Crypto Daily Digest - August 11th

DeFi

• Ethereum Goerli testnet completed merge. Source
• Curve Finance: curve.fi is safe to use with DNS settings completed. Source
• JPMorgan: ETC miners are likely to be among main beneficiaries of shift to PoS validation. Source
• Angle integrates with LayerZero to make agEUR chain agnostic. Source
• 1inch: the extended gas refund program is now available to yet more users. Source
• Coinbase added $NEAR to the listing roadmap. Source
• Slope: no vulnerabilities were found other than previous sentry server implementation issues. Source
• Vitalik Buterin: Vitalik Buterin said that after the Merge, gas fees could be as low as $0.002 with rollups. Source
• Fantom ecosystem DEX SpiritSwap launches V2 beta. Source
• Crypto exchange dYdX confirms blocking user accounts tied to Tornado Cash. Source
• Binance will support the Monero Network upgrade and hard fork. Source
• Data: Total market contracts liquidated about $248 million in 12 hours. Source
• Robinhood Web3 crypto wallet waitlist surpasses 1 million customers. Source
• Ripple Labs is interested in purchasing Celsius' assets. Source
• Data: $ETH exceeds $1,900. Source
• Crypto payment gateway Xion Global and DEX aggregator Xion Finance are migrating to Polygon. Source

Policy & Regulation

• Philippines central bank will stop processing applications window for new Virtual Asset Services Providers licenses. Source
• US Supreme Court refuses to fast track Coinbase arbitration dispute. Source

NFT

• OpenSea introduces new stolen item policy to combat NFT theft. Source
• NFT platform Mogul Productions Discord has been attacked. Source

Fundings

• Asset manager BlackRock offers Bitcoin investing to big institutional clients. Source
• Decentralized communications platform Satellite IM closed $10.5 million funding round led by Framework Ventures and others. Source
• Binance Labs makes a strategic investment in Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr. Source
• Decentralized content distribution platform ReadON closed a $2 million in funding with participation from HashKey Capital and others. Source