WikiBit Exchange Exit Risk Ranking #23 — Zoomex: F1 Sponsorship, Martínez Endorsement, 150x Leverage — Why Did France’s AMF Put It on the Blacklist?

Introduction: The “Sports Marketing Addict” — Zoomex‘s Two Faces  In the previous 22 editions, we dug into a series of exchanges ranging from HashKey to MGBX. For Episode 23, we’re taking a look at a “sports marketing addict” — Zoomex.  On paper, Zoomex has quite an impressive résumé: “Founded in 2021,” “more than 3 million users across 35+ countries,” “official partnership with the Haas F1 Team,” “Argentine goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez as a brand ambassador,” “Canada MSB + U.S. MSB + U.S. NFA + Australian AUSTRAC registrations,” “Hacken security audit certification,” “1:1 reserve policy with 95% of assets stored offline in cold wallets,” “590+ perpetual contracts,” and the “HackenProof bug bounty program.”  Sounds like a two-engine model of sports marketing + compliance and security, right?  But theres another side to the story.  Frances AMF added Zoomex to its blacklist in June 2024, officially warning that it was “offering crypto services without authorization.”  In April 2026, the Philippines SEC also included Zoomex on its warning list of unlicensed operators.  Its Trustpilot rating is only 2.2/5, with users calling it a “Ponzi” and warning others: “DO NOT PUT YOUR MONEY THERE.”  WikiBit concluded that “the platform currently has no valid crypto regulation,” while users have reported issues such as “accounts being

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Russia to require tax IDs for opening crypto depository accounts

Russia has made taxpayer identification numbers a mandatory part of opening digital depository accounts used to record cryptocurrencies and digital rights as authorities tighten identity checks across the countrys newly regulated crypto market.  Russia‘s Federal Financial Monitoring Service, known as Rosfinmonitoring, said clients will have to provide their individual taxpayer number, or INN, when opening an account with a Russian digital depository, according to comments from adviser to the agency’s director Vlada Gracheva on Sept. 9.  The requirement makes the tax number a compulsory identifier for crypto accounts, even though Russian banks do not generally require an INN when a customer opens an ordinary bank account.  “For the anti-money laundering system, the clients INN becomes a new mandatory, specifically mandatory, identifier,” Gracheva said. “This is to ensure the transparency of transactions carried out with cryptocurrency.”  An INN assigned to an individual contains 12 digits and remains with the taxpayer even if their address, surname or other passport information changes. The number is commonly used for tax and employment purposes in Russia.  Tax IDs become mandatory for Russian crypto accounts  Gracheva said the requirement forms part of the anti-money laundering controls being applied to cryptocurrency activity, placing the tax identifier directly into the customer identification process for

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US CPI to Be Released at 8:30 PM Tonight: Could “Black Friday” Return? U.S. Stocks, BTC and Global Markets May Face a Broad Sell-Off

At 8:30 PM Beijing Time tonight, the U.S. August CPI data will be released.  Overall, the probability of the data being negative for financial markets is currently above 90%. The market is facing a potentially dangerous combination of Friday + bearish economic data + a high probability of further rate hikes, creating a triple-risk window that could trigger another “Black Friday.”  Yesterdays PPI report was, objectively speaking, not that bad. The overall data was bearish for markets, but only mildly so. Yet global markets still sold off across the board: U.S. stocks, crypto, A-shares, and the German, British, and French stock markets all declined.  Bitcoin plunged from $78,000 to $76,400, coming within striking distance of the previously mentioned $76,200 critical support level. This shows that market fear is already building. At this point, even the slightest piece of negative news can trigger another sell-off.  More importantly, after the release of the U.S. August PPI data, the CME-implied probability of a Fed rate hike jumped to 72.4%, surging by roughly 10 percentage points.  Historical data since 2015 shows that whenever the market-priced probability of a rate hike or cut has exceeded 69%, the Federal Reserve has ultimately delivered the corresponding rate move at its meetings.  And that

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Hunter Biden denies profiting from memecoin after his LAPTOP crashes

