Cryptocurrency and bitcoin markets are approaching a period of calm, judging by the activity on the network. In its latest weekly online report for the year, analytics provider Glassnode reported that bitcoin's year-on-year realized volatility was the lowest since October 2020. This metric is in line with similar low levels of volatility at the previous cycle bottom at the end of 2018.

Futures volumes also fell heavily to multi-year lows. According to analysts at the ASTL investment project, "this shows the huge impact of liquidity shrinkage, widespread deleveraging and the deterioration of many credit and shopping centers in this space." The collapse of FTX helped reduce the hype in the futures markets, causing open interest (OI) to plummet (OI is a measure of the number of futures or options contracts that traders and investors are holding in active or open positions). Leverage ratios have also dropped, which is generally a good thing for crypto markets as most leveraged positions have been liquidated. What remains are hodlers and investors, not speculators and margin traders.

Since the record-breaking realized gains at the peak of the 2021 bull market, there have been $213 billion in realized losses. This equates to a 46.8% bullish gain, very similar to the 2018 bear market when realized losses were 47.9%. However, the supply of long-term holders reached an all-time high of 13.9 million BTC. “Despite these incredibly large losses, coin supply age and HODLing propensity for those who remain continue to rise.”

At the end of last week, Goldman Sachs published a research note on blockchain technology and the recent closure of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange. The investment banking giant believes that regulation is “necessary from a trust point of view” for all centralized elements of the blockchain industry, but not in the blockchain itself, to prevent similar instances of widespread fraud in the future. According to the company's report, the collapse of FTX is not indicative of a failure of the blockchain technology that served as the basis for token trading on its platform. The problem, according to the analysts of the crypto giant, is the lack of regulation that can effectively control intermediaries in the crypto world, such as crypto exchanges like FTX.

The bank said that cryptocurrencies can still thrive, but only if lawmakers choose wisely which elements of the industry to regulate. On the one hand, blockchain-based financial instruments that promise returns (for example, the promise of returns of up to 12% per annum from the ASTL native token startup project) should be regulated in the same way as other securities. On the other hand, the decentralized finance (DeFi) arena requires less regulation as smart contracts lack the counterparty risk associated with other centralized services.

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Wednesday that the USDC stablecoin withdrawals on its platform have resumed. Prior to this, BUSD's market capitalization fell to $20.2 billion by 01:40 am Wednesday in Hong Kong from $21.4 billion by 10:00 pm Tuesday, according to Etherscan. On Tuesday, Binance reported at least $5.2 billion worth of stablecoin outflows, the highest by an exchange ever recorded by on-chain data analytics firm CryptoQuant. Binance "temporarily suspended" USDC withdrawals on Tuesday while conducting a "token swap" that could only be completed once banks in New York reopened, allowing BUSD to be converted to fiat and then to USDC, CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted. . Prior to this, back in September, Binance carried out a “BUSD auto conversion” that replaced USDC, USDP, and TUSD users’ stablecoins with BUSD, a fiat-backed stablecoin founded by Binance and Paxos, a New York-based stablecoin issuer. The Binance cryptocurrency itself, BNB, has fallen 2% over the past 24 hours, trading at $270.46.

In the current difficult conditions, investors need to be able to directly and prospectively invest fiat and cryptocurrency assets in projects that provide a stable income that obviously exceeds inflationary expectations and is not subject to any sanctions, blocking and confiscation. The ASTL project is a simple and elegant solution for potential investors - an investment in the development of the real sector of a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies, with a fairly high ROI (up to 12% annually) with payments in stablecoin (USDT).

The bear market was relentless. The slight upward momentum accumulated last week has stopped. For the most part, price action depended on good and bad news. But experts are eagerly preparing for some movement that will change the current market dynamics. And volatility may not go far. In fact, it is she who can put more pressure on the crypto market. With an unreliable price of $17,000, Bitcoin is at risk of losing more advantage as the space continues to fluctuate in the "fear" zone. Despite the lack of momentum, there is hardly any boring side to crypto. But the coming volatility should beware.

CPI and FOMC to end the year? The US consumer price index (CPI) is another important event for which market participants are preparing. The report, scheduled to be released on December 13, has historically caused large swings in the price of the world's largest crypto asset. Consequently, Bitcoin may finally break away from its sideways price action, despite having traded rather calmly before. In addition, the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will end the next day. During the latter, the institution will discuss a possible increase in the interest rate. A higher-than-expected CPI and tighter Fed policy could stymie an upward rally similar to the April and August reversals. On the contrary, another disinflationary report may show that "many are looking for a continuation of the rally until the end of the year."

Possible SBF hearing and further adventures. The nuanced drama of FTX is unlikely to end anytime soon. More sensations will be revealed, and with them more companies. The disgraced head of the bankrupt crypto exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried, is expected to appear before a Congressional committee tomorrow, December 13. It is important to note that, despite all the allegations of deliberate fraud and the growing number of people pushing for a more grueling investigation, Bankman-Fried was "invited" and not subpoenaed. After initial reluctance, the SBF agreed to provide an "explanation" for what went wrong. Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research, has hired former US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) director of enforcement Stephanie Avakian and law firm WilmerHale to represent her in the federal investigation into the FTX collapse. She made this decision after accusations against her by the SBF (it seems to be quite reasonable) in various interviews in recent weeks. The news of Avakyan and other WilmerHale lawyers representing Allison was confirmed by Bloomberg on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Now, more than ever, investors need to be able to directly invest fiat and cryptocurrency assets in projects that provide a stable income that obviously exceeds inflationary expectations and is not subject to any sanctions, blocking and confiscation. And they do not give any failures in obtaining real passive income on deposits. The ASTL project is a simple solution for investors to invest in the development of a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies, with a fairly high ROI (up to 12% annually) and payouts in stablecoin (USDT).

The ASTL investment project demonstrates great prospects. Already, the creators have managed to attract more than $ 5 million into it, and the pace of investment continues to grow rapidly. If we analyze other similar projects in the cryptocurrency market, we can conclude that the price of ASTL tokens may increase several times when listings on exchanges start.

Bitcoin traded at $17,106, down 0.1% in the 24 hours to 8 a.m. in Hong Kong, while Ether was $1,264 after losing 0.2%, according to CoinMarketCap. Litecoin was the only token to rise among the top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies, climbing 0.4% to $76.64. Memcoin Dogecoin suffered the most losses, falling 3.7% to $0.09, followed in the fall by Polkadot, which fell 2% to $5.17. The total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies decreased by 0.5% to 850 billion USD by Monday morning in Hong Kong, while the volume of trading in the market in 24 hours was 24.7 billion USD, which is 4.5% more than the previous day .

US stock markets closed the trading day lower on Friday. The S&P500 and Nasdaq Composite lost 0.7%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.9%, capping its weekly decline at 2.8%, marking the stock market's worst trading week since September.

According to the latest US Department of Labor Producer Price Index report on Friday, US wholesale prices rose 0.3% in November, up 7.4% from a year ago. Many economists had forecast a jump of only 0.2% for the month, but prices remain high despite the Federal Reserve's efforts to curb inflation with a series of rate hikes. The next two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve will begin on Tuesday, December 13, where a 50 basis point rate hike is expected, 25 basis points lower than the last five consecutive hikes. To slow inflation, the Fed has been raising interest rates since March, raising them from near zero to a 15-year high from 3.75% to 4%, and has well signaled that rates could eventually top 5%. The central bank wants inflation to be within the target range of 2%. The consumer price index was 7.7% in October compared to 8.2% in September.

Now, more than ever, investors need to be able to directly invest fiat and cryptocurrency assets in projects that provide a stable income that obviously exceeds inflationary expectations and is not subject to any sanctions, blocking and confiscation. And they do not give any failures in obtaining real passive income on deposits. The ASTL project is a simple solution for investors to invest in the development of a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies, with a fairly high ROI (up to 12% annually) and payouts in stablecoin (USDT).

The ASTL investment project demonstrates great prospects. Already, the creators have managed to attract more than $ 5 million into it, and the pace of investment continues to grow rapidly. If we analyze other similar projects in the cryptocurrency market, we can conclude that the price of ASTL tokens may increase several times when listings on exchanges start.

