​​Terraform Labs has introduced its investment arm, Terraform Capital. The fund focused on Terra ecosystem will initially be seeded with $10 million. To be considered, projects must incorporate Terra assets, LUNA, TerraUSD, mAssets, or any of Terra’s other interchain stablecoins.

​​Yearn Finance's (YFI) DAI v1 vault got exploited. $2.8M drained. According the recent tweet from Yearn developer “the vault lost $11M. Deposits into strategies disabled for v1 DAI, TUSD, USDC, USDT vaults while we investigate”.

​​Top 20 most discussed new coins on Twitter in January 2021. In the chart below you can find a share of mentions of each coin. Only coins first time listed in 2020-2021 were analyzed.

​​Ethereum breaks $1,700 less than a week after passing $1.5k. Ethereum transaction fee has skyrocketed as well.

​​Tether has frozen 1.7M USDt that has been stolen as part of the hack of Yearn DAI v1 vault. Tether can freeze and reverse transactions for USDT issued on the Ethereum and TRON blockchains. Tether has recently reversed several failed DeFi transactions and frozen stolen funds from KuCoin.

​​Covalent partners with Injective to bring index-querying solution to DeFi layer-2 exchange. Injective Protocol will have access to real-time blockchain data through the enterprise-grade Covalent API while traders will be able to export their trading data with full historical context.

​​ZeroSwap will enable ZEE on Binance Smart Chain through ERC20/BEP20 bridge. As a first step ZeroSwap will launch ZEE-BNB Pool on PanCakeSwap. Users will benefit from extremely cheap transaction fees on BSC that reach as low as 1 cent.

​​Frontier will integrate DODO's crowdpooling platform, exchange, and DODO staking in its DeFi interface. According to the recent blog post this partnership will enable the existing Frontier user-base to explore DODO's product offering while DODO users will be able to track/manage their positions on Frontier.

​​EasyFi parters with StaFi to introduce staked derivative assets money Markets on Layer 2 DeFi. EasyFi will offer “Derivative Asset Lending” with StaFi's rTokens as lending collaterals and will list StaFi’s rTokens on the supply markets of Protocol V1.

​​0x Labs has closed $15M private fundraising round. Pantera Capital, Jump Capital, Blockchain Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and others are among investors.
0x protocol has launched its own DEX aggregator Matcha back in June 2020. According to the recent blog post Matcha will not have its own token as the protocol already has ZRX.

​​Umbrella Network (UMB) will have another token sale on Bounce Certified on Feb 9th. Umbrella will auction off 400 NFTs. Each NFT holder will be airdropped 5k UMB tokens after the lottery. The auction winners will get Umbrella NFTs & UMB tokens. Earlier ​​it was announced that Umbrella Network will have a token sale via Polkastarter on the same date.

​​Web traffic to crypto exchanges sets a new record in January 2021. According to the data from SimilarWeb in January in average web traffic to cryptocurrency exchanges has increased by 60%. Web traffic to Binance in January was higher than the whole crypto market web traffic in June 2020.

​​DAO Maker (DAO) will have a primary listing on KuCoin on February 9. DAO/USDT trading pair will go live at 9:00 AM (UTC). DAO Maker is building a fundraising platform and offering a set of growth tools for startups.

​​Seascape Network (CWS) will get listed on BitMax on February 8. CWS/USDT trading pair will go live at 9:00 a.m. EST. CWS current circulating supply is 528k out of 10M total supply. There are 1.7k CWS token holders.

​​KuCoin lists Quant (QNT) Basic Attention Token (BAT) and Dogecoin (DOGE). QNT/USDT and BAT/USDT trading pairs are already live. DOGE/USDT and DOGE/USDC trading will go live on Feb 9.

​​Binance has released results of SafePal (SFP) proportional sale. Users had only 4 hours to subscribe for this sale. 47,286 accounts have participated in the sale. Users that committed 50 BNB received an allocation of 245 SFP ($25) and will have 0.35 BNB deducted. Binance will list SFP at 1:00 PM on Feb 8 (UTC) and open trading for SFP/BTC, SFP/BUSD and SFP/USDT trading pairs.

​​Tesla bought $1.5 billion in Bitcoin according to new SEC filling. The company expects to begin accepting it as a form of payment. "Moreover, we expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt."

​​Following the recent Tesla news ​​Bitcoin hits new all time high of $43,337 on Monday, February 8th. BTC is currently trading around $42k level.

​​Bella Protocol has launched Flex Savings v2 today and started liquidity mining program. A total of 500k BEL ($1.3M) were allocated to bootstrap liquidity during 8 weeks period. These tokens will be distributed to users who stake bTokens with Bella Farm. The first batch of supported pools including bUSDT, bUSDC, bARPA.

​​Public Mint has closed $2.5M strategic investment round. Black Edge Capital, Spark Digital, AU21 Capital, Woodstock, Genesis Block Ventures and Kenetic Capital are among investors.
Public Mint bridges traditional fiat and crypto, offering a complete platform for synthetic fiat, which is fully collateralized, regulated and FDIC insured.