The 16th anniversary of the birth of the Bitcoin Genesis Block; Do Kwon was charged with additional money laundering conspiracy; Binance will acquire Brazil's local licensed broker-dealer "Sim;paul"; BlackRock's IBIT had a net outflow of approximately US$330.8 million yesterday.

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Dune data shows that: the overall on-chain adoption rate in 2024 reached the peak level of 2021; on-chain fees dropped significantly; transfer volume reached a new high; the number of on-chain transactions in December 2024 exceeded 1 billion for the first time, which is three times the peak in 2021.

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As of the end of 2024, Japanese hotel development and operation company MetaPlanet held 1,762 bitcoins, worth approximately $262 million.

The Bitcoin Genesis Block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on the afternoon of January 3, 2009, with a block reward of 50 BTC. As of today, it has been 16 years since its creation, and the current total Bitcoin block height has reached 877,566.

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According to the announcement of Cango Inc., the company's bitcoin production in December 2024 reached 569.9, an increase of 56% from 363.9 in November. At the end of the month, the number of bitcoins held increased to 933.8, and no bitcoins were sold during the period. The company's average computing power reached 30.4 EH/s, a month-on-month increase of 2%.

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon was charged with a new crime: money laundering conspiracy. This is a new charge in the superseding indictment unsealed by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on January 2. The indictment states that Do Kwon conspired with others to facilitate these financial transactions despite knowing that transactions exceeding $10,000 involved illegal proceeds.

Decentralized exchange Uniswap has announced that Uniswap version 4 (v4) will be “coming soon” in 2025, after failing to release in the third quarter of 2024 as originally planned. Notably, the announcement did not specify a release date, as the platform remained in beta throughout 2024.

Morgan Stanley's online stock trading unit E-Trade is exploring adding cryptocurrency trading in response to a more favorable cryptocurrency regulatory environment brought about by the incoming Donald Trump administration, two people familiar with the matter said. If Morgan Stanley goes ahead with the launch of the service, E-Trade will become one of the largest mainstream financial companies to offer cryptocurrency trading, putting the traditional brokerage giant in competition with Coinbase and other cryptocurrency exchanges.

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The T3 Financial Crimes Countermeasures Unit (T3 FCU), jointly established by Tether, TRON and TRM Labs, has frozen a total of 100 million USDT used by illegal actors since its establishment in September 2024.

Binance announced that it has received approval from the Central Bank of Brazil to acquire Sim;paul, a locally licensed broker-dealer in the country, marking Binance’s 21st major milestone in global regulation and consolidating its position as the world’s most licensed cryptocurrency exchange.

This week, USDT's market value fell by nearly 1.1% to $137.24 billion, the largest drop since the FTX exchange crash in the second week of November 2022. In mid-December 2024, USDT's market value reached a record high of $140.72 billion.