Sleepless AI's HIM Genesis NFT Auction Ends with a Top Bid of 510 BNB | Cryptocurrency Trends

1. Mainstream Exchange Trends:

• Bitget appoints Smith Tse as the new head of Chinese-speaking regions to coordinate brand building, integrated m arketing, and ecosystem development.
• Bitget Wallet integrates the WalletConnect authentication API to provide alerts for potentially suspicious or malicious domains.
• Richard Teng: Binance grew its registered users by 30% in 2023, exceeding a total userbase of 170 million.
• Mainstream Exchange Listings (CEX: Token — Time of Listing in UTC)

2. Cryptocurrency Trends:

• Scallop, a Sui lending protocol, launches an airdrop point system, with the Phase 1 snapshot ending on January 1.
• USDT 's market capitalization briefly surpassed $9.2 billion, continuing to reach new all-time highs.
• Turtsat, a BRC-20 inscription project, launches BL2, a Bitcoin Layer 2 network.
• UniSat Wallet: To support the Ordinals Jubilee upgrade and release a whitepaper at the end of January.
• Sleepless AI's HIM Genesis NFT auction ends with a top bid of 510 BNB.
• Starknet roadmap update: Voting to open on January 10 for deployment of the 13.0 update on the mainnet.
• Scroll releases 2024 technology roadmap to reduce cross-chain fees by 50% and add support for EIP 1559 transactions.
• Atomicals Protocol to push a patch to address the current instability and speed issues faced by indexers.
• Web3Go, a data intelligence network, launches its Ambassador Program with multiple token airdrop rounds planned for 2024.
• F1 team Sauber enters into a two-year championship partnership with crypto sports betting platform Stake.
• Dymension launches its Genesis Drop, which will distribute 7% of total DYM supply.

3. Financing Trends:

• KuCoin Labs makes a strategic investment in ISSP, an inscription cross-chain protocol built on Sui.

4. Regulatory Trends:

• South Korea: Public officials required to declare their personal and family assets by the end of February each year, with a new category of virtual assets starting this year.
• U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer: The CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act has the support of 75 members of Congress.