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⁠Russia’s third-largest food retailer, Dixy, has implemented an Ethereum blockchain-enabled trade finance platform for factoring services

⁠A Sao Paulo court has blocked funds in bank accounts linked to Grupo Bitcoin Banco, with 726,630 reals ($188,000) frozen

⁠Belarus remains worried about crypto’s role in cybercrime and tax evasion, according to comments from the country’s general prosecutor

⁠Are you sure the crypto world is free? Some lessons on governance, participation and decentralization from Tezos, Iota and others may prove the opposite

⁠A higher degree of accuracy for XRP volumes and sales has been promised by Ripple, the company behind the crypto asset

⁠Mark Karpeles — the former CEO of the now-defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox — has revealed he will serve as the CTO of a new Japan-registered blockchain technology firm

⁠Italy's securities regulator has issued a 90-day suspension notice to investment firm Tessline and its cryptocurrency liracoin

⁠Bitcoin could inform investors worried about the U.S.-China trade war, according to an executive from financial planning and wealth advisory firm Bleakley Advisory Group

⁠Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has partnered with Japan’s biggest railway firm, the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), to promote cashless payments

⁠Blockchain can make retail better for both businesses and customers — in many ways

⁠Polish cryptocurrency exchange Coinroom has reportedly ceased operations and disappeared with customer funds

⁠Malaysian regulators register three new digital currency exchanges: Luno Malaysia, Sinegy Technologies and Tokenize Technology

⁠Neo has developed a new consensus algorithm for its mainnet v2.10.2, the delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance mechanism 2.0

⁠Recent analysis states that China is leading the world in the volume of on-chain tether transactions

⁠The Marshall Islands has announced the SOV Development Fund to support the government in the development of its national digital currency

⁠A blockchain-based alternative investment provider that tokenizes commercial debt is being listed on the Bloomberg Terminal

⁠OKCoin’s customers can now trade with euro and participate in euro spot trading for BTC, ETH, and BCH

⁠The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Kik for raising $100 million in an allegedly unregistered token offering in 2017

⁠Victims in the aftermath of the QuadrigaCX scandal have been called on to provide information by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation

⁠Dutch crypto exchange Blockport will try to relaunch the platform after the firm declared bankruptcy following a failed STO

​​“I don’t think I’m a neanderthal, which is what I’ve been called when I’ve said I didn’t want to own Bitcoin,” Stanley Druckenmiller, American billionaire, said.

⁠Binance, the world’s second largest crypto exchange by adjusted volume, has released its official Trust Wallet on its decentralized trading platform Binance DEX

⁠Eight different security exploits are employed by a malware dubbed BlackSquid to infect web servers and install mining software

⁠South Korea’s top power provider has signed a contract with two domestic power suppliers to create a blockchain-based system for Renewable Energy Certificate transactions

⁠LocalBitcoins officially confirmed the removal of local cash trades after the exchange remained silent on the matter since the option disappeared on June 1

⁠Andreas Antonopoulos spoke with Cointelegraph about his belief in the necessity of borderless finance and governance systems with the use of open blockchains

⁠Switzerland’s national bank should work with big industry players to develop a Swiss franc token, a think tank says

⁠A judge at Russia’s Supreme Arbitration Court urged lawmakers to include the term “digital assets” in the Russian Civil Law

⁠The U.S. CFTC chair says blockchain would have allowed for a “far faster, better-informed, and more calibrated regulatory intervention” in response to the 2008 crisis

⁠The management of tokenization software firm AlphaPoint has been rehauled