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Quick Take The firm filed a registration statement with the agency on Friday for the 21Shares Polkadot Trust. The ETF would trade on the Cboe BZX Exchange and would track the performance of DOT, the native token for the Polkadot Network.
Quick Take Grayscale Investments has launched Dogecoin Trust. The company said DOGE “has transitioned from a memecoin of a Shiba Inu to a tool for global financial inclusion.”
Quick Take CryptoQuant says that the expansion of stablecoins over the past year could drive the next cryptocurrency rally. A report revealed that, in 2024, stablecoin transfer volume surpassed Visa and Mastercard’s combined transaction volume.
Quick Take LayerZero Labs has settled with the FTX estate on the legal battle surrounding the deal it had with Alameda Research days prior to FTX’s collapse. In 2023, the FTX estate sued LayerZero to claw back shares Alameda sold in exchange for writing off a $45 million loan.
Quick Take Geth, the Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol, released version 1.14.13, codenamed “Schwarzschild.” This update addresses an issue in the peer-to-peer (p2p) layer that could potentially lead to denial of service attacks, affecting both Geth and potentially Layer 2 clients. The vulnerability, cataloged as CVE-2025-24883, makes Geth versions from 1.14.0 susceptible to DoS through malicious p2p messages.
- 14:30Musk: Some Reddit users threatening DOGE employees is illegal, don't mess with DOGEOn February 4th, Elon Musk, the head of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), retweeted a post titled "Reddit Lies" from user X. The post exposed multiple anonymous Reddit users threatening DOGE department employees, with some content even advocating for extreme actions against them and implying attempts to find their addresses for targeted actions. Musk retweeted this post stating: "They (the relevant Reddit users) have broken the law." Shortly after, Musk released a statement from Edward R. Martin Jr., Federal Prosecutor for the District of Columbia. The statement said that the Justice Department has conducted a preliminary review of related evidence and found clear threats made by individuals and groups against DOGE employees. Currently, the department is closely cooperating with FBI and other law enforcement agencies and has initiated prosecution procedures. Musk commented along with his text: Don't mess with DOGE.
- 14:29The Berachain mainnet will launch on February 6, 2025.The Berachain Foundation officially announces that the Berachain mainnet will be launched on February 6, 2025.
- 14:11Analysis: Today, over 1.07 billion USDC flooded into CEX, the trading characteristics highly match with institutional investor behaviorAccording to a report by Cryptoquant analyst Maartunn, today more than 1.07 billion USDC flowed into centralized trading platforms, with transaction characteristics highly consistent with institutional investor behavior. Historical data shows that an increase in exchange USDC reserves often indicates a positive trend in Bitcoin prices. Notably, similar scale capital inflows also occurred after the FTX crash in December 2022, which coincided precisely with the market bottoming out. The analyst also reminded that USDC inflow could be used for collateralization or other purposes.