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⁠Weekly roundup: Ark Invest, Edge Wealth Management, and Rothschild Investment accumulate crypto Cathie Wood's Ark Invest purchased more than 450,000 GBTC shares in two separate buys this week.

⁠Rangers Protocol launches Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible testnet The project is branding its testnet as useful to “new developers without blockchain background knowledge."

⁠Coin98 gains 1,200% after Binance listing, Ampleforth soars on Aave integration C98 rallied 1,200% from its ICO price shortly after listing on Binance and AMPL shot higher after the project integrated with AAVE.

⁠El Salvadorians take to the streets to protest Bitcoin law Those who marched against Bitcoin this week claimed the cryptocurrency was too volatile and would allow businesses to "launder ill-gotten money."

​​⁠Price analysis 7/23: BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, XRP, DOGE, DOT, UNI, BCH, LTC Bitcoin and most major altcoins are meeting resistance at higher levels but the bearish sentiment of the last two months seems to be reducing.

⁠Reddit deploys layer-2 solution aimed at scaling Ethereum-based community points “You’ll notice transactions happen much faster, and once you’ve created a Vault, you won’t have to keep claiming Moons every month,” said…

⁠FXT token taps into Binance Smart Chain following ERC-20 success The BEP-20 based FXT token hopes to “replicate the success of its variant – ERC-20 Token.”

⁠Bitcoin payments for real estate gain traction as crypto holders seek monetization Could crypto payments for real estate become another notable way for people to invest their BTC, or is the learning curve too steep for…

⁠Canadian border town suspends Bitcoin mining over aesthetic concerns City officials have imposed a three-month suspension on new Bitcoin mining operations to make roads and buildings more presentable.

⁠$60K is now more likely for Bitcoin than $20K, Bloomberg's senior strategist asserts The analyst also treats the latest crypto ban in China as bullish for Bitcoin and the U.S. dollar.

⁠Bull or bear market, creators are diving headfirst into crypto NFTs and social tokens are not Bitcoin or Ether, but interaction between celebrities and their fans raises people’s awareness about the space.

⁠SEC Commissioner concerned about the US lagging behind global Bitcoin ETFs “We’re not a merit regulator, so we shouldn’t be in the business of deciding whether something is good or bad,” SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce s…

⁠Nonfungible tokens from a legal perspective Nonfungible tokens under the juridical and legal perspective are still in evolution, and there are more questions than answers.

⁠Illusion or reality? Crypto demand either faltering or poised to charge Recent developments such as China banning BTC mining may be “long-term positives for the market even if they introduce short-term volatility.”

⁠Karura launches decentralized exchange on Polkadot and Kusama Karura Swap has opened trading for the Kusama/Karura — KSM/KAR — pair as the platform becomes one of the first DEXes to launch on Polkadot and Kusama.

⁠Amazon seeks new exec to oversee digital currency strategy The new Amazon position requires a deep understanding of the digital currency and cryptocurrency ecosystems and related technologies.

⁠Axie Infinity refreshes record high as AXS ascends 131% in just three days Traders flock to the gaming cryptocurrency in the wake of a sector-wide price rally. But its gains are comparatively higher—much, much higher.

⁠Bitcoin is key to the future of Twitter, Jack Dorsey says Twitter CEO sees opportunities to integrate Bitcoin into services like commerce, subscriptions and new features like Twitter Tip Jar and Super Follows.

⁠Coinbase and top execs face securities class action over Nasdaq listing Alongside Coinbase itself, the class action names CEO Brian Armstrong, CLO Paul Grewal, other top executives and several of its venture capital bac…

⁠Bitcoin mining is becoming vastly more decentralized in 2021 Data shows anonymous entities becoming an ever larger force on the Bitcoin mining scene this year and last.

⁠Binance US ‘looking at IPO route’, CZ says Binance is set to face heavy regulations in the future with the mindset of shifting from a tech startup to a financial service, Changpeng Zhao said.

⁠Nigeria to pilot central bank digital currency in October The Central Bank of Nigeria will start the pilot of its central bank digital currency, which runs on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain, on October 1.

⁠‘Buy now pay later’ firm Zip plans to offer crypto trading in Australia and the US “We know our younger generation of customers seek additional products and services that are relevant to them,” said Zip co-founder Peter…

⁠KFC Korea and TriumphX marketplace sign deal to develop NFT content KFC wants to promote its branding to Koreans through nonfungible tokens.

⁠Pro-Trump MAGACOIN crypto launch marred by website data breach Roughly 75 million MAGACOIN were created to support pro-Trump candidates in 2022.

⁠Possible ‘white hat hacker’ exploits THORchain for $8M, proposes 10% bounty The white-hat hacker claims to have mercifully minimized the damage of their $8 million exploit in a bid to teach THORChain a lesson.

⁠‘Undo Button’ developer Kirobo launching decentralized P2P token swaps Israeli blockchain tech developer Kirobo is set to launch a P2P token swap solution it claims is cheaper than using exchanges and over-the-counter p…

⁠Number of investors owning Bitcoin has tripled since 2018: Gallup Poll Three times more U.S. investors are holding BTC now than in 2018 according to the poll.

⁠‘Ethereum Improvement Proposal 3675’ for the Eth2 merge launches on Github The coming Eth2 Proof-of-Stake chain merge now has an Ethereum Improvement Proposal.

⁠No, Jack Dorsey isn't trolling ETH by making its logo the Ethiopian flag “Great to see Jack and the crypto community supporting the #ETH athletes!” the Official Olympics account posted earlier today after Ethereum got a…