Two tokens not listed on Coinbase 👀
https://www.coinbase.com/institutional/research-insights/research/market-intelligence/2024-crypto-market-outlook
OpenAI is exploring a potential funding round led by Abu Dhabi's G42 that could value the AI company at over $100 billion: BBG
Читать полностью…U.S. SEC SAYS BARNBRIDGE DAO AGREES TO STOP UNREGISTERED OFFER AND SALE OF STRUCTURED FINANCE CRYPTO PRODUCT - RTRS
Читать полностью…Mistral AI, a Paris start-up founded seven months ago by researchers from Meta and Google, has raised about $415 million on a $2B post-money valuation with a purely open source product (so far) & no revenue.
Investors include the Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
*Last week Mistral AI dropped torrent[🫡wow] link to it's new open source LLM Model
*NeurIPS ,the largest AI conference in the world will be taking place December 10-16 in New Orleans, USA.
Reports: The isolated pool on Venus Protocol for liquid staked BNB got exploited: SaulCapital
Latest Update by Venus Protocol: "There is no issue with Venus Core Pool or XVS. There is no problem with security either. Binance Oracle had a short-term price issue, a small lsolated pool experienced a BNB price issue and the snBNB team is working on it"
^Chart by Ian Harnett of Absolute Strategy Research shows an extremely high correlation between liquidity in US markets and Bitcoin: infinityhedge
“It’s just a beta play on liquidity,” he said. “Nothing more, nothing less.” If there’s more money around, more of it will find its way into crypto. He even joked that if Fed Chair Jerome Powell thinks that policy can be eased, then watching Bitcoin “go on a rip like this should make him think twice — or three times!”: BBG
TERRA LUNA FOUNDER DO KWON TO BE EXTRADITED TO THE US: WSJ
"Top justice official has privately said he plans to send disgraced crypto tycoon Do Kwon to the U.S. rather than South Korea"
Jito (JTO) Listing Will Be Postponed to 2023-12-07 16:30 (UTC): Binance
[tldr: Postponed by 30 minutes]
Parsec Explorer
search for a token: to see the price chart, holder data, liquidity and more.
search for an EOA: to see their portfolio, recent trades and funding history, alongside the ability to traverse transaction data and transfers across 9 chains.
shortcuts:
> parsec.fi/eth: for token
> parsec.fi/lido.eth: for an ENS name
> parsec.fi/0x...: for any address
https://parsec.fi/
EigenLayer Adding new 6 LSTs and Raising Caps
These new LST additions coming to EigenLayer on 18 are:
wBETH (Binance)
osETH (Stakewise)
swETH (Swell)
AnkrETH (Ankr)
EthX (Stader)
oETH (Origin ETH)
*Liquid Collective with LsETH, Frax with sfrxETH and mETH by the Mantle team are conducting audits and executing plans to onboard to EigenLayer in early 2024.
Along with onboarding the tokens, EigenLayer revealed it is raising LST restaking caps for all current LSTs (rETH, stETH, cbETH). The limits will increase to a uniform 200K ETH per LST pool, up from the previous 100K cap.
So why isn’t a Pokemon card a security?: fortune
"SEC chair said that buying a Pokemon card would not be a security transaction, but it might if it were tokenized on the blockchain" at a policy summit hosted in D.C. last week.
ChatGPT is absolutely useless now: over half of questions or requests are denied and rejected as "inappropriate and insensitive" due to political correctness, DEI, or some other ridiculous consideration: Zerohedge
Читать полностью…^SEC ‘deeply regrets’ errors in crypto case, asks judge to waive sanctions after misleading statements: Fortune
Читать полностью…Bitcoin Options Show Traders Are Hedging Bets Ahead of ETF Deadline: BBG
The strike prices on the put contracts with the most open interest are for $44,000, $42,000 and $40,000, respectively. With Bitcoin currently trading around $43,500, that means put holders would be able to exercise the options and minimize losses if the cryptocurrency reacted negatively to the looming decision by the SEC.
Worldcoin Ending and Entering into new agreements with trading firms:
• Worldcoin loan agreements with 5 trading firms that totaled 100M WLD (later reduced to 75M WLD, Btw Oct 24-26, the five trading firms returned 25M WLD) expires on Dec 15 and Firms can return outstanding loan amounts (up to 75M WLD) or can repurchase tokens on 15. As a result, the circulating supply may decrease by up to 75M WLD on December 15.
