Important information last night and this morning (January 14th - January 15th)
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01/15/2025·22days ago
U.S. SEC Chairman: The SEC has never declared that Bitcoin and Ethereum are securities
The SEC filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday against Musk for alleged securities violations. The SEC said Musk purchased more than 9% of Twitter common stock in March 2022 but failed to promptly disclose relevant information. , in violation of federal securities laws. After an 11-day delay, Musk publicly disclosed his beneficial ownership in a report submitted to the SEC on April 4, 2022. The delay allowed Musk to continue buying Twitter stock at artificially low prices, spending at least $150 million less. On April 4, 2022, Twitter's stock price rose by more than 27% from the previous day's closing price. Musk's lawyer responded that Musk had done nothing wrong and that the lawsuit was "a farce."
OpenAI: ChatGPT now launches beta version of 'Tasks' feature
OpenAI appoints BlackRock executive Adebayo Ogunlesi to board of directors
Coinbase adds Toshi (TOSHI) to currency listing roadmap
WLFI deposited 11,918 ETH to Coinbase Prime
Spark Protocol will allocate $1.1 billion to Ethena’s USDe and sUSDe tokens
Spark Protocol, the lending arm of the Sky ecosystem, plans to allocate $1.1 billion from its liquidity layer balance sheet to Ethena’s USDe and sUSDe tokens to increase capital efficiency, The Block reported. The Spark liquidity layer manages $6.2 billion of stablecoin liquidity and supports users to convert USDC and Sky’s USDS or sUSDS tokens between multiple networks.
Derive, the on-chain options protocol, has opened its airdrop inquiry page
Genius Group announces $33 million rights issue to increase Bitcoin reserves
According to Globenewswire, artificial intelligence company Genius Group (NYSE American: GNS) announced that its board of directors has approved a plan to continue a $33 million rights issue of the company’s common stock. 100% of the net proceeds from the rights issue will be used to fund the company’s Bitcoin Vault buy bitcoin.
In addition, the company plans to seek one or more additional loan financings totaling up to $20 million. If the company succeeds in raising the maximum amount in the rights issue and additional loans, the company's Bitcoin reserves will increase from approximately $35 million in Bitcoin to $86 million in Bitcoin.
The company will hold a live webcast and investor conference call on January 15, 2025 to discuss the rights issue.
Avalon Labs has opened airdrop registration for its governance token AVL
Stablecoin issuer Avalon Labs announced on the X platform that airdrop registration for the governance token AVL is now officially online. Users need to complete chain selection and wallet entry to successfully register. On the day of token TGE, users will be able to check the specific airdrop ratio. According to previous news, the total supply of AVL is capped at 1 billion, with airdrops accounting for 20%.
According to Bloomberg, Paris-based crypto wallet technology company Dfns has completed a $16 million financing, led by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ. Other investors include market makers Wintermute, Motive Partners, Bpifrance and the family office of the owner of Galeries Lafayette Group. Motier Ventures.
According to Bloomberg, Bitcoin and Ethereum options trading platform Deribit has attracted interest from potential acquirers and is working with financial advisor Financial Technology Partners LLC to evaluate related opportunities. Sources revealed that Deribit may be valued at between US$4 billion and US$5 billion, although Kraken considered an acquisition but did not advance related transactions.
Deribit stated in a statement that it had not officially put it up for sale, but confirmed that it had received multiple strategic investment proposals. The platform’s total trading volume nearly doubled last year to $1.2 trillion, with options notional trading volume increasing 99% to $743 billion.
Deribit’s current institutional clients are served directly by Dubai-based Deribit FZE, while retail clients are supported by its Panamanian entity, whose parent company is based in the Netherlands. Deribit was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in the Netherlands.
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