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⁠Bitcoin rallies after Fed interest rate hike, but bears can still win Friday’s $1.76B options expiry BTC bears aim for a $360 million profit in Friday’s $1.76 billion monthly options expiry, but the FOMC interest rate d…

⁠$1.26B in Ethereum options expire on Friday and bulls are ready to push ETH price higher Ethereum network developers confirmed September as the date of the upcoming Merge, a move which prompted traders to flip long on E…

⁠3 Bitcoin trading behaviors hint that BTC’s rebound to $24K is a ‘fakeout’ BTC price surged above a key resistance cluster, but its market structure and technical analysis suggest the move is just another trap.

⁠Final candidates for next UK prime minister have made pro-crypto statements The Conservative Party is expected to decide between Rishi Sunak and LizaTruss as the next party leader by Sept. 5, at which point Johnson will…

⁠Democratic senators chide Fidelity Investments for BTC-exposed retirement funds Crypto critic Elizabeth Warren and two colleagues write to the Fidelity CEO again to express their displeasure with crypto-exposed 401(k) o…

⁠US lawmaker calls for Apple and Google to provide info on fake crypto apps "Industry shouldn’t be allowed to write the rules that they want to play by,” said Senator Sherrod Brown in calling for U.S. lawmakers and regul…

⁠Crypto use in emerging markets driven by necessity: KuCoin Labs head Key differences in the use and development of cryptocurrencies come to the fore as Blockchain Economy Istanbul continues to focus on emerging markets.

⁠Is the end of this crypto winter in sight? | Find out now on Market Talks with Ted Warren and Mark Yusko With the price of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies moving up, are we finally at the end of crypto winter?…

⁠CME crypto futures see record activity during bear market The trading of Bitcoin and Ether futures on CME remained elevated in the second quarter, with daily open interest hitting all-time highs.

⁠Condense to live stream IRL events into the metaverse Metaverse infrastructure company Condense closes $4.5M seed round with plans to live stream real-world events into the metaverse.

⁠Decentralized storage providers power the Web3 economy, but adoption still underway Decentralized storage providers are proving to be the backbone of Web3, but what does this mean for centralized web service providers?

⁠How to build your first blockchain on Substrate? Setting up your development environment is the first step in starting with Substrate. After this, developers can create a small network of validators by updating the runt…

⁠'I have Bitcoin for the benefit of my kids,' says Gibraltar MP In an interview with Cointelegraph, MP Isola detailed Gibraltar’s crypto regulatory landscape and his interest in Bitcoin.

⁠Binance jumps into NFT ticketing after UEFA League fiasco Binance collaborated with Società Sportiva Lazio to launch NFT tickets for all of the sports club’s home matches at Stadio Olimpico.

⁠Lido DAO: Ethereum's biggest 'Merge' staker soars 400% in July — but technicals flash warning LDO has recently witnessed a growing bearish divergence between its price and key momentum oscillator.

⁠CoinGecko open to acquisition but now is ‘too early,’ co-founder says While CoinMarketCap was acquired by Binance during post-2017 crypto winter, the current bear market is not the right time to sell CoinGecko, its COO…

⁠Ethereum dev confirms Goerli merger date, the final update before the Merge The Goerli merger requires node operators to update both their consensus layer and execution layer clients in tandem, rather than just one of t…

⁠Law Commission for England and Wales proposes reforms for digital assets The U.K. Law Commission called for cryptocurrencies and digital assets to be classed as “data objects” in new reforms aimed at fostering growth an…

⁠Crypto mining still profitable in the long-term, expert says Steve Bassi said that a long-term holder may do well mining in the short run and then selling when the block reward goes down in 2024.

⁠GameFi industry to see $2.8 billion valuation in six years The GameFi industry holds massive potential for growth within the next six years, according to a recent report.

⁠Critic of Bitcoin’s ‘one-percenters’ still positive about future of digital assets A financial professor is skeptical about Bitcoin's design but is still very much involved in crypto research and is bullish about the fu…

⁠Critique on Helium’s $6.5K monthly revenue causes a stir The “complete lack of end-user demand for Helium should not have come as a surprise,” noted Web3 critic Liron Shapira.

⁠Japan’s crypto groups call for end of taxing paper gains Danny Talwar from crypto tax platform Koinly said Japan's regulatory environment makes it difficult for businesses and individual investors to hold digital assets…

⁠Experts yet to explain massive spike in ETH active addresses The sudden dramatic spike in active addresses on the network has left many guessing about the cause.

⁠Up in smoke: Artist Damien Hirst to burn 4,851 paintings in NFT project Almost half of the buyers of Hirst’s “The Currency” collection wanted to keep the NFT version.

⁠'Bullish rate hike' — Why crypto spiked today in the face of bad news The Fed’s attempts to reel inflation in by increasing interest rates are usually associated with a pullback of investment activity across markets.

⁠Zuckerberg unfazed about $2.8B metaverse division loss in Q2 “This is obviously a very expensive undertaking over the next several years,” said Mark Zuckerberg.

⁠Pain ahead for algorithmic and non-cash backed stablecoins: IMF director IMF Director Tobias Adrian believes uncollateralized and algorithmically-stabilized stablecoins pose too great a threat to holders and may experie…

⁠Coinbase SEC investigation could have ‘serious and chilling’ effects: Lawyer Michael Bacina, an Australian digital assets lawyer told Cointelegraph that the investigation could see a far-reaching impact on crypto exchan…