🌶️ Telegram to share user data with authorities

The weekend was calm and we mainly ranged without any huge movements, well except for a few meme coins with higher volatility. The good thing is that bullish news keeps coming and crypto gets more attention on whole fronts.

Also, we see and hear more & more rumors about upcoming airdrops that we’ve expected, some of them came as a surprise. Even though September is usually red, I believe the last week of it is going to bring us so much positive and promising stuff that it doesn't matter anymore. Prepare for Uptober and lock in!

And here is what you’ll find in today’s edition:

• Kamala Harris promises to boost crypto if elected

• Many airdrops & opportunities soon

• Coinbase to bring cbBTC to one more network

• Ethereum Foundation keeps selling

• and more…

📰 Crypto & Finance News

• Telegram will share user data with authorities as part of the crime crackdown following the CEO’s (Pavel Durov) arrest.

• Kamala Harris pledges to boost crypto and AI growth while ensuring investor protection as president.

• Solana DEX Mango Markets may propose a $500,000 settlement to the CFTC to avoid litigation over commodities trading violations.

• EigenLayer anticipates token transfer restrictions to end on September 30.

🪂 Airdrops & Opportunities

• LogX airdrop checker is live. Claiming starts tomorrow.

• Sphere testnet One NFT minting is live again. No gas fee is required.

• deBridge token $DBR to go live on October 17th.

• Fuel announces Points Phase 2.

• Polymarket to possibly launch a token.

• Join Mitosis’ Game of Mito. Superpass code needed, reply to this email if you need one, I might still have one or two.

🤡 Degen Section

• K. Harris leads by 3% against D. Trump on Polymarket.

• $2,000 to $3 million on $NEIRO if the trader would have held the token for a few more days.

• Polymarket traders bet that Caroline Ellison most likely won't serve prison time.

🔒 Security

• Samourai Wallet has been forked into the “Ashigaru” open-source project. Ashigaru utilizes CoinJoin and other privacy mechanisms to protect users from analytical heuristics and tracking.

• Crypto lender Shezmu successfully recovers hacked funds through negotiation. Around $5 million of $shezUSD was stolen on September 21st.

🦁 Alpha & Insights

• Solana-based Drift raises $25 million to develop a “SuperApp” for DeFi trading.

• Coinbase announces plans to bring $cbBTC to the Solana network.

• SEC approval of Bitcoin ETF options is expected to “attract more big fish” to the market.

• Aleo’s guide on staking.

• Celestia's Foundation, a blockchain data-availability project, raises $100M.

📈 Other Metrics & Numbers

• The Ethereum Foundation sold 100 ETH ($264,000) again in under three days, bringing its total sales to 3,566 ETH ($9.94 million) this year. They keep selling…

• 91.1% of derivative traders in India lost money in FY24 reports India’s market regulator.

• One lucky GameStop customer wins 1 BTC by spending $33 on a pack of trading cards.

• Bitcoin ETFs reach a new high with $17.7 billion in inflows.

😶‍🌫️ To Cheer You Up

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