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Quick Take

• Tether’s *Q4 blacklistings on Ethereum grow about 130% on a quarter-over-quarter basis.
• Tether’s increased blacklisting activity is likely correlated with a more active involvement in recent community efforts to recover funds from prominent exchange / DeFi hacks.

In a cryptocurrency ecosystem where the programmable-money juggernaut has long been Ethereum, Polkadot, a project that has been quietly developing an alternative solution since 2016, is ready to take on the blockchain world.

The move follows the latest sanction from the Trump administration.

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Origin was exploited late Monday night and lost nearly $7 million worth of funds.

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Litecoin is now the seventh-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization after a rise to $75.

Twitter has hired Peiter Zatko, a prominent white-hat hacker going by the handle “Mudge,” to help prevent future security breaches.

If its application is approved, Anchorage would be the first crypto company to get a national bank charter.

Blockchain project Origin Dollar (OUSD) has sustained an oracle manipulation attack. The attacker used flash loans to grab $3.25 million.

On Nov. 18, CoinDesk’s Ben Powers explores the data dividend: Is it an opportunity to restructure the digital economy on more equitable terms, or merely a redesign of the current data ecosystem?

The liquidity mining program for decentralized exchange Uniswap has come to an end.

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