Singapore's largest money laundering case suspect Wang Shuiming may be extradited to China, with his accomplice being the mastermind behind the Hong Kong crypto platform scam AAX.

**Meta to Slash VR Resources, Eye Up to 30% Metaverse Budget Cuts** (December 5) — Meta Platforms is poised to cut resources for its virtual reality project, Bloomberg reports. Mark Zuckerberg had framed the initiative as Meta’s future—spurring its 2021 rebrand from Facebook. The executive team is weighing up to 30% budget cuts for the metaverse business unit next year, which encompasses Meta Horizon Worlds (its virtual world product) and Quest VR headsets. The significant cuts are likely to trigger layoffs as early as January. Zuckerberg’s metaverse strategy has long faced investor scrutiny over concerns it has drained excessive resources. It has also faced regulatory pushback, including allegations of child privacy and safety lapses in the virtual world. Wall Street cheered the retreat: Meta’s stock jumped as much as 5.7% after the NYSE opened—its largest intraday gain since July 31—before closing up 3.4%.

December 5th — Per Onchain Lens monitoring, a BlackRock-linked address received 153.83 BTC (valued at $14.22 million) from Coinbase 5 hours ago, along with 16,930 ETH (valued at $53.26 million), totaling $67.48 million in inflows.

December 5th: Per Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale currently holds a 20x leveraged long position on 537.83 BTC, valued at $49.1 million. The position has been in unrealized loss territory for 24 days, with a current unrealized loss of $4.49 million. Three days prior, its unrealized loss peaked at $9.5 million, and is now gradually narrowing.

Per Onchain Lens monitoring, a 2-year dormant whale withdrew 1,320 ETH (valued at ~$4.24 million) from Kraken on December 5th. The whale now holds a total of 3,500 ETH (worth ~$11.14 million).

On December 5, DefiLlama data shows Hyperliquid’s November revenue totaled $90.6 million, down 13.8% from October’s $105.09 million.

A whale wallet "CtUBgv", holding 9,159 $SOL($1.31M) and $1.87M in stablecoins, has launched $TBY — now listed on @ZoomexOfficial. The wallet's very first funding came from #Bybit.