Bancor, a decentralized exchange, stated that a vulnerability was exploited to steal 24,984 ETH (approx $12 million), $1 million worth of NPXS and $10 million worth of BNT.

https://www.ccn.com/decentralized-crypto-exchange-bancor-hacked-12m-in-ether-stolen/

As of July 10, 2018, Binance has completed the token swap from ERC-20 ICX to mainnet ICX! They have opened withdrawals/deposits of ICX on their exchange as well. The mainnet ICX address begins with hx instead of 0x! I'm sure there will be a tweet from the official binance twitter confirming this soon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/helloicon/comments/8xmjld/megathread_exchange_icx_mainnet_token_swap_updates/

As for those who need to manually swap on the ICONex update and have questions, please refer to this thread here where you will find most of your answers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/helloicon/comments/8son4w/please_read_the_token_swap_faq_before_posting_on/

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DREP UPDATE

Xiaolong Xu, co-founder at DREP Foundation on KUCOIN investement, said, "Investment is always significant for founders. It not only reinforces belief in the capability of the team, it also represents a shared vision of the future."

https://medium.com/@DREP_Foundation/kucoin-completes-strategic-investment-in-drep-foundation-89b883eac055

Bittrex goes Malta

Today we’re excited to announce a new partnership between Palladium, Unikrn and Bittrex to launch a new trading platform in Malta powered by Bittrex technology.

https://twitter.com/BittrexExchange/status/1016691065137586179

Joys of using Augur.

https://twitter.com/BMBernstein/status/1016691503501111296

QuarkChain, a new generation permission-less blockchain, announced the first nine projects using QKC to do ICO in its Beijing meetup on July 7th, 2018.

https://medium.com/@quarkchainio/quarkchain-builds-ecosystems-with-nine-promising-projects-7ecd2bce2c87

SEC opened the CBOE ETF filing for public comments.

https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-cboebzx-2018-040/cboebzx2018040.htm

NULS Mainnet has launched

https://medium.com/@nuls/main-net-has-launched-14ed5c133f25

Web3 - The Decentralized Web ecosystem

https://multicoin.capital/2018/07/10/the-web3-stack/

While there have been numerous failed attempts at a Bitcoin ETF to date, the latest application from CBOE Global Markets may have its best chance yet.

On June 26th, The SEC received an application for a Bitcoin ETF (exchange traded fund) filed by the Cboe Global Markets, who have proposed to partner with Van Eyck Investment and SolidX.

https://bitcoinist.com/cboe-bitcoin-etf-holy-grail-sec/

Understanding Blockchain Series: A 101 Noob Intro to Programming Smart Contracts on Ethereum

https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/a-101-noob-intro-to-programming-smart-contracts-on-ethereum-695d15c1dab4

At the end of May, we announced the release of the PARSEC Whitepaper and RFC. Standing for the Protocol for Asynchronous Reliable Secure and Efficient Consensus, the new consensus mechanism will power not only the SAFE Network but will also help many other decentralised projects looking to build global, permissionless networks across the world.

The release generated a huge amount of interest online and now, only a few weeks later, we’re delighted to announce that we’re releasing the actual PARSEC code itself . That’s right — as of today, you can check out the world’s first completely decentralised, open source, highly asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanism by visiting our GitHub repo and downloading the code for yourself.

https://medium.com/safenetwork/parsec-the-release-of-the-code-91d514faaa71

Source: https://howmuch.net/articles/ico-market-2018

SIRIN LABS smartphone design.

https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2018/07/11/see-sirin-labs-final-design-for-the-finney-blockchain-smartphone/

DREP reduces hardcap

In view of the strategic industry partnerships as you seen in our Announcement channel and commercial networks we have acquired, our roadmap will see less outlay.

After a thorough reassessment of our project needs in terms of costing - now that we have these partners on board, we will be revising the fundraise amount.

To minimise the impact on our existing tokenomics and token metrics, the price per token during crowdsale will be reduced to $0.00770. The revised hardcap will be $19.8m.

Thank you community for your consistent support. We are always keen to listen to your feedback!

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Our revised hardcap is USD 19.8m

- Private Sale: 750m tokens, 30% discount, 50% of total tokens to be locked up for 90 days, to raise US$4.0m (Sold out)

- Private Presale: 600m tokens, 15% discount, 50% of total tokens to be locked up for 45 days, to raise US$3.9m (Sold out)

- Public Presale: 1,050m tokens, 10% discount, 50% of total tokens to be locked up for 30 days, to raise US$7.3m (Oversubscribed)

- Public Crowdsale: 600m tokens, no discount, no lockup, to raise US$4.6m

Source: DREP Telegram Channel

Still at rumor level: On August 10th the SEC will make its decision on a recently proposed Bitcoin ETF filed by CBOE.

https://twitter.com/Isotopes_CC/status/1017044779601887232

*Correction, within 45 days of Friday August 10th.

https://twitter.com/LilUziVertcoin/status/1016885423187091459