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⁠Retail buyers made up more than 80% of NFT transactions in 2021: Chainalysis Chainalysis has determined that most NFT transactions so far this year were from retail buyers, but the big volumes were driven by collectors…

⁠Gemini partners with Colombia's biggest bank for crypto trading The partnership will allow Bancolombia customers to trade a number of popular cryptocurrencies including BTC, ETH, and LTC.

⁠Massive jump in number of Australians who own crypto: Survey CEO of Independent Reserve Adrian Przelozny told Cointelegraph that he expects the trend to continue as crypto matures and becomes less volatile.

⁠Sophia AI robot to be tokenized for Metaverse appearance A collection of 100 “intelligent NFTs” will be auctioned in Binance on Dec. 16 as Sophia takes a trip into the Metaverse.

⁠Jack Dorsey's Spiral demos Bitcoin Lightning Development Kit A puppet of Jack Dorsey has been used to explain the Lightning Network in a new video promoting Spiral’s LDK.

⁠Australian women owning crypto has doubled in 2021: Survey The ICRI survey of 2,000 Aussies also found that 56.7% of the women surveyed said that they would enter the crypto market based on advice from family and friend…

⁠Korean crypto investment firm Hashed reportedly under tax investigation South Korea’s tax agency is looking into crypto investment firm Hashed according to local media.

⁠Bitcoin and altcoins took a hit, but derivatives data reflects a calmer market BTC and altcoins took a beating over the weekend, but data shows a market with healthier trading conditions, even if prices consolidate for…

⁠Projects are collecting Toys for Tots crypto donations this holiday season “The cryptocurrency bull market has been good to all of us in this industry and this holiday season is the perfect time to pay it forward,” said…

⁠Japan's financial regulators may propose legislation in 2022 restricting stablecoin issuance The move comes as the Bank of Japan wants to roll out a digital yen CBDC by the end of next year.

⁠Coinbase launches open-source cryptography library Kryptology The library will aid in building complex cryptographic techniques to match the needs of the bourgeoning DeFi sector.

⁠Former Facebook engineers at Mysten Labs raise $36M for Web3 infrastructure “We believe fundamental limitations in existing crypto infrastructure are frustrating broader adoption of web3,” said Mysten’s team, citing the…

⁠We are seeing ‘10x growth in terms of the number of nonprofits accepting crypto,’ says Alex Wilson of The Giving Block The amount of crypto donations through The Giving Block surged to $100 million this year from $4 mil…

⁠Grayscale finds that over 25% of US households surveyed currently own Bitcoin The launch of a Bitcoin ETF played a pivotal role in the rise of BTC adoption.

⁠CME Group launches micro Ether futures as ETH hovers at $4K Micro Ether futures joins crypto derivatives products at the exchange including micro Bitcoin futures, Bitcoin futures, options on Bitcoin futures, and Ether f…

⁠Law Decoded: Bitcoin exchange-traded funds are put on the spot again, Nov. 29–Dec. 6 The Securities and Exchange Commission's continued resistance to spot Bitcoin ETFs draws industry players' ire.

⁠Bank of International Settlement calls the rise of decentralized finance 'an illusion' in latest quarterly review Even though the total value locked in DeFi protocols has eclipsed $246 billion, it was not enough to plea…

⁠Vitalik Buterin outlines ‘endgame’ roadmap for ETH 2.0 The Eth2 launch process began in November 2020. The network’s switch to proof-of-stake is expected to make ETH a deflationary asset.

⁠Bitcoin could 'drive people nuts' for months with $53K BTC price ceiling — analyst Investors, not short-term traders, will be the likely beneficiaries of upcoming BTC price moves, popular names agree.

⁠Ethereum bulls retain hopes of $10K despite ETH price chart bear flag Ethereum risks dropping to $3,200 as its latest ETH price decline triggers a classic bearish setup.

⁠Bitcoin whales move fresh coins to exchanges in repeat of behavior before $42K BTC price dip Large-volume trader moves point to concerns that a fresh Bitcoin price dip could still occur.

⁠Major Indian bank breaks ‘banking ban’ with WazirX crypto exchange deal Indian banks have reportedly been slow to accept the Supreme Court's decision allowing them to do business with crypto firms.

⁠Alameda Research leads $35M fund raise for crypto trading app Stacked Launched in April 2020, Stacked is a web-based app allowing users to access trading strategies via pre-built stacks.

⁠Huobi and Shiba Inu community to help BitMart overcome $200M hack Over the weekend, hackers made away with nearly $200 million in 20 different tokens.

⁠BTC sentiment 'comparable to a funeral' — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week Bitcoin has not died for the 500th time, but market fear could easily convince you otherwise as analysts predict a slow return to higher l…

⁠Binance Smart Chain and Animoca Brands form $200M fund for GameFi projects BSC-based projects will get a chance to gain insight from Animoca Brands and assistance from the BSC community.

⁠Virtual land in the Metaverse dominated NFT sales over past week Based on NFT and Metaverse sales over the past week, the demand for digital land outpaced all other items, art, and collections.

⁠Decentralized exchange aggregator trading volumes surge to new highs More and more traders are turning to DEX aggregators to seek out the best rates for token swaps.