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Blockchains
Chinese Bitcoin Miners Increasingly Set Up Shop In Ethiopia
Ethiopia aims to rival Texas as a regional hub for crypto mining in the coming years.

TradFi & Fintech
Are You Ready For Crypto Tax Season?
Tax forms 1040, 1099-MISC, and 1099-B are what most U.S. investors need to fill out.

DeFi
DN-404 Token Standard Launches To Improve On ERC-404
The “divisible NFT” standard aims to be an NFT with native fractionalization built in.

TradFi & Fintech
Franklin Templeton Files For Ethereum ETF
U.S. asset management firm with $1.6T in AUM looks to launch spot ETH ETF

Markets
Markets Surge as Bitcoin Flirts With $50,000
Ether is trading above $2,600, posting double-digit gains on the week.

Markets
Institutional Crypto Holdings Hit Two-Year High: CoinShares
Institutional investors now hold $59B worth of digital assets, the highest level since February 2022.

DeFi
L2s Finalise New Rollup Standard Bolstering Compatibility With Mainstream Tech
Layer 2 TVL tags new all-time high despite throughput sliding.

Podcast
Worldcoin ($WLD) Deep Dive with Alex Blania | Crypto's Most Dystopian Project?
Alex Blania is a cofounder of Worldcoin alongside Sam Altman and Max Novendtsern. In our conversation we dive into the controversial aspect of Worldcoin, get a better grasp of what the project is about and its founding story, the $WLD token, the (new) Orb, how scanned data is stored, and much more.

DeFi
EtherFi, Renzo, and Swell Team Up To Launch Liquid Restaking Pool On Balancer
Liquidity providers can earn boosted points for all three projects and EigenLayer.

DeFi
Our Most Read Stories This Week: Morpheus AI, Manta Token, Dymension Airdrop, ERC-404
The Defiant's most read stories for the week of Feb. 4.





