14th November — 21st November
▫️ International Organization of Securities Commissions releases recommendations for crypto regulation.
▫️ BlackRock and Fidelity both filed for spot Ethereum ETFs with the SEC.
▫️ SEC delays Hashdex Nasdaq Ethereum ETF application to next year.
▫️ Terraform Labs, creator of the Terra/Luna ecosystem, made its first major acquisition after the exit of Do Kwon.
▫️ South Korea’s pension fund bought millions of Coinbase shares.
▫️ Major companies like Microsoft and Tencent joined Infura Network.
▫️ Taiwanese trading firm Kronos Research hacked for an estimated $25 million.
▫️ Randstorm revealed a BitcoinJS vulnerability, affecting wallets from 2011–2015.
▫️ Aave rebranded to Avara, acquiring the software developer behind Ethereum wallet Family.
▫️ Opyn co-founders stepped down due to CFTC action.
▫️ Australia updated its capital gains tax to include wrapped tokens and DeFi.
▫️ Sushi is expanding to ZetaChain to support Bitcoin natively.
▫️ Cboe is launching margined Bitcoin and Ether futures in January.
▫️ Taproot Wizards raised $7.5M for its Ordinals project.
▫️ Kinto closed a $5M funding round for its “First KYC’d” L2 network.
▫️ Glacier Network secured $2.9M seed funding for programmable data composability.
▫️ Uniblock raised $2.3M, and Napier Finance raised $1M for the Curve ecosystem.
▫️ Binance to start a crypto exchange in Thailand through a joint venture with Gulf Energy.
▫️ Coinbase introduced ‘Onchain Payment Protocol’ on Ethereum, Polygon, and Base.
▫️ Singapore grants in-principle approval for StraitsX SGD & USD and Paxos USD stablecoins.
▫️ An upcoming Disney NFT platform revealed by Dapper Labs, featuring brands like Star Wars and Pixar.
▫️ Mutant Ape Planet NFT creator pled guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud in a rug pull.
▫️ Gitcoin Grants matching updated; Passport score of 15 gives a 50% match, 25+ gives a full match.
▫️ EigenLayer aims to enable staking with operators of the data availability layer in H1 2024.
▫️ Jupiter unveils an airdrop to over 950,000 wallets on Solana.
▫️ Internet Computer app OpenChat to test facial recognition.
▫️ EF’s Next Billion fellowship cohort 4; applications close on January 15.
