Top losers for 24 hours: FTT (-16%), RLB (-10%), HT (-9%).
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Former Polygon Labs president Ryan Wyatt joins Ethereum Layer-2 Optimism as the Chief Growth Officer for Optimism Unlimited, a newly created subsidiary of the Optimism Foundation.
Wyatt will build a team to support adoption and development on Optimism.
https://decrypt.co/205859/former-polygon-labs-president-ryan-wyatt-joins-ethereum-layer-2-optimism
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest sold over 200,000 shares in Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), worth around $6 million.
GBTC remains the largest holding of ARKW, with a weighting of 9.97% worth about $132 million.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/11/13/cathie-woods-ark-sold-6m-of-grayscale-bitcoin-trust-shares-amid-rally/
CEO of Grayscale Michael Sonnenshein: “It's been a ten year dress rehearsal. We're ready for the main event”.
https://twitter.com/Sonnenshein/status/1724043739918668139
Animoca Brands has joined the Chiliz Chain as a new validator.
https://chiliz.medium.com/chiliz-welcomes-animoca-brands-to-its-sportfi-ecosystem-b820e82070d8
Tether plans to launch 5 new projects in 2024.
https://x.com/paoloardoino/status/1723766170120073640
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Coinbase will add support for Solana and Avalanche perpetual futures contracts on Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced.
The opening of SOL-PERP and AVAX-PERP markets will begin on or around 16:00 UTC on 14 November 2023, if liquidity conditions are met.
https://x.com/coinbaseintexch/status/1723838492449403058
Aave V3 markets have been unpaused, Aave V2 Ethereum is expected to be unpaused tomorrow.
https://x.com/aave/status/1723736103012704400
Axie will be making an announcement regarding Axie Classic this month.
https://x.com/jihoz_axie/status/1723601556321272299
Bounce Finance has introduced the launch of the Multibit Bridge native token (MUBI) via an ERC20 Public Sale on Bounce Launchpad.
Date: Nov 12, 4:00 UTC ~ Nov 15, 6:00 UTC
Amount of MUBI Offered: 387500000 MUBI
Price: 1 MUBI = 0.00000022709 ETH
Maximum Allocation per wallet: 2.5ETH
Total Raise Value: 88 ETH
MultiBit Bridge is the dual-sided bridge designed for cross-network transfers between BRC20 and ERC20 tokens.
https://bouncefinance.medium.com/multibit-bridge-introduces-mubi-handshake-launch-on-bounce-launchpad-ecf6dcf7c6af
HashKey Capital raises $500m for its third investment fund.
https://www.techinasia.com/kx-hashkey-partner-support-web3-efforts-sea-hong-kong
FTX’s bankruptcy advisers sued crypto exchange Bybit Fintech Ltd and two corporate affiliates to recover cash and digital assets valued at roughly $953 million that was withdrawn from Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange before it filed Chapter 11 a year ago.
The lawsuit filed Friday in Delaware court alleges Bybit’s investment arm, Mirana Corp., had special “VIP” benefits, which most FTX customers didn’t have, and used those special privileges to get most of its assets off Bankman-Fried’s platform before it collapsed in November 2022.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-11/ftx-sues-crypto-firm-bybit-to-recover-assets-worth-953-million
Polygon is preparing an important announcement.
https://twitter.com/0xPolygonLabs/status/1723031328537391520
OKX made an announcement that was quickly removed shortly after publication.
The community believes OKX is hinting at the launch of the LayerZero token.
The end of the video also showed a specific date: 14 November 2023.
https://x.com/okx
Pantera Capital explained how the collapse of FTX impacted to its portfolio:
2/ Following the news of FTX and Alameda’s distressed financial position, we assembled a war room to assess the extent of the impact across our portfolio.
Our goal was to:
1) identify all potential risks; and
2) offer assistance to at-risk teams
3/ It’s important to note that having been in this industry for ten years, this exercise was not new to us. We’ve activated our war room for similarly stressed environments like the 2018 crypto winter, Three Arrows bankruptcy, LUNA crash, and most recently, the banking crisis.
4/ After identifying all potential risks (custodial, counterparty, investment, etc.), we worked with affected teams to mitigate further exposure and create a plan moving forward.
