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⁠Major Argentine Telecom Falls Victim to $7.5M Monero Ransomware Attack Argentina's largest telecommunications company has fallen victim to a $7.5M ransomware attack.

⁠Updated Russian Crypto Bill Defangs Punishments for Using Crypto Newest version of Russian bill “On Digital Financial Assets” does not criminalize crypto usage, but there is one more bill that might.

⁠French Central Bank Picks Accenture, HSBC and Others for Digital Euro Pilot The central bank of France is about to start several experimental trials centering the digital euro.

⁠What the DOGE Is Going on? TikTok Creates New Crypto Trading Paradigm The short-lived outburst of trading activity could hint at a larger trend in both cryptocurrency and stock trading.

⁠Latest DeFi Craze Involves a One-Man Project With a ‘Worthless’ Token The weekend saw the biggest yield farming craze develop as a new governance token gained over 4,000% in a day.

⁠Coincidence? Top 5 Swiss Bank’s Profits up 34% After Bitcoin Integration Julius Baer, a top-five Swiss bank, saw its net profit climb by 34% in the first half of 2020, a period during which it began offering digital ass…

⁠Romania Is on the Way to Blockchain and Crypto Regulation The European Union’s 5AMLD has been adopted as the first regulation in Romania of virtual currencies, crypto-wallets and fiat-crypto exchange platforms.

⁠Mastercard Expands Cryptocurrency Program for Crypto Card Issuers Mastercard is reaching out to cryptocurrency firms and encouraging them to apply to become partners as part of its newly-expanded cryptocurrency card pro…

⁠Korean Exchanges Struggle With Expansion Amid Uncertain Regulations Cryptocurrency exchanges in Korea shrink within national boundaries due to lack of regulatory clarity.

⁠Bank of Japan Has New CBDC Research Team But No Plans to Launch Bank of Japan has announced the launch of a new CBDC research team, which will continue the work of its previous CBDC research team.

⁠Bitcoin Breakout on July 22? 5 Things to Watch for BTC Price This Week Analysts predict that the end of Bitcoin’s compression cycle will hit within days as price action continues to preserve $9,000 support.

⁠PayPal to Reportedly Offer Crypto Trading Through Paxos Partnership PayPal reportedly plans to introduce crypto trading through a new brokerage service offered by United States stablecoin operator Paxos.

⁠Binance CEO CZ: ‘Bitcoin Has Been Really Stable’ Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binanace, says that Bitcoin will eventually break out of this $9,000–9,500 corridor but the token is "really stable" now.

⁠Grayscale CEO: US Regulators Can’t Shut Down Bitcoin Grayscale CEO Barry Silbert believes the United States is past the point where regulators have the support to ban crypto assets like Bitcoin.

⁠Synthetix Takes Mimetic Trading Platform Out of Stealth Mode Synthetix unveils decentralized asset management platform dHedge.

⁠ERC-20 Tokens Make up About 50% of Entire ETH Blockchain Ether now accounts for only half of the value on the ETH blockchain as DeFi tokens like LINK and stablecoins take its place.

⁠Huobi Japan Opens Voting on Listing 6 New Tokens Account holders at crypto exchange Huobi have the opportunity to vote this month on which of six new tokens they would like to see listed.

⁠Improving AML/KYC Compliance Will Be a Differentiator Says Exec Trulioo said improving compliance for AML and KYC can be a big differentiator for crypto companies.

⁠Roger Ver Says Twitter Blocking His Tweets About BCH Roger Ver says Twitter seems to be blocking tweets about non-state issued money.

⁠Twitter Hack Special: $120K Stolen, FBI Investigate, Calls to Ban BTC — Hodler’s Digest, July 13–19 Top celebrities, politicians and businesses are caught up in a “social engineering attack” on Twitter — with theories s…

⁠Second Lawsuit Filed Against Plaid Another class action lawsuit against Plaid has been filed citing the company violated user data privacy.

⁠CZ Shares Thoughts on Judging Token’s Success Binance CEO shed some light on how to judge the success of a project's token economics.

⁠New Standard to Avoid Ethreum Contract Size Limitation Developed Programmer suggests a standardized proxy contract will solve the Ethereum contract size limitation.

⁠Missing Wirecard Exec Found in Belarus; Russia’s FSB Involvement Suspected Russian intelligence might have a lot to do with helping former Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek disappear into thin air.

⁠Institutional Investors Are Turning Their Attention to Decentralized Finance Why we are now seeing clear institutional interest in the growing space of decentralized finance that will take it to the next level.

⁠Getting Out of Cash Is Key to Wealth and Inflation Protection, Pompliano Says Describing the current economic state, including pending inflation, Anthony Pompliano noted exiting cash into other assets as the key to weal…

⁠Nexo Finance Accused of Being Behind Zeus Capital and Chainlink Short Twitter users accuse Nexo Finance of being behind Zeus Capital, the firm who wanted to short Chainlink.

⁠Pomp Says Unemployment Has Risen Faster Than in the Great Depression Anthony Pompliano said recent unemployment has surged faster than the U.S. saw during the Great Depression, but what does that mean for crypto?

⁠The Cashaa Hack: Investigators Stay Silent as Inside Job Rumors Emerge As 336 BTC get stolen from crypto-friendly bank Cashaa, there is still no clear explanation for what happened.

⁠Chainlink Utility Drives LINK Price, but a Correction Could Be Coming The growing utilization of Chainlink oracles in DeFi protocols has seen LINK’s token price rise considerably, but is a significant decline looming?