Hunter Biden has denied profiting from his LAPTOP memecoin after its launch-day price crash, adding that neither he nor his team had sold tokens.  Several X users accused the LAPTOP project of a “rug pull” after the memecoin lost more than 95% of its value in the first hour of trading on Wednesday. At the time of writing, the new token traded at $0.8562, according to CoinGecko data.  “The teams allocation is locked. Nobody on our side sold, and nobody could have,” Biden said in an X post Wednesday. “I, personally, have not made a single dollar.”  Biden blamed the price action on insufficient liquidity and “snipers,” which are trading bots that quickly swoop up tokens when trading opens.  The Base memecoin takes its name from a MacBook Hunter Biden reportedly left at a repair shop in 2019. Trump allies used the New York Posts reporting on files purportedly from the device against him and his father, former US President Joe Biden, during the 2020 election.  Before launching his own memecoin, Biden slammed the Trump familys crypto ventures. In an Aug. 21 post, Biden said World Liberty Financial used political influence and leverage to benefit its founders.  Biden did not respond to Cointelegraphs request for comment.  LAPTOP

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Treasury Secretary Bessent urges CLARITY Act passage after Senate returns

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged lawmakers to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act when the Senate returns from its August recess next week.  “I strongly urge everyone to remain at the negotiating table, agree to the motion to proceed, and continue the legislative process,” wrote Bessent in a Wednesday X post, warning that failing to pass the bill would send a “troubling signal” about Americas leadership in the digital asset industry.  The Senate is scheduled to return from its August recess next Monday, according to its legislative schedule. The CLARITY Act seeks to establish the first comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets in the US.  The remarks come a week after the National Sheriffs Association dropped its opposition to the crypto market structure bill on Sept. 3, changing its position on the bill to “neutral.”  Galaxy has reduced its odds on the CLARITY Act‘s passing in 2026 several times over recent months. Now at 10%, that’s down from 75% set on May 22.  While the CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee in May, most Democrats and the banking industry pushed back, arguing that it would allow crypto firms to offer yields on stablecoins without facing the same requirements as banks.

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Is MemeToro a scam? Key accusations about the project and $MT presale examined

MemeToro is another speculative memecoin and prediction-market project wrapped in an AI narrative. Its trust scores sit between just 25% and 50% across automated website-checking platforms. The smart contracts meant to handle MemeToro‘s future funding rounds and token launches haven’t been audited yet. MemeToros favorable media coverage has been distributed as paid PR.  That, more or less, is the case a handful of websites are making against MemeToro. At first glance, it can leave the project looking far more questionable than the full picture suggests.  At the same time, MemeToro has also been covered over the past few months by names like CoinGape, Invezz, Business Insider and many more, without the project being treated there as fraud.  Much of that attention has focused on its AI Agent, which is being built to scan trends, filter possible meme ideas, and make the reasoning behind future launches more transparent. Just as importantly, MemeToros development is open-source, with the framework already taking shape on GitHub and regular code updates that anyone can follow.  Theres an obvious irony in calling a project like this an outright scam without much stronger evidence. The claims are still worth checking, but against what MemeToro actually does, not just the headline.  What is

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Robinhood Chain Deep Dive: TradeFi + Crypto — Can It Replicate and Surpass the SOL and BSC Wealth Stories?

The next major wealth-creation narrative in the public-chain space may have officially shifted from SOL and BSC to Robinhood Chain.  Veteran crypto traders know that every crypto bull market tends to produce a blockchain that creates extraordinary wealth. Solana previously rode high-performance infrastructure and the Meme narrative, while BSC leveraged low fees and retail-user traffic, creating countless 100x and even 1,000x wealth stories.  Robinhood Chain, officially launched in July 2026, enters the market with the massive user base of a traditional brokerage and a new TradeFi + Crypto combination. It brings U.S. equities and real-world assets, DeFi, and Meme culture together on a single blockchain, seemingly following the path taken by SOL and BSC while attempting to break through the ceiling of traditional public-chain models and trigger a new wave of wealth creation.  From its launch on July 1 to today, just two months in, the chain has delivered numbers that have left the entire crypto market stunned:  Daily revenue has surpassed $4 million — roughly twice that of Hyperliquid and five to six times that of Tron and Solana. Daily fee revenue even briefly reached an all-time high of $6 million.  TVL has surpassed $1 billion, daily DEX trading volume is approaching $1 billion,

