Crypto weekly roundup: trump pardons CZ, WazirX staging a comeback, & more

This week saw major developments in the cryptocurrency industry, starting with President Donald Trump pardoning Binance founder and former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, a move that reflects the Trump administration’s positive approach to the crypto industry. Meanwhile, Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX is set to resume trading after a 16-month ￰0￱ Ethereum has entered the final testnet phase of the Fusaka upgrade ahead of its planned December 3 ￰1￱ hard fork features an improvement proposal that sets a gas fee limit for each transaction to improve block efficiency, reduce DoS risks, and create the groundwork for parallel ￰2￱ Bunni DEX has shut down following an $8.4 million ￰3￱ project is the second major project to shut down this week after ￰4￱ Bunni DEX team stated that they could not afford the costly audits required to relaunch the ￰5￱ co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko has announced plans for a new decentralized exchange called Percolator , following the success of Astar and ￰6￱ announcement comes two months after a VanEck report highlighted the growth of Hyperliquid at Solana’s ￰7￱ is the DeFi hub behind the WOLF token, a utility platform designed to restore confidence in crypto by combining transparency, automation, and professional-grade tools that help traders invest safely across ￰8￱ Ripple Labs is launching a fundraising effort to purchase $1 billion worth of XRP tokens to fund a new digital asset ￰9￱ company already holds 4.6 billion XRP tokens and another 37 billion XRP locked in ￰10￱ has partnered with American Express to launch the Coinbase One ￰11￱ Electronic Bank issues the Bitcoin rewards credit card, which operates on the American Express ￰12￱ CEO Paolo Ardoino has revealed that the USDT stablecoin now serves 500 million users ￰13￱ milestone highlights Tether and USDT’s growing influence in the digital finance ￰14￱ Chase has upgraded Coinbase shares from “Neutral” to “Overweight” on the monetization potential of the Base ￰15￱ bank also highlighted changes to Coinbase’s USDC rewards program and new Base-integrated DEX features as crucial to driving profits and risk-management ￰16￱ Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX resumed trading on Friday, sixteen months after a devastating hack that forced the platform to suspend all ￰17￱ $230 million security breach was orchestrated by the dreaded Lazarus ￰18￱ US President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng ￰19￱ was sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering programs at Binance and violating the Bank Secrecy ￰20￱ States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins believes the US is at least a decade behind its rivals when it comes to crypto regulation and ￰21￱ has promised to create a strong framework, making catching up with its rivals a “top priority.” Disclaimer: This article is provided for informational purposes ￰22￱ is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice