Today's Headline Highlights:
US SEC: Despite Binance's settlement with the US Department of Justice, the SEC lawsuit against Binance should continue to proceed.
Binance Labs: The withdrawal of the Abu Dhabi license application is due to low capital utilization and is unrelated to Binance Exchange.
Fidelity has submitted a second revised Bitcoin spot ETF prospectus to the SEC.
FTX and Alameda have transferred 19 types of assets worth $23.59 million to exchanges in the past 4 days.
Zhao Changpeng: Will suspend the use of Twitter for a period of time.
HashKey Capital-related addresses withdrew 8365 ETH from Binance and OKX within 20 hours.
Decentralized identity aggregator Sismo has ceased operations and has returned funds to investors.
Regulatory News
Binance Labs Fund tweeted that the withdrawal of the Abu Dhabi license application is unrelated to Binance Exchange. The purpose of obtaining the license was to manage funds raised from limited partners (LP). However, the team decided to focus on incubating early founders and startups, resulting in low capital utilization. Therefore, they decided to return the funds to LPs and cancel the license application.
Fidelity has submitted a second revised Bitcoin spot ETF prospectus to the SEC
Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas tweeted that Fidelity has submitted a second revised Bitcoin spot ETF prospectus (S-1 filing) to the SEC.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stated that Binance Holdings Ltd.'s recent $4.3 billion settlement agreement with the US Department of Justice supported its lawsuit against Binance. Although the SEC did not participate in the settlement agreement, the agency argued on Friday that the federal court in Washington hearing its case should weigh Binance and the company's former CEO Zhao Changpeng's statements in the November 21 settlement agreement. Binance and Zhao Changpeng had previously asked the court to dismiss the SEC's lawsuit. In June of this year, the SEC sued Binance and Zhao Changpeng, accusing them of mishandling customer funds, misleading investors and regulators, and violating securities regulations.
US, South Korea, Japan discuss North Korean hackers stealing cryptocurrencies in trilateral meeting
National security officials from the US, South Korea, and Japan discussed North Korea's cryptocurrency theft, as well as its efforts in nuclear and ballistic missile programs. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, South Korean National Security Advisor Cho Tae-Yong, and Japanese National Security Advisor Takeo Akiba met in Seoul, South Korea, to discuss various issues, including North Korea and its ongoing weapons of mass destruction programs.
Project Updates
Coinbase to launch perpetual futures contracts for OP, ARB, and ETC on December 13
According to official sources, Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced will add support for perpetual futures contracts for Optimism, Arbitrum, and Ethereum Classic. The OP-PERP, ARB-PERP, and ETC-PERP markets will open around 18:00 Beijing time on December 13.
Zhao Changpeng: Will suspend the use of Twitter for a period of time
Zhao Changpeng tweeted his thanks for the community's support but stated that he will try to suspend the use of Twitter for a period of time.
Avalanche WebWallet to be discontinued on January 23 and transition to new wallet Core
Kieran McShane, a member of the Ava Labs team, tweeted that Avalanche wallet WebWallet will be discontinued on January 23 and transition to the new wallet Core. Additionally, the WebWallet code will remain open source. Core is built to accommodate upcoming advanced AVAX staking features and functions, supporting validation, delegation, x/p/c access, cross-chain transfers, portfolio exports, and more.
Decentralized identity aggregator Sismo ceases operations, funds returned to investors
Hadrien Charlanes, the founder of decentralized identity aggregator and crypto-native SSO Sismo, tweeted that Sismo has returned funds to investors today. Sismo raised $10.5 million from 130 investors (51% return). Investors provided valuable advice and were never driven by short-term gains. Sismo has open-sourced parts that were not previously open source and will continue to maintain the basic infrastructure for several months. He is willing to support teams/individuals who want to turn Sismo's work into a public service.
Funding News
Digital asset brokerage firm Nonco has completed a $10 million seed round financing, led by Valor Capital Group and Hack VC, with participation from Morgan Creek Digital, CMCC, Lvna Capital, Theta Capital, Bullish, Bastion Trading, and Libra Capital Ventures. The company was spun off from the Americas division of Hong Kong digital asset platform OSL, OSL Digital Limited, and is composed of the same team. OSL retains a minority stake in the new company. Since its launch in April, the company's trading volume in the Americas region has reached $6 billion.
Key Data
FTX and Alameda transferred $23.59 million worth of 19 assets to exchanges in the past 4 days
According to Spot On Chain monitoring, FTX and Alameda Research transferred assets worth $23.59 million to Binance, Coinbase, OKX, and Galaxy Digital OTC in the past 4 days. Since October 24, FTX and Alameda Research have collectively deposited approximately 74 tokens worth about $591 million into exchanges.
A whale transferred 3700 ETH to Binance, expected to profit $1.39 million
According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, the ETH swing trader 0x828…Fc0ab transferred 3700 ETH to Binance a few minutes ago, worth $8.71 million. The average cost of this fund is $1968, with 9130 ETH bought on-chain on November 19 and 2824 ETH transferred out of Binance to the wallet on November 21. If all sold this time, a profit of $1.39 million would be made, and the wallet currently has 10,000 ETH remaining.
HashKey Capital-related addresses withdrew 8365 ETH from Binance and OKX within 20 hours
According to Spot On Chain monitoring, the whale with the initial address 0xc6b (related to HashKey Capital) withdrew 8365 ETH from Binance and OKX again in the past 20 hours at an average price of $2358, totaling approximately $19.7 million. In the past 5 days, the whale has deposited a total of 120.2 million USDT and USDC into Binance and OKX. So far, the whale has withdrawn 25,203 ETH (approximately $57.8 million, average price $2295) and may continue to withdraw more; expected profit of $1.68 million (+2.9%).
Justin Sun transferred 1600 ETH worth $3.78 million to a multi-signature wallet
According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, Justin Sun's address transferred 1600 ETH worth $3.78 million to the multi-signature wallet 0x290…e715a a few minutes ago; and 11 hours ago, Justin Sun also transferred the same amount to the same address. After receiving the tokens, the address has gradually recharged ETH into multiple exchanges such as Binance and Kraken through the intermediary address 0x8fC…990b8.
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