Alpha-Packed: Friday 15 Sep

• opBNB Genesis NFT is live until September 20th. Users who completed the opBNB testnet campaign are eligible.

• Layer3 launches LayerZero commemorative ONFT quest.

• Starknet ID .stark domains discounted in celebration of Starknet Quantum Leap.

• Linea x Sushi Bomb Diggity NFT campaign is live until September 26th.

• DeBank, new Web3 Badge revealed for users who have 1000 or more followers.

• mint fun Season 2 of !fundrop announced.

• Binance research report highlighting RWA's, decentralized social, payments aervices, and more.

• DeBank airdrop strategy.

• ZKX airdrop details and strategy.

• Three Arrows Capital founders, Zhu Su and Kyle Davies; banned from Singapore by its Monetary Authority.

• Binance US Legal Director, Krishna Juvvadi; and Chief Risk Officer, Sidney Majalya; leave company following CEO's resignation earlier this week.

• SEC accuses Binance US of lack of transparency citing Binance US’s holding company, BAM, has only produced 220 documents in its investigation.

• FTX approved to sell $billion worth of cryptocurrencies, but with with limits. Justin Sun and Andrei Grachev, head of Web3 investment firm DWF Labs; have express interest in purchasing FTX assets.

• Genesis is ceasing all trading operations following shut down of its U.S. trading platform last week. The decision was cited as voluntarily and for business reasons.

• Deutsche Bank, a trillion dollar asset manager; to offer cryptocurrency custody services.

• Brian Armstrong, believes CFTC should not be creating enforcement actions against DeFi protocols and that they should defend themselves in court to establish precedent.

• Stoner Cats NFT project charged by the SEC for selling unregistered securities. Stoner Cats agrees to pay $1 million fine, burn any NFT's it still holds, and setup fund to refund investors.

• Bitcoin mining uses ~50% clean energy according to Bloomberg Intelligence report. Elon Musk has previously stated Tesla would resume Bitcoin transactions when Bitcoin reached this figure.

• JPEX cryptocurrency exchange raises withdrawal fee up to 980 USDT and disappears from Token 2049 booth after Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission warned the exchange of being subject to criminal liability.

• Brian Armstrong confirms Coinbase exchange will integrate Bitcoin Lightning Network, but it will take some time.

• Ethereum Holesky testnet is launching today and will replace Goerli testnet. Goerli testnet support ending by end of the year.

• Polygon 2.0 implementation kicks off with the release of 3 Polygon Improvement Proposals (PIPs) and a roadmap for Phase 0.

• OP Labs announces that significant progress has been made on the OP Stack’s first Fault Proof System. Preparations to test the system on OP Goerli are being made.

• Cygaar announces, Frame; an Ethereum rollup network for creators and collectors. Features include enforcing royalties, a creator's fund, native Delegate support, and more.

• Paxos claims responsibility for $510,000 Bitcoin transaction fee which occurred earlier this week. Bitcoin mining pool, f2pool; returns funds to Paxos.

• Ape token unlock over the weekend. ~$44 million / 11.02% of the supply.

• TON Foundation working with Telegram and Wallet in Telegram to integrate the TON blockchain.

• Sushi is live on Linea alongside NFT campaign.

• LlamaNodes adds Optimism support with premium and free RPC's.

• Cyvers alerts cryptocurrency exchange, Remitano; of suspicious transactions, saves $2.7 million from being exploited.

• Slowmist issues security alert that a WinRAR vulnerability is being actively exploited.

• Paradigm seeking to raise $1 billion fund by the end of this year or early next year.

• KBank launching $100 million fund to invest in Web3 targeting infrastructure startups.

• Movement Labs, blockchain infrastructure startup; raises $3.4 million in pre-seed funding round.

• Portals, a yield and protocol aggregator; raises $500K in a Seed extension funding round.