⚠️ North Korean hackers and the notorious ETH theft

South Korean authorities confirmed that North Korean hacker groups Lazarus and Andariel were behind the 2019 Upbit hack, resulting in the theft of 342,000 Ether valued at $50M then, now worth over $1.1B.

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🔽 Analysis: How could the FTX bankruptcy process affect the market?

Key points:

• FTX transferred RAY tokens worth over $11 million and SOL tokens valued under $5 million to Binance.

• FTX retains 6.46 million RAY tokens, valued at $38.73 million.

• The speed of FTX’s asset liquidation remains uncertain, with potential market effects depending on whether the RAY tokens are released gradually or all at once.


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📣 Binance sets new record with $8.73B inflows

Binance crypto exchange reported $8.73 billion in inflows last month, boosting its total assets to nearly $154.9 billion.

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💎 TON is also on the rise

Toncoin surged by 15% in 24 hours, breaking the $6.2 mark for the first time since Pavel Durov’s arrest.

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📣 The crypto banana will be eaten

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun plans to eat a banana taped to a wall, an artwork he bought for $6.24 million at Sotheby’s auction in New York.

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⚠️ Record $8.2 billion by penalties

In 2024, the SEC collected $8.2 billion in penalties, mainly from Terraform Labs, while returning over $345 million to investors.

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⭐️ The Most Important Only.

— Coinbase CEO and Trump to meet

— New Bitcoin ATH

— MicroStrategy record investment

— Stablecoin for Latin America

— Toncoin surge after a long break

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💲 Tether mints $3 billion USDT in past 24 hours

The largest stablecoin issuer has minted over $3 billion in USDT in the last 24 hours, totaling over $13 billion for November.

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Bitget has integrated bank transfers in Vietnam via QR codes, becoming the first exchange to do so. This feature enables seamless VND deposits and withdrawals, improving access to the crypto market.

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🔽 Bitcoin plummets sharply

Bitcoin still hasn’t reached the coveted $100,000 mark, struggling the past week to break its ATH. The coin is now below $95,000.

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⌨️ No anonymous numbers anymore?

The digital goods platform for Telegram, Fragment, now requires mandatory verification for any trading.

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🔥 Dogecoin and criticism of Elon Musk

Musk’s recent social media activity has sparked discussions about his influence on $DOGE after a new meme temporarily increased its value. Critics argue that the creation of the D.O.G.E. agency offers Musk plausible deniability, even as a class-action lawsuit accusing him of fraud was dropped.

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❕ Pump-Fun suspends live streaming

Solana-based meme coin platform Pump-Fun halts live-streaming due to abusive content reports.

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⚡️ Bitcoin sharply fell below $92,000

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📣 Tornado Cash ruling boosts DeFi optimism

A US appeals court’s decision that Tornado Cash’s smart contracts aren’t property and the subsequent invalidation of Treasury sanctions led to a nearly 400% surge in TORN token value, reflecting optimism about DeFi resilience.

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⚠️ South Korea confiscates $9.3M in BTC

The South Korean prosecutor’s office seized Bitcoins valued at $9.3 million from an unnamed crypto operation allegedly scamming the nation’s elderly.

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🔽 Lost billions of dollars, but at least there’s a NY apartment

In 2015, a seller on the esteemed "Million Dollar Listing" program declined an offer of 50,000 Bitcoin in exchange for a $14 million apartment in New York, forfeiting the potential to earn billions.

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💲 Tether ceases EURT stablecoin

Tether announced it is discontinuing its Euro-pegged stablecoin EURT, halting new minting in response to evolving European regulatory frameworks.

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