Montenegro court approves Do Kwon's extradition to the U.S.
https://sudovi.me/vspg/sadrzaj/pwEl
HEX founder and alleged fraudster Richard Heart, is hiding from the U.S SEC. Rumors he recently fled from Finland to Russia.
https://x.com/whalechart/status/1727827189926654390
In total, El Salvador spent over $126 million on BTC, they are now worth $116 million, meaning the loss is over $10 million or almost 8%.
https://nayibtracker.com/
Options for BTC and ETH for a total of $6.52 bln will expire on the Deribit exchange on November 24 at 8:00 UTC.
The open interest in BTC - strike $33,000.
The open interest in ETH - strike $1,700.
This is one of the largest expirations in BTC and ETH options this year.
https://metrics.deribit.com/options/BTC
CZ's X (Twitter) account got temporarily suspended and stripped of the official account check mark.
https://x.com/cz_binance/status/1727768796931457512
Chainflip (FLIP) trading has started on KuCoin, CoinList Pro, Uniswap, Gate, Crypto.com, and Bybit.
FLIP is now trading at 1,6x from the token sale price on CoinList ($1.83).
https://dropstab.com/coins/chainflip
An unknown user paid 83 BTC ($3,134,300) for the transaction.
https://whale-alert.io/transaction/bitcoin/b5a2af5845a8d3796308ff9840e567b14cf6bb158ff26c999e6f9a1f5448f9aa
The KyberSwap hacker left a message to developers, employees, DAO members and LPs in the transaction.
“Negotiations will start in a few hours when I am fully rested”.
Blast TVL has exceeded $260 million.
https://debank.com/profile/0x5f6ae08b8aeb7078cf2f96afb089d7c9f51da47d
U.S. prosecutors pressed a federal judge to require Binance Holdings founder and former chief Changpeng Zhao to remain in the continental United States before his sentencing hearing on Feb. 23, 2024, according to a court filing.
Previously, a DOJ spoksperson told Reuters that Zhao was currently expected to stay in the Seattle area until Monday evening, but after that would be allowed to return to his residency in the UAE.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-prosecutors-want-binances-zhao-remain-us-until-sentencing-filing-2023-11-22/
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is growing. Market cap is $1.44T. Bitcoin is trading at $37.3K
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LayerZero is live on Astar Substrate.
https://x.com/layerzero_labs/status/1727371442483024343
Hashflow hints at a possible release of Hashflow 2.0.
https://twitter.com/hashflow/status/1727333583717822787
The Heco bridge appears to have been drained of $86.6 million, while further funds may have been taken from crypto exchange HTX.
https://www.theblock.co/post/264271/heco-bridge-appears-to-have-been-drained-of-86-6-million
Blast TVL has surpassed $100 million.
https://debank.com/profile/0x5f6ae08b8aeb7078cf2f96afb089d7c9f51da47d
KyberSwap offered the hacker 10% of the stolen funds as a bugbounty reward if he returned the other 90% by tomorrow.
https://etherscan.io/idm?addresses=0x8180a5ca4e3b94045e05a9313777955f7518d757,0x50275e0b7261559ce1644014d4b78d4aa63be836&type=1
According to WSJ, Sam Bankman-Fried has been placed in a dormitory with Juan Orlando Hernández, a former Honduran president who is awaiting trial over acceptance of bribes from drug traffickers.
SBF’s difficulties in accessing vegetarian meals and ADHD medication in prison have been resolved.
SBF is allowed to see non-attorney vistors once a week.
He has also been granted access to a special laptop for the review of legal documents, though his computer use is restricted to a dedicated room with divider desks.
Sam is trading mackerel packets with other inmates in exchange for services. He reportedly traded an unknown amount of mackerel for a haircut prior to his trial in November.
Mackerel packets — which are individually worth about $1.30 — became a de facto prison currency.
SBF has also provided advice regarding cryptocurrency investment to guards.
https://cryptoslate.com/sbf-housed-with-ex-honduras-president-in-jail-is-trading-mackerel-and-giving-crypto-tips/
Binance will list Blur (BLUR) and open trading for the following spot trading pairs at 2023-11-24 09:00 UTC:
▫️New Spot Trading Pairs: BLUR/BTC, BLUR/USDT and BLUR/TRY.
▫️Users can now start depositing BLUR in preparation for trading.
▫️Withdrawal for BLUR will open at 2023-11-25 06:00 UTC.
The BLUR price has increased by ~27%.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-will-list-blur-blur-with-seed-tag-applied-85306854c60347a6a4131493ec8d26a6
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is neutral. Market cap is $1.44T. Bitcoin is trading at $37.3K
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Klever, a p2p network, announces investment commitment of $20M from GEM Digital Limited.
https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/klever-announces-major-investment-commitment-of-20m-from-gem-digital-limited
The Sandbox has announced its partnership with Shemaroo Entertainment, one of India’s leading media and entertainment conglomerates.
https://sandboxgame.medium.com/shemaroo-entertainment-enters-the-sandbox-to-bring-bollywood-icons-to-the-metaverse-c8e4e5508bb4
STEPN: “Something big is about to happen (very soon) in the Genesis world…”
https://x.com/stepnofficial/status/1727616247255208410
Kava 15 mainnet launch goes live December 7th
K15 wil reduce KAVA inflation to zero on January 1, 2024, 00:00 UTC.
https://www.kava.io/news/kava-15-kava-zero-inflation
The director of Netflix’s sci-fi series Conquest reportedly used $4 million from the show’s budget to bet on Dogecoin and made $27 million in the process.
In March 2020, 16 months after Netflix bought Rinsch’s idea and provided him with an initial budget of $44 million, the director asked for more funds. Netflix obliged and wired him $11 million on the condition he finished the show.
According to financial statements obtained by the Times Rinsch used $10.5 million from the fresh funding to gamble on the stock market and allegedly lost nearly $6 million in just a few weeks by placing options bets on pharmaceutical companies and the S&P 500.
With a little over $4 million left, Rinsch transferred the money to the crypto exchange Kraken and went all in on DOGE. When he liquidated in May 2021, he withdrew around $27 million, per an account statement seen by the Times.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/netflix-director-bet-show-budget-on-doge
Decentralized exchange protocol KyberSwap appears to have suffered a $47 million exploit.
The funds include $20.7 million on Arbitrum, $15 million on Optimism, $7 million on Ethereum, $3 million on Polygon and $2 million on Base.
https://x.com/kybernetwork/status/1727475235342217682
https://www.theblock.co/post/264432/dex-protocol-kyberswap-appears-to-lose-47-million-in-possible-exploit
Bounce Finance has partnered with Token Terminal, a full stack onchain data platform.
https://x.com/bounce_finance/status/1727388093202985032
BlackRock representatives met with the SEC to discuss the possibility of listing a spot BTC-ETF.
https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1727341988436209903
Tether minted $1 billion USDT on Tron.
https://whale-alert.io/transaction/tron/ff8b112b863ce77840c1b2be474004454d28dc0de3ead28691f867351e83d9cb
Matrixport:
▫️With CZ stepping down and the fine less than the $10bn feared, Binance will likely remain a top-three exchange over the next 2-3 years. There will likely be pressure to ‘right-size’ the company with 6,000 employees. While this plea deal does not include the SEC, this is a very favourable outcome for CZ and Binance itself.
▫️Next month, the FTX exchange will likely be sold and run by a US securities law-compliant management team, which could re-launch the exchange by Q3 2024. There could be $24-50bn in inflows into any US-listed Bitcoin ETF. There will be a shift from unregulated wild-west exchanges that serve retail investors to fully regulated and compliant venues that serve institutions.
▫️As the macro-environment continues to be a tailwind with the demand from institutions, 2024 will likely be another rocking year for Bitcoin — CZ might come back during the next bear market in 2026.
https://www.matrixport.com/institutions/research/daily-insights/771#top
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman is set to return as the chief executive officer of OpenAI.
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/11/22/sam-altman-to-return-as-openai-ceo-following-in-principle-agreement/