• Bitcoin’s Slight Retreat: Bitcoin (BTC) trades at $36,410, a 0.25% decrease . • Market Growth: Last week saw an 8.55% rise in crypto prices, with increased volume and volatility . • ETH & BTC New Highs: Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) prices hit new yearly highs, boosting investor sentiment .
🏦 Institutional Moves:
• SEC Delays ETF Decisions: The US SEC postponed decisions on Bitcoin ETF applications by Global X and Franklin Templeton. • BlackRock’s Ethereum ETF: BlackRock filed for a spot Ethereum ETF, expanding its crypto involvement . • HSBC’s Digital Custody: HSBC to launch digital asset custody services for blockchain-based securities by 2024 . • UBS ETF Trading in Hong Kong: UBS now allows clients to trade in three crypto ETFs .
💻 Tech and Innovation:
• Strike’s Global Expansion: Bitcoin Strike partners with Checkout.com for debit card Bitcoin purchases in 65+ countries . • JPMorgan’s Programmable Payments: JPMorgan introduces a programmable payment feature for its blockchain platform . • Deutsche Börse’s Digital Platform: Frankfurt Stock Exchange owner to develop a blockchain-backed trading platform for digital assets .
📊 Corporate Developments:
• Sam Altman’s Exit Affects Worldcoin: Sam Altman’s departure from OpenAI leads to a decline in Worldcoin’s value . • Republic’s Digital Asset on Avalanche: Investment firm Republic to issue its digital asset on the Avalanche network . • Circle’s IPO Plans: USDC stablecoin issuer Circle considers a 2024 IPO .
🚨 Security Incidents:
• Poloniex Exchange Hack: Hackers drain Poloniex’s hot wallets, causing an estimated $114 million loss .
🔧 Trading Tools and Platforms:
• Bitget’s Position Grids: Bitget introduces a new trading tool to leverage market fluctuations .
Solana's Largest DEX Aggregator Jupiter Announced 4 Billion Token Airdrop
Reported by The Block, Solana's largest decentralized exchange aggregator, Jupiter, has unveiled a retrospective token airdrop program aimed at rewarding its early users.
As part of a community-centric initiative, this airdrop will see the distribution of four billion (40%) of Jupiter's total 10 billion tokens across four phases. Commencing next week, the initial phase will release one billion Jupiter tokens to users who have conducted a minimum of $1,000 in swap volume on the protocol. The eligibility list encompasses 955,000 wallets identified in a snapshot taken on November 2.
The airdrop incorporates various reward tiers based on the volume of user swaps. The team has clarified that upcoming airdrop rounds will focus on rewarding new users.
The official airdrop allocation website will go live next week, enabling everyone to verify their allocation amount and other pertinent details.
The dYdX chain, built on Cosmos, has entered its beta mainnet phase, allowing active trading across 33 perpetual markets with up to 20x leverage. During this stage, no trading rewards will be distributed, but validators and stakers will accumulate trading fees. The transition to full trading with rewards depends on the chain's stability, determined by governance votes. Additionally, dYdX is partnering with Circle and Noble chain, leveraging Circle's Cross Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) to facilitate easy, secure transfers of USDC collateral from other chains to dYdX. CCTP launched on Noble's testnet on Nov. 3 and will be on the mainnet on Nov. 28.
Meuna is a decentralized protocol built on BNB chain where users can get exposure to a myriad of real-word assets through synthetics products.
Meuna has confirmed to launch its own token called “$MEU” and has confirmed to do an airdrop. Early users who do testnet tasks will become eligible for an airdrop when their token goes live.
so here us the steps on how to navigate and engage/interact on their tesnet page
STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE:
♂️Visit the Meuna testnet page: https://airdrops.io/visit/6pk2/
♂️Connect your wallet.
♂️Change the network to Binance smart chain, opBNB or Goerli testnet.
♂️Get testnet tokens from the faucet: https://testnet.bnbchain.org/faucet-smart
♂️Go back to the Meuna testnet page and claim testnet HAY tokens.
♂️Now click on “Trade” and make trades.
♂️Go to “Pool” and provide liquidity.
♂️Also, go to “Farm” and stake some tokens.
♂️Go to the “Mint” section and open a collateral.
♂️They’ve confirmed to airdrop $MEU tokens to early testnet users. Early users who do testnet tasks as mentioned above will get free $MEU when the token goes live.
Pyth Network is an oracle providing financial market data to various blockchains. It sources data from 90+ reputable publishers, including major exchanges and market making firms. They offer price feeds for various asset classes, such as US equities, commodities, and cryptocurrencies, with frequent updates.
Pyth Network is airdropping 600,000,000 PYTH to users of various ecosystem participants, community members and Pyth NFT holders. Users who interacted with various blockchain ecosystems that use Pyth Network data, such as Solana, Aptos, Sui, Cosmos, and the EVM ecosystem, Pyth NFT holders and users with special Discord roles are eligible for the airdrop.
STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE:
Visit the Pyth airdrop page:
https://pyth.network/airdrop
Review your airdrop eligibility by connecting your wallets.
If you’re eligible, then you will be able to claim PYTH tokens when the claim goes live.
Eligible participants are:
EVM ecosystem participants such as Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, zkSync Era, Linea, BNB Chain, Polygon, Polygon zkEVM, Optimsm, Aurora, Avalanche, Celo, Gnosis, KuCoin Community Chain, Mantle, Meter, Conflux Space, Cronos and Wemix.
Move ecosystem participants such as Aptos and Sui
Cosmos ecosystem participants such as Evmos, Osmosis, Injective, Neutron and Sei
Solana ecosystem participants
Users with special Discord roles
Various Pyth NFT holders
The snapshot of individuals’ on-chain activity was taken on September 1st, 2023.
The snapshot of special Discord role users and Pyth NFT holders was taken on October 25, 2023.
The claim is not yet live. Follow Pyth Network’s official social channels to stay updated on when it goes live.
The team has confirmed that there will be future airdrops, providing future opportunities to be eligible.