Polygon and StarkWare Announce Joint Launch of Circle STARKs | Cryptocurrency Trends

1. Mainstream Exchange Trends:

• Coinbase to add support for Helium Mobile (MOBILE) on the Solana network (SPL tokens).
• Mainstream Exchange Listings (CEX: Token — Time of Listing in UTC)

2. Cryptocurrency Trends:

• Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal: Coinbase responded to the U.S. SEC's request for comment urging the approval of Grayscale's Ethereum Spot ETF application.
• Digital Currency Group (DCG) opposes a proposed settlement between its subsidiary Genesis and the New York Attorney General's Office.
• Polygon and StarkWare announce the joint launch of Circle STARKs, a technology designed to increase transaction speeds and reduce transaction costs.
• U.S. cryptocurrency stocks fall on Sunday, with Canaan Creative (CAN.O) down nearly 7%, Marathon Digital (MARA.O) down 6.3%, and Coinbase (COIN.O) down 5%.
• Web3 social protocol beoble announces that since its launch on December 2, 2023, its app has had over 1.1 million unique users.
• U.S. attorneys file motion for a proposed protective order in case against CZ. The DOJ states that CZ and his defense counsel did not oppose the request for a protective order.
• An address starting with 0xc7c and tagged "Teneo: 3AC Liquidation" received 134.18 million STRK on November 6, 2022. The transaction is currently worth approximately $257 million, according to Scopescan.
• AI project QnA3.AI announces its first round of token airdrop promotions on social media. Interaction records and credits will determine users' share of the airdrop. To ensure fairness, bot accounts will be filtered out.

3. Financing Trends:

• Citrea, a Bitcoin ZK Rollup protocol, raises $2.7 million seed in seed round funding led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from Delphi Ventures, Eric Wall, co-founder of Taproot Wizards, Anurag Arjun, co-founder of Avail, and others.
• Inco, a modular blockchain developer focused on privacy protection, raises $4.5 million in seed round funding and launches its first testnet, Gentry.

4. Regulatory Trends:

• The High Court in Podgorica, Montenegro, authorizes the extradition of Terra founder Do Kwon to the United States, Protos reports.
• Texas-based crypto firm Lejilex and the Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas (CFAT) file a lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), alleging that the regulator's jurisdiction in the digital asset space exceeds its statutory authority and asking a judge to rule that digital assets traded on exchanges do not constitute securities.