According to the encrypted fashion brand RTFKT announced on social media, RTFKT&Clones has joined Nike’s latest Web3 ecosystem platform “.Swoosh”.

Clone X holders can now obtain a unique code through the RTFKT official website to apply for their own “.Swoosh ID”.

Each Clone X holder/wallet is eligible for 1 code, currently wallet snapshot completed on 2/3/2023 at 9:10AM ET.

India hopes to roll out a CBDC nationwide by the end of 2023, according to people familiar with the matter. Last year, India has launched two CBDC pilot projects, one is the CBDC-W that started on November 1 last year, with the participation of 9 banks, and the other is the CBDC-R that started on December 1 last year, which was piloted in 4 cities. 4 banks participated.

While CBDC-W is limited to financial institutions and aims to improve the efficiency of interbank payments, CBDC-R is suitable for the private sector and citizens of India. While the government has told parliament that India will issue a CBDC-R within the 2022-23 financial year, it is not yet known when it will be implemented.

MicroStrategy co-founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor said the firm may at some point consider foraying into CME Group’s bitcoin futures contracts to generate income.

Saylor said that in the past, MicroStrategy considered, but ultimately decided not to lend Bitcoin through other companies; “In the future, we will always consider forward rates, and we may find a way to generate income in this way.” Saylor also said that he does not intend to separate MicroStrategy’s enterprise software and bitcoin businesses because the two are integrated.

According to the news on February 3, MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin impairment charges in the fourth quarter of 2022 amounted to US$197.6 million. As of the end of 2022, MicroStrategy’s total bitcoin holdings have increased to 132,500, worth $1.8 billion; the company’s cumulative impairment losses on bitcoin holdings have reached $2.2 billion.

The Ethereum zhejiang test network activated the Shanghai upgrade at 15:00 UTC epoch 1350, successfully simulating the withdrawal of pledged ETH for the first time.

Barnabas Busa, a DevOps engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, said both partial and full withdrawals, as well as BLS changes, were included in the execution load.

The next testnet upgrade will be in Sepolia sometime next week, followed by the Goerli testnet.

A U.S. judge rejected part of FTX founder SBF’s request to amend bail conditions, with a hearing still scheduled for Feb. 9, court documents show.

On Monday, SBF’s legal team and prosecutors reached an agreement to amend SBF’s bail conditions regarding electronic communications.

SBF is allowed to use various messaging apps, including FaceTime, Zoom, iMessage, SMS, Email, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp (for WhatsApp, SBF’s phone must have monitoring software installed), but SBF will not be allowed to use encrypted messaging apps while on bail , such as Signal et al.

The Australian government says it is working to ensure regulation of crypto assets protects consumers and positions the economy to take advantage of new digital products and services. To achieve these goals, the Australian government has stated that it plans to reform the licensing and custody of crypto assets.

The government said it would place particular emphasis on cryptocurrencies that are not currently part of the financial services regulatory framework. The government led by Anthony Norman Albanese said it also intends to hold crypto asset service providers to what it calls a set of obligations and operating standards. The statement added that such standards are designed to protect customers’ digital funds.

Regarding the design of the regulatory and licensing framework, the Australian government said it would begin a public consultation process in mid-2023 to allow for adequate consultation before introducing legislation.

The NBA Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo NFT on the ethereum fantasy basketball game Sorare NBA was sold for approximately 113.9 ETH (approximately $187,000).

The transaction price set a new record for the transaction price of a Sorare NBA series single product, broke the record for the highest transaction price on the Giannis Antetokounmpo NFT chain, and was higher than the $95,000 transaction price of the star’s NFT on NBA Top Shot in February 2021.

Over the past week, the top SHIB whales on Ethereum have amassed approximately $128 million worth of Shiba Inu (SHIB), making it the number one non-ETH asset on the Ethereum whale holdings list.

According to WhaleStats data, since February 1, the top 100 Ethereum investors have increased their holdings of a large number of SHIBs. The value of their holdings has jumped from about US$599 million to about US$729 million, and the number of SHIBs has increased by 8749145591250.

This accounts for 18.5% of their portfolio, ranking second behind Ethereum, followed by stablecoins USDT (17.42%) and USDC (14.21%).

As a result, SHIB is now the most-held crypto asset (in USD equivalent terms) in these wallets after Ethereum. It is also currently the most traded coin by top whales on Ethereum.

The blockchain analysis company Messari released the “Polkadot Status Report for the Fourth Quarter of 2022”. The data shows that the daily activity and new users of the Polkadot relay chain increased by 64% and 49% respectively in the fourth quarter due to users staying away from the FTX Polkadot relay chain. A decrease of 31%, a year-on-year decrease of 83%.

Additionally, XCM has seen more than 166,000 transfers across 70 channels since its launch in May, and the next iteration, XCM V3, will introduce seamless encrypted asset transfers, enhanced cross-chain interoperability, NFT support, and connectivity with external networks. bridging.

So far, Polkadot parachain slots have won 35 slots, with a total of 133 million DOTs bound (accounting for 10.5% of the total supply).

Polkadot’s next iteration, OpenGov, is already running on Kusama and is expected to run on Polkadot in the near future.

According to data from the sports NFT platform Sorare, the NFT star card of NBA Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo was sold at a price of 113.888 ETH, or about $186,000.

Set the highest transaction record so far on the Sorare NBA platform. According to data from Cryptoslam, the current total transaction volume of the Sorare platform has reached 544 million US dollars, with a total of approximately 6,107,010 transactions.

