Chainlink Staking v0.2 Now Available to the Public | Cryptocurrency Trends

1. Mainstream Exchange Trends:

• Coinbase lists SEAM, the governance token of the Seamless Protocol, a Base ecosystem lending protocol.
• Binance unveils Fusionist (ACE) mining with BNB and FDUSD as its 40th Launchpool project.
• Mainstream Exchange Listings (CEX: Token — Time of Listing in UTC)

2. Cryptocurrency Trends:

• Chainlink Staking v0.2 is now available to the public. As the community pool filled up during early access, anyone can stake LINK when an existing staker completes a withdrawal and space in the pool becomes available.
• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) discussed the technical details of a possible spot Bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) with leading investment firms, including BlackRock and Fidelity.
• Seamless Protocol, the Base ecosystem's first native lending protocol, says airdrops for its governance token SEAM can now be claimed.
• According to Coinglass, a total of US$517 million was liquidated in the last 24 hours, of which US$455 million were long positions and US$62.15 million were short positions.
• GFX Labs, the team behind the trading platform Oku, deploys Uniswap v3 on Bitcoin sidechain Rootstock.
• Trader Joe launches Merchant Moe, a Mantle-exclusive DEX designed to expand on Trade Joe's innovative liquidity hub.

3. Financing Trends:

• Bitget announces it is making a multi-million dollar investment in Morphism, an Ethereum Layer 2 consumer blockchain. Specific terms were not disclosed.
• French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI announces it has raised EUR€385 million (US$415 million) in funding.
• Liquidium, a Bitcoin Ordinals lending solution, raises US$1.25 million in pre-seed round funding.

4. Regulatory Trends:

• U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, wins further support for a bill aimed at cracking down on the alleged use of cryptocurrencies in illegal finance.