Weekly news digest:

💎 Crypto

🔸 Grayscale has officially announced the creation and public launch of Grayscale $XRP Trust 

🔸 Flowcarbon is returning investor funds because Goddess Nature Token was not issued

🔸 You can now check your Catizen CATI airdrop 😺

🔸 PancakeSwap has introduced a new Telegram bot that allows users to make price predictions for BNB price

🔸 The HMSTR token will have a total supply of 100 billion tokens, the project will be launched on Binance Launchpad 

🔸 Nubank announced today that they will end operations with their crypto token, Nucoin

🏦 Crypto exchanges

🔸 Indonesian crypto exchange Indodax was suspected to have been exploited for $18.2 million

🔸 Coinbase launched their version of Wrapped BTC on Base blockchain 🌀

🔸 Kraken has responded to the SEC's claim that it violated federal securities laws, arguing digital assets aren’t securities

🔸 Revolute added support for the TON coin, currently available for UK and EU users

💵 Finances and Economy

🔸 Interest on U.S. debt tops $1 trillion for the first time

🔸 The European Central Bank has cut interest rate by 0.25% to 3.5% 🇪🇺

🔸 US inflation falls to 2.5%, lower than expectations (2.6%)

🔸 A subsidiary of the Tokyo Electric Power Company is reportedly venturing into Bitcoin mining

⚖️ Law and Order

🔸 Singapore's Parliament passed an amendment to the Casino Control Act, which includes a ban on the use of crypto in casinos

🔸 Crypto was involved in 87% of all investment fraud in 2023, per the FBI

🔸 Securities regulators in 12 US states have secured reimbursement for investors who lost money in a GSB Group investment scheme

 🗣 Personalities

🔸  Elon Musk may soon be called to testify before the United Kingdom Parliament

🔸 Donald Trump announced he is launching the World Liberty Financial crypto platform on Sept. 16 😁

🔸 FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried appealed his fraud conviction