ChainCatcher news, Lin Chen, the Head of Asia Pacific Business at Deribit, posted on X that in the options market, the probability of betting that the ETH price will exceed $4000 by the end of the year is 29.1%.

ChainCatcher news, the details of the Genesis airdrop for the Bitcoin financial public chain Side Protocol have been announced. 100 million SIDE tokens will be distributed to eligible users, including:Active Bitcoin users (network spending greater than 0.005 BTC)NFT communities: Pudgy Penguins, Milady, Mad Lads, Bitcoin Puppets, NodeMonkes, Ordinal Maxi Biz, Bitcoin Frogs, Pizza Ninja, Quantum Cats, Runestone, Bad Kids, Celestine SlothATOM stakers and public goodsTestnet points users, etc.Airdrop registration will officially start at 18:00 Beijing time on November 26, 2024. The event will adopt a first-come, first-served mechanism, with generous rewards for individual addresses, and it is completely free to claim without any staking operation. Users can check the airdrop through the genesis.side.one website.It is reported that Side Protocol was created by former members of the Chainspace core team in collaboration with early members of Binance Labs. This is a high-performance L1 public chain that is fully compatible with Bitcoin, supporting various innovative products such as native Bitcoin lending.

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin mining company MARA announced on platform X that it purchased 5,771 BTC through the issuance of convertible notes at an average price of $95,554. The current total number of BTC held is approximately 33,875, valued at $3.4 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to Trader T's monitoring, BlackRock's IBIT had a pre-market trading volume of $203 million today, with 45% being active buy orders and 38% being active sell orders.

ChainCatcher news, according to GlobeNewswire, Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer announced the issuance of $360 million in convertible preferred notes to qualified institutional buyers through a private placement, maturing in 2029.The company also granted the initial purchasers of the notes the option to purchase up to an additional $40 million in principal notes within 13 days from the date of the initial issuance. The sale of the notes is expected to be completed by November 26, 2024, subject to customary closing conditions, with the related funds intended for the expansion of data centers, the development and manufacturing of ASIC-based mining equipment, as well as working capital and other general corporate purposes.

ChainCatcher news, according to Chainwire, the Turkish crypto asset technology company Paribu has announced the launch of Paribu Custody services, providing digital asset custody and management services for global institutional clients. Since its establishment in 2017, the platform has accumulated 7 million users.Cem Sağlam, Paribu's Institutional Sales and Business Development Manager, stated that the company's self-developed ColdShield® technology integrates MPC, SGX, and HSM technologies, dispersing customer private keys across multiple independent environments to ensure that no individual or organization can access the complete private key.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Europe's second-largest insurance company Allianz SE has acquired nearly 25% of the convertible notes due in 2031 from MicroStrategy.

ChainCatcher news, the mETH Protocol launches the COOK Feast event, locking COOK to earn COOK Power, which can participate in the distribution of a prize pool of 200 cmETH. Users can withdraw funds at any time or choose a fixed lock-up period to increase rewards.COOK Feast aims to reward the support of community members, allowing COOK holders to increase their cmETH, encouraging long-term participation in the ecosystem.It is reported that COOK is the governance token of the mETH Protocol, with a total supply of 5 billion tokens and an initial circulating supply of 916 million tokens.According to RootData, the mETH Protocol is a permissionless, non-custodial ETH liquid staking protocol deployed on Ethereum L1 and managed by Mantle. Users stake ETH to earn mETH. Unstaking mETH allows users to receive the underlying principal of staked ETH and accumulated rewards.

ChainCatcher news, Farcaster co-founder Dan Romero stated, "The team currently consists of 14 members and will be divided into 3 groups: responsible for protocol, cryptocurrency, and social respectively. In terms of protocol, we will build and migrate to Snapchain to expand the protocol and provide a new FIP for FC Connect. In the cryptocurrency area, as part of Frames v2, we are working to improve the transaction user experience. In the social aspect, we will continue to improve application performance, channel iteration, and user experience."

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, MicroStrategy has completed the issuance of $3 billion convertible notes at a 0% coupon rate, which includes an option granted to the initial purchasers under the note purchase agreement that allows for the purchase of additional notes within 3 days from the initial issuance date, totaling $400 million.The initial purchasers fully exercised this option on November 20, 2024, and completed the purchase of the additional notes on November 21, 2024.

