Highlights for next week:
ETF Expert: Bitcoin Spot ETF Could Be Approved Any Time After January 2；
Bitcoin Inscription Project Rune.Alpha Will Open Trading Market on January 3；
Web3 game Gas Hero will be officially launched on January 3；
BakerySwap will launch the fourth phase of BRC 20 project BendDAO on January 4；
Xai: The airdrop will be postponed to next week, the specific date is to be determined。
From January 2 to January 7, more noteworthy events in the industry are previewed below.
January 2
ETF Expert: Bitcoin Spot ETF Could Be Approved Any Time After January 2
Odaily Xunmei ETF expert Nate Geraci posted on the consensus. The Bitcoin Spot ETF is expected to create new fund shares in the form of cash.
In addition, Nate Geraci said that the product preparations and back-end infrastructure related to ETF listing have been completed, and the U.S. SEC may approve the Bitcoin spot ETF at any time after January 2.
Bitget will list the Open Exchange (OPNX) platform token OX on January 2
Odaily News Bitget announced that it will list the Open Exchange (OPNX) platform token OX in the innovation area and platform token area. The deposit channel is now open, and the trading channel will be opened at 19:00 on January 2 (UTC+ 8).
ETHGlobal announces 2024 Hackathon schedule, LFGHO will launch on January 12
Odaily News ETHGlobal officially announced the 2024 schedule and announced that it will hold 20 hackathon events, including LFGHO (January 12-January 24), Circuit Breaker (February 2-21), Pragma Denver (February 28th), Pragma London (March 14), ETHGlobal London (March 15-17), Scaling Ethereum 2024 (April 5-26), Pragma Sydney (May 2), ETHGlobal Sydney ( May 3-5), Pragma Brussels (July 11), ETHGlobal Brussels (July 12-14), ETHOnline 2024 (August 23-September 13), ETHGlobal Singapore (September 20 -22nd), Pragma San Francisco (October 15th-17th), ETHGlobal San Francisco (October 18th-20th), ETHGlobal Devcon 2024 (tentatively scheduled for November) and 5 other additional events.
Astria: Unable to fix Dusknet this week, detailed analysis will be done after rework on January 2
Odaily News Shared Sequencer Network Astria posted on the The team will return to the office on January 2nd and conduct a detailed post-mortem.
Previously, Astria said continued high traffic exposed a bug in Dusknet, with the network currently halted at block height 923236.
January 3
Odaily News Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas said on the The U.S. dollar is much higher.
Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart believes that the infusion of seed capital does not mean an immediate launch of the ETF, but it may mean that it will be launched soon.
Miner Core Scientific postpones final hearing to exit bankruptcy proceedings until January 10
Odaily News Bitcoin mining company Core Scientific will postpone the final joint hearing to exit bankruptcy proceedings from December 22 to January 10, 2024. Additional global settlement plans have been reached, and the deadline for equity issuance has been extended to December 28th. (TheMinerMag)
Digital bank Revolut said it plans to suspend some crypto services to its UK business customers in response to upcoming new regulations from UK regulators, according to people familiar with the matter.
The bank said it plans to suspend its UK customers’ ability to buy cryptocurrencies through Revolut Business from January 3, 2024, although customers in the country will still be able to hold and sell cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin Inscription Project Rune Alpha Will Open Trading Market on January 3
Odaily News Bitcoin Inscription Project Rune Alpha will open the market on January 3, and COOK, PSBTS, GROK, X, and GOONFI will be listed in the first phase.
Web3 game Gas Hero will be officially launched on January 3
Odaily News Gas Hero project leader Johnny announced that his game will be officially launched at 11:00 on January 3, 2024, Beijing time.
It is reported that Gas Hero is a Web3 game produced by the STEPN development team Find Satoshi Lab.
Axie Infinity: Origins will introduce part evolution on January 3
Odaily News Axie Infinity posted on the X platform that Origins will introduce a new Parts Evolution feature on January 3.
Axie Infinity has now provided a summary of the Parts Evolution effect improvements and stat boosts, as well as outlining planned balance updates for the remaining cards in a blog and table. However, these changes are not final. As the release of Season 7 approaches, Axie Infinity will continue to test and gather community feedback to make adjustments.
January 4
Coinbase will suspend trading of ATA, DREP, MONA and SYLO
Odaily News Coinbase announced that it will suspend the trading of ATA, DREP, MONA and SYLO at approximately 2 pm Eastern Time on January 4, 2024. The platform has converted the ATA, DREP, MONA and SYLO order books to limit price mode. Orders can be placed and canceled, and matches may occur.
