Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is down. Market cap is $1.05T. Bitcoin is trading at $26.1K
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The founder of Arrington Capital Michael Arrington has removed himself from the board of the new company that will take over Celsius.
Arrington’s decision appears to be the result of Simon Dixon’s appointment to the board observer position.
https://www.theblock.co/post/252687/arrington-removes-himself-from-board-of-celsius-successor-following-board-observer-appointment
A fake APT was sold on Upbit.
Scammers were making deposits of fake APTs on Upbit (the token is called ClaimAPTGift). After the fake tokens were deposited into a large number of accounts, many sold them directly. Upbit's customer centre is reportedly demanding that users who sold fake APT tokens return the money.
https://x.com/definalist/status/1705916604473901076
TVL in Ethereum Layer 2 projects increased by 0.86% over the week and now stands at $10.29B.
https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary
The Terra Classic (LUNC) community has voted to stop all minting and reminding of Terra Classic USD.
https://www.theblock.co/post/252679/terra-classic-community-votes-to-stop-minting-terra-classic-usd-ustc
Bitcoin volatility may rise as options worth $3 billion expire at end of month.
https://www.theblock.co/post/252621/bitcoin-volatility-may-rise-as-options-worth-3-billion-expire-at-end-of-month
Coinbase has registered as a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian wallet provider with the Bank of Spain.
This registration will allow Coinbase to offer our full suite of products and services to retail and institutional users in Spain, all in compliance with the national legal framework.
https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-obtains-bank-of-spain-registration-in-spain
Rollbit closes Degen EXchange due to regulatory uncertainty and weak activity.
https://twitter.com/rollbitcom/status/1705196259189878856
Crypto asset manager CoinShares (CS) is establishing a hedge fund unit for qualified U.S. investors.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/09/22/european-crypto-asset-manager-coinshares-to-enter-us-hedge-fund-fray/
Arbitrum: “There’s 2 days | 16 hours | 16 mins until all unclaimed ARB tokens are sent to the DAO treasury. There are about 70 million unclaimed ARB.”
https://x.com/arbitrum/status/1704954038364893323
Judges deny Sam Bankman-Fried's appeal for early release.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/judges-deny-sam-bankman-fried-s-appeal-for-early-release
The Holesky relaunch is on 28 Sept 2023, 12:00 UTC.
https://x.com/nethermindeth/status/1704900812382650736
Arbitrum and Chainlink announced the mainnet launch of the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) on Arbitrum One.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/chainlink-hits-ethereum-layer-2-arbitrum
Tether has taken a 20% stake in German miner Northern Data, acquiring $420 million worth of GPUs for the company.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/09/20/ais-new-backer-stablecoin-tether-makes-a-420-million-bet-on-cloud-gpus/
Eco App will be shutting down in the US.
https://twitter.com/andy_bromberg/status/1704574359266824420
This week, 8 projects (GT, DYDX, FLOW, AXL, EDU, OP, MC, BLD) will unlock tokens with a total value of over $100 million.
GT - 6.67 million tokens ($25.82 million) - 26 September
DYDX - 6.44 million tokens ($12.3 million) - 26 September
FLOW - 13.2 million tokens ($5.87 million) - 27 September
AXL - 24.91 million tokens ($8.29 million) - 27 September
EDU - 21.2 million tokens ($9.09 million) - 28 September
OP - 24.16 million tokens ($30.66 million) - 30 September
MC - 14.41 million tokens ($4.66 million) - 1 October
BLD - 37.83 million tokens ($3.88 million) - 2 October
https://dropstab.com/insights/vesting
Ethereum (ETH) co-creator Vitalik Buterin reportedly says that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are not developing in the way he had once hoped for.
In a new interview with CNBC, Buterin says that he was once more optimistic about CBDCs, but now he believes they have mostly become “front ends” for the traditional banking system.
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/09/24/vitalik-buterin-says-cbdcs-moving-in-wrong-direction-calls-them-front-ends-for-the-banking-system-report/
The Melbourne couple who accidentally received 10.5 million Australian dollars ($6.7 million) will be facing a plea trial in October for a theft charge after spending the funds that they received by mistake in 2021.
In May 2021, Thevamanogari Manivel transferred funds to her partner Jatinder Singh’s Crypto.com account. However, the exchange detected that the bank account did not match the exchange account. Therefore, a refund was issued, but instead of refunding the 100 AU$ that the couple tried to put in, the exchange mistakenly sent 10.5 million AU$ to Manivel’s bank account.
The mistake was not discovered until December 2021, when the exchange conducted its annual audit. After the exchange filed a lawsuit in the Victoria Supreme Court, the judge ruled that the funds should be returned to the crypto trading platform.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/couple-mistakenly-sent-10-5-m-crypto-com-october-plea-hearing
CZ: “If markets are predictable it would cease to be markets and be without profits.”
https://x.com/cz_binance/status/1705697860556144965
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires Do Kwon to serve the Terraform Labs claim while he remains in Montenegro until at least the end of the year.
https://coingape.com/is-terra-co-founder-do-kwon-coming-to-us/
Bitwise has withdrawn their application to convert BITC from a Bitcoin futures fund to a Bitcoin & Ethereum futures Fund.
https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1705258028042199052
Arkham has identified $25B of Coinbase Bitcoin reserves (~1M BTC) on chain.
This makes Coinbase the largest Bitcoin entity in the world on Arkham, with almost 5% of all BTC in existence - about as much as Satoshi Nakamoto.
https://x.com/arkhamintel/status/1705254948324233270
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The market is down. Market cap is $1.06T. Bitcoin is trading at $26.6K
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Coinbase CLO said the launch of the BASE token is possible in the future, but not now.
https://decrypt.co/videos/interviews/oWMD6y1W/will-base-ever-have-a-token-not-something-weve-ruled-out-entirely-says-coinbases-paul-grewal
Binance.US lawyers ask court to dismiss SEC case, pushing against wash trading claims.
The SEC alleged in June that Binance.US, connected to Binance Holdings Limited and BAM, lied about market manipulation and allowed wash trading.
https://www.theblock.co/post/252441/binance-us-lawyers-ask-court-to-dismiss-sec-case-pushing-against-wash-trading-claims
The Linear stable coin LUSD appears to be under an exploit attack.
The attacker was able to create an unlimited number of AAVE and subsequently exchange the liquid asset to LUSD on Linear Exchange and then sell it on PancakeSwap and Ascendex, causing all liquidity to leak into LUSD.
https://x.com/LinearFinance/status/1704818417880936535
Binance warns of multiple stablecoin delisting as lawyers puzzle over EU's MiCA.
The EU’s landmark Markets in Crypto Assets law, MiCA, takes effect next year, but it’s not clear how it will apply to foreign or decentralized issuers.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/09/21/binance-warns-of-multiple-stablecoin-delisting-as-lawyers-puzzle-over-eus-mica/
Busan plans to create its own Ethereum and Cosmos compatible blockchain in 2024.
https://m.news1.kr/articles/?5179142
Mt. Gox has pushed back the deadline for its planned repayments by another 12 months.
The defunct crypto exchange had earlier announced plans that the deadline for its repayments would be Oct. 31, 2023, which has now been pushed to Oct. 31, 2024.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/09/21/mt-gox-pushes-repayments-by-a-year/