🤓 Against the background of the detention of Pavel Durov, the TON blockchain announced that the project remains fully operational Due to recent events, the price of TON fell by ~14%. Durov was also supported by Elon Musk, who accused Europe of persecuting people for freedom of speech.
⚡️Pavel Durov was detained by French special services at the Paris Le Bourget airport when leaving his private jet, — TF1 He must be presented to the judge tonight, he will be charged with multiple crimes, - TF1 Possible charges include: terrorism, drugs, complicity, fraud, money laundering, concealment, pedophile content. The main complaint of the EU authorities against Telegram is encrypted messages, writes TF1. The TON coin reacted by falling by more than 7%. At the time of writing, the asset is trading at $6.32.
☄ The function of contactless payments in USDC is integrated into the iPhone This was reported by the CEO of the company Circle, which produces the stablecoin of the same name. With the release of the iOS 18.1 update, developers will be able to use NFC within applications - Apple will allow the use of the iPhone's payment chip to process transactions.
⚙️ Ripple announced the start of closed beta testing of the RLUSD stablecoin in the XRP Ledger network and the Ethereum mainnet. According to the announcement, RLUSD has not yet received regulatory approval and is therefore not available for purchase or trading, the company said. RLUSD is backed by dollar deposits, short-term US Treasury bonds and other cash equivalents.
🤓 Franklin Templeton launched its fund OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund (FOBXX) on Arbitrum Investors can access FOBXX through Franklin Templeton's Benji Investments platform and the BENJI token.
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Lamborghini is going to the crypt 😮 Lamborghini and Animoca Brands have partnered and are ready to release a racing game. It would be good if it was really something interesting and something that could attract additional attention and web2 traffic. Because the last collabs with big names frankly ended in nothing.
🤓 Donald Trump once again stated that the US government does not have the right to sell cryptocurrency He also reiterated his thesis that if the US does not intervene in cryptocurrency, China will. “It's like AI, whether you like it or not. If we don't, China or other people will. We can't keep up, and cryptocurrency is right in that area," Trump said.
