Daily Crypto News | 17.12.2020

1- Bitcoin has seen a new all time high today, topping above $23,500.
2- The amount of $ETH staked for ethereum 2.0 has surpassed $1B today.
3- MathWallet has raised $12M in a funding round led by Binance Labs.
4- After being charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Robinhood settles to pay $65M.
5- The Graph blockchain is now live on ethereum.
6- Coinbase has filed a draft registration to SEC for their IPO.
7- In collaboration with BLOCKDATA, CB Insights has published their first annual “Blockchain 50” list.
8- Wolfram Blockchain Labs of Wolfram partnered with Charles Hoskinson’s tech company IOHK to develop advanced smart contracts on Cardano blockchain.
9- Paxos raised $142M in a funding round led by Declaration Partners.
10- According to data from skew., Bitcoin options volume has surpassed $1.1B.
11- Since January 1, 2020 Bitcoin’s Wikipedia page had an average daily view of 6,943, on December 16 the number of views has reached 16,088.
12- IDEO CoLab has announced their incubator program for DeFi startups.
13- Coinbase announced that Kelly Kramer will be joining the board of directors.
14- The institutional trading platform FalconX has announced that they had an investment from American Express Ventures earlier this year.
15- Bitpanda is launching their tech hub in Krakow, Poland.
16- Bitcoin is up 6.9% at $22,839.
17- {ess} (ESD) is the highest gainer in top 100 list with a 20.3% daily profit.
18- UMA (UMA) is the highest loser in top 100 list with a 7.7% daily loss.