Totals of the day, 3 September

Day’s Summary, September 03

🇺🇸 The SEC and CFTC for the first time permitted trading of “individual crypto tokens” on licensed American exchanges.

🌕 The World Gold Council (WGC) in 2026 launches a pilot of digital gold in the format of pooled gold interests (PGIs) – fractional ownership of physical bullion placed on trust accounts.

🏆 Russia and Ukraine again entered the TOP-10 of the Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption Index for 2025, taking the 10th and 8th places respectively.

🤖 The valuation of the AI-company Anthropic soared to $183 bln after a new round of investments.

💎 The company AlphaTON Capital attracts $100,000,000 for the purchase of TON for the balance.

🇺🇦 The Parliament of Ukraine voted in the first reading for the legalization of the virtual assets market and the definition of rules for their taxation.

🤖 ChatGPT transfers all requests in the Russian language to the Pentagon – deputy head of the commission of the Public Chamber of Moscow.

🇷🇺 Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium, is considering the possibility of monetization of its subsoil through the issuance of tokens.

🪙 The queue for the entrance of Ethereum validators reached a two-year maximum – for staking now are waiting more than 860,000 ETH (approximately $3.7 bln).

🚓 In Irkutsk, in a city forest plantation, police and power engineers discovered an illegal mining farm from 21 devices just 20 meters from the houses.

📊 The monthly spot trading volume on cryptocurrency exchanges in August reached $1.86 trillion – the maximum indicator since January 2025.

🇺🇸 The US Federal Reserve System will conduct a conference dedicated to stablecoins and tokenization.