Crypto News Weekly Recap 📰

28th August — 5th September

▫️ Grayscale won a lawsuit against the SEC. The regulator postponed the decision on bitcoin-ETF.

▫️ Bloomberg analysts forecasted a 75% chance of a spot Bitcoin ETF in 2023.

▫️ Developer Pepe accuses ex-team members of stealing $15 million.

▫️ US SEC charges Impact Theory for selling NFTs as unregistered securities.

▫️ Binance will stop supporting BUSD in 2024.

▫️ BlackRock has invested over $400 million in mining companies.

▫️ LSE Group looks to build blockchain-powered trading venue.

▫️ Swift tokenization experiments used Sepolia testnet via Chainlink CCIP.

▫️ OG wallet drainer update: LastPass appears to be the common link.

▫️ Rune Christensen proposes Maker chain, use hard forks to recover from governance attacks or tech failures.

▫️ Vitalik sells MakerDAO stake after Christensen suggests Solana-based blockchain.

▫️ Gitcoin Grants 18 closed, $680k donated from 47k donors.

▫️ Class action against Uniswap dismissed, not liable for third-party misuse.

▫️ Balancer disclosed vulnerability exploited for $2.1 million.

▫️ Lido is very close to breaching the 33% threshold.

▫️ SharedStake (Liquid staking) 105 ETH exploit, infinite mint via invalid ownership checks.

▫️ Argent and StarkNet partnered to launch the venture studio Hito Studios.

▫️ OKX, Bybit, and KuCoin removed sanctioned Russian banks from P2P platforms.

▫️ FTX wallet activity sparks token dump fears as bankruptcy hearing approaches.

▫️ OnlyFans has ETH on its balance sheet.

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