✅ JUST IN: PayPal partners with MetaMask to integrate new #crypto services.

✅ Fed raises 50 basis points in today meeting

✅ JUST IN: Bank of International Settlements announces a new policy that allows banks to hold 2% of reserves in #cryptocurrency.

🚫 JUST IN: One of the largest US publicly traded #Bitcoin  miners, Core Scientific, is filing for bankruptcy

✅ JUST IN: Alameda Research ex-CEO Caroline Ellison pleads guilty for involvement in frauds causing FTX's collapse.

https://watcher.guru/news/ftxs-gary-wang-alameda-ceo-caroline-ellison-plead-guilty-to-criminal-charges

🛑 An anonymous Twitter user has leaked what they say are over 10,000 Binance and KuCoin API keys connected to the trading app 3Commas.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/12/28/anonymous-twitter-user-leaks-alleged-3commas-api-database/?utm_campaign=coindesk_main&utm_medium=social&utm_content=editorial&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=organic

✅ JUST IN: BMW to integrate #blockchain technology and use #BNB  Chain to settle transactions for customer loyalty program

https://watcher.guru/news/bmw-to-employ-binance-chain-for-blockchain-loyalty-program

✅ JUST IN: #Binance  users can now purchase #crypto using Apple Pay & Google Pay.

https://watcher.guru/news/binance-announces-users-can-now-buy-crypto-using-apple-pay-and-google-pay

🚫 BREAKING: Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to all charges in FTX fraud case.

https://watcher.guru/news/sam-bankman-fried-pleads-not-guilty-in-ftx-fraud-case

✅ JUST IN: 🇮🇩 Indonesia announces plans to launch a national #crypto exchange.

https://watcher.guru/news/indonesia-to-launch-national-crypto-exchange-in-2023

🛑🚨 Remove liquidity from balancer if you are a liquidity provider in below pairs.

https://twitter.com/Balancer/status/1611363559685898247?t=g-JyWYa4qgXbHCRXgYHwEA&s=19

✅️ #Binance joins the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS).

As the first crypto exchange to join the association aims to leverage ACSS training materials, databases, and networks to further compliance standards within the crypto industry.

https://twitter.com/binance/status/1611366485217398785?t=7qkd5yzxhrwdufFlDIIR5A&s=19

✅ AR Rahman Announces His Digital Music Platform ‘Katraar’ On His 56th Birthday.

https://www.koimoi.com/bollywood-news/ar-rahman-announces-his-digital-music-platform-katraar-on-his-56th-birthday-the-metaverse-platform-is-one-step-closer-to-launching/

✅ SEC charges Gemini and Genesis with unregistered securities offering

https://www.theblock.co/post/201805/sec-charges-gemini-and-genesis-for-unregistered-offering

✅ MetaMask Launches Staking Beta with Lido and Rocket Pool

https://www.theblock.co/post/201767/metamask-staking-beta-now-live-with-lido-and-rocket-pool-consensys-says?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

✅ The United Arab Emirates (UAE) 🇦🇪 has passed a new law that governs virtual assets, setting up the country's initial regulatory regime for the #cryptocurrency space at the federal level.

✅ JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Bank of America says CBDCs & stablecoins are the natural evolution of money and payments.

https://watcher.guru/news/cbdcs-stablecoins-are-natural-evolution-of-money-payments-bank-of-america

✅ 🇺🇸 US banks team up to launch a digital wallet to compete with PayPal & Apple Pay

https://watcher.guru/news/us-banks-join-hands-to-launch-digital-wallet-that-will-compete-with-paypal-apple-pay

✅ FED raised interest rate by 25 basis point as expected.

🚨🚨Allaince block got hacked.