Buterin has partnered with Chainalysis to release a paper on Privacy Pools.

Privacy Pools, a novel smart contract-based privacy-enhancing protocol.

The core idea of the proposal is to allow users to publish a zero-knowledge proof, demonstrating that their funds (do not) originate from known (un-)lawful sources, without publicly revealing their entire transaction transaction graph.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4563364

Base Ecosystem Fund announces first six investments.

Avantis, BSX, Onboard, OpenCover, Paragraph, Truflation

https://base.mirror.xyz/yxd0L-FlWCto53pDaxIkEBdkgavvXJk4S3O_5-I33No

🇸🇻🥇 El Salvador Celebrates 2-Year Anniversary of Legalizing Bitcoin as National Currency!

Binance NFT will be discontinuing The Sandbox NFT Staking Program at 2023-09-26 06:00 UTC.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-nft-important-updates-on-the-sandbox-nft-staking-program-and-polygon-network-support-accd8386f2b64a27a880894437c76089

📣Big selling pressure is potentially coming next week.

FTX will likely get approval to liquidate its assets on Sept. 13.

FTX had $3.4B in crypto in April. The proposed plan is to sell assets worth up to $200M per week.

FTX has filed a lawsuit against LayerZero!

The claim is that LayerZero illicitly pulled out $21 million from FTX using insider tips, just prior to the exchange going down and disabling withdrawals.

Rumors: Galaxy Digital sold 3 million MATIC for $1.8 million to Coinbase and Kraken via OTC.

https://x.com/martypartymusic/status/1700612445075825000

Coinbase to discontinue services in India later this month.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/10/coinbase-india/

Justin Sun is considering acquiring FTX's holding tokens and assets to reduce their selling impact on the crypto community.

On Sept. 13, FTX can start selling $3.4 billion worth of tokens, at $200 million a week.

https://x.com/justinsuntron/status/1701265627741335573

Coinbase Prime launches a Web3 wallet for institutional and corporate clients.

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-prime-launches-web3-wallet

🚨🚨🚨 Breaking: The crypto exchange CoinEX is suspected of being hacked.

So far its ETH, TRON, and Polygon hot wallets have lost more than $27.8 million.

⚠️⚠️CPI data release today at 8:30 AM EST

Estimated rate : 3.6%

Above 3.6% : Bearish for market
Below 3.6% :Bullish for market

🚨 BREAKING: US CPI 3.7%, higher than expectations

Coinbase to integrate Bitcoin Lightning network

https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-bitcoin-lightning-network-integration-brian-armstrong

Binance has launched opBNB:

TPS : 4000 +
Block Time : 1 Sec
Tx Fees : $0.005
BNB Active Users : 1 Million

Active Polygon $USDC addresses are soaring, with 1.6 million being created in the first half of 2023 - that’s 76K per day.

$USDC transfer size surged by 281%, with wallet-to-wallet transactions making up ~40% of all $USDC transactions.

Bitcoin clean energy usage reportedly exceeds 50% — Will Tesla start accepting BTC payments

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-clean-energy-usage-exceeds-50-percent-tesla-accepting-btc-payments

Japan to allow startups to raise funds by issuing crypto instead of stocks

https://cointelegraph.com/news/japan-allows-start-ups-raise-funds-crypto-report

Largest chinese Polkadot community "PolkaWorld" halts operations after their funding proposal was rejected

https://x.com/polkaworld_org/status/1702644546923082017?s=46&t=5lzormXUPQDEENuN7kWOrA

Customers of the FTX exchange will still be able to claim their funds at claims.ftx.com

https://x.com/ftx_official/status/1703149055839244757?s=46&t=UJ2oyOyRtxtHzqZBbKqSVQ