Another big week for crypto! Key developments for Bitcoin ETFs, XRP, Solana and more

We have some of the best crypto things you may have missed over Thanksgiving week!

The XRP Ledger (or XRPL) has just been listed on Dexscreener, a top platform for decentralized trading insights. This move makes it easier for traders to track and analyze XRPL, plus they can now trade XRP memecoins.

Most of the crypto market was down earlier this week, which could be because spot Bitcoin ETFs’ streak of inflows ended with $438 million in outflows on Monday. Major players such as Bitwise’s BITB and Grayscale’s GBTC led the withdrawals, while BlackRock’s IBIT saw positive inflows with $267.8 million in inflows. Despite the drop to $94,500, Bitcoin trading volume reached $5.6 billion.

Donald Trump reportedly holds $5.4 million worth of cryptocurrencies, mostly Ethereum. And Tron founder Justin Sun is making headlines again, this time with a $30 million investment in World Liberty Financial, Trump’s family DeFi project.

Morocco is rewriting its crypto rules. After banning cryptocurrencies in 2017, the country is now working on a law to regulate them and make them legal. This comes at a time when the central bank is exploring a possible CBDC.

There is now optimistic news for SOL: Solana reaches a record 54 million daily transactions. Coinbase’s Base network isn’t far behind with 9.1 million daily transactions. (30x growth since January!)

Pump Dot Fun’s livestream feature has been temporarily disabled due to backlash from certain streams. In a statement, the platform said streams will be unavailable until the moderation infrastructure is ready to handle the increased activity levels.

Phantom just added support for Coinbase’s Layer 2 network Base (I love this). Additionally, the daily transaction count on Base recently reached an all-time high of 9.1 million. The daily transaction count has increased 30x since January 2024.

Avalanche has just launched its largest testnet upgrade yet, Avalanche9000. With lower deployment costs for developers and up to $40 million in rewards. And finally, Chainlink released a new report showing that it continues to advance DeFi with its technology powering tokenized assets like real estate and Ethereum ETFs.