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Interactive Brokers, a global brokerage firm with headquarters in the United States, announced the launch of its crypto trading services for institutional clients in Hong Kong on Feb. 14. The crypto trading services were launched in association with OSL Digital Securities, a Securities and Futures Commission-licensed digital asset brokerage and trading platform for professional investors.

The hedera hashgraph price has jumped by 6.5% in the past 24 hours, reaching $0.086379 following the news that the Hedera blockchain has processed over four billion transactions to date. This level represents a 27% gain in a week and a 61% surge in the last 30 days, with this rally also caused in part by Dell's joining of the Hedera Governing Council.

Bitcoin’s average block size has hit all-time highs above 2.5MB for the first time since its inception in 2009, driven by the launch of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) protocol Ordinals in January 2023.

Polygon [MATIC] saw a significant increase in its demand of late. According to a tweet on 13 February, one particular address snapped up over 20 million tokens over the past few days, becoming one of the largest MATIC holding addresses.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly planning to propose new rule changes this week that could impact what services crypto firms can offer their clients. 

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has seen a surge of withdrawals over the last 24 hours as investors appear to be spooked over recent news of regulatory action against Paxos and its stablecoin Binance USD (BUSD).

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During the intraday trading session on 12 February, Layer 1 (L1) blockchain Aptos [APT] conducted its third token unlock since the 2023 trading year started.

After dominating crypto inflows for most of the year so far, Bitcoin fell out of favor in the eyes of investors last week. That’s according to the latest weekly Digital Asset Fund Flows report produced by crypto analytics firm CoinShares, which tracks investment flows into and out of digital asset investment products. Bitcoin fell back under $22,000 last week for the first time since mid-January last Thursday, and ultimately dropped 5.0% last week.

Digital asset platform Bakkt has announced its plans to shift its focus to B2B technology solutions. The company said it will soon be sunsetting its consumer-facing app, which was designed to give users the ability to utilize their digital assets in different ways. The app, launched in March 2021, offered a user-friendly experience that brought together various digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, loyalty points, and gift cards.

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Chainlink [LINK] adoption has been on the rise as the blockchain continues to expand its integrations. LINK recently announced multiple new integrations across four chains- Avalanche, BNB, Ethereum, and Polygon. 

Cyber criminals used a variety of novel ways to carry out hacks and exploits in 2022, with over $2.8 billion of cryptocurrency stolen last year.

After hints that it was on the verge of breaking into a strong bullish season, the cryptocurrency market has fallen back again to reside in the red over the past week. Investors may be unhappy that the market has still failed to break resistance levels, but at least some tokens have been performing unusually well.

Monday, February 13th, 2023 – The blockchain-based electric vehicle charging payment platform, C+Charge, has successfully raised $1,000,000 during its presale fundraising campaign.

Cointelegraph is proud to announce the launch of the Cointelegraph Markets and Research YouTube channel, a place that will hopefully become every trader’s first stop for breaking markets news, insights and alpha from Cointelegraph’s team of experts and guest analysts from the crypto industry. 

smart contracts, via, blockchains like Ethereum, and others, have brought a new twist into that logic.Smart contracts: DefinedAlthough the term has always been considered coined by and a part of blockchain technology, the term Smart Contracts was coined, some 20 years ago, by a cryptographer named Nick Szabo. The purpose of coinage was to introduce “highly evolved” practices of contract law and related business practices in, and in conjunction with the design of electronic commerce protocols between strangers on the Internet. In blockchain technology however, a Smart Contract is essentially a computer protocol that can self-execute, self-enforce, self-verify, and self-constraint during the performance of an automated contract. Though rapidly evolving, classic smart contract implementation examples include the ICOs and Crypto Kitties. Aside from its legal impact and perhaps a replacement with legal contracts, smart contracts can certainly lessen the burden and the complexity of writing a new contract. Instead one can include these as terms of a smart contract between two parties automatically.

The Uniswap community cast their votes in support of implementing Uniswap v3 on Boba Network's layer-2 protocol on Ethereum, and the majority of those votes were positive.

Recently, the decentralized exchange (DEX) system known as CoW Swap came under assault, resulting in the loss of at least 550 BNB (BNB) due to a contract hack that permitted money transfers away from the platform.

The rapid collapse of FTX, once the world’s second-largest crypto exchange, followed by the collapse of Celsius, has undermined trust in centralized crypto services. The industry’s short history has shown that hacking attacks and fund misappropriation are the two leading causes behind centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs) crashing or losing clients.