Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark to Buy Peer GRIID in $155M Deal

The deal will be all-stock based and has been approved by both companies’ board members.Source

EU’s Restrictive Stablecoin Rules Take Effect Soon and Issuers Are Running Out of Time

The European Banking Authority told CoinDesk it intends to publish a final report on how it will monitor stablecoin issuers by the end of the month.Source

Julian Assange Received $500K Bitcoin Donation From Anonymous Bitcoin Whale

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has received a $500,000 bitcoin {{BTC}} donation to cover the cost of a private jet that flew him out of the UK after he reached a plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).Source

VanEck Files for Solana ETF, SOL Rises 8%

The filing is the first Solana ETF to be filed in the U.S. and follows six days after a similar product filing in Canada.Source

Ether Spot ETFs Could See $5B of Net Inflows in the First Five Months: Galaxy

Ether is more price sensitive to ETF inflows than bitcoin due to the large amount of ETH total supply that is locked up, the report said.Source

State Street, Galaxy Digital to Develop Active Crypto Trading Products

Galaxy Digital inked a similar deal with DWS last year for the European market.Source

Rarimo’s Worldcoin Alternative RariMe Goes Live

Rarimo has launched RariMe, a competitor to Worldcoin, and an app that allows users to generate passport zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) verifying the uniqueness of individuals without revealing their identity, it announced on Thursday.Source

PoliFi Tokens, BTC Under Pressure Ahead of Biden-Trump Debate

If crypto-friendly Republican candidate Trump goes off the rails, Republicans may wince, but the GOP ticket will likely not change.Source

Polymarket Contradicts Its Oracle Service in Rarity for Prediction Market

Nearly all UMA voters said that the son of Donald Trump was not involved in the creation of the DJT tokenSource

Crypto Insiders Hope for Possible Mention in Biden-Trump Debate

This U.S. presidential election has been the first where cryptocurrencies have come up as a major policy issue, and the industry is lobbying (and bracing for) the possibility that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump may bring it up when they face off in a Thursday debate.Source