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⁠Italian Banking Industry Chose Decentralization Over Centralization The Italian Banking Association, or ABI, uses a blockchain-based system called Spunta, built with decentralization in mind.

⁠China’s CBDC Project to Collaborate With More Domestic Enterprises Two more major Chinese enterprises have reportedly joined China’s CBDC project

⁠Researcher: Exchanges Could Fight Hackers By Renting Mining Power Exchanges could “rollback” hacks by renting hash power, says researcher

⁠Business Consensus May be Blockchain’s Main Challenge Experts agree that blockchain’s biggest challenge is not the tech itself but rather defining the right business values

⁠Anonymous Crypto Hacker’s Identity Revealed by US Authorities The identity of a Kazakhstan national was publicly disclosed by the U.S. Department of Justice

⁠A New Guerrilla Marketing Campaign Aims to Create Bitcoin Awareness A German collective launched a massive campaign to distribute Bitcoin-friendly stickers across the world

⁠OKEx Recorded Over 8,000 “Whale” Bitcoin Trades in June OKEx led Bitcoin whale trades in June with 8,000 individual orders

⁠Matic Network Launches an Initiatives Program for Mainnet Adoption Matic announces a developer-focused initiatives program to strengthen adoption on its brand-new mainnet

⁠NGRAVE Raises Over $430K From Hardware Wallet Crowdfunding Campaign Cointelegraph speaks with NGRAVE’s CEO following its successful crowdfunding campaign.

⁠Binance’s Second Acquisition of 2020 Is Related to Crypto Debit Cards Binance will join Swipe’s board of directors, but the firm is “able to run the company independently from Binance.”

⁠Bitcoin Community Cries Foul as Major Bank Implicated in Epstein Scandal The Bitcoin community was quick to point out a $150 million penalty paid by Deutsche Bank for serving Jeffrey Epstein.

⁠Comparing Blockchain Ecosystem Building in the East and the West A Unitize panel looked at two approaches to building blockchain ecosystems from the government of The Netherlands and a Singaporean accelerator program.

⁠Why Does Binance’s Android App Need to Use Your Microphone? Users accuse Binance’s Android app of being spyware for the Chinese government.

⁠Price Analysis 7/8: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, ADA, LTC, BNB, CRO, EOS Bitcoin is range-bound but altcoins are rallying, indicating increasing interest among traders looking to make sizable gains off altcoins.

⁠This Startup Is on a Quest to Make Decentralized Exchanges Viable for Pros The Vega Protocol claims to have found a solution to sustainably bootstrap liquidity for decentralized exchanges.

⁠Bitcoin Price Touted to End Stagnation in Style, Surging to New High While Bitcoin’s value seems to have stagnated over the past few months, some believe that a price surge is just around the corner.

⁠Performance Art Film Is Now Tokenized on the Ethereum Blockchain The rights to a performance art piece have been tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain.

⁠US CFTC Promises 'Holistic Framework' for Digital Assets by 2024 The CFTC has made comprehensive crypto regulation a strategic objective to accomplish over the next few years, referring to digital assets as “21st centur…

⁠Legal Implications of Secondary SAFT Sales, Part 2 Part 2 of this series continues to cover the legal implications associated with the sale of SAFTs and focuses on taxes related to tokens.

⁠CBDCs and COVID-19 Top Agenda in First Two Days of Unitize Conference An overview of the first two days of the Unitize virtual blockchain conference where top crypto and blockchain experts offered their views on topical…

⁠Volvo Invests in Blockchain Startup to Trace Cobalt in Its Batteries Volvo’s venture arm invests in blockchain traceability startup Circular to track.

⁠Venezuelan Authorities Seize Over 300 Bitcoin Mining Machines Venezuelan authorities confiscated 315 Bitcoin mining systems.

⁠Kraken Discovers Supply Chain Attacks Against Ledger Wallets Hardware wallet Ledger is allegedly vulnerable to two new attacks, Kraken exchange warned.

⁠Waiting for Ethereum 2.0, but Layer-Two Solutions Are Needed Now Ethereum 2.0. is coming, but not soon enough. Could layer-two solutions be the answer?

⁠Polkadot Wants to Enable You to Launch Custom Blockchains in One Hour During yesterday’s Unitize blockchain conference, developer Bruno Škvorc illustrated how a Polkadot-based blockchain can be launched within one hour.

⁠‘Fireworks Are Coming’ — FX Markets Will Boost Bitcoin, Says Analyst Coinbase analyst Max Bronstein says “fireworks” in the global currency market might positively affect the value of Bitcoin.

⁠How Blockchain Technology Will Change the Marketing Industry Blockchain tech has not yet reached its full potential for use in the marketing and advertising industries, but it definitely will in the near future.

⁠Monex Becomes First Japanese Securities Firm to List Cryptocurrency CFD Major Japanese online securities firm Monex Securities is the first Japanese firm to offer a cryptocurrency CFD.

⁠Tech Mahindra Employs IBM Blockchain in New Platform to Combat Digital Piracy Indian IT giant Tech Mahindra has launched a new blockchain-based digital contracts and rights platform for the media and entertainment indus…