becomes first DEX to hit $100 Billion Volume. DeFi has come a long way, with Uniswap hitting $20 billion in volume last month alone.

⚡️ MicroStrategy is building its first Bitcoin software product, focused on providing “advanced metrics and insights” for Bitcoin.

⚡️ CoinShares CSO reports institutional FOMO for Ethereum, $175,000,000 Entering ETH-related products in just one week. VYSYN