2022-01-31 10:27:36
Daily Dose of Crypto
• Bitcoin dominance: 42.74% (+0.22%)
• Cryptocurrency market cap: 1.679 Trillion Dollars (-0.86%)
• BTC average transaction fee: $1.932 ( -4.25%)
• ETH average gas Price: 134.34 Gwei (+12.08%)
• LUNA, the native token of the Terra ecosystem, is suffering the effects of negative sentiment after Thursday’s Wonderland drama about Michael Patryn, the co-founder of the infamous Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX.
• Several traditional banks are looking to fill crypto-related roles within their research divisions — the latest sign that the digital asset ecosystem is becoming fully integrated with the broader market.
• OlympusDAO has announced plans to soft-launch the Olympus Odyssey NFT marketplace on March 3.
• Google Cloud is hiring a team of blockchain experts to capitalize on the move to decentralized Web 3 applications, the company wrote in a blog post.
• OpenSea has now reimbursed 750 Ethereum, about $1.8 million, to users who accidentally sold valuable NFTs at well below their going market rate through an exploit involving “inactive listings.”
• Meta, the world’s biggest social media platform, has filed a trademark registration with the Brazilian authorities to design, develop and provision hardware and software for various Bitcoin and crypto-related services.
• Visa stated that its customers made $2.5 billion in payments using its crypto-linked cards during the first fiscal quarter of 2022. That’s over 70% of all crypto-card volume throughout fiscal 2021, signalling increased adoption of digital asset payments.
• Monthly non-fungible token (NFT) trading volume in January has already reached a record high of $6.13 billion, according to The Block Data Dashboard.
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