Issue #87

Regulation

1. Montenegro has decided to extradite Do Kwon to the US to face fraud and securities-law charges

2. Judge rules that CZ cannot leave the US before sentencing in Feb 2024

3. Crypto(.com) receives an e-money institution license in the UK

4. IRS reports an increase in investigations related to digital asset reporting

-- More than $37B in related tax and financial crimes identified in the 2023 fiscal year

Infrastructure

1. LayerZero announces it will issue a token in 1H24

2. Mantle launches liquid staking protocol, Mantle LSP

-- Allowing users to deposit ETH and receive Mantle-staked ether (mETH) as a token representing their stake

3. Spindl and AppsFlyer partner to provide game developers on/off-chain attribution insights

4. IBM introduces cold storage tech for crypto-assets, Hyper Protect Offline Signing Orchestrator (source)

5. Bitcoin client software Bitcoin Core receives upgrade (v26.0)

-- Key update: encrypts communication between nodes to reduce attack risks

6. Blocknative releases ethernow(.xyz) to provide insights on Ethereum's mempool

7. Deloitte partnering with Nexxiot to offer KYX, a logistics and supply chain service built on the Kilt blockchain

-- Combines KYC and Know Your Cargo processes

Finance

1. Flowdesk appointed by Societe Generale’s Forge as the market maker for its new Euro-based stablecoin, EURCV

-- Flowdesk providing liquidity for EURCV-EUR and EURCV-USDT trading pairs

-- EURCV has started trading on Bitstamp, making it the first regulated bank-issued euro stablecoin available on a crypto exchange

2. Societe Generale issues its first tokenized green bond on the Ethereum network

-- AXA Investment Managers and Generali Investments purchased the tokenized bonds

3. U.K. investment firm abrdn and regulated exchange Archax launch an institutional-grade money-market fund token  

4. Crypto ETP issuer 21Shares' COO, Lucy Reynolds, departs from the firm

5. Cosmos-based networks Umee and Osmosis to merge and build a "DeFi Hub"

-- Integrating the lending logic and algorithms of Umee's UX Chain with Osmosis' DEX

-- The process will unfold in steps, beginning with integrating the UX Chain’s codebase onto the Osmosis Chain and potentially culminating in a token swap or migration

6. Itaú Unibanco, the largest bank in Brazil, launches crypto trading service for its clients

-- The bank will serve as the custodian for the crypto assets, providing customers with the security of the bank's balance sheet

7. Zodia Custody plans to launch Interchange Connect in 1Q24

-- Allows institutional investors to easily transfer crypto across different accounts held at various custodians

Consumer

1. Coinbase adds support for messaged-based crypto payments to its wallet

-- Allows users to send crypto by sharing links via social media/messaging apps, with no payment fee for USDC transfers

2. Worldcoin Foundation announces $5M community grants program called Wave0

3. Solana's smartphone faces an uncertain future

-- Has seen disappointing sales and success will depend on whether 50k units can be sold, according to Founder Anatoly Yakovenko

4. Block accepting pre-orders for its Bitkey hardware wallet

-- Pre-orders expected to ship in early 2024

5. Robinhood launches its crypto trading service in the EU

6. Gyroscope's GYD stablecoin went live on the Ethereum mainnet

7. Helium announces launch of a nationwide $20/mo plan in the US

-- Combines coverage from the P2P Helium Network and a 5G network

8. Sotheby's is hosting its first Bitcoin Ordinals sale

-- Featuring 3 items from the BitcoinShrooms collection

-- Sale runs from Dec. 6 to Dec. 13 and the lots are estimated to be worth $20,000 to $30,000, with current bids already exceeding those values

Security

1. KyberSwap offers a grant from its treasury to compensate users affected by a $48.8M security breach

2. OpenZeppelin: ERC-2771 and Multicall integration introduces address spoofing vulnerability

-- Thirdweb released a mitigation tool to help users identify if their contracts are vulnerable

3. Websites of Ethereum L2 DEXs, Aerodrome and Velodrome, compromised for second time in days

-- An estimated $100,000 in funds lost

Research

1. A blockchain-based DNS resolution system (source)

-- Addressing the following problem: DNS is vulnerable to cache poisoning, which redirects users to malicious websites displaying offensive or illegal content

2. A new smart contract fuzzing tool (source)

-- Achieves higher branch coverage than state-of-the-art fuzzers (up to 25%) and detects 30% more bugs than existing bug detectors

3. Outperforming Bitcoin (source)

-- Parallel proof of work consensus: enforces a configurable number of proof-of-work votes per block

-- Structure votes as a directed acyclic graph (DAG) and punishes miners who contribute to the non-linear parts of the DAG (indication of malicious behavior)

4. Examination and codification of vulnerabilities in prominent blockchains (source)

5. A proof-of-useful-work blockchain for high energy physics (source)

-- Instead of spamming hashing operations to mine blocks, miners create new blocks by running Monte Carlo simulations that support a real-world HEP experiment while at the same time securing the underlying blockchain

6. Demystifying MEV activities in Flashbots bundle (source)

-- Developed tools to identify DeFi actions in transactions of each bundle and facilitate discovery of known/unknown DeFi MEV activities

7. Issues with airdrops (source)

8. Understanding Ethereum mempool security under asymmetric denial-of-service by symbolic fuzzing (source)

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