The FBI created its own crypto

Happens on-chain

• Trump’s project World Liberty Financial posts governance proposal to deploy Aave V3 instance — aave.com
• World Liberty Financial announces plans to expand on Scroll (besides Ethereum) to offer cheaper fees — 𝕏/worldlibertyfi
• World Liberty Financial set to raise $300M at $1.5B valuation — The Block
• Chainalysis CEO steps back for ‘personal issue’ after 10 years of service — The Block
• The Chinese government started sending to exchanges ETH seized from PlusToken in 2020, 542K tokens ( ~ $1.3B) remaining — 𝕏/ErgoBTC
• dYdX Founder Antonio Juliano returns as CEO after stepping down in May — 𝕏/AntonioMJuliano
• Unusual surge in volume for fan tokens, OG Esports leads the way — The Block
• Echo competitor Legion aiming to solve extractive private markets drops whitepaper — 𝕏/legiondotcc

Traditional rails

• US Justice Department charged 4 companies and 14 people on fraud allegations, FBI helped infiltrate the scheme creating its own coin — The Block
• US Judge approved FTX reorganization plan, nearing distribution of $16B recovered assets — Blockworks
• Crypto.com receives Wells Notice from the SEC, charges back suing the SEC — crypto.com
• Following a crypto data breach, three individuals posed as delivery guys and robbed an 𝕏 user out of $4.3M in June 2024 — 𝕏/zachxbt
• Media company Blockworks announces advisory arm — 𝕏/blockworksres
• New HBO documentary ‘Money Electric’ claims Peter Todd is likely to be Satoshi Nakamoto — The Block
• Coinbase to delist stablecoins noncompliant with MiCA in EU by December — CoinDesk
• Crypto sponsors flood premier league as gambling gets pushed out — Bloomberg
• UAE exempts crypto transaction from value-added tax — CoinDesk
• Stripe reinstates USDC crypto payments for US businesses — The Block
• Ripple plans to ‘Cross-appeal’ SEC case — CoinDesk

Tech go up

• Uniswap unveils Unichain L2, set to feature 250ms blocks, cheap fees, and less MEV — CoinDesk
• EIP-7781 proposal aims to reduce slot time from 12 to 8 seconds, boosting transaction throughput — Github
• Celo blockchain launches Alfajores L2 testnet via hardfork
• KYC chain Kinto L2 introduces cross-chain swaps with Musubi upgrade — 𝕏/ramonrecuero
• Linea proposes decentralization roadmap including PoS model for block validation — The Block
• deBridge unveils Hooks for cross-chain data transfers and dApp triggers — The Block
• Solana aggregator Jupiter has launched a mobile version — jup.ag

Where’s the money flowing?

• VanEck launches $30M fund to invest in Crypto, AI, and Fintech — CoinDesk
• Interoperability permissionless network Delta raised $11M round — crypto-fundraising.info
• Telegram’s TON raised $10M round by Gate Ventures — crypto-fundraising.info
• Biometric network Humanode raised $10M round — crypto-fundraising.info
• Bitcoin L2 BitLayer raised $9M Series A led by Polychain Capital and Franklin Templeton — crypto-fundraising.info
• Binance Labs invests undisclosed sum in Sophon, ZkSync Elastic Chain — The Block

Airdrops

• Ethena S2 ENA claim is live — 𝕏/ethena_labs
• Mantle memecoin Puff to announce ‘ultimate trilemma’ in a few days — 𝕏/puff_drgn
• Scroll announces TGE and Airdrop claim on Oct, 22 — scroll.io & marks value
• HyperLiquid points campaign ended. TGE soon?
• Swell’s airdrop is live — 𝕏/swellnetworkio
• Optimism announces fifth airdrop wave allocating 10.3M OP($15M) — optimism.io
• Thruster, DEX on Blast, enables airdrop claim — thruster.finance
• Mantle is nearing the launch of COOK, the governance token for the LRT token cmETH — 𝕏/mETHProtocol
• Puffer airdrop claim opens on Oct, 14 — The Block

Upcoming events

• October, 10: U.S. CPI
• October, 12-17: UAE Web3 Fest
• October, 16: Tentative date for Uniswap v4 release — 𝕏/RobMcStodda
• October, 18: JPY inflation rate
• October, 23-24: Cardano Summit
• October, 30: TIA unlocks $1.05B
• December, 5-6: Emergence conference in Prague

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