Cryptocurrencies
- The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has postponed its decision on ARK 21Shares’ Ether ETF proposal.
- Binance is completely withdrawing from Russia due to legal risks and is being replaced by CommEX.
- Curve founder Michael Egorov continues to pay the crypto debts that caused CRV a problem in the July-August period. Finally, Egorov paid off his remaining debt on Aave with USDT worth 11 million dollars, which he deposited into Aave V2 yesterday.
- US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler asked before Congress whether BTC is a security? He fell into a difficult position while answering the question.
- Chainlink, the decentralized “oracle” network, announced that it has made the interoperability protocol (CCIP) available on its base network. With this development, Link’s price increased by 10%.
- Representative Patrick McHenry, who chairs the US House Financial Services Committee, stated that a subpoena may be sent to the SEC for documents related to FTX’s former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.
- Crypto influencer Ben “BitBoy” Armstrong was released on bail approximately 8 hours after being arrested by Gwinnett County police.
- The Central Bank of Mauritius (BoM) has announced that plans to launch a digital currency are progressing and will begin a pilot project in the next few months.
- Bloomberg’s famous ETF analyst Eric Balchunas claimed in his tweet that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to process and accept futures Ether ETFs as soon as possible.
- Aptos Foundation announced that they will join forces with Thala Labs to create a $1 million fund for the creation of new DeFi protocols.
- BlockFi received court approval for a plan to repay creditors.
- Binance is looking for a new banking partner in France. The reason for this is that the long-term cooperation with Paysafe ended on September 25.
FED
- Global markets are waiting for the speech that US Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell will make today. 23:00 Türkiye time
Global Markets
- Second quarter GDP data is expected in the USA today (Tr time 15:30), activity in the markets is expected to increase after the data. The US economy is expected to grow by 2.2 percent in the second quarter compared to the previous quarter.
- While the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq index increased by 0.02 percent and the Nasdaq index by 0.22 percent in the New York stock exchange yesterday, the Dow Jones index lost 0.20 percent. Index futures contracts in the USA started the new day with a mixed course.
- In Europe, which stands out as the region where the inflation and recession dilemma is felt the most, today’s eyes are on German inflation data. (Tr time 15:00) Annual inflation, which was 6.1 percent in August, is expected to be 4.6 percent in September.
- The bankruptcy of Evergrande, which is at the center of the construction crisis in China, creates concern in global markets. The company’s shares have been closed for trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange, and it is rumored that the bankruptcy of its $300 billion debt will be felt globally.
- The rise in global oil prices due to supply concerns continues to unsettle investors. The barrel price of Brent oil is trading at 94.96 levels, exceeding 95 dollars and reaching its highest level in the last year.
- US commercial crude oil stocks decreased by approximately 2 million 200 thousand barrels last week compared to the previous week.
Technology and Stocks
- According to Bloomberg, Meta will bring its artificial intelligence features to 3 billion people who use its applications.
