🛢 Polish oil giant Orlen lost over $424,000,000 trying to buy Venezuelan oil through a chain of intermediaries and payments in USDT.

Three chartered tankers arrived off the coast of Venezuela, however, the state-owned company Petróleos de Venezuela stated that payment had not been received, and the ships left without cargo.

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🦊 MetaMask will automatically intervene in suspicious transactions — if after confirmation, the smart contract attempts to execute something other than what the wallet showed in the preview, the operation will automatically roll back.

Additionally, the wallet warns about address spoofing and transfers to new recipients, and now separately recognizes signs of investment and romance scam schemes right before sending funds.

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan wants to use associated petroleum gas from oil fields for cryptocurrency mining — instead of flaring, it will be converted into electricity directly on site.

Under the program, miners will have to give the state 10% of the mined crypto.

It was previously reported that Binance wants to make Kazakhstan a settlement hub for CIS countries.

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🔮 Markets gamblers forecasts continue to grow — weekly trading volume, excluding sports, has for the first time reached $10 billion.

In just a month and a half, it has increased almost fourfold, and on September 12–13, platforms updated the daily record — up to $3.1 billion.

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⚖️ Two employees of Robinhood were charged with insider trading — according to the investigation, they used non-public information about future Robinhood listings and opened positions on Hyperliquid in advance.

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🍿 Clarity Act did NOT gather the necessary 60 votes to move to the next stage.

The bill goes on hold.

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🇩🇪 German banking giant Deutsche Bank with assets of approximately $1.7 trillion enters cryptocurrency custody for institutional clients — the service is designed for banks, asset management companies, brokers, fintechs, and other large organizations.

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🇷🇺 Moscow Exchange launches perpetual futures on cryptocurrency indices on September 22.

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🇷🇺 In Russia, they want to ban energy companies from engaging in mining themselves — FAS has prepared a bill that will deprive generating companies of the right to be operators of mining infrastructure.

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🇺🇸 The Fed rate was raised for the first time this year — from 3.75% to 4%.

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🗽 After the failure of CLARITY Act in the Senate, SEC and CFTC decided not to wait for Congress and are preparing their own rules for the crypto market within the framework of existing powers.

The heads of both regulators explicitly stated that they want to give the market more certainty even without a new law.

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🐋 Crypto has already made 135,700 people dollar millionaires, but truly rich are few — over $100 million in wealth is held by only 290 people, and billionaires — 23.

At the same time, about 742 million people worldwide own cryptocurrency.

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