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🚀 USDT on TronNetwork Outpaces Visa's Daily Trading Volume! 📊💸 In the last 24 hours, the trading volume of $USDT on Tron Network hit an impressive $53 billion, surpassing Visa's average daily trading volume, according to LookOnChain. 🌐 For context, Visa's Q1 2024 trading volume was $3.78 trillion, averaging $42 billion per day. TronNetwork is definitely making waves in the financial world! 💥 But USDT on Tron has a worthy competitor in USDT on Ton 😉

Arbitrum Fees Soars Amid LayerZero Token Claims! 🚀 🙀 Arbitrum's daily fee skyrocketed to a record $3.4 million in ETH on Thursday, thanks to the frenzy around LayerZero’s ZRO token claims. This is a massive jump from just $20,000 on June 19 – a whopping 16,500% increase! 📈💸 LayerZero’s airdrop opened at 11:00 UTC on Thursday and will run until Sept. 20, with 85 million ZRO tokens up for grabs. To claim, participants must donate $0.10 per ZRO in USDC, USDT, or ETH, supporting Protocol Guild’s Ethereum core research.

🏦 Standard Chartered is developing a platform for trading BTC and ETH - Bloomberg. The new crypto division will be part of the bank's currency trading department . 💲 MicroStrategy has acquired an additional 11,931 BTC for $785 million (~$65,883 per coin). In total, MicroStrategy now holds 226,331 BTC, purchased for approximately $8.33 billion. Tether today blocked 5 sanctioned wallets with 48,000,000 USDT in the account. 💪 Unlike centralized Tether, Bitcoin is decentralized (leaving aside the fact that Bitcoin mining is controlled by only a few mining pools). Bitcoin nodes are currently deployed in 95 countries worldwide.

LayerZero Airdrop Chaos: Polymarket Bettors in Turmoil! 💭 LayerZero Labs' new "Proof-of-Donation" mechanism has thrown the Polymarket community into disarray. To receive ZRO tokens, claimants must donate $0.10 per token to the Protocol Guild, sparking a heated $680,000 wager debate on Polymarket. 💸 ⚖️ Bettors had almost unanimously bet "Yes" on LayerZero's airdrop happening by June 30, but when the donation requirement was revealed, odds plummeted to 54%. LayerZero insists this isn’t an airdrop, arguing traditional airdrops harm community building. 🤔 🗣 Polymarket users are divided: some cry foul play, fearing manipulation, while others argue LayerZero doesn’t define what constitutes an airdrop. UMA, Polymarket’s dispute resolution partner, will now decide the outcome.

Binance has added support for USDT on the TON blockchain! 📈 TON continues to make waves in the cryptocurrency world, and top publications couldn't help but notice. 📰 Yesterday, CoinDesk published an article titled "Telegram Is Crypto’s Adoption Machine" in which experts declare that Telegram and TON have become a true panacea for the crypto industry.

Corporation 3iQ has applied to launch the first Solana ETP in Canada! If approved, the fund will become the first exchange-traded product for Solana registered in North America. 🚀 3iQ was among the first companies to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum funds in Canada. 💪 👀 ETPs are exchange-traded products, similar to ETFs in many respects, but offering a much broader range of options - commodities, currencies, bonds, interest rates, debt obligations, and more.

♊️ Tyler Winklevoss, one of the Winklevoss twins and a co-founder of the Gemini exchange, endorsed Donald Trump and donated $2,000,000 in BTC to his presidential campaign. 💰 The Winklevoss brothers are early Bitcoin investors who bought BTC at $120 in 2013 for $11 million. 💪 It has also been announced that Gemini is launching an initiative to fund election campaigns for candidates who support cryptocurrencies.

Another user lost $84,400 today, by copying a scam address from their transaction history 👀 This tactic is very common among scammers - they create a wallet address with a beginning and end similar to the victim's wallet, which holds a large sum of money, and send a small transaction there, hoping the wallet owner won't check the entire address but only the beginning and end. Unfortunately, this tactic often works successfully. 😕

The German government is quietly selling its Bitcoins. 🤫 💵 Yesterday, it transferred 1,000 BTC ($65 million) to the Kraken and Bitstamp exchanges, plus 5,500 BTC ($358 million) to an unknown wallet. 🧐 👀 And today, another 200 BTC ($13.16 million) left their wallet, heading to the Coinbase exchange. Additionally, 800 BTC ($52.65 million) went to the same unidentified wallet.

The volume of money transfers on TON already makes up 10% of the funds transferred on the Bitcoin network! 💵 Transfers through The Open Network (TON) range from $5.0 to $10.0 billion. For comparison, the average daily transfer volume for Bitcoin is around $50.0 billion. This shows that TON has already achieved 10% of Bitcoin’s capacity, which is impressive for a four-year-old coin. 📈 Another sign of TON’s exponential growth is the number of on-chain token holders. Currently, there are 32 million holders, up from 2.9 million a year ago. That’s a tenfold increase in just one year! 💪