Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 spec v0.10.0 has been released.

In a recent Eth2.0 Implementation Call 31, Ethereum's lead developers agreed on a switch between Ethereum (ETH) 1.0 and Ethereum (ETH) 2.0. Initially, this issue had not been on the agenda but the discussion started towards the end of the call.

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According to Binance Research the number of monthly users is tiny at just 40,000, 90% of which are using decentralized exchanges.

Year to date the total value in USD locked in DeFi has increased by almost 200% according to defipulse. It is currently around $660 million after hitting an all-time high of $710 million on Wednesday.

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Binance has cooperated with Satang Corporation, a regulated digital asset exchange in Thailand, to open a Thai Baht fiat channel on Binance. Binance users can now buy crypto directly using Thai Baht (THB) through bank transfers.

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Blockchain software development firm Block.One released EOS.io 2.0, the software underlying the EOS blockchain.

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The high-throughput public blockchain platform, Zilliqa has made transactions with its native cryptocurrency, ZIL, private and anonymous under a new partnership.

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Per the report, the 7-day average daily trading volume has seen a 126% increase in a week at the start of 2020, with almost $1.5 billion traded just on January 8.

The market recovered sharply from the disappointing $192 million that were traded on Jan. 1.

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A United States District Judge has ruled that a previous sanction ordering Craig Wright to give up half of his Bitcoins to the estate of Dave Kleiman will not stand.

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Chicago exchange CME Group has announced its highly anticipated bitcoin options are now open for trading.

Options on CME's bitcoin futures contracts launched on the CME Globex around 15:00 UTC Monday. Each contract, quoted in U.S. dollars, represents five bitcoin and is cleared centrally to avoid counterparty risk.

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OneGold, an online marketplace for buying, selling and redeeming precious metals, announced a partnership with BitPay on January 13 that will allow crypto users to purchase gold and other valuable metals on Android and iOS devices.

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In 2019, OKEx’s OKB token appears to have outperformed all other tokens, as CryptoCompare data shows it went up a total of 317.9% last year. OKB was followed by Huobi’s HT token, which rose 170.8% last year. Binance’s BNB token, one of the most popular exchange tokens, went up 121.4% in said period, coming. KuCoin’s KCS rose 73.9%.

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Bitcoin futures open interest (OI) started the first four trading days with 5.4K contracts on January 7, up 69% from year-end OI.

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Tether continues to dominate the stablecoin market with almost 85% share.

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Cryptomarket is green. Bitcoin is now trading at $8660.

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WINk and BTT are the first two assets we’re bringing to Poloniex (Poloni DEX). In mid-February, exchange will be listing BTT followed by WINk.

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SEC posts statement on IEOs, warning investors to watch out for unregistered securities and exchanges.

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OKEx adds euro trading market for native OKB token.

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Binance will now allow users to bind their Visa cards and purchase BTC, ETH, BNB and XRP with Turkish Lira (TRY).

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DREP has won the Binance Community Vote and will be listed on Binance.

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OKB will be listed on CoinBene with OKB/USDT and 5 times Margin trading support, starting from 16 January 2020.

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NuCypher will launch its incentivized testnet on January 20. As part of “Come and Stake It” activity NuCypher will reward stakers with 1% of initial NU tokens with 6 month lockup period.

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According to the data, more than $25 billion worth of contracts changed hands on January 14.

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