Telegram CEO Arrested in France & Polygon Regains Control of Discord After Hack!

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In Today’s Alpha Bytes👇

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France. Meanwhile, TON blockchain affirms support for the detained Telegram CEO as price plunges 12% and Toncoin open interest surges 32%. Polygon regains control of its Discord after hack, scam link scare. Harris and Trump return to a 50-50 standoff on Polymarket.

BTC $60,814 (+1.87%), ETH $2,625 (+0.83%), SOL $142.52 (-0.64%)

Crypto News 📰

• Elon Musk’s X reveals a shareholder list 

• Russian stock exchange denies reports it is about to launch a state-run crypto exchange

• U.S. Trustee objects to FTX plan, says creditors shouldn't pay for data breach

• Mac users warned over malware ‘Cthulhu’ that steals crypto wallets

• Crypto advocates file brief against SEC's investor tracking database

• Tether has ‘redistributed’ $108.8M in USDT from illicit activity since 2014

• Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs top $250M AUM

• WazirX slams external forces for delaying restructuring efforts

• Stakeholders urge Nigeria to adopt compliance-focused crypto regulation

• Thai authorities raid illegal Bitcoin mine behind local power outages

• Ronin bridge hack caused by error in upgrade deployment script — Verichains

• SEC lawsuit against Kraken to proceed

• Bitcoin mining opportunity is worth about $74B, JPMorgan says

• DNA computing breakthrough could turn living cells into functioning blockchains

• RFK Jr.’s suspended White House bid creates chaos on Polymarket

• The U.S. state of Wyoming is promoting crypto payments 

• Ethereum Foundation transferred ETH to Kraken Deposit

• DCG announced that it had fully repaid its short-term debt

• Argentina leads Latin America in Ethereum education 

Project Updates 🔥 

• PayPal and Anchorage partner on PYUSD stablecoin rewards program

• Memecoin Shiba Inu unveils plans to launch DAO

• Cardano delays Chang hardfork for Binance, other CEX upgrades

• Optimism announces Retro Funding 5 on X

• Radix announces a $37M XRD grant fund for ecosystem development

• ZKsync announces the near completion of Aave v3 deployment

• PayPal partners with crypto platform Anchorage Digital to offer stablecoin rewards

• Fastest Sun Pump fun coin to ever hit 200M market cap

• @phantom streamlines UX

• POPCAT was just listed on Binance and Kucoin

• @SimonsCat got 20M+ followers across all social medias

• TON memecoin DOGS will be issued

• @pumpdotfun new paradigm

Threads 🧵 

• Statement from the TON community

• A summary of the recent MEV internalization discussion

• Let’s recap their 7 keys to success

• ETH once pumped 6X months after a big Ethereum Foundation sale

• Jackson Hole 2024 highlights

• Bitfarm's acquisition of Stronghold is a strategic move 

• Bitcoin Friday's move

• Important status by Vitalik

• Solana Foundation holds 12% of SOL

• Understanding the $JLP token

• Fantasy Top is seriously heating up 

• Since Blur Season 3 ended

• Why Tether doesn’t want its own blockchain

Launches 🚀 

• Ticket.Fans to launch an invitation-based beta test for the BTC ecosystem token platform

• Synthetix launches a multi-collateral feature on Arbitrum.

• Polar Bear launches bonus plans for PBC users.

• Curvance launches public testnets on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Berachain.

• Cosmos Hub successfully launches the v19 version

Fundraise 💰

• Stork Network secures $4M in seed funding

• Arch secures $5M in seed funding

• Ark Labs secures $2.5M in pre-seed funding

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