Binance will list Clover Finance (CLV) and Quant (QNT) and will open trading for CLV/BTC, CLV/BNB, CLV/BUSD, CLV/USDT, QNT/BTC, QNT/BNB, QNT/BUSD and QNT/USDT trading pairs at 2021-07-29 06:00 AM (UTC).

Withdrawals for CLV and QNT will open at 2021-07-30 06:00 AM (UTC).

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/053a6010adc844e29e3859a460e32d12

OKEx has listed Clover.

https://www.okex.com/trade-spot/clv-usdt

Binance Labs, the venture capital arm and incubator of Binance, today announced its strategic investment in NFKings, a leading NFT creatives and production company with over 100 intellectual properties (IPs), to contribute to building a sustainable digital creativity space.

https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684902442/Binance-Labs-Announces-Strategic-Investment-in-NFKings-NFT-Creatives-and-Production-Company

In Blockscan, users can now see whether an address is used in other chains.

https://blockscan.com/

Coca-Cola to launch NFTs in Decentraland

https://www.ledgerinsights.com/coca-cola-to-launch-nfts-in-decentraland/

Lolli has raised $10 million in a Series A financing round led by early Chime backer, Acrew Capital.

Acrew is joined by Banana Capital, Up North Management, and Animal Capital, the Gen. Z-focused venture capital fund founded by social media stars Josh Richards, Griffin Johnson, and Noah Beck.

The funding round includes investments from influencers and entrepreneurs such as Logan Paul, Chantel Jeffries, Lauren Riihimaki of LaurDIY, Kenny Beecham, and Baron Davis.

https://blog.lolli.com/lolli-closes-10m-series-a-funding-round-led-by-acrew-capital-and-top-influencers-including-logan-paul-chantel-jeffries-and-sway-house-creators/

DeFine has raised $5 million in strategic investments as part of a wider effort to onboard more companies to the NFT world.

The raise was led by Huobi Ventures, eSports entertainment company Abyss and global game developer PearlAbyss.

Several Asian blockchain funds also participated, including Draper Dragon, NGC Ventures and SevenX Ventures.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/social-nft-platform-define-raises-5m-from-asian-investors

Biconomy has raised $9M in private funding, aims to simplify crypto transactions.

Investors: Coinbase Ventures, Coinfund, True Ventures, Bain Capital, NFX, Proof Group, Ledgerprime, Huobi Innovation Labs, Primitive Ventures, Genblock and Rarestone Capital, Woodstock Fund, Eden Block, and Zee Prime Capital.

https://blockworks.co/biconomy-raises-9m-in-private-funding-aims-to-simplify-crypto-transactions/

Binance lists FLOW.
Trading: July 30, 13:00 UTC

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/d00fe25c21ef4db5afe5c12e32b4fe27

Robinhood raised $2.1 billion via its IPO.
In total, the company has sold 55 million shares at $38 each, which is the lower end of the previously expected range between $38 and $42 per share.

During the IPO, Robinhood was valued at $31.8 billion, making it one of the most valuable American companies to go public lately.

https://decrypt.co/77128/robinhood-hits-32-billion-valuation-after-2-1-billion-ipo

Livepeer, a decentralized video streaming platform built on the Ethereum blockchain, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round.

Digital Currency Group led the round, with Northzone, Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, Animal Ventures, and 6th Man Ventures.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/112920/ethereum-video-streaming-platform-livepeer-20-million-series-b

Crypto trading and lending platform Vauld has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures
with participation from Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, CoinShares, CMT Digital, Gumi Cryptos, and Robert Leshner’s Robot Ventures.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/112912/peter-theil-valar-crypto-platform-vauld-series-a

Coinbase has listed Harvest Finance.
After the