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Industry groups signed a letter to President Donald Trump calling for new tax policy and agency action on initiatives apart from Congress' market structure work.

One of the US attorneys behind the prosecution of former FTX executives testified as part of an evidentiary hearing exploring one of their plea deals. Danielle Sassoon, one of the US attorneys behind the prosecution of former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, took the stand in an evidentiary hearing involving a deal with one of the company’s executives.  In a Thursday hearing in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Sassoon testified about the guilty plea of Ryan Salame, the former co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, which resulted in his sentencing to more than seven years in prison.  According to reporting from Inner City Press, Sassoon said that her team would “probably not continue to investigate [Salame’s] conduct” if he agreed to plead guilty. Further investigation into the former FTX executive and his then-girlfriend, Michelle Bond, resulted in the latter facing campaign finance charges. Read more

Shares in publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm FG Nexus fell further after the firm parted with some of its ETH.

The slated roundtable discussion comes as privacy experiences a renewed focus from crypto industry executives and civil liberties activists. The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force has scheduled a roundtable discussion centered on privacy and financial surveillance for December, as a renewed focus on privacy grips the cryptocurrency industry. The privacy roundtable is slated for Dec. 15. Like other SEC roundtables, crypto industry executives and SEC officials will discuss common pain points and solutions, but no hard policy proposals will be submitted.  Privacy has become a hot-button topic following several developments, including the partial guilty verdict in Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s trial in June, the Samourai Wallet developer sentencing in November and the privacy token price rally over the last two months. Read more

Ether treasury companies are holding millions of dollars in unrealized losses, and the falling mNAV valuations and ETH’s potential to fall below $2,500 may further complicate matters. Key takeaways: Ether treasury companies are sitting on millions of dollars of unrealized losses, raising concerns about their sustainability. Ether treasury companies trading below NAVs signal eroding confidence, potentially pressuring ETH price further. Read more

The CFTC-regulated exchange is gaining ground on crypto-native Polymarket, offering event contracts with fiat access and legal clarity.

Numerai's NMR token jumped over 40% after it announced a new funding round led by major university endowments, pushing the hedge fund to a $500M valuation. Numerai raised $30 million in a Series C round led by top university endowments, giving the AI-driven, crypto-incentivized hedge fund a $500 million valuation — five times its valuation in 2023. Following the announcement, Numeraire (NMR), the token that powers the platform’s crowdsourced prediction network, jumped over 40%, according to CoinGecko data. The raise drew participation from existing backers such as Shine Capital, Union Square Ventures and Paul Tudor Jones. Read more

The billionaire investor previously urged people to buy gold.

Ethereum briefly dropped to $2,872, tagging a key on-chain support zone that analyst MAC_D says resembles a “classic bottom.”

Andrew Tate deposited $727,000 into Hyperliquid over the past year, took no withdrawals, and lost the entire stack through a relentless series of leveraged liquidations that culminated on Nov. 18, when his account hit zero. Per Arkham’s on-chain ledger, even the roughly $75,000 in referral commissions Tate earned from bringing traders onto the platform was […] The post Andrew Tate loses everything on Hyperliquid: Inside his leveraged crypto liquidation meltdown appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The findings contrast with long-running concerns about political bias in major AI systems.

Bitcoin has slipped below $90,000 as crypto markets have faced renewed pressure, with U.S. spot ETFs logging nearly $3 billion in November outflows and OG wallets selling into thin liquidity amid fragile broader risk sentiment. The post Panic Warning: Bitcoin Crashes Under $90K – Early Warning of Risk-Asset Meltdown? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Elon Musk's chatbot went viral for declaring him the most wonderful man on earth—fitter than LeBron, smarter than da Vinci, and definitely not biased at all.

Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham may be one step closer to leaving the agency after the Senate Agriculture Committee advanced US President Donald Trump's pick to replace her. Michael Selig’s nomination to chair the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is headed for a vote on the Senate floor after clearing a committee hurdle.  In a Thursday notice, Republican leaders with the Senate Agriculture Committee said they had advanced Selig’s nomination following a Wednesday hearing. The vote was reportedly along party lines, with no Democrats supporting Selig as US President Donald Trump’s pick to replace acting Chair Caroline Pham. The prospective CFTC chair answered questions from senators on Wednesday regarding potential conflicts of interest, his policy positions on DeFi and digital assets and the dearth of leadership at the federal agency. Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal supported his confirmation, citing Selig’s support for a digital asset market structure bill moving through Congress. Read more

Here's how Bitwise's XRP ETF is doing so far during its launch day.

Solana's newly launched ETFs continued to attract heavy inflows, but a weakening market structure threatens a deeper correction to $120 for SOL price. Spot SOL exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have continued to attract capital despite the coin’s steep price drawdown. Since launch, the products have accumulated $476 million in net inflows, with the streak extending 17 consecutive days, even as SOL’s (SOL) price plunged nearly 30% to $130 from $186. Key takeaways: Spot SOL ETFs posted 17 straight days of inflows, with Bitwise’s BSOL representing 89% of the total value. Read more

A Bitcoin whale appears to have sold his entire crypto stash for $1.3 billion—14 years after first buying BTC, says Arkham Intelligence.

BTC is down to a new seven-month low.

[PRESS RELEASE – San Francisco, USA/CA, November 20th, 2025] Numerai, a San Francisco–based hedge fund and data science tournament uniting machine learning, decentralized finance, and cryptocurrency incentives, today announced a $30 million Series C financing round led by top university endowments. The round values Numerai at $500 million, five times its 2023 valuation. J.P. Morgan […]

[PRESS RELEASE – Zug, Switzerland, November 20th, 2025] Over the past few years, three different teams, Codex, Nomos, and Waku, have been building essential pieces of decentralised technology. Each had its own identity, its own community, and its own product roadmap. But underneath the different projects was one shared goal: to create a social movement […]