Crypto News Weekly Recap 📰
28th August — 5th September
▫️ Grayscale won a lawsuit against the SEC. The regulator postponed the decision on bitcoin-ETF.
▫️ Bloomberg analysts forecasted a 75% chance of a spot Bitcoin ETF in 2023.
▫️ Developer Pepe accuses ex-team members of stealing $15 million.
▫️ US SEC charges Impact Theory for selling NFTs as unregistered securities.
▫️ Binance will stop supporting BUSD in 2024.
▫️ BlackRock has invested over $400 million in mining companies.
▫️ LSE Group looks to build blockchain-powered trading venue.
▫️ Swift tokenization experiments used Sepolia testnet via Chainlink CCIP.
▫️ OG wallet drainer update: LastPass appears to be the common link.
▫️ Rune Christensen proposes Maker chain, use hard forks to recover from governance attacks or tech failures.
▫️ Vitalik sells MakerDAO stake after Christensen suggests Solana-based blockchain.
▫️ Gitcoin Grants 18 closed, $680k donated from 47k donors.
▫️ Class action against Uniswap dismissed, not liable for third-party misuse.
▫️ Balancer disclosed vulnerability exploited for $2.1 million.
▫️ Lido is very close to breaching the 33% threshold.
▫️ SharedStake (Liquid staking) 105 ETH exploit, infinite mint via invalid ownership checks.
▫️ Argent and StarkNet partnered to launch the venture studio Hito Studios.
▫️ OKX, Bybit, and KuCoin removed sanctioned Russian banks from P2P platforms.
▫️ FTX wallet activity sparks token dump fears as bankruptcy hearing approaches.
▫️ OnlyFans has ETH on its balance sheet.