Summary of the day from July 08 to 26

đŸ‡ș🇾 The CEO of the analytics company Messari was very tough on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

🇳🇬 The Central Bank of Nigeria accuses Binance of illegal banking transactions.

📊 In June 2024, CEX traffic remained virtually unchanged, Binance remained the absolute leader.

đŸ‡ș🇾 The US Department of Defense will start using blockchain technology.

🧬 Worldcoin plans to launch a World Chain layer 2 (L2) network.

💾 Fees on the Bitcoin network have fallen to their lowest level in 4 years.

đŸ‡©đŸ‡Ș Bitcoin is not sold by Germany, but by Saxony, a federal state within the Federal Republic of Germany.

đŸ€– Microsoft and Apple likely to drop seats on OpenAI’s board due to antitrust scrutiny.

đŸ‡ș🇾 The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said that 70-80% of cryptocurrencies are not securities.

đŸ‡ș🇾 Inflation in the United States has fallen to 3%, the previous figure was 3.3%.

⚖ BitMEX pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act.

đŸ˜” Former FTX Digital Market CEO Ryan Salame, who was sentenced to 7.5 years, said that Alameda and FTX made a huge amount of money and that Sam stole it.

⚡SEC drops investigation into Paxos over BUSD stablecoin, saying it is not a security.

đŸ‡©đŸ‡Ș Deutsche Bank to issue its own regulated stablecoin by June 2025.

🐾 Genesis Trading moved 12,000 BTC ($760 million) to Coinbase in the past month.

📊 Chainalysis analysts estimated that around $100 billion worth of “dirty” crypto has been sent to CEXs in 5 years.

⚖ Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was denied bail. The developer was sentenced to 5 years and 4 months in prison.

🇹🇳 Mike Novogratz said China could lift restrictions on BTC as early as Q4 2024.

đŸ‡°đŸ‡· South Korea wants to delay cryptocurrency taxation by 3 years over fears that investors will flee to other jurisdictions.

đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș Circle CEO says MiCA requires stablecoin issuers to keep 30-60% of their reserves in European banks.

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