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โณ SEC is delaying the Spot ETF decision until January 2024.
โ๏ธ DeFi platforms Velodrome and Aerodrome had their frontends compromised yesterday. Do not interact.
๐ Santander is working with Taurus, a crypto custody company, to safeguard crypto assets.
๐จโโ๏ธ Christiano Ronaldo has been sued in a class action lawsuit for having previously promoted Binance.
๐ช๐บ An official of the European Central Bank has said that crypto companies that behave like banks should be regulated as such.
๐ฌ Kyberswap hacker sends another on-chain message, saying he received โmostly threads, deadlines, and general unfriendlinessโ. He further said that if this continues, he will reschedule negotiations until โwe all feel more civilโ.
โ Sei blockchain is adding EVM support in the V2 upgrade. The update is scheduled for the first half of 2024.
๐ธ Investment firm Republic will list a profit-share token on the INX trading platform.
โ ๏ธ Philippines regulators are warning Binance about operating without a license.
๐ช Everyone is talking about the Crypto gaming platform Portal and its airdrop.
โ๏ธ Jack Dorsey led a $6.2 million seed round for OCEAN, a decentralized Bitcoin mining pool
๐ณ๏ธ Wormhole raises $225 million at a $2.5 billion valuation.
๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong signals plans to empower regulators for crackdown on unlicensed crypto exchanges.
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๐ฅท Tron is now the preferred network for illicit activity and bad actors. Taking over Bitcoin for the first time in this regard.
๐ต Coinbase Notifies Users of Mandatory Disclosure of Account Information and Transactions, Following CFTC Subpoena Linked to ByBit.
๐ค Eth Zurich researchers have developed a jailbreak method for AI models
โ๏ธ The European Union is trying to shape the direction in which the metaverse is developed. Allegedly to โreduce technological dependencies on other countriesโ
๐ Arthur Hayes says that the treatment of CZ in the US is โAbsurdโ. He thinks they are trying to punish him for trailblazing crypto when it is a threat to the US lead financial hegemony
๐ถ Dogecoin has reached 5 million holders. Active addresses have doubled to 168,000 since March 2022
๐น Kronos Research is offering a 10% bounty to the hacker who stole $25 million earlier this month
๐ฉ The Global Financial Stability Board is suggesting that the crypto industry needs more regulation to prevent another FTX
๐ฎ Hong Kong authorities are reporting $19 million lost in the latest Hounax Exchange scam
๐ช JPMorgan Chase and Apollo revealed plans for a tokenized enterprise Mainnet
๐ช๐ธ Spanish citizens with crypto assets over 50,000โฌ on non-Spanish exchanges have to declare their holding until March 2024
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๐ Cosmos founder calls for a chain split after the community voted to reduce token inflation from 14% to 10%.
โ๏ธ Crypto miner Hive expands mining operations to Sweden with a new data centre and land acquisition.
๐ช๏ธ Tornado cash token tanks by 45% after Binance delisting.
๐ง๐ท OKX is launching crypto exchange and wallet services in Brazil.
โถ๏ธ HTX exchange resumes crypto services after hacks, with full operations expected next week.
๐ซ Department of Justice says CZ is โa flight risk that could be managedโ but wants him to remain free until the sentencing as long as he stays in the United States.
๐ BanklessHQ and Bankless DAO consider brand separation amid community backlash over Arbitrum grant proposal for $1.8 million in $arb.
๐ฏ๐ต Circle partners with SBI Holdings to boost USDC circulation in Japan.
๐ช Scam-as-a-service Inferno Drainer is shutting down after helping steal $70 million in crypto. โWe hope you can remember us as the best drainer that has ever existedโ were their goodbye words.
๐ฃ๏ธ Paradigm criticizes Blast Network for launching a bridge before establishing withdrawal or Layer 2 functionality. Paradigm is a seed investor in Blast.
๐๏ธ The American Cancer Society is using Gitcoin for decentralized cancer research funding.
๐ A scammer group targeted BAYC owner Crumz posing as Forbes staff doing an interview. Luckily they failed.
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๐ฅท KyberSwap DEX has been exploited for $46 million across multiple blockchains. The hacker left an on-chain message saying negotiations would start after they were fully rested
๐ชช Alchemy Pay receives a money service license in Iowa
๐ค Netflix director for the TV show Conquest took $4 million from the show's budget to bet on Dogecoin. He made $27 million on the trade
โฑ๏ธ The UK finance minister announced new legislation to boost the digital asset sector, called the Digital Securities Sandbox
โพ๏ธ Evernode delays airdrop and their layer two launch to December 18
๐ช South Korea announced its CBDC pilot with 100,000 citizens in Q1 2024
๐ฆ Austrias Raiffeisen Bank is rolling out crypto trading for retail customers in January 2024
๐ Bitcoinsโ third-largest mining pool seems to be censoring transactions from U.S sanctioned addresses
๐ฎ Game Studio Matr1x raises $10 million for their mobile NFT shooter
๐คจ Ethereum's new layer two, Blast, faces community scepticism over its invite mechanisms, with debates on its legitimacy
๐ชถ U.S. prosecutor says CZ poses a serious risk of flight, forbidden from leaving the country
๐ข A Bitcoin transaction incurs an unusually high fee of $3.1 million (85.22 BTC).
