What Happened on Dec. 8th｜Ethereum Developers Target March 2023 for Shanghai Hard Fork

DeFi

• DAXA flags $WAVES as Investment Warning asset, $WAVES drops 13.24% in the last 24 hours.
• Ankr starts airdropping $ankrBNB to All $aBNBc and $aBNBb holders.
• Cosmos ecosystem DEX Osmosis launches a stableswap.
• Sui will launch $SUI Community Access Program to allow members to purchase $SUI in early phases.
• Helio Protocol is in negotiation with the $HAY exploiter.
• The proposal for V13.0.0 upgrade of Osmosis got passed.
• Perpetual futures DEX Perpetual Protocol supports $USDT as collateral.
• The Ethereum Foundation allocates $8.04 million to ecosystem projects in Q3 2022.

CeFi

• Bybit integrates with ApeX Protocol, and launches ApeX Pro.
• Bitcoin․com completes $VERSE $50 million token pre-sale.
• Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said crypto exchange revenues will be cut in half or more this year.
• Starbucks Web3 loyalty platform Odyssey is open to the first testers.
• Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group plans to issue Soulbound tokens.
• Telegram to allow no-sim accounts via anon-blockchain-numbers.
• Sources: FTX discussed $100 million Liverpool, Manchester United deals.
• Coinbase will list Aragon ($ANT), Rocket Pool ($RPL) and Magic ($MAGIC).

Infrastructure

• Cross-chain interoperability network Axelar integrates with Arbitrum.
• Apollo DAO will deploy multisig wallet solution Apollo Safe on Sei.

Metaverse & NFTs

• Blur offers some NFT traders 50% refund after ETH losses from UI 'bug'.
• Immutable X partners with MoonPay to launch the NFT Checkout feature, allowing buying NFTs with credit or debit cards.

Policy & Regulation

• Nexo announces registration as a Virtual Asset Service Provider in Poland.
• US Senate Banking Committee will subpoena SBF if he doesn't appear at the hearing.
• Chairwoman of the US House Financial Services Committee requests SBF to testify on December 13th.
• Seoul central district court rejects provisional petition to suspend $WEMIX delisting.

Fundings

• Gaming community platform Earn Alliance closes $4.75 million seed round.
• Binance Labs is leading a private round II for GoPlus Security.
• NFT startup Metagood closes $5 million funding round with Animoca Brands involved.
• Coin98 Labs acquires blockchain game CyBall and delays the launch of $CYB.
• Web3 video platform Shibuya closes $6.9 million funding round led by a16z Crypto and Variant.