What Happened in the last 24 hours? (2 Oct 2023)

1. OPNX CEO meets Justin Sun

- OPNX is a new crypto exchange created by Zhu Su & Kyle Davies

- Will Justin help OPNX after Zhu is arrested in Singapore?

2. SUI will unlock $16.43 million in tokens next week

- Based on Token Unlock , apart from SUI, IMX & DYDX will also unlock tokens worth millions of dollars

- AXS will unlock $69.5 million worth of tokens in October, 11.5% of its supply

3. VanEck planned to donate 10% of profits from the Ethereum Future ETF

- This donation is for the Protocol Guild, a collection of 152 contributors from Ethereum

- They plan to donate for 10 years

- ETH price continues to rise due to these Ethereum Futures ETF rumors

4. BitMEX will sell $ETH for millions of dollars

- BitMEX plans to convert their $20.6 million ETH and $80 million USDT insurance funds to USD (fiat)

- This USD will then be deposited in a custodian account

- BitMEX still has an insurance fund of 36,700 BTC or currently worth $1 billion

5. Brazil launches blockchain-based digital ID

- More than 214 million Brazilians will start having digital IDs

- In recent years, Brazil has been trying to unify ID for its 30 states

- Apart from digital ID, Brazil is also developing CBDC

6. Over $889 million lost to Web3 in Q3 2023

- According to Beosin reports almost $300 million was lost due to rugpull

- Funds lost in Q3 surpassed Q1 & Q2's $300 & $333 million respectively

- DeFi on Ethereum is still the biggest target of hackers and rogue devs

7. Ghana is bankrupt!

-  Ghana has relied on the IMF for support 17 times,

8. Honda accepts crypto payments such as $XRP $DOGE & many cryptocurrencies.

- Thanks to a partnership with FCF Pay,

- At least  46 cryptos supported by the FCF Pay for Honda blockchain payment system

9. UBS Launches Tokenization Trial On Ethereum

-  Part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Project Guardian to tokenize real-world assets.