Issue #65

Regulation

1. NY proposes updated guidelines for coin listings

-- Requirements to assess legal, reputational, and market risks before token listing

-- Set procedures for de-listing a token

-- Updated list of greenlighted coins

2. Malta begins public consultation on revised crypto rules that align with MiCA

-- Public feedback welcome until Sep 29

3. Kazakhstan establishes regulatory agency to implement a CBDC

-- CBDC launch date set for 2025

-- Binance is one of the principal partners for the project, providing its BNB Chain-based solution for the pilot phase

4. Thailand introducing new rule that requires overseas crypto income to be taxed

Infrastructure

1. Bosch, Mobix, and Peaq Network are collaborating on a blockchain-based digital mobility project with the German government

-- The project uses self-sovereign identity to enable autonomous transactions between vehicles and connected infrastructure

2. Canto and Astar announce plans to migrate from their respective L1s to Ethereum-based L2s (zk-rollups)

3. Consensys sunsets Truffle and Ganache developer toolkits

-- Partnering with HardHat to help developers transition to MetaMask Snaps and SDK

4. Base surpasses Solana in TVL

-- Base: $397M; Solana: $359M

5. Ethereum's Holesky testnet launch postponed due to a misconfiguration in one of the genesis files

6. Chris Donovan set to be the new CEO of NEAR Foundation

Finance

1. PayPal's stablecoin (PYUSD) now available for use on Venmo

2. Citi completes pilots for a tokenization service dedicated to cash management and trade finance

-- Intended to replace bank guarantees and letters of credit

-- Use of a private, permissioned blockchain

3. Blockchain Capital closes 2 new funds totaling $580M

-- $380M reserved for early stage opportunities and remaining capital earmarked for an opportunity fund

4. CoinShares is launching a crypto hedge fund in the US

5. Oak Grove Ventures launching a $60M fund with a focus on AI, web3, and biotech

-- Team includes former employees of Sino Global Capital, Libra, Alchemy Pay, and Coinbase

6. Galaxy Digital has appointed Leon Marshall as its first European CEO

7. Tonya Evans has been added to DCG's Board of Directors

8. Crypto VC Scalar Capital halting investment activity

-- Co-Founder and MD Linda Xie going back to building

9. Outlier Ventures has appointed Stephan Apel as its new CEO

-- Former CEO Jamie Burke transitioning to Chairman after nearly a decade in the role

Consumer

1. Magic Eden announces support for Solana's compressed NFTs

-- Compressed NFTs allow creators to mint a large number of NFTs in a cost-efficient manner (e.g. 1M NFTs for ~$110)

Security

1. $70M stolen from crypto exchange CoinEx due to vulnerability in wallet infra

2. Balancer's website compromised leading to an estimated $300k stolen

-- Caused by a social engineering attack on EuroDNS, the domain registrar used for .fi TLDs

3. Discord crypto trading bot None Trading shuts down after discovery of critical exploit

4. Indian government developing a tool to combat crypto crime

-- Will monitor crypto wallet addresses in the dark net and inform regulators of irregular or unusual crypto activities

5. Crypto data provider Nansen reported a security breach affecting 6.8% of its users

-- Emails, password hashes, and blockchain addresses of users exposed

6. Coinbase open-sources security tool called Pessimism

7. Linear USD liquidity drained on PancakeSwap and Ascendex

-- Resulted in the price of Linear USD going to 0

Research

1. Generic selfish mining MDP for DAG protocols (source)

2. The spatiotemporal scaling laws of Bitcoin transactions (source)

3. GPU-based microarchitectural extensions to accelerate homomorphic encryption (source)

-- A hardware architecture that achieves avg speedups of 796x, 14.2x, and 2.3x over Intel Xeon CPU, NVIDIA V100 GPU, and Xilinx FPGA implementations, respectively

4. Efficient avoidance of vulnerabilities in auto-completed smart contract code (source)

-- Fine-tuned a LLM to build a more secure co-pilot for smart contract programming

5. Efficient vulnerability detection in Ethereum smart contracts (source)

-- Use of a graph neural network and BERT to identify vulnerabilities in smart contracts

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