🏷️ Cyber Monday Crypto Sale, Yearn Finance Exploit

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Markets dipped sharply as Ethereum slid below $2,800 and Bitcoin dropped under $85K, triggering nearly $1B in liquidations. Meanwhile, Yearn Finance suffered a $9M exploit tied to an attacker minting trillions of yETH, and Vitalik Buterin weighed in on token governance, urging Zcash to steer clear of token-voting models.

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News Roundup

Artificial Intelligence

• OpenAI Confirms Mixpanel Breach Exposed API User Metadata (Decrypt)

• China’s Tech Giants Shift AI Training Offshore to Bypass U.S. Chip Restrictions (Reuters)

• AI Time-Travel Experiment Imagines English 15,000 Years in the Future (Decrypt)

• Telegram Launches Cocoon, a Decentralized AI Network Built on TON (Cointelegraph)

Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance

• Fidelity’s Tokenized Treasury Fund Surges Past $250M (The Defiant)

• São Paulo to Launch Blockchain Microloans for Farmers (CoinDesk)

• Terminal Finance Shuts Down Project After Converge Chain Fails to Launch (Terminal Finance)

• Visa Expands Stablecoin Settlement to CEMEA Through Aquanow Partnership (The Block)

• Nasdaq Pushes Ahead on Tokenized Stocks as It Awaits SEC Review (Cointelegraph)

• Kazakhstan’s Central Bank Prepares Up to $300M for Crypto Investments (RBC)

• Tether CEO Pushes Back After S&P Downgrades USDt Peg Stability (Cointelegraph)

• Ripple Wins Approval to Expand XRP and RLUSD Services Under Singapore MPI License (CoinDesk)

• Sony Bank Plans U.S. Dollar Stablecoin Launch Within Sony’s Ecosystem by 2026 (Nikkei)

• Yearn Finance Hit by $9M Exploit After Attacker Mints 235 Trillion yETH (DL News)

• Naver and Kakao Set for Stablecoin Showdown in South Korea (DL News)

Exchanges

• OKX’s Latest Proof of Reserves Shows Rising BTC and USDT Balances (OKX)

• Crypto Exchange Volume Falls to $1.6T in November, Lowest Since June (The Block)

• Coinbase Reports 12,716 Government Data Requests in 2025, Up 19% (Coinbase)

• Coinbase to List Rayls (RLS) for Spot Trading on Dec. 1 (Coinbase)

Exchange-Traded Products

• CoinShares Pulls U.S. ETF Filings for XRP, Solana, and Litecoin Ahead of SPAC Listing (The Block)

• First Spot Chainlink ETF Expected This Week, Says ETF Store President (Nate Geraci)

• U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs saw $313 million in net inflows from Nov. 24–28.

• From Nov. 24-28, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs posted $70 million in net inflows.

• U.S. Solana spot ETFs recorded $108 million in net inflows from Nov. 24-28.

• From Nov. 24-28, U.S. XRP spot ETFs saw $244 million in net inflows.

• Spot Bitcoin ETFs Log $3.5B in November Outflows (The Block)

• Digital Asset ETPs See $1.07B Inflows After Weeks of Outflows (CoinShares)

• Goldman Sachs Buys Innovator for $2B, Adding Bitcoin-Linked ETF to Its Portfolio (Cointelegraph)

Infrastructure

• Optimism Signals Strategic Shift After Costly Focus on Partner Chains (The Defiant)

• Sassano Says Ethereum’s 3× Gas Limit Plan Is Just the Starting Point (Cointelegraph)

• Binance Adds Support for Multiple Keyless Wallets (Binance)

Markets

• Crypto Sentiment Lifts From Extreme Fear After 18-Day Slump (Cointelegraph)

• Kinetiq’s New KNTQ Governance Token Debuts at $130M Valuation on Hyperliquid (The Defiant)

• Bubblemaps Data Shows Majority of Clustering-Prone Token Teams Based in U.S. as Prices Collapse (Bubblemaps)

• Sahara AI Token Plunges Amid Silence From Project Team (Binance)

• Hyperliquid Confirms 1.75M HYPE Unlock as Price Dips Slightly (Cointelegraph)

