Merit Circle has presented the treasury report that shows its current financial status, including any outstanding investments.

https://meritcircle.substack.com/p/2-treasury-report-december-2021

Rikkei Finance trading has started on Huobi Global.
RIFI is now trading at 20x from the sale price ($0.1).

https://www.huobi.com/en-us/exchange/rifi_usdt

Starting December 14th, Gemini and Bancolombia will launch a partnership to provide an initial cohort of customers of the Colombian bank a seamless on- and off-ramp to trade bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) through the Gemini exchange.

https://www.gemini.com/blog/gemini-to-offer-crypto-trading-to-bancolombia-customers-with-latin-american

Major video game publisher Ubisoft has announced the launch of its NFT platform Ubisoft Quartz that runs on Tezos blockchain.

The beta release of Ubisoft Quartz is scheduled for December 9.

After the news, XTZ increased by 30%.

https://twitter.com/Ubisoft/status/1468264199876923394?s=20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSVoJ0WUQfY&ab_channel=UbisoftNorthAmerica

Injective lists GuildFi ($GF).

https://blog.injectiveprotocol.com/the-first-injective-premier-metaverse-listing-guildfi/

Pacific, a decentralized NFT marketplace and an integrated platform for metaverse/GameFi assets, has received investment from Huobi Ventures.

https://twitter.com/Pacific_NFT/status/1468415965537128448?s=20

UniLend Finance has announced that UniLend is sponsoring Chainlink price feeds, which will serve as a decentralized price oracle for its token UFT.

https://unilend.medium.com/uft-price-oracles-now-supported-by-chainlink-29acfaf0e8bd

TRM Labs, a blockchain investigations firm, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global.

Investors: Amex Ventures, Visa, PayPal, Block, Citi Ventures, DRW Venture Capitalist, Jump Capital, and others.

https://twitter.com/trmlabs/status/1468211982746726401?s=20

GuildFi (GF) gets listed on OKEX.

https://www.okex.com/trade-spot/gf-usdt
https://twitter.com/GuildFiGlobal/status/1468466348934119425

Impossible Finance has announced the tenth IDO — Starbots Token Sale.

Launchpad Public Sale: 475,000 USD(split into multiple pools)
Standard pool: 225,000 USD
Unlimited pool: 225,000 USD
Whitelist allocation: 25,000 USD
Total Token Supply: 200,000,000 BOT
Tokens Allocated to Impossible Launchpad: 4,750,000
Public Sale Token Price: 1 BOT = 0.1 BUSD

Staking Period: 08/12/2021 14:00 UTC to 11/01/2022 10:00 UTC.
Purchase Period: 11/01/2022 14:00 UTC to 12/01/2022 14:00 UTC.
Claiming Period: No earlier than 13/01/2022.

https://medium.com/impossiblefinance/the-impossible-finance-ido-10-starbots-token-sale-caad91cf32b3

CoinList has announced the pSTAKE token sale.

The sale begins on December 16, 18:00 UTC and has one public option:

Price: $0.40
Min/max: $100 min, $500 max
Lockup & release: 25% unlocks on or around January 25, 2022, followed by a 6-month linear vesting schedule
Supply: 25M PSTAKE

Registration Deadline: December 13, 2021 at 23:59 UTC

https://blog.coinlist.co/announcing-the-pstake-token-sale-on-coinlist/

Binance will list Biconomy (BICO) and will open trading for BICO/BTC, BICO/BUSD, and BICO/USDT trading pairs at 2021-12-09 06:00 UTC.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/2bd41061311e4ae287ec3e21db9a1fcf

API3 (API3), Bluezelle (BLZ), Gods Unchained (GODS), Immutable X (IMX), Measurable Data Token (MDT) and Ribbon Finance (RBN) are launching on Coinbase Pro.

Trading will begin on or after 17:00 UTC December 9, if liquidity conditions are met.

https://blog.coinbase.com/api3-api3-bluezelle-blz-gods-unchained-gods-immutable-x-imx-measurable-data-token-mdt-6d29956a5a87

Amazon is investing in sports-card marketplace Dibbs.

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/international/amazon-invests-in-trading-card-platform-dibbs-as-collectibles-boom/

Kickstarter is creating a decentralized crowdfunding protocol on the Celo blockchain.

https://www.kickstarter.com/articles/the-future-of-crowdfunding-creative-projects

Tipalti, a payments firm, has raised $270 million in series F funding at a valuation of $8.3 billion.

Led by G Squared, the Series F round also includes investments from new investors Marshall Wace and funds and accounts managed by Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), in addition to current investors Zeev Ventures, Durable Capital Partners, 01 Advisors and others.

https://tipalti.com/series-f-pr/

Unreal Finance will launch its beta in December.

https://twitter.com/UnrealFinance/status/1468880380556054531?s=20

A limited number of people in the US will be able to send and receive money using Novi on WhatsApp, according to CEO Novi Stephane Kasriel.

The feature is powered with payments made using Pax Dollars (USDP).

https://twitter.com/skasriel/status/1468722859648307201?s=20

MicroStrategy has purchased ~1,434 bitcoins for ~ $82.4 million in cash at an average price of ~$57,477 per bitcoin. As of December 8, 2021, the company held ~122,478 bitcoins acquired for ~$3.66 billion at an average price of ~ $29,861 per bitcoin.

https://www.microstrategy.com/en/investor-relations/financial-documents/microstrategy-acquires-additional-1434-bitcoins_12-09-2021

Paradigm, the zero fee, institutional liquidity network for derivative traders, has raised $35M in a Series A funding round.

The round values the company at $400M and was co-led by Jump Capital and Alameda Ventures.

Over 25 investors participated in the Series A, including Genesis Trading, QCP Capital, Nexo, Optiver US, IMC, GSR, Akuna Capital, Babel Finance, MGNR, Avon Ventures, CMT Digital, executives at Goldentree Asset Management and Amber Group.

Investors from previous seed rounds Dragonfly Capital, Digital Currency Group, Vectr Fintech Partners and Mirana Ventures, Venture Partner of Bybit and BitDAO also participated.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paradigm-announces-35m-series-a-strategic-financing-co-led-by-jump-capital-and-alameda-ventures-301441128.html

Sportium has been listed on PancakeSwap.
SPRT is now trading at 3,75x from the IDO price on Impossible Finance.

https://www.dextools.io/app/bsc/pair-explorer/0x461f7d5982eab4893353a228a40cac911c1fcf7f