In their memo, prosecutors called Salame’s assertions “inaccurate, incomplete, and outright false” and denied that they breached their plea agreement with Salame, noting that there was “nothing in Salame’s plea agreement that suggested that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York would not criminally prosecute any of Salame’s criminal co-conspirators in consideration of his guilty plea.” Source
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Bitcoin Price (BTC) Rose 0.5% While Ether Price (ETH) Gained 0.9%
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Crypto Market to Stay Highly Correlated to Stocks Amid Macro Events and Dwindling Network Activities, Citi Says
Digital assets are expected to stay highly correlated with equities amidst the upcoming macro calendar, the report said. Source
Sonic SVM, Gaming Project on Solana Blockchain, Plans $12.8M Node Sale
The sale, scheduled for the week of Sept. 16, will be the first in the Solana blockchain ecosystem and will include 50,000 “Hyperfuse nodes” in 20 pricing tiers, according to the team. Proceeds will go into the project’s treasury for general purposes, including supporting the development team and grants, CEO and co-founder Chris Zhu said in an interview. Source
First Mover Americas: BTC Treads Water Ahead of U.S. Jobs Report
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Sept. 6, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets. Source
Crypto Market Lacks Major Near-Term Catalysts, JPMorgan Says
Total crypto market cap was $2.02 trillion at the end of August, a 24% decline from this year’s peak of $2.67 trillion in March, the report said. Source
Telegram Revamps Rules to Allow Moderation of Private Chats Following CEO Pavel Durov’s Arrest
The quiet policy shift could reshape Telegram’s alleged stature as a facilitator for all forms of illegality that French authorities are alleging. Last month, France arrested Durov for allowing alleged criminal activity to fester on the app. Durov has pushed back on the charges as meritless but must remain in France pending trial. Source
NEAR’s Weird Marketing ‘Hack’ Riffed on Infamous 1987 Chicago TV Hijacking
What really makes Max memorable today, and notable for the purposes of NEAR’s rather cringey gambit, is the broadcast that wasn’t supposed to be: the Max Headroom incident. In 1987, an unknown signal pirate hijacked a “Dr. Who” broadcast in Chicago and went on a 90-second nonsensical ramble, all while wearing a Max Headroom mask. Source
Visa and Santander Selected by Brazil’s Central Bank for a Second Phase of CBDC Pilot
The list of selected projects includes global companies such as Visa, which will work alongside the Brazilian brokerage XP and digital bank Nubank to optimize the foreign exchange market. Spanish banking giant Santander, for its part, was selected to work on a project involving automobile operations and another focused on lending and decarbonization. Source
Trump Promises to Embrace ‘Industries of the Future’ Including Crypto, AI
“With these sweeping authorities, we will blast through every bureaucratic hurdle to issue rapid approvals for new drilling, new pipelines, new refineries, new power plants, new electric plants and reactors of all types. Prices will fall immediately in anticipation of this tremendous supply that we can create rather quickly, and we will be the leader instead of the laggard,” Trump said. Source