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To date, the United States and its allies have declined to do so.

At the same time, some western officials have been emboldened by Ukraine’s progress, saying that recent advances have bolstered the case for NATO countries and partners to provide it with lethal aid.

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According to the FT, Washington is also expected to announce another weapons package in the coming days.

U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl said on Aug. 9 the United States does not yet intend to include F-16 fighter jets in aid packages to Ukraine, but does not rule out their transfer in the future.

The United States stated the process of transferring fighter jets would take years, so it would be easier to upgrade the available Ukrainian planes.

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The basic idea behind the adage, familiar to many crypto veterans, is that if you don’t personally hold your private keys (i.e., passwords) in an offline “cold wallet,” then you don’t really control your digital assets. But, Gauthier was also framing the issue in a larger context as the world moves from Web2 to Web3:

“A lot of people are still in Web2 [...] because they want to stay in the matrix where they’re being controlled, because it’s easier, it’s you know just click yes yes yes and then someone else is going to deal with your problems.”

But, giving away control won’t set you free. “Taking responsibility is how you become free.”

Admittedly, Gauthier has a self-interest here — Ledger is one of the world’s largest cold-wallet providers. Then, too, he may have been stating the obvious. In May, Coinbase acknowledged in an SEC 10-Q filing that if it ever went bankrupt, customers that entrusted their digital assets to the exchange “could be treated as our general unsecured creditors,” i.e., could find themselves standing at the back of the creditors’ line in bankruptcy proceedings.

“It doesn’t matter that the exchange’s contract with you says you ‘own’ the currency,” Georgetown University law professor Adam Levitin told Barron's at the time, “That’s not determinative of what will happen in bankruptcy.” 

But, Gauthier’s statement raises other questions, too. This notion of seizing “control” of one’s keys and coins could become more complicated given recent regulatory proposals in Europe, as well as a key government agency interpretation in the United States. Moreover, as the world transitions from Web2 to Web3, is it really so certain that centralized solutions like Coinbase and others might still not have an important role to play with regard to custody and, yes, even privacy?

The exchange, however, simply cited “overwhelming demand” as the reason for its short-lived promotional campaign, which ended on Thursday “effective immediately.”The promo in question launched on Wednesday and it offered new users a $25 bonus if they deposited $500 or more into the platform.

The only catch was that they had to agree to do a “liveness check” via webcam to verify their identity, which didn’t go down well with certain sections of the community.

Around 24 hours later, dYdX tweeted that it would end the campaign “due to extremely overwhelming demand” after purportedly onboarding thousands of new users.