Justin Sun's crypto exchange Poloniex appears to have suffered from a major security hack affecting $114 million in crypto assets ($49 million of them in the Tron network).
The most affected tokens are: GLM, LINK, OX, FLOKI, MANA.
https://www.theblock.co/post/262563/justin-suns-crypto-exchange-poloniex-seemingly-hit-by-60-million-hack
Andrey Rogozov, CEO of The Open Platform, announced the global rollout of the TON cryptocurrency wallet.
https://x.com/ton_blockchain/status/1722902450846265539
Arthur Hayes has published a new article, "Bad Gurl", about US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and how her scheme would fuel the BTC bull market.
Key takeaways:
▫️ 'Bad Gurl' is a symbol of participants who use unconventional, aggressive or innovative approaches in trading and investing.
▫️They are willing to take high risks and use aggressive strategies to get profits.
▫️Their actions can significantly influence market trends and volatility, often causing significant market movements.
▫️'Bad Gurl' may utilize a variety of strategies and tactics, including fast trading and speculative investing.
▫️There is volatility and certain market patterns in the market right now. 'Bad Gurl' can influence these trends, both reinforcing and stabilizing market conditions.
https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/bad-gurl
CME Group became the largest exchange in terms of BTC futures open interest in 24 hours.
The number of BTC futures on the CME has increased to ~109К BTC (~$4 billion), surpassing Binance's 103К BTC (~$3.79 billion).
https://www.coinglass.com/BitcoinOpenInterest
BlackRock is confirmed to be working on a spot ether ETF, according to a 19b-4 filing made on Thursday afternoon.
The proposed ether ETF would use Coinbase Custody Trust Company as custodian.
The ETH is now trading af $2123.
https://www.theblock.co/post/262514/nasdaq-files-for-blackrocks-proposed-ishares-ethereum-trust-etf
Rumours: BlackRock is preparing to file an application for a spot ETH-ETF.
Amid rumors, Ethereum price rises above $2000.
https://x.com/milesdeutscher/status/1722632691982487672
Swell Network won the vote by EigenLayer and now swETH would have access to liquid restacking features.
https://x.com/swellnetworkio/status/1722584894122192991
Immutable announced a new partnership with Ubisoft, a video game creator and publisher, to create a new gaming experience that will further unlock the potential of web3.
With this partnership, Immutable continues in its ambition to bring digital ownership to players, while Ubisoft pursues its exploration of decentralization through its Strategic Innovation Lab.
https://www.immutable.com/blog/immutable-and-ubisofts-strategic-innovation-lab-pioneering-a-frictionless-web3-gaming-experience
The Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings will launch a $663 million Web3 fund within a year.
https://coinpost.jp/?p=490878
Shardeum has released its Whitepeper.
Tokenomics:
Max supply: 508 million SHM
Distribution:
▫️51% Community (259,080,000 SHM) – reward to validator and archiver nodes
▫️18% Sale (91,440,000 SHM) – 3 month cliff then 2 year daily linear vesting
▫️15% Team (76,200,000 SHM) – 3 month cliff then 2 year daily linear vesting
▫️11% Foundation (55,880,000 SHM) – unlocked at Token Generation Event (TGE)
▫️5% Ecosystem (25,400,000 SHM) – unlocked at TGE
Sale:
▫️Seed Round (September '22) - $0.80 per SHM, $18,719,600 raised
▫️Strategic Round (June '23) - $1.00 per SHM, $5,916,037 raised
https://x.com/shardeum/status/1722282927994646936
A revived FTX could work if new leadership does so with a clear understanding of the law, SEC chair Gary Gensler told CNBC.
The FTT price has increased by 45% in 24 hours.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/08/secs-gensler-says-rebooted-ftx-is-possible-if-done-within-the-law.html
Australian crypto exchange CoinSpot might have suffered an exploit, according to blockchain sleuth ZachXBT.