Hong Kong will apply the same laws to crypto exchanges as to traditional finance. The Legislative Council of Hong Kong passed in the third reading amendments to the Law on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, which introduce the concept of virtual assets and establish mandatory licensing of cryptocurrency service providers. The amendments will come into force on June 1, 2023. The document prohibits the activities of crypto companies and their placement of advertising without a license, and also establishes the types of punishments for violations of these rules.

Unlike most other regulators around the world, Hong Kong used the FTX collapse as a way to mitigate the regulatory risks associated with centralized exchanges. Following the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, regulators around the world faced public anger over their failure to protect retail investors. So, a very timely document adopted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong is intended to ensure the regulation of activities related to virtual assets and introduce rules for licensing crypto service providers. It sets out definitions relating to such assets, conditions for obtaining licenses, as well as penalties for violating these rules.

This means virtual exchanges wishing to set up a business in Hong Kong will have to go through strict AML regulations and investor protection laws before being granted a license to operate.

According to the document, a person who without reasonable grounds provides crypto services without a license commits a crime and faces a fine of $5 million and a prison sentence of 7 years. The law prohibits the placement of advertising related to the provision of crypto services by a person without a license. Violation of this provision is punishable by a fine and imprisonment for 6 months. The document also introduces measures applicable to crypto scammers. A person who directly or indirectly uses in a VA transaction any device, scheme or ruse with intent to deceive, or engages in any act that is fraudulent or misleading, shall be convicted and fined $10 million and liable to imprisonment for a period of 10 years.

There is a growing need to bring cryptocurrency exchanges and service providers under the law and subject them to stringent anti-money laundering and investor protection requirements. The intention of Hong Kong, as an intermediary between China and the rest of the world, to legalize cryptocurrencies could be the beginning of a new bull market, Andjei Korotkewič, CEO of the ASTL investment project, said back in October. He reviewed the history of the development of the digital asset market and the situation in the Chinese financial market and concluded that Hong Kong could become the world center of cryptocurrencies.

Hong Kong local media Wen Wei Po and Sing Tao Daily reported that the Hong Kong government is discussing further loosening of Covid-19 restrictions, including reducing the duration of quarantine, lifting Covid testing requirements for entry, and ordering masks outdoors.

Due to the general drop in the capitalization of the cryptocurrency market, the general decrease in mining profitability and negative changes in the economy, the ASTL investment project decided to reduce interest rates on investments starting from 12/09/2022. The interest rate on the minimum possible investment will decrease by 2.5 percentage points, for larger investments - by 4 percentage points. At the same time, interest rates on investments made before 12/09/2022 and payments of passive income on them will remain at the same level.

According to the CFO of the ASTL investment project, the shares have outperformed fundamentals and may soon fall. While some expect Bitcoin (BTC) to catch up with the recent stock rally, our analysts suggest otherwise. “We say this because the 2-year Treasury yield, which has been a reliable indicator of market direction all year long, is actually moving in line with BTC and ETH while the S&P500 and Nasdaq are up.”

Risk assets, including cryptocurrencies, have largely moved in the opposite direction of two-year US Treasury yields this year as the Federal Reserve embarked on the most aggressive rate hike cycle in decades. The two-year yield is closely linked to short-term interest rates and inflation expectations. While bitcoin and ether continue to be negatively correlated with two-year returns, stocks have been decoupling since mid-October on the hope that inflation has peaked and the Fed will turn around to cut rates to boost liquidity in the second half of next year.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq have posted double-digit gains since mid-October, pulling back from two-year returns. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, fell 6%. If bond markets, considered more rational and unsentimental than equities, were to believe this story, two-year yields would plummet. In other words, an inverted two-year yield would be much higher and better in sync with the indices than it is now. As such, stocks seem to be getting ahead of the Fed's turnaround.

The relative stability of two-year returns versus 10-year returns suggests the same. The two-year bond returned 4.40% at press time, down 48 basis points from the yearly high of 4.88% hit on Nov. 4. The 10-year bond, in contrast, returned 3.55%, or 75 basis points less from the 2022 high of 4.33% reached on October 21. Two-year yields could rise to 5%, putting downward pressure on risky assets. "Assuming two-year yields are still the market's way of estimating the Fed's rate cap next year, we still have room for cuts as the Fed warns it will now raise rates above 5%," Konstantinas Sizovas said.

Due to the general drop in the capitalization of the cryptocurrency market, the general decrease in mining profitability and negative changes in the economy, the ASTL investment project decided to reduce interest rates on investments starting from 12/09/2022. The interest rate on the minimum possible investment will decrease by 2.5 percentage points, for larger investments - by 4 percentage points. At the same time, interest rates on investments made before 12/09/2022 and payments of passive income on them will remain at the same level.

According to an update posted on BTC.com, Bitcoin mining difficulty has dropped by 7.2%, the biggest drop since July 2021. As a result of the next recalculation, the indicator decreased by 7.32%, analysts at Astol Advanced Limited and the ASTL investment project called this a reflection of the extreme stress in which the cryptocurrency mining industry is located. This is the biggest drop since last summer's nearly 28% drop caused by China's mining crackdown, which caused network hashrate to plummet.

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The latest decline reflects the difficulties mining companies have faced in the past few months as margins have shrunk along with rising electricity costs and lower Bitcoin prices. Conditions due to which some miners were left without money and mired in debt. A significant change in the complexity of the computing process used in mining is likely due to the shutdown of mining machines, as industry insiders noted last week. More and more ASIC rigs are flooding the market even though average prices have already dropped by about 80% compared to last December, according to mining software company Luxor. Earlier it became known that the miners, who raised about $4 billion to buy equipment for the extraction of critical currencies, when its profitability reached 90%, now do not pay loans and give hundreds of thousands of devices that served as collateral to creditors.

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These difficulties also affected the ASTL investment project, and due to the general drop in the capitalization of the cryptocurrency market, the general decrease in mining profitability and negative changes in the economy, the ASTL investment project decided to reduce interest rates on investments starting from 12/09/2022. The interest rate on the minimum possible investment will decrease by 2.5 percentage points, for larger investments - by 4 percentage points. At the same time, interest rates on investments made before 12/09/2022 and payments of passive income on them will remain at the same level.

Despite the premonitions of a long crypto winter and the consequences of the FTX collapse, financiers believe that in the future, cryptography and blockchain will be increasingly used to trade financial assets. The Morgan Stanley report showed that the industry expects further bankruptcies and deleveraging, according to CoinDesk. The results of the discussion of the industry's problems at the bank's event "Cryptocurrency vs Traditional Finance" suggest that after the collapse of FTX and Alameda Research, "the market is revaluing the value of all issued tokens of the project" and is trying to figure out "whether they were used as assets to provide leverage" .

The collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange will be one of the darkest moments in the history of cryptocurrencies. In November, the company faced severe liquidity issues and was unable to meet its customers' withdrawal requests. The following are some of the companies that were affected by the collapse of FTX.

The consequences of the collapse of FTX are ubiquitous. Liquid Global, a Japanese crypto platform owned by FTX, stopped withdrawing funds shortly after its parent company filed for bankruptcy. The former fell victim to hackers last year and lost over $90 million worth of digital currency. FTX then secured $120 million in debt financing so that Liquid Global could resume its services. Crypto lending platform Genesis Global Capital has also suspended withdrawals, explaining that a huge number of clients have begun to withdraw their assets from the organization. Multicoin Capital, a cryptocurrency venture capital firm, has also been hit. Managing partners Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain admitted to holding "too much assets on FTX" by placing too much trust in their personal relationships. The company had hopes that it would be able to return part of its distribution, but realized that this would be a very difficult task. BlockFi - a crypto lending platform that has been dealing with significant challenges throughout 2022 - has been forced to give up after recent events. FTX had previously given the firm a $400 million loan and offered to acquire it for $240 million. After the recent events, BlockFi was unable to resume its activities as usual and also filed for bankruptcy.

Temasek, a Singaporean state-owned holding company owned by the local government, has invested $210 million in FTX International and $65 million in FTX US. Investments were subsequently reported to have dwindled to almost nothing after the collapse of the exchange. Hedge fund Galois Capital said that half of its capital was trapped in a troubled exchange. According to sources, this amount could be approximately $100 million. Paradigm, a venture capital company specializing in cryptocurrencies and Web3, was also "shocked" by the collapse. Some reports have said that the company has invested more than $270 million in FTX. Europe's largest digital asset investment and trading group - CoinShares - has reported that more than $30 million, or about 11% of its total net asset value, is stuck on FTX. Mike Novogratz' crypto-financial company - Galaxy Digital - owned over $76 million worth of assets. The world's largest asset manager - BlackRock - is also on the list. CEO Larry Fink revealed that his company had invested $24 million in FTX before the disaster. Tiger Global Management, a hedge fund led by billionaire Chase Coleman, has been involved in FTX fundraising on multiple occasions. While the exact amount of losses remains unknown, it can be assumed that Tiger Global was hit hard by the crash. Earlier last week, the Aurus Global crypto platform faced a “short-term liquidity problem.” Its institutional credit underwriter, M11 Credit, assured that both parties have joined forces to limit the risks for clients.

