Cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne has donated £9 million (cash) to the UK's Reform Party, the largest single donation the party has ever received and a record high for donations from a living individual in the UK. Harborne, who owns stakes in defense technology company Qinetiq and aviation fuel producer AML Global, was an early supporter of the cryptocurrency Tether. The donation, completed in the summer, supports Reform UK's autumn conference. This donation brings the Reform Party's total donations in the third quarter of this year (July to September) to over £10 million (exactly £10,526,846), surpassing the combined totals of the Conservative Party (approximately £7 million) and the Labour Party (approximately £2.5 million) during the same period. (The Guardian)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Digital Asset Holdings LLC, a blockchain company in the financial sector, has completed a new $50 million funding round. Investors include Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY Mellon), Nasdaq Inc., S&P Global, and iCapital. This new funding follows a $135 million funding round earlier this year. The previous round was led by DRW Venture Capital and Tradeweb Markets, with participation from market makers such as Citadel Securities, IMC, and Optiver. Digital Asset Holdings LLC, based in New York, is best known for its public blockchain, Canton Network. Canton Network aims to process financial transactions, allowing users to decide which information needs to be kept confidential, and is becoming a powerful option for asset tokenization. Asset tokenization is the process of issuing and transferring traditional assets such as stocks and bonds using blockchain technology. Several institutions, including Goldman Sachs and Tradeweb Markets, are already using Canton Network or participating in its governing body, the Global Synchronizer Foundation. This round of new funding from banks and exchange operators reflects the growing institutional interest in blockchain. For example, several Wall Street banks and trading firms used Canton Network to trade U.S. Treasury bonds in digital dollars on Saturday.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Binance posted on its X platform that its new CEO, He Yi, said at the closing of Binance Blockchain Week, "CZ is history, I am the future."

According to Odaily Planet Daily, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time in the week ending November 29 fell to 191,000 (market consensus was 220,000), down from 218,000 the previous week (216,000 the previous week).

According to a post by Car on the X platform, an address (0xee5...7ed6) that previously earned over $100,000 in the Gemini marketplace has earned over $1 million in all Google search marketplaces on Polymarket.