What Happened in the Cryptocurrency Market During the Week of October 7-13

Airdrop News

The Moonbix tapalka team from the Binance crypto exchange will conduct an airdrop. As part of the first distribution, players will be able to claim rewards in DOGS and NOT tokens.

The team of the popular Telegram project X Empire has announced the date of the launch of the X token and the airdrop.

The team behind the zkRollups Scroll L2 blockchain has announced an airdrop of 70 million SCR tokens.

Project news

Tether turned 10 years old. In honor of the anniversary, the issuer announced the release of a documentary about USDT.

A new Ethereum improvement proposal, Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP-7781), could increase the ETH network's throughput by 50%.

TON is launching a new platform called Memelandia. It is a decentralized hub for the development of memecoins in the TON ecosystem.

The team of the popular Telegram project DOGS announced that it will burn tokens on October 9. Along with DOGS, another "tapalka" — Notcoin — announced a token burn.

The Hamster Kombat team offered players bonuses for staking HMSTR tokens.

The team behind decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has announced the launch of its own second-layer (L2) network, Unichain.

Regulatory news

Another company has filedfor a spot XRP ETF.

South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) has launched an investigation into cryptocurrency exchange Upbit for monopolizing the virtual asset market.

Ripple has filed a cross-appeal in its case against the SEC to resolve remaining legal ambiguities.

Other crypto market news of the week

HBO documentarians named the real creator of Bitcoin.

A renowned economist has proposed nominating Vitalik Buterin for the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Samsung Pay users now have the abilityto pay for purchases with cryptocurrency.

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