L1 blockchain protocol Saga announced the launch of its Mainnet 2.0 and a new partnership with Uniswap. The team said the move brings it closer to its goal of launching the Liquidity Integration Layer (LiL) in the first quarter of 2025. The layer will be built on the infrastructure of Mainnet 2.0 and provide a solution for "unified liquidity for all blockchain ecosystems." Developers can build on Mainnet 2.0 now and integrate seamlessly after LiL launches. (Cryptonews)

On December 17, the Japanese listed company Metaplanet's stock price rose 51%. Previously, the company, known as the "MicroStrategy of Japan", announced a 4.5 billion yen ($30 million) zero-interest bond issuance plan, due on June 16, 2025, to increase its holdings of Bitcoin. Since adopting Bitcoin as its treasury reserve asset in May 2024, Metaplanet has bought more than 1,000 BTC. In addition, Metaplanet's stock price has risen 2,450% since January 2024. (Cryptonews)

In today's Binance AMA event, Binance co-founder He Yi said that as one of the more mainstream ecosystems, Binance Alpha will choose to support the BNB ecosystem, but this does not mean that the BNB ecosystem is the only focus of Binance Alpha's support. Other mainstream and popular public chain ecosystems are also the focus of attention and support. Earlier news, He Yi said in today's Binance AMA event that Binance Alpha may focus on supporting BNB ecosystem projects in the future.

According to Arkham monitoring data, 1,885 ETH and more than 228 BTC flowed into Grayscale from the Coinbase Prime hot wallet address today, with a total value of US$31.87 million, including: 1. 1,885 ETH flowed into the Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust Fund, worth US$7.44 million; 2. 166.674 BTC flowed into the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Fund, worth US$17.8 million; 3. 62.051 BTC flowed into the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust Fund, worth US$6.63 million.

According to Onchain Lens, a newly created wallet withdrew 5.28 million ENA from Binance in the past 24 hours, worth $5.65 million.

The post Crenshaw Denied Renomination as SEC Chair, XRP Supporters Celebrate appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Great news for the crypto industry: SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw will not be renominated. According to Fox Business’ Eleanor Terrett, a Senate aide confirmed that the Senate Banking Committee’s scheduled vote on her nomination has been canceled. Crenshaw, who was known... source: https://coinpedia.org/news/crenshaw-denied-renomination-as-sec-chair-xrp-supporters-celebrate/

Lin Chen, head of Asia-Pacific business at Deribit, said in a post on X that the largest BTC option today was: a user sold a $100,000 call option for the end of March next year, and bought a $130,000 call option, totaling 345 BTC on one side, earning $3.835 million.

리플(XRP)과 SEC 간의 법적 분쟁에서 윌리엄 힌먼 전 SEC 국장의 2018년 발언이 형평성 논란으로 다시 주목받고 있다. 힌먼의 '이더리움은 증권 아니다' 발언은 XRP에 대한 SEC의 다른 태도와 대조를 이루며 논란을 키웠다. 전문가들은 SEC 내부 보고서 공개가 논란 해소의 중요한 변수가 될 것으로 보고 있다. source: https://inteliview.kr/crypto/article-10337/

미국 정부가 비트코인을 국가적 자산으로 비축하는 방안을 검토 중이다. 상원 의원 신시아 루미스는 금 일부를 비트코인으로 대체해 금융 안정성과 경쟁력을 강화할 수 있다고 주장했다. 이는 디지털 화폐 체계를 기반으로 한 미국 경제 정책의 전환을 예고한다. source: https://inteliview.kr/crypto/article-10338/

According to Binance's official announcement, when the project Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) was launched on the Binance spot market, due to the delay in updating the token information by its data provider CoinMarketCap (CMC), the project's market value and fully diluted valuation (FDV) data were not updated in time. Binance synchronized with the CMC team as soon as it discovered it, and the CMC platform subsequently updated the relevant data. Due to the inconvenience caused to community users, Binance decided to airdrop a total of 135,000,000 PENGU tokens to users who bought PENGU between 22:00 on December 17, 2024 (Eastern Time Zone 8) and 22:37 on December 17, 2024 (Eastern Time Zone 8), and the airdrop will be distributed within 72 hours. The airdrop rules are as follows: Transaction snapshot time range: 22:00 (Eastern Time Zone 8) on December 17, 2024 to 22:37 (Eastern Time Zone 8) on December 17, 2024 Airdrop user range: users who bought PENGU in the Binance spot market (excluding project market makers and VIP 4 - VIP 9 users) Rules: Binance will count the number of PENGUs purchased by users who meet the airdrop conditions in the Binance spot market during the transaction snapshot period, and airdrop a total of 135,000,000 PENGUs in proportion. Yesterday's news, the market value of PENGU's profile page on the Binance platform was abnormal, showing a market value of only about US$312 million, and a fully diluted market value of about US$440 million. According to CoinGecko data, the current market value of PENGU exceeds US$3.3 billion.

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