CRYPTO
MEXC Official returned $3M to The White Whale after previously freezing it due to terms-of-service violations.
Sam Bankman-Fried claimed FTX was never insolvent; accused outside lawyers of forcing the company into bankruptcy.
Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy denied rumors of suing Binance BNB, calling them baseless.
Digital asset investment products saw $360M outflows last week; Bitcoin BTC saw approximately $946M out, Ethereum ETH had approximately $58M in, Solana SOL had approximately $421M in, and Ripple XRP had approximately $43M in.
Tether's Q3/2025 report indicates a net profit exceeding $10B for the period of Q1–Q3. The company issued more than $174B USDT and holds over $135B in U.S. Treasuries.
Ripple acquired digital asset infrastructure firm Palisade for an undisclosed value to expand its custody capabilities.
Ripple XRP launched a U.S. spot brokerage service, offering over-the-counter (OTC) support for XRP, RLUSD, and other tokens.
ZeroHash obtained a MiCA license in the European Union. Mastercard MA is reportedly set to acquire Zerohash for up to $2B.
ALPHA
MetaMask clarified that MetaMask Rewards and $MASK TGE are separate initiatives, with the TGE designed to reward ecosystem contributors.
Polymarket launched a builder program, distributing over $1M to developers through grants and rewards.
Farcaster_xyz introduced "No Fee November," offering 0% wallet fees for swaps on Base, Solana, BSC, and other platforms.
Brevis_zk launched Proving Grounds Phase 2, allowing users to earn Sparks by completing on-chain tasks across more than 10 protocols.
Blockscount introduced Streak Badges, enabling users to unlock exclusive badges by completing daily tasks.
The public auction for Megaeth $MEGA concluded with approximately 50,000 participants and around $1.39B committed. Allocations were announced on November 5.
AIRDROP
Fogo teased an upcoming event in November on X, likely involving the launch of its mainnet, token generation event (TGE), and airdrop.
0xIntuition is set to launch its $TRUST airdrop on November 5. Eligible recipients include IQ point holders, Ethereum users with strong signals, and others.
FolksFinance released an eligibility checker and announced the $FOLKS allocation. Over 1 million Folks points holders, Founders Pass NFT owners, and others qualify.
Espresso added two new eligibility paths for its $ESP airdrop: users of Rarible/RariChain and AcrossProtocol.
EspressoSys also confirmed that participants in Infinite Garden and Brew House qualify for the $ESP airdrop.
Noble_xyz launched the $NOBLE airdrop claim process, requiring users to link their Ethereum address before December 31. Season 1 and Season 2 participants are eligible.
FINANZ
OpenAI and Amazon AMZN signed a $38B deal, under which OpenAI will utilize AWS compute services fully deployed by the end of 2026.
MicroStrategy MSTR purchased 397 Bitcoin BTC, approximately $45.6M worth, at an average price of $114,771 per BTC. Their total holdings now stand at 641,205 BTC, valued at approximately $68B.
IREN IREN signed a $9.7B AI cloud contract with Microsoft MSFT, which will provide NVIDIA GB300 GPUs.
Cipher Mining CIFR signed a $5.5B lease deal with AWS to operate AI data centers.
Bitmine BMNR purchased 82,353 Ethereum ETH, approximately $297M worth. Their total holdings amount to 3,395,422 ETH, valued at approximately $12.2B.
Tharimmune THAR raised $540M to fund Canton Coin CC. Investors include DRW, Liberty City Ventures, ARK Invest, Kraken, and Polychain Capital.
Nasdaq warned TON Strategy TONX for violating shareholder approval rules. The company has not yet been cleared for its $500M private stock sale.
Animocabrands is set to go public via a reverse merger with Currenc Group CURR, with expected completion in 2026.
SECURITY & EXPLOITS
Balancer BAL was exploited for approximately $129M due to a smart contract vulnerability. Berachain paused its chain to mitigate the issue, Polygon censored the hacker's transactions, and Sonic disabled the attacker’s tokens.
Chainalysis launched Wallet Breach Detection, a behavior-based Web3 security defense tool designed for exchanges.
OpenAI unveiled Aardvark, a security research tool powered by GPT-5, which is currently in private beta.
UNLOCKS TOKEN
- •Sui $SUI / ~104M / 01-11
- •EigenCloud $EIGEN / ~34M / 01-11
- •Ethereum $ENA / ~16M / 02-11
- •Ethereum $ENA / ~56M / 05-11
FUND
DonutBrowser raised a $15M seed round.
Kapkap_Hub raised $10M in a seed round led by Animocabrands.
StandardMoney_ raised $8M in a strategic round led by yzilabs.
Liquidtrading raised $7.6M in a seed round led by paradigm.
SemanticLayer raised $2M in a Series A round led by greenfield_cap.