Summary of the day from July 08 to 26
🇺🇸 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.
🇺🇸 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.
🇩🇪 Bitcoin is not sold by Germany, but by Saxony, a federal state within the Federal Republic of Germany.
🤖 Microsoft and Apple likely to drop seats on OpenAI’s board due to antitrust scrutiny.
🇺🇸 The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said that 70-80% of cryptocurrencies are not securities.
🇺🇸 Inflation in the United States has fallen to 3%, the previous figure was 3.3%.
⚖️ BitMEX pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act.
😵 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.
🇩🇪 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.
🇰🇷 South Korea wants to delay cryptocurrency taxation by 3 years over fears that investors will flee to other jurisdictions.
🇪🇺 Circle CEO says MiCA requires stablecoin issuers to keep 30-60% of their reserves in European banks.
🦄 Uniswap Chrome extension now available.