Crypto Daily Digest - July 15th

DeFi

• Lending firm EquitiesFirst owes Celsius $439 million. Source
• Robinhood listed Uniswap ($UNI). Source
• Celo Network resumed block production. Source
• Chainalysis: The use of Crypto Mixers reaches an all-time high in 2022. Source
• Lido will uncap the number of xcDOT staking and validator nodes. Source
• Ethereum developer: Ethereum merger upgrade date is expected to be September 19th. Source
• Ankr Network launches its 2.0 upgrade. Source
• Harmony will discuss recovery plan for Horizon hack with community in two weeks. Source
• DeversiFi renames itself rhino.fi and changes to Layer2 gateway. Source
• Alameda has transferred about 56.5 million $BUSD to FTX. Source
• Data: Total market contracts liquidated about $52.65 million in 12 hours. Source
• Ethereum’s Shadow Fork 9 goes live. Source
• CertiK Alert: DeeKay Twitter has been hacked. Source
• Huobi: $HBTC strictly abides by the 1: 1 peg guarantee. Source
• Circle's $USDC reserve is worth $55.7B, and consists of cash and US Treasury securities. Source
• Data: $ETH price increased 12.26% over the last 24 hours. Source
• DeFiance Capital claims it's 'entirely independent' from Three Arrows Capital. Source
• Former Google, Chanel, and PwC employees are building a crypto wallet. Source
• Former Curve COO joins Outlier Ventures. Source
• Terra subsidiary was used as a funds channel for overseas affiliates. Source

Policy & Regulation

• Central African Republic set to launch Sango Bitcoin sidechain. Source
• The Financial Planning Association of Australia supports crypto rule book and regulation of exchanges. Source
• Three Arrows Capital liquidators are working to get Singapore courts to recognize the British Virgin Islands liquidation order against it. Source
• Gary Gensler: SEC could tailor disclosures for crypto firms. Source
• Celsius bankruptcy documents show $1.19b hole in its balance sheet. Source

NFT

• STEPN has released the browser version of STEPN marketplace. Source
• OpenSea co-founder announces he has reduced the size of team by 20%. Source

Fundings

• Crypto banking and payments startup Zamp closes $25 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Source
• iPaaS company Onramp Invest closes $7 million Series A funding round. Source
• Metaverse app Hologram closes $6.5 million seed round led by Polychain Capital. Source
• Layer1 network 5ire raised $100M in Series A at $1.5B valuation led by Sram & Mram. Source
• Moonbirds parent company PROOF acquires divergence. Source