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๐ Bittrex Global will wind down operations on December 4. Withdraw your funds!
๐ช Pyth Airdrop is live! 90,000 wallets are eligible
๐จโโ๏ธ ENS founder told Coindesk heโs โprepared to go to the matโ in an intellectual property dispute with Unstoppable Domains
๐ SEC sues Kraken for โOperating Unregistered platformโ and โimproperly mixing customer fundsโ. The Crypto community and a few Senators are enraged
๐ Fantom Foundation awards a $1.7 million bounty to a security researcher . They prevented a potential $170 million exploit.
๐ Phoenix Group says the UAE Initial Share sale was 33 times oversubscribed. They raised $368 million for 18% of the company.
๐ฐ AVAX ecosystem to receive $10 million boost from Colony Lab accelerator
๐จโโ๏ธ Aragon DAO votes to sue founders over shutting down its governance and token without consulting the community first
๐๏ธ Binance may face a $4 billion penalty or possible criminal charges against CZ in negotiations with the U.S DOJ
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๐ฆ๐ท Argentinian pro-bitcoin presidential candidate, Javier Milei, won the presidential election
๐ธ Crypto gaming protocol Saga raises $5 million in latest seed extension round
๐ Japan's Ichigo exchange plans to start trading digital securities on the 25th of December. They plan to offer $20 million of โdigital securitiesโ backed by real estate
๐น๏ธ Aptos partners with gaming platform READYgg to bring multiple games over to the Aptos chain
๐ Kronos research halts trading after a $25 million API exploit happened yesterday.
๐ฐ CoinDesk has been bought by Bullish Exchange. Former NYSE President Tom Farley runs the exchange
๐ง Tether freezes $225 million in $USDT linked to a human trafficking syndicate in cooperation with the DOJ. This is the biggest stablecoin freeze to date
๐ฑโ๐ค Poloniex reports that the hackersโ identity of the recent $120 million exploit is known. They offer a โlast bountyโ of 10% of the drained funds
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๐ฃ Sushi is using ZetaChain to begin testing native Bitcoin swaps over 30 chains
๐บ Texas State Security Board accuses 'GS' network of running a multilevel marketing scheme with real estate tokens
๐ฃ๏ธ A Polkadot ecosystem debate is gaining steam as more criticism over the efficacy of the current Polkadot management arises
๐ Aave rebrands to Avara and will be the new parent company to Aave, Lens, GHO stablecoin, Sonar, and others.
๐ญ Snoop Dogg's "giving up smoke" statement stirs emotion in the crypto community. Polymarket opens betting on his 2023 smoking habits.
๐ Ubisoft will give away free Ethereum NFTs for their new game Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles
๐ Doge to the moon: Astrobotic announces plans to take a physical Dogecoin to the moon on December 23.
๐๏ธ ENS developer Nick.eth voices concerns about Unstoppable Domains' blockchain domain name patents, claiming they're based on ENS's developments.
๐ฅท Crypto miners were found in the highest Polish court air vent system.
๐ช Binance counter-terrorism official has left the company after two years
๐ธ Crypto lobby spending in 2023 is set to surpass last year's; already at $20 million compared to $22.2 million total in 2022
๐ณ Mastercard says the adoption of CBDCs has no justification as people are comfortable using today's money standards
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๐ต South Korean pension fund buys ~$20 million in Coinbase shares
๐ฎ G2A, a gaming distributor and key marketplace is launching a gaming-focused NFT marketplace
๐ โโ๏ธ Solana Labs denies a report by CertiK about a bootloader vulnerability in their Solana phones. They claim the report is โentirely inaccurateโ
๐ณโโ๏ธ A group of lawmakers are asking President Biden and Secretary Yellen to quantify their claims about the extent of Hamas crypto funding
๐ธ Blackrock is filing a Spot Ether ETF in Delaware
๐ช Singapore is starting a live trial for its wholesale CBDC
๐ต Paxos is planning a new dollar-backed stablecoin for Singapore-based operations
๐ฉโโ๏ธ Do Kwon has to serve four months in Montenegro jail over a fake passport. After the sentence, he faces extradition to the United States or South Korea
๐ต๐ญ Philippine Government to sell Tokenized treasury bonds for a minimum target of 10 billion pesos ($180 million)
๐น๏ธ PancakeSwap opens its doors for GameFi tokens in the latest bout of supporting crypto gaming
๐ผ๏ธ New York Museum of Modern Art added their first two tokenized artworks to their collection
๐ Union Labs raised $ 4 million for the development of a ZK-powered cross-chain bridge
๐น๐ญ Binance is launching a Thailand-based exchange in a joint venture with Gulf Energy, a local energy giant
๐บ๐ธ US Congress members call for the invalidation of SEC's SAB 121, a rule requiring crypto custody services to hold capital against virtual assets.
