Crypto Daily Digest - August 18th
DeFi
- South African Reserve Bank encourages friendly behavior with crypto. Source
- Celer Network's cross-chain payment network cBridge suffered frontend attack. Source
- Celer: cBridge frontend UI suffered DNS cache poisoning attack, will fully compensate affected users. Source
- Celer's cBridge frontend UI has been resumed. Source
- Tether partners with accounting firm BDO for reserve attestations. Source
- Ribbon Finance launches yield product Ribbon Earn. Source
- Lending protocol Solend launches Permissionless Pools. Source
- Optimism has transferred millions of $OP from multisig to Coinbase Custody wallet. Source
- Leveraged liquidity mining protocol Alpha Homora V2 is now officially on Optimism. Source
- Multichain integrates with Dogechain. Source
- Liquid staking protocol pSTAKE Finance integrates with Beefy Finance. Source
- Quebec’s pension manager has written off Its stake in Celsius. Source
- Huobi Global GM: $HUSD liquidity issues noted. Source
- $HUSD to $USDC ratio drops to 0.9 on Curve. Source
- Ink Finance launches second round of beta testing. Source
- Nomad released Road to Recovery article. Source
- Polygon integrates with institutional-grade digital asset custody platform GK8. Source
- FTX lists $ORCA on August 18th. Source
- Ronin Network added three new validators, including Nansen. Source
- Stader will cover 165K $NEAR in losses incurred by liquidity providers on NearX. Source
- Coinbase Wallet supports bridging assets between Ethereum and Polygon in browser extension. Source
- Reddit Community Points exchange RCPswap went live on Arbitrum Nova. Source
- Solana Mobile opens pre-order channel for Beta version of Saga phone. Source
- Data: Total market contracts liquidated about $51.40 million in 12 hours. Source
- a16z-backed real estate company Flow plans to launch digital wallet. Source
- Crypto exchange Gemini introduces staking support for US investors. Source
Policy & Regulation
- South Korea's Anti-Money Laundering Authority flags 16 crypto firms for operating without registration. Source
- Monochrome Asset Management receives Australian Financial Services license. Source
- Socios.com registered with Italian regulatory body. Source
NFT
- Phantom Wallet launches NFT burning function. Source
- Atletico Madrid has partnered with WhaleFin and STEPN to launch limited edition NFT sneakers. Source
- The Sandbox will launch Alpha Season 3 on August 24th. Source
- Yuga Labs will only recognize NFTs on Ethereum PoS chain. Source
- Hollywood-themed metaverse Meta Hollywood will airdrop 10,000 NFTs on September 2nd. Source
Fundings
- Crypto fintech company FOMO Pay closes $13 million Series A funding round led by Jump Crypto. Source
- NFT fractionalization platform Fractional rebranded to Tessera and raised $20M led by Paradigm. Source
- On-chain game developer community MatchboxDAO raised $7.5M in a seed round with StarkWare involved. Source
- Polygon leads investment in venture studio SuperLayer's $25 million fund. Source
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