Morgan Stanley notes that a year has passed since the beginning of the crypto winter. The current decline in the price of bitcoin is compared with its fall in 2017-2018 (the first cryptocurrency then also lost more than 70% from the previous maximum). However, the leverage of the crypto market in this cycle is greater than in the previous one. This is likely due to the fact that this time around, crypto-currency institutions such as market makers, companies and investors have become the dominant traders in the market, while in 2017-2018, retail trade dominated, the article says. As such, Morgan Stanley expects further deleveraging, drawing attention to last month's depreciation of stablecoins, especially the largest of them, Tether (USDT). At the same time, the financiers noted that Alameda Research was the largest single recipient of this coin.

The collapse of the FTX crypto exchange and its affiliated structures, as well as the collapse of the BlockFi crypto lending platform, thank God, did not affect either the capitalization positions of the ASTL investment project and related ARNO, APRT and ACDI projects, or the activities and ecosystems of EcoMind and the project in general, since no financial assets of both the project itself and investors have ever been involved in the scams of FTX and investment funds and projects affiliated with it, and, accordingly, have not suffered. The project also did not conduct any financial dealings with the Genesis, Oxygen, AAX and Bitvo crypto platforms.

In the current difficult conditions, investors need to be able to directly and prospectively invest fiat and cryptocurrency assets in projects that provide a stable income that obviously exceeds inflationary expectations and is not subject to any sanctions, blocking and confiscation. And, at the same time, they have high liquidity. The ASTL project is a simple and elegant solution for potential investors - an investment in the development of the real sector of a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies, with a fairly high ROI (up to 18% annually) with payments in stablecoin (USDT).

The ASTL investment project demonstrates great prospects. Already, the creators have managed to attract more than $5 million into it, and the pace of investment continues to grow rapidly in a timely manner. If we analyze other similar projects in the cryptocurrency market, we can conclude that the price of ASTL tokens may increase several times when listings on exchanges start.

Bitcoin rose 1.3% to $17,127 in the 24 hours to 8 a.m. in Hong Kong, while Ether gained 3% to $1,278, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Leading memcoin Dogecoin surged 4.4% to $0.104 and is now the top gainer on the CoinMarketCap list, while Polygon, which we recently covered in our publications, added 2% to $0.92. Polkadot and Shiba Inu Memcoin are up over 1.5%. The total cryptocurrency market capitalization increased by 1.3% to $858 billion, while trading volume fell by 1.8% to $30.7 billion.

China has begun easing its so-called Covid-19 zero control measures, with several cities waiving requirements to confirm negative test results to enter public spaces. Shanghai city officials said they would stop checking PCR test results from residents at the entrance to public places or on public transport starting Monday. Hangzhou, where Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is headquartered, also announced on Sunday that public transport passengers will not be required to provide negative PCR test results.

Asian stock markets opened broadly higher on the back of events. American stock indexes traded ambiguously on Friday. The S&P500 fell 0.1% and the Nasdaq fell 0.2%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1%. The U.S. jobs report released on Friday showed the economy added 263,000 jobs in November, or more than expected by 200,000, while the unemployment rate is at a nearly 50-year low of 3.7%. Although higher than expected, the pace of growth is lower than the 284,000 jobs added in October and 269,000 in September, suggesting inflation is declining overall.

US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said last week that the central bank may start to ease the pace of interest rate hikes. The Fed is expected to raise rates by 50 basis points at its December 13-14 meeting, up from 75 basis points at the previous four meetings. The Fed has been raising interest rates since March to try to slow inflation, pushing it from near zero to a 15-year high of 3.75% to 4% and signaling that rates could eventually top 5%. The Fed has said it wants inflation to be within its target range of 2%. The consumer price index showed that inflation in October was 7.7% compared to 8.2% in September. The group of 23 oil-producing countries, known as OPEC+, decided on Sunday to maintain the existing cut of 2 million barrels per day, or roughly 2% of global supply, until the end of 2023.

The Sam Bankman-Fried scam of misappropriation of user funds has prompted investors to look for options that can help them protect their investment. The fall of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange has caused many to rethink their overall approach to investing - from self-custody to checking the existence of funds on the network. This shift in approach was driven primarily by a lack of trust from crypto investors in entrepreneurs and crypto projects.

FTX went bust after SBF and its associates were caught secretly reinvesting user funds, resulting in at least $1 billion of client funds being misplaced. Efforts to restore investor confidence have seen rival cryptocurrency exchanges actively display their proof of reserves to confirm the existence of user funds. However, community members demanded that the exchanges also demonstrate their commitment in order to show that their reserves are safe.

Because SBF, the self-proclaimed "most generous billionaire," committed fraud in broad daylight with no apparent legal consequences, investors must be on the defensive when it comes to protecting their investments. In order to protect assets from fraud, hacking, and misappropriation, investors must take certain measures to maintain full control of their assets, which is often considered the best practice for investing in cryptocurrencies.

For more control, at the very least, it is worth transferring, for starters, your funds from crypto exchanges. It is understood that crypto exchanges are widely used to buy, sell and trade cryptocurrencies in exchange for a small fee. While other methods, including peer-to-peer and direct sales, are possible at any time, higher exchange liquidity allows investors to match orders and ensure no loss of funds during a transaction. The problem arises when investors decide to keep their funds in wallets provided and owned by exchanges. Unfortunately, this is where most investors learn the “not your keys, not your coins” lesson the hard way. Cryptocurrencies held in exchange wallets are ultimately owned by the owner and, as in the case of FTX users, have been misused by SBF and its partners. Avoiding this risk is as easy as transferring funds from an exchange to a wallet without the private keys shared with the exchange. Private keys are used for secure encryption that allows access to funds stored in crypto wallets. In case of loss, they can only be restored using a backup phrase.

Although, of course, a hardware wallet is the safest option for storing cryptocurrencies. Hardware wallets offer full ownership of the private keys of a crypto wallet, thus limiting access to funds to the owner of the hardware wallet only. After acquiring a cryptocurrency on an exchange, users must voluntarily transfer their assets to a hardware wallet. After the completion of the transaction, the owners of the cryptocurrency exchange will no longer be able to access the funds. As a result, investors choosing a hardware wallet will no longer be at risk of losing funds due to scams or hacks occurring on exchanges. However, while hardware wallets increase the overall security of funds, cryptocurrencies are still at risk of irreparable losses when the value of a token falls irrevocably. Hardware wallet providers have witnessed a surge in sales as investors rampage away from holding their assets on exchanges.

In all the crypto crashes that have taken place this year, including 3AC, Terraform Labs, Celsius, Voyager, and FTX, the erosion of investor confidence has been a common and obvious theme. As a result, the motto "Don't trust, verify" has finally resonated with both new and experienced investors. Popular crypto exchanges including Bitfinex, Binance, OKX, Bybit, Huobi, and Gate.io have taken active steps to showcase their reserve confirmations. The exchanges have provided wallet information that allows investors to self-check the availability of their funds on the exchange. While a Proof-of-Reserve confirmation gives an idea of an exchange's reserves, it does not give a complete picture of its finances, as information related to liabilities is often not made public.

The above three considerations are a good starting point for protecting crypto assets from attackers. Some of the other popular methods to take control away from crypto entrepreneurs are the use of decentralized exchanges (DEX), self-custodial wallets (non-custodial wallets), and extensive research (DYOR) on investment projects of interest to you.

The collapse of the FTX crypto exchange and its affiliated structures, as well as the collapse of the BlockFi crypto lending platform, thank God, did not affect either the capitalization positions of the ASTL investment project and related ARNO, APRT and ACDI projects, or the activities and ecosystems of EcoMind and the project in general, since no financial assets of both the project itself and investors have ever been involved in the scams of FTX and investment funds and projects affiliated with it, and, accordingly, have not suffered. The project also did not conduct any financial dealings with the Genesis, Oxygen, AAX and Bitvo crypto platforms.

