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💰👀 Varys Capital plans to raise $75 million for its blockchain innovation investment fund.
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🗣 #BTC The last quarter of the year is historically the strongest in terms of performance for BTC with an average return of over 35% over the past nine years “If history is to be believed, BTC could reach $37,000 by the end of the year” - Matrixport

🆕 Bybit listed #PYUSD and added the PYUSD/USDT trading pair.

🌐 Walmart plans to expand its commerce strategy into the metaverse by allowing shoppers to purchase physical versions of the products they use in its House Flip virtual world.
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🔛 Taurus now supports private blockchains in addition to public ones, including Hyperledger Besu and Quorum.
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💃 #ALGO Algorand Foundation announced about the Build-A-Bull hackathon in collaboration with AWS, which will take place from October 18 to November 15.

🗣 Elon Musk responded to a CommunityNotes post that noted that X would introduce “lower tier pricing” for premium members and not insist on a subscription-based model. Musk answered: “CommunityNotes scores again,” confirming that the rumors are unfounded.

⚖ #AI The Authors Guild has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing it of misusing copyrighted material when training its AI models. cointelegraph

👀 The Consensys Web3 Fellowship is now open for applications and will close on October 3rd. twitter.com

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🍿 #ZRO The “Layer Zero: Ultra Light Node v2” contract now has the “withdrawZRO” function

🇺🇸🕹 Maxine Waters of the House of Representatives says she is disappointed in Republicans' "anti-innovation stance" on #CBDC and has opened hearings to discuss bills expressing the opposite position regarding CBDC in the US.

🗽🍿 #infocus #macro Jim Cramer warns of market volatility ahead of Fed press conference

👀 Today. FOMC at 21:00 Moscow time and press conference at 21:30 Moscow time.

Leading US banks expect a pause in rate hikes today

Futures markets pawn pause at today's meeting
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Interestingly, at the meeting the Fed will provide quarterly updates on what it expects from a number of key indicators cnbc

The MOVE Index, an options-based measure of Treasury turbulence, last week fell to 18-month low

LD Capital: The market expects the Fed to keep interest rates steady, highlighting that further tightening is still possible this year.

The looming government shutdown could prevent the Fed from raising rates in November, according to Bank of America. cnbc

Options on #BTC suggest that after the Fed, the price of BTC cannot change by more than 3%.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong media: The JPEX mobile app is no longer available.It is reported that the telecommunications company has received instructions from the police to block it.

💰 Database company MotherDuck closed $52.5 million Series B funding with participation from a16z and others. techcrunch.com

🙋‍♂ #SOL #ATLAS Star Atlas announces the release of the Atlas PRIME feature for paying Solana network fees in ATLAS.
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🤑 dune: Friend Tech users earned $12 million in commissions

⚡️🆕 #VARA Coinbase adds support for Vara (VARA) on the Vara network.

👀 #VARA