Users lost more than $5.6B in 2023 through crypto-related fraud — a 45% jump from 2022: FBI
*People over 60 years old were most scammed, they lost ~$1.6B
*Investment scams were the most common, accounting for 71% of losses with 32k complaints & $3.9B loss
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TON hits record transaction highs post-Durov arrest while token price plummets 30% — link | tl;dr
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JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Japan's largest power company TEPCO is mining #Bitcoin using surplus energy ⚡️
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a16z CSX and hack VC backed PIN AI raises $10M to rival Apple Intelligence in an Open Source manner. - 𝕏/@PINAI_IO
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Lazy Summer protocol aims to onboard 100M users by offering passive DeFi earnings integrated into familiar apps. - lazy.summer.fi
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Kaiko: September is shaping up to be volatile. BTC’s 30-day volatility has spiked to 70%, nearly double last year’s levels and close to March’s peak when BTC hit its all-time high. ETH’s volatility has surpassed both March’s levels and BTC’s this September. This is notable because September volatility has historically been much lower than Q1. — link
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Data shows that the Friend Tech team earned $52.4M through the protocol, and they transferred a total of 19,477 ETH to Coinbase. Jeffrey Huang has suffered at least $15 million in floating losses from buying FRIEND. From May 3 to June 8, he spent 4,975 ETH (about $15.6 million) to buy 8.6 million FRIEND at an average price of $1.81, and then continued to buy until the current 11 million FRIEND. — link
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Onchain trading activity has continued to taper lower with the rolling 7-day decentralized exchange (DEX) volumes for both Ethereum and Solana reaching levels last seen in February this year — link
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JUST IN: $725 billion asset manager Bernstein says if Donald Trump is re-elected president, Bitcoin may reach $90,000.
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JUST IN: 🟠 $725 billion Bernstein says if Trump is re-elected #Bitcoin may reach $90,000 by this year 👀
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Michael Saylor says #Bitcoin is going to $13 million on CNBC. - 𝕏/@BitcoinMagazine
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NEW: 🟠 Holding ≥0.1 #Bitcoin puts you in the top 8.44% of all HODLers 💪
Keep stacking! 🫡
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Rabby releases GasAccount to simplify gas payments using USDT/USDC to pay gas fees on any network - 𝕏/@Rabby_io
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Ethereum LRT protocol Ether fi announced that it will launch a crypto Visa credit card Cash on Scroll Network. Ether fi Cash allows users to use fiat currency while using crypto assets as collateral, and can hold cryptocurrencies and earn interest on daily purchases. The card is currently in use within Ether fi and will begin shipping to pre-order customers on September 16. — link
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a16z Crypto announced the 21 startups to join Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) Fall 2024 cohort, including Anera Labs, Banyan, Blocksense, Cork Protocol, Fermah, Future Primitive, MeshMap, Term Labs, zkSpin and more. a16z CSX invests a minimum of $500,000 in each company that’s accepted. — link
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New article by Andre Cronje.
Unlocking an $11.3 trillion market on-chain for the first time. - 𝕏/@AndreCronjeTech
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Aave and EtherFi launch v3 EtherFi Instance, boosting liquidity and capabilities for weETH in an isolated market. - aavechan.notion.site
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NEW: 🟠 Bitfinex Securities celebrates its 3-year anniversary 🎉
They went from tokenizing its first security with Blockstream to launching the first fully tokenized bond with MIkro Kapital.
Bitfinex Securities now issues a new tokenised security every month!
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Bybit released the 14th proof of reserve (snapshot date September 4). The user's BTC assets are deposited at 49k, an increase of 2.15% from the last time (August 8), an increase of 1,033 BTC; the user's ETH assets are deposited at 352k, an increase of 3.07%; the user's USDT assets are deposited at 3.12 billion, a decrease of 1.47% from the last time. — link
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JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Japan's largest electricity company, Tokyo Electric Power, to use renewable energy to mine Bitcoin.
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