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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: “The CFTC should not be creating enforcement actions against decentralized (DeFi) protocols. My hope is these DeFi protocols take these cases to court to establish precedent.”
https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1702043655928955139
Swift has entered a new phase of its work on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) interoperability, announcing that three central banks are beta testing its innovative solution for interlinking CBDCs, while 30 financial institutions are experimenting with the solution in a new sandbox to explore further use cases.
https://www.swift.com/news-events/press-releases/swift-advances-cbdc-innovation-interlinking-solution-begins-beta-testing
The commission for a BTC transaction of $510k made a few days earlier was paid by PayPal.
It was apparently due to a software bug and took them 24 hours to realize and halt withdrawals.
https://x.com/bitcoinnewscom/status/1701971396799152417
Noble and Circle are bringing native USDC into the Injective ecosystem.
https://x.com/injective_/status/1701871574310322645
Huobi rebrands to HTX.
https://www.huobi.com/support/en-us/detail/84948926582328
opBNB mainnet is live.
opBNB is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible Layer 2 chain based on Optimism OP Stack.
More than 150 projects intend to utilize opBNB.
Layer 2 gas costs as low as 0.2 gwei.
Transaction cost reduced to as low as $0.005 per transfer transaction.
https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/opbnb-mainnet-is-live/
FTX has adjusted its crypto asset selling proposal, now the exchange will not be required to give advance notice of its intentions.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/09/13/ftx-tweaks-crypto-sale-proposal-to-placate-us-government/
BitMEX launches real-world events prediction market: on FTX's recovery from bankruptcy, Bitcoin ETF approval and the SBF lawsuit.
https://blog.bitmex.com/prediction-markets/
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MetaMask has announced the launch of a new software mechanism called Snaps — aimed at expanding its use on blockchain networks that are not natively compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Until now, MetaMask has primarily been used with Ethereum and Ethereum-compatible blockchains like BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum and Optimism. Snaps will enable MetaMask's use on non-EVM blockchains that include Cosmos, Solana, Tezos, Starknet and Algorand, among others.
https://www.theblock.co/post/250393/metamask-snaps-launch
OneCoin founder Karl Sebastian Greenwood was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay $300 million after prosecutors accused him of cheating 3.5 million people who invested in OneCoin and using the money for five-star resorts, a private plane and a yacht.
https://www.theblock.co/post/250564/one-coin-co-founder-sentenced-to-20-years-and-fined-300-million
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Virtu Financial, a broker-dealer, for misleading customers into believing it properly safeguarded their confidential information.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/sec-sues-virtu-financial-failing-safeguard-customer-information-2023-09-12/
The Court entered an agreed order between the Debtors, the Committee, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the SDNY which stayed the trial on the equitable subordination of Mr. Mashinsky and other of Celsius’ former executive’s claims while Mr. Mashinsky’s criminal trial proceeds.
https://x.com/celsiusucc/status/1701651341314253036
Judge denies SBF's motion for release from custody.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/09/12/us-judge-denies-sam-bankman-frieds-bid-for-release-from-jail-ahead-of-trial/
SEC Chair Gary Gensler says crypto is full of fraud, abuse and misconduct.
https://x.com/watcherguru/status/1701609274278080516
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Stoner Cats 2 LLC (SC2) with conducting an unregistered offering of crypto asset securities in the form of purported non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that raised approximately $8 million from investors to finance an animated web series called Stoner Cats.
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-178
FTX has received court approval to liquidate its crypto assets.
https://x.com/eleanorterrett/status/1702011952040398955
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DWFLabs is considering to purchase FTX assets.
https://x.com/ag_dwf/status/1701955427582276081
North Korea's Lazarus Group may be behind the hack of crypto exchange CoinEx.
They accidentally connected their address to the $41M Stake hack.
https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1701905899034390574
Binance will remove and cease trading on the following spot trading pairs:
▫️At 2023-09-15 03:00 UTC: AMB/BUSD, ASTR/BUSD, BAT/ETH, DASH/BUSD, GMX/BUSD, HOT/BUSD
▫️At 2023-09-15 05:00 UTC: IMX/BNB, KNC/BNB, MC/BUSD, MDT/BUSD, NULS/BUSD, RAD/BUSD, RAY/BUSD, REQ/BUSD
▫️At 2023-09-15 07:00 UTC: SSV/BUSD, STMX/BUSD, TROY/BUSD, WOO/BUSD
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/notice-of-removal-of-trading-pairs-2023-09-15-7f6d179aff1740d387d451a9659d9c6b
The Nasdaq stock exchange has submitted an application to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeking approval to list an Ethereum Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) offered by Hashdex.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-ether-mixed-etf-nasdaq-hashdex
TON Foundation launches its own cryptocurrency wallet TON Space for Telegram users.
The wallet feature is currently accessible in Telegram’s settings, a TON spokesperson said, and a global rollout will begin in November, “excluding the U.S. and some other countries.”
https://decrypt.co/156109/telegram-gets-crypto-wallet-3-years-after-sec-pumped-brakes
Gitcoin has announced a new funding Gitcoin Citizens round that will run from October 10 to October 24.
https://grants.gitcoin.co/
Hashdex has filed for a Spot Ethereum ETF.
https://x.com/jseyff/status/1701612412456280467
Binance.US has laid off a third of its employees and CEO Brian Schroder has resigned.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-12/binance-us-cuts-100-positions-as-crackdown-erodes-crypto-business
Web3 venture firm Electric Capital is raising $300 million for its third fund.
https://www.theblock.co/post/250606/crypto-vc-electric-capital-aims-to-raise-300-million-for-new-fund
Crypto exchange Bullish and Tribe Capital are among the bidders interested in acquiring the defunct trading platform FTX.
Bullish aims to tap into FTX’s customer base.
https://www.theblock.co/post/250492/crypto-exchange-bullish-among-bidders-for-bankrupt-ftx
CoinEx was hacked for more than $27.8M.
https://x.com/wublockchain/status/1701620059809120508
Franklin Templeton filed paperwork with the SEC for a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-09-12-2023/card/franklin-templeton-files-for-spot-bitcoin-etf-yowODPFSnwvAPkptfIhp