The global crypto market cap is $2.59T 4.47%▲ with a 24-hour market volume of $126.54B 12.63%▼. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 42.16% 1.30%▼. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $58,035.52 | 1.06% ▲ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $4,309.64 | 6.93% ▲ | | 3 | Binance Coin BNB | $584.74 | 9.84% ▲ | | 4 | Solana SOL | $216.14 | 10.32% ▲ | | 5 | Cardano ADA | $1.87 | 4.44%▲ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 6:00 EST
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 Citadel CEO Ken Griffin outbid Constitution DAO at last night’s Sotheby’s auction. Griffin paid a total of $43.2M for one of the 13 surviving original copies of the Constitution. More: - Griffin stated that he plans to lend the Constitution to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas.
- ConstitutionDAO will allow participants to redeem their funds but is also considering voting on a new auction.
- Yesterday, a lawsuit accusing Citadel Securities of conspiring with Robinhood during the Gamestop short squeeze was dismissed. Note: Inside.com's founder and CEO, Jason Calacanis, is an investor in Robinhood.
- Balyasny Asset Management stated that it would no longer hire former employees of Citadel’s Global Fixed Income business.
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TOP NFT COLLECTIONS | # | Name | 24h Volume | 24h % | | 1 | Axie Infinity ETH, RONIN | $23.21M | 19.39% ▼ | | 2 | Bored Ape Yacht Club ETH | $7.95M | 39.85% ▼ | | 3 | The Sandbox ETH | $7.10M | 23.62% ▼ | | 4 | Wolf Game ETH | $6.67M | 751.11% ▲ | | 5 | Doddles V4 ETH | $4.23M | 4.23% ▼ | Source: DappRadar, 6:00 pm EST
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 49.5% of liquidity providers (LPs) on Uniswap V3 are reportedly losing money. The information comes from a recent report published by Bancor and Topaze Blue. More: - The report was focused on Impermanent Loss (IL): LP losses attributed to the change in asset price from when the asset was deposited.
- Out of the 17 sampled liquidity pools, 80% had a higher IL than the total fees earned.
- Total fees earned during the period were $199.3M, with an IL of $260.1M, resulting in the loss of $60.8M among LPs for providing liquidity rather than holding the asset.
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 🍋Fresh Funding🍋 DoraHacks, Web3/Incentives: $8M ⮕ The funding came in the form of a strategic investment from Binance Labs. More: - DoraHacks is a web3 hackathon organizer that provides funds and rewards for active community developers through its website, HackerLink.
- Binance Labs stated that it would assist DoraHacks in its grants, funding, and incubation as well as its R&D on DAO infrastructure.
- In 2021, over $12M in grants and donations have been distributed to 1,000+ DoraHacks projects.
Snapshot Labs, DAO Governance: $4M ⮕ The seed investment round was led by 1kz and participated in by Coinbase Ventures, StarkWare, MetaCartel, Gnosis, and others. More: - Snapshot Labs is a DAO governance solution provider that offers voting solutions for over 2,200 DAO communities.
- The fresh funding will be used to continue developing new decentralized governance solutions.
- Snapshot forks, which let users improve on Snapshot’s functionality, are incredibly popular and have been used by community-led initiatives like Ethereum Name Service (ENS) and Gitcoin.
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Immutable X IMX | $7.27 | 31.77% ▲ | | 2 | Loopring LRC | $2.79 | 26.35% ▲ | | 3 | Fantom FTM | $2.27 | 23.03% ▲ | | 4 | Elrond EGLD | $358.90 | 17.04% ▲ | | 5 | Enjin Coin ENJ | $3.64 | 16.79% ▲ | ▼ TOP LOSERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | The Sandbox SAND | $4.33 | 4.18%▼ | | 2 | Curve DAO Token CRV | $4.02 | 3.05%▼ | | 3 | Yearn.finance YFI | $31,751.36 | 1.56%▼ | | 4 | Decred DCR | $107.77 | 0.08%▼ | | 5 | US Dollar USD | $1.00 | 0.00%▼ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 6:00 EST
*Limited to cryptocurrencies in the Top 100
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Loopring (LRC) surged 19% as Ethereum scaling solutions continue to defy the general market downturn. Projects using ZK rollup scaling solutions like Polygon (MATIC) and Curve DAO (CRV) have also seen growth over the past 24 hours. What are ZK Rollups? - Zero-knowledge rollups (ZK rollups) are Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solutions that validate on-chain data off-chain.
- By computing validity off-chain, ZK rollups can validate blocks of transactions in a faster, more efficient manner.
- Because this solution requires verifying proofs off-chain, one disadvantage of the process is that ZK rollup solutions cannot execute smart contracts.
- Other scaling solutions, like plasma or optimistic rollups, also offer their own unique advantages and disadvantages. For more information on different processes, check out Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s "An Incomplete Guide to Rollups."
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 93% of The IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) team’s seizures in 2021 involved cryptocurrencies. The information was released as part of the IRS: CI Annual Report for 2021. More: - The amount of cryptocurrency seized by the CI totaled around $3.5B.
- Some of the largest seizures of the year came from the arrest of Roman Sterlingov for operating the Bitcoin Fog BTC money-laundering service and Roger Nils-Jones Karlsson for money laundering profits from the Eastern Metal Securities scheme.
- With Congress passing the $1.2T infrastructure bill that contains new IRS crypto requirements, elevated action is likely to continue.
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 Jack Dorsey's Square released the tbDEX protocol whitepaper. The whitepaper outlines Square's plans for a decentralized Bitcoin (BTC) exchange. More: - The newly released draft was released to give a high-level understanding of the protocol and is currently open to comment.
- tbDEX sets out to create direct on- and off-ramps for fiat and crypto transactions.
- Unlike traditional DEXs, Square doesn't plan to use a trustless model, like atomic swaps, and instead uses decentralized identity and verifiable credentials.
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- 3% of Binance users left the platform following its updated KYC policies.
- Macy’s announced a Thanksgiving Day parade NFT drop via Sweet, with all NFT auction proceeds going to the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
- Kraken told users that it would delist Monero (XMR) for all UK customers by the end of the month.
- Binance announced the successful integration of the Ethereum Layer 2 solution Arbitrum One.
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 |  | Griffin McShane is a New York transplant currently living in Brooklyn, NY. He is a graduate of Providence College, where he studied both computer science and business, and the University of Maine School of Law, where he earned his JD. Beyond his work at Inside, Griffin has written articles for CoinDesk and is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). |  | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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