What Happened on Jan. 12th｜Bored Ape Yacht Club to Launch Dookey Dash on January 18th

CeFi

• Crypto derivatives exchange Blofin goes live.
• SBF released an article explaining the cause of the Alameda implosion.
• Genesis owes creditors more than $3 billion, and its owner DCG considers selling parts of venture capital portfolio.
• Blockchain.com lays off 28% of workforce.
• FTX loan wiped out $800m in BlockFi executives' equity.
• FTX officially lost the naming rights to Miami Heat's arena.

DeFi

• Waves will release Waves 2.0 litepaper in Jan-Feb with $POWER airdrop.

Infrastructure

• Ava Labs partners with AWS to enable one-click node deployment.
• a16z launched a testnet $ETH claim page to offer testnet $ETH to Ethereum developers.

Metaverse & NFTs

• Bored Ape Yacht Club will launch the game Dookey Dash on January 18.
• sudoswap will take a snapshot of 0xmons NFT holders on Jan 15th, who'll share 900K $SUDO.

Policy & Regulation

• Nexo is being investigated by authorities in Bulgaria.
• SFC Chairman: Hong Kong retail investors will only have access to ‘highly liquid’ virtual assets.

Fundings

• Alkimiya raises a $7.2m funding round with participation from Dragonfly and others.

In-Depth Reading

• Could GMX Collapse in a Bull Market? A Deep Dive.