Crypto staking goes live on Starknet in first for Ethereum L2 blockchains — link | tl;dr

Uniswap Labs offers bug bounty worth up to $15.5 million — link | tl;dr

REN Protocol posted for the first time in 10 months, announcing the arrival of Ren v2 — link

Kraken to close NFT marketplace, shift focus to other projects — link | tl;dr

DIA launches testnet for Lumina, a new modular oracle — link

Active loans on Aave surpassed $10 billion. Aave started the year with $3.4 billion in active loans — link

Valour Inc launches Dogecoin ETP on Sweden's Spotlight Stock Market — link

US court rules that sanctions against Tornado Cash smart contracts are unlawful — ruling | link

WalletConnect launches first airdrop season with 50 million tokens allocated to community members — link | tl;dr

Messaging app Line to roll out mini Dapps on platform next year — link | tl;dr

Avant, Ethena-like DeFi protocol, raises $6.5 million in seed funding — link | tl;dr

Solana's DeFi protocols earned $420.7M in November, 161% more than Ethereum's $161.2M. Raydium ($175M) & Jito ($164.7M) outperformed Uniswap ($69.1M) & Lido ($62.3M) — link

DeFi derivatives protocol Cega to sunset platform by end of year following acquisition — link | tl;dr

Hyperliquid plans to launch HYPE token in Nov. 29 'genesis event' — link | tl;dr

Gifto's founders mint billions of GFT after Binance delists web3 wallet's token — link | tl;dr

Demand for leveraged ETH exposure has been relentless in the past few weeks.

Since November 5, the ETH equivalent exposure in the VolatilityShares 2x leveraged long ETH ETF has increased by 278,150 ETH (+160%)

VolatilityShares now hold more than half of CME's ETH OI (50.1%) — link

Router Nitro now enables cross-chain compatibility between Sui and 30+ EVM chains — link

Hyperliquid airdrops over $1.2 billion worth of tokens to users as HYPE crosses $4 billion FDV — link | tl;dr

Ethena and Securitize pitch upcoming BlackRock-fueled stablecoin in Spark's $1 billion tokenization play — link | tl;dr

Monthly CoWSwap volume since launch ~3 years ago — link