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Crypto News

• ⭐️ Aave $AAVE announces Aave app; offers up to 9% APY on stablecoins & up to $1M in balance protection; early access (waitlist) live on iOS; coming soon to Android & Web.

• US Trump Administration reviews proposal that allows the IRS to view Americans' foreign crypto holdings; to potentially join the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF).

• Digital Asset Investment Products saw $2B in outflows last week; Bitcoin $BTC ~$1.38B outflows, Ethereum $ETH ~$689M outflows, Solana $SOL ~$8.3M outflows, Ripple $XRP ~$15.5M outflows.

• Cboe to launch Continuous Futures for Bitcoin $BTC and Ethereum $ETH on December 15th; offers investors US-regulated perpetual-style exposure.

• VanEck Solana $SOL ETF begins trading; SOL Strategies $STKE to provide staking services for VanEck's Solana ETF.

• Fidelity Solana $SOL ETF to begin trading on November 18th; Grayscale, Bitwise, & VanEck Solana ETFs are all currently live & trading.

• Cardano $ADA user swaps 14.4M ADA (~$6.9M) for 846K $USDA; loses ~$6.05M due to low liquidity.

• DappRadar $RADAR to shut down citing no financial sustainability; to begin winding down in the coming days.

Alpha

• Coinbase $COIN updates its X account bio to "December 17th" teasing upcoming announcement; to host H2 2025 product event according to recent Q3 2025 earnings call.

• ⭐️ Monad launches $MON public sale on Coinbase; offers 7.5B MON (7.5% of the total supply) at $0.025 ($2.5B valuation) per MON; open from November 17th to November 22nd.

• ⭐️ MegaETH $MEGA teases "Second biggest week of the year" on X; to potentially launch mainnet soon.

• Rainbow adds support for Katana & Gnosis $GNO networks; to add more chains "every day"; to launch $RNBW soon.

• OpenSea to unlock Wave 2 of Treasure Chests on November 18th; to also unlock Wave 3 starter chests.

• Zama launches Zama testnet v2; to launch mainnet & $ZAMA token soon.

Airdrops

• Sentient launches Sentient $SENT airdrop registration & eligibility checker; Sentient Chat users, open-source AI researchers, & more are eligible; registration closes on November 29th.

• Espresso announces more paths to Espresso $ESP airdrop eligibility; Rufus top players, Dogelon Mars Land NFT holders, & Syndicate $SYND top stakers to be eligible.

• Hyperbeat launches Hyperbeat $BEAT airdrop registration; Hyperbeat Hearts (points) holders & Hypurr NFT holders are eligible; review & sign the Hyperbeat Foundation Terms of Use by December 5th.

• Harmonix launches Harmonix $HAR airdrop registration; Harmonix points holders, Hypurr NFT holders, & more are eligible; review & sign the Harmonix Terms of Use by December 1st.

• Tabi Foundation posts "gTabi" on X; to potentially launch Tabi mainnet, TGE, & airdrop soon.

Finance News

• Key Events This Week by The Kobeissi Letter.

• US Treasury Secretary Bessent says the Trump Administration is targeting a trade deal with China by Thanksgiving.

• ⭐️ Nvidia $NVDA to report Q3 2025 earnings on November 19th; results are considered one of the most important market catalysts for the remainder of 2025.

• Strategy $MSTR buys an additional 8,178 Bitcoin $BTC for ~$835.6M at ~$102,171 per BTC; now holds 649,870 BTC (~$59.9B) acquired for ~$48.37B at ~$74,433 per BTC.

• Bitmine $BMNR buys an additional 54,156 Ethereum $ETH ($163M); now holds 3,559,879 ETH (~$10.7B) acquired at $3,120 per ETH; also holds $607M in unencumbered cash.

• Forward Industries $FWDI acquires additional Solana $SOL; now holds 6.9M SOL (~$904M); Forward Industries has also transferred 1,887,962 SOL (~$247M) to Coinbase Prime, unclear what the transfers are for.

• Sharps Technology $STSS reports Q3 2025 earnings; reports $17.7M in combined staking revenue & fair-value gains, $25.2M in cash & stablecoin holdings, & more; currently holds over 2M Solana $SOL (~$262M).

• KindlyMD $NAKA delays Q3 2025 earnings; cites recent merger with Nakamoto Holdings requires "additional time to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information"; currently holds 5,765 Bitcoin $BTC (~$529M).

Security and Exploits

• OpenSea loses 4 $ETH (~$12K) due to buying a fake NFT collection for the OpenSea Rewards program; the fake collection has since been removed.

• GoPlus warns warns that several x402 projects carry security risks; includes excessive authorization, honeypots, & unlimited minting.

• Yala Stablecoin $YU depegs due to runaway borrowing & low liquidity; team to provide operational plan by December 15th.

• ⭐️ Google releases security update patching two security vulnerabilities; includes one that is under active exploitation in the wild.

Token Unlocks

• Arbitrum $ARB / ~$21M / NOV 16th
• ZKsync $ZK / ~$9M / NOV 17th
• ApeCoin $APE / ~$5M / NOV 17th
• LayerZero $ZRO / ~$36M / NOV 20th
• Kaito $KAITO / ~$7M / NOV 20th
Sourced from Tokenomist

Funding

• Harmonix raises $1.5M in Seed funding from several investors.

• ⭐️ USDai raises an undisclosed amount in funding from Coinbase Ventures.

• CodexField raises an undisclosed amount in Strategic funding from Onebit Ventures.

The Degen Farmer