A bit of unpleasant news about BTC Alpha, the operators of the LockBit ransomware virus have made publicly available the data of users (38,893 from Russia) of the British BTC-Alpha exchange. Thus, KYC data of users containing: full name, addresses, phone numbers, document numbers (passports, driver's licenses and others), dates of birth got into the network.
https://t.me/dataleak/2472

More and more companies are starting to invest in the development of the metaverse ecosystem, and FTX does not stay away from this, stating that it will launch a Web3 venture fund worth $2 billion by sending them to the new FTX Ventures venture capital division headed by Amy Wu.
https://twitter.com/FTX_Official/status/1482062145315504132
https://ventures.ftx.com/

Please note that it remains possible only until January 15 to quietly swap Beetle coins for a new bsc Beet token on the southxchange exchange in case you missed it, please contact the discord channel https://discord.gg/DJ59FKQ
 

The PATX token has reached its ATH against the background of the rise in the price of bitcoin, I think it's not worth selling now what you got for registering on the patriot exchange, besides at the moment the exchange has started a modest, but still marketing campaign on the daily talk show The Kevin Alan Show https://www.youtube.com/c/TheKevinAlanShow/videos

It seems to me an important update for the FairX platform On January 13, 2022, the Coinbase exchange announced that it had agreed to acquire the FairX crypto derivatives platform, the transaction is expected to close in the first fiscal quarter as the parties must receive regulatory approval. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. Coinbase is going to gradually integrate FairX into its ecosystem.
https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1481374927143899138

A little update on this scam, so recently the South African police began (for a long time they were going to do this) investigating criminal cases initiated after the appeal of investors of the bankrupt cryptocurrency platform Africrypt. The plaintiffs are seeking fraud charges and the arrest of the founders of Africrypt, brothers Amir and Reis Keiji.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/crypto-losses-probed-by-south-african-cops-after-brothers-vanish

According to the counter data on https://polygonscan.com/block/countdown/23850000 , the London hard fork should appear on the mainnet network in 5 days and 19 hours, or about 222,500 blocks from here. The London hard fork, or EIP-1559, will be activated after checking block 23,850,000.  I wonder what the fee for gas in the polygon network will be after the hard fork.

The polygon team also announces that, in agreement with the Binance exchange and due to the low level of use, the 150 million BEP2 that MATIC provided for liquidity in the binding chain in 2019 will be exchanged for ERC20 MATIC from the Fund's wallet on January 12 at 11:00 GMT, and then will be burned.
https://twitter.com/0xPolygon/status/1481012904002568193

More and more companies are working on the development of quantum computers IBM, Cambridge Quantum, Google, etc. and now Alphabet (most likely this company is a daughter of Google) plans to allocate developers of quantum computing Sandbox Technology to a separate company SB Technologies Inc., for which a website has already been registered sandboxquantum.com
https://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-google-secretive-quantum-tech-group-is-preparing-spin-out-2022-1?r=MX&IR=T

After the support of the Oasis ecosystem by Binance Lab, the Oasis Ecosystem fund, which specializes in supporting dapps developers in the Oasis network, grew to $200 million.
https://twitter.com/BinanceLabs/status/1480906287994994689
Also on January 11, Oasis developers announced the  announced the launch of the decentralized exchange YuzuSwap, and earlier in December 2021, the Wormhole Bridge cross-chain was launched, interacting with the Avalanche, Binance Smart Chain, Terra, Ethereum, Polygon and Solana networks.
 

A little news on the tZERO exchange as previously reported that back in 2018 the SEC began its investigation into the tZERO platform  and now, on January 10, the SEC fined the tZERO security token trading platform $800,000 for violating federal rules for not disclosing the necessary information about the use of trading data outside the US.
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2022/34-93938.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Mexico's largest exchange Bitso announced the listing on its Shiba platform, which will be the sixteenth asset on this exchange, it remains to wait for the promised listing on the Bitstamp exchange.  https://twitter.com/Bitso/status/1481025782629732352

Yes, indeed, a large percentage depends on luck here, for example, a fresh example according to the CKPool pool administrator on January 11, an unknown bitcoin miner with an equipment capacity of 126 TH/s found solo block 718 124 https://www.btc.com/btc/block/718124 , the probability of success with the current bitcoin hashrate was less than 0.0001%. 
https://twitter.com/ckpooldev/status/1480843321043865602