BNB Greenfield testnet is expected to undergo the Manchurian hard fork on January 4
Odaily News BNB Chain stated on the Verifiers need to upgrade to greenfield v1.2.1 in advance, and storage providers (SPs) need to upgrade to greenfield-storage-provider v1.2.2 in advance. The upgrade has no impact on account balances or data stored on the Greenfield testnet. This hard fork will introduce MsgSetTag to enhance messaging and fix vulnerabilities in GVG creation and bucket status events.
BakerySwap will launch the fourth phase of BRC 20 project BendDAO on January 4
Odaily News BakerySwap announced that it will launch the BRC 20 fourth phase project NFT lending liquidity protocol BendDAO (BDIN) on January 4, 2024. The FDV is US$500,000 and will only support BAKE and 1 CAT to participate.
January 5
Bloomberg Analyst: Bitcoin spot ETF could be approved between January 5 and 10, 2024
Odaily News Blockchain social media HumanMachine posted on the X platform. In an interview, James Seyffart, an analyst from Bloomberg, said that the Bitcoin spot ETF may be approved between January 5 and 10, 2024. The tweet was retweeted by analyst James Seyffart.
According to the official announcement from Odaily, according to the latest review results, Binance Liquidity Mining will remove the following liquidity pools at 12:00 on January 5, 2024 (Eastern Eighth District time): ADA/BTC, BNB/USDT, BTC /USDT, DOGE/BTC, DOGE/USDT, ETH/USDT, LINK/BTC, SHIB/USDT, USDT/DAI, XRP/USDT.
If the user still holds a position in the above-mentioned liquidity pool, the system will automatically return the assets to the users spot wallet at 12:00 on January 5, 2024 (Eastern Eighth District time).
Coinbase will suspend trading of Aragon (ANT) on January 5
Odaily News Coinbase announced that it will suspend trading in Aragon (ANT) at approximately 11 a.m. Eastern Time on January 5, 2024. Aragon Association has previously stated that ANT holders can exchange their tokens for ETH before November 2, 2024, but Coinbase does not support ANT/ETH exchange. If users still hold ANT after suspending trading, they need to use the Aragon team Exchange via the official exchange portal and compatible self-hosted wallets.
DWF Labs and DWF Ventures launch Web3 incubation program, registration will close on January 5
According to official news from Odaily, DWF Labs will launch the first 2024 Web3 incubation program with DWF Ventures, inviting early founders and startups to participate, including decentralized applications (DApps) in areas such as SocialFi, ZK, trading and derivatives. As well as the infrastructure of EVM and BTC ecosystem.
DWF Labs will provide comprehensive support in three key areas: product development, guidance and consulting, and go-to-market strategy. The deadline for registration submission is 8:00 UTC on January 5, 2024 (16:00 Beijing time).
The fifth round of Aptos Grant DAO funding will begin on January 5
Odaily News The fifth round of funding for the Aptos Grant DAO, which has long-term funded Aptos ecosystem developers and early projects, will begin on January 5, 2024 on the global geek sports platform DoraHacks.io.
This Aptos Grant DAO will focus on funding the developer community and developer education content of the Move ecosystem, as well as using Aptos to build DeFi, gaming and social infrastructure protocols. This round of funding activities will set up a special AI track to encourage developers to try to build AI applications on the Aptos blockchain to expand the scope of use of encryption technology.
The community and quadratic funding phases of this round of Aptos Grant DAO will begin near mid-February. Currently, the BUIDL submission portal is open, and developers can submit BUIDL through dorahacks.io/aptos.
January 6
Odaily News Conflux Network announced that the cross-chain protocol ShuttleFlow will shut down its services on November 8, and asset bridging will be transferred to Zero Gravity.
All users’ funds are safe, and users who have previously bridged through ShuttleFlow and completed the bridge asset claim on the target chain do not need to perform any additional migration operations. Users who have completed asset bridging but have not claimed assets on the target chain are recommended to claim their assets as soon as possible. After ShuttleFlows bridging service is shut down, Zero Gravity will provide users with limited functionality to support claiming unclaimed user assets on the target chain. Users can find any unclaimed assets on ShuttleFlows history page. The limited functionality of the ShuttleFlow website and DApp will continue until 22:00 on January 6, 2024 (GMT+8), and the ShuttleFlow website and DApp will be completely shut down on January 6, 2024 -22:00 (GMT+8).
January 7
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Xai: The airdrop will be postponed to next week, the specific date is to be determined
Odaily News Arbitrum ecological game Layer 3 solution Xai posted on the X platform that the XAI airdrop will be postponed to next week. The team is currently working hard to confirm the specific date and has not yet taken a node snapshot.
The official explanation was that the airdrop was postponed due to the poor health of an important team member. It is reported that Xai originally planned to conduct a token airdrop on December 27.
