Crypto Daily Digest - August 8th

DeFi

• pSTAKE launches $BNB Liquidity Staking. Source
• Chainlink protocol and services will not support forked versions of Ethereum. Source
• Aave community proposal to increase supply cap of sUSD on V3 Optimism to 20 million has been approved. Source
• Data: $BTC Exceeded $24,000, Up 7.86% in 24H. Source
• Crypto lending platform Hodlnaut halts withdrawals and is working on a recovery plan. Source
• Polygon co-founder: Bear market is an opportunity for blockchain builders. Source
• Data: Total market contracts liquidated about $32.08 million in 12 hours. Source
• $DMA on QuickSwap appeared rug pull. Source
• Liquidity staking protocol pSTAKE Finance integrates with Alpaca Finance. Source
• Nomad funds recovery address received about $35.8 million worth of funds. Source
• Decentralized options protocol Premia launched on Optimism. Source
• Crypto exchange Bitget launched a $200M fund to protect users' assets. Source
• Celer Network integrated with MathWallet. Source
• Avalanche-based perpetual futures exchange Hubble Exchange goes live on Mainnet. Source
• BitMEX will launch an ETHPow futures contract tomorrow. Source
• Decentralized lending protocol Hashstack will migrate to StarkNet. Source
• Crypto wallet Argent has no plans to support any Ethereum forks. Source
• Binance appoints former State Street executive Karl Long as head of its Irish operation. Source
• WazirX founder says Binance has restarted off-chain transfers. Source
• Robinhood listed $AVAX and $XLM. Source
• Data: FTX web traffic up 123% year-over-year. Source
• Galaxy Digital's Q2 net loss jumps to $554.7 million. Source
• Zipmex will release Bitcoin and Ethereum tokens from this week. Source

Policy & Regulation

• US Senate passes the $740 billion "Inflation Reduction" Act. Source
• Crypto.com secures Electronic Financial Transaction Act and Virtual Asset Service Provider registration in South Korea. Source

NFT

• CertiK Alert: 349 Discord attacks related to the NFT project have been recorded in the past three months. Source
• Coca-Cola launches International Friendship Day NFT on Polygon. Source
• Animoca Brands releases the TOWER token web store. Source
• NFT marketplace X2Y2 now supports ERC-1155 NFT. Source
• StarkWare partners with NFT marketplace Aspect. Source

Fundings

• Microsoft gives grant to blockchain-based Web3 game StarHeroes. Source