CZ and Binance face new lawsuit for alleged laundering of stolen crypto
In an Aug. 16 class action complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, Seattle, the plaintiffs allege their crypto was stolen, and those funds were sent to Binance by the thieves to “remove the connection between the ledger and their digital assets,” making them untraceable.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-cz-face-new-class-action-lawsuit-seattle
Mt Gox has moved 784M of BTC to a new address
https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/tx/20548196d6169a8d9999a83ba42b5a749f2d80d23a536888f2017c26a3ee9aa4
The crypto market correction
BTC Dominance - 55.25%
Market Cap - $2.12T
BTC - $59,268.54 (-2.34%)
ETH - $2,588.55 (-2.78%)
BNB - $563.3 (-0.86%)
SOL - $142.41 (-2.14%)
XRP - $0.5968 (-1.84%)
ZRO - $3.37 (-3.07%)
TON - $6.63 (-2.9%)
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Clearpool has unveiled Ozean — the first blockchain for RWA yield built on and supported by Optimism
CPOOL will power the Ozean ecosystem with a new staking mechanism to reward stakers.
https://x.com/ClearpoolFin/status/1825880491196821806
Grass: „As we gear up for the airdrop, please make sure you have linked your preferred wallet to your Grass account. After August 23rd, you won’t be able to change your linked wallet until after the airdrop. If you haven’t linked your wallet yet, you will still be able to do so!“
https://x.com/getgrass_io/status/1825620962789789918
Babylon Bitcoin Staking Mainnet Launch
▫️It plans to launch the first phase of its main network on Aug. 22, at ~12:45 UTC.
▫️During Phase-1, every stake is set with a maximum staking time (i.e., the time-lock in the Bitcoin staking script) of 64,000 Bitcoin blocks , which is approximately 15 months.
▫️There will be an on-chain unbonding period of 1008 Bitcoin blocks (roughly 7 days and defined in the unbonding Bitcoin script), after which the stake will expire and become available for withdrawal.
▫️FCFS
▫️There will be an initial total staking cap of 1,000 bitcoins
▫️Minimum stake: 0.005 bitcoins
▫️Maximum stake: 0.05 bitcoins
Website: https://babylonlabs.io/
X: https://x.com/babylonlabs_io
https://babylonlabs.io/blog/babylon-bitcoin-staking-mainnet-launch-phase-1
Base will launch Basenames
When Basenames launch, all names will be listed via Dutch auction with prices decreasing over 36 hours.
This will give everyone a fair shot at securing a name they love and prevent bots from snatching them up.
https://x.com/base/status/1825619708093362321
Donald Trump says he would offer Elon Musk a cabinet or advisory role if elected President.
https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1825635663779344537
Kamala Harris likely to nominate Gary Gensler as Treasury Secretary if elected
https://washingtonreporter.news/editorial/scoop-kamala-harris-likely-to-nominate-gary-gensler-as-treasury-secretary-if-elected-senate-sources/
Solana-based crypto trading platform Drift is adding prediction markets to its product lineup, placing a bet on Polymarket-style election betting.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/08/19/cryptos-bet-on-election-betting-expands-to-solana/
💧 New Coins in Accumulation Phase Backed by Top Tier VCs
👉 https://dropstab.com/tab/accumulation-with-top-funds-sr3wocefnz
HashKey Group and Catizen are teaming up to create Web3 gaming experiences and build the next-gen GameFi together in the Ton ecosystem.
https://group.hashkey.com/en/newsroom/hashkey-group-catizen
The DOGS listing has been rescheduled to August 23 at 12:00 UTC
https://x.com/realDogsHouse/status/1825233926560043214
The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 55.22%
Market Cap - $2.10T
BTC - $58,730.81 (-1.77%)
ETH - $2,643.74 (+1.45%)
BNB - $536.8 (+0.09%)
SOL - $143.33 (+1.25%)
XRP - $0.5665 (-0.1%)
ZRO - $3.46 (-0.27%)
TON - $7.02 (+8.09%)
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Second Solana ETF Approved in Brazil
The product will be launched by Brazil-based asset manager Hashdex in partnership with local investment bank BTG Pactual.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/08/20/second-solana-etf-approved-in-brazil/
Tether minted $1 billion USDT on the Ethereum network
https://whale-alert.io/transaction/ethereum/0xc0b134704edb80cfea822f8c6c47e2424fb7e8635a6f25e25c252646c1fecbfc
Binance has announced the 57th project on Binance Launchpool — Dogs (DOGS).
Users will be able to stake their BNB and FDUSD into separate pools to farm DOGS tokens over three days, with farming starting from 2024-08-23 00:00 UTC.
Binance will then list DOGS at 2024-08-26 12:00 UTC and open trading with DOGS/USDT, DOGS/BNB, DOGS/FDUSD and DOGS/TRY trading pairs.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/fc967d5825774984829b96943a42fadf
Tether minted $1 billion USDT on the Tron network
https://tronscan.org/#/transaction/178456f93bb073218320112d2e6b4601f85a6e1617cf117c40633f722c16daf5
All the forced selling of Bitcoin is behind us. Bitcoin really hits its stride here, so we're buyers, says VanEck's Head of Digital Assets.
https://x.com/BTC_Archive/status/1825655718764003464
Spot ETF Flow on 19.08: BTC-ETF +$61.98M, ETH-ETF -$13.52M
https://sosovalue.com/assets/etf/us-btc-spot
SEC talks with ETF issuers over concerns of Solana being a security preceded Cboe removing
https://www.theblock.co/post/311937/sec-talks-etf-issuers-concerns-solana-security-source
The crypto market is growing
BTC Dominance - 55.52%
Market Cap - $2.16T
BTC - $60,686.89 (+3.44%)
ETH - $2,662 (+0.73%)
BNB - $568.5 (+6.25%)
SOL - $145.54 (+1.76%)
XRP - $0.6079 (+7.13%)
TON - $6.82 (-2.25%)
ZRO - $3.48 (+1.04%)
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Seven hours ago a suspicious transfer was made from a potential victim for 4064 BTC ($238M)
Transaction hash
4b277ba298830ea538086114803b9487558bb093b5083e383e94db687fbe9090
Funds were quickly transferred to ThorChain, eXch, Kucoin, ChangeNow, Railgun, Avalanche Bridge.
https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1825499490956231021
Sahara Discord was compromised.
Do not click any links or respond to any messages until further notice.
https://x.com/SaharaLabsAI/status/1825496237514375564
Tether (USD₮) To Launch on Aptos Blockchain
https://tether.io/news/tether-usd%E2%82%AE-to-launch-on-aptos-blockchain/
Swell took White Pearls snapshot
https://x.com/swellnetworkio/status/1825080773118173625
Polymarket data shows Harris ahead of Trump
https://polymarket.com/event/presidential-election-winner-2024?tid=1724032361405