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Key Takeaways Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has completed its registration with the Financial Intelligence Unit of India. Pudrana's presale surpassed $7.7 million as it neared its end. Binance Registers with India's FIU Binance, the top cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, has completed its registration with the Financial Intelligence Unit of India (FIU-IND). This latest move comes months after the company was fined $2.2 million for providing unlicensed services in the country. With this registration, Binance is now registered in 19 countries around the world. With this registration, the Binance website and app will be fully available to users in India.…

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire revealed in a statement on August 14 that tap-to-pay for USDC may soon be available on iPhones, following Apple’s recent updates.Alaïa said:”Tap to pay with USDC on iPhone is coming soon! Wallet developers, start your engines!”Meanwhile, Allaire clarified that Circle has no direct relationship or partnership with Apple or Apple Pay.On August 14, Apple announced that it would allow third-party apps to use Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for transactions, an update that would enable alternative payment systems that compete with Apple Pay, the iPhone's primary payment method.The announcement comes after extensive regulatory pressure from bodies…

Rhinestone, which provides infrastructure and tools for building products with modular smart accounts, has raised $5 million in a seed round led by 1KX and backed by angel investors including CoinFund, Lattice, Heartcore, Circle Ventures, Alchemy Ventures, zkSync, and Cyber, as well as industry leaders such as Biconomy, WorldCoin, WalletConnect, Lit Protocol, and Pimlico. According to a blog post, the team said it will “use this seed round to accelerate the ERC-7579 smart account and module ecosystem by investing in technology that powers the most compelling application use cases.”

On-Chain Highlights Definition: The average funding rate (percentage) set by the exchange for perpetual futures contracts. If this rate is positive, long positions will periodically pay short positions. Conversely, if this rate is negative, short positions will periodically pay long positions. Ethereum perpetual futures funding rates have recently fallen from a bullish premium, a trend that is evident in both the short-term and long-term perspectives and reflects growing bearish sentiment among traders. Historically, a negative funding rate indicates that short positions are benefiting long positions, suggesting that bearish bets are rampant. The chart shows that despite Ethereum price volatility since…

Eric Trump, son of former President Trump and vice president of the Trump Organization, briefly touched on the project in an interview with The Washington Post, but did not offer specific details, saying only that the cryptocurrency project will be made public “when everything is solidified and ready to go.” He suggested the project could include “digital real estate,” through which people might be able to lend and borrow money.

Source Harrison and Sawyer Tinsley After a years-long legal battle, a California man has finally been granted custody of his young son, whose mentally ill mother identified him as “non-binary” and forced him to wear girls' clothing. Last month, Harrison Tinsley reached a settlement that gave him full custody of his 4-year-old son, Sawyer. Non-binary decisions Sawyer's mother is Tinsley's ex-girlfriend, and when she found out she was pregnant, both she and Tinsley were “overjoyed,” Tinsley wrote on a GiveSendGo page she was using to raise money for her legal costs. “Unfortunately, that excitement turned to pain when Sawyer's mother,…

Public domain Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire: Destruction “Hey hey, ho ho, Western civilization must go,” roared segregationist Jesse Jackson and 500 protesters at Stanford University in 1987. Like cancer left untreated, it didn't stop there, it metastasized. And whether it's now at stage three or stage four, is well illustrated by a shocking story from Columbia University. There are 116 different groups, all part of a coalition, all with a common goal: “We are Westerners, and we are fighting for the complete eradication of Western civilization,” they wrote. Of course, we should take this seriously, since “the philosophy…

AP Image Hunter Biden The Biden administration has acknowledged at least one aspect of the Biden-Burisma influence program. State Department documents released by The New York Times confirm that convicted felon Hunter Biden sought federal assistance for an Italian energy project involving Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian energy company where Hunter Biden served on the company's board of directors. The revelation came a week after special counsel David Weiss acknowledged another aspect of Biden's son's relentless efforts to sell his family name to foreign interests: A Romanian businessman had paid Hunter to influence the government. This great article is available to…

Renzo Protocol has revealed that ezSOL liquidity restaked tokens will soon launch on Jito as Solana’s first LRT. The Renzo team is focused on the growth of the DeFi ecosystem on Solana. Renzo Protocol has announced the release of ezSOL, Solana’s first liquidity re-staking token (LRT). The collaboration between Renzo and Jito Network will enable JitoSOL holders to issue ezSOL and use LRT to leverage more decentralized finance (DeFi) opportunities on Solana. ezSOL combines Renzo’s liquidity restakage expertise with Jito’s MEV enhancing capabilities to provide users with the best of decentralized finance and other revenue mechanisms. 🚀 Introducing $ezSOL: @jito_sol's…

Altus/iStock/Getty Images Plus The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) released a startling statistic last week: Americans have bought more than 1 million guns every month for the past five years. The organization estimates that 86 million guns were purchased in the period through July, with 22 million of those purchases being by new gun owners. This brings the total number of firearms owned by more than 82 million Americans to approximately 510 million. And there's more good news: Gun owners outvote non-gun owners in double-digit numbers. Four in five of them say they voted in the last presidential election. If…