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Ladies and gentlemen, BTC today - hotter than ever 🔥🔥🔥

BTC is now trading above $39,000, ETH is trading around $3,000.

💪 Bitcoin dominance: 41.6%

📉 Total Cryptocurrency Market Cap: $1,956 tr

😲 Fear and greed index: 20 (Extreme fear)

🚀 Gainers(Top-100)

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) +4.09%

Monero (XMR) +3.17%

Waves (WAVES) +2.82%

😭 Losers(Top-100)

Convex Finance (CVX) -13.63%

Zilliqa (ZIL) -12.74%

Decred (DCR) -10.78%

Mastercard files 15 metaverse and NFT related trademarks

Mastercard joins Visa💳 and American Express💳 with moves into the Metaverse as it seeks to increase revenue streams and remain competitive in the virtual economy.

Based on the filings, the company most likely plans to create a payment and transaction processing system in the meta universe and a platform for trading crypto-assets.

Binance Gains In Principle Approval in Abu Dhabi

Crypto exchange 🏛️🏛️🏛️ Binance has reportedly gained an in-principle regulatory approval from financial regulators in Abu Dhabi. The permission is for Binance to operate as a broker-dealer in virtual assets.

Ethereum Devs Now Testing ETH 2.0 Upgrade on 'Shadow Fork'

The Ethereum Foundation got a step closer to deploying Ethereum 2.0🚀🚀🚀 and has been using “shadow forks” to make its testnet more closely resemble the Ethereum mainnet.

The team had done three shadow forks of the Goerli testnet, finding “bugs 🐛varying from sync code to request timeout” in the process.

Fortnite creators Epic Games raise $2B from Sony and LEGO to fund metaverse plans

Epic Games, the video game publisher behind the popular PC and console game Fortnite, announced a $2 billion funding 💰💰💰round with plans to accelerate the company’s vision to make its mark in the Metaverse. The deal, which is still subject to customary regulatory approvals, would bring Epic's equity valuation to $31.5 billion💰.

Uniswap launches venture capital wing for Web3 investments

Popular decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has announced the formation of Uniswap Labs Ventures (ULV), a venture capital fund focused on investing💸💸💸 in Web3 companies and projects.

The firm will invest at any stage of development into various projects or technologies related to Web3, infrastructure, developer tools and consumer-facing applications as areas of interest.

Spot Crypto ETF in Demand by Majority of Financial Advisors, Finds New Nasdaq Survey

Nasdaq survey 🗳️🗳️🗳️ of 500 financial advisors who are currently or considering allocating to crypto, 72% of advisors would be more likely to invest client assets in crypto if a spot ETF product were offered in the United States.

Among advisors already investing in crypto, 86% expect to increase their allocations over the next 12 months, while 0% report plans to decrease. Of the same group, 50% are already using Bitcoin futures ETFs and 28% plan to start using them in the next 12 months.

Coinbase to Produce Bored Ape Yacht Club Animated Short Films

The Bored Ape Yacht Club 🐵🐵🐵 will officially expand into the entertainment world with a series of animated short films produced by Coinbase, entitled “The Degen Trilogy.”

Created with the approval of Yuga Labs, “The Degen Trilogy” will feature characters based on the Bored Ape Yacht Club🐵, a collection of 10,000 disinterested-looking ape NFTs, and ApeCoin, the recently-launched governance token for Yuga’s expanding Web3 ecosystem.

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