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 đŸ˜ș

🔾 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

đŸ’” 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% đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș

🔾 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