ChainCatcher news, according to Trader T's monitoring, BlackRock IBIT's pre-market trading volume today reached $328 million, with 38% being active buy orders and 43% being active sell orders.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Bitcoin-listed mining company MARA has completed a $1 billion convertible note financing.

ChainCatcher news, according to DL News, the stock price of Toronto-based blockchain company Bluesky Digital soared in November, as investors may have mistakenly associated it with the social media platform Bluesky. Since Donald Trump's election on November 5, Bluesky Digital's stock price has surged from $0.06 to $0.56, an increase of approximately 833%.A portfolio manager stated that the rise in stock price "may be due to the confusion caused by the name of the social media platform."

ChainCatcher message, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng posted a security alert on X, "If you are using a Macbook with an Intel chip, please update as soon as possible! Stay safe!"It is reported that Apple has confirmed that the macOS system has been subjected to zero-day attacks and has urgently released major security updates for macOS and iOS to fix two vulnerabilities that have already been widely exploited.Apple confirmed in the announcement that these vulnerabilities are being widely exploited on Intel-based macOS systems and urged users across the ecosystem to urgently apply iOS 18.1.1, macOS Sequoia 15.1.1, and the older iOS 17.7.2.

ChainCatcher news, according to Trader T's monitoring, BlackRock's IBIT pre-market trading volume today reached $175 million, with 44% being active buy orders and 39% being active sell orders.

ChainCatcher news, the open-source AI platform Sentient announced on X the launch of the OML 1.0 fingerprint library feature, which supports fingerprint recognition of AI models to verify the identity of AI model developers.Previous news, according to The Block, the open-source AI platform Sentient announced the completion of a $85 million seed round financing, led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures, with participation from Ethereal Ventures, Robot Ventures, LD Capital, Symbolic Capital, Delphi Ventures, Hack VC, Arrington Capital, HashKey Capital, Canonical Crypto, and Foresight Ventures.Additionally, according to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Sentient is building community-contributed open-source AI models with the goal of directly competing with OpenAI. Sentient will launch activities for contributors, each with specific metrics to evaluate contributions and rewards based on these metrics.

ChainCatcher message, according to the latest report released by QCP, BlackRock's Bitcoin spot ETF (IBIT) has performed strongly in the options market, with the first hour trading volume reaching 73,000 contracts and a call-to-put ratio of 4.4:1.IBIT has entered the top 20 most active non-index options, indicating increased institutional confidence in Bitcoin as a mainstream asset class. This market reaction may attract new groups of investors and support diversified trading strategies, helping to reduce volatility and downside risk, thereby solidifying Bitcoin's position in the mainstream market.Additionally, the Trump cabinet nominations have drawn attention, particularly the selection of Elon Musk, who is friendly to cryptocurrencies, to lead the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and the nomination of Bitcoin supporter Peter Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. With the Republican Party controlling the Senate, most nominations are expected to pass confirmation smoothly, and Trump plans to finalize cabinet selections before Thanksgiving. These choices highlight the new government's alignment with the growing influence of digital assets in policy and finance.

ChainCatcher news, according to Coindesk, some traders are betting that the ETF price will double to $100, with IBIT closing at $52.70 yesterday.ConvexValue data shows that the trading volume of call options with a strike price of $100 has exceeded 32,000 contracts. Most of the value occurred in options that expire on December 12, which is also the most popular settlement price overall, accounting for 40% of the total trading volume of 354,000 contracts.

ChainCatcher news, the Russian government's Electricity Development Commission approved cryptocurrency mining restrictions on Monday, which will take effect on December 1, with a subsequent enforcement period from November 15 to March 15 each year until 2031.Deputy Energy Minister Evgeny Grabchak confirmed this decision, which targets 13 regions including Irkutsk, Buryatia, and Transbaikal, but excluding Moscow. The approval to extend the enforcement period is aimed at managing peak electricity demand and addressing energy shortages. Other affected regions include Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Donetsk, and Luhansk People's Republic.

According to ChainCatcher news reported by Decrypt, Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) is issuing $850 million in convertible notes, with an option to expand to $1 billion, as part of a plan to repurchase existing debt, acquire Bitcoin, and fund corporate plans during the cryptocurrency market recovery.The company plans to use $199 million of the expected net proceeds of $833 million from this sale to repurchase its existing $212 million 2026 convertible notes. Marathon Digital stated that the remaining portion will be used to purchase more Bitcoin and for general corporate purposes, including working capital, strategic acquisitions, asset expansion, and repaying other debts.