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On Sept. 19, Eclipse announced a new L2 architecture, which will leverage the Solana Virtual Machine while operating on Ethereum, hence bringing the advantage of the former’s speed and scale in transaction settlement. The newly promoted L2 architecture aims to redefine the scaling world by touching on areas like Ethereum settlement, execution using SVM, availing data with Celestia, and proving using RISC Zero. Bringing SVM Experience to EVM As per the press statement,...

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After announcing its new payment stablecoin last month, PayPal revealed on Wednesday that Paypal USD (PYUSD) is now available to Venmo users for transacting with peers. Initially available to “select users,” access will expand to all Venmo users in the coming weeks, according to the company’s announcement. Venmo, a mobile payments app owned by PayPal, will allow users to buy and send PYUSD to other Venmo users and PayPal wallets. PayPal touts free stablecoin transfers between...

Incoming reports indicate that Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal team is readying their arguments for a pretrial release hearing before the U.S. appeals court on Tuesday as the billionaire founder of the defunct exchange FTX prepares for his trial on Oct. 3. Bankman-Fried’s initial plea was overruled last month as the prosecutors argued that the defendant had been tarnishing the credibility of a state witness, Caroline Ellison, a former executive at Alameda Research. Bankman-Fried’s...

Despite Ether’s significant price rally since the beginning of the year, there has been an evident downtrend in terms of investors holding over 1,000 ETH.  Based on a Glassnode analysis, the total number of Ethereum addresses owning 1,000 or more ETH has dropped to a 5-year-low of 6,082.  In comparison, there were over 8,000 such wallets in 2019 when the US dollar valuation of the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was hovering between $100 and $300. 📉...

Circle, a stablecoin issuer, has introduced the USDC stablecoin into the Polkadot ecosystem of parachains. This move signifies a significant extension of the accessibility of this dollar-backed stablecoin across different blockchain networks. As detailed on Circle’s official website, developers and users can now readily access Polkadot USDC. That means the stablecoin can be seamlessly transmitted to parachains within Polkadot by leveraging the XCM protocol through Circle...

GMO Coin – a cryptocurrency exchange operating under the umbrella of the Japanese IT behemoth GMO Internet Group – will distribute Songbird (SGB) tokens to eligible XRP users. The airdrop is scheduled to reach customers by September 29, 2023. Benefiting XRP Owners The Japanese organization explained that the offering will reach those clients who have held amounts of Ripple’s native token in GMO Coin accounts after December 12, 2020. “Customers using crypto asset lending...

The Federal Reserve announced no change to its policy interest rate following its Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday. Likewise, Bitcoin’s price showed little change after the announcement, down just 0.17% on the day. Per the Fed’s announcement, the central bank “decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 5-1/4 to 5-1/2 percent.” The statement noted that while job gains have slowed, they remain elevated. Unemployment is also...

David Hirsch, the head of the SEC’s Crypto Assets And Cyber Unit, recently promised further enforcement actions against crypto platforms deemed to be non-compliant with the agency’s demands. The announcement was made at the SEC’s yearly Securities Enforcement Forum Central event, which took place at the Four Seasons hotel in Chicago this year and was streamed online for those who could not attend. DeFi Is Not A Workaround, Says Hirsch During the event, which hosted speakers...

The South American country of Paraguay is allegedly paving the way for crypto adoption like El Salvador, its neighbor to the far north, has. Paraguay Has Caught the Bitcoin Fever The news came by way of congressman and the National Deputy of Paraguay Carlitos Rejala, who said on Twitter that Paraguay needs to do all it can to embrace crypto adoption and utilize it as legal tender like El Salvador. He then attached a picture of himself with laser eyes, the ultimate...