According to TechFlow, on November 15, Decrypt reported that DigitalX, an Australian cryptocurrency fund management company, announced that its Bitcoin fund had a return of 99% over the past year, surpassing similar competitors. At the same time, the company plans to cut operating costs by A$950,000 (about US$614,000) per year by restructuring the fund management team.

The company's digital asset fund, despite a 2.1% drop in the last quarter, still has a cumulative return of more than 526% over five years. DigitalX currently offers two Bitcoin investment products: a Bitcoin fund for institutional investors and a Bitcoin ETF (BTXX) for retail investors. Among them, BTXX has risen from A$20 to A$31.09 per unit since it was listed on the ASX in July.

Author: Decentralised.Co

Compiled by: TechFlow

Conscious memes are trending, and one in particular caught our attention.

It sits at the intersection of finance, social networking, and meme assets.

@ai16zdao created a portfolio that doubled in value without any trading. How did he do it? We took a closer look.

First, let’s look at the numbers. ai16z started on the @daosdotfun platform with just under $100k in funding.

As creators use Eliza assets for their own bots, the assets have surged to $1.9 million in assets under management. Why? Because it helps increase exposure for the assets themselves.

According to TechFlow, on November 15, the maritime fintech platform Shipfinex announced the completion of a $1.5 million seed round of financing, led by Gaurav Mehta, Chairman of Best Oasis Limited and SPM Shipping DMCC. Vivek Seth, Senior Vice President of ADNOC Logistics & Services, and Yasovardhan Chinni, Founder of Nanlian Ship Management LLC, also participated in this round of investment.

Shipfinex is committed to democratizing maritime finance by enabling fractional ownership of maritime assets through blockchain technology. This round of financing will be used to support the company's growth, advance the regulatory process of Dubai Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA), and develop a secure and compliant maritime asset token (MATs) trading market.

According to TechFlow, on November 15, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Andrew Kang, the founder of Mechanism Capital, continued to increase his holdings of SHRUB tokens in the past 24 hours. In the past hour, he purchased 1.01 million SHRUBs with 50 ETH (about 153,000 US dollars), with an average price of 0.151 US dollars.

Yesterday, Kang personally bought 991,000 SHRUBs, and his company Mechanism Capital increased its holdings of SHRUB by 504,900 with 34 ETH (about $107,000). According to statistics, Kang and his company have currently purchased a total of 2.5 million SHRUB tokens, of which 1.49 million have been transferred to new wallets.

According to SoSoValue data, the total net outflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs was US$401 million yesterday (November 14, Eastern Time), according to TechFlow.

Yesterday, Grayscale ETF GBTC had a single-day net outflow of US$69.5908 million. The current historical net outflow of GBTC is US$20.251 billion.

Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF BTC had a net outflow of $5.279 million in a single day, and the current total net inflow of Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust BTC is $641 million. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the largest net inflow in a single day yesterday was BlackRock ETF IBIT, with a net inflow of $127 million in a single day, and the current total net inflow of IBIT is $29.279 billion. The second is VanEck ETF HODL, with a net inflow of $2.4963 million in a single day, and the current total net inflow of HODL is $743 million.

According to SoSoValue data, the total net outflow of Ethereum spot ETF was US$3.2429 million yesterday (November 14, Eastern Time), according to TechFlow.

Yesterday, Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETHE had a daily net outflow of $21.9011 million, and the current historical net outflow of ETHE is $3.203 billion. Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust ETF ETH had a daily net outflow of $0.00, and the current historical total net inflow of Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust ETH is $380 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the largest daily net inflow yesterday was BlackRock ETF ETHA, with a daily net inflow of $18.8693 million, and the current historical total net inflow of ETHA is $1.724 billion. The second largest was Invesco ETF QETH, with a daily net inflow of $929,000, and the current historical total net inflow of QETH is $29.0691 million.

Written by Zhou Zhou, Foresight News

Chiang Mai is a large international village where Vitalik has recently lived for about 42 days. For him, who flies 55 times a year on average and moves almost every week, it is rare for him to live in a city for such a long time.

During these 42 days, a bottom-up, decentralized, and increasingly populous social life experiment took place. Eventually, more than 1,000 blockchain practitioners from all over the world arrived in Chiang Mai and spontaneously formed 8 or 9 cities and villages (Pop-Up City). They were going to build a "Web3 City" here for six weeks.

According to TechFlow, on November 15, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin gave an exclusive interview to Foresight News in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and expressed his views on the competitive relationship between Solana and Ethereum. He pointed out that Solana is more centralized than Ethereum in many aspects: nodes are more difficult to run, the PoS mechanism is more centralized, and more projects directly rely on the support of the Solana Foundation.

Vitalik emphasized that there are essential differences in the market positioning of Ethereum and Solana. Solana focuses more on cooperating with large enterprises to develop DePIN projects, and such applications have relatively low requirements for decentralization. Ethereum, on the other hand, focuses on building a decentralized, neutral and secure base layer, and its degree of decentralization is even higher than that of Bitcoin.

TechFlow reported that according to the Anqing Voice WeChat account, the Tongcheng Public Security Bureau of Anhui Province successfully intercepted a virtual currency investment fraud case. It is reported that the victim, Ms. Hu, met her "boyfriend" Zhang, who claimed to be engaged in virtual currency investment abroad, through the Internet in August this year. The other party used high returns as bait and asked her to prepare 800,000 yuan in cash to hand over to the "account manager".

The Tongcheng Anti-Fraud Center took prompt action after receiving clues about suspicious fund transactions on November 4. On the morning of November 5, the police successfully intercepted Ms. Hu, who was about to hand over 730,000 yuan in cash to the "account manager" at the gate of a residential community. Upon investigation, it was found that the so-called "account manager" was actually a "cash driver" hired by an overseas fraud group.

On November 15, MEET48 officially announced that the "MEET48 Best7" large-scale voting event was officially launched, which will last from 12:00 on November 15 to 12:00 on January 14 (UTC+8). During this period, fans will select the best songs and groups of MEET48 through voting, free NFT casting and staking points in stages, creating a shining stage for idols and newcomers to enter the Web3 world. At the same time, users who participate in the interaction of "MEET48 Best7" and holders of WAND blind box NFT will lock in MEET48's airdrop rights in the future. After the "MEET48 Best7" voting event ends, MEET48 will release information related to TGE.

According to TechFlow, Protos reported that the NYC Dog Mayor election was recently interfered by cryptocurrency speculators, causing the popular candidate to withdraw from the race. It is reported that the holder of the meme coin named BERT used improper means to canvass votes for the dog candidate Bertram and discredit other candidates in an attempt to push up the token price.

Olivia Caputo, the owner of the dog Enzo, announced her withdrawal from the race in a long post on social media, saying that the competition has become a "catalyst for spreading hatred, negativity and threats of violence." Caputo accused BERT coin supporters of inducing votes through payments and giveaways, and hinted in group chats that this was a "pump and dump" plan.

TechFlow reported that on November 14, according to Protos, Internet celebrity Haliey Welch (also known as "Hawk Tuah Girl") posted a video on social media, thanking MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor for guiding her into cryptocurrency investment. The video was forwarded by Bitcoin podcaster TFTC on the X platform and sparked heated discussions.

Welch said in the video that he has invested in cryptocurrencies such as DOGE and SOL. Welch currently has 190,000, 380,000 and 120,000 followers on YouTube, X and TikTok respectively, and has previously appeared at the Bitcoin 2024 sub-venue event. The Bitcoin community calls this phenomenon the "orange pill effect", which comes from the awakening metaphor in the movie (The Matrix).