Top News:
1. $2 billion worth of dormant bitcoins were activated a few days after the launch of the spot bitcoin ETF trading.
2.AltLayer announces airdrop standards and token economics;
3. Vitalik: If you want to be considered as L2, you need to have stronger security attributes than multi-signature.
4. Bitcoin's total network computing power has decreased by about 25% due to power outages caused by the cold wave in the United States.
5. dYdX's 24-hour trading volume has surpassed Uniswap, ranking first on the leaderboard.
PudgyPenguins floor price reaches 16.99 ETH, up more than 54% in 7 days
On January 18th, according to Blur data, the floor price of NFT project PudgyPenguins reached 16.99 ETH, setting a new historical high. The 24-hour increase was 15.58%, and the 7-day increase was as high as 54.78%.
MAV surges to touch $0.7, hitting a new all-time high
On January 17th, according to market data information, MAV rose to touch 0.7 US dollars, reaching a new historical high.
A whale withdrew 116.61 WBTC and 2933 ETH from Uniswap and sold them all
On January 18th, according to @ai_9684xtpa, three hours ago, a whale withdrew market funds of 116.61 WBTC and 2933 ETH (worth $12.44 million) from Uniswap and then transferred them to address 0x67b...F53a4 and sold them all. Previously, the whale had withdrawn and sold a total of 230.85 WBTC and 14,414 ETH, worth $46.43 million.
On January 18th, less than a week after the approval of a Bitcoin ETF in the United States, nearly 50,000 long-dormant Bitcoins were reactivated. According to Arkham's report, these Bitcoins were last moved in 2019 and 2013, and had been dormant for 11 years. The Bitcoins were originally stored in 49 addresses and have now been consolidated into 5 addresses, totaling approximately 49,858 Bitcoins, worth about $2.12 billion. Arkham wrote on social media platform X: "Before the opening of the US market today, $2 billion worth of dormant Bitcoins moved between several associated addresses. Historically, these Bitcoins always moved at the same time and date." (The Block)
Two new addresses accumulated over 18,700 ETH worth $47.87 million from Coinbase today
On January 17th, according to @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, in the past 16 hours, two new addresses have accumulated 18,786 ETH worth $47.87 million from Coinbase. Address 0x243...566f8 accumulated 12,888 ETH at a cost of $2,585. Address 0x51C...E6c40 accumulated 5,897 ETH at a cost of $2,543.
AltLayer has announced airdrop standards and token economics.
On January 17th, AltLayer released a token economics announcement. The total supply is 10 billion tokens, with an initial circulating supply of 1.1 billion tokens. Investors will receive 18.5% of the total allocation, Binance Launchpool will receive 5%, the team will receive 15%, strategic advisors will receive 5%, protocol development will receive 20%, the treasury will receive 21.5%, and the ecosystem and community will receive 15%. Airdrop recipients include AltLayer OG Badge NFT holders, Oh Ottie! NFT holders, Altitude event participants, qualified EigenLayer re-stakers, and Celestia stakers. The snapshot time is January 17th, 2024 at 8:00:11 (Ethereum block height 19022890).
EVM compatible blockchain Monad is about to release its internal testnet.
On January 17th, the EVM-compatible blockchain network Monad announced that it will soon release an internal testnet. As previously reported by BlockBeats, on February 14th, 2023, Monad Labs, an EVM-compatible blockchain project founded by Keone Hon, former research head of Jump Trading, completed a $19 million seed round of financing, led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Placeholder Capital, Lemniscap, Shima Capital, Finality Capital, angel investor Naval Ravikant, Cobie, and Hasu.
Manta New Paradigm NFT holders can now check their corresponding airdrop rewards
On January 18th, Manta Network announced that Manta New Paradigm NFT holders can now check their corresponding MANTA airdrop rewards on the official website, but claiming the tokens is not yet supported. Token claiming will be available after MANTA goes live.
THORChain has announced the RUNEVault 2.0 proposal, aimed at optimizing LP experience.
On January 18th, THORChain released a new proposal on its GitLab page, revealing details about RUNEVault 2.0. The proposal aims to improve the user experience for liquidity providers, especially those who participate in providing liquidity but face a poor experience as dual liquidity providers (Dual-LP). The core of RUNEVault 2.0 is to allow RUNE holders to "stake" RUNE in RUNEVault, in order to receive returns based on RUNE, which reflects the performance of all liquidity providers in the pool. Unlike choosing specific asset pools, RUNEVault participants collectively invest in all pools and share the performance of the entire protocol.
Unstoppable will launch Bitcoin Ordinals Inscriptions ".sat" domain names
On January 17th, Matthew Gould, founder and CEO of Web3 domain provider Unstoppable Domains, announced this year's roadmap, which includes completing the on-chain integration of ".com", supporting the inscription ".sat", and optimizing the domain name trading experience.
Multi-chain inscription exchange Glypher goes live and will launch native inscriptions

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