What Happened on Nov. 3rd｜Meta Supports Minting and Selling NFTs on Instagram

DeFi

• Andre Cronje updates LinkedIn to "Vice President of Memes" at Fantom Foundation. Source
• PancakeSwap is live on Aptos. Source
• ApeCoin Foundation will establish a bug bounty program for $APE staking system, delaying the launch date. Source
• Aave community supports deploying Aave V3 on zkSync 2.0 testnet. Source
• NEAR-based token distribution platform Skyward Finance is hacked for around $3.2M. Source
• PeckShieldAlert: BNB Chain-based project MetFX rugged. Source

CeFi

• FTX will list Tortuga Staked Aptos ($tAPT) spot market. Source
• Binance BNB Vault will participate in Hashflow Launchpool. Source
• CZ: India's crypto tax could kill industry. Source
• Instagram influencer pleads guilty for stealing $2.5 million in Bitcoin. Source
• Deribit resumes withdrawals for $ETH, $BTC and $USDC. Source
• CZ Says He's considering bank acquisitions. Source
• Binance partners with hardware wallet Ledger. Source
• Protocol Ventures will shut down after 90% loss, Bloomberg reports. Source

Infrastructure

• Sui Name Service (SuiNS) is live on Sui testnet. Source
• $AR price surges after Arweave announced integration with Meta. Source

Metaverse & NFTs

• Meta will support minting and selling Polygon NFTs on Instagram. Source
• Yuga Labs will launch Metaverse NFT open standards. Source
• OpenSea launches malicious URL and theft detection systems. Source
• Web3 browser Opera has launched a new NFT analytics tool. Source
• DigiDaigaku: Gabriel Leydon suffers SIM swap at ATT Store in US. Source
• DigiDaigaku CEO's Twitter account hacked. Source

Policy & Regulation

• Blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos received license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Source
• Singapore's MAS starts wholesale CBDC project with French and Swiss Central Banks. Source

Fundings

• NFT startup Courtyard closed a $7 million seed round with participation from OpenSea Ventures and others. Source
• Stablecoin protocol Bluejay Finance looks to raise $5m to mint SG stablecoins. Source
• Web3 communications protocol WalletConnect closed $12.5 million in funding from Coinbase Ventures and others. Source
• Crypto wallet Blocto launches $3m fund for Aptos-based projects. Source