At around 22:54 Beijing time, Tether Treasury minted an additional 1 billion USDT on the Ethereum network.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is in talks with potential partners to spin off its digital assets platform into a new company that will allow large financial firms to create, trade and settle financial instruments using blockchain technology.

A group of crypto veterans, including the co-founder of decentralized finance giant Lido, are preparing to launch "Y," a blockchain identity platform designed to compete with Sam Altman's World Network (formerly Worldcoin). The media obtained an internal planning document for the new project. A person close to Cyber Fund, a venture capital firm led by Lido co-founders Konstantin Lomashuk and Vasiliy Shapovalov, confirmed that the document is authentic. It depicts a vision of a new blockchain-based identity platform that will leapfrog World's controversial eye-scanning device Orb.

Semler Scientific (SMLR), a US medical technology public company, announced that between November 6, 2024 and November 15, 2024, it purchased 215 bitcoins for $17.7 million in cash at an average price of $82,502 per bitcoin, including fees and expenses.

MicroStrategy used the proceeds from the stock sales to purchase an additional 51,780 bitcoins for $4.6 billion between November 11 and 17, 2024.

Dogecoin UI designer DogeDesigner shared an audio clip of Musk, in which Musk said "I still hold a lot of Dogecoin, and SpaceX holds a lot of Bitcoin."

Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet said on X Platform that the demand for Ethereum blobs is steadily increasing and has exceeded the target blob efficiency. We launched the first solution to this challenge: Starknet v0.13.3. Blob gas on Starknet has now been reduced to one-fifth of the original; it has been launched on the testnet and is expected to be launched on the mainnet this week.

MARA, a listed Bitcoin mining company, announced that it plans to raise $700 million through the issuance of convertible senior notes to purchase more BTC. The notes will be MARA's unsecured senior debt and will bear interest, payable semi-annually on March 1 and September 1 of each year, starting from March 1, 2025.

Digital asset investment products saw a further $2.2 billion in inflows last week, bringing total inflows since the first rate cut in September to $11.7 billion and year-to-date inflows to a record $33.5 billion. Inflows were $3 billion in the first half of the week, despite the record high price of Bitcoin, which led to total outflows of $866 million in the second half of the week. Recent market activity, especially Bitcoin's breakout above all-time highs, pushed total assets under management (AuM) to a new high of $138 billion earlier this week. The recent surge in activity appears to be driven by a combination of loose monetary policy and the Republican Party's sweeping victory in the recent US election.

Binance Futures will launch BANUSDT and AKTUSDT perpetual contracts at 19:30 (ET) on November 18, 2024, with a maximum leverage of 75x.

According to iChainfo, in the past three hours, the wallet address 17cKtYm5NnUVfQ7dNYvd27etPCCecjtZBD associated with MtGox transferred 100 bitcoins (worth about $9.1 million) to two addresses bc1q6wenhtl0pf5g09hvculkdeehwy88nv66jcfqnz and bc1qwcp8duz34e08fwmq4u3uan7fgys3nt00pcrq2c.