Blast announced that it will merge with Arcade Research and be managed by Pacman. At the same time, the Blast Mobile app will be launched, providing BLAST token holders with an annualized return of more than 50% on their US dollar deposits. The source of income includes the 11.5% native income currently provided by Maker and the BLAST token incentive.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time last week was 223,000, an estimate of 220,000, and the previous value was 217,000.
Last Futures Exchange: Copper inventories increased by 10,118 tons this week, aluminum inventories decreased by 3,694 tons, zinc inventories decreased by 294 tons, lead inventories decreased by 1,351 tons, nickel inventories increased by 1,752 tons, tin inventories increased by 73 tons, and natural rubber inventories increased by 3,700 tons.
Michael Saylor announced in a post on the X platform that MicroStrategy (MSTR) generated 1440 BTC in financial operations last week, which is equivalent to creating $138.20 million in value for shareholders at a price of $96,000.
The Biden administration fired the "last shot" at Russia, and oil prices got a boost again as the winter arrived. But analysts point out that crude oil bulls seem to be too "carried away"? > >
Oil prices in the United States and Burkina Faso both rose to 2% in early trading, as the impact of last week's U.S. energy sanctions on Russia continued.
According to on-chain analyst Ember Monitoring, the whale who lost $660,000 on MOG investment last time should have re-invested in MOG: he raised 1 trillion MOG ($2.01 million) from Bitget 6 hours ago at a price of $0.000002. He bought MOG on the chain after ETH was raised from Bitget last time, and then transferred MOG to Bitget to achieve a loss of $660,000.
Blast, the Ethereum Layer2 network, announced on the X platform: "Blast's mobile platform will be launched later this month with the Tokenomics update. All Blast Dapps should ensure that credits and coins are distributed to users prior to these changes. There will be no coin distribution in January. All users should also ensure that they log into the Blast website with their wallets. The official release date will be announced soon."
Season 1 of ZKsync Ignite, which runs from January 6 to March 31, will distribute up to 100 million ZK tokens to DeFi users who provide liquidity in DEX, lending, and perps. There were 15 participating agreements in the first quarter, and more will be added in the coming months. The ZKsync Ignite program aims to turn ZKsync Era into a liquidity hub for the Elastic Network.
On January 7th, blockchain network Elastos announced the launch of the Arbiter Network public beta version of its Bitcoin Layer2 network BeL2. Arbiter nodes provide time-based transaction supervision and decentralized dispute resolution, allowing bitcoin to remain on the mainnet while using smart contracts on the EVM blockchain.
Blockchain network Elastos has released a public beta of its Arbiter network for Bitcoin Layer2 BeL2. Sasha Mitchell, head of operations at Elastos, said: "The Arbiter network is an important piece of the puzzle of the BeL2 infrastructure, providing a fully decentralized Bitcoin finance platform that takes full advantage of Bitcoin's risk resistance without relying on a centralized custodian through Arbiter's trustless oversight and time-based services."