What Happened on Dec. 21st｜Uniswap Partners with MoonPay to Support Users Purchasing Crypto with Fiat

DeFi

• Uniswap partners with MoonPay to support users purchasing Crypto assets with fiat.
• Structured product protocol Y2K Finance launches its token $Y2K.
• Raydium releases user compensation proposal, details of compensation to be announced in the future.
• Raydium is willing to offer the attacker more than 15% of the stolen funds as whitehat bounty.
• Ankr: exploit of $aBNBc is due to a malicious supply chain attack by a former team member.
• Kana Labs launches a liquid staking aggregator.
• 50,500,000 $XRP transferred from Bitso to unknown wallet.

CeFi

• Bitcoin miner Core Scientific files for bankruptcy protection.
• Coinbase's slump to an all-time low sends market cap below Dogecoin.
• Online investing platform Superhero cancels merger with Swyftx citing regulatory scrutiny.
• Auros said it applied for "Light Touch" provisional liquidation with expected resumption of normal operations following successful restructuring.
• FTX has over $1b in cash, says FTX executives.
• Elon Musk says he'll resign as Twitter CEO when he finds a successor.

Infrastructure

• MetaMask Swaps adds support for Optimism and Arbitrum.
• Arbitrum deprecates support for Arbitrum Rinkeby.
• The Nomad Bridge is now relaunched.
• Bybit becomes a data provider on the Pyth network.

Metaverse & NFTs

• ConsenSys launches the NFT greeting card app Soulflake.

Policy & Regulation

• UK Advertising Regulator bans Crypto.com promotions on Facebook.
• SBF signs extradition papers, and will fly to the US on Wednesday.
• Coinbase registers as a Virtual Asset Service Provider in Ireland.
• Democrats’ Senate Majority PAC plans to return $3 million in donations from former FTX executives.

Fundings

• Mask Network acquires Mastodon instance Pawoo.net.