ββBinance will gradually delist BUSD spot and margin trading pairs till February 2024. On September 7th Binance will suspend BUSD borrowings on Cross Margin and suspend withdrawals of BUSD tokens via BNB Chain, Avalanche, Polygon and Tron networks. Deposits and withdrawals of BUSD (ERC-20) tokens via Ethereum network will continue to be supported until further notice.
ββBitcoin monthly returns: 2011-2023. Bitcoin is down around 11% in August.
ββTop 20 most discussed cryptocurrencies on Twitter in August 2023. In the chart below you can find a share of mentions of each coin among top 150 coins by market cap.
ββSome of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. August 2023, part 3.
ββDusk Network has released its updated roadmap today. Mainnet rollout is scheduled for March, 2024.
ββWeb traffic to crypto exchanges in August 2023. According to the data from SimilarWeb in August a cumulative web traffic to cryptocurrency exchanges has remained at the same level.
ββSome of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. September 2023, part 1.
According to CyversAlerts CoinEx seems to have been hacked atm. Around $28M being drained so far on ETH, TRON, Polygon. If you have funds there withdraw immediately.
ββCoinbase lists VeChain (VET) and VeThor (VTHO) on September 13. Trading will begin on or after 9:30 AM PT on 13 Sept 2023, if liquidity conditions are met.
ββopBNB Mainnet is going live on September 13. opBNB, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible Layer 2 chain based on Optimism OP Stack.
ββHuobi Exchange to undergo rebranding and will rename itself to HTX. Huobiβs official Twitter and Telegram accounts have been changed to HTX already.
ββClayStack is launching the first DVT-based Ethereum Liquid Staking. According to the blog post ClayStack will incentivize early participants in CLAY token through Initial Governance Diversification program. 5% of the token supply has been reserved for this activity.
ββSome of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. September 2023, part 2.
ββCrypto startup Bastion raises $25M in funding round led by a16z crypto. An Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup bent on bringing blockchain technology to the corporate world has managed to raise new funds, despite the bear market in digital assets. Investors also include Nomura Groupβs Laser Digital Ventures, Robot Ventures and crypto influencer Packy McCormickβs Not Boring Capital, among others.
ββThe crypto gaming company Proof of Play raised $33M in a seed round, with investors including a16z crypto, Anchorage Digital and Naval Ravikant. Other participants in the round included Balaji Srinivasan, Twitch founders Justin Kan and Emmett Shear, in addition to Mercury, Firebase, Zynga, and Alchemy.
ββSome of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. September 2023, part 3.
ββCelestia announced airdrop details that will take place later this year. The Genesis Drop invites 7,5k developers and 577k onchain addresses on Ethereum rollups, Cosmos Hub, and Osmosis to join Celestia. The Genesis Drop allocates 60M TIA (6% of total supply) across Public GitHub contributors, Modular Fellows (cohort 1), active users of the top 10 rollups by TVL and Cosmos stakers.
Binance fully exits Russia with sale to CommEX. The off-boarding process will take up to one year.
ββSubsquid is launching incentivized testnet on CoinList. 2% of total token supply is allocated as rewards. 13.3M SQD will be allocated to developers of indexers (squids) and other participating community members. Another 13.3M SQD will be rewarded to worker node operators. Subsquid is a blockchain indexing SDK and a distributed data storage.
ββBitcoin monthly returns: 2011-2023. It was the first green September since 2016. Bitcoin is up around 4% in September 2023.
ββTop 20 most discussed cryptocurrencies on Twitter in September 2023. In the chart below you can find a share of mentions of each coin among top 150 coins by market cap.