CoinGecko: normalized exchange volume for Crypto.com has dropped 91% over the past year, 90% for Huobi, 77% for FTX, 75% for Coinbase, and 57% for Binance (Stacy Elliott/Decrypt)

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk:
Huobi, a top-10 crypto exchange by trading volume, has agreed to be acquired by Hong Kong-based About Capital; terms of the deal were not disclosed  —  The terms of the deal were not disclosed.  —  Crypto exchange Huobi Global, one of the biggest token trading outposts in the Asia markets …

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Binance and Huobi block deposits of FTX’s native token, FTT, after 192M tokens worth ~$400M were released out of schedule and without warning  —  The tokens were illicitly released from FTT’s main deployer address.  —  Crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi blocked deposits of FTT …

Stacy Elliott / Decrypt:
Coinbase to custody $1.6B worth of MakerDAO’s USDC treasury after MakerDAO community voted 75% in favor; a pilot will run through 2022, with new voting in 2023  —  The MakerDAO pilot will run through the end of 2022 before the community needs to vote on whether to keep its USDC with Coinbase next year.

Tim Hakki / Decrypt:
CoinGecko: the Aptos token fell 40.5% on its first day of trading; Aptos’ Layer 1 blockchain was panned for opaque tokenomics and a low transaction throughput  —  The price of Aptos has crashed more than 40% a day after launch as investors remain wary of the network’s widely-panned mainnet rollout.

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
Binance announces a recovery fund to help “otherwise strong” projects facing a liquidity crisis; Justin Sun says Tron, Huobi, and Poloniex will support Binance  —  Tron founder Justin Sun said that Tron, Huobi Global and Poloniex will support Binance in its initiative.

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt:
Coinbase says Coinbase Wallet will no longer support Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, Ripple XRP, and Stellar due to “low usage”, starting January 2023  —  America’s biggest crypto exchange has scrapped a number of assets from its self-custody mobile app citing waning customer interest.