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New York-based investment advisor Ritholtz Wealth Management and exchange-traded fund and asset manager WisdomTree investments are jointly launching a crypto index fund. 

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Institutional selling triggered a sell-off in the crypto market, insiders tell The Block.

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Crypto exchange BitMart has reportedly been hacked for $100 million, according to security researchers PeckShield.

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Quick Take

• In November, there were a number of big exits: some surprising, some controversial.
• Plus Brian Books returned to the crypto industry at a new firm.

A bug that impacted projects looking after $1.7 billion in funds was publicly disclosed for six months before it was fixed.

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Quick Take

• There is a lot of buzz about “Web3,” but it’s hard to keep apprised of major developments across the board due to the lack of a categorization system for Web3 news
• We start to address this issue in the first part of a multipart series in which we analyze major news from four of eight major areas of Web3: Oracles, Wallets, Domains, and Middleware
• We take both qualitative and quantitative perspectives within each of these domains to gather insights at both local and global levels
• We conclude by discussing limitations and some ways to go about organizing Web3 as it comes into being

Crypto lending company Celsius Network confirmed in a live stream today that it lost funds in the BadgerDAO hack earlier this week.

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Senator Warren draws new national scrutiny to the crypto mining firm that has expanded from its original base in upstate New York.

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Quick Take

• This weekly series explores the most interesting insights in NFTs, blockchain gaming, and virtual worlds
• With the increasing proliferation of NFTs across different chains, new projects continue to innovate for the benefit of new launch mechanisms, which often represent a double-edged sword
• As PFP projects keep executing on their roadmaps and build out their own worlds, owners of these NFTs take notice and react in a myriad of ways

Quick Take

• Canaan’s recent patent lawsuit against AGM Holdings is conceptually similar to the legal war between Bitmain and MicroBT four years ago.
• It remains to be seen if the “public knowledge” argument by the defendant HighSharp will be able to stand in court.