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Pavel Durov Arrest and Its Implications for Crypt0
Telegram founder Pavel Durov was detained in Paris, facing charges such as money laundering, aiding terrorism, and involvement with child exploitation content.
Authorities are concerned about Telegram's encrypted messaging being used by criminals, and Durov’s refusal to cooperate has led to increased scrutiny.
Durov's arrest raises concerns about government overreach impacting secure communications.
Toncoin $TON fell 20% after the arrest. The arrest brings uncertainty to the future of TON and raises concerns about the regulatory environment surrounding crypto projects associated with major tech platforms.
Vitalik Buterin expressed concern over the future of communication freedom, essential for blockchain and crypto growth with protests demanding Durov’s release.
New Listings
$BRETT listed on Binance futures
$POPCAT, $SUN listed on Binance futures
$SUNDOG listed on Bybit futures
Neiro ($NEIRO) listed on Bybit spot
$BRETT, $PEPE listed on Upbit spot
$DOGS listed on Aevo pre-market
Render ($RENDER), Saga ($SAGA), Threshold ($T) listed on Coinbase International future
DeFi
Clearpool ($CPOOL) launches Ozean, an RWA-focused Layer 2 blockchain within the Optimism ecosystem
Binance Labs invests in Corn, a super yield network built around Bitcoin
Tether plans to launch a UAE dirham-pegged stablecoin
Story Protocol announces $140m in total fundraising
Kamala Harris to “back measures to help grow” Bitcoin and digital assets in the USA - policy adviser — BBG
Aave becomes the first lending protocol to surpass $200M market size and $100M TVL on Base — lemiscate
Bored Ape Yacht Club announces collaboration with BAPE
$ME token claim will be coming to the @MagicEdenWallet
Is LDO even profitable right now?
Hyperliquid now represents 40% of all USDC on Arbitrum
L1, L2, & Infrastructure
Nillion announces integration with Arbitrum
Grayscale announces new single-asset crypto investment fund — Grayscale Avalanche Trust, available through private placement
Franklin Templeton Launches Tokenized Money Market Fund BENJI on the Avalanche Network
Blockworks Solana Dashboard
Optimism welcome Soneium to the Superchain built by Sony
PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin recently surpassed a $1 billion market cap
Berachain’s testnet had 2.7 million transactions
Bitcoin/ETH ETFs
Ethereum ETFs Struggle Amidst $506M Bitcoin ETF Inflows: Can ETH Match BTC's Momentum soon?
SEC talks with ETF issuers over concerns of Solana being a security preceded Cboe removing 19b-4s: THEBLOCK
Solana ETF 19b-4s were removed last week after the SEC raised concerns to the issuers that SOL is a security — The Block
Rules & Regulations
Powell says confidence in 2% inflation path has increased, time has come to adjust policy, does not seek further cooling of the labor market — Jackson Hole
SEC Charges Abra with Unregistered Offers and Sales of Crypto Asset Securities
Telegram Founder & CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken must face an SEC lawsuit accusing it of operating an unregistered securities exchange, a judge ruled
Reads & Tools
Before Binance announced the launch of the BRETT future listing, an early BRETT holder: 0x85…528e transferred 19.29 million BRETTs to Bybit at 15:59 UTC+8, worth about $1.71 million. It spent 0.067 ETH (about $178) on February 24 to purchase 96.946m BRETTs, and sold them in the past few months, earning tens of thousands of times the profit
MtGox: 13,264.844488 BTC ($784M) on the move on Aug 20
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