ChainCatcher news, MakersPlace announced that due to ongoing market challenges and funding difficulties, the digital art platform will cease operations after six years. Effective immediately, the platform will disable minting, token imports, and new account creation, but art purchases will continue temporarily. Artists and collectors must transfer their works from the MakersPlace hosted wallet to personal wallets by June 2025, with related tools set to launch in February.MakersPlace stated that it will refund unused funds to investors and provide fair severance pay to employees. All Ethereum NFTs on the platform will still be accessible through the secondary market.

ChainCatcher news, according to Genomeweb, blockchain genomics company LunaDNA announced that it will cease operations on January 31. The company was launched in 2017 and raised $2 million in seed funding, followed by an additional $4.6 million in 2019.The company stated: "While this company and platform will no longer exist, we are proud to have recognized the transformative importance of people as partners in therapeutic development and to have demonstrated to the industry and researchers the value of a more comprehensive understanding of the pain in people's lives beyond therapy."