5th December — 12th November
▫️ The crypto market recorded $320 million in long liquidations, contributing to a total of $360 million in liquidations across exchanges.
▫️ Fidelity held a meeting with the SEC about a spot bitcoin fund and submitted a presentation about ETF workflows.
▫️ VanEck’s proposed spot bitcoin ETF gets the ‘HODL’ ticker in a new filing with the SEC.
▫️ El Salvador offers a ‘Freedom Visa’ for a $1 million crypto investment.
▫️ The hackers who targeted Platypus Finance have been cleared of criminal charges.
▫️ OpenZeppelin disclosed a security vulnerability spotted on December 4th.
▫️ Societe Generale issued a EUR 10 million green bond on-chain.
▫️ Sam Altman-backed crypto startup Meanwhile seeks to raise $100 million for a Bitcoin private credit fund.
▫️ Robinhood launches a crypto trading app in Europe.
▫️ EF runs a node grantees: 35 recipients from 23 countries.
▫️ Starknet Foundation plans to distribute 1.8 billion tokens as rewards, and transaction rebates.
▫️ Optimism’s RetroPGF3 voting ended, and 502 projects qualified for a share of 30 million OP.
▫️ Matcha cross-chain swaps live on mainnet, L2s & sidechains.
▫️ Osmosis and UX chain proposed a possible merger.
▫️ A Compound DAO vote to pay a developer for a significant bugfix fell 15K votes short of a quorum.
▫️ Wormhole launched Wormhole Queries, opening access to on-chain data.
▫️ Synthetix introduced nine new perpetual futures markets on Optimism.
▫️ Ronin introduced Ronin Launchpad, powered by Impossible Finance.
▫️ Sotheby’s begins the first Bitcoin Ordinals NFT auction for BitcoinShrooms.
▫️ Do Kwon will be extradited to the US by Montenegro Justice Minister: WSJ.
▫️ Zero-knowledge platform Sindri closes a $5 million seed round led by CoinFund.
▫️ Shadow raised $9 million in seed funding.
▫️ Brahma Console’s main release went live concurrently with its $2.5 million seed extension round.
▫️ Verastus, a scaling startup, closed a $2.3 million seed funding round.