๐ The Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore said crypto has performed poorly in the test of digital money
๐ง๏ธ A group of bipartisan U.S lawmakers have urged the Treasury to revise their proposed crypto asset tax regime
๐ช Pyth retroactive airdrop will open on Monday, November 20 at 2 pm UTC
๐ Bank of America says that U.S CBDC is unlikely to be coming soon
๐ฅ Optimism is testing an alternative data availability chain called Redstone. The goal is to make gaming and applications more viable for blockchain use cases
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๐ธ Tether has minted $4 billion $USDT in the last four weeks
๐๏ธ Chinese hackers have created a fake Skype app to target crypto users.
๐ฅท Hackers claim to have read out personal information like selfies and other customer data from Coin Cloud, a Bitcoin ATM operator
๐ South Korean exchange Bithumb plans an IPO for the second half of 2025
๐ The IRS has received over 120,000 comments on its new crypto tax proposal
๐ญ๐ฐ Bitget exchange has plans to get a crypto license in Hong Kong
๐ฐ The number of Bitcoin millionaire wallets has tripled to nearly 82,000 this year
๐จโโ๏ธ FTX files lawsuit against Bybit for withdrawing over $900 million in funds before FTX's collapse
โถ๏ธ Aave lending markets are back on after a pause. A whitehat hacker had alarmed the community over a possible smart-contract vulnerability
๐ช Uniswap has already accumulated over $1 million in fees since enabling their new frontend fee on the 17th of October
๐๏ธ Singapore-based Fund Foresight Ventures has bought a majority stake in The Block
โช๏ธ GBTC discount shrank to only 10% compared to spot Bitcoin value
๐ง A wallet linked to the Binance deployer wallet has been exploited for $27 million in $USDT
๐ช๐ธ Spanish regulators are eyeing a probe into X over crypto ads. They said they would โscrupulously exercise all our capacitiesโ over fraudulent crypto asset promos
๐๏ธ Terraform Labs acquires cross-chain data provider Pulsar Finance
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๐ต Coinbase is rolling out on-chain verification. On-chain verification lets users link their wallets to Coinbase. No personal information is published on-chain, but it could be required to interact with some base apps in the future
๐ Singapore company Dtcpay is launching a retail crypto payment system for in-store and online payments
โ BlackRock says the SEC lacks a basis for differentiating between spot ETFs and crypto futures
๐ฎ๐ณ Indian Supreme Court rejected a plea by the public about a crypto regulation framework
๐ช Binance has stopped accepting ruble deposits
๐ชจ The NFT community celebrates a nig EtherRocks buy. The sale of $209,000 raises hopes of a new NFT run
๐ Stars Arena's Total Value Locked fell under $100,000 on Thursday
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๐ฏ Polygon Labs is launching an $85 million grant program to incentivize more builders in its ecosystem
๐น Cathie Wood's Ark Invest bought $9.5 million of Robinhood shares, accumulating while reducing GBTC holdings.
๐ฎ Immutable partners with Ubisoft's Strategic Innovation Lab to develop games with a seamless experience.
๐ก Yuga Labs confirms that UV-A lights in one part of the event were the cause of the eye and skin problems some visitors had after ApeFest
๐น๏ธ Crypto game Illuvium is set to list on Epic Games Store on November 28, tapping into 180 million users.
๐งฑ ZachXBT reports a potential $2 million exploit from CoinSpot wallet. 1262 ETH withdrawn in two transactions; CoinSpot has not yet commented
๐ช๐ธ Spanish National Securities Market Commission has opened a crypto infringement case against Miolos. The reason is they allegedly violated Crypto Advertising rules
๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ Prominent Swedish crypto figures appear to be targeted by criminals in real-world robberies
๐ฐ Spartan Capital reinvests into Pendle with an OTC purchase of an undisclosed amount
๐ณ๏ธ The Arbitrum DAO is divided over a proposal to allocate $2 million for a professional research group.
