What happened in Crypto the last 12hrs...?
Token Launches and Partnerships
- WalletConnect unveils official native token $WCT
- TON Foundation and Curve Finance join forces to incubate a new stable-swap project on $TON
- IoTeX to work with Polygon on integrating IoTeX 2.0 with AggLayer
- $SUI partners with MoviePass to facilitate $USDC payments and will take an equity stake in the company
- Users can register for WalletConnect token airdrop from September 24, with 18.5% of $WCT tokens reserved for Season 1 airdrop
- Phantom Wallet introduces Phantom Identity known as "Usernames" to send tokens easily per their X account
Fundraising and Investments
- 'Fermah' emerges from stealth, announces $5.2M seed round led by Lemniscap and a16z Crypto's accelerator per The Block
- Base Network predictions market 'Limitless' announces $3M pre-seed round
- Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen leads $10M investment round into 'Yellow Network' per CoinTelegraph
- Dragonfly is looking to raise a new $500M fund ~ BBG
Institutional News and Tokenization
- New OMFIF survey shows belief among institutions that "substantial" tokenization is still 3+ years away per CoinDesk
- Father of Winklevoss twins donates $4M worth of $BTC to Grove City College – school’s first Bitcoin donation
Legal and Security Issues
- FTX audit firm Prager Metis agrees to pay $1.95M fine to SEC for "falsely misrepresenting" FTX's financial position per The Block
- SEC charges Nanobit and CoinW6 in 'pig butchering' schemes per The Block
- Binance denies responsibility and ownership of WazirX hack of $235M per Decrypt
Miscellaneous News
- Token 2049 winner of the KOL award Professor Crypto deactivates his X account after ZachXBT alleges Professor’s use of thousands of bots per Protos
