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Our daily recap of all things blockchain and digital assets related, to better serve our clients and to inform the public.
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CSW: Ordered to hand over $5b in BTC
COIN METRICS: Highlights BTC’s realized market cap has hit an ATH passing $100b. BAKKT: Warehouse will begin taking BTC deposits on Sep 6. TON: Token release rumored to begin in ~2 months; public testing from Sep 1. BINANCE: First lending subscription fills within 10 mins. BNB showed highest demand (2 secs). BINANCE: To launch futures trading in Sep. Initial support for BTC/USDT with up to 20x leverage. BITHUMB: Now supports Binance Chain. Lists first BEP2 token (COS). DCR: Adding privacy feature based on mixing protocol, CoinShuffle. LTC: Charlie Lee remains committed to funding the Litecoin Foundation. Claims 2Q donations picked up with the market. |
AWS: Problem at the Tokyo facility on Friday caused issues for several exchanges including Binance, Kucoin, and various Chinese exchanges.
LTC: 28% decline in hashpower since the halving.
BITMAIN: Rumored to have purchased another 600k mining chips from TSMC.
COINBASE: Integrates wallet with various dApps such as Compound, IDEX, etc.
BITPAY: Partners with Blockchain.com to allow wallet users to pay for goods/services.
CURRENCY: BoE Governor suggests something like Libra should replace the USD as the world’s reserve currency.
HUOBI: Almost 50% of all ETH withdrawals from PlusToken went to the exchange.
LIBRA: At least three companies considering to dissociate themselves from the project due to regulatory issues.
POLKADOT: Testnet, Kusama, goes live with limited functionality.
BITMEX: Insurance fund up 50% in ’19 @ 31k BTC.
BINANCE: Plans to launch, Venus, an infrastructure to issue localized stablecoins for specific countries.
TETHER: Will issue a new stablecoin, “CNHT,” pegged to offshore Chinese yuan.
SEC: Issues cease-and-desist order against ICO Rating. Claims co was compensated ~$100k for promoting securities.
INX: The crypto trading platform intends to raise $130m via a ‘security token IPO’ in the US.
BITMEX: Restricts access to users based in Seychelles, HK and Bermuda; all locations where parent offices are located.
SVG: 2Q deposits +11% q-q. SEN usage blowing up.
ARGO: LSE-listed mining firm to boost electricity supply by >3x by 2020. Deal signed with Canadian data center.
RAKUTEN: Launches exchange via mobile app. Support trading of BTC, ETH, BCH.
BITPAY: Processed >$5m in real estate txs in 1H19.
ANCHORAGE: Adds support for XTZ and XLM. Users can receive staking rewards.