Crypto Daily Digest - August 5th

DeFi

• Arbitrum One Mainnet is migrating to Nitro on August 31st. Source
• Optimism Liquidity Mining program is live on Aave V3. Source
• The Uniswap community proposes to create the Uniswap Foundation. Source
• Nomad has now received about $21 million in fund. Source
• CME unveils plans for Bitcoin and Ethereum futures tied to Euro. Source
• Data: Total market contracts liquidated about $66.96 million in 12 hours. Source
• SlowMist: the Slope wallet hackers have moved the stolen funds to Ethereum and TRON. Source
• Fintech firm Revolut plans to expand crypto headcount. Source
• Nomad will offer an up to 10% bounty to Nomad Bridge hackers who return more than 90% of the stolen funds. Source
• NEAR wallet no longer allows users to create accounts using email or sms for account recovery. Source
• Voyager Digital has received several purchase offers higher than FTX. Source
• Lido partnered with decentralized coverage platform Bridge Mutual to offer $stETH insurance. Source
• MyEtherWallet launched multi-chain browser extension wallet Enkrypt. Source
• Lido DAO approved tweaked proposal to sell 10M $LDO to Dragonfly Capital. Source
• Voyager Digital was approved to return $270M in cash deposits to customers. Source
• Cross-chain bridge Ren integrated with Kava. Source
• Luxury watch brand TAG Heuer accepted ApeCoin payment in the US. Source
• Hector Network partnered with Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund. Source
• Over-collateralized stablecoin protocol Angle Protocol integrated with LayerZero. Source

Policy & Regulation

• Thai SEC had granted operating licenses to four digital asset operators. Source
• U.S. SEC is investigating every U.S. crypto exchange, Forbes reported. Source

NFT

• Moonbirds will move to CC0 public license and form Moonbirds DAO. Source
• 10KTF NFT will open ApeCoin airdrop claiming window. Source
• The Sandbox has posted an update on the Instagram vulnerability. Source
• Data: Moonbirds 24 hours trading volume up 60.34%. Source
• NFT marketplace Talis went live on Juno. Source
• Genopets postpones Habitat Management launch to August 10th due to Solana security event. Source

Fundings

• Gaming NFT 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service provider Halliday raised $6M in seed round led by a16z. Source
• Blockchain data company Coherent raised $4.5M in seed round with Coinbase Ventures involved. Source