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️ On today's Top Picks:

Crypto News

• ⭐️ Polygon lays off 19% of its staff citing, “for the sake of enhanced performance, rather than for financial reasons.”

• Celsius distributes $3B in crypto, fiat, and Ionic Digital stocks to creditors.

• Genesis pays $21M to SEC as it settles lawsuit over Gemini Earn program.

• OPNX exchange to shut down as users are advised to withdraw funds by February 14th.

• ByBit submits license application to operate its platform in Hong Kong.

• Andrew Tate proposes launching his own cryptocurrency.

Alpha

• Puffer Finance Crunchy Carrot Quest Chapter 2 enabling deposits is live.

• Taiko launches Deciphering BCR campaign on Galxe.

• ⭐️ Wormhole introduces Wormhole ZK, an endgame for blockchain interoperability.

• Namada Shielded Expedition is live.

• Farcaster sign-ups are FREE for several countries.

• DeBank launches Mantle $MNT Airdrop Hunter Web3 Badge.

Airdrops

• ⭐️ AltLayer $ALT airdrop for Celestia $TIA stakers revealed.

• Forge airdrop strategy by Earndrop.

• Aevo announces details regarding $AEVO, farming program, and airdrop.

• Shardeum $SHM Aidrop phase 1 details released.

• Avantis potential airdrop by Alpha Drops.

Finance News

• US Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchained at 5.25% - 5.50%.

• US Unemployment Rate in January at 3.7%, better than expected at 3.8%.

• Marathon Digital $MARA agrees to pay Hut 8 $HUT $13.5 million termination fee.

• Zoom $ZM to cut 150 jobs citing it regularly evaluates its teams to ensure alignment with its strategy.

• Okta $OKTA to lay off 400 employees amid high costs.

Security and Exploits

• ⭐️ Blockaid discovers emerging attack by Angel Drainer targeting EigenLayer restakers.

• Binance freezes stolen $XRP worth $4.2M in collaboration with ZachXBT and Ripple team.

• RevokeCash adds support for ZetaChain Mainnet.

Token Unlocks

• Nym / 45.63M $NYM / ~$9M / FEB 02
• Sui / 34.62M $SUI / ~$54M / FEB 02
• Liquity / 657.35K $LQTY / ~$828K / FEB 04
• Galxe / 5.18M $GAL / ~$9M / FEB 04

Funding

• CUBE, a hybrid crypto exchange; raises $12M in Series A funding led by 6th Man Ventures.

• ⭐️ Clusters, a crosschain name service; raises $9M in Seed funding.

• Pixelmon, a decentralized gaming project; raises $8M in Seed funding.

• Squid, a crosschain protocol powered by Axelar; raises $4M in Strategic funding led by Polychain Capital.

• Velar, a Bitcoin liquidity protocol; raises $3.5M in funding.

• Hivello, a DePIN company; raises $1.5M in funding.

• MON Protocol, an IP governance protocol; raises an undisclosed amount in Strategic funding.

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