Important developments in the evening of August 15 at a glance

12:00-21:00 Keywords: swiss, Vitalik, Canaan Technology, BlackRock

1. the Fed cuts rates by less than 100 bps in 2024;

2. switzerland launches public consultation on crypto tax information sharing;

3. vitalik donates all animal coins received in the past year;

4. the SEC approves the first leveraged long MicroStrategy ETF;

5. kanan Technologies reported Q2 revenue of $71.9 million and held 1,133.5 bitcoins; 

6. blackRock overtook Grayscale as the largest digital asset fund manager with total assets under management;

7. the U.S. government transferred 15,940 bitcoins to Coinbase Prime on three separate occasions this year, with the first two triggering a drop in bitcoin of about 5 percent.