plaintiff Van Loon appealed on September 2nd in the Fifth Circuit Court, challenging the US Treasury Department's decision to list Tornado Cash as a specially designated national (SDN). The plaintiff believes that the Treasury Department's sanctions on this open source project without clear guidance may threaten the First Amendment rights of programmers.

Telegram has released its first official statement regarding the arrest of its CEO, Pavel Durov. "It is still unclear what charges Durov is facing or whether he has been arrested. There are various reports that he may have been arrested due to the lack of management on the Telegram platform, but the facts are still unclear as there has been no official confirmation from the French government or further explanation from Telegram," the statement read. "Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has nothing to hide and travels frequently in Europe."

1.VanEck and 21Shares Solana ETF Form 19b-4 Suspected to be Removed from CBOE Website

According to Etherscan data, the current Ethereum network gas fee has fallen below 1 gwei, currently at 0.937 gwei.

On August 14th, Polkadot network proposed RFC 97 with the aim of significantly shortening the unlocking period of DOT tokens. After review and discussion, the proposal was approved by the Fellowship, and its code or design has been merged into the main codebase.

1. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has released a new draft of the crypto tax form, which no longer requires filling in wallet addresses and transaction IDs

Christine Kim, Vice President of Galaxy Research, summarized the main content of the 139th ACDC conference call. The debugging of Pectra's upgraded Devnet 2 is currently underway, and the release date of Devnet 3 is yet to be determined. Developers will hold weekly testing update meetings starting from Monday to better coordinate the release of Pectra's Devnet. The decision to include EIP-7688 in Pectra's upgrade has been postponed again.

According to Ether­scan data, the current gas fee on the Ethereum network has dropped to 1 gwei.

According to DappRadar data, DApp activity on the Ethereum network increased by 55% in the past seven days. The surge in activity on the Ethereum network was mainly driven by Uniswap, followed by 1inch Network and CoW Swap. Other notable contributors include Curve, Instadapp, and Morpho Optimizers.

On August 7th, developer Nima Owji tweeted that Elon Musk's X platform will launch XPayments payment service, involving transactions, balances, and transfers. Musk had previously revealed plans to provide financial services on the X platform, including storing value, transferring to others, and accessing high-yield currency markets.