Polygon developers are announcing the date of their most important update of this year and plans to release their version of the mainnet Hermez Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine in the 2nd quarter of 2022. Mainnet zkEVM V1 will be suitable only for token transfer and will not be compatible with EVM, according to the team, this compatibility will appear in zkEVM v2 mainet.
https://www.aliens.com/livenews/latest/polygon-hermez-is-developing-zkevm-and-plans-to-launch-the-mainnet-in-q2-2022

There was an announcement about the purchase of Take-Two Interactive publisher of mobile games Zynga for $12.7 billion, it is expected that the deal will be closed by June 30 this year, so it seems that the publisher of games such as GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Borderlands, etc. is on the path of introducing blockchain technologies into its games, as not long before that Zynga announced the beginning of work on the implementation of NFT in its future projects https://investor.zynga.com/news-releases/news-release-details/zynga-and-forte-announce-strategic-partnership-drive-rapid

source: https://twitter.com/zynga/status/1480511490138517505
            https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220110005389/en/Take-Two-and-Zynga-to-Combine-Bringing-Together-Best-in-Class-Intellectual-Properties-and-a-Market-Leading-Diversified-Mobile-Publishing-Platform-to-Enhance-Positioning-as-a-Global-Leader-in-Interactive-Entertainment

Every day, a new hack now, on January 10, hackers managed to withdraw 165.2 million LMT tokens worth approximately $18.2 million from the hot wallets of the sports NFT platform Lympo (daughter of Animoca Brand), according to the developers , the following wallets were compromised:

https://etherscan.io/address/0x5D32b87A43a2bd1f7df209d2F475b165d2c09E24
https://etherscan.io/address/0x526232F70b97938E19394e57BC5eE1d5d929074e
https://etherscan.io/address/0xB0a60eBA24f6CF18CFDED0672c5C7a7529DcC342
https://etherscan.io/address/0x934dd62782BFe4a8E3f096E014266e5F5adc1b2a
https://etherscan.io/address/0x877eECC3Ae4Bb28f048c16CD65A44cDE025345a1
https://etherscan.io/address/0x36d97147cF8E1B75254748Cf0A102316fCc61697
https://etherscan.io/address/0xA432C0081307733e801Ea7877e725F4E0adfbBfF
https://etherscan.io/address/0x4b936321b0E3E2d919412502B6aDA09E9b7d484b
https://etherscan.io/address/0x75912Da145cA00092AF317F8c3A84073A5665256
https://etherscan.io/address/0x4C801611cdaB559861d4dB24155927F903DEa02A

source: https://twitter.com/Lympo_io/status/1480582931794083842
            https://medium.com/lympo-official/lympo-statement-to-the-community-914d6b453b1f

The Cardano developers who initiated the Cardano Forest green initiative in which users exchange ADA for TREE tokens, each of which is equal to one tree, the minimum amount of donations is 15 ADA, all this is ultimately aimed at reducing the impact of mining on CO2 emissions (a contentious statement, of course, but continuing to weigh on the entire cryptocurrency) by planting trees announced that they have achieved the goal and planted 1 million trees, so whatever it is, but ultimately it goes for the benefit of the environment and I think this is an excellent initiative.
https://twitter.com/F_Gregaard/status/1480272924170862592

The next AMA was held at which the upcoming updates and upcoming events for the month of January were announced, the listing on Feg exchange was confirmed on January 14, the launch of AidiCraft V2 is scheduled for January 26, and the marketing campaign will finally begin on January 15. I think that all these events should attract new users to the platform and trading will revive, it's bad that there are no plans yet to list Aidi tokens on large cex.
The AMA broadcast is available also available on youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw-Pu8EY0o4

Here is the actual PUGG website https://pugg.io / but what will happen to the developers in the end, you need to wait for at least the beta version of the game to appear, but I think it's still far away, although judging by the roadmap, the release should take place this month.

Now all holders of Shiba tokens have the opportunity to borrow or lend funds and receive interest for it, since Euler Finance announced the activation of Shiba inu in its protocol, it seems that there will be such willing, especially since now the price of Shiba is decreasing.
https://twitter.com/eulerfinance/status/1480430666500087810

Solana positions itself as a high-performance network for dapps, but it is in the testing stage and this is good, which allows you to get rid of errors in time, so in December a bug was discovered and eliminated, allowing you to withdraw funds from some DeFi projects, the TVL of these projects was then $2.6 billion. Recently, a large-scale failure was observed in the Solana network, which led to a decrease in the performance of the beta version of the mainnet and errors in transaction processing.
https://twitter.com/SolanaStatus/status/1479126136953053187

So it's too early to talk about the security and guaranteed performance of the Solana network.