5/ Fortunately, less than 5% of our portfolio teams were materially impacted, due in part to proactive risk management practices we regularly emphasize to our founders.
https://twitter.com/PanteraCapital/status/1724145828191944936
Fake news about BlackRock's XRP-ETF filing led to the liquidation of $6 million in futures positions
BlackRock denied the fake news, saying it has no plans to launch an XRP-ETF.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/11/13/bogus-blackrock-xrp-filing-spoofs-etf-watchers-crypto-traders/
The early buyer of the Grok memcoin has earned $252K and dumped the coin by 50%.
At one point, the project's FDV was as high as $150M.
The memecoin was named after Grok, a new artificial intelligence endeavor from Elon Musk’s xAI announced on Nov. 5.
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xbf0a5ccd3de05f2d400aeb1074b3b5aa01277ec9987a4da901ddacc13ad954b0
https://dexscreener.com/ethereum/0x69c66beafb06674db41b22cfc50c34a93b8d82a2
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Bitget ceases operations in Hong Kong and withdraws the license application.
https://www.bitgetx.hk/zh-TW/footer/announce
It became known that in 2014 CZ sold its real estate in Shanghai to finance the future Binance project.
https://x.com/vt_bnb/status/1723729003641459094
ZachXBT: It appears someone had 27M USDT stolen yesterday. USDT was quickly swapped for ETH, then transferred to a number of services (FixedFloat, ChangeNow, etc), and bridged to Bitcoin via THORChain. The victims address is connected to the Binance deployer.
https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1723766453273293224
Global investment bank JPMorgan has warned investors that U.S. crypto regulations are unlikely to ease, even though the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has lost several recent court cases against crypto firms.
https://news.bitcoin.com/jpmorgan-us-crypto-regulations-unlikely-to-ease-despite-sec-legal-defeats/
South Korean exchange Bithumb plans its IPO on Nasdaq in the second half of 2025.
https://m.edaily.co.kr/news/read
FTX’s former general counsel Can Sun, who testified against Sam Bankman-Fried at his criminal trial, is leading Backpack’s new crypto exchange, according to the Wall Street Journal.
https://www.theblock.co/post/262701/former-ftx-general-counsel-who-testified-against-sbf-to-lead-new-exchange-backpack-wsj
Leaders of growth over 24 hours: FTT +44%, ZRX +38%, TIA +35%.
Worst result: GAS -53%.
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Raft lost some $3.3 million in ether (ETH) after being hacked Friday afternoon.
On-chain data shows that the attacker drained 1,577 ETH from Raft, then sent 1,570 ETH to a burn address – destroying most of the stolen assets and leaving only 7 ETH for themselves. The hacker's address received 18 ETH via crypto mixer service Tornado Cash before the attack, blockchain data on Arkham shows, likely to fund transactions.
After executing the transfers and paying the blockchain fees, the exploiter's crypto wallet was left with only 14 ETH, fewer funds than the initial 18 ETH. This means that they face a 4 ETH loss on the whole maneuver.
Raft's R dollar-pegged stablecoin dropped as much as 50%.
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/11/10/defi-platform-raft-suffers-33m-exploit-but-hacker-likely-takes-a-loss-on-the-attack/
Justin Sun: “The Poloniex team has successfully identified and frozen a portion of the assets associated with the hacker's addresses. At present, the losses are within manageable limits, and Poloniex's operating revenue can cover these losses.”
https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1723008641433784695
TON Browser announced at The Gateway conference.
The launch is scheduled for 2024.
It is known that the browser will support various TON services. Other details have not been disclosed yet.
Future drivers of cryptocurrency market growth, according to Matrixport:
1. By January 2024, it anticipates the SEC to approve a Bitcoin ETF, with trading expected to commence by February or March.
2. Stablecoin issuer, Circle could be listed on the stock market by April.
3. While the announcement of FTX's winning bid could occur in December 2023, it projects the exchange to be operational by May or June 2024. FTX is anticipated to reclaim its position as a top 3 exchange within twelve months.
4. The abovementioned three events and the Bitcoin halving cycle are expected to provide a healthy dose of momentum into the following year.
5. Although seeing this as a significant upside catalyst is challenging, in Q1 2024, Ethereum’s IEP-4844 upgrade is scheduled to take place.
6. This also coincides with the potential U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate cut by mid-2024, as market pricing indicates the first rate cut happening in June 2024.
https://www.matrixport.com/institutions/research/matrix-on-target/758