• Russian Investors Pour Millions Into Bitcoin and Ethereum Funds on MOEX (DL News)

• Most ETH Valuation Models Point to Undervaluation (Cointelegraph)

• HashKey Prepares for Hong Kong Listing After $82B Trading Year (Weixin)

• Bitcoin Drops 5% in Sudden ‘Sunday Slam’ as $539M in Positions Liquidate (Cointelegraph)

• $218M in Token Unlocks Coming This Week, Led by ENA and EIGEN (Tokenomist)

• Bitcoin Drops Below $86,500 as $144B Market Cap Vanishes in Rapid Sell-Off (The Block)

• Japan Bond Yields Hit 15-Year High as Markets Bet on BOJ Rate Hike (JT)

• US Labor Market Softens, Adding Pressure to Bitcoin and Crypto (Cointelegraph)

• BTC, ETH, XRP Crash Triggers $637M in Liquidations (Decrypt)

• Bitcoin Shows Signs of Late-Cycle Fragility as Whales Pull Back (The Block)

• Gold Nears Record as Crypto and Stocks Slide (Decrypt)

• Kalshi and Polymarket Hit Nearly $10B Record Month (The Block)

• ETH Drops Below $2,800, BTC Slides Under $85K as Liquidations Near $1B (Coinglass)

Mining

• Fire Shuts Down Greenidge Mining Site After Equipment Failure (Cointelegraph)

• Bitcoin Mining Faces December Difficulty Rise as Profitability Near Lows (Cointelegraph)

Politics & Regulation

• China Reasserts Its Crypto Ban as Regulators Unite Against Renewed Speculation (DL News)

• SEC’s Hester Peirce Calls Crypto Self-Custody and Privacy Fundamental Rights (Cointelegraph)

• Kevin Hassett Now Frontrunner for Fed Chair as Markets Price In Aggressive Rate Cuts (DL News)

• U.S. House Republicans Detail Grievances Over “Choke Point 2.0” Against Crypto (CoinDesk)

• Republicans Push Market Structure Bill After Alleging Crypto ‘Debanking’ Under Biden (Cointelegraph)

Treasuries

• Strategy CEO Says Bitcoin Sales Would Occur Only if Stock Trades Below NAV (Cointelegraph)

• Strategy Sets $1.44B USD Reserve, Cuts Bitcoin-Based Guidance (Strategy)

• BitMine Discloses $12.1B in Assets as ETH Holdings Hit 3.73M (PR Newswire)

• Trump Media–Crypto.com CRO Treasury Nears Public Debut Despite 90% Token Drawdown (Decrypt)

• Largest Solana Treasury Taps Ex-ParaFi Exec as Holdings Fall Over 40% (The Block)

Venture Capital

• VCs Pour $25B Into Crypto as Capital Shifts Toward Regulated Players (DL News)

• CZ-Backed YZiLabs Moves to Seize Control of BNB Treasury Firm BNC (The Block)

Other News

• Kalshi Hit With Class Action Alleging Illegal Sports Betting and Misleading Market-Making (Bloomberg)

• Study Finds Young People Turning to Crypto Out of Economic Desperation (DL News)

• Buterin Hopes Zcash Rejects Token Voting (Vitalik Buterin)

• FC Barcelona Criticized Over Deal With Little-Known Samoan Crypto Firm (Decrypt)

• Chainalysis Challenges Binance’s Illicit-Funds Analysis as Incomplete (DL News)

• GoQuant Founder Built Billion-Dollar Crypto Firm After Starting Trading at Age 9 (Yahoo Finance)

• Spear Phishing Now Lazarus Group’s Top Weapon, Says AhnLab (Cointelegraph)

• Europe Shuts Down $1.4B Cryptomixer in Major Cross-Border Takedown (Decrypt)

• Brazil Jails 14 for $95M Bitcoin Laundering Scheme (DL News)

• Tokenize Xchange Founder Sued for $60.5M in Alleged Fraud (Tech in Asia)

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According to Coinglass, Bitcoin returned -17.67% in November 2025, making it the second-lowest monthly result on record.

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