BTC overtook silver and Saudi Aramco as the seventh-largest asset by market capitalisation; Crypto.com acquired Australian brokerage firm Fintek; BlackRock’s BUIDL is now available on five more blockchains.
US spotBitcoin ETFs had a weekly net inflow of $1.8 billion last week. Spot Ether ETFs’ total net flow turned positive on 12 November, the first time since July. The ETFs saw their most significant weekly net inflow since launch at $534 million.
On the macro side, the US consumer price index increased 0.2% in October and 2.6% year-on-year, which is in line with estimates from a Dow Jones survey. Fed Chair Powell said the US does not need to be “in a hurry” to lower rates given the strength of economic growth. The latest CME FedWatch Tool showed a 65% probabilityof a December rate cut in the US (same as last week).
Notable updates: Chainlink (LINK) introduced the Chainlink Runtime Environment framework, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake proposed the Beam Chain; the Crypto.com App listed Peanut the Squirrel (PNUT), peaq (PEAQ), and Act I: The AI Prophecy (ACT)
Notable events in the coming week: US S&P Global Manufacturing & Services PMI and EU HCOB Composite PMI
Weekly Market Index
All three indices were up last week. Price, volume, and volatility indices increased by +11.71%, +76.03%,and +44.07%, respectively. The price increase was led by XRP (+83.6%), CRO (+35.2%), and DOGE (+26.9%).
DOGE’s price increase coincided with US President-elect Donald Trump announcing that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would lead a new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (D.O.G.E.) in his upcoming administration.
Chart of the Week
Last week, Bitcoin overtook silver and Saudi Aramco as the seventh-largest asset by market capitalisation. Its price rose to a new all-time high above $93,000 on 13 November before retracing to the $90,000 level at the end of the week.
Weekly Performance
BTC increased by +12.2% and ETH decreased by -2.5% in the past seven days. Prices for most selected top market capitalisation tokens increased.
Most key categories increased in market capitalisation in the past seven days except for DeFi. The meme category led the increase.
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake proposed the Beam Chain, a new consensus layer upgrade for Ethereum. The proposed upgrade includes reducing the validator stakes from 32 ETH to 1 ETH, and other potential changes to reduce blocktimes to four seconds and block finality to three slots. This is currently just a proposal and not an official roadmap.
Chainlink introduced the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to connect traditional financial architecture and legacy systems with blockchains and smart contracts. It is designed to play the same role as the Common Businesses-Oriented Language (COBOL) standard and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) architecture of the last few decades. The goal is to simplify the complexities of interacting with multiple systems by creating a unified architecture.
As of 17 Nov 2024 Sources: Crypto.com Research, Crypto.com Price, CoinGecko, Protocols’ websites
Launched on 1 November, Peanut the Squirrel (PNUT) is a meme coin based on the Solana blockchain inspired by the Instagram-famous squirrel called Peanut. It features a squirrel wearing a cowboy hat.
Act I: The AI Prophecy Project (ACT), commonly known as Act I, is an open source and decentralised platform enabling AI systems to work together to generate innovative AI interactions with humans. It enables users to engage with several chatbots simultaneously, addressing a range of tasks like simple questions, complex storytelling, role playing, and character-building activities. ACT is the native token and can be used for staking.
peaq is a Layer-1 blockchain optimised for DePINs (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks) and Machine RWAs (Real World Assets). It provides a wide variety of modular DePIN functions that equip dapps with essential functionalities, including data verification, storage, indexing, and AI agents. It is EVM-compatible and bridged to multiple blockchains. PEAQ serves as the governance and staking token.
As of 17 Nov 2024 Sources: Crypto.com Research, Crypto.com Price, CoinGecko, Protocols’ websites
News Highlights
Crypto.com News
Crypto.com announced the acquisition of Fintek Securities Pty Ltd. (Fintek), a brokerage service and trading company that holds an Australian Financial Services Licence. This enables Crypto.com to offer eligible users financial products, including deposit products, derivatives, securities, foreign exchange, and managed investment schemes.
Pennsylvania lawmakers have proposed the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill, which, if approved, would permit its treasury to invest up to 10% of its funds in bitcoin. They have stated an intention to use bitcoin as a hedge during “unstable economic times”.
Digital asset platform Fireblocks partners with South Korean NongHyup Bank to tokenise tax refunds. The partnership will use the Fireblocks Tokenisation Engine to refund value-added tax (VAT) and goods and services taxes (GST) on purchases at retail outlets, aiming to increase transparency and security.
Tether launched an open-source wallet development kit to integrate non-custodial wallets into any website or app. It enables developers to create bitcoin and USDT wallets for human users, as well as AI agents and robots. In addition, Tether launched a real-world asset tokenisation platform, Hadron, which allows users to tokenise “anything”. This includes stocks, bonds, as well as assets such as land and art.
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📈 BTC overtook silver and Saudi Aramco as the seventh-largest asset by market capitalisation; Crypto.com acquired Australian brokerage firm Fintek
BTC overtook silver and Saudi Aramco as the 7th-largest asset by market capitalisation; Crypto.com acquired Australian brokerage firm Fintek; BlackRock’s BUIDL is now available on five more blockchains.
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