U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated acting Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) chair Travis Hill to formally lead the regulator, a move seen as a green light for banks seeking to expand into crypto. The announcement came Wednesday as Washington grappled with a grinding government shutdown.

OpenAI has launched Sora 2, a new AI system that creates realistic videos with accurate motion and sound. The accompanying Sora app lets users appear in AI-generated scenes using “cameos” and share videos in a TikTok-style feed.

In one of the most shocking shake-ups the crypto world has seen this year, David Schwartz — the man often called the architect of Ripple — has announced he’s stepping down as Chief Technology Officer after more than 13 years at the helm.

Universal Music and Warner Music are in talks with AI companies to license their catalogues for training systems and generating tracks. The deals could set rules for payments and how copyrighted music is used by AI.

Dogecoin just got its biggest political endorsement yet. In a move that could redefine the meme coin’s future, Thumzup Media Corporation — a Nasdaq-listed firm with deep Trump family ties — has handed DogeHash Technologies a $2.5 loan to supercharge its mining power.

Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, revealed he survived a near-fatal poisoning in 2018 after a suspicious package was left at his home. The attack happened during a dispute with Russian authorities over encryption keys, leaving Durov seriously ill for weeks.

Former SAF officer Teo Rong Xuan stole US$1.7 million in cryptocurrency using a victim’s seed phrase. He spent the funds on luxury items, gambling, and mortgage payments.

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has made a bold prediction: one day, governments around the world will be forced to stop printing money — and when that moment comes, Bitcoin will step in as the global currency.

Doodles partnered with Froot Loops to release 500 limited-edition NFT-linked cereal boxes, which sold out within hours. The collaboration aimed to make the brand more visible outside Web3 and offered collectors signed boxes and digital collectibles.

Stripe just dropped a bombshell for the crypto world: a new tool called Open Issuance that lets any business launch its own stablecoin “with just a few lines of code.”

Official news, Manta Network ecological Meme platform Gullswap launched the Season1 airdrop event, and supports STONE, MANTA, as well as PEPE, MEME, SHIB, DOGE, TRUMP, LADYS, FLOKI, ELON, PORK and other Meme token pledges to obtain GULL token airdrop points , the highest estimated APY is 91%.

Bitget market data shows that the leading sectors are Mingwen, BRC20 and Layer2 sectors, of which COM has a 24-hour increase of 33.13%, TURT has a 24-hour increase of 16.84%, and SUI has a 24-hour increase of 11.09%. As of press time, the top three currencies on the real-time increase list are JAN, SAKAI, and PORK.

The meme coin PepeFork (PORK) has lost 32% of its value in the last 24 hours at the time of writing, currently sitting at $0.065. This pullback in PORKs price might be related to smart traders dumping the token today, data from on-chain analysis firm Nansen shows.PORK was released on Jan. 30 and 124 addresses labeled as smart money jumped to accumulate 40.9 trillion units, triggering a 600%... source: https://cryptobriefing.com/pork-drops-30-traders-dump/?utm_source=cryptopanic&utm_medium=rss

PORK, the memecoin forked from PEPE, has witnessed a big surge within days of its launch. source: https://ambcrypto.com/pork-why-you-should-watch-out-for-the-next-moves-of-this-memecoin/

A trader is in the limelight after earning millions of dollars on PORK with an initial investment of 5 ETH. source: https://dailycoin.com/trader-leverages-pork-token-to-earn-3-3million/?utm_source=cryptopanic&utm_medium=rss

In the bustling kitchen of cryptocurrency trading, a savvy trader has cooked up a delectable profit of $3.3 million from a mere $12,000 investment in Ethereum-powered PepeFork ($PORK), a pink Pepe-The-Frog-themed memecoin spin-off of Pepe ($PEPE), all within a compelling three-day period. Lookonchain is recognized as a blockchain analytics platform that specializes in on-chain analysis. […] source: https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2024/02/savoring-the-flavor-of-success-a-traders-3-3-million-feast-on-pork/

According to the official announcement, CoinW will launch PORK in the zoo area at 20:00 on February 2, 2024 (UTC+8), open the PORK/USDT trading pair, and launch the PORK 3x ETF product at the same time, open PORK3L/USDT, PORK3S/USDT trading pair. Deposit start time: 16:00 on February 2, 2024 (UTC+8) Transaction opening time: 20:00 on February 2, 2024 (UTC+8) Coin withdrawal opening time: 20:00 on February 2, 2024 (UTC+8)

According to Foresight News, on-chain analyst ai_9684xtpa has reported that the suspected wallet address of PORK token issuer PAULY has reached a floating profit of $55.68 million. In addition, three addresses spent a total of 9 ETH to purchase 88.9 trillion tokens on the day PORK token was launched. These tokens were then distributed to 15 addresses, which currently hold 74.5 trillion tokens, valued at 20,696 ETH (approximately $47.72 million).

According to monitoring by on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, the floating profit of the address of Pauly, the suspected PORK issuer, increased to US$55.68 million. The three related addresses spent a total of 9 ETH to buy 88.9 trillion tokens on the day it went online, and then distributed them to 15 addresses, currently these addresses still hold 74.5 trillion tokens, worth 20,696 ETH.

1. A certain whale transferred a total of more than 360,000 AAVE to Binance in the past day and a half, with an estimated loss of US$5.05 million; 2. A trader made $3.3 million in profits on PORK in 3 days, including $2.55 million in unrealized profits; 3. Ethereum developers plan to determine the mainnet launch date for the Dencun upgrade on February 8; 4. Bitwise Spot Bitcoin ETF held 15,053.66 BTC as of February 1; 5. Binance will launch ZETA 1-50 times U-based perpetual contract; 6. Bithumb will charge 0.04% service fee from February 5, the lowest among Korean crypto exchanges; 7. NAVI Protocol releases token economic model: 45.8% of NAVX tokens will be used for ecological growth and airdrops; 8. Grayscale GBTC has a premium of 0.03%, and the ETH trust has a negative premium rate of 11.23%; 9. Paradigm files a legal brief to support prediction market platform Kalshi’s lawsuit against the CFTC; 10. Dymension Community Mod: The team plans to launch the mainnet on February 6; 11. Stride launches stTIA, a new LST asset, and will airdrop 5 million STRD to early holders; 12. Bitwise CIO: The cumulative net inflows of Bitcoin spot ETFs in 14 trading days exceeded the gold ETF inflows during the same period.