What Happened on Feb. 3rd｜Binance Acquires Majority Stake in South Korean Crypto Exchange GOPAX

DeFi

• Aave is catching up with the liquid staking trend to onboard more LSDs.
• WOO Ventures will drop tokens to WOO X and WOOFi stakers.
• Damus has been removed from China App Store.
• Cross-chain margin platform Prime Protocol is launching on Arbitrum.
• Demex, a DEX in the Cosmos ecosystem, launched $GLP Vault.

CeFi

• Binance acquires majority stake in South Korean crypto exchange GOPAX.
• Tether ownership was revealed by WSJ.
• CZ: Binance security team monitoring Orion Protocol exploiter's address.
• Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg waived bail.
• Coinbase adds $LSETH to its listing roadmap.

Infrastructure

• Synthr integrates LayerZero to provide omnichain synthetic assets.
• Threshold launched tBTC, a trust-minimized Bitcoin - Ethereum bridge.
• TON Chain announced 2023 roadmap.

Metaverse & NFTs

• OpenSea will introduce a "3-Hour Hold Period" to mitigate theft-related risk.
• OpenSea launches a new suite of tools offering a one-stop shop for NFT drops.
• The Interchain Foundation introduces Cosmos Interchain NFT and the game of NFTs event.
• Coinbase is pausing NFT creators drops and denies closing down the Marketplace.

Policy & Regulation

• DAO fails to protect Mango Markets hacker in the face of US Courts.
• Australia plans to reveal the crypto rule framework in 2023.

Fundings

• Web3 social data portal Port3 closes a $3 million seed round led by KuCoin Ventures.
• Web3 infrastructure BlockJoy closes nearly $11 illion in Seed and Series A funding.