Two days after the social software Damus was launched, it was removed from the AppStore. In the evening of the same day, the British luxury mobile phone brand VERTU sent an invitation to Damus on Twitter.

Damus is a decentralized social software based on the NOSTR protocol. After its launch on February 1, Damus quickly ranked among the top ten free social apps in the US App Store. On February 3, Damus was removed from the AppStore, causing heated discussions.

VERTU responded and sent an invitation to Damus on Twitter. It is reported that VERTU released a Web3 mobile phone called “METAVERTU” in October 2022, which is equipped with the Metaspace dual system of Android and Web3.

Its Metaspace operating system is built for the decentralized application software DAPP of the Web3.0 ecosystem, and is committed to returning digital sovereignty to users and project parties. VERTU said that Metaspace is currently actively inviting and developing excellent project parties in the Web3 field.

The security company Fairyproof issued a risk warning that the Nostr token on the Ethereum chain was suspected to be created unofficially.

Nostr token address 0xA2be922174605BAd450775C76CEb632369480336. The deployer of Nostr (0xC013Ef7bE164aAcD503A3FEe686f9aBE7988425c) appears to be a serial token deployment. (0xC013Ef7bE164aAcD503A3FEe686f9aBE7988425c) was funded by 0xad2Dc2a4f3287783b220DbDcC7AfB7F6EB0704b8.

0xad2Dc2a4f3287783b220DbDcC7AfB7F6EB0704b8 once deployed Damus tokens 3 days ago and airdropped them to other addresses on eth. After a while, Damus withdrew its liquidity and seemed to run away.

The Ω (Ω) token deployed 7 days ago also ran away using similar methods. Before tracking the addresses associated with these token deployers, similar methods were used to conduct suspected fraud.

Nostr’s contract code also has some security risks. The contract administrator can prevent users from selling tokens on the specified uniswap trading pair. Users can also be blacklisted, and other user tokens can be destroyed at will.

FTX bankruptcy judge John Dorsey will consider whether to authorize an independent investigation of FTX. The U.S. Department of Justice’s bankruptcy watchdog previously urged John Dorsey to appoint an independent investigator, but FTX said the examiner would only duplicate work already done by FTX, creditors and law enforcement agencies and increase costs.

FTX’s committee of creditors has sided with FTX, saying the proposed investigation is redundant. State securities regulators in Texas, Vermont and Wisconsin backed the Justice Department’s proposal, saying a neutral report would benefit creditors and clients.

Luxury goods giant Louis Vuitton and the 93-year-old Japanese pioneer artist Yayoi Kusama will issue 10,000 joint NFTs to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the brand’s birth. The relevant NFTs will be listed on OpenSea, and holders can exchange these NFTs for physical goods.

According to experts’ forecasts, based on the previous cost of NFTs from other luxury goods companies, the casting price of each NFT jointly signed by Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama will be about 4ETH.

The Ethereum expansion project Scroll released this week’s update, including: building and preparing the system for later deployment on the Goerli testnet.

Improve v2 bridge and ZK architecture, reduce prover memory requirement from 870GB to 275GB.

Introduce more infrastructure for developers, and will soon introduce TheGraph support. Deploy Uniswap V3 to the Scroll testnet. Advance account abstraction.

Shiba inu extended its recent gains into the weekend, rising to a four-month high. Shiba inu (SHIB) was one of the market’s biggest gainers for the second straight session, rising 13 percent on Saturday.

SHIB/USD rose to a high of $0.00001457 on Saturday, the highest since October 29. The market fluctuates greatly, please do a good job in risk control.

The Arbitrum ecological stablecoin project SperaxUSD released a report saying that an attacker increased the Token balance of his address to 9.7 billion without providing the corresponding collateral, and was able to liquidate about $300,000.

The Sperax team stated that it has identified the attacker’s account on CEX and is contacting the attacker to discuss a solution.

Currently all stablecoin USDs transactions and smart contracts have been suspended, and the vulnerability will be resolved by upgrading the smart contract next week. The liquidated amount will be recapitalized by the Sperax team prior to restarting the protocol.

According to encryption KOL @Cirrus disclosed on social media, Bored Ape Yacht Club has deleted all the high scores on the DooKey Dash leaderboard, because one of the top Dookeers Sewer Pass wallet holders was found to be cheating.

It is reported that the address of the wallet is “0x397733A537996281aACc73246D190b05753BF8fA”, and the pseudonym is “The_Real_E_M”. He has four of the top ten high scores, and his highest game score is 950687 points.

After the score was removed, pro Mongraal’s score of 928,522 returned to the top score for the DooKey Dash game.

Previously, Yuga Labs co-founder Greg Solano issued a reminder that cheating will be marked for review, and players’ scores may be reduced to zero after review.

Bitcoin’s 65th wallet address moved 13,369 BTC, or about $311 million, on Friday. Another Ethereum whale transferred 186,009 ETH, or about $309 million.

A few hours later, Whale Alert tracked another bitcoin whale transferring 5,278 BTC, worth about $123 million, from cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io to an unknown wallet.

Mark Yusko, founder and CEO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, told Cointelegraph that the next cryptocurrency bull market will start earlier than most people think. The start of the second quarter is due to more dovish central bank policies and expectations for the Bitcoin halving.

Yusko said that although the Fed is unlikely to cut interest rates soon, the market tends to anticipate the Fed’s decision, which means that even a slowdown or pause in rate hikes will be interpreted as an upcoming turning signal, which will stimulate interest rates, including those of cryptocurrencies. All risk assets in the index triggered positive moves.