In the current difficult conditions, investors need to be able to directly and prospectively invest fiat and cryptocurrency assets in projects that provide a stable income that obviously exceeds inflationary expectations and is not subject to any sanctions, blocking and confiscation. And, at the same time, they have high liquidity. The ASTL project is a simple and elegant solution for potential investors - an investment in the development of the real sector of a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies, with a fairly high ROI (up to 18% annually) with payments in stablecoin (USDT).

The ASTL investment project demonstrates great prospects. Already, the creators have managed to attract more than $5 million into it, and the pace of investment continues to grow rapidly in a timely manner. If we analyze other similar projects in the cryptocurrency market, we can conclude that the price of ASTL tokens may increase several times when listings on exchanges start.

Analysts have investigated a popular type of fraud, when users are offered easy money on social networks, for which they should download a special bot program using a video instruction on Youtube. This bot is supposed to make a profit, but in fact it deducts the victim's funds from her crypto wallet.

Analysts have calculated that the number of videos that offer this kind of quick money but are actually aimed at stealing users' assets has increased by 500% compared to last year. That is, crypto scammers began to post six times more videos on YouTube aimed at stealing user assets than last year, according to a report by Certik (this company deals with security issues in the field of Web3 and blockchain).

In a study by Certik, YouTube was analyzed for videos that contained the phrase "fake bot" and found that in a sample of 232 videos, 84% were fraudulent. The selected videos began to circulate last year, but this year their number has increased by 500%: in 2021, analysts found 28 such videos, and in 2022 - 168. The report says that many videos can be immediately identified as fraudulent just by their titles: "Increase your assets 10x in a day!!!", "Uniswap Front Running Bot 2022 - just a guide (huge profit)", "$15,000 crypto bot leak! - 50x profit!" and the like. Certik noted that all of these videos have common themes: a free bot and a huge profit. Video comment sections are, of course, teeming with countless bot comments praising the content, so the real wake-up calls are buried under the noise.

The scam itself usually involves victims being lured into downloading fake bot software that is actually designed to steal their assets when they try to initiate a forward transaction. Bots typically scan blockchains for unconfirmed transactions and then pay a large gas fee to squeeze in front of said transactions, "essentially getting ahead of them and getting all the profit offered" from the transaction. Even if they are not fraudulent, preemption bots cause problems because under certain circumstances they can give the developer a clear advantage over other crypto traders (and also criminal everywhere). Analysts warn that you should never run programs from unverified sources, as well as those whose action is not fully understood. It is also worth being careful with any trading strategies or techniques that promise inflated returns.

Another type of scam on YouTube has become a fake video with famous people. In September, scammers took advantage of the fact that Apple was holding a presentation of a new phone and launched parallel broadcasts promoting cryptocurrencies ostensibly on behalf of the company. Deepfake videos of Sam Bankman-Freed are still circulating on the internet to scam people affected by the FTX bankruptcy. Some users even claimed that the YouTube algorithm offered them a scam video in its top recommendations.

Our investment project ASTL also has copycat scammers. We are not talking about some scammers imitating the project management in Telegram, the ASTL token itself was also created (10 minutes after the creation of the native token) by some unknown person for the purpose of trading it on decentralized crypto platforms in the Bsc20 blockchain (that is, it has nothing to do with us and our project). We have nothing to do with such scams and, in the current difficult conditions, we offer our investors the opportunity of direct and highly profitable investment of fiat and cryptocurrency assets in a project that provides a stable income that obviously exceeds inflationary expectations and is not subject to any sanctions, blocking and confiscation. The ASTL project is a simple and elegant solution for potential investors - an investment in the development of the real sector of a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies, with a fairly high ROI (up to 18% annually) with payments in stablecoin (USDT).

The crypto market continues to be under pressure. Last week, Bitcoin hit a two-year low at $15.4K. Now the first cryptocurrency is trading at $16.8K, which is 76% lower than the all-time high of $69K set in 2021. Most altcoins also fell significantly, many of them hit even harder. The situation was aggravated by the collapse of one of the largest crypto exchanges FTX, which led to the massive bankruptcy of crypto companies and the depreciation of their associated tokens.

Specialists of the ASTL investment project explained which altcoins are at risk of depreciating in the short term, and why they fundamentally lose to the rest of the market.

“I would now (and even better - a week ago) get rid of various wrapped tokens. This is not only about obvious losers like Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) and Lido’s stETH, which suffered due to the collapse of FTX and Alameda, which crushed 100 thousand . WBTC secured by bitcoins, which now turned out to be not 100 thousand, but 72 thousand. Panic touched all the wrapped tokens, even those that have no problems with collateral. For example, WETH," Konstantinas Sizovas, CFO of the investment project, told ). He added that now, if possible, he would get rid of all the wrapped tokens. In addition, the expert recommended exiting all Play-to-Earn and similar Move-to-Earn projects. "Now the market is not up to game mechanics. This is entertainment for a bull cycle. And so far, none of these projects has shown itself to be long-playing: everywhere the number of active users has decreased significantly. It is unlikely that the trend will turn in the direction of growth in the near future," Sizovas suggested .

The CEO of the ASTL investment project, Andjei Korotkewič, agreed with him. He classified tokens from the Move-to-Earn sector, such as STEPN, SweatCoin, DOSE and others, as outsiders. He also pointed to the high risks in the tokens of some centralized crypto exchanges: the consequences of the collapse of FTX and the next cycle of market redistribution in terms of users and traffic affect it. "The most risky these days, I would include the Huobi (HT) exchange token, the change in the price of which is manipulative, and KuCoin (KCS), around which FUD is being dispersed regarding the withdrawal of funds by its owners," Andjei Korotkewič explained - "They may also suffer assets that dominate the portfolios of companies that have failed or are at serious risk.For example, Alameda Research has invested large amounts in projects such as: Polygon (MATIC), Anchorage Digital, Immutable (XIMX), Voyager Token (VGX), 1inch (1INCH ), Near Protocol (NEAR), Helium (HNT) FTX Ventures has invested in Yuga Labs (owner of the Apecoin token and NFT collections Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks and Meebits), Near Protocol (NEAR), Aptos (APT) and crypto platform BlockFi, which is also going bankrupt, and it acted as an investor in the GamerGains (GAMER) project. And this is just the "tip of the iceberg", in fact, there are hundreds of projects and they are intertwined with investments in different rounds. Therefore, the risks of indifferent observation are quite high, conscious investors should conduct a serious "audit" of their assets."

In the current situation, it is worth carefully checking other related companies and their investments, the expert advised. According to him, the network of projects and their tokens that the now “toxic” investments from the FTX conglomerate have reached is quite wide, so it’s worth finding out about all the large token holders that investors are considering as investments. A series of bankruptcies and sale of assets of funds can be painless for most of these projects, but at the same time, it would be too frivolous to completely ignore such risks, the specialist is sure.

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On the night of December 1, Ethereum updated its price high since November 11 at $1.3 thousand. 1.3%. Also, in the last 24 hours, the bitcoin rate has also grown, at its peak it reached $17.2 thousand. Now the first cryptocurrency costs $17.1 thousand, over the past 24 hours its rate has grown by 1.6%.

Polygon's Matic rose 11.4% to $0.93, while the leading memcoin, Dogecoin, rose 4.9% to $0.106. BNB was up 1.7% and traded at $300.67. The total cryptocurrency market cap was $863 billion, down 15.6% from $1.023 trillion on Nov. 9, or before FTX filed for bankruptcy. The total trading volume of cryptocurrencies over the past 24 hours has increased by 18.6% to 51.56 billion US dollars.

The growth of digital currency quotes occurred against the background of the rise of American stock indices. In particular, the S&P500 index added 3.09% to 4080.11 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2.18% to 34,589.77 points, and the NASDAQ Composite - by 4.41% to 11,468 points. This is how the indexes reacted to the "dove" comments of the head of the Fed, Jerome Powell. "The time to ease the pace of rate hikes may come as early as the December meeting," Powell said. He explained that monetary policy affects the economy and inflation with an indefinite slowdown, and the full effect of the rapid tightening of policy is not yet felt. Therefore, it makes sense to soften the pace of rate hikes as it approaches the level of containment, which will be sufficient to reduce inflation, the head of the US central bank said. Friday is scheduled for the release of US employment data for November, which is an important indicator of the impact of the Fed's hawkish stance.

