What Happened on Dec. 19th｜Binance US Wins Bid to Acquire Voyager Assets

DeFi

• Ren 1.0 Network will be shutting down on December 20th.
• Hooked Protocol will deploy a new uHGT token contract and make token migration.
• Quantitative trading firm mgnr's tweets are gone, and mgnr.eth-labeled address currently holds 0.097 $ETH.
• Data: Three Arrows Capital withdrew 2,000 $ETH from Binance.

CeFi

• Voyager announces an agreement for Binance.US to acquire its assets.
• 57.5% of voters agree that Elon Musk should step down as head of Twitter.
• Binance acquires Indonesian crypto exchange Tokocrypto.
• OKX resumes trading service, and will compensate affected users and implement multicloud deployment.
• Gate.io deposits and withdrawals are back to normal.

Infrastructure

• Smart contract wallet UniPass is deployed on Scroll testnet.

Metaverse & NFTs

• Yuga Labs hires former Activision Blizzard president Daniel Alegre as new CEO.
• NFT aggregated marketplace Element will launch LaunchPad.
• Doodles co-founder: Doodles 2 closed beta starts sometime in 2023.

Fundings

• Hardware wallet developer Foundation Devices raises $7M in a seed round led by Polychain Capital.