Burak Köse 
Months after Ripple’s victory in court against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), another important ruling has come out. Today, charges against Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris Larsen were also dropped. XRP price surged after the court ruling. The cryptocurrency rose from
Tesla financial results, eagerly awaited by Bitcoin investors, have been announced. According to the report, the electric vehicle giant did not sell any Bitcoin in the third quarter and continued to hold its assets. Elon Musk’s Tesla made its first and last Bitcoin purchase in
Digital Turkish Lira and blockchain technology were mentioned in the 12th Development Plan announced yesterday by Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz at the TBMM Plan and Budget Commission. “It is expected that the use of digital currencies developed based on blockchain technology by central banks will become widespread,” said the plan, which touched on many issues from secure processing of data to the ability to buy securities with CBDCs.
While it is now certain that Bitcoin spot ETF applications will be accepted by the SEC, the only issue under discussion is the timing of the approvals. CryptoQuant, on the other hand, stated in its report that the SEC approval will increase the market cap of Bitcoin by 150 billion dollars in the first place, and with additional investments to be made later, the total market value could increase by another 900 billion dollars.
On Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, the most used fiat currency of the last period was the Turkish lira. The lira, which depreciated significantly especially after May, had a market share of 81 percent in fiat currencies on the exchange as of August.
Uniswap will start charging swap fees on some tokens starting tomorrow. A fee of 0.15 percent will be charged for each transaction with the affected tokens.
A monitoring listed token on Binance quadrupled in two days. This increase was the result of a vote.
Binance, the world’s largest exchange, completed its 25th round of BNB burning. 2.14 million BNB worth 453 million dollars were removed from circulation.
Bitcoin developer Robin Linus is proposing to bring off-chain smart contracts to Bitcoin without the need for a soft-fork. The developer, who has also published a white paper called BitVM, claims that “anything can be computed on the Bitcoin network”, just like on the Ethereum network.
The Web3 Foundation has allocated $40 million for Polkadot ecosystem development. Under the program, 20 million Swiss francs and 5 million DOT tokens will be allocated to Polkadot developers by 2024.