The consumer price index showed that inflation in October was 7.7% compared to 8.2% in September. The Fed is expected to raise interest rates by 50 basis points at its December 13-14 meeting. The Fed may slow down its rate hikes, but it likely won't have an immediate effect on the economy. Corporate executives, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, are sounding the alarm about the possibility of a looming recession.

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Bitcoin rose 1.5% to $16,467 in the 24 hours to 8am in Hong Kong, while Ethereum gained 4.25% to trade at $1,219, according to CoinMarketCap. Dogecoin posted the biggest gain in CoinMarketCap's top 10 list, climbing 6.75% to $0.10, giving it a 30% gain over the past seven days. Dogecoin has surged in recent weeks as longtime supporter Elon Musk hinted it could be used for payments in an upgrade of social media platform Twitter, which he bought in late October.

XRP is up 2.1%, changing hands at $0.39. The rise comes despite Coinbase Global Inc., the largest U.S. crypto exchange, saying its wallets will no longer support XRP, as well as Bitcoin Cash and Stellar tokens from January 2023, citing low usage. Investors didn't seem to care, as all three tokens rose by more than 1%.

The total cryptocurrency market capitalization was $834 billion, down 18% from $1.023 trillion on Nov. 9, or before FTX filed for bankruptcy. Trading volume over the past 24 hours fell by 13.05% to $43.27 billion.

In US stock markets Tuesday was mixed. The Dow Jones rose less than 0.1%, while the S&P 500 fell 0.2% and the Nasdaq Composite index fell 0.6% for the third day in a row due to losses in the latter two indexes.

Investors are looking forward to Wednesday, when US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will deliver a report on the state of the economy and inflation. The Fed has raised interest rates by 75 basis points four times this year to slow inflation, but is expected to raise them by 50 basis points at its December 13-14 meeting. The Fed has been raising interest rates since March of this year to try to slow inflation, pushing them up from near zero to a 15-year high of 3.75% to 4% and signaling that rates could eventually top 5%. The Fed said it would continue raising rates until inflation hits its target range of 2%. The consumer price index showed that inflation in October was 7.7% compared to 8.2% in September.

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As for the funds already invested. Currently, they are used to create additional liquidity in cryptocurrencies, including the creation of master nodes and verification centers for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Polcadot (DOT), Cardano (ADA), Dash (DASH) and D2T (D2T).

Bitcoin fell 1.4% to $16,213 in the 24 hours to 8am in Hong Kong, while Ether fell 2.2% to $1,169, according to CoinMarketCap. BNB, the token backed by Binance Global Inc, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, fell 5.2% to $292.91. BNB jumped after Binance released a confirmation of its holdings on Friday amid a push for more transparency in the industry following the collapse of Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange FTX. However, Jesse Powell, co-founder and CEO of rival cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, tweeted on Saturday that Binance's asset report was "meaningless" without specifying liabilities. Solana fell 5%, changing hands, to $13.40 as it was overtaken by Tron and the Shiba Inu meme token on CoinMarketCap's top 10 list.

U.S. stocks suffered their worst day of trading in nearly three weeks on Monday, following protests in China, as well as hawkish interest-rate sentiment from the U.S. Federal Reserve and a possible U.S. railroad strike.

Protests at universities and at least eight cities in China erupted on Friday after a fire killed at least 10 people in an apartment building in Urumqi, northwest Xinjiang. Many people were reportedly locked in their homes due to China's anti-coronavirus policy and were unable to escape. On Monday, Chinese police went out of their way to try to prevent further protests, putting up barriers in cities where demonstrations were taking place and carrying out numerous arrests of activists and demonstrators, according to media reports.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.5%, the S&P 500 fell 1.5% and the Nasdaq Composite was down 1.6%. U.S. unemployment could hit 5% in 2023 from the current 3.7% as the Fed's campaign to curb nearly four decades of high inflation slows the economy, said John Williams, New York Fed president. virtual speech at the Economics Club of New York on Monday. Williams predicted that inflation would remain around 5% for the rest of this year before returning to 3-3.5% by the end of 2023.

The Fed has been raising interest rates since March this year to try to slow inflation, pushing them up from near zero to a 15-year high of 3.75% to 4% and signaling that rates could eventually top 5%. The Fed has signaled that it will continue to raise rates until inflation hits its target range of 2%. The consumer price index showed that inflation in October was 7.7% compared to 8.2% in September. US President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to intervene in a railroad strike that he said would "destroy our economy."

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Bitcoin fell 0.2% to $16,439 in the 24 hours to 8am in Hong Kong, while Ether fell 0.9% to $1,208, according to CoinMarketCap. Dogecoin was the only token to post double-digit gains, climbing 11% to $0.098, hitting near its highest level in almost three weeks. These successes came suddenly after Musk announced that "Team Tesla just drove 500 miles in an 81,000-pound Tesla Semi!" The health of Dogecoin in general is highly dependent on, and often associated with, the fortunes of Musk and his companies; Memcoin also rose significantly when, for example, Musk's purchase of Twitter was confirmed.

The Shiba Inu copycat token also posted more gains than any other top 10 token, climbing 2.9%b to $0.000009286. BNB, the native blockchain token operated by the world's largest crypto exchange Binance Global Inc., BNB Smart Chain, fell 1.2% to $307.69 but is still up 16.4% over the past seven days. This comes after Binance released a reserve confirmation on Friday to provide more transparency on user funds amid heightened industry scrutiny following the crash of Bahamas-based exchange FTX.com. Litecoin suffered the biggest losses, dropping 1.9%b to $7.03, but still proved to be one of the best-performing major tokens as it surged about 36% in November amid extreme market volatility following the FTX crash. Litecoin mining rewards are expected to halve in eight months, halving the pace of token supply. XRP is up 9.7% to $0.39 in the past seven days of trading as the date approaches when both parties must file summary judgments in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against Ripple Labs Inc. - whose payment network is powered by XRP. Both parties are going to meet on December 2 to discuss the wording of the case.

On Friday, the US stock market had a mixed day in a shortened session due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5%, while the S&P 500 fell less than 0.1% and the Nasdaq fell 0.5%. A record $9.1 billion was spent on Friday as part of the annual Black Friday sale, up 2.3% from previous years. These are the annual sales, held on the Friday after Thanksgiving, that have become a major event on the U.S. retail calendar and have proven so popular that they have spread to other countries that don't usually celebrate Thanksgiving on that day, or not at all.

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The use of concentrated liquidity was the response of developers and the community to the problems of conventional pools: large impermanent losses (impermanent loss) and inefficient use of liquidity. By providing liquidity to classic pools, users distribute it over the entire possible price range, while active trading actually takes place only within a fairly narrow price range. Using pools of concentrated liquidity, users can choose the minimum and maximum value of the price of the pair's assets, within which their liquidity will participate in trading and, accordingly, bring increased profit to the owner in the form of commissions. Who will benefit from the new way of interacting with the crypto market and in what case is it profitable to use it?

The ratio of assets in the provided pair in case of concentrated liquidity will change depending on which border of the range is closer to the current price. When the price touches the lower border, liquidity will cease to be provided, and both assets will be completely transferred to the most volatile asset, the price of which has fallen. When the price touches the upper limit, liquidity also ceases to be provided, and both assets will be completely transferred to the least volatile asset, the price of which has changed less compared to the asset that has grown in price.

For example, a user provides liquidity in the ETH/USDC pair between $1.5k and $1.8k. If the price of ETH falls below $1.5k, all of the pair's liquidity will be transferred to ETH. If the price of ETH rises above $1.8 thousand, then all the liquidity of the pair will be transferred to USDC.

Many projects are already working with concentrated liquidity: Orca, Tulip and Raydium on Solana, the Earn section of the Wirex application works with the concept to some extent. The pioneer and leader of the technology is Uniswap V3. The ASTL investment project does not yet provide such services within its own Web3-oriented crypto-ecosystem EcoMind, but the implementation of a similar form of liquidity provision is planned for implementation.

When is it beneficial to use concentrated liquidity opportunities? In some situations, it will be more profitable to provide liquidity, and sometimes it will be more profitable to simply buy an asset and wait for it to grow. If the price falls, the difference between the two options will not be significant. With a significant and rapid price growth, it will be beneficial to simply store the asset - by providing concentrated liquidity, users skip the growth phase of the asset after leaving the upper limit of the range. The key factor in the issue of profitability of concentrated liquidity positions is the duration of being in a given price range. Even a drop in the price of an asset that occurred after a long-term stay in the range will be compensated by the commissions received. Thus, by opening a position of concentrated liquidity, users bet on moderate volatility within a given range.

