10th October — 17th October
▫️ The SEC has no plans to appeal the Grayscale spot Bitcoin ETF.
▫️ Bitcoin’s price experiences volatility on a Monday, spiking near $30,000 following false Bitcoin ETF news.
▫️ FTX settles customer property disputes to expedite bankruptcy proceedings.
▫️ HTX (formerly Huobi) stolen funds have been fully returned; the hacker returned all the funds.
▫️ Stars Arena’s hacker has returned 90% of the funds after the exploit, with the team confirming the return of 239,493 AVAX in exchange for a 10% bounty.
▫️ A Wise Lending exploit was front-run by MEV searcher c0ffeebabe.
▫️ Threshold tBTC vulnerabilities have been disclosed, including a DoS vector and a redemption mechanism design flaw.
▫️ Australia proposes crypto exchange regulation within existing laws.
▫️ Upbit obtains initial approval for a digital asset license in Singapore.
▫️ Fidelity Digital Assets becomes the first enterprise client of EY’s blockchain tool.
▫️ BlackRock used a tokenized money market fund as collateral in an OTC derivatives trade on JPMorgan’s Onyx platform.
▫️ The CFTC and FTC charge former Voyager CEO Stephen Ehrlich.
▫️ Tornado Cash compliance tool users are urged to help the defense of Alex Pertsev in the Netherlands.
▫️ Vitalik proposes staking design changes to give delegators the power to choose nodes and participate in consensus, aiming to improve decentralization and reduce consensus overhead.
▫️ Lido Finance faced a slashing penalty of more than $30,000.
▫️ The Lido Finance community voted to stop supporting Solana staking.
▫️ Uniswap announces a 0.15% fee to swap certain tokens on its web interface and wallet.
▫️ The Ethereum L2 Scroll went live on the mainnet.
▫️ Farcaster, a social network, is now permissionless on Optimism.
▫️ Native USDC tokens have gone live on Polygon.
▫️ The opBNB-based AI platform MyShell raises funds at a $57 million valuation.
▫️ Ferrari plans to accept cryptocurrency for luxury car purchases.
