The White House declined to comment on whether it would return campaign donations by former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to President Joe Biden or whether other elected officials should return similar donations.

During the Senate Banking Committee hearing about FTX, Senators raised concerns about Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao warned staff that the cryptocurrency market is still in a "crypto winter" and that they should prepare for a difficult period ahead.

Lawyers for FTX's new leadership urged a bankruptcy judge to not grant the lawyers for FTX Digital Markets access to the computer systems of that Bahamas-based subsidiary, suggesting that the Bahamian government and FTX executives were involved in illegally shifting assets to avoid the US bankruptcy process.

BitGo prevented Alameda Research from selling off $50 million worth of wrapped Bitcoin before the firm declared bankruptcy.

Bankrupt lender Celsius Network is attempting to gain $7.7 million from Voyager Digital's estate as the legal status of Celsius's assets is questioned by judges.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission accused Twitter stock influencers Zack Morris and PJ Matlock, the founders of Atlas Trading, and other alleged co-conspirators of stock manipulation, claiming that they made around $100 million in a three-year period.

The U.S. Department of Justice reported that nine individuals had been charged with perpetrating two crypto-based Ponzi schemes: IcomTech and Forcount.

Magic Eden, the largest NFT marketplace on Solana, is introducing a rewards program for NFT traders, providing them with discounts, free NFTs, and other perks.

CleanSpark, a bitcoin miner, reported significantly less than expected revenue of $26.2 million in the three months ending in September, missing the average estimate of $27.1 million.

Compound DAO and other defendants are being sued by plaintiffs for allegedly selling unlicensed securities and causing the plaintiffs to suffer damages by holding COMP tokens valued under $100.

Curve Finance, the largest decentralized stablecoin exchange, is set to deploy on zkSync's mainnet, taking advantage of Ethereum scaling and privacy capabilities offered by the ZK-rollup technology.

B. Riley Financial wants to provide Core Scientific with a $72 million financing package to help the company remain viable and avoid bankruptcy. In response, the company's shares skyrocketed 94%.

Spaceport, a web3 intellectual property protocol, closed a $3.6 million pre-seed round co-led by Arca, Decasonic and Crit Ventures.

BTC is down .63%, trading at $17,717

ETH is down 2.55%, trading at $1,289

BTC dominance: 38.19%

Crypto market cap: $892 billion

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