Saylor Pitches Bitcoin to Microsoft

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Crypto News

• ⭐️ US Government moves $1.92b of Bitcoin $BTC; 10k BTC to Coinbase Prime.

• MicroStrategy buys ~$1.5 of Bitcoin $BTC; now holds nearly ~2% of Bitcoin supply.

• Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist advocates for increasing Ethereum's $ETH gas limit.

• ⭐️ Ripple $XRP surpasses Tether $USDT to become 3rd largest crypto by market cap.

• US NYDFS to approve Ripple's $RLUSD stablecoin; to officially release on December 4th if approved.

• WisdomTree officially files S-1 filing for spot Ripple $XRP ETF.

• David Marcus reveals Facebook’s Libra (then Diem) blockchain was killed by political interference.

• Binance Co-Founder CZ does NOT wish to be Binance CEO again; would welcome a pardon from the US President.

• South Korea to postpone 20% crypto tax for another two years.

• Coinbase to leave Turkey; files to liquidate Turkish operations.

• DMM Bitcoin crypto exchange to shut down operations & sell assets to an SBI Group subsidiary.

• RTFKT, a Nike-owned NFT project, to wind down operations.

Alpha

• Mind Network Airdrop Strategy by Earndrop.

• ⭐️ Sonic Labs (previously Fantom) to launch Mainnet public access soon.

• Space And Time launches Season 2 testnet community quests.

• Inco teases "Some big announcements coming" on X.

• Kana Labs to launch Kana Season 2 Points Program tomorrow December 3rd.

• ICYMI Linea Surge campaign officially ended on November 25th.

Airdrops

• Magic Eden to launch $ME eligibility & allocation checker December 4th.

• ⭐️ Namada $NAM to launch Mainnet Genesis tomorrow December 3rd.

• Nektar Network to enable $NET transferability tomorrow December 3rd.

• XION to launch $XION TGE December 5th alongside Bybit & Bitget launchpools.

• ICYMI Turtle Club Airdrop Strategy by Earndrop.

• ICYMI Weekly Airdrop Updates by Earndrop.

• ICYMI Hyperliquid launches Genesis Event $HYPE airdrop.

Finance News

• ⭐️ Michael Saylor $MSTR presented Bitcoin strategy to Microsoft $MSFT CEO & Board of Directors.

• MARA Holdings $MARA to raise $700m through convertible notes to buy more Bitcoin.

• Core Scientific $CORZ to raise $500m through convertible notes for general corporate purposes.

• ⭐️ Elon Musk's $56b Tesla $TSLA pay package rejected again; to appeal decision.

• Singapore's Central Bank fines JPMorgan Chase $JPM ~$1.8m for misconduct by relationship managers.

• TD Bank $TD hires HSBC Canada's former chief compliance officer Georgia Stavridis.

• Intel $INTC CEO Pat Gelsinger retires; two interim leaders appointed.

Security and Exploits

• INTERPOL Operation HAECHI-V dismantles e-crime syndicate; ~5.5k arrested & ~$400m siezed.

• Thailand CIB & TCSD dismantle transnational online investment fraud network in collaboration with Binance.

• Clipper exploited for $450k; investigation underway.

• User loses ~$400k after signing permit phishing signature.

Token Unlocks

• EigenLayer $EIGEN / ~$5m / DEC 03rd
• Ethena $ENA / ~$11m / DEC 04th
• Cardano $ADA / ~$24m / DEC 06th
• Jito $JTO / ~$480m / DEC 07th
• Bitget $BGB / ~$8m / DEC 10th
Sourced from Tokenomist

Funding

• BLIFE Protocol raises $7m in funding led by UTXO Management.

• LSP Finance raises $1m in Pre-Seed funding.

• Soda raises an undisclosed amount in Pre-Seed funding led by Gagra Ventures.

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