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Fitch Ratings has placed its long-term foreign currency issuer rating on "AAA" with a downgrade option. For U.S. benchmark debt, this is a very alarming call. Fitch associates the increased risk with the protracted disputes in Congress over the debt ceiling. It's simply impossible to leave this fact unnoticed.

User ArnoB has posted on the BNB Chain forum a proposal to change the gas fee. Its essence is to make the network more competitive, allowing BNB Chain to keep pace with L2 blockchains. The proposal involves reducing fees to $0.005 per transaction.

District Judge Jennifer Rearden has suspended the sale of Voyager Digital's assets to Binance US. The decision will remain in effect at least until the court's detailed review of the Justice Department's appeal. A date for that process has not yet been set.

Earlier in July 2022, the Turkish government had already imposed an additional duty of 10 percent on imports of electric cars into the country. At the time, the media justified the move by the unwillingness to allow the country's demand for electricity to skyrocket.

Energy giant Saudi Aramco has signed a partnership with droppGroup. Together, the parties will explore and implement Web3 applications in the company's facilities. This is not Saudi Aramco's first experience with blockchain technology. In 2021, for example, they tokenised document management. It was a joint project with nine major companies

According to a statement from Bloomberg, Binance is considering ending relationships with US business partners such as banks and service companies. At the same time, Binance US has no plans to leave the country, but the US unit may reconsider venture capital investments in the US. The publication also reports

The Sino-Australian crime syndicate has come to an end. It was headquartered in Sydney. This structure allowed money to be laundered by transnational criminal groups. Money moved through multiple jurisdictions. Among the methods daigou was the most common way of buying goods from overseas Chinese, goods being bought and shipped