Web3 Social App Tip Coin Postpones Token Release Date | Cryptocurrency Trends

1.Mainstream Exchange Trends:

• The HashKey Exchange adds support for bank transfers in 17 countries and regions, including Hong Kong, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• Meex Digital Securities Limited (MEEX), a Hong Kong-based exchange that had previously begun applying for a virtual asset exchange license, has announced that it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with ZhongAn International to consolidate its digital asset trading and custodian services in the future. ZhongAn International shall provide corresponding financial services.
• Mainstream Exchange Listings (CEX: Token — Time of Listing in UTC)

2.Cryptocurrency Trends:

• Web3 social app Tip Coin postpones its token release date (due to a hard drive corruption issue experienced by the team processing token staking, resulting in the loss of certain changes made in the last week). Tip Coin says that the token contract has been deployed and that staking will open no later than September 19, 12:00 AM (UTC+8).
• OP mainnet to directly distribute unclaimed OP from the first round of airdrops (tokens will be sent directly to eligible addresses that did not claim them; a total of 48 million OP will be allocated to 88,000 addresses).
• The Arbitrum community has opened the first stage of voting for its Security Council election, which ends in four days. The final stage will be held on October 6.
• EigenLabs, developer of the Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer, plans to launch EigenDA, a solution designed to reduce the cost of storing Ethernet Layer2 Rollup data, by the end of 2023. EigenLabs indicates that projects such as Celo, Mantle, Fluent, Offshore, and Layer N are considering integrating EigenDA into their Layer 2 solutions.
• SushiSwap tweets that it is in the process of integrating the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) on the Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, and Polygon mainnets, to launch in Q4 2023.
• Metis plans to become a fully decentralized Layer 2 network within the year, with the community to take over key centralized components of the network.
• Spark Protocol raises its debt limit to 400 million DAI, with the additional 200 million DAI to be injected directly by MakerDAO.

3.Financing Trends:

• NFT sports game analytics platform Podium (formerly known as SorareData) raises EUR€2 million in a funding round led by Fabric Ventures, with participation from Sfermion and Seedcamp.

4.Regulatory Trends:

• Hong Kong Monetary Authority: The use of the term "bank" by unauthorized virtual asset institutions is a misrepresentation and may constitute a crime.
• Nikkei reports that the Japanese government is set to relax regulations on startup financing, with startups being able to receive cryptocurrency investments from VCs, and that the new regulations will apply to funds that invest in limited partnerships (LPs).
• The U.S. SEC charges Binance.US with failure to cooperate with its investigation (the SEC previously charged Binance.US with violating federal securities laws for its staking, clearing, and brokerage services).