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⁠Trend Micro calls out vulnerabilities in metaverse security development "Illegal or criminal activities are likely to flourish in the darkverse since it will be difficult to track and monitor," says Trend Micro.

⁠Australia-based crypto miner doubles hash rate after energizing Canadian rigs Daniel Roberts, Iris Energy co-founder, said the firm had energized the facility on time “despite the current market backdrop and ongoing int…

⁠Dave Portnoy's SafeMoon position is down 94%, claims he's being sued by project The Barstool Sports founder panic-sold Bitcoin in 2020 and has expressed fleeting interest in digital assets ever since.

⁠Circle freezes blacklisted Tornado Cash smart contract addresses Stablecoin issuers can blacklist interactions with the Tornado Cash dApp on the Ethereum smart contract level.

⁠Tornado Cash co-founder reports being kicked off Github as industry reacts to sanctions OFAC issued a statement implying prohibited transactions with Specially Designated Nationals could include "downloading a software…

⁠Bitcoin likely to transition to a risk-off asset in H2 2022, says Bloomberg analyst As the global economy moves into a recession in the second half of 2002, Bitcoin will likely rally alongside gold and treasury bonds, a…

⁠Price analysis 8/8: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, SOL, DOGE, DOT, MATIC, AVAX Bitcoin price aims to break from its current range and flip $24,000 to support, while altcoins are following the upside move by attempting to conf…

⁠Two more lawsuits for Coinbase: Law Decoded, Aug. 1-8 Both plaintiffs claim that Coinbase made fraudulent and deceptive representations regarding the company’s business.

⁠White hat hackers have returned $32.6M worth of tokens to Nomad bridge The cross-chain bridge was drained of its assets in less than three hours.

⁠Vitalik Buterin proposes stealth addresses for anonymous NFT ownership “You would be able to eg. send an NFT to vitalik.eth without anyone except me (the new owner) being able to see who the new owner is,” said the Ethe…

⁠Fed reverse repo reaches $2.3T, but what does it mean for crypto investors? Investors avoid risk assets during a crisis, but excessive cash sitting in financial institutions could also be good for the cryptocurrencies.

⁠Binance sides with Indian regulators in WazirX fallout, to cease support for off-chain transfers Binance denied any equity ownership in the India-based crypto exchange after the latter came under regulatory scrutiny.

⁠Bitcoin price targets 8-week highs as Ethereum reaches $1.8K Optimism and expectations increase around crypto markets, but U.S. inflation data looms large this week.

⁠US Treasury sanctions USDC and ETH addresses connected to Tornado Cash The protocol was at the center of some recent hacks and exploits in decentralized finance, including a $375-million attack in February and a $100-mi…

⁠Metaverse housing bubble bursting? Virtual land prices crash 85% amid waning interest The virtual real estate market is crashing despite a McKinsey report predicting a $5 trillion market by 2030.

⁠US ethics advisory on federal employee's crypto has basis in legislation The Office of Government Ethics reminded federal agency ethics officers of current law and extended its interpretation of the law to mutual funds.

⁠A slice of the punk: Cryptopunk NFT to be split into 56,000 pieces A valuable Cryptopunk nonfungible token is set to be fractionalized as more than 56,000 addresses sign up for a share of ownership.

⁠Ethereum Name Service founder reflects as 2 million registration mark nears As the Ethereum Name Service edges closer to 2 million domain registrations, its founder reflects on the parallels with the internet’s Domain N…

⁠Crypto lending platform Hodlnaut suspends services due to liquidity crisis Hodlnaut avoided 3AC exposure and earlier denied ever buying UST, but several reports and on-chain data have shown that the lending firm at one…

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⁠FTX, ByBit rise in web traffic despite overall traffic drop on CEXs Web traffic on FTX surged 123% YoY, while major exchanges like Coinbase and Binance were down 46% and 40% traffic-wise, respectively.

⁠Ethereum Merge may lessen usage for other chains, says Nansen CEO: KBW 2022 Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik said that while many chains will become ghost towns after the Merge, some will be able to find their own niches.

⁠Nigeria becomes the most crypto-obsessed nation after April crash: Report The Google trends data for the popular search terms in 15 countries showed that “Ethereum” searches outscored "Bitcoin" in 14 of them.

⁠Chainlink ditches Ethereum PoW forks for PoS after The Merge The Chainlink protocol will continue operations on Ethereum after the upcoming Merge to the proof-of-stake consensus layer.

⁠Cross chains, beware! deBridge flags attempted phishing attack, suspects Lazarus Group deBridge Finance survives an attempted phishing attack, points a finger at the North Korean Lazarus Group, and warns the wider commu…

⁠Bitcoin core contributor urges maximalists to take a different route Matt Corallo urged the Bitcoin community to drop the us-versus-them culture, which leads to attacking projects other than BTC.

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⁠Six reasons why blockchain makes sense for commercial real estate: Deloitte The study reveals that blockchain technology is well-positioned to take over more than 50% of the entire leasing and sale process across commer…

⁠Korea Blockchain Week, Aug. 8: First-day takeaways from the Cointelegraph team The first day of the main stage event included a keynote presentation from Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin, 1inch Network's Sergej Kunz, and Klay…

⁠Has US inflation peaked? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week The latest U.S. inflation data is poised for release this week as Bitcoin price action spikes higher after a promising weekly close.