What happened in Crypto in the last 12h:

- Czech Republic Approves $BTC Reserve

- Kraken Relaunches Staking Services for US Clients

- SEC Approves Bitwise $BTC $ETH Combo ETF

- Gold Spot Price Hits New ATH

- $JUP Buyback Starts Next Week

- OpenAI in $340B Val Investment Round Talks

- Coinbase $AXS $XTZ $EGLD Perp

- $UNI Unisawp V4 Already Deployed

- 430M $USDC Newly Minted

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• $BTC - Czech National Bank (CNB) approves proposal to study Bitcoin as a reserve asset. The proposal came from CNB Governor Alessi Miihl, who has said he is interested in adding bitcoin to the bank's balance sheet.

• Kraken has relaunched its on-chain staking services, including $ETH $SOL for US customers, two years after the SEC sued the company.

• $BTC $ETH - The SEC approved Bitwise's combined Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF.

• The spot price of gold has surpassed $2,795 per ounce and is on track to break its ATH of late October 2024.

• $JUP - Meow said the buyback of $JUP will begin next week and shared more deets. Jupiter has previously announced that it plans to spend 50% of the protocol's revenue on $JUP buybacks.

• OpenAI is in talks to secure up to $40B in a funding round that would value the startup at $340B. SoftBank is expected to lead the round, putting in $15~25B. $WLD #AI

• $AXS $XTZ $EGLD - Coinbase Int. has announced the listing of AXS-PERP, XTZ-PERP, and EGLD-PERP markets will begin on or after 9:30 am (UTC) 6 Feb.

• $UNI - According to DefiLlama data, Uniswap v4 has a TVL of around $1 million and is believed to have already been deployed, although there has been no official announcement from the Uniswap team.

• $USDC - USDC Treasury has minted 430M $USDC