Not Thankful for Those 8 Minutes 😅

On the Pod…

The Chopping Block on FTX/Alameda: Is Sam Bankman-Fried 'Crypto Kanye'?

What’s Poppin’?

SBF Says Billion Dollar Funding Interest Came 8 Minutes After FTX Filed For Bankruptcy

by Samyuktha Sriram

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said the exchange could have returned large value to customers if it didn’t file for bankruptcy.

Ethereum Staking Withdrawals Goes Live on Devnet

by Samyuktha Sriram

Ethereum developers have launched a multiclient withdrawal feature on the developer net.

BTC-e Wallet Resurfaces With $165M Bitcoin Transfer

by Samyuktha Sriram

A dormant BTC-e wallet moved 10,000 coins to personal wallets and two exchanges on Wednesday.

Aave Proposes ‘Temporarily Freezing’ Some Markets to De-Risk V2

by Samyuktha Sriram

Aave plans to recapitalize the protocol to get rid of bad debt and proposed freezing some assets to promote migration to V3.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🎉

My Thanksgiving poll is over… Hope no one asks you why BTC is down, or as someone said in the comments, “how much money did you make this year?” 📉📉

On Unchained Premium

Is the Collapse of Crypto Lending Over, or Is It Just Starting?

In Other News…✍️✍️✍️

• FTX wants BitGo to hold its remaining digital assets during the bankruptcy proceedings.

• Binance aims to raise around $1 billion for its recently announced "industry recovery fund."

• Sam Bankman-Fried said he will speak at the New York Times Dealbook Summit in New York City on Nov. 30. 

• Besides its bid for assets of lending platform Voyager Digital, crypto exchange CrossTower is considering making further acquisitions.

• ApeCoin’s own custom marketplace, built by Snag Solutions, was launched yesterday.

• Bo Shen, the founding partner of venture capital firm Fenbushi Capital, lost as much as $42 million in crypto from his personal wallet from a hack.

Today in Crypto Adoption...

• The Bank of Japan (BoJ) plans experiments on a digital yen with three megabanks in the country.

• DBS, a bank in Singapore, became the first bank in the region to perform atrade on JPMorgan’s blockchain Onyx.

The $$$ Corner…

• Onomy, a DeFi protocol based in Cosmos, garnered $10 million in a private token funding round.

What Do You Meme

📈 Your Market Update 📉

• BTC is up .24%, trading at $16,590

• ETH is up 2.91%, trading at $1,200

• BTC dominance: 36.87%

• Crypto market cap: $865 billion

*All data as of today, 5 am ET

Recommended Reads

1. Lucas Nuzzi, head of research at CoinMetrics, on how Alameda lost billions of dollars of FTX user funds: 

2. Blockchain Brett on ‘The Crypto Creator Economy’:

3. Hasu, cofounder of Flashbots, on the efforts of Flashbots to keep Ethereum decentralized:

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