U.S. SEC Approves Bitcoin Spot ETFs | Cryptocurrency Trends

1. Mainstream Exchange Trends:

• According to an official announcement, Binance will delist nine spot trading pairs, including CITY/BTC and COS/ BNB, and suspend trading.
• Mainstream Exchange Listings (CEX: Token — Time of Listing in UTC)

2. Cryptocurrency Trends:

• BlackRock says its iShares spot Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) is expected to start trading on the Nasdaq on January 11 (U.S. local time).
• According to Reuters, SEC filings show that the SEC has approved 11 spot bitcoin ETFs from VanEck, Bitwise, Fidelity, Franklin, Valkyrie, Hashdex, Ark Invest, Grayscale, BlackRock, WisdomTree, and Invesco Galaxy. Galaxy.
• Open interest in Bitcoin futures contracts on the CME now accounts for 36% of all open interest in futures contracts, the highest percentage ever recorded.
• BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, lowers the fees on its proposed spot Bitcoin ETF from 0.30% to 0.25%.
• Starknet v0.13 is now live on the mainnet. The v0.13.0 upgrade enables significant cost reductions through more efficient transactions and, from a technical perspective, is ready to use STRK as gas.
• The Arbitrum community opens voting on the long-term incentives pilot program. The proposal aims to test a new long-term incentives scheme for Arbitrum's future programs.
• X Safety releases an update on its investigation into the hacking of the SEC's X account, confirming that the account was hijacked and that the preliminary investigation has been completed.

3. Financing Trends:

• eesee, a one-stop liquidity solution and gamified digital asset marketplace, announces it has raised $2.85 million, including $1.1 million in seed round funding and $1.75 million in private round funding.

4. Regulatory Trends:

• U.S. senators J.D. Vance and Thom Tillis ask SEC Chairman Gary Gensler to submit a report to Congress on the hacking of the SEC's X account. The report is due on January 15.