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Markets

Wrapped AVAX Sees Increased Wallet Accumulation Amid Bybit Card Cashback Adoption

Nearly 4,000 wallets added WAVAX holdings, 1.8 times the recent average, according to onchain data.

Caution avalanche (Nicolas Cool/Unsplash)

Tech

The Protocol: Ethereum’s Wall Street Cheerleader

Also: Arbitrum integrates Bitcoin; UBS tests ZKSync for gold

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Tech

Avalanche Blockchain's December Upgrade Cut Usage Fees by 75%

The upgrade was designed to make Avalanche cheaper. It worked.

Avalanche average transaction cost has dropped sharply since the mid-December upgrade. (Bitquery)

Markets

Bitcoin Grapples with $100K as Rally on Trump's Crypto-Positive Comment Fizzles

Altcoins as a group outperformed bitcoin, with AVAX and LINK leading sector gains.

Bitcoin price (TradingView)

Tech

Avalanche Blockchain's Largest-Ever Upgrade Goes Live on Testnet

Avalanche9000 is meant to cut the cost of sending transactions and running validators, making it easier to build apps on the network, crypto's eighth-largest.

Emin Gün Sirer (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Chainlink Partners With Major Financial Players to Improve Corporate Actions Data Reporting Using AI and Blockchain

Automating and standardizing corporate actions data could help significantly reduce operational inefficiencies that currently cost businesses millions of dollars every year due to errors and manual data processing, the report said.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference in Barcelona. (Chainlink)

Finance

LatAm Bank Littio Ditches Ethereum for Avalanche as Demand for RWA Vaults Grows

Avalanche's low transaction fees and consistency were cited as reasons for picking that chain.

Avalanche. (Unsplash)

Tech

Avalanche Unveils $40M Grant Program Ahead of 'Avalanche9000' Upgrade

The program, called Retro9000, is supposed to encourage developers to build on Avalanche ahead of a much-anticipated upgrade known as Avalanche9000.

Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Broker DeltaPrime Drained of Over $6M Amid Apparent Private Key Leak

The project is offered on both Arbitrum and Avalanche blockchains. Monday’s exploit impacted only the version on Arbitrum as of European morning hours.

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Finance

Crypto Asset Manager Grayscale Offers AVAX Token Investment in New Avalanche Trust

The provider of bitcoin and ether ETFs now offers more than 20 crypto investment products.

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