🐻 Berachain Mainnet Set for Feb. 6 Launch. The highly anticipated EVM-equivalent L1 is finally going live, introducing its Proof of Liquidity consensus mechanism and tri-token economic model.
💰 FTX Creditors Set for Feb. 18 Payouts. Convenience Class creditors in the Bahamas, owed up to $50K, are set to start receiving repayments—the first payout after years of restructuring.
🏛️ Trump’s Crypto Czar Takes the Lead. David Sacks, now steering U.S. digital asset policy, led a Capitol Hill press conference where he cited stablecoins and opening up banks to crypto as some of the regulatory priorities for the administration.
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Daily Market Snapshot: Amid increasing geopolitical tensions and escalating trade battles, already skittish crypto markets faced another day of sell-offs, with virtually every single top 100 coin trading in the red over the past 24 hours. Only time will tell if the bottom is in, but regulatory tailwinds ultimately remain favorable.
Last week, Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy raised $584M of fresh capital through a new offering called STRK. Although the structure of this offering differed from that of previous raises, it was also conducted with the central intent of raising cash to buy more BTC.
Today, we travel back in time to examine how MicroStrategy’s BTC accumulation strategy has evolved throughout recent years 👇
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