🔥 Brief market news Thursday - December 21

+ Bitcoin rises to $44K thanks to ETF expectations, Wall Street is red because of the wave of profit-taking to "eat" Christmas [CT]

+ China wants to promote NFTs, Web3 & Metaverse, but still bans crypto trading [CT]

+ Ripple (XRP) is licensed in Ireland, a gateway to the large EU market [CT]

+ Cardano (ADA) cooperates with oil corporation Petrobras, popularizing blockchain in Brazil [CT]

+ Eigenlayer Re-Staking protocol TVL exceeds $1 billion as users rush to pour money into new staking pool [CT]

+ Starkware uses Avail's data technology for the Madara chain, expected to be released Q2/2024 [CT]

+ Ledger compensates 100% of damages, Kyberswap (KNC) announces compensation plan for victims [CT]

+ Trezor hardware wallet supports SOL and Solana tokens (SPL) [CT]

+ Phantom Wallet supports BTC, Ordinals and BRC-20 [CT] tokens

+ Grass bandwidth sharing project calls for $3.5M capital led by Polychain & Tribe Capital []