Summary of the Day, September 15
🛑 CoinEx to close after 9 years of operation— the exchange with over 10 million users explained the decision by citing declining trading volumes, liquidity, and increasing regulatory costs.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan plans to divert associated gas from oil fields to cryptocurrency mining — instead of flaring, it will be converted into electricity directly on site.
📊 Bitcoin holds around $78,000, despite sales in spot, futures, and through ETFs — according to Glassnode, new capital is managing to buy up this pressure.
🪙 The privacy sector remains the only segment in crypto still trading above its October 2025 highs — with growth of about 213%.
⛔️ Balancer plans to close.
🔮 Prediction markets continue to grow — weekly trading volume excluding sports reached $10 billion for the first time.
🤣 A hacker attempted to steal $7,800,000 but ended up with nothing — his transaction was noticed by an MEV bot, which executed the same attack earlier, taking almost the entire amount.
🛢 Polish oil giant Orlen lost more than $424,000,000 trying to purchase Venezuelan oil through a chain of intermediaries using USDT transactions.
🦊 MetaMask will automatically intervene in suspicious transactions — if, after confirmation, the smart contract attempts to execute something other than what the wallet displayed in the preview, the operation will automatically be reversed.
⚖️ Two Robinhood employees have been charged with insider trading — according to the investigation, they used non-public information about upcoming Robinhood listings to preemptively open positions on Hyperliquid.
🪙 Solana has more than tripled the data capacity that can be placed in one transaction.