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Dubai Crypto & Coffee at 8 ☕ 🚨 Dubai: 17th Oct 😱 Stablecoin vol 🚀 Uniswap to charge 0.15% 🥶 Tether Freezes 32 addresses🔴 Vitalik sends 15M from USDC to Gemini ❌ Stack Overflow axes 28% of staff
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17th Oct: Crypto & Coffee at 8
😱 Stable coin volumes🚀 Uniswap to charge 0.15% 🥶 Tether.to Freezes 32 addresses🔴 Vitalik Buterin sends 15M Circle from USDC to Gemini ❌ Stack Overflow axes 28% of staff
💰 Uniswap Labs made an announcement to charge 0.15% swap fees beginning Oct. 17 Hayden Adams founder of Uniswap mentioned via Twitter https://lnkd.in/dY-sjdVD that this interface fee is one of the lowest in the industry, and it will Uniswap to continue to research, develop, build, ship, improve, and expand crypto and DeFi.
❗ Cointelegraph previously reported on Sept. 27 that Uniswap Foundation, the DEX’s developer, is targeting $62 million in additional funding for building infrastructure and ecosystem grants. https://lnkd.in/dKzC4YnA
🔴 Stablecoins: Censored
- Tether.to Freezes 32 Addresses Linked to Terrorism and Warfare in Israel and Ukraine Official info here https://lnkd.in/dxc-URj6 They have reaffirmed its commitment to working closely with law enforcement agencies across the globe to combat cryptocurrency-funded terrorism and warfare.
🔴 Tether has aided 31 agencies worldwide with investigations across 19 jurisdictions, freezing a total of $835 million in assets mostly associated with theft (blockchain and exchange hacks) with a minor portion to other crimes. Tether has frozen 32 addresses, containing $873,118.34, that were found to be linked to illicit activity in Israel and Ukraine. Tether has been working with the NBCTF in Israel to counter cryptocurrency-funded terrorism and warfare.
🐬 According to an Oct. 17 post from blockchain analytics firm PeckShield on X, Buterin’s wallet, “vitalik.eth,” transferred $14.93 million to Gemini on Oct. 16. https://lnkd.in/dgTdWMep
❓ What does this mean for the price of #ETH?
❗ Vitalik Buterin received the original sum of 14.93 million USDC from Kanros.official, a charity affiliated with Buterin on Oct. 14.
Separate analysis from crypto data provider Lookonchain found that Buterin had also recently transferred nearly $500,000 to Coinbase three days prior.
📊 Stack Overflow CEO had a message to his staff about the extremely difficult decision to reduce the company’s headcount by approximat