What happened in the last 24 hours (30 Sept 2023)
1. China's property crisis continues
- Evergrande leader (Hui Ka Yan) is suspected of committing a crime & the share trading halted by regulators
- Evergrande is estimated to have debt of US$328 billion at the end of June
2. Metamask integrates Across Protocol
- Across is a cross-network bridge for L2 and rollups- Currently Across supports the Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum and Optimism networks
3. Native USDC will launch on Polygon PoS
- USDC native is the original form of USDC, not a product of a bridge token
- Fully backed 1:1 USD by Circle- Support on/off-ramps for institutions
4. As host of the Asian Games, Hangzhou was airdropped with 10 million digital yuan
- worth 1.37 million USD is for food and drink incentives
- Airdrop is in the form of a voucher and is only valid for 5 days- Digital Yuan is the CBDC of China's central bank
5. Zhu Su was arrested at Singapore Changi airport
- The former founder of 3AC was sentenced to 4 months in prison- 3AC co-founder Kyle Davies was also sentenced to the same sentence but remains at large
- The fate of Zhu & Kyle's new exchange, OPNX remains unclear
6. Chainlink CCIP is now live on BNB Chain
- CCIP is a bridge on Chainlink that connects chains & already has a track record of $8T transactions
7. Today is the last day of Q3 2023
- $BTC is still trying to break the $27,000 price level
- Rumor: several $ETH Ethereum Future ETFs will launch next Monday
- Rumor: several projects will launch their Airdrop in Q4