Must pay attention next week
Ethereum Goerli testnet Dencun upgrade will be activated at 14:32 on January 17；
ACDE #179 scheduled for January 18th to observe Goerli Dencun upgrade status；
Algorand technology roadmap will be released soon；
Dymension announces Genesis Rolldrop, claim window will be open until January 21。
From January 15th to January 21st, more noteworthy events in the industry are previewed below.
January 15
Odaily News U.S. Senators JD Vance and Thom Tillis asked SEC Chairman Gary Gensler to submit a report to Congress on the theft of the SEC’s official X account by January 15 (that is, next Monday).
In their letter, the lawmakers said the incident raised serious concerns about the SECs internal cybersecurity procedures and was contrary to the SECs triple mission of protecting investors, maintaining fair, orderly and efficient markets, and promoting capital formation. (Cointelegraph)
Venezuela’s petro currency Petro plans to cease operations on January 15
Odaily News Venezuela’s national oil currency Petro plans to cease operations on January 15. Patria Platform, the only website that can currently trade petro coins, displays information that all cryptocurrency wallets held on the platform will be closed on January 15.
Coin 98 will phase out CUSD, and users can redeem it for free before January 15th next year
Odaily News Coin 98 officially announced that Binance has stopped supporting BUSD, and BUSD is one of the stablecoins backed by legal currency used as collateral for CUSD. Therefore Coin 98 decided to phase out the current version of CUSD. Users can exchange CUSD on BNB Chain, Ethereum and Solana for collateral assets of equal value for free before January 15, 2024, without paying CUSD protocol fees. Users can exchange CUSD (BNB Chian) for BUSD until December 15th.
In addition, Coin 98 will also launch a new and improved version of CUSD.
Programmable privacy network Aleo will undergo second stress test on January 15 for two weeks
Odaily News Programmable Privacy Network Aleo Network announced on the X platform that it will conduct a second stress test starting on January 15 for a period of two weeks.
Odaily News Privacy-focused Layer 1 blockchain Namada recently launched an incentivized testnet that will be rewarded with 3% of its total token supply.
Namada’s testnet will allow participants (validators and users) to join a competitive event to test its consensus algorithm (CometBFT) and its ability to resist Sybil attacks. Participants will be ranked based on the number of ROID (points) they accumulate. Successful players will receive a total of 30 million NAM tokens (3% of the total supply of 1 billion).
The Namada testnet will begin on January 15 and run until the end of the month. The testnet incentives come a week after Namada announced an airdrop of 65 million NAM tokens (6.5% of the total supply) to researchers, developers and token holders on the Cosmos Hub and Osmosis blockchains.
January 16
Odaily News zkLink, a multi-chain transaction infrastructure based on zero-knowledge proof, issued a statement saying that the zkLink Explorer whitelist and community token sale have been launched. Users who apply for the zkLink Explorer whitelist before 20:00 on January 16th, Beijing time will be given priority to participate in the CoinList community sale. The whitelist will give priority to active community members and long-term zkLink supporters. Users will still need to register on CoinList’s zkLink exchange page to qualify for the token sale.
In addition, registration for the zkLink community token sale is open. Sales registration starts at 1:00 on January 12, Beijing time, and ends at 20:00 on January 22. On sale date is January 26th at 2:00 pm. 31, 250, 000 ZKL (ERC-20) will be used for token distribution and sale, accounting for 3.125% of the total supply, and the token price is $0.15 per coin. The total supply of ZKL is 1 billion, with 30% unlocked in the first quarter of 2024 and linearly released in the following nine months. The minimum purchase to participate in CoinList is $100 in tokens, and the maximum purchase is $500 in tokens. USDT and USDC purchases are supported. Residents of the United States, Canada, China, South Korea and other jurisdictions are not eligible to participate.
ZKLs token economic model is: CoinList sales allocation accounts for 3.125%, community treasury allocation accounts for 29.875%, liquidity reserve allocation accounts for 4%, ecosystem development allocation accounts for 22.5%, team consultant allocation accounts for 20%, Early private placement allocation accounts for 20.5%.
Lybra Finance community votes to extend V1 LBR migration deadline to January 16, 2024
Odaily News LSD stablecoin protocol Lybra Finance issued a document on the 21 hours.