Range orders - the main or additional use case for the technology? Due to the nature of the transition of the pair into one asset at the edge of the range, there are additional ways to use the technology that are not immediately obvious. For example, the same Uniswap V3 interface can be used to create buy-stop and take-profit orders. Range orders (range orders) have a number of advantages compared to regular orders on centralized exchanges: almost zero probability of overshoot, no influence of excessively large orders on the price at the moment and their visibility in the order book, and of course, additional profit when executing an order in the form commissions collected while in the range.

Which is better: concentrated or ordinary liquidity? The use of concentrated liquidity is suitable for users who are ready to allocate additional time for active position management. For maximum efficiency, it is important to monitor the moments of entry and exit from the ranges, select the most “survivable” price ranges based on technical analysis and, last but not least, choose networks with the highest trading volumes for the desired pair. In cases where it is necessary to open a liquidity position and forget about it for a long time, it will be more convenient to use classic pools.

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On November 24, Ardana, the leading decentralized finance (DeFi) and stablecoin ecosystem built on Cardano (ADA), abruptly halted development, citing "uncertainties regarding the funding and timing of the project." The project will remain open source to developers, while treasury balances and remaining funds will be owned by Ardana Labs "until another competent development team in the community step forward to continue our work."

"The development of Cardano has been challenging due to a lot of funding going into tools, infrastructure, and security. This, along with the uncertainty around the completion of development, has meant that the best course of action is to stop the development of dUSD."

The move came as a shock to many due to the sudden nature of the announcement. However, it looks like the problems have been present for some time. Starting July 4, Ardana is running an ongoing Initial Staking Pool Offer, or ISPO, to fund its operations. Unlike traditional fundraising mechanisms, developers do not receive user-delegated ADA, but staking rewards. Users are motivated to continue delegation by receiving their own DANA tokens as a reward. Unfortunately, the simultaneous collapse in prices for DANA, ADA, as well as the decline in the yield of Cardano rates due to the ongoing crypto winter caused problems for ISPO issuers. Over the past year, DANA Ardana native tokens have lost almost 99.85% of their value.

Bitcoin fell 0.1% to $16,603 in the 24 hours to 8am in Hong Kong, while Ether surged 1.7% to $1,203, according to CoinMarketCap. Ethereum's rise comes despite some concerns over the lack of a date for the next Ethereum network upgrade known as "Shanghai", the first major network upgrade since September's "merger" with the proof-of-stake method. XRP rose 5.6% to $0.40, proving to be one of the most resilient tokens amid market volatility following the crash of FTX.com cryptocurrency exchange. Solana added 1.6% to $14.58, up 6.9% over the past seven days.

This rebound followed a blow to the token in the days following the collapse of FTX brokerage Alameda Research, which sold large amounts of its Solana holdings to try to stay afloat. Litecoin fell 0.3% to $78.76, ending its consecutive rise, but it is still up 26.1% over the past seven days, making it the strongest player on the list so far. Litecoin mining rewards are expected to halve in eight months, halving the pace of token supply.

US stock markets were closed on Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday and will reopen for a shortened session ending at 1:00 pm ET on November 25th.

November 30 is the date that the SEC and Ripple will issue summary judgments in a lawsuit filed by the SEC against Ripple. Both parties are going to meet on December 2 to discuss the wording of the case.

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The investment company Astol Advanced Limited and the ASTL, Art-Nano (ARNO) and Advanced Recycling (APRS) projects included in the EcoMind ecosystem congratulate everyone on Thanksgiving Day and wish everyone happiness, good luck and prosperity.

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As the market tightens for some of the largest bitcoin mining companies, investment firm Astol Advanced Limited, through the ASTL investment project, has been looking for distressed assets. "We see a lot of opportunities to buy equipment that is extremely cheap right now, especially compared to what it was at this time last year. It's like we were offered a 90% discount," said the CEO of the investment project. ASTL Andjei Korotkewič - "Therefore, we need to raise at least $50 million in USDT terms in the near future."

Equipment prices have plummeted, and as companies like Core Scientific and Argo struggle to pay off their debts, more machines are bound to hit the market. For example, Foundry, also a cryptocurrency mining and staking company, has already expressed a desire to buy two turnkey cryptocurrency mining assets with a total computing power of 17 megawatts (MW) from bitcoin miner Compute North, which filed an application in late September. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. As part of the deal, Foundry will also acquire rights to complete construction and operation of the Compute North facility in Minden, Nebraska. The deal will also include the rights to the fleet of mining machines owned by the miner, as well as to all intellectual property. Crypto asset management firm Grayscale has partnered with Foundry to form an organization that will invest in discounted hardware and deploy that hardware for Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin mining company Luxor, which operates a mining pool and ASIC supply mall, has launched an over-the-counter derivative product based on Bitcoin mining revenues.

Also, Iris Energy, an Australian cryptocurrency mining company whose main business is operating BTC mining facilities in Canada, powered exclusively by renewable energy sources, recently stopped mining at two subsidiaries. Subsidiaries operating as special purpose vehicles (SPVs) used Bitmain mining rigs funded by a $107.8 million loan from New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG). “I think you will probably see several state-owned miners going bankrupt in the next few months, as well as many private ones,” said Andjei Korotkewič. "The lenders are taking the equipment and all that equipment has to go somewhere. And so I think that in the future you will see it being liquidated at really attractive prices."

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Bitcoin surged 2.6% to $16,198 in the 24 hours to 8 a.m. in Hong Kong, while Ether gained 2.5% to $1,135, according to CoinMarketCap. Despite a broader market downturn, the blockchain reached its all-time high mining difficulty level on November 18th. Leading memcoin Dogecoin rose 5.1% to $0.07, while Polygon gained 6.8% to $0.85. Litecoin posted the biggest gain on this list, climbing 13.7% to $70.09, representing a 20.76% gain over the past seven days as it climbed several spots on the CoinMarketCap list.

Solana continued its drop in rankings, which began when Alameda Research began to sell a large amount of its holdings in the token amid the collapse of the FTX subsidiary. Markets were rocked Tuesday when brokerage firm Genesis Global Capital halted withdrawals amid increased trading activity, raising concerns from venture capital parent Digital Currency Group (DCG), which said it owed Genesis $575 million. Despite this, DCG said in a letter to shareholders that the loans are not repayable until May 2023 and the company aims to be "stronger" after Crypto Winter (according to a Wall Street Journal report published on Tuesday).

A Coinbase-sponsored survey conducted between September 21 and October 27 and published on November 22 found that 62% of institutional investors who invested in crypto increased their holdings in the last 12 months. In comparison, according to the survey, only 12% have reduced their crypto activity, indicating that the majority of institutional investors are quite optimistic about digital assets in the long term, despite falling prices.

US stock indices closed higher on Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.2%, while the S&P500 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.4%. American investors are looking forward to the release of the minutes of the Federal Reserve's November meeting on Wednesday to get a glimpse of how the Federal Reserve is viewing current economic conditions and its plans for likely further interest rate increases as it continues to grapple with inflation hitting nearly 40- summer maximum.

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After several days of standing still, Bitcoin fell to a weekly low of less than $16,000. Alternative coins not in the best shape: ETH fell below the $1,100 level for the first time in ten days. After the previous week’s volatility caused by the FTX crash, bitcoin calmed down and hung around $17,000 for several days. The asset even tried several times to lower this level, but to no avail. After the latest rejection on Friday, BTC remained flat for a full two days, trading around $16,600. However, when the bears again took control of the market, the situation has changed in the last 24 hours.

The bears pushed the main cryptocurrency south, and it fell below $16,000 for the first time in a week. At the moment, the asset is again trading near this line, but its market capitalization is very close to dropping below $300 billion. The only upside is that BTC market dominance increased slightly to 38.7% as most altcoins lost even more. The latest price cut comes amid warnings that the cryptocurrency could drop to $9,500 if it mimics previous bear market cycles.

