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Crypto News

• ⭐️ Justin Sun & Andre Cronje contest Coinbase CEO Brian Armstong's claim that Coinbase asset listings are free.

• Ethereum $ETH Foundation researchers Justin Drake & Dankrad Feist drop EigenLayer $EIGEN advisorship.

• ⭐️ Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino denies rumors of a Tether Chain; mentions some L2's are working to support $USDT for gas fees.

• a16z Crypto pledges $23m to crypto super-PAC Fairshake; to be used for 2026 US midterm pro-crypto candidates.

• Deutsche Telekom & Bankhaus Metzler to test Bitcoin mining infrastructure for surplus energy.

• Digital Asset Investment Products see $2.2b of inflows last week.

• Ethereum $ETH / Bitcoin $BTC ratio (~0.035) hits lowest level since April 2021.

Alpha

• Fluid DEX by mystri.

• ⭐️ OpenSea announces "A new OpenSea is coming. December 2024."; launches waitlist.

• ⭐️ Gitcoin Grants 22 to end soon; ~2 days left to donate.

• Morph Season 1 (Testnet) ends; Season 2 (Mainnet) coming soon.

• Thesis* announces BitcoinFi Accelerator teams; supports eight teams alongside Boost VC & Draper Associates.

• Jumper teases "Big week 👀" on X.

• Rango launches Rango Community Pin on Guild.

Airdrops

• DeBank Airdrop Strategy by Earndrop.

• ⭐️ Swell to launch $SWELL Airdrop on November 7th.

• P2P launches Operator Allocation Share program for both $EIGEN and $ETH delegators.

• Morpho launches proposal to enable transferability of the $MORPHO token.

• Namada $NAM to launch mainnet rehearsal soon; last major milestone before Namada Mainnet launch.

• ICYMI Weekly Recap by Earndrop.

• ICYMI Sonic Labs Airdrop Strategy by Earndrop.

• 30+ Airdrop Opportunities by Alpha Drops.

• RedStone Airdrop Update by Atoms Research.

Finance News

• US State of Michigan Pension Fund discloses ~$7m of Bitcoin ETF holdings.

• UK Pension Fund invests in Bitcoin; unnamed fund invested 3% of its total assets into Bitcoin.

• CleanSpark $CLSK Bitcoin hashrate surges 27%; closes gap with Marathon Digital Holdings $MARA.

• Gryphon Digital Mining $GRYP to end Bitcoin mining hosting agreement with Coinmint.

• US Stocks finish lower ahead of US Presidential Election.

• Intel $INTC to reduce workforce by several hundred employees at its Israeli R&D centers.

Security and Exploits

• Metawin exploited for $4m due to vulnerability in its withdrawal system.

• ZachXBT exposes how $SCALE, $NTD, $TPU, & $OPSEC were all tied to Zopp0.

• Coinspect Security launches Web3 Wallet Security Rankings.

• FakeCall Malware new variant discovered; hijacks Android devices for fraudulent banking calls.

Token Unlocks

• EigenLayer $EIGEN / ~$3m / NOV 05th
• Cardano $ADA / ~$6m / NOV 06th
• Ethena $ENA / ~$4m / NOV 06th
• Neon $NEON / ~$19m / NOV 07th
Sourced from Tokenomist

Funding

• Zodia Custody in talks to raise $50m.

• OpenOrigins raises $4.5m in funding led by Galaxy Interactive.

• vlayer raises $10m in Pre-Seed funding.

• AgentLayer raises undisclosed amount in funding from BingX Labs.

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