Starting at 21:00 on October 16, existing V1 LBR holders can begin migrating their tokens to V2 esLBR. A 3% migration fee will be distributed to esLBR holders on a weekly basis, with the first migration fee being distributed on October 23. More details will be announced on October 16th.
January 17
Oral arguments on motion for judgment in Coinbase vs. SEC lawsuit set for January 17
Odaily News Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal posted on the X platform that oral arguments for the judgment motion in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit have been scheduled for January 17.
Ethereum Goerli testnet Dencun upgrade will be activated at 14:32 on January 17
According to official news from Odaily, Ethereum plans to activate the Dencun upgrade on the Goerli test network at 14:32 on January 17, Beijing time. If the Goerli testnet upgrade goes smoothly, the Dencun upgrade will be activated on the Sepolia and Holesky testnets in the coming weeks. Mainnet activation will be scheduled once Dencun is running smoothly on all three testnets.
Odaily News OP Labs issued a document on the OP Goerli moved to OP Sepolia to prepare for this change.
According to previous news, the 178th Ethereum Core Developer Executive Meeting (ACDE #178) has been held online. According to the meeting minutes made by the meeting host Lightclients, the time to activate the Dencun upgrade on the Goerli test network has been determined to be January. 17th. In addition, the developers have initially agreed to set January 30 and February 7 as the upgrade dates for the Sepolia test network and the Holesky test network respectively.
However, some developers have expressed concerns that the upgrade interval between the Goerli test network and the Sepolia test network is too short or insufficient to observe possible problems. In response, Lightclients stated that ACDE #179 is planned to be held on January 18. If the Goerli test network If network problems occur within the first 24 hours after the upgrade, developers will have the opportunity to review the subsequent schedule.
Paxos Receives Regulatory Approval to Issue USDP on Solana on January 17
Odaily News Stablecoin issuer Paxos has received regulatory approval to expand its product to the Solana network.
Paxos plans to issue the USDP stablecoin on Solana on January 17, 2024. (Fortune)
Odaily News Algorand Developers issued a document on the
Odaily News Snapshot page shows that the Arbitrum community has opened voting for the Long-term Incentive Pilot Program proposal as of January 17.
It is reported that the proposal establishes a long-term incentive pilot program for the DAO to test new incentive designs and answer necessary questions to ensure that it is ready to commit to long-term plans. The program will distribute between 25 million and 45 million ARB tokens to protocols built on Arbitrum, with the exact amount to be determined by the DAO via Snapshot voting and approved via Tally voting. The program will distribute ARBs to the Arbitrum ecosystem protocol within 12 weeks.
According to official news from Odaily, L1 chain XION announced that it will cooperate with DoraHacks to host the first online hackathon event ABSTRACTATHON, which will be held from January 17 to February 14. Registration is now open.
The event is designed to encourage participants to build innovative and user-friendly applications using XION’s Generalized Abstraction, with a $20,000 prize pool. In addition, there will be judges from projects such as Multicoin, Spartan, Injective, OKX and more to review submissions.
January 18
Binance.US will close BarnBridge (BOND) trading on January 18
Odaily News Binance.US officially announced that the deposit service of BarnBridge (BOND) will be closed at 10:00 on January 17th, Beijing time. BOND deposits after this time will not be credited to the account. BOND transactions will be closed on January 17th, Beijing time. Closes at 11:00 on the 18th, BOND withdrawals will remain open. After trading on each trading pair is stopped, all advanced trading orders will be automatically deleted.
ACDE #179 scheduled for January 18th to observe Goerli Dencun upgrade status
Odaily News The 178th Ethereum Core Developer Executive Meeting (ACDE #178) has ended. According to the meeting minutes made by the meeting host Lightclients, the time to activate the Dencun upgrade on the Goerli test network has been determined to be January 17. In addition The developers also tentatively agreed to set January 30 and February 7 as the upgrade dates for the Sepolia testnet and Holesky testnet respectively.
However, some developers have expressed concerns that the upgrade interval between the Goerli test network and the Sepolia test network is too short or insufficient to observe possible problems. In response, Lightclients stated that ACDE #179 is planned to be held on January 18. If the Goerli test network If network problems occur within the first 24 hours after the upgrade, developers will have the opportunity to review the subsequent schedule.
