- The next Bitcoin halving is planned in less than 100 days. This Halving will see the block reward for miners on the network increase from $6.25 to $3.125BTC. After the halving, the average cost of producing one Bitcoin would be $37,856. The use of sustainable energy in Bitcoin mining reaches an all-time high of 54.5%.

- Trading volume on Bitcoin Spot ETFs reaches $9.6 billion for first 3 trading days. A volume historic in the history of the ETF. Bitcoin overtakes silver and becomes the second largest American commodities ETF.

- Solana ($SOL) is starting 2024 on fire, recording a whopping 40 million daily transactions.

- Google Cloud becomes a validator on the Flare ($FLR) blockchain.

- In Argentina, the first rental contract settled in BTC was signed.

Regarding AIRDROPS, I realized that certain underestimated projects largely remunerated early users (for example $JITO) unlike very widely publicized projects, so I will add here every week at least one project which seems interesting without of course any certainty of result on a potential airdrop. This week focus on some bridges  :

- Deposit any amount of USDC/USDT/ETH to Manta Pacific till 1/26 through https://owlto.finance and to complete Galxe quest go here https://galxe.com/mantanetwork/campaign/GCT5ctt22L (in addition check every day on Owlto to earn more points).

- Mint some NFT on several blockchain ( depends on your score ) with https://app.rhino.fi/nft-minter/MANTA 

- Orbiter bridge adds some quests to earn O-Points  https://www.orbiter.finance/ and according to X : "$ORB will be launched within this year. The O-Points Program will play a crucial role in shaping the airdrop rules."

- Bridge any amount from Arbitrum to any chain via https://jumper.exchange/ and claim badge here https://galxe.com/LIFI/campaign/GCKXktwT1p