Morning headlines on November 21st📰
1. Bloomberg: The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking $4 billion from Binance to end related criminal charges;
2. The US SEC filed a lawsuit against the exchange Kraken;
3. Kraken responded: It disagrees with the SEC’s assertion and will continue to provide services to users;
4. Bittrex Global is about to cease operations and urges customers to withdraw their assets as soon as possible;
5. Analyst: ARK Invest once again updated its spot Bitcoin ETF application S-1 document;
6. Ark 21Shares Bitcoin Spot ETF will charge a management fee of 0.8%;
7. Blur is open to apply for the second season airdrop, and will start the 6-month third season airdrop;
8. Blast, the L2 network launched by the founder of Blur, completed US$20 million in financing, with participation from Paradigm and others;
9. Founder of Blur: L2 is needed in the NFT field and has raised US$40 million to promote the development of the Blur ecosystem;
10. People familiar with the matter: Celsius’ bankruptcy restart plan has encountered obstacles in the SEC, and more information may need to be provided for evaluation;
11. Bloomberg: The spot Bitcoin ETF market may reach US$100 billion, and Galaxy Digital is already discussing allocation matters;
12. WSJ: Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish acquires 100% of CoinDesk shares;
13. OKX has submitted an application for a virtual asset trading platform license to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission;
14. DeFi protocol Panoptic completed a US$7 million seed round of financing, led by Greenfield Capital;
15. Web3 game protocol Saga completed a $5 million seed round of financing, led by Placeholder;
16. Pyth Network: Retrospective airdrops are open for claim;
17. After Blur’s second season airdrop was opened for redemption, Wintermute transferred 8.7 million BLUR to OKX;
18. President of 21 Shares: The increase in revised documents indicates that the possibility of spot ETF approval has increased.