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⁠Congress will likely decide the fate of crypto jurisdiction: Lummis staffer U.S. Congress will need to step in to decide who gets crypto regulation bragging rights if the SEC and CFTC cannot resolve the issue internally…

⁠Vitalik: Centralized USDC could decide the future of contentious ETH hard forks Speaking at the BUIDL Asia event in Korea, Vitalik Buterin said that centralized stablecoins like USDC & USDT will become significant decid…

⁠Crypto bear market will provide ‘excellent’ M&A opportunities: White Rock CEO “The sector has been here before and well capitalized and efficient miners will do just fine,” said White Rock CEO Andy Long.

⁠Uniswap Foundation proposal gets mixed reaction over $74M price tag The largest DEX in the world could be supported by a new $74 million foundation if a new proposal from two community members passes a vote later this m…

⁠Solana-hacked crypto could be claimed as a tax loss: Experts Australian, Canadian & U.K. crypto investors may potentially claim hacked crypto as a tax loss, but U.S. investors will miss out, according to tax experts.

⁠Crypto fundraising already outpacing all of 2021: Report The Messari report noted that more than $30 billion was raised from 1199 funding rounds in the first half of 2022.

⁠Thai SEC approves four crypto firms despite Zipmex woes Thailand’s regulators are still approving crypto companies despite one of its largest ones suspending withdrawals.

⁠Jack Dorsey-led Block posts $1.5B in Q2 profits, BTC revenue down Block Inc. posted $1.47B worth of profit in Q2 but BTC trading services profit only accounted for $41 million of that figure, with the firm citing price…

⁠Voyager received better buy-out offers than FTX’s, set to return $270M to customers The crypto lender will be allowed to return a portion of customer funds locked up at the Metropolitan Commercial Bank which have been f…

⁠Crypto firms failed to deliver 'promised benefits' from lawmaker-backed incentives, says nonprofit “At a minimum, the public should have a say in these crypto handouts," said the Tech Transparency Project.

⁠Binance and Mastercard will launch prepaid crypto cards in Argentina "Payments is one of the first and most obvious use cases for crypto, yet adoption has a lot of room to grow,” said Maximiliano Hinz.

⁠BNB rallies 39% despite smart contract deposits dropping 28% — should investors be worried? BNB Chain's total value locked dropped more significantly than its competitors, but the network’s decentralized applications ar…

⁠Meta enables Instagram NFT integration in over 100 countries Mark Zuckerberg's company, which posted a sharp loss in its Metaverse division in Q2, unveiled its digital asset expansion strategy on May 10, 2022.

⁠Worthless JPEGs: Redditor turns NFT criticism into NFTs One Reddit user collected quotes from NFT haters on the internet and famous skeptics like Warren Buffet, Peter Schiff and Dan Olson.

⁠Interview with Kevin O’Leary: $28K Bitcoin next or lower? | Market Talks with Crypto Jebb Kevin O'Leary gives his outlook on the current state of the crypto market in this exclusive live interview with Cointelegraph.

⁠Building the blockchain industry despite market drops and regulation threats Even if crypto regulation comes to America, top crypto investors are not worried as upward of 90% of cryptocurrencies are utilized outside the…

⁠Bitcoin price retests key $22.8K as metric points to 'BTC buying spree' BTC price bulls fail to take the market higher as the week continues, but buyer interest is giving hope.

⁠CME Group plans to launch euro-denominated Bitcoin and Ether futures The futures options, expected to start trading on Aug. 29, followed the CME Group launching micro-sized Bitcoin and Ether options in March.

⁠Self-custody isn’t for everyone: WisdomTree exec on ‘be your own bank’ As self-custody puts a lot of responsibility on a user, many may find self-custody way too uncomfortable or too hard to handle.

⁠UK parliamentary group calls for submissions in new crypto asset inquiry The U.K.’s Crypto and Digital Assets All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) announced it will launch an inquiry into the crypto and digital asset in…

⁠Education and aesthetics: Bringing more women into the Metaverse Brands have the potential to make the Metaverse more women-friendly by focusing on beautiful aesthetics, accessibility and education.

⁠Coinbase partners with BlackRock to create new access points for institutional crypto investing The world's largest financial asset management firm is making a major push into digital assets, beginning with Bitcoin.

⁠Cointelegraph expands to Middle East and North Africa with a new franchise Cointelegraph MENA will cover the top news and technological developments in each country in the region in Arabic.

⁠Twitter chases Citadel’s founder, Binance in a race of subpoenas The company is gathering all the possible information on Elon Musk's private claims about its number of fake accounts.

⁠Portuguese banks shutting crypto accounts citing risk management concerns The Bank of Portugal has licensed all of the exchanges that have had their accounts closed, including Criptoloja, Mind The Coin and Luso Digital…

⁠Lido’s market dominance and Ethereum decentralization post-Merge Lido’s liquid staking derivative token has over 90% of the Ethereum market share as the network ultimately transitions to proof-of-stake.

⁠'Insane evidence' Bitcoin has capitulated in past 2 months — analysis Signals that Bitcoin is in classic capitulation mode are everywhere, and each is a "rare event," says Capriole's Charles Edwards.

⁠Ethereum's L2 solution 'Optimism' rallies 300% in a month — will OP price gains sustain? Optimism eyes an increase in adoption after the Merge upgrade triggers Ethereum's "Rollup-Centric Roadmap."

⁠Japan may see a reduced 20% tax on crypto earnings with new proposal The proposal calls for a separate 20% tax on crypto earnings and exemptions of any tax on crypto gains, with losses carried forward for up to three ye…

⁠How to create and launch a cryptocurrency token with TokenMint? To create a token using TokenMint, no programming knowledge is necessary. The TokenMint platform's alpha version provides the fundamentals for creating a f…