🍳 COOKING BNB — Daily Digest · Aug 18 · 01:00 UTC · 10:00 KST
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🔥 THE CENTERPIECE
Georgia man in U.S. charged with allegedly running $165 million crypto Ponzi scheme
PANews reported on August 18, according to Reuters, Edward Zimbardi, a Georgia man in the U.S., was extradited from Fiji to the U.S.
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₿ CRYPTO

🟠 Ethereum Hegotá Upgrade Roadmap Announced, Focusing on Censorship Resistance, Privacy and Scalability — PANews
🟠 Monad Foundation: $60 million plan to buy back early investor tokens has ended, almost no one participated — PANews
🟠 Omnichain launchpad Printr to cease operations Aug. 31 and cancel planned TGE and airdrop — Crypto Briefing

🇰🇷 KOREA KITCHEN

🇰🇷 US Treasury prepares Genius Act enforcement; bans unlicensed stablecoins from next year — Digital Asset
🇰🇷 Harmony 109k rollback concerns grow; Canada CPI, Iran escalation, stablecoin regulation spread — TokenPost
🇰🇷 South Korean markets open higher; Kospi up 2.73% — TokenPost
🇰🇷 Strathegy halts Bitcoin trading; converts stocks to 470B won cash — Digital Asset

📈 MACRO

🌐 Asian Currencies Consolidate; Rising Oil Prices May Weigh — WSJ Markets🔒
🌐 Oil Rises Amid Lack of Progress in U.S.-Iran Talks to Reopen Strait of Hormuz — WSJ Markets🔒
🌐 US-Canada trade talks 'intense' as new tariff deadline looms — BBC Business