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⁠Looks Like DeFi is Coming to Prediction Markets Would you rather bet on YFI or BTC?

⁠Grayscale’s Litecoin-Based Asset Sees Wild Premium Swings Prices are volatile for Grayscale's LTCN stock asset.

⁠Bitcoin Balances at a 21 Month Low As Exchange Exodus Continues Bitfinex specifically lost 2/3 of its balances within the same timeframe.

⁠Bitcoin Options Open Interest Reaches $2B — Should BTC Traders Worry? Open interest on Bitcoin options reached $2 billion but should traders be worried that the majority of August options appear worthless?

⁠Law Decoded: Blockchains and the Eastern Bloc, August 14–21 As protests rage in Belarus and Alexei Navalny remains in a coma, we look at new developments in crypto across the former USSR.

⁠Equilibrium Offers a Promotional Token Swap for Test-Driving Its DeFi Platform The EOS-based DeFi project is using Polkadot technology to make it easier to recruit new users.

⁠Price Analysis 8/21: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, LINK, LTC, BSV, ADA, BNB, CRO Bitcoin and several altcoins have formed bearish divergences, which suggests that the bullish momentum has weakened.

⁠Q&A: What Are Tokenized Portfolios, and How Do They Work? Tokenized portfolios are increasing in popularity — but how do they work, and what’s in it for traders who launch them? We asked an expert.

⁠XRP Is Not a Security, Argues US Congressman Tom Emmer The asset still has no official distinction, however.

⁠DeFi Be Warned: The Short, Unhappy Life of Yam Finance Was Yam Finance’s short-lived rebasing project a useful economic experiment or just another scam? The crypto community is divided.

⁠Coinbase-Backed Exchange to Redistribute Seized Venezuelan Funds A major win for the people of Venezuela and the fight against government corruption.

⁠IRS Plans to Ask Every American Worker if They Used Crypto in 2020 Every American filing taxes for 2020 will have to tell the IRS whether they used crypto this year, according to new drafts from the tax agency.

⁠CFTC Seeks $429M Penalty Against Ponzi Operator Who Ghosted Them While nobody can find the man behind alleged ponzi scheme Control-Finance, the CFTC is asking the court to throw the book at him.

⁠OMG the Volatility! LINK Crashes as $12K Evades Bitcoin: Weekly Recap Bitcoin price faltered above $12,000 as many altcoin cryptocurrencies have seen significant volatility in the past week.

⁠Tesla Stock Breaks $2K as High-Risk Tech Asset Sees Bitcoin Comparison Comparisons are being made between Bitcoin and Tesla as prices soar in 2020, but BTC has a ways to go to reach TSLA.

⁠Bitcoin Ransomware and Remote Working: What the Future Holds With the global COVID-19 pandemic redefining how people work and learn, the possibility of an increase in ransomware attacks is very high.

⁠The Challenge of Taxing Proof-of-Stake Cointelegraph examines the basis of Congress calling out the IRS for threatening to tax proof-of-stake rewards beyond their actual value.

⁠X Marks the DOT: Polkadot the Unlikely Victim of Centralized Exchanges Do major crypto exchanges act in their best interest rather than respecting community-based project guidelines?

⁠US Bank Regulator Sees Potential in Fintech Solutions to Legacy Banking Issues A fintech-positive U.S. banking regulator sees a role for private companies in providing better banking services.

⁠Crypto Travel Agency Travala to Use Binance Chain for Decentralized Services The firm plans to become a fully decentralized online travel agency.

⁠Tether Could Be Enabling Capital Flight From China, Says Chainalysis The East Asia crypto market has reacted fast to news of Beijing’s national digital currency and regional economic tumult.

⁠Major EOS Block Explorer Bloks.io Acquired by Metal Pay EOSIO explorer Bloks.io now belongs to another firm.

⁠Natural Gas-Powered Trucking Could Get a Boost From Blockchain Tech Uniper has implemented a blockchain platform built by Wipro to streamline its liquefied natural gas trade process.

⁠OneCoin Founder's Brother Agrees to Testify Against Sister in Settlement The OneCoin case now seems to turn the sibling founders against each other.

⁠‘We Are the Cool New Startup’ Says Bitcoin Cash Node With Bitcoin Cash appearing destined for another chain split this November, Bitcoin Cash Node believes it’s ready to spearhead the project.

⁠INX Exchange Launching SEC-Registered Hybrid Token/Share IPO This Week INX will run the first SEC-registered security token offering in its IPO aiming to raise $111 million.

⁠Medalla Testnet Problems ‘Will Not Delay ETH 2.0’ Says Prysmatic Labs Prysmatic Labs calls the Medalla testnet incident a “learning experience” and says the launch of ETH 2.0 can proceed as planned.

⁠Akoin Co-Founder Explains How $6B Futuristic Akon City Will Work Akoin president Jon Karas says Akon’s crypto city could be the proving ground African economies need.

⁠Shock: Ethereum Miners Against Proposal to Reduce Block Rewards by 75% The new EIP-2878 would reduce block rewards by 75% and has received sharp criticism from miners who say it will compromise the network’s security.

⁠DeFi Meets CryptoKitties: Axie Infinity to Introduce Governance Token Axie Infinity is now the 11th-ranked NFT game by lifetime trade volume following a surge in players eager to get their hands on the platform’s govern…