Forbes and DFINITY will hold a virtual event.
Date: February 18, 16:00 UTC.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesinnovationteam/2021/01/20/trillion-dollar-opportunity-how-a-new-internet-will-completely-reimagine-your-business-model/

⚡️Bitcoin has broken $50,000, but is now trading below this level.

Bitcoin custody and trading services provider NYDIG has filed to create a bitcoin exchange-traded fund.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/95021/nydig-bitcoin-etf-sec-filing

Christie’s to Auction Ethereum NFT by Crypto Artist Beeple.
NFT marketplace MakersPlace has teamed up with Christie’s for the auction house’s first ever sale of a purely digital artwork.

https://www.christies.com/features/Monumental-collage-by-Beeple-is-first-purely-digital-artwork-NFT-to-come-to-auction-11510-7.aspx?sc_lang=en
https://decrypt.co/57869/christies-to-auction-ethereum-nft-by-crypto-artist-beeple

MicroStrategy Announces Proposed Private Offering of $600 Million of Convertible Senior Notes.

MicroStrategy intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the notes to acquire additional bitcoins.

https://www.microstrategy.com/en/investor-relations/press/microstrategy-announces-proposed-private-offering-of-600m-of-convertible-senior-notes

Oasis Labs partners with Google Cloud Platform to bring their confidential computing product, Confidential VMs, to Oasis Parcel.

https://medium.com/oasis-protocol-project/bringing-gcps-confidential-vms-to-oasis-parcel-95952df06937

ETH2 staking rewards are coming soon to Coinbase (up to 7.5% APR).

https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1361733385782259719?s=20

The Graph expands to Layer 2 Blockchains and adds Indexing and Querying Support for Polygon, formerly Matic Network.

https://polygontech.medium.com/the-graph-expands-to-layer-2-blockchains-and-brings-indexed-open-data-to-polygon-2bad0c5a3338

Ampleforth has announced that the next round of Geysers starts on February 22nd. There are four total Geysers: a continuation of the three existing Geysers and the introduction of an all new Geyser also on Balancer.

https://www.ampltalk.org/app/forum/announcements-22/topic/ampl-geyser-3-geysers-refreshes-and-1-new-geyser-announcement-371/

Origin is partnering with world-renowned musician, DJ, and producer 3LAU to launch his exclusive Ultraviolet Vinyl NFT Collection auction on Dshop.
Date: February 26, 3:00 UTC.

https://twitter.com/OriginProtocol/status/1361876393743839234?s=20

COSMOS Stargate Upgrade is scheduled for February 18, 6:00 UTC.

https://twitter.com/cosmos/status/1361807573280776206?s=20
https://stargate.cosmos.network/

🔥Bitcoin hits new all-time high of nearly $51,700

Coinbase, Readying for Public Listing, Gets $77B Valuation From Nasdaq Private Market

Last week’s settlement price of $303 per share would make Coinbase bigger than NYSE-owner ICE.

https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-valuation-nasdaq-private-market

HiFi (formerly Mainframe) launch into public beta of its fixed-rate lending protocol on Mainnet.

https://twitter.com/HifiFinance/status/1362085237333782528

Elrond has introduced The Elrond DeFi 2.0 Module.

https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-defi-module/

Sifchain token sale starts on February 19, 5:00 UTC.

Also, Sifchain will share the bounty with the community (percentages from the total supply): 1% to ATOM Holders, 1% to RUNE Holders, 2% to Sifchain KYC Applicants.

https://twitter.com/sifchain/status/1362176163272028161?s=20

Binance will list Frax Share (FXS) in the Innovation Zone and will open trading for FXS/BTC and FXS/BUSD trading pairs at 2021-02-18 9:00 AM (UTC).

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/c9bc5a0f776c417fa57fa613e24c1b7e

Binance has announced the 17th project on Binance Launchpool - DODO (DODO), an open, accessible, capital-efficient decentralized exchange platform.

Users will be able to stake their BNB, BETH and BUSD into separate pools to farm DODO tokens over 14 days, with farming starting from 2021-02-19 00:00 AM (UTC).

Binance will then list DODO into the innovation zone at 2021-02-19 10:00 AM (UTC) and open trading with DODO/BTC, DODO/BUSD and DODO/USDT trading pairs.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/020710be61de4e259b1420c59b790c2d

Fractal Community Sale on Polkastarter starts on February 25.
The Whitelist Lottery is open and will close on February 19.

https://medium.com/frctls/fractal-whitelist-lottery-announcement-6b15a5ab1550

Robinhood, the trading app popular with young investors, intends to give customers the ability to deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies, including the meme-based dogecoin.

https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currency-robinhood-idUSL4N2KN3RT

PlotX is going on L2.

PlotX prediction markets have added support for Polygon (previously Matic).

https://t.me/plotx_ann/182