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YugaLabs "will no longer support marketplaces that do not guarantee NFT royalties".

BAYC developer Yuga Labs has announced that it "will stop supporting marketplaces that do not guarantee royalties to NFT creators," according to The Block. The announcement, which comes ahead of the launch of MagicEden's Ethereum NFT marketplace, is aimed at BLUR, which has dominated the existing NFT marketplace space. BLUR has been gaining market share by lowering the royalties paid to creators and offering low fees. "Yugalabs' policy change is a move to support BAYC-MAYC and other NFT projects that have already generated royalty revenue," said Steven Zheng, analyst at TheBlock Research.

Binance WBTC plunges to $5200, then recovers

Cointelegraph reports, “A flash crash in the price of WBTC occurred on Binance on Nov. 23 (local time). This caused WBTC to briefly drop from $98,000 to $5,200, but has since recovered. The cause of the error is still unknown.

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Trump nominates 'Crypto Proponent' Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary, while US SEC chairman struggles to narrow down candidates to four.

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated US investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick to serve as Secretary of Commerce, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Lutnick is an avid supporter of Bitcoin and Tether (USDT), with Cantor Fitzgerald reportedly serving as Tether's U.S. Treasury bond

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BlackRock IBIT Options Hit $1.9 Billion in First Day of Trading, Grayscale Begins Trading on November 20th.

Bloomberg ETFs analyst James Seyffart reports via X that “Options volume on BlackRock's bitcoin spot ETF IBIT, which began trading today (Nov. 19), was about $1.9 billion. A total of 35.4 million contracts were active, of which 28.9 million were calls (82%) and 65,000

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