🇮🇷 US Sanctions Investigation: A US Senate investigation revealed that sanctioned entities linked to Iran extensively utilized USDT to bypass international financial restrictions.
Daily Recap — September 28
🎲 iGaming Leak: A hacker maintained unauthorized access to the Curaçao Gaming Control Board’s systems for nine months, leaking internal documents from major offshore casinos, including Stake and 1xBet.
🪙 Strategy Treasury: Strategy acquired an additional 1,666 BTC, bringing its total treasury holdings to 847,666 BTC, alongside approximately $6 billion in cash reserves.
🪙 Vitalik's Vision: Vitalik Buterin outlined his vision for Ethereum's future as a "cryptographic world computer," integrating blockchain security, privacy, and decentralized computing.
☠️ GIWA Phishing Scam: Scammers launched a fake "GIWA mainnet" and drained around 768 ETH (~$2,000,000) from 1,335 addresses via a fraudulent bridge contract.
🚬 Exchange Inflows: Altcoin deposits to exchanges spiked to their highest levels since October 2025, suggesting traders may be positioning to take profits following the recent rally.
🪙 Ethereum Nodes: Running a personal Ethereum node has become significantly easier—synchronization now takes just half a day, and storage requirements have dropped below 500 GB.
🪙 Bitcoin ETFs: Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $2.4 billion in net inflows last week, pushing their total cumulative assets past $108 billion.
🇵🇱 Warsaw QR Drainer: A real-world "drainer" was spotted running through the streets of Warsaw, offering passersby 100 USDC to scan a QR code.
🪒Derivatives Market: Open interest in crypto perpetual futures surged to $160 billion, marking an 11-month high
⚡️Bitget Withdrawals: Bitget has begun resuming withdrawals following its recent security incident, with BTC via the native Bitcoin network being the first to reopen.
@carlmoon This scaled-down addition suggests liquidity constraints, hinting that the company is struggling to raise cheap capital to keep inflating its balance sheet
@saylor A $138M purchase may sound impressive, but it reveals a stark contraction in MicroStrategy’s buying momentum compared to its billion-dollar treasury expansions
While CEXs rely on centralized compliance and manual freezes, #THORChain demonstrates that neutral infrastructure processes transactions indiscriminately, upholding raw immutability at the cost of traditional oversight.
Well done! 🤝
THORChain has officially rejected the request from Bitget’s CEO to block wallet addresses associated with the $387.5M hack.
The protocol team emphasized its decentralized, permissionless nature, comparing itself to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BNB Chain
THORChain's unwavering stance reinforces the "Code is Law" ideology, proving that true permissionless protocols will not sacrifice core decentralization principles for external pressure or PR.