Crypto funds outperformed traditional hedge funds and digital asset benchmarks. Ray Dalio: Allocating up to 2% of your portfolio to bitcoin is reasonable. Paradigm, Sequoia to Invest $1.15B in Citadel Securities.

PayPal Is Exploring Creating Its Own Stablecoin as Crypto Business Grows. Volumes on Ethereum-based NFT markets broke a four-month downward trend in December. Bitcoin is set to take further market share from gold, according to Goldman Sachs.

MicroStrategy added to its ever-growing amount of bitcoin over the course of December, NFT trading volume surpassed $13 billion in 2021, DeFi project Aave started developing a mobile wallet, and other big news in crypto.

Bitcoin miners generated more than $15 billion in revenue during 2021. Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs flip CryptoPunks in terms of floor price. Opera to integrate with Polygon, opening DApp ecosystem to 80M users.

Sportswear brands are going in big on NFTs, 90% of all bitcoins have been mined, blockchain oracle services firm Chainlink has added AccuWeather to its suite of real-world data feeds, and more.

Meta's crypto wallet Novi launches on WhatsApp. Pepsi is going to launch a generative NFT collection. Polygon acquires ZK-rollups startup Mir Protocol for $400 million.

Twitter names Parag Agrawal CEO as Jack Dorsey steps down. Virtual land in the Metaverse dominated NFT sales over past week. Fidelity Canada officially launches Bitcoin ETF and Bitcoin Mutual Fund.

Bitcoin overtakes Paypal on value transferred, sets sights on Mastercard report. More than 1 million ETH has been burned following EIP-1559. Axie Infinity plot of virtual land sells for record $2.4 million.

Citadel founder Kenneth Griffin beat crypto group in US Constitution copy auction report, Rehabilitation plan for defunct bitcoin exchange Mt Gox is now finalized. Paradigm launches $2.5 billion venture fund for crypto companies.

Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals that he owns some cryptocurrency, Bitcoin’s biggest upgrade since 2017 went live, Miami's mayor says residents will receive a bitcoin dividend in a MiamiCoin wallet.