USDe becoming available for deposit on Ether.fi in exchange for liquid restaking token — link | tl;dr
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The U.S. SEC announced a $225,000 civil penalty against Galois Capital Management LLC, a crypto asset investment advisory firm, for failing to comply with customer asset protection regulations and misleading investors about redemption notice periods. Galois deposited some of its assets in FTX and other institutions, resulting in a loss of about half of its managed assets in November 2022. — link
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According to BlockWorks, Matter Labs, the company behind ZKsync, will lay off 16% of its employees, or 24 employees, the first layoffs since the company was founded six years ago. The company behind ZKsync told Blockworks that the decision was made to make the team more "lean" as it moves into its next phase. Currently, the market value of ZK tokens is only 370 million, and FDV is 2.1 billion. — link
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Terraform Labs transferred 1,075 BTC to a new address: bc1q5f…gtgwha at 20:31 UTC+8 on September 2, worth about $62.81 million. Currently, Terraform Labs only has about $2 million worth of altcoins left. Terraform Labs (TFL) has begun to phase out operations in accordance with the settlement agreement reached between TFL and the U.S. SEC. — link
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Ethereum L2 project Scroll released a video hinting at the upcoming token issuance and airdrop. Scroll is an Ethereum layer 2 network using zk-rollups technology. It raised $50 million in the last round of financing, with a valuation of $1.8 billion. However, the market and exchanges are currently relatively cold to the high FDV projects. — link
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QCP: September is typically a bearish month not just for crypto but across all asset classes. October, however, has the strongest bullish seasonality, with BTC showing positive returns and an average gain of 22.9% in 8 out of the last 9 Octobers. This seasonality play could explain the consistent call buying in the vol market. — link
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In the past 24h, Ethereum's Pumpfun-like platform Ethervista consumed about 150 ETH in gas fees. The first token VISTA once rose more than 15x. The first and third largest holders of VISTA are controlled by the same person, who spent 10.5 WETH to buy 79,070 VISTA on September 1, and sold 42,100 VISTA in the past two days, earning 170.39 WETH, a profit of more than 16x. — link
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In a recent video, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson criticized Bitcoin for not innovating and saying that it might gradually lose its market position. Bitcoin supporter Tuur Demeester pointed out that over the past three years, ADA's market share has dropped from 10% of Bitcoin to just 1% and fallen out of the top ten, with ADA prices down 89.2% from ATH in September 2021. — link
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JUST IN: 🚨 FTX will start repaying $16B to creditors in Q4 2024 👀
Will this be bullish for #Bitcoin?
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JUST IN: 🇶🇦 Qatar officially introduces regulatory framework for digital assets.
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The business activity in the US manufacturing sector continued to contract, albeit at a softer pace in August, with the ISM Manufacturing PMI edging higher to 47.2 from 46.8 in July. This reading came in slightly below the market expectation of 47.5. The Employment Index of the PMI recovered to 46 from 43.4 in July. — link
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SEC charges crypto-focused advisory firm Galois Capital for custody failures — link
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NOTE, the native stablecoin of Canto, the L1 blockchain based on Cosmos, once de-pegged sharply to below $0.6 today, and has now recovered to about $0.96. A few weeks ago, Canto experienced a long downtime, and after the chain was restarted, a large amount of TVL was lost. The loss of stablecoin assets on the cross-chain bridge ultimately led to this depeg. — link — link
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NEW: 🟠 $108 billion investment firm VanEck is predicting a $2.9 million #Bitcoin price by 2050❗️
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Web3 security firm Hypernative raises $16 million in Series A funding — link | tl;dr
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Upbit, the largest exchange in South Korea, announced the launch of UXLINK, supporting KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs. UXLINK is a web3 social system designed for large-scale adoption and has previously received support from the TON Foundation. — link
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U.S. SEC Commissioner Mark T Uyeda said at an event in South Korea that the SEC needs to create a dedicated S-1 registration form for digital asset securities. The SEC should clarify which digital assets fall into the category of securities and consider the practices of other jurisdictions around the world in future rulemaking. — link
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Greekslive: Since September 2, the Bitfinex lending market has continued to see opportunities with annualized interest rates of more than 20% over the past 10 hours. Meanwhile, BTC long positions have increased by a net 3,000 since August 28th. Greens lending rates and long positions have always been an over-the-top indicator for bulls. — link
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🇺🇸 Kamala Harris wants to have full control to censor all social media platforms 👀
Bitcoin and Nostr are censorship resistant ✊
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JUST IN: 🇹🇷 Turkey officially submits application requesting to join BRICS❗️
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JUST IN: $100 billion asset manager VanEck predicts Bitcoin could reach $2.9 million per coin by 2050.
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