What Happened on Dec. 7th｜Ankr Announces Details of $ankrBNB Airdrop

DeFi

• Ankr will airdrop $ankrBNB to users who held $aBNBc and $aBNBb before the exploit happened.
• Chainlink Staking v0.1 is live on Ethereum mainnet.
• DeFi project Mercurial plans revamp and new token issuance after the FTX event.
• Liquid staking protocol Stader will be launched on Ethereum.
• Decentralized exchange Hashflow integrates with interoperability protocol Wormhole.
• Balancer V2 fork Holdr will launch on Aurora on December 14th.
• Decentralized oracle Band Protocol integrates with cross-chain lending protocol Chee Finance.
• Optimism will distribute 10 million $OP in its second round of retroactive public goods funding.

CeFi

• Binance.US eliminates trading fees for $ETH.
• Alameda's total investment value exceeds $5.4 billion.
• Coinbase will list MultiversX ($EGLD).
• FTX held talks with Taylor Swift over a $100 million sponsorship deal.
• Binance completes integration of $USDT on the EOS network, and opens deposits and withdrawals.
• Signature Bank will shrink its deposits tied to cryptocurrencies by $8 billion to $10 billion.
• Zodia Custody is rolling out a new service to protect client assets from exchange insolvency.
• Nomura Holdings plans to break a profit at its crypto unit within two years.

Infrastructure

• Phantom claims neither its RPC partners nor itself can identify users.
• Celer cBridge integrates with Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol.
• Cross-chain bridge Hop Protocol will deploy on zkSync 2.0.
• Gnosis Chain Merge is expected around Dec. 8.

Metaverse & NFTs

• Hooked Protocol announces airdrop to NFT holders, up to 100 $HOOK per user.
• NFT lending protocol BendDAO launches Ape Staking.
• NFT fractionalization protocol Tessera Protocol is now live.
• Warner Music Group will develop digital music collection platform LGND Music in partnership with Polygon and LGND.io.

Policy & Regulation

• U.S. lawmakers want state department to disclose crypto rewards.

Fundings

• DeFi derivatives protocol Perennial closed a $12 million funding round led by Polychain Capital and others.
• LiquidFactory closes $1.25 million funding round led by KuCoin Labs and Republic Capital.