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U.S. Treasury Secretary pushes for CLARITY Act passage as Senate returns from recess

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has urged senators to advance the CLARITY Act as lawmakers prepare to return from their August recess for a procedural vote that will test whether the crypto market structure bill has enough support to move forward.  Bessent, in a Wednesday post on X, called on lawmakers to stay in negotiations and support the motion to proceed, arguing that failure to move the legislation forward would send a “troubling signal” about U.S. leadership in digital assets.  In July, I called on the Senate to advance the Clarity Act — a bill to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets and upgrade our ability to prevent bad actors from exploiting these critical technologies.  When the Senate returns from August recess, I…  — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) September 9, 2026  “I strongly urge everyone to remain at the negotiating table, agree to the motion to proceed, and continue the legislative process,” Bessent wrote.  His intervention comes days before the Senate reconvenes on Sept. 14, with a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act scheduled for Sept. 15. The procedural vote would not pass the legislation but would determine whether the Senate can move toward considering

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Bitcoin holds near $78K as markets confront the macro shocks they may have underpriced this week

Bitcoin needs the outcomes of the next macro events to be no worse than the assumptions already priced into rates, oil, and policy-probability markets.  Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $77,965.88 24-hour change: down 1.06% 24H Down 1.06% 7D Up 0.17% 30D Up 21.28%  Brent crude has moved above $100, the US 10-year Treasury yield was 4.80% on Sept. 8, and futures traders recently leaned toward another Federal Reserve rate hike. Yet Bitcoin remains above Glassnodes $76,600 True Market Mean and just below a dense set of cost-basis and liquidation levels.  The decisive test is what inflation, the Fed, the Bank of Japan, or the Strait of Hormuz would have to deliver to change the markets information set enough to push Bitcoin into a different regime.  Infographic maps Bitcoin thresholds from $86,000 to $62,000–$65,000 against priced-in macro conditions and potential CPI, Fed, oil and geopolitical surprises.Bitcoin is already inside the decision zone  Glassnodes Sept. 9 report identifies $83,000 to $86,000 as the overhead band where long-term-holder cost basis, modeled short-liquidation exposure and US spot exchange-traded fund break-even levels converge.  Over 1 million BTC was acquired in that range, and Glassnode also said the modeled short-liquidation shelf from $82,000 to $86,000 grew 21% after Aug. 19, while

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Arya.ag puts Indias $2B grain network onchain

Arya.ag has begun putting records connected to approximately $2 billion in stored crops on an Avalanche-based blockchain for agricultural lenders in India.  SummaryArya.ag has deployed an Avalanche-based ledger covering grain deposits, receipts and agricultural loan status records.The company holds around $2 billion in crops across its Indian warehouse network at present.Three major banks are joining Arya.ags dedicated blockchain, though their identities remain undisclosed for now.Arya.ag facilitates roughly $1.3 billion in annual loans and directly issues around $230 million itself.Tokenized records do not transfer grain ownership or guarantee faster approvals and cheaper credit access.  Reports on Sept. 10 said the system records grain deposits, electronic warehouse receipts and loan status, enabling authorized lenders to verify crops offered as collateral. Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani announced the project at the Global Fintech Festival in Mumbai.  ???????? INDIA is taking blockchain beyond crypto.  Arya(.)ag, one of Indias largest agricultural warehousing companies, is using Avalanche technology to put grain deposits, warehouse receipts and loan status onchain.  The scale is notable: around $2B worth of crops are held across… pic.twitter.com/UuFrU47MJB  — Wise Advice (@wiseadvicesumit) September 10, 2026  The $2 billion figure covers the estimated value of crops held across Arya.ags warehouse network. It does not represent the value of loans already recorded on

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