January 19
Binance will discontinue Binance Liquid Swap service on January 19
Odaily News Binance issued an announcement announcing that it will stop the Binance Liquid Swap service at 12:00 on January 19, 2024 (Eastern Eighth District time), and remove BNB/BTC, BNB/ETH, BTC/ETH, BTC/WBTC, and TUSD. /USDT, WBETH/ETH liquidity pool, after which users will no longer be able to complete any new subscriptions, transactions or redemptions on Binance Liquid Swap.
Binance will adjust the minimum price precision for some spot trading pairs on January 19
Odaily News Binance officially announced that it will complete the adjustment of the minimum price accuracy (i.e. the minimum value of the unit price change) for some spot trading pairs before 15:00 on January 19, 2024 (Eastern Eighth District time). For details, please refer to Spot trading rules.
Ripple Labs requests to postpone response to US SEC’s enforcement motion to January 19
Odaily News Ripple Labs submitted an extension application to U.S. District Judge Sarah Netburn of the Southern District of New York, requesting to postpone its response to the compulsory motion filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 11 to January 19. Previously, Ripple’s response date was supposed to be January 17.
CoinList will launch Subsquid (SQD) community sale on January 19th, registration is open
According to official news from Odaily, CoinList announced that it will launch the Subsquid (SQD) community sale at 2 a.m. on January 19, and registration is now open. Details are as follows:
Token supply is 53,480,000 SQD tokens (4% of total supply);
$0.094 per coin;
20% release at TGE, followed by 6 months of linear vesting; TGE is expected to occur around May 15, 2024;
Initial purchase limit: minimum $50, maximum $2000 (USDT/USDC only).
Additionally, Subsquid may, at its sole discretion, sell an additional 13,370,000 SQD tokens (1% of the total supply) during the Subsquid Community Sale.
According to reports, Subsquid Network is a decentralized data lake and query engine, focusing on cross-chain indexing and fast query, and ensuring security through zero-knowledge proof. Subsquid launched their rewarded test network on CoinList in September 2023, attracting nearly 20,000 developers to participate in network testing.
Odaily News Ethereum’s second-layer network Base has released a specific timetable for migrating the test network to Sepolia:
The deposit function on the Base Goerli cross-chain bridge will be suspended on January 19;
Base documentation will no longer mention Goerli on January 31;
On February 9th the Base Goerli infrastructure (including the Base Goerli cross-chain bridge user interface) will be shut down.
Base reminds users to cross-chain testnet funds from Base Goerli to Ethereum Goerli before the infrastructure is split on February 9, 2024.
Odaily News According to official news, the decentralized derivatives trading platform Rollup.Finance announced that the first round of retroactive airdrops will be opened on December 20, Beijing time, and the airdrop blind box application process page will be valid until January 19, 2024.
Community members who have contributed to the construction of the Rollup.Finance project, CherrySwap community members, Chainlink BUILD community members, active users on the zkSync chain and OKX Web3 wallet users are eligible to participate in this airdrop plan. You can check the airdrop qualifications on the official designated page. .
January 20
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January 21
Dymension announces Genesis Rolldrop, claim window will be open until January 21
Odaily News The modular blockchain Dymension announced on the X platform that from now on, more than one million addresses will have the opportunity to participate in Dymension’s Genesis Rolldrop. Eligible participants can claim up to 70 million DYM (7% of the total supply) before 12:00 on January 21, 2024 (UTC time).
The airdrop will be available to Celestia, Ethereum, Cosmos, and Solana users, including a wide range of crypto users such as NFT holders, network stakers, and application users.
Others (specific time to be determined)
Gamma expects to reopen deposits within 1-3 weeks
Odaily News Arbitrum Ecological Liquidity Management Protocol Gamma released a security incident update: OpenZeppelin is being hired to review the deposit agent configuration; the cooperation is expected to begin early next week, after which necessary changes will be implemented to ensure the security of all Vault deposit agent configurations.
Gamma said deposits will be reopened once the changes are implemented; the expected time to reopen is 1-3 weeks.
