​​OptionRoom will provide OaaS data feed to API3 Airnode integrated blockchains. With the help of the API3 team OptionRoom will be deploying an Airnode enabling access to the OptionRoom OaaS (Oracle as a Service) for all Airnode integrated blockchains.

​​Matter Labs has closed private fundraising round. The amount raised is not disclosed. Union Square Ventures, Placeholder, 1kx, Dragonfly, Coinbase Ventures, Binance, Huobi, Curve, Aave and Coingecko are among investors.
Matter Labs is working on the Ethereum layer-2 scaling with zero-knowledge proofs.

​​Umbrella Network launches Uniswap liquidity mining program on March 1st. 20K UMB tokens to be distributed to UMB/ETH liquidity providers on Uniswap each month. This rewards will be an addition to the standard 0.3% fee that liquidity providers get from Uniswap.

​​ZeroSwap has launched testnet of its IDO platform ZeeDO. Incentivized testnet period: March 1 - March 5. 100 Users will be randomly selected and rewarded with 50 ZEE Each.

​​Pretty strong Coinbase premium since 43k.

Coinbase whales are most affected by the macro environment, I think their buying indicates the correction is over.

​​Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s Net Worth Is Over $7 Billion

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s net worth is between $7 billion and $15 billion based on recent private share sales that valued the cryptocurrency exchange at as much as $100 billion, according to a Bloomberg report Friday.

This puts Armstrong among the world’s 500 richest people as Coinbase heads toward a public listing, the report said.

The executive also netted almost $60 million in salary for the full year of 2020, outpacing JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon ($31.5 million) and Apple CEO Tim Cook ($14.7 million).

#dailynews

​​Crypto News Weekly Recap #37

#1 Kraken users demand refunds over flash-crash liquidations — link

#2 Ethereum mining’s monthly revenue reaches all time high over $1B in February — link

#3 Square doubles down on Bitcoin, investing another $170M — link

#4 North America’s first Bitcoin ETF sees explosive debut with $564M in assets — link

#5 Tether and Bitfinex agree to pay $18.5M fine to end New York probe — link

#6 Fed chair says it's up to Congress to bring a digital dollar to market — link

#7 MicroStrategy acquires additional 19,452 Bitcoins for $1.026B — link

#8 Coinbase's S-1 filing is now public, setting stage for a direct listing on Nasdaq — link

#9 Bordier & Cie SCmA, the largest bank in Switzerland, rolls out crypto-trading services — link

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​​Bitcoin daily candle close above $45,000 and that's a good sign. We will see some accumulation in the range of $42500-$46,000. We may see another dump in this week. As long as BTC remains above $42,000 we are bullish. If you want to open a long position you can do it around $43,000 with a stop loss of just below $40,000. Stop loss is must in all trades. Keep Learning, Keep Earning😊

​​Polkamarkets Partners with BEPRO Network

With this partnership, Polkamarkets will leverage some of BEPRO Network’s peer-to-peer and on-chain prediction market codebase and backend systems for its prediction markets.

​​Michelle prepared some of upcoming IDOs & IEOs in March you should know about.

​​Binance will list Badger DAO (BADGER) on March 2. BADGER/BTC, BADGER/BUSD and BADGER/USDT trading pairs will go live at 8:00 AM UTC.

​​BitMax will list Ecomi (OMI) on March 2. OMI/USDT trading pair will go live at 9:00 a.m. EST. ECOMI offers a one-stop-shop for digital collectibles through their app VeVe.

​​Gate will host a public sale of Idavoll Network (IDV) on March 3rd. Allocation worth $200K will be offered. Sale format: proportional. In order to participate users are required to hold 100+ GT. The startup will enter the market with $1.9M initial marketcap.

​​Clover partners with Prosper to bring decentralized prediction market on Polkadot. Prosper will use Clover to migrate to Polkadot and will bring the first non-custodial, cross-chain prediction market to Clover Finance.