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This week, Tether has made headlines by issuing an additional $1 billion in USDT on the Ethereum blockchain, bringing its total market capitalization to approximately $119 billion.

Australian regulators are gearing up to implement new legislation mandating that cryptocurrency exchanges obtain financial services licenses. This development marks a significant shift in how digital currency exchanges will be governed in Australia, expanding beyond existing regulations specific to digital currencies.

AntPool, a prominent Bitcoin mining pool, has made headlines by accounting for nearly one-third of all newly mined BTC in just 24 hours. As of September 22, data from mempool.space indicated that AntPool mined 42 out of 135 blocks, significantly overshadowing its closest competitor, Foundry USA, which mined 36 blocks.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved a significant rule change, allowing Nasdaq’s International Securities Exchange (ISE) to list and trade options on the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), an exchange-traded fund (ETF) managed by BlackRock.

The price of gold has soared to an all-time high of $2,629 per ounce on September 23, driven by a recent interest rate cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

In a noteworthy development over the past 30 days, Chainlink has emerged as a leader in GitHub activity within the cryptocurrency space, logging an impressive 624.17 significant events. This figure is more than double that of Ethereum (ETH), which recorded 298.8 events during the same period.