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Mike Novogratz's crypto investment bank Galaxy Digital has lost $136 million in the first three quarters of 2018, Bloomberg reports Nov. 28.According to Bloomberg, Galaxy Digital's realized and unrealized losses in Q3 amounted to $41 million, which when combined with the results of previous quarters, amounts to the firm being out $136 million so far this year.

The cantonal court of Zug, Switzerland has shut down cryptocurrency mining firm Envion AG for an alleged unauthorized Initial Coin Offering, German news outlet Handelsblatt Global reported Nov. 28.Envion was established in Switzerland by Michael Luckow and Matthias Woestmann as an off-grid mining company that claims to use decentralized, clean energy like hydroelectric and solar to power its mobile mining units.

Social networking platform Steemit is laying off more than 70 percent of its staff due to the cryptocurrency market crash, and is beginning a structural reorganization, according to a Nov. 28 video post by Steemit CEO Ned Scott.

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi has launched the Huobi Derivative Market, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Nov. 28.Huobi presented its new platform at the Cryptofrontiers conference in New York City today, stressing that the Huobi DM allows customers engage in cryptocurrency contract trading on both rising and falling cryptocurrency prices.

The tea leaves were swirling Tuesday after Jay Clayton, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, dropped some hints about what regulators in the United States will do in the crypto space in the coming months and years.

The Second United Arab Emirates Government Annual Meetings concluded with the introduction of two initiatives pertaining to blockchain and artificial intelligence, the Emirates News Agency reported Nov. 28.At the meeting hosted by the governmental AI and Blockchain Joint Working Group, participants addressed strategies to attract foreign investment and create necessary technological infrastructure, as well as potential challenges related to blockchain and AI adoption.

What do you get when you put the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in front of an audience of crypto insiders? An applause line, a word of warning and an analogy about theater tickets.

E-commerce giant Amazon announced the debut of two new services, Amazon Quantum Ledger Database and Amazon Managed Blockchain, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Nov. 28.QLDB is a ledger database designed to provide transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable log of transactions, which is overseen by a central trusted authority.

Though the company's officials acknowledged that "Trezor clones have been released over the years," a "Fake Trezor device, manufactured by a different, unknown vendor" has become a "Startling" discovery for them.

Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler expressed confidence that the platform's futures contract will help establish a trusted Bitcoin price for investors, unlike now, when Bitcoin trades at different prices on different exchanges.

An Ethereum token standard that represents fungible and nonfungible assets could spark a new wave of asset trading in the digital space.

Tech giant Amazon is launching a blockchain service to help clients develop blockchain networks without incurring the costs of creating their own platform.

Reveals the weekly number of worldwide searches for the keyword "Bitcoin" has reached levels not seen since the first week in April.

The world's second largest stock exchange, Nasdaq, is reportedly planning to introduce a Bitcoin futures market within the first quarter of 2019.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned two Iranians allegedly involved in Bitcoin ransomware scheme SamSam, the Treasury reported in an official press release today, Nov. 28.The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has taken action on Wednesday against two Iranian individuals, Ali Khorashadizadeh and Mohammad Ghorbaniyan, who are accused of exchanging Bitcoin into Iranian rials.

Blockchain startup Steemit has laid off close to 70 percent of its staff, citing the prolonged bear market for cryptocurrency.

Major U.S. crypto exchange and wallet provider Coinbase has launched over-the-counter trading for institutional customers, New York-based live streaming financial news network Cheddar reported yesterday, Nov. 27.Opposed to trading through a crypto exchange itself, over-the-counter crypto trading will allow institutional investors to conduct direct trades between each other.

The Union Bank of Nigeria has reportedly cautioned against transactions in cryptocurrencies, according to a letter allegedly sent to its users and published Nov. 26 by Nairaland, an online community targeted at Nigerians.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury is officially adding crypto addresses to its individual sanctions list.

The premise is simple: an interrogator asks questions to a machine and to a human while sitting in a separate location, and receive the answers written down.

South Korea is set to test a blockchain system next month in an effort to improve the reliability and security of online voting.

The current bear markets are the "Golden time" to be in crypto, major Wall Street crypto bull and co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors Tom Lee said Wednesday, Nov. 28, during his speech at BlockShow Asia 2018.Fundstrat's co-founder named three main reasons behind the recent crypto market collapse: Bitcoin Cash's contentious hard fork, the regulatory actions of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission forcing Initial Coin Offerings to return funds to investors, and the "Terrible" condition of global markets, which have dropped by approximately 10 percent in October and November.

Blockchain-focused electronics supplier SIRIN Labs will ship its first blockchain-based smartphone tomorrow, Nov. 29, U.S.-based IT and business tech magazine Computerworld reports today, Nov. 28.Following a funding round that raised $157 million in an Initial Coin Offering for a blockchain-powered phone in December 2017, the Swiss-based firm announced this summer that they will release their blockchain-enabled smartphone FINNEY in November 2018.Based on both Android and SIRIN's open-source operating system, SIRIN OS, the FINNEY phone will offer a cold-storage crypto wallet and provide secure encrypted communications.

Major Canadian-based jewelry manufacturer and retailer Birks Group has begun accepting Bitcoin through a partnership with U.S. payment processor BitPay, the company confirmed in a press release Nov. 28.Birks, which has operated since 1879, will initially accept the largest cryptocurrency in eight of its 30 domestic stores in Canada.

The Securities Commissioner of the U.S. State of Texas has issued an Emergency Cease & Desist Order against crypto investment firm My Crypto Mine and its principal Mark Steven Royer, published to the regulator's website Nov. 27.

Bitcoin has soared 9.3 percent on the day, breaking above the $4,000 mark to trade at trade at $4,050 at press time.

U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase opened its over-the-counter crypto trading desk earlier this month.

A Swiss food manufacturer has become the "First" in Europe to use the Ethereum blockchain to track fish products, a press release confirmed Nov. 28.

While the bitcoin market is still predominantly bearish, seller exhaustion near $3,500 may be paving the way to stronger corrective bounce.

One of the top U.S. financial regulators, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has released its second guide to understanding smart contracts, with a reminder that the technology is covered under financial rules.