Cryptocurrencies are among the five most popular financial instruments in Ukraine, along with bank accounts, deposits, and real estate. This follows from a study jointly conducted by the international company Ipsos and the WhiteBIT crypto exchange, which they shared with Incrypted.
The Incrypted editorial team has prepared another digest of the week’s main events in the Web3 industry. In it, we will tell you about the first Fed rate cut this year since December 2024, companies continuing to accumulate Solana assets, new SEC rules for reviewing ETF launch applications, a $42 billion tech deal between the US and the UK, and much more.
In Ukraine, SMS attacks by fraudsters are becoming more frequent: message spoofing has become one of the most common schemes to deceive users in recent months, the support team of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance told Incrypted. According to the platform’s representatives, the team has recorded many requests with this problem.
On November 18-19, 2025, Dubai will host a large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) conference /function1, which the organizers have already called “the place where the AI world gathers.” This is stated in a press release shared by the organizers with Incrypted.
Cryptocurrency exchange MEXC has announced the launch of the MEXC Futures Trading Showdown, a futures trading competition exclusively for traders from the CIS and Ukraine. The competition will take place from September 22 to October 13, 2025.
The CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Brian Armstrong believes that bitcoin could reach the $1 million mark by 2030. He said this in an interview with Fox Business, commenting on the market’s reaction to the US Federal Reserve’s rate cut.
The cryptocurrency trading platform BitMart is increasing its focus on the CIS market as part of its ongoing global expansion strategy. Company representatives told Incrypted that they consider this region a key component of their growth.
In Ukraine, SMS attacks by fraudsters are becoming more frequent: message spoofing has become one of the most common schemes to deceive users in recent months, the support team of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance told Incrypted. According to the platform’s representatives, the team has recorded many requests with this problem.
Cryptocurrencies are among the five most popular financial instruments in Ukraine, along with bank accounts, deposits, and real estate. This follows from a study jointly conducted by the international company Ipsos and the WhiteBIT crypto exchange, which they shared with Incrypted.
The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) has started trading the Bitcoin BETA ETF, an exchange-traded fund that provides investors with access to the first cryptocurrency.
On September 17, 2025, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met. The regulator decided to cut the interest rate to 4%-4.25% for the first time since December 2024.
Cryptocurrency exchange MEXC has announced the launch of the MEXC Futures Trading Showdown, a futures trading competition exclusively for traders from the CIS and Ukraine. The competition will take place from September 22 to October 13, 2025.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), after inspecting the activities of Trustee Global, said that the latter provides payment services in Ukraine without proper authorization. The regulator pointed to the transfer of funds without opening a bank account and execution of payment transactions with clients’ funds through the application.
Former Binance exchange CEO Changpeng Zhao denied that the firm YZi Labs (formerly Binance Ventures) plans to bring in outside investors in the future. Earlier this was stated by the Financial Times, referring to the head of the organization, Ella Zhang.
The platform World Liberty Financial in the near future plans to launch a branded application and debit card. This was announced by project co-founder Zachary Folkman during the Impact conference, which is part of the Korea Blockchain Week 2025 event series.
CEO of cryptocurrency wallet Trustee Plus Vadim Grusha reported record growth rates of the European audience. He stated that more than 7,000 EU users installed the app within a day, calling it “a record for this year.”
Law enforcers announced the suspicion of 44-year-old resident of Nikolaev region, who is accused of crypto fraud and legalization of funds obtained by criminal means. About it reports the Main Department of the National police in the Zhytomyr region and the press service of the Zhytomyr regional Prosecutor’s office.
On September 24, 2025, former FTX cryptocurrency exchange CEO Sam Benkman-Fried (SBF)’s X (formerly Twitter) account became active on X (formerly Twitter) for the first time since March 2025.
Recently, the decentralised exchange dYdX has been at the centre of discussions after the final closure of the migration bridge for ethDYDX tokens. This decision has left more than 45,000 investors locked out with assets worth more than $25 million. Influencer Andrey Sobolev spoke about this. Incrypted spoke to him and found out the details of the situation.
On September 17, 2025, US lawmakers sent a formal letter to SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and the Acting Director of the Department of Corporate Finance at the SEC.
The cryptocurrency trading platform BitMart is increasing its focus on the CIS market as part of its ongoing global expansion strategy. Company representatives told Incrypted that they consider this region a key component of their growth.