๐งพ India to cut its controversial crypto tax after it failed to show results
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๐น๏ธ Square Enix is entering crypto gaming with a bang. Their new project SYMBIOGENESIS is starting today. Their Discord activities to earn points and โbuyโ rewards and win one of the 500 characters is live.
๐ฐ๐ท South Korean authorities busted a large-scale crypto scam worth $14 million. 25 people have been arrested. The scam was an MLM clothed as an exchange
๐ช๐บ The European Union has published a draft on liquidity and capital requirements for offering a euro stablecoin
๐ถ Binance launched a self-custody wallet for its 150 million users. The wallet contains an airdrop area, bridging, lending, and staking features
๐จ๐ญ Swiss crypto bank SEBA received a license in Hong Kong
๐ฅ The Head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says that CBDCs are vital for innovating financial systems
๐ฅ Grayscale's Chainlink Trust soars to a 200% premium, indicating high institutional demand.
๐ Coatue reduced its stake in OpenSea and Moonpay by 90%, significantly lowering both platforms' valuations.
๐ USDC issuer Circle is considering an IPO in early 2024.
๐ต Wintermute claims that Near Foundation backed out of $11 million $USN stablecoin redemption deal
๐ฐ FTX has transferred about $316 million in assets to crypto exchanges, $187 million of it in $SOL tokens (4.8 million $ SOL)
๐น Robinhood plans to expand its crypto services into the EU and UK
โฟ Both KuCoin and Gate are planning to support BRC-20 memecoin sats when โliquidity requirements are metโ
๐ธ๐ป The second biggest merchant supplier in El Salvador is now accepting Bitcoin. The supplier has 40,000 merchants under its banner
๐ค A decentralized AI platform Ritual has raised $25 million. They aim to open access to AI infrastructure
Everyone and their grandma now want to have their own Layer 2.
I can see why; the fees are delicious. ๐ฐ_๐ฐ
Just 3 months after Coinbase launched its Base L2, they already had over $8 million in fees. That translates to about $4.6 million in revenue, according to TK Research.
But what about other effects? Do you think demand will keep up with every exchange, DAO, or protocol having its own custom layer?
โBridging is so fun; give me more.โ Said no one ever. ๐
Is it the right way to go where you can make fast money?
It might make sense for a very narrow view of the future, but what about the long-term effects? Fracturing liquidity further through dozens of new L2s canโt be the solution.
It feels more like you are squeezing your audience dry and farming the airdrop hunters for transaction fees.
The result? ๐ฅ A burnt fanbase. ๐ชฆ
But maybe Iโm overly sceptical.
What do you think about the rising trend of launching L2s? Is fractured liquidity a non-problem?
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โฒ๏ธ Dubai gives crypto service providers until November 17 to clear all licensing requirements
๐ณ๏ธ Rep. Tim Burchett proposes slashing SEC Chair Gary Gensler's salary to $1 over alleged regulatory overreach.
๐ฐ๐ฟ Kazakhstan has blocked Coinbase services for offering trading services of โunsecured digital assetsโ.
๐ฎ Indian authorities arrested 18 people, including 4 police officers, on a $300 million crypto scam. The operation head is still at large.
๐ Kraken is considering partnering with Polygon Labs, Matter Labs, and the Nil Foundation to build its own Layer Two chain.
๐ต Coinbase is ending its support for Bitcoin SV. Coinbase further stated that not withdrawn coins will be liquidated by January 9, 2024.
๐ฆถ Ava Labs cuts 12% of staff (~40 ppl.) to โrealign resources for further expansionsโ.
๐ฐ๐ช Kenyan lawmakers asked the local Blockchain Association to come up with a crypto bill draft.
๐ธ Binance spot trading market share fell to โonlyโ 40%. Was still at 62% a year ago. Overall market share, including derivates is still around 51%.
๐ท The SEC is struggling to hire crypto experts. They state private-sector competition and the unwillingness of candidates to sell their crypto holdings as the biggest reasons.
๐ช Elon Musk is denying rumours that X, Tesla, or SpaceX will ever issue a native crypto token.
๐ Evmos is planning to stop accepting Cosmos-based transactions to only focus on EVM chains. The discontinuation of Cosmos transactions is planned to be finished by Q3 2024.
๐ถ StablR announced a $3.5 million seed round without specifying the valuation. They are issuers of the Euro stablecoin $EurR.
๐ฅท Some accounts claim to have proof that the Chinese Communist Party is secretly controlling Ethereum. None of their โproofโ has been shared so far; Comments are full of bots blindly agreeing with them.