Two of the exchange’s wallets appear to have lost more than 1,282 ETH ($2M) in a matter of 5 minutes.
https://www.theblock.co/post/262287/zachxbt-says-coinspot-wallets-appear-to-have-lost-around-2-million-of-crypto-in-possible-hack
FTX and Alameda further transferred out $38.5M worth of 7 assets to exchanges ~6hrs ago:
750,000 SOL ($31.2M)
325,501 ENS ($2.76M)
10.1M GMT ($2.22M)
642,702 LDO ($1.26M)
288,211 APE ($410K)
127,407 BADGER ($365K)
555,342 BNT ($323K)
Overall, as of Nov 8, FTX and Alameda Research have transferred out $350M worth of 36 assets to exchanges.
https://x.com/spotonchain/status/1722051562951041032
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Exactly 2 years ago, Bitcoin (BTC) reached its ATH of $69,045.
https://x.com/cz_binance/status/1722846195603706366
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The market is growing. Market cap is $1.40T. Bitcoin is trading at $36.5K
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In the last 24 hours, ~$446 million worth of long and short positions have been liquidated.
https://www.coinglass.com/LiquidationData
Chainlink Staking v0.2 is launching this year.
▫️Priority Migration: November 28, 2023 at 17:00 UTC
▫️Early Access: December 7, 2023 at 17:00 UTC
▫️General Access: December 11, 2023 at 17:00 UTC
Community Stakers can stake a minimum of 1 LINK and up to a maximum of up to 15,000 LINK during Early Access and General Access on a per-address basis.
Node Operator Stakers can stake a minimum of 1,000 LINK and a maximum of up to 75,000 LINK.
Staking v0.2 features an expanded total pool size of 45,000,000 LINK.
https://x.com/chainlink/status/1722630327720726886
https://chain.link/economics/staking
Bitcoin continues to grow rapidly.
BTC is now trading at $37233, +7.05% in 24 hours.
https://dropstab.com/coins/bitcoin
Michael Novogratz’s crypto financial services firm Galaxy Digital reported its third-quarter net loss of $94 million.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-09/novogratz-s-galaxy-says-quarterly-loss-widened-ahead-of-bitcoin-etf-bid
“Crypto rally looks overdone,” according to JPMorgan analysts.
https://www.theblock.co/post/262324/jpmorgan-crypto-rally-looks-overdone
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The market is growing. Market cap is $1.38T. Bitcoin is trading at $36.7K
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U.S. Congress passed Tom Emmer's amendment to prohibit the SEC from using taxpayer-funded resources to pursue enforcement actions against the digital asset industry until Congress passes legislation that authorizes regulatory enforcement jurisdiction.
Tom Emmer says Gary Gensler is as ineffective as he is incompetent.
https://x.com/gopmajoritywhip/status/1722352006076023094
Binance's efforts to dismiss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit do not have a basis in the law, the federal regulator said in a filing.
The SEC pushed back against Binance and Binance.US's motion to dismiss the suit it brought earlier this summer, saying the motion relies on "distorted" and "tortured" interpretations of both federal law and precedents.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/11/08/binance-has-no-real-argument-for-dismissing-sec-suit-regulator-says/
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened talks with Grayscale Investments on the details of the company's application to convert its trust product GBTC to a spot bitcoin exchange traded product (ETF).
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/11/08/us-sec-said-to-open-talks-with-grayscale-on-spot-bitcoin-etf-push/
Injective celebrates the 2nd year anniversary of the Injective mainnet launch.
Some of the accomplishments of the Injective ecosystem and community: https://x.com/Injective_/status/1722265709881991638
#InjectiveTurns2
Polygon Labs and NEAR Foundation are collaborating on the development of a zero-knowledge (ZK) prover for Wasm blockchains.
Wasm (WebAssembly) is a popular framework for running complex programs in a browser that offers comparable performance to native computer apps and helps power popular applications.
In Web3, the Wasm Virtual Machine serves as a runtime in blockchains such as Near and Polkadot and is different from the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
https://polygon.technology/blog/polygon-labs-and-near-foundation-collaborate-to-build-a-zkwasm-prover-as-a-component-for-polygon-cdk