Circle announced that it now supports local bank transfers via PIX and SPEI, the national real-time payment systems in Brazil and Mexico. Eliminating international wires can drastically reduce the time it takes to access USDC and avoid the necessity of having to convert local fiat currency to USD before accessing USDC. — link
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Crypto VC fund Dragonfly seeking to raise a $500 million fund — link | archive
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Aave defies the $11B crypto summer slump, recently surpassing EigenLayer to become the second-biggest DeFi protocol, behind liquid staking giant Lido, with a 28% year-to-date surge. - DL News
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Analysis: Why is Binance Rapidly Listing Tokens from the TON Ecosystem? What's the Future Outlook?
TON game tokens helped the exchange gain a large number of users in CIS, South Asia, and Africa. TapSwap Blum and YEScoin may be the top TON tokens that have not yet been launched. Read more — link
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TON Foundation and Curve Finance will incubate a new TON-based stable swap project. Leveraging Curve’s advanced CFMM technology, the project aims to simplify stablecoin swaps, enhance user experience, and minimize price impact. Michael Egorov, founder of Curve, will be the advisor. — link
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DBS Bank, one of Singapore's largest banks, will launch over-the-counter (OTC) crypto options trading and structured notes for institutional clients, continuing to offer financial products linked to Bitcoin and Ethereum, with issuance set to begin in the fourth quarter of 2024. — link
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WalletConnect set to airdrop 185 million WCT with native token launch — link | tl;dr
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Bhutan has emerged as a major Bitcoin holder, surpassing El Salvador in terms of cryptocurrency holdings, according to Arkham - 𝕏/@ArkhamIntel
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ETH stakers' 7-day moving average revenue drops to a six-month low of $5.44 million as on-chain activity declines by 60% since March. - The Block
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Inside SBF's legal defense: Sam Bankman Fried102-page appeal calls for a new trial, arguing that judge Kaplan, FTX’s attorneys, and the media were biased against him from the start. - puck.news
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Trump family reveals Token economics for their new crypto project World Liberty Financial. - CNBC
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Fireblocks and Chainlink Labs announce strategic collaboration to accelerate regulated stablecoin issuance - prnewswire.com
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According to Decrypt, the Trump family-related crypto project World Liberty Financial plans to provide cryptocurrency lending services on the Ethereum. The WLFI token sale will be regulated by the US SEC. 63% of WLFI tokens will be sold to the public, 17% will be used for user rewards, and the remaining 20% will be used for the team. — link
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🏦 Total fraud penalties for banks since 2000: $389,345,231,111❗️
But #Bitcoin is for criminals, right?
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TON Foundation partners with Curve Finance to launch TON-based stablecoin swap, leveraging Curve Finance’s Constant Function Market Maker (CFMM) technology to reduce volatility and slippage. - CoinTelegraph
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Binance said that the WazirX platform operated by Zanmai was attacked, resulting in a loss of $235, and has been unable to meet customer withdrawal requests. Rumors that Binance is responsible for WazirX creditors are false because the proposed transaction was not completed. — link
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JUST IN: 🇭🇰 Singapore's largest bank, DBS, to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum options trading.
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Project Agorá hits milestone with 40+ financial firms and central banks, including BIS, Banque de France, and Federal Reserve, exploring tokenization for cross-border payments. - bis.org
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UK Finance, along with major banks like Barclays, Citi UK, HSBC, and Natwest, has completed the experimental phase of its tokenization and CBDC platform, demonstrating significant benefits and economic value. The Regulated Liability Network test revealed potential for new functionalities, such as programmable payments, and highlighted its role in advancing financial market infrastructure. - Coindesk
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Central Bank Digital Currency adoption surges as 134 countries, representing 98% of the global economy, explore digital currencies, with 44 nations piloting them, according to a new study. - Reuters
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Fintechs like Revolut and Robinhood are key to defi’s growth, says morpho founder, as he criticizes the current system as an “artificial casino” driven by speculation. - DL News
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Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial debuts plans to sell WLFI token — link | tl;dr
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On September 16, the total net inflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs was $12.9041 million. Grayscale ETF GBTC outflowed $20.7546 million, Grayscale mini ETF BTC inflowed $2.8236 million, BlackRock ETF IBIT inflowed $15.8187 million, and Fidelity ETF FBTC inflow was $5.0641 million. — link
On September 16, the total net outflow of Ethereum spot ETF was $9.5143 million.
Grayscale ETF ETHE had an outflow of $13.8321 million, and BlackRock ETF ETHA had an inflow of $4.1567 million. — link
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Uniswap's governance token UNI has been fully unlocked, but the actual circulation is only 25.83% of the total, about 258.3 million. The top six addresses (such as a16z, etc.) have basically not sold their UNI. According to @EmberCN, of the 430 million UNI obtained by the community treasury, only 30.21 million have flowed into the market. — link
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