Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is neutral. Market cap is $1.05T. Bitcoin is trading at $26.2K
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Four U.S. House lawmakers demand Gensler abandon efforts to block BTC-ETFs.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/09/26/us-house-lawmakers-push-secs-gensler-to-approve-spot-bitcoin-etf-immediately/
Franklin Templeton has filed a 19b-4 with the SEC to begin the BTC-ETF review process.
https://x.com/jseyff/status/1706746311305798079
Crypto lender BlockFi gets court nod for plan to repay customers.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-lender-block-fi-liquidation-plan-approval-repay-customer
FUD: Binance has a crisis.
▫️More than a dozen top executives have quit in the past three months.
▫️At least 1,500 employees have been laid off so far this year.
▫️The U.S. Department of Justice is conducting a multi-year investigation into the exchange, which could lead to billions of dollars in fines, and criminal prosecution of CZ's operations.
▫️There are rumored to be internal talks about CZ's departure.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/the-worlds-biggest-crypto-firm-is-melting-down-338b8e17
Celestia has announced the launch of Genesis Drop.
The Genesis Drop allocates 60 million TIA (6% of total supply).
The Genesis Drop claiming period will conclude on 17 October 2023, 12:00 UTC.
https://blog.celestia.org/genesis-drop/#research-public-goods
Microsoft plans to integrate crypto wallet into Xbox.
https://blockzeit.com/microsoft-xbox-crypto-wallet-integration-leaked/
Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️
The market is neutral. Market cap is $1.05T. Bitcoin is trading at $26.2K
dropstab | icodrops | twitter | telegram
The U.S. government shutdown could lead to a halt in SEC litigation and delay crypto bills.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/09/25/us-shutdown-assuming-it-doesnt-run-long-will-slow-not-cripple-crypto-efforts/
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed papers raising objections to crypto firm Celsius Network's plan to distribute digital assets to customers as part of a reorganization plan through Coinbase.
https://x.com/deitaone/status/1706336331100484063
A digital euro is at least two years away, the European Central Bank’s president told.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/09/25/digital-euro-at-least-two-years-away-ecbs-lagarde-says/
CZ is trolling Sun in a friendly way: “ A week after you rename your exchange after FTX... 😂”
“Jokes aside, our security team will help in tracking hacker funds in all cases where we can.”
https://x.com/cz_binance/status/1706326077021274327
Hot wallet HTX (formerly Huobi) was hacked for $7.9 million.
https://x.com/cyversalerts/status/1706301345223897506
MicroStrategy has acquired an additional 5,445 BTC for ~$147.3 million at an average price of $27,053 per bitcoin.
As of 9/24/23 MicroStrategy hodls 158,245 BTC acquired for ~$4.68 billion at an average price of $29,582 per bitcoin.
https://x.com/saylor/status/1706278284651077714
Amazon will invest as much as $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-25/amazon-to-invest-as-much-as-4-billion-in-ai-startup-anthropic#xj4y7vzkg
Michael Egorov deposited 68M CRV ($35.5M) to Silo and borrowed 10.77M crvUSD in the past 2 days.
Then swapped crvUSD for USDT and repaid the all debt on Aave.
He currently has 253.67M CRV ($132.52M) in collateral and $42.7M in debt on 4 platforms.
https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1706846422304534836
US Federal Reserve Banks say stablecoins could ‘become a source of financial instability’.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-federal-reserve-banks-stablecoins-money-market-funds-source-financial-instability
The Securities and Exchange Commission moved to delay a decision on the proposed ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF into next year, with a new deadline of Jan. 10.
https://www.theblock.co/post/253108/sec-moves-to-delay-decision-on-ark-21shares-bitcoin-etf-into-next-year
Arbitrum Odyssey has officially launched.
The event will last for 7 weeks. Week 1 starts from September 26, 16:00 UTC to October 1, 16:00 UTC.
https://x.com/arbitrum/status/1706700295688864091
Paradigm launches Policy Lab in move to advance crypto advocacy.
https://www.theblock.co/post/252862/paradigm-launches-policy-lab-in-move-to-advance-crypto-advocacy
HSBC can now pay their mortgage bills and loans with cryptocurrencies through FCF Pay.
Some of the accepted cryptocurrencies you can pay with are: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Coin, Ripple, Doge, Shiba Inu, and others.
https://u.today/shib-xrp-payments-now-available-for-hsbc-bank-users-via-this-partnership
FUD by Adam Cochran: “Oh btw Huobi is probably insolvent again. I'd guess Justin has a debt of around $2.4B in user assets owed across Huobi and Tron ecosystems”.
https://x.com/adamscochran/status/1706329246778413559
Binance is seeking to launch stablecoins denominated in the dollar, euro and yen in Japan next year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/binance-seeks-to-launch-stablecoins-in-japan-with-mufg-unit
Binance reopened registration and access to products and services in Belgium.
https://x.com/binanceflemish/status/1706310144366129565
The Polkadot team said it is working on a solution that should increase parachain throughput by 8x.
https://www.polkadot.network/blog/elevating-polkadots-performance-and-scale-with-asynchronous-backing
The reason for the Mixin ($200 million) hack is a hack into a cloud service where the company stored private keys of deposit addresses, according to BloxSec.
https://x.com/blocksecteam/status/1706319766544155068
There is a small growth on the market.
In a few hours, BTC grew by 1.5%, ETH by 2%.
https://dropstab.com/
Binance Futures will launch the USDⓈ-M GLMR perpetual contract at 2023-09-26 01:30 UTC, with up to 10x leverage.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-futures-will-launch-usd%E2%93%A2-m-glmr-perpetual-contract-with-up-to-10x-leverage-155dd1d3b26d48918d75d263833a5d1d
Polymarket has launched a sweepstakes on LayerZero airdrop until October 31st.
https://polymarket.com/event/layerzero-airdrop-by-oct-31
Merit Circle DAO voted in favor of converting its MC token to BEAM token at a ratio of 1:100.
The BEAM token will have the same utility as the MC token currently has.
https://vote.meritcircle.io/#/proposal/0xafa7bd1d6ef1ac550f64ac73b2bad7b2a79bb4047de924f5c1cfe9252887f0d7