Crypto Daily Digest - August 15th

DeFi

• Acala: 16 wallet addresses of iBTC/aUSD LP contributors received erroneously minted $aUSD. Source
• Optimism Kovan will be fully decommissioned on October 5th. Source
• Frax will launch lending platform Fraxlend with code released on Github. Source
• Data: $USDC transaction volume (7d MA) just reached a 1-month high of $554,646,192.46. Source
• Nomad Funds Recovery address has received 20% of stolen funds. Source
• Multichain integrates with Arbitrum Nova. Source
• Do Kwon: Terra/Luna is basically my life. Source
• Sources: Zipmex investors are calling for CEO Marcus Lim's resignation. Source
• Data: 30,428 $ETH transferred from unknown wallet to FTX. Source
• Developer platform Alchemy launches Web3 developer program. Source
• Varen: a malicious actor intends to empty retired governance vault. Source
• Kava Liquid Staking is set to launch September 8th with Kava 11. Source
• Kevin O'Leary: It's worth sacrificing Tornado Cash to create stability in institutional inflows. Source
• Vitalik Buterin: Don't have Instagram account, users should be careful to identify. Source
• Data: total market contracts liquidated about $148.64 million in 12 hours. Source
• Data: $SHIB price increased 35.33% over last 24 hours. Source
• Uniswap front-end begins blocking addresses received 0.1 ETH from Tornado Cash. Source
• Avalanche-based DeFi insurance protocol Degis will launch Stablecoin Shield. Source
• StarkNet-based synthetic asset protocol Serity goes live on testnet. Source
• 1inch Network integrates with messaging smart platform iMe, allowing token swap on Telegram. Source
• FTX will evaluate Ethereum's potential forked tokens to decide whether to distribute and list or not. Source
• Cross-rollup bridge Orbiter Finance integrates with Arbitrum Nova. Source

NFT

• Polygon’s VP of Global Business Development for gaming: Traditional game publishers are gearing up for big pushes into GameFi. Source

Policy & Regulation

• Revolut receives nod from Cyprus regulator to offer crypto services. Source
• Gate.io's Hippo Financial Services obtains Hong Kong Crypto Custody license. Source
• U.S. Judge Grants Ripple's motion to authenticate videos of seven SEC officials’ public remarks. Source
• Binance obtains in-principle approval from Kazakhstan regulators to operate in the country. Source

Fundings

• Crypto venture company Dragonfly buys crypto hedge fund MetaStable Capital and rebrands. Source
• LD Capital launches $200 million distributed fund LD Capital X. Source
• Decentralized identity protocol .bit closed a $13 million Series A round led by HashKey Capital and others. Source
• Galaxy announces the termination of the BitGo acquisition. Source