• New 6-month agreements for 10M WLD collective loans start December 16 which will increase circulating supply by 10M WLD. The New terms require full 10M WLD repayment after 6 months (no buy back option).
• Also All Operators in eligible countries are now receiving rewards in WLD.
This Week | infinityhedge
Wild Week Ahead 🥤🍿🎄
"In 60-hour window, rates will be set for 60% of global economy" BBG ⚠️
Crypto:
-Link Staking: Public access: Participants can stake up to 15k LINK* on 11
-ApeCoin DAO’s first year of staking ends on 11
-Echelon Sanctuary [Marketplace] going live on 11
-Bitfinex to delist $ICE on 12
-Public demo of Polygon ZK product on 14
-bitsCrunch Community Sale on CoinList on 14
-Synthetix will release Andromeda upgrade details on 15
-6 new LST additions coming to EigenLayer on 18
-FXS halving on 20 [+Airdrop rumours]
Action Time:
-Lido Voting: st2024 GOOSE Funding, Lido Community Staking Module,, wstETH to: ZkSync, Linea, and Mantle [Voting Ending on 14]
-Evmos Burning Mechanism voting ends on 13
-Namada RPGF Drop Live: Eligible Participants Submit Your Namada Genesis Accounts via rpgfdrop .namada .net [verify link before using]
Macro: ⚠️
-CPI Inflation on 12
-OPEC Report on 13
-PPI Inflation on 13
-FOMC meeting on 13
-BOE Rates Decision on 14
-ECB Rates Decision on 14
-RUB Rate Decision on 15
-BOJ Rate Decision on 19
Cliff Unlocks: of Cir. Supply:
$APT 8.9% on 12
$CYBER 8.5% on 15
$APE 4.2% on 17
Weekly Linear Unlocks: [of Cir. Supply]
$WLD 18.4%
$MEME 2.8%
Whole Week/Month:
-NeurIPS, the largest AI conference in the world from 10-16. ⚠️
-Injective Volan Upgrade [largest mainnet upgrade]
-FTX's revised plan of reorganization will be filed in bankruptcy court
-Economic & Earnings Calendar in Comment 👇
LayerZero Labs: "there will be a LayerZero token. Its distribution is something we’re committed to getting right and expect it to happen within the first half of 2024"
Читать полностью…Sam Altman-backed crypto startup Meanwhile seeks to raise $100million for bitcoin private credit fund: TheBlock
The fund, dubbed Meanwhile Private Credit Fund LP, aims to provide institutional investors access to bitcoin with an additional targeted 5% bitcoin-denominated yield.
Bitcoin had negative public fund flows two days in a row for -$30m total: Pillage Capital
Update 8th December: Bitcoin fund flows are back on at +$40m yesterday.
🚨A number of popular mobile password managers are inadvertently spilling user credentials due to a vulnerability in the autofill functionality of Android apps: TechCrunch
The researchers tested the AutoSpill vulnerability using some of the most popular password managers, including 1Password, LastPass, Keeper, and Enpass, on new and up-to-date Android devices.
Google launched Gemini 1.0, their most capable and general AI model yet.
"Gemini Nano is super efficient for tasks that are on-device. Android developers can sign up for an early access program for Gemini Nano via Android AICore and Pixel 8 Pro users can already see it rolling out in features like Summarize in Recorder and Smart Reply in Gboard + much more to come!"
Starting today, Bard will use a specifically tuned version of Gemini Pro.
Gemini Ultra will come to Bard early next year in a new experience called Bard Advanced.
*[Gemini is the 1st AI model frm google deepmind]
Rumours: BlackRock may move $200m from their spot bitcoin private trust which was created in Aug. 2022 into $IBTC, which wouldn't be new demand per se but may help them in early days of race: Eric Balchunas [Senior ETF Analyst for Bloomberg]
Читать полностью…Elon Musk's X.AI submitted a Form D "Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities" [Notice of Sale of Securities] to the SEC to Raise Up to $1billion in Equity Offering.
Читать полностью…Leap year 2024 gonna be big 🍿 | infinityhedge
1. DOGE-1 satellite Launch in January
2. CZ sentencing in February [or 6 month delay?]
3. Spot BTC ETFs decision in January
4. Rate cuts in March [or june?]
5. Bitcoin halving in April
6. Spot ETH ETFs decision in May
7. Mtgox repayment in/by October
8. US Election in November
9. SEC vs kraken, Coinbase, Binance, CZ, Justin Sun
10. FTX 2.0 [or irony?😁]