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Forbes "Asia-Pacific Web3 Industry Growth Is Strong...Gaming, AI, and Social Fai Stand Out"

Forbes, a leading U.S. business magazine, has diagnosed that "the web3 industry in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region has been growing strongly this year". "The APAC region has seen some big news on the investment front, including Singapore-based VC Foresight Ventures' $70 million acquisition of The Block, NGC Ventures' continued funding, and LayerZero's $149 million investment. The APAC market has also seen strong growth in Web3 gaming, industry events, Web3 projects around AI and cloud computing, and SocialFy," said Dr. Javier Gutierrez, senior vice president, Asia Pacific, NVIDIA.

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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