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MARKET 

BTC- It’s over $40k!- BTC closes 2020 as the best performing asset of the decadehttps://www.newsbtc.com/analysis/btc/bitcoin-closes-2020-as-best-performing-asset-of-the-last-decade/

JP Morgan analyst BTC price target of $146,000https://insidebitcoins.com/news/jpmorgan-sets-long-term-target-for-btc-price-at-146000

ETH- ETH breaks market cap high https://twitter.com/krugman25/status/1347218807849443328?s=20

ETH debt ceiling in MakerDAO increasedhttps://twitter.com/RuneKek/status/1347091831033655301?s=20

TVL in DeFi- Up from $14.4B to $22.8B

DPI $117 to $185

Total Market Cap over $1T USD https://www.coingecko.com/en/global_charts

2020 Asset Class returnshttps://twitter.com/CryptoEcon_Li/status/1345508640598405122?s=20

Ethereum King of Fees (40% or revenue)https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1346328797755314176?s=20

Security through Number Go Uphttps://twitter.com/lastmjs/status/1346717467196833795?s=21

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RELEASES

Shapeshift pivots to a Dex Aggregatorhttps://www.coindesk.com/shapeshift-going-full-defi-lose-kyc-rules

Bitcoin ETF proposalhttps://www.coindesk.com/vaneck-proposes-bitcoin-etf-again

RELEASES

Futureswap V2 is OUThttps://medium.com/futureswap/announcing-futureswap-v2-on-chain-perpetuals-with-live-pricing-e6a440939033

YAM Umbrella protocolhttps://medium.com/yam-finance/umbrella-internal-alpha-75f62c58974f

Transaction Builderhttps://twitter.com/allemanfredi/status/1346855097742057477?s=21

USDC getting an upgradehttps://blog.coinbase.com/usdc-v2-upgrading-a-multi-billion-dollar-erc-20-token-b57cd9437096

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NEWS

OCC - Banks can use Ethereum for payments- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/90025/occ-regulator-banks-stablecoins-issuance -https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1346452770690387969?s=20 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/haileylennon/2021/01/04/occ-regulator-implements-groundbreaking-cryptocurrency-guidance-for-banks-and-the-future-of-payments/?sh=747151ae27e9

Grayscale $20B AUM before 2021https://twitter.com/BarrySilbert/status/1344762048585068544?s=19

Biden Admin will halt all midnight regulations from the Trump admin that haven’t finalized yethttps://www.cnn.com/2020/12/30/politics/biden-midnight-regulations-freeze/index.html

Bittrex delisting privacy coinshttps://www.coindesk.com/bittrex-to-delist-privacy-coins-monero-dash-and-zcash

Jake tweet: https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1345061984077717504?s=27

Uniswap: $3B in liquidityhttps://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1346877563428347905?s=20

Uniswap Year in Reviewhttps://uniswap.org/blog/year-in-review/?s=09

Tweet thread: https://twitter.com/UniswapProtocol/status/1344687417891151874

Iran closes down mining operationshttps://www.coindesk.com/iranian-authorities-close-1620-illegal-cryptocurrency-mining-farms-report

Loopring l2 Growthhttps://twitter.com/finestonematt/status/1346936873776631811?s=20

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TAKES

No viable 2nd place to Ethereumhttps://twitter.com/antiprosynth/status/1347141517148905474?s=20

ETH same place as BTC in 2017https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1347033584234876931?s=20

ETH MC only worth one bank right nowhttps://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1347187372337868800?s=20

Fundamentals out, reflexivity in. https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1346239577745281024?s=20

Why are you concerned w/ Product Fit? ETH Killers solving something that's not a problemhttps://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1346187749976657922?s=20

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