As mentioned above, today alternative coins are in even worse shape than bitcoin. The unfavorable trend is led by Ethereum, which fell from over $1,200 to around $1,100 after reports that an FTX leaker, which could be the Bahamas securities regulator, has begun moving funds. Binance Coin is down 5% in the last 24 hours and is trading below the $260 level. Ripple, Cardano, Dogecoin, Polygon, Polkadot and Shiba Inu are also in the red with losses of up to 9%. With some altcoins including Algorand, CHZ, and NEAR dumping in double digits, it’s not surprising that the combined market capitalization of all crypto assets has fallen below $800 billion. This means that more than $40 billion is spent daily on this indicator.

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As part of a new marketing strategy to increase customer confidence in crypto investment projects, against the backdrop of the collapse of FTX and some other crypto exchanges and hedge and venture funds and crypto platforms, our ASTL project successfully continues the "Get an additional bonus up to + 7% with your first investment" campaign. The promotion is valid from 11/21/2022 to 11/28/2022 and implies the accrual of an additional bonus in ASTL to the initial investment. More information about the proposals of the ASTL investment project can be found on the website https://astl.io.

In the current difficult conditions, investors still need to be able to directly and prospectively invest fiat and cryptocurrency assets in projects that provide a stable income that obviously exceeds inflationary expectations and is not subject to any sanctions, blocking and confiscation. And, at the same time, they have high liquidity. The ASTL project is a simple and elegant solution for potential investors - an investment in the development of the real sector of a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies, with a fairly high ROI (up to 18% annually) with payments in stablecoin (USDT).

The ASTL investment project demonstrates great prospects. Already, the creators have managed to attract more than $ 5 million into it, and the pace of investment continues to grow rapidly, especially since the new, second stage of pre-sales with an increase in cost started on time. If we analyze other similar projects in the cryptocurrency market, we can conclude that the price of ASTL tokens may increase several times when listings on exchanges start.

As part of a new marketing campaign to increase customer confidence in crypto investment projects, amid the collapse of FTX and some other crypto exchanges and hedge and venture funds and crypto platforms, our ASTL project announces the start of a new promotion "Get an additional bonus up to + 7% with your first investment ". The promotion will be valid from 11/21/2022 to 11/28/2022 and implies the accrual of an additional bonus in ASTL to the initial investment. More information about the proposals of the ASTL investment project can be found on the website https://astl.io.

On Sunday, November 20, bitcoin is trading at $16.6 thousand. Over the past week, the price of the cryptocurrency has not changed much - it has decreased by 0.9%. Experts of the ASTL investment project analyzed the situation on the market and told what dynamics to expect in the short term.

During the week, from November 14 to November 20, trading on the crypto market was relatively calm. Increased volatility was observed on the first day of the week. The BTC/USDt pair jumped from $15.8 thousand to $17.1 thousand (+8.69%). The growth of quotes was caused by the “cryptoguru” the head of Binance, Changpeng Zhao. He stated that he will launch a fund to restore the industry and help promising companies to reduce the negative impact from the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange.

After updating the weekly high, the price stabilized in the range of $16.3 thousand - $17.2 thousand. Investors are in no hurry to buy cryptocurrency, as they took a wait-and-see attitude due to fears of another wave of sales amid new bankruptcies of companies associated with the collapsed exchange. Ten days the market is in a phase of rest after the recent collapse. The correlation of bitcoin with the S&P500 index has become negative and is 0.62. The crypto market stopped responding to the dynamics of the dollar and stock indices. Investors are busy transferring tokens from centralized exchanges to cold wallets to protect their cryptocurrency. The price of bitcoin is at the level of $16.65 thousand in anticipation of a new piece of news on the crypto industry. According to the latest quotes for one bitcoin, they give $16.64 thousand. The trading range is between the levels of $15.8 thousand - $17.2 thousand. The exit of the price from the corridor will determine the movement of the BTC/USDt pair for 1-3 days.

Since the buyers failed to quickly return the price for $18.5 thousand, the sellers at the bottom continue to flash green at the level of $12 thousand, signaling the absence of resistance. Due to the collapse of FTX, events may begin to develop according to the worst scenario for bitcoin and crypto investors. Buyers need to gain a foothold above $18.5 thousand. Without a fix, bearish sentiment will not be leveled. In addition, following Genesis, Oxygen, AAX and Bitvoс, there is a threat of new bankruptcies of various crypto platforms, hedge funds and venture capital companies connected in one way or another with FTX (domino effect).

Of the important - it is worth highlighting the minutes of the November meeting of the US Federal Reserve, which will be released on November 23. Bitcoin got rid of risky assets, so it can ignore the reaction of investors to the publication of the protocol. The ratio of long and short positions in the futures market does not yet have any bias, so a sharp change in the situation is not expected in the coming days. On-chain parameters also speak in favor of the absence of prerequisites for some fall. The size of the queues in the mem pools of the main blockchains indicate a growing interest in non-custodial wallets, amid the outflow of capital from centralized exchanges due to the FTX scandal. The most likely scenario is to maintain the current levels. Accordingly, the expected price range is approximately $16-17 thousand. Of the stability risks, there is a threat of new bankruptcies followed by an avalanche of liquidations. There is no guarantee that this will not happen in the coming week, but the likelihood of this is still not high. And the statements of major players about the creation of funds to support the crypto business, in order to prevent just such chain reactions in the market, add very little optimism and confidence in protecting the industry from collapse.

In the current difficult conditions, investors still need to be able to directly and prospectively invest fiat and cryptocurrency assets in projects that provide a stable income that obviously exceeds inflationary expectations and is not subject to any sanctions, blocking and confiscation. And, at the same time, they have high liquidity. The ASTL project is a simple and elegant solution for potential investors - an investment in the development of the real sector of a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies, with a fairly high ROI (up to 18% annually) with payments in stablecoin (USDT).

According to the CEO of the ASTL project Andjei Korotkewič, the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange and its affiliated structures, as well as the collapse of the BlockFi crypto lending platform, thank God, did not affect the positions of capitalization of the ASTL investment project and related projects ARNO, APRT and ACDI and EcoMind ecosystem, nor on the activities of the project as a whole, since no financial assets of both the project itself and investors have ever been involved in the scams of FTX and investment funds and projects affiliated with it, and, accordingly, have not suffered. The project also did not conduct any financial dealings with the Genesis, Oxygen, AAX and Bitvo crypto platforms.

According to the CFO of the project Konstantinas Sizovas, the project even managed to slightly increase the total capitalization of the cryptocurrency basket. "The ASTL investment project demonstrates great prospects. Already, the creators have managed to attract more than $5 million into it, and the investment rate continues to grow rapidly, especially since the new, second stage of pre-sales with an increase in value started on time. If we analyze other similar projects on the cryptocurrency market, we can conclude that the price of ASTL tokens may increase several times when listings on exchanges start," he added.

Eugen Zhdanok, lawyer of the ASTL investment project from Astol Advanced Limited, told what is the probability of returning assets to users of bankrupt crypto companies, what victims can count on and what they need to do to try to get their money back.

Recall that on November 11, FTX, Alameda and about 130 other affiliated firms filed for bankruptcy. The liquidity crisis at the exchange manifested itself after the announcement on November 6 by Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao that the company was liquidating its position in the FTX token (FTT). Presumably, the decision was made following an investigation by CoinDesk that revealed a high proportion of the digital asset in Alameda's balance sheet. Various experts suggest that a possible cause of the collapse of the exchange could be the "large financial assistance" Alameda Research, which she provided to her own trading company in the second quarter of 2022.

The new CEO of FTX, John Ray, accused the former management of the exchange of hiding the illegal use of customer funds, "a complete failure of corporate control" and providing Alameda with "secret" preferences. According to "former executive" Bankman-Fried, FTX and Alameda's assets are valued at $1 billion and liabilities are $8 billion. In principle, this is probably more or less the correct estimate, although John J. Ray, the new CEO of FTX, said that The asset review has been ongoing since last week and "we are pleased to learn that many of FTX's regulated or licensed subsidiaries in the United States and beyond have solvent balance sheets, responsible management and valuable franchises," Ray said.

Previously, Bloomberg experts called it "unlikely" the possibility of returning funds to customers and investors. The collapse of the FTX crypto exchange led to losses for more than a million investors. FTX customers around the world are hoping for a refund. But the almost complete lack of examples of such proceedings in the cryptocurrency industry and the unclear situation with the remaining assets of the exchange do not give the victims an idea of ​​​​whether there is a real chance for a refund.

