Bitcoin Miner Shares Offer Good Entry Point Ahead of Halving Event: Bernstein

The cryptocurrency has performed well before the halving and is likely to sustain momentum for the rest of the year, leading to new highs in 2024, the report said.Source

DeFi Platform Pendle Nears $1B in Total Value Locked

Pendle crossed the $100 million TVL mark in mid-June 2023.Source

Bitcoin Crosses $46K as Year of ‘Long’ Begins, Easing ETF Sell-Off

Over the next few days, East Asia will celebrate the start of the year of the dragon, which is considered to be one of the luckiest and most prosperous animals in the Chinese Zodiac.Source

CoinDesk’s New Owner Bullish Replaces CEO in Restructuring

Sara Startoberdha succeeds Kevin Worth, who has led CoinDesk since 2017.Source

Ether’s Prometheum Test

The “only U.S.-registered crypto securities platform” is listing ETH in a bold test of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s thesis that most cryptocurrencies are securities.Source

Welcome to the ‘Bitcoin Era’ on Wall Street

With a roster of bitcoin ETFs already trading, companies will need to figure out how to differentiate their products.Source

Solana Gains More Than Bitcoin as Trader Speculates an ‘Extreme Move’ Is Ahead

The broader altcoin market also showed signs of rebounding from oversold levels, one analyst noted.Source

JPMorgan Survey Shows Over Half of Institutional Traders Don’t Want Crypto Exposure

The bank’s survey of over 4,000 traders found that 78% of the participants do not plan to trade cryptocurrencies, while just 12% plan to do so in the next five years.Source

U.S. Senators Berate SEC’s Gensler for Agency’s ‘Unethical’ Handling of Crypto Case

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s admission that it misrepresented evidence in a lawsuit against the blockchain project DEBT Box casts doubt on its wider enforcement practices, several Republican senators argued in a letter to Chair Gary Gensler.Source

Protocol Village: Web3 Security Firm FuzzLand Raises $3M Led by 1kx

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 8-14.Source