The global crypto market cap is $1.91T 1.05%▼ with a 24-hour market volume of $98.81B 9.02%▼. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 42.55% 0.22%▲. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $42,837.58 | 1.17% ▼ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $2,967.24 | 3.39% ▼ | | 3 | Cardano ADA | $2.17 | 3.98%▼ | | 4 | Binance Coin BNB | $337.70 | 3.74%▼ | | 5 | XRP XRP | $0.9239 | 2.32% ▼ | *Prices as of 4:30 p.m. ET.
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Huobi Global announced that it would cease all mainland China exchange accounts. New user registration was immediately disabled on Friday following the PBoC’s guidance shutting down crypto activities. More: - Huobi Group co-founder Du Jun stated that all accounts will be closed permanently by the start of 2022.
- It is the first major crypto exchange to take action beyond shutting down new user registration.
- Huobi’s HT exchange token dropped 15% following the PBoC announcement and has since lost another 27%.
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Crypto exchange Bitfinex paid a record 7,676 ETH ($23.5M) in gas fees for a $100,000 transaction. The transaction was to DeFi exchange DeversiFi, which stated that no customer funds were affected by the transaction fee. More: - Bitfinex has yet to release a statement on the transaction. However, some believe the outrageously high fee was due to a vulnerability exploit.
- Even without the possibility of an exploit, Bitfinex’s transaction has proved to be an incredibly costly mistake.
- According to the original discoverer of the transaction, it seems likely that the miner who mined the $23M block hasn’t yet realized what happened.
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🍋 Fresh Funding🍋 Yellow Card, Crypto Exchange: 15M ⮕ The Series A funding round was lead by Valar Ventures, Third Price, and Castle Island Ventures with participation from Square, BlockFi, Coinbase Ventures, and others. More: - Yellow Card began its operations as a cryptocurrency exchange in Nigeria in 2018 before expanding its offerings across the entire African continent.
- The fresh funding will be used to expand its pan-Africa cryptocurrency platform as well as onboard new talent.
- Yellow Card’s latest funding comes when BTC adoption in Africa has exploded 1,200% over the past year.
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | OKB OKB | $14.87 | 7.64% ▲ | | 2 | Terra LUNA | $38.05 | 6.43% ▲ | | 3 | eCash XEC | $0.0002336 | 5.62% ▲ | | 4 | Huobi Token HT | $7.66 | 5.14% ▲ | | 5 | Fantom FTM | $1.27 | 4.63% ▲ | ▼ TOP LOSERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Tezos XTZ | $6.11 | 10.04%▼ | | 2 | Harmony ONE | $0.1615 | 10.04%▼ | | 3 | ICON ICX | $1.52 | 9.56%▼ | | 4 | SushiSwap SUSHI | $10.31 | 8.59%▼ | | 5 | FTX Token FTT | $52.26 | 8.37%▼ | *Limited to cryptocurrencies in the Top 100. Prices as of 4:30 p.m. ET.
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DEX activity on Uniswap (UNI) and dYdX (DYDX) has exploded following China’s recent crypto advisory. The rise in DEX use in China comes from the exchange’s ability to offer permissionless trading without an intermediary. More: - Trading volume on dYdX soared to a record $6.5B, surpassing Coinbase's total daily transaction volume.
- DYDX also reached an all-time high following the move to the decentralized platform, jumping 90% over the weekend.
- UNI is not in record territory but has nonetheless moved up 50% over the past 24 hours.
- Centralized exchanges OKEx and Huobi have taken a loss of around 40% following the announcement.
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Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith pleaded guilty in New York court for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Virgil was initially arrested in Nov. 2019 after speaking at a blockchain conference in Pyongyang, North Korea. More: - According to the New York district court, Griffth violated the act by providing highly technical information to North Korea that could help the country launder money.
- Griffith additionally was charged with entering North Korea in April 2019 without approval from the U.S.
- Despite Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's outward disapproval of the decision, a petition to release Griffth has only accumulated a bit over 500 signatures in two years.
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Cardano’s commercial branch Emurgo announced a $100M fund for Cardano (ADA) projects. The firm’s announcement came during the Cardano Summit 2021 conference. More: - The new fund will focus on DeFi and NFT startups as well as Cardano-focused educational projects.
- Emurgo has actively invested in Cardano projects in the past, including Ethereum-compatible Cardano sidechain Milkomeda.
- In addition to Emurgo’s fund, Input Output’s cFund and Project Catalyst were recently launched to fund Cardano-based projects.
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 |  | Griffin McShane is a J.D. candidate currently living in Portland, Maine. He is a graduate of Providence College, where he studied both computer science and business. Griffin aspires one day to go to the moon and bring some of his altcoins along for the ride. |   | | 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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