Summary of the day, September 3
🇺🇸 The SEC and CFTC have, for the first time, allowed the trading of "individual crypto tokens" on licensed American exchanges.
🌕 The World Gold Council (WGC) is launching a pilot digital gold in the format of pooled gold interests (PGIs) — fractional ownership of physical bars stored in trust accounts, in 2026.
🏆 Russia and Ukraine have again entered the TOP-10 of the global cryptocurrency adoption index Chainalysis for 2025, ranking 10th and 8th respectively.
🤖 The valuation of AI company Anthropic skyrocketed to $183 billion after a new investment round.
💎 The company AlphaTON Capital is raising $100,000,000 to purchase TON for its balance sheet.
🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Parliament has voted in the first reading to legalize the virtual asset market and to set the rules for their taxation.
🤖 ChatGPT is transmitting all requests in Russian to the Pentagon — Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber of Moscow.
🇷🇺 Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium, is considering the possibility of monetizing its resources through token issuance.
🪙 The queue for Ethereum validators has reached a two-year high — over 860,000 ETH (around $3.7 billion) are currently waiting to be staked.
🚓 In Irkutsk, police and energy specialists discovered an illegal mining farm consisting of 21 devices just 20 meters from residential homes.
🏎 Robots, supercomputers, and Elon Musk's unfulfilled promises.
📊 The monthly spot trading volume on cryptocurrency exchanges in August reached $1.86 trillion — the highest figure since January 2025.
🇺🇸 The US Federal Reserve will hold a conference dedicated to stablecoins and tokenization.
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