Binance will list Stargate (STG) in the Innovation Zone and will open trading for STG/BTC, STG/BUSD and STG/USDT trading pairs at 2022-08-19 09:00 UTC.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/04619e62e3784dc09b17fea81ad4d0fd

Here is our Crypto Daily Review.

Today's highlights:
- The market is down. Bitcoin is trading at $21,906
- Huobi exchange stablecoin HUSD has repegged to the US dollar
- NFL All Day, Dapper Labs' biggest launch since NBA Top Shot, went live
- Tether partners with BDO Italia to conduct regular attestations of its dollar reserves

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The largest ETH mining pool Ethermine will not support any PoW forks that will appear after switching Ethereum to Proof-of-Stake.

https://coingape.com/largest-eth-mining-pool-will-not-support-ethereum-pow/amp/

Our weekly news digest.

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https://telegra.ph/ICODROPS-WEEKLY-NEWS-DIGEST-08-21

Here is our Crypto Daily Review.

Today's highlights:
- The market dropped during the weekend. Bitcoin is trading at $21,358
- The world's largest ETH mining pool will not support any PoW fork post-Merge
- Ronin hackers have transferred stolen $625M to mixers on Bitcoin network (ChipMixer, Blender, etc).
- Uniswap has blacklisted 253 crypto addresses linked to hacks or sanctions

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Hodlnaut reports $193 million financial shortfall.

Earlier it has laid off 80% of its staff to conserve cash.

The document shows that Hodlnaut parked some $317 million in UST, the failed stablecoin, in Anchor Protocol on Terra.

https://www.theblock.co/post/164756/hodlnaut-financial-shortfall-193-million-crypto

The South Korean Ministry of Strategy and Finance cleared that virtual asset airdrops, staking rewards and hard forked tokens would be subject to a gift tax under the Inheritance and Gift Tax Act.

Free virtual asset transfers would still attract a 10-50% tax under the Inheritance and Gift Tax Act.

The said tax requires the recipient of the free “gift” to file a gift tax return within three months of receiving it.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-tax-can-wait-free-coins-can-t-s-korea-mulls-gift-tax-for-airdrops

Invesco launches a metaverse fund.

https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/news/4055057/invesco-launches-metaverse-fund

Current state of the market in our weekly overview.

Data from: dropstab.com

Samsung files to launch a bitcoin and crypto exchange in South Korea in 2023.

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmagazine/status/1561698193028497408

A hacker stole crypto funds from customers making deposits at General Bytes Bitcoin ATM machines.

The hacker modified the crypto settings of two-way machines with his wallet settings and the invalid payment address setting.

https://www.theblock.co/post/164741/hacker-stole-from-clients-making-deposits-on-bitcoin-atms

Coinbase has added Aurora (AURORA) and MXC (MXC) to its roadmap.

https://twitter.com/coinbaseassets/status/1561705044151570435

OneRare has announced its strategic partnership with Axelar.

https://onerarenft.medium.com/onerare-announces-its-strategic-partnership-with-axelar-feb20d15b9f7

The auction Ton recently conducted for their domain/wallet names was successful, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said.

He also added that Telegram could soon offer a marketplace to auction addresses.

“This would create a new platform where username holders could transfer them to interested parties in protected deals – with ownership secured on the blockchain via NFT-like smart-contracts. Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem, including channels, stickers or emoji, could later also become part of this marketplace.”

https://t.me/durov/194

Here is our Crypto Daily Review.

Today's highlights:
- The market is neutral. Bitcoin is trading at $21,203
- Samsung Securities and other firms applied for the launch of a cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea in 2023
- Nike has generated a total of $185 million in revenue from NFT sales
- BendDAO founder has proposed emergency changes to the protocol to prevent liquidity crises.

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Nike tops the list with a $185m revenue from NFT sales in the fashion brands.

Dolce & Gabbana (D&G), Tiffany, Gucci, and Adidas join Nike in the list of the top five.

Nike has amassed nearly $1.3b in transaction volume from secondary trading.

https://twitter.com/wublockchain/status/1561956026554802176

According to PeckShield, SudoRare rugged 519 $ETH (~$815k).

SudoRare already deleted its social accounts/groups.

Stolen funds already transferred to 3 new addresses.

https://twitter.com/peckshieldalert/status/1561967493912363008

Ready Player Me, an avatar platform for the metaverse, has raised $56M in a Series B funding round led by a16z GAMES FUND ONE and a16z crypto.

Investors: Plural, David Baszucki, co-founder of Roblox, Justin Kan, co-founder of Twitch and Fractal, Robin Chan, co-founder of Fractal, Henry Ault, co-founder of Eco, Sebastian Knutsson & Riccardo Zacconi, King Games co-founders, Collab Currency, Endeavor, Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat Ventures, D’Amelio family, Punk6529, Snowfro, Nordic Ninja, Konvoy and more.

https://blog.readyplayer.me/series-b-announcement-a16z/

Bitfinex has launched a trading for Chain Split Tokens (CSTs) that will allow users to trade on the potential fork event in the Ethereum (ETH) consensus protocol that could result in a new ETH Proof of Work (PoW) coin as well as ETH Proof of Stake (PoS).

https://trading.bitfinex.com/t/ETHS:USD
https://trading.bitfinex.com/t/ETHW:USD
https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/822

Binance will introduce zero-fee trading for the ETH/BUSD spot trading pair.

Validity Period: 2022-08-26 00:00 UTC until 2022-09-26 00:00 UTC.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/5d8f9c0a68e24b82bff743a342dfa9b9

Huobi Tech obtained an MSB license in Canada further expanding regulated business
globally.

https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2022-08-23/huobi-tech-obtained-msb-license-in-canada-further-expanding-regulated-business-globally