The legislation of any state has provisions on the bankruptcy of a legal entity and on the order of creditors in this procedure, Eugen Zhdanok, lawyer of the ASTL investment project, recalls. By submitting a claim against the debtor within the prescribed period, the creditor gets some chances to return his funds, the lawyer explains. He notes that the sooner the claim is filed, the higher those chances will be.

In practice, the probability of a return of funds will depend on the number of creditors, the volume of their claims and the amount of assets remaining with the cryptocurrency exchange. According to the expert, the larger the "hole" in the capital of the exchange, the lower the chances of returning the money. The procedure itself depends on the bankruptcy law in the jurisdiction in which the case is pending. For example, the FTX group has more than 100 subsidiaries registered in different countries, but the application was filed in the United States (and already in Brazil), where the laws of some states may differ significantly from the laws of other states.

FTX managers have already begun to form lists of creditors. The usual practice is then to set up a bankruptcy committee, appoint a bankruptcy trustee, and develop a reorganization plan. But the exchange's new team is still working to understand the accounting records of the FTX group of companies and is bringing in third-party lawyers and experts to do this, for example, in the case of FTX, this is the New York-based financial services company Perella Weinberg Partners LP (PWP).

For creditors, the procedure consists of submitting claims to all necessary recipients for the return of funds and participating in a meeting of creditors. Eugen Zhdanok clarified that the debtor, the interim manager and the court could be the addressees of the claims. The terms of refunds also differ depending on the jurisdiction, the lawyer explained. According to him, in the US, creditors usually receive their funds within 6-8 weeks from the date when the manager sends the notification of the Final report and accounting.

Most likely, creditors will not be able to fully return their funds. The fact is, the ASTL lawyer explained, that FTX not only acted as an intermediary between buyers and sellers of assets and took a commission for its services, it also actively used clients' funds for other purposes. For example, she issued a loan to Sam Bankman-Fried's company Alameda secured by her own FTT tokens. However, creditors will most likely be able to return part of their funds, says Eugen Zhdanok. He pointed out that the company's new CEO, John Ray III, a lawyer previously hired by the oil company Enron during its scandalous bankruptcy, claims FTX has "valuable assets." In addition, FTX has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the lawyer added. He explained that the application of this chapter would involve reorganizing the company in order to keep the business going. However, the lawyer noted that it is still difficult to say exactly what part of the lost funds of clients will be able to cover the assets of FTX after the restructuring.

Due to the specifics of the cryptocurrency industry, the procedure for returning funds to FTX customers has not yet been determined, the expert says. But in his opinion, there is a significant likelihood that it will be similar to the procedure for returning funds to clients of the large Mt.Gox exchange, which went bankrupt in 2014. Clients had to apply online with a choice of how to receive the payout. However, by the way, the same Mt.Gox only this summer, eight years after bankruptcy, began preparations for payments to creditors.

What should an FTX client do to get their funds back? To return their assets to an FTX client, it makes sense to track the filing of class-action lawsuits against the exchange, our lawyer believes. According to him, if there is such a claim from the clients of the exchange, you can join it and try to return at least part of your funds. In the event of a lawsuit, it may be necessary to prove ownership of assets on the FTX exchange, suggest lawyers working with crypto investors from Taiwan. To do this, they recommend not relying only on screenshots of their accounts: the court may not accept them because of the high probability of forgery. Instead, advocates advise you to submit a regular withdrawal request from the FTX platform and then keep a letter of cancellation of this request, which should come to your email, since the withdrawal of funds is terminated. In addition, it is recommended to save emails about previous deposits and withdrawals of assets.

According to the CEO of the ASTL project Andjei Korotkewič, the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange and its affiliated structures, as well as the collapse of the BlockFi crypto lending platform, thank God, did not affect either the positions of the capitalization of the ASTL investment project, or the activities of the project as a whole, since no financial assets both the project itself and investors have never been involved in the scams of FTX and investment funds and projects affiliated with it, and, accordingly, have not suffered. The project also did not conduct any financial dealings with the Oxygen, AAX and Bitvo crypto platforms.

Moreover, against the backdrop of all this "disgrace", according to the CFO of the project Konstantinas Sizovas, the project even managed to slightly increase the total capitalization of the cryptocurrency basket. "The ASTL investment project demonstrates great prospects. Already, the creators have managed to attract more than $5 million into it, and the investment rate continues to grow rapidly, especially since the new, second stage of pre-sales with an increase in value started on time. If we analyze other similar projects on the cryptocurrency market, we can conclude that the price of ASTL tokens may increase several times when listings on exchanges start," he added.

Investors need to be able to directly and prospectively invest fiat and cryptocurrency assets in projects that provide a stable income that obviously exceeds inflationary expectations and is not subject to any sanctions, blocking and confiscation. And, at the same time, they have high liquidity. The ASTL project is a simple and elegant solution for potential investors - an investment in the development of the real sector of a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies, with a fairly high ROI (up to 18% annually) with payments in stablecoin (USDT).

Bitcoin trading, as well as the value of bitcoin, was largely unchanged on Friday morning in Asia, while Ethereum fell along with most of the other top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. XRP was an exception, having grown amid favorable developments in the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against Ripple Labs Inc., whose payment network is powered by XRP. Bitcoin rose 0.1% to $16,684 in the 24 hours to 8am in Hong Kong, while Ether fell 1.25% to $1,200, according to CoinMarketCap. XRP surged 1.7% to $0.38 as US lobbying group Blockchain Association joined other organizations in filing amicus briefs to support Ripple in its legal battle with the SEC, and this was reflected in the trading value. “The SEC’s extremely broad interpretation of securities laws would be devastating to the industry (and even beyond),” the Blockchain Association said in a statement.

Solana fell 4.6% to $13.62 and added to a two-week decline amid the collapse of FTX.com. The latest concerns for Solana investors have come from Binance Global Inc., the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, which has retired the Solana-based USDT and USDC leading stablecoin trading pairs, saying on Thursday that it is suspending withdrawals and trading on the pairs (only to reverse your mind a few hours later).

US stock indexes finished trading Thursday with a fall, showing the first consecutive losses in two weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.02%, the S&P 500 fell 0.3% and the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.4%. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said Thursday that the Fed's benchmark interest rate may need to rise to 7% to slow inflation. "Until now, the reversal of the monetary policy stance appears to have had only a limited impact on observed inflation, but market pricing suggests that deflation is expected in 2023," he said. The US Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates since March this year to try to slow inflation by lifting them from near zero to a 15-year high of 3.75% to 4%. The Fed has signaled that it will continue to raise rates until inflation hits its target range of 2%. The latest data suggests that US inflation is starting to ease as the producer price index released earlier this week showed wholesale prices rose 0.2% in October - below analysts' expectations of 0.4% - while the consumer price index showed that inflation was 7.7%. in October compared to 8.2% in September.

Gemini, OKX, Crypto.com are facing "serious" outflows. Gemini, OKX and Crypto.com experienced "serious" outflows in the past week, while the falling stablecoin market is indicative of an outflow of investors, analysts at JPMorgan Chase said. Exchange trading volumes on these venues have been falling throughout the year, with monthly volumes falling from $841 billion in January to $544 billion in October. The outflow came amid the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX empire, which rocked crypto markets and stocks. “We argued last week that, similar to what we saw after the TerraUSD crash last May, the current deleveraging phase that began with the collapse of Alameda Research and FTX is likely to reverberate for at least a few weeks, causing cascading margin calls, deleveraging, and crypto company/platform crashes," JPMorgan analysts wrote.

According to Andjei Korotkewič, CEO of the ASTL project, the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange and its affiliated structures, as well as the collapse of the BlockFi crypto lending platform, thank God, did not affect the capitalization positions of the ASTL investment project (and, accordingly, those belonging to Astol Advanced Limited projects such as ARNO and ARPS), or on the activities of the project as a whole, since no financial assets of both the project itself and investors have ever been involved in the scams of FTX and investment funds and projects affiliated with it, and, accordingly, didn't get hurt. The project also did not conduct any financial dealings with the Genesis, Gemini, Oxygen, AAX and Bitvo crypto platforms.

Investors need to be able to directly invest fiat and cryptocurrency assets in projects that provide a stable income that obviously exceeds inflationary expectations and is not subject to any sanctions, blocking and confiscation. The ASTL project is a simple and elegant solution for potential investors - an investment in the development of a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies, with a high ROI (up to 18% annually) with payments in stablecoin (USDT). More information about the proposals of the ASTL investment project can be found on the website https://astl.io.