❌🇪🇺 The EU approved the 19th package of sanctions against Russia - release

➠ For the first time, the EU introduces restrictions on cryptocurrency (❗️) platforms through which Russia is trying to circumvent sanctions.

➠ All cryptocurrency transactions (❗️) for Russian residents will be blocked.

➠ The rules for international payment and credit systems have been tightened if they are related to Russia or help it build bypass schemes. Prohibition of the use of the MIR payment system in international settlements.

➠ New Russian banks and financial structures have been added to the sanctions lists.

➠ Restrictions also apply to foreign banks, which help Russia build parallel settlement systems.

➠ It is forbidden to use alternative payment channels created to bypass SWIFT and Western payments.

➠ New measures have been introduced against the so-called «shadow fleet» transporting Russian oil bypassing sanctions (another +118 vessels).

➠ Control over trading companies and intermediaries involved in the supply of oil and oil products has been tightened. Direct sanctions against Rosneft and Gazprom Neft.

➠ The list of prohibited dual-use goods and technologies has been expanded.

➠ Special emphasis is placed on electronics, equipment and components that can be used in the military industry.

➠ The main purpose of the package is to block the ways of circumventing the existing sanctions, reduce Russia’s revenues from oil exports and financial transactions, limit access to technologies and resources.

➠ The European Commission has NOT included restrictions on the issuance of Schengen visas to Russians.

➠ Expansion of the list of prohibited imports: chemicals, ores, metals, salts. Sanctions against 45 Russian and foreign companies, including Indian and Chinese organizations.

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#onchain
😐 CryptoQuant: Reducing the Fed rate by 25 b.p. stimulates risk appetite among institutionals and whales - open interest in BTC futures on Binance increased by 4.7% after the Fed meeting.

Open interest (OI) is the total number of all current futures contracts for an asset. The impact of OI growth on the market: more positions and capital accumulates, increasing liquidity and potential volatility.

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😏 Justin Sun said that 100% of the income from the SunPerp exchange will be sent to buy back the #SUN token.

Broadcast: link

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🇧🇴 CEO Tether: Toyota, BYD and Yamaha now accept payments in #USDT in Bolivia.

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#rumors
😯 There are rumors on the network about the hacking of the Bybit exchange.

At the same time, the company officially denied the information about the hacker attack, assuring users that all means are safe, and trading systems work without failures.

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#Calendar
⚡️ Calendar of key events for this week:

Monday, September 22:
- nothing important

Tuesday, September 23:
🇪🇺 EU - Manufacturing/Services/Composite PMI (Sep) - 11:00
🇺🇸 USA - Manufacturing/Services/Composite PMI (Sep) - 16:45
🔥 USA - Conference with J. Powell - 19:35

Wednesday, September 24:
- nothing important

Thursday, September 25:
🔥 USA - GDP (2nd quarter) - 15:30
🇺🇸 USA - Initial Jobless Claims - 15:30
🇺🇸 USA - Durable Goods Orders (Aug) - 15:30
🇺🇸 USA - Fed Balance - 23:30

Friday, September 26:
🔥 USA - PCE Price index (Aug) - 15:30

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💸 Ronin will launch a #RON buyback program from September 29.

Within a month, Ronin Treasury will exchange 100% of its ETH and USDC for a RON token.

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🇨🇳 China’s financial regulator ordered Hong Kong companies to suspend the tokenization of real assets (RWA).

The reason is the too rapid growth of interest in digital assets outside the mainland.

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😏 BitMine has already bought #ETH for $10,000,000,000 - release

On the balance sheet: 2,416,054 ETH ($10.1b), 192 BTC ($22m), $175,000,000 in Eightco shares and $345,000,000 free funds.

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🤑 SV: Net inflow of funds to spot Bitcoin ETFs for the past week = $886,650,000.

In Ethereum ETF, the net inflow of money for the past week amounted to $556,920,000.

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🔥 Michael Sailor bought 850 BTC ($100m) - announcement

Purchase price: ~$117,344.

Now on the balance sheet Strategy 639.835 BTC ($72.1b).

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🍸 #ASTER Changpeng Zhao actively promotes DEX Aster, a competitor of Hyperliquid...

➠ The other day CZ publicly congratulated the Aster team on the launch. After that, the ASTER token reacted to growth, and interest in the exchange increased noticeably.

➠ Regular CZ posts became a catalyst for hype around the project.

➠ Aster received support from BNB Chain: mentoring, infrastructure and marketing assistance.

➠ YZi Labs, a venture fund previously associated with Binance Labs, invested in the project.

➠ Today, the project team announced that ASTER holders will be able to take advantage of a 5% discount on the processing of transactions under perpetual contracts.

➠ Hyperliquid direct call - Aster has already launched futures trading on the #HYPE token with a leverage of up to 300x.

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🔥 Wisdomtree will apply for the launch of CoinDesk 20 Fund.

The portfolio will include: #BTC, #ETH, #XRP, #SOL, #ADA, #LINK, #SUI, #AVAX, #XLM, #HBAR, #BCH, #LTC, #UNI, #APT, #NEAR, #ICP, #DOT, #AAVE, #POL, #FIL.

The document is currently displayed only on the official website of the state of Delaware - usually followed by an application to the SEC.

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#scam
😟 And this happens: The hacker who hacked UXLINK fell for phishing himself and lost 542,000,000 #UXLINK ($48m).

P.S. In total, the attacker stole 490,000,000 UXLINK ($45m) and crushed another 2,000,000,000 UXLINK ($187m).

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📈 Investors are waiting for a new wave of crypto market volatility after liquidations of $1,500,000,000 (Bloomberg)

In addition, on Friday there will be an expiration of $23,000,000,000 in BTC and ETH options - one of the largest volumes in history.

Traders are betting on extremes - a decrease in BTC below $95,000 or a sharp increase above $140,000.

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🤝 #GALEON Samsung announced a partnership with Galeon.

The company connects its ultrasonic devices to the Galeon protocol (DeSci + AI).

Now data from 18 hospitals in France will be used anonymously to train medical decentralized AI models.

The main thing:
⊹ The data is not stored on the blockchain, only the AI-algorithm (with full transparency) works on-chain.
⊹ Each hospital retains control over patient information.
⊹ Models are trained in a decentralized manner without the transfer of personal data.

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan launches the «national stablecoin» Evo (#KZTE) on the Solana blockchain in partnership with Mastercard.

KZTE is tied to tenge and is already working in the regulatory «sandbox» of the National Bank.

The issuers are the Intebix exchange and the Eurasian Bank, and Mastercard connects it to global stablecoin issuers.

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🔽 SoSoValue: The outflow of money from spot Bitcoin ETFs has resumed, -$363,170,000 yesterday.

Outflow from Ethereum ETF (#ETH) for yesterday = -$75,950,000.

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