🚥Tether acquired 1,529 bitcoin in the second quarter of 2023.

According to the executive, Tether paid roughly $45.4 million to add the BTC to its balance sheet.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/exclusive-tether-purchased-1529-bitcoin-in-q2-cto-confirms

📌Binance Labs has invested in top projects from Most Valuable Builder (MVB) VI program

Most Valuable Builder (MVB) program, an accelerator program focused on growing the BNB Chain ecosystem. The four high-performing projects in the latest season of MVB program include AltLayer, KiloEx, Kinza, and Sleepless AI, building across DeFi, infrastructure, and Web3 gaming.

🔗 bnbchain.org/en/blog/mvb-vi-investment-announcement

🆘 BREAKING:
USDT is loosing its peg to the dollar

📌Elon Musk claims X 'never will' launch a crypto token

https://www.theblock.co/post/243375/elon-musk-x-crypto-token-never

♾Alchemix reports return of all stolen funds from Curve pools.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/alchemix-reports-return-of-all-stolen-funds-from-curve-pools

✅MakerDAO’s Spark Protocol blocks users using VPNs !

https://twitter.com/ChrisBlec/status/1688244517525139456

KuCoin will upgrade its standard user identity verification procedure (users will need to upload their identity documents and complete face verification to pass the standard identity verification).

This upgrade will be officially implemented from 00:00 on August 31, 2023 UTC.

https://www.kucoin.com/ru/announcement/en-announcement-regarding-kucoin-s-upgraded-standard-user-identity-verification-procedure

🚩 Good luck to anyone who decides to use PayPal’s stablecoin $PYUSD 🤡

Binance becomes first fully licensed crypto exchange in El Salvador.

https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-becomes-first-fully-licensed-crypto-exchange-in-el-salvador-348306456147004721?ref=AZTKZ9XS

Coinbase's Base mainnet officially opens to the general public.

https://www.theblock.co/post/243899/base-mainnet-onchain-summer

📌 Coinbase Ventures invests in Rocket Pool via RPL token purchase

$RPL token currently trades at $28.25 with a market capitalization of $553 million.

https://www.theblock.co/post/244189/coinbase-ventures-invests-in-rocket-pool-via-rpl-token-purchase

SoFi Bank, a San Francisco-based full on bank with 6.2 million customers holds $170 million in crypto.

https://www.trustnodes.com/2023/08/09/a-us-bank-holds-170-million-in-crypto

Ark Bitcoin ETF Application Decision Pushed by SEC

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/08/11/ark-21shares-bitcoin-etf-application-decision-pushed-by-sec/

📌Visa introduces way to pay gas fees with your credit card

https://cryptoslate.com/visa-introduces-way-to-pay-gas-fees-with-your-credit-card/

SBF to be jailed as his bail revoked! His lawyers filed an appeal against the order!

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1690085426269196288

Ripple has been communicating with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand for building CBDC’s utilizing the XRPL.

https://twitter.com/edward_farina/status/1690014550572060672

Amazon Web Services Users Can Now Launch Avalanche analytics insight

https://www.inferse.com/677709/amazon-web-services-users-can-now-launch-avalanche-avax-analytics-insight/

CRV token inflation fell by 15.9% today and daily issuance dropped from 532,000 to 448,000 tokens.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TfipC0nB60sYuU3SonroEs049RnzLElRa5jS8ZN5dqc/edit

Binance will list CyberConnect (CYBER) and Sei (SEI) on 15th August at 12:00 UTC.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-will-open-trading-for-cyberconnect-cyber-and-sei-sei-fe281e1fa6e7493788969242995ba04a