Daily Summary, 1 October

Results of the day, October 1

Cryptomarket and Macroeconomics
* USA: The first in 8 years government shutdown began in the country.
* Bitcoin: The price of Bitcoin rose above $116,000 for the first time since September 19.
* Stablecoins: The volume of stablecoin transfers in the third quarter grew to a record $15.6 trillion — however, the majority of this activity was related to automated trading bots (71%).
* Major Liquidation: On the Binance exchange, an unknown hero had a short-position of $26,190,000 liquidated by one order.

Corporate News and Appointments
* TON: Former top-manager of Apple and Nike Gerard Carucci was appointed to the position of head of the marketing department of TON.
* Tether: Paolo Ardoino stated that Tether intends to actively hype the new “American stablecoin” USAT.
* Coinbase: Coinbase yesterday reached the indicator of $1 billion in issued loans, secured by BTC.
* Metaplanet: Metaplanet bought an additional 5268 BTC — now the company’s balance has 30,823 BTC.

Regulation and Legal Issues
* Russia: Gray crypto-exchangers from Moscow-City went “into the shadow” after searches and closure of offices — media.
* Russia: In Voronezh, a deputy prosecutor of the Verkhnemamonsky district was sentenced to 3 years of deprivation of liberty for extortion of 33,000,000 rubles in crypto (410,000 USDT).
* UAE: In Abu Dhabi, farmers are now fined 100,000 dirhams ($27,200) for mining crypto on agricultural lands, and for a repeated violation — 200,000 dirhams ($54,400).
* China: In China, the first loan in digital yuan was issued — Beijing Rural Commercial Bank provided 1 million e-CNY within a state program, where the government assumes part of the risks.

Technology and Incidents
* Hack: On September 24, hackers hacked the SBI Crypto mining pool, belonging to the Japanese financial group SBI Group, and stole about $21,000,000.
* Smart-Contract: About 41.7 million DYDX tokens ($26,000,000) turned out to be forever blocked in the smart-contract of the bridge between Ethereum and dYdX.

Other
* Interview: Michael Saylor gave a big interview to Bitcoin Magazine, the main points.