Bitcoin reaches an historic milestone, breaching the $1trn mark for the first time.

CME launched its cash-settled contract for ether, the digital asset of the Ethereum blockchain network.

Tesla announced that it has invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and expects to start accepting the cryptocurrency as payment.

Bitcoin's momentum does not appear to be fading. The digital asset breached a new key level over $20,000, a little more than two weeks after it matched its previous all-time high set in 2017.

The group, which already provides the main regulated bitcoin futures contract, announced it will extend its offering with an Ether futures contracts, coming to market on the 8th February 2021.

Bitcoin reaches a new all-time high at $19,839. This is the highest level since the 17th December 2017, when bitcoin reached $18,811.

One of the proxies to measure institutional adoption of bitcoin is the the use of the CME Bitcoin futures contract, the main regulated Bitcoin derivative instrument available to institutional investors. Open interest reached $1bn for the first time, following consistent growth over the past few months.

This is the latest rejection of a Bitcoin ETF application, on grounds of potential market manipulation and lack of surveillance-sharing agreements. The decision has been publicly criticised by SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) commissioner Hester Peirce, denouncing the "ever-shifting standards that this Commission insists on applying to bitcoin-related products".

Crypto custodian BitGo acquired Harbor in an effort to diversify its services beyond custody and will be able to operate as a broker-dealer, a transfer agent and a qualified custodian.

The new budget would move the Secret Service from Homeland back to the Treasury with the objective of creating "new efficiencies in the investigation of these crimes and prepare the Nation to face the threats of tomorrow".