20th February — 27th February
▫️ Bitcoin reaches a new record high above $56,000, marking its highest level since November 2021.
▫️ Crypto investment products attracted nearly $600 million in inflows last week, primarily driven by spot Bitcoin ETFs.
▫️ Japan aims to enable specific venture capital firms to make direct investments in cryptocurrencies.
▫️ England’s Law Commission seeks feedback on draft legislation proposing to classify crypto as property.
▫️ South Korean regulator to discuss NFTs and crypto ETFs with Gary Gensler.
▫️ Reddit discloses holding insignificant amounts of crypto in its SEC filing.
▫️ Kraken files for dismissal of SEC lawsuit.
▫️ Legal defense fundraiser for Roman Storm & Alex Pertsev extended, introducing new NFTs.
▫️ Blueberry lending exploit addressed, with 367 ETH returned after being front-run by c0ffeebabe.
▫️ Sky Mavis co-founder Jeffrey Zirlin’s wallets were hacked for $9.7M in ETH.
▫️ BitForex website blocks users after apparent $57 million hot wallet withdrawals.
▫️ Blast crosses $2 billion in TVL ahead of Feb. 29 mainnet launch.
▫️ Total value locked in liquid staking protocol Lido surpasses $30 billion.
▫️ Optimism distributes over 10M OP, valued at nearly $41M.
▫️ Uniswap v2 goes live on Arbitrum, alongside OP mainnet and Base.
▫️ Gauntlet, Aave’s $2M risk advisor, resigns due to inconsistency in DAO’s objectives.
▫️ Aave Governance proposes a new “Aave-Alignment User Reward” system.
▫️ Alchemy introduces Modular Account feature on its platform.
▫️ StarkNet launches DeFi Spring event.
▫️ Farcaster integrates support for Solana addresses.
▫️ OKX unveils new ERC standard ERC-7579 to enhance Web3 User Experience.
▫️ Fuel Labs announces Fuel, an OS built for rollups.
▫️ Yuga Labs protects NFT royalties ahead of Magic Eden’s Ethereum marketplace launch.
▫️ Hack VC secures $150M for new VC fund.
▫️ Andreessen Horowitz invests $100M in EigenLayer.
▫️ RW3 Ventures raises $60M for Crypto VC fund, backed by Mubadala and Raptor Group.
▫️ Flare secures $35M in funding for its L1 network.
▫️ AltLayer concludes a $14.4M strategic funding round, co-led by Polychain and Hack VC.
▫️ Helius, a Solana developer platform, announces a $9.5M Series A funding round.
▫️ Superfluid, an Ethereum-based token streaming protocol, secures $5.1M in strategic funding.
