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Quick Take
- Total adjusted on-chain volume saw a strong increase of 51.5%, to a new yearly high of ~$203.8 billion in November.
- Cryptocurrency centralized trading volumes saw a significant increase of 133.8% in November, while DEX volumes continue to decline.
- Lending from dYdX, Compound and Aave hit a new all-time high with $7.6 billion in originated loans in November.
- Aggregated open interest and monthly volume of Bitcoin futures and options, and Ethereum futures and options, all reached new all-time highs in November.
Australian crypto exchange BTC Markets yesterday sent a mass email to its users, which has affected their privacy.
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Quick Take
- ‘Fiat Freeway’ is a weekly column providing the latest updates on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and stablecoins.
- This week’s column examines China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DC/EP) progress in H2 2020.
XRP jumped 169% in November to top the performance rankings among digital assets in the CoinDesk 20, outperforming bitcoin and ether.
As bitcoin set a new price high closer to $20,000 on Tuesday, the network also saw record-breaking user activity.
Security token platform Dusk Network has become a shareholder of a Dutch stock exchange as part of both firms’ plans for share tokenization.
Crypto.com has secured an Australian Financial Service License through its acquisition of The Card Group.
BTC Markets, one of Australia’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, has accidentally exposed users’ data, raising the risk of phishing attacks.
Crypto asset manager NYDIG has raised $100 million from a single investor for its new fund — Digital Assets Fund II.
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