It's Friday! In today's newsletter, a human outwits AI agent Freysa to take home more than $47,000, Hyperliquid's HYPE token exceeds a $5 billion fully diluted valuation on its debut, Taiwan fast-tracks stricter crypto AML rules and more.
Meanwhile, crypto execs open up about their debanking experiences following Donald Trump's U.S. election win.
Plus, could there be a Dogecoin ETF next year?
Let's get started.
A human crypto user, known as "p0pular.eth," outsmarted AI agent Freysa to win a $47,000 prize in ether by tricking it into misinterpreting its "approveTransfer" function.
Hyperliquid airdropped 310 million HYPE tokens on Friday, which subsequently jumped 47% following the token generation event to $5.72, according to CoinGecko.
Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission is set to implement stricter anti-money laundering rules for crypto service providers on Nov. 30 — a month earlier than initially planned.
Ethena and Securitize are pitching Ethena's upcoming USDtb stablecoin for Spark's $1 billion tokenization competition.
Top memecoins have lost momentum since mid-November, while DeFi tokens, led by projects like AAVE, have surged over 35%, according to GMCI indices.
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