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Today in crypto, Bybit has confirmed details of the much-awaited Pump.fun token sale, but there’s bad news for users in Europe. The US has sanctioned a North Korea IT worker ring that was targeting US companies, and a Japanese CEO will take his salary in Bitcoin as the firm adopts a BTC treasury strategy.

Bybit has confirmed details of the much-awaited Pump.fun token sale, revealing that users registered through its European Union-regulated platform, Bybit.eu, will not be able to participate, citing compliance with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).

The public sale of PUMP, the native token of the no-code memecoin launchpad Pump.fun, will open on Saturday at 14:00 UTC and run through Tuesday, according to a Wednesday press release shared with Cointelegraph.

A total of 150 billion PUMP tokens, 15% of the 1 trillion total supply, will be offered at a fixed price of $0.004 USDT per token.

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