Weekly Market Report. December 6, 2024

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Hawk Tuah memecoin dumps 90% amid backlash over controversial launch 😲

The launch of viral influencer Haliey Welch’s Hawk Tuah memecoin sparked outrage across social media as the newly launched token briefly pumped and then dumped rapidly following a controversial deployment involving allegations of snipers and insider wallets.

Donald Trump appoints David Sacks to lead AI and crypto at White House by Danny Park 🤔

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that Yammer founder and former Paypal COO David O. Sacks will be the “White House A.I. and Crypto Czar.”

OpenAI, Anthropic Expand in Europe With Zurich Offices 🧐

OpenAI and rival artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic have set up offices in Zurich, betting on the Swiss city where tech giants like Alphabet’s Google, Facebook META -0.79%decrease; red down pointing triangle owner Meta Platforms and Microsoft MSFT 1.19%increase; green up pointing triangle have a presence to poach AI talent.

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🚨 Important News This Week

AI

• AI training consent a ‘perfect use case’ for blockchain — Aptos co-founder
• Pro Take: Do AI and Blockchain Go Together? One Venture Firm Backs Both
• The UC Berkeley Project That Is the AI Industry’s Obsession

Tech

• He Was Going to Save Intel. He Destroyed $150 Billion of Value Instead.
• Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• Microsoft breakthrough signals quantum-exclusive future for blockchain mining

Business

• BlackRock, MARA Holdings, whale buy nearly 10K Bitcoin as price retreats
• Biden Rushes to Trump-Proof His Signature Energy, Chip Policies
• Microsoft breakthrough signals quantum-exclusive future for blockchain mining

Crypto

• BTC price: $100K 'in sight' as open interest reset boosts Bitcoin bulls
• Bitcoin may attract $2T from new $20T money supply in 2025
• Hardware wallet Trezor reports peak demand as Bitcoin approached $100K

🚨 Notable Companies Secure Impressive Investments

• Pantera Capital has raised $20M to invest in Toncoin [TON]
• BLIFE Protocol has raised $7M in a funding round led by UTXO Management
• Union Labs has raised $14M in a Series A funding round co-led by Gumi Cryptos and Longhash Ventures
• GAIB has raised $5M in a Pre-Seed round co-led by Hack VC, Faction VC and Hashed
• Sekai has raised $3M in a Seed funding round backed by a16z crypto CS

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