
BitGo And Grayscale Increase Crypto Assets Under Custody To $16 Billion Each
Bitcoin assets held and managed at BitGo and Grayscale continue to grow amid a surge in institutional investor interest in the crypto industry.

Exchanges and digital asset funds stop trading in XRP after SEC lawsuit against Ripple
Galaxy Digital and Bitwise, as well as OSL trading platform suspended trading and selling XRP due to the SEC lawsuit against Ripple Labs. The San Francisco-based company is accused of selling $1.3 billion in unregistered securities.

SEC accuses Ripple of selling unregistered securities worth $1.3 billion
The US regulator sued Ripple Labs in the case of raising more than $1.3 billion through a years-long sale of unregistered securities in the form of digital assets.

DYMMAX revolutionizes staking
In November, the DYMMAX crypto-derivative project launched a token sale on Probit, the Korean cryptocurrency exchange. And just half an hour after the initial start, the soft cap was reached.

MicroStrategy reports on billions of investments in bitcoin
The Virginia-based company MicroStrategy, traded on NASDAQ, announced its total investments in bitcoins in 2020 reached $1.125 billion. The average purchase price was almost $16,000.

FORSAGE Users Make Half A Billion USD In Six Months
Nearly $500,000,000 in six months – this is how much FORSAGE users have earned on the Ethereum blockchain, apart from their income on the TRON blockchain.

Bitcoin reaches $23,000, but fails to gain foothold
Bitcoin reached a new all-time high, reaching $23,500 per coin. But the cryptocurrency failed to gain a foothold at this level.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Launches Ethereum Futures Trading
The US-based exchange CME announced its plans to launch Ethereum-pegged futures in February 2021. CME was one of the first traditional financial markets to launch bitcoin futures trading in 2017.

Statistics: Number of Bitcoin Whales Hits New Highs
While bitcoin is updating its historical highs, large investors prefer not to get rid of the cryptocurrency, but to keep it for a long time. According to Chainalysis, the number of bitcoin wallets with more than 1,000 BTC reached a new all-time high.

Ten years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the last message about bitcoin
On December 12, 2010, the member of the Bitcointalk forum under nickname Satoshi Nakamoto left his last message on the forum, after which he stopped communicating with the community.

Opinion: popularity of bitcoin is growing due to distrust to national regulators
Financial analysts acknowledge the growing interest in alternative financial instruments and their potential due to investor distrust in the monetary policy of national central banks.

IntoTheBlock: Number of ETH Blocked in DeFi Protocols Decreases Due to Launch of ETH 2.0 Deposit Contract
IntoTheBlock analysts revealed that the number of Ethereum coins blocked in DeFi protocols reduced allegedly due to the launch of the deposit smart contract created for Ethereum 2.0.

CoinShares: first week of December becomes second in history by institutional money inflow
From November 30 to December 6, institutional investors invested $429 million in cryptocurrencies. This is the second-largest inflow of institutional money in the history of the cryptocurrency market.

Alexander Vinnik sentenced to five years in prison in France
The Paris court announced its sentence to Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik, accused of large-scale money laundering through the BTC-e crypto exchange. He was sentenced to five years in prison and a fine worth more than €100,000.

Chainalysis: number of markets in darknet declines but their revenues increase
Marketplaces in the darknet made more money in 2020 than ever before, according to a Chainalysis report. Since the beginning of the year, their revenues already exceeded $1.5 billion.

Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Project Undergoes Rebranding
Libra digital currency project was suddenly renamed Diem. The purpose of the rebranding is to distance itself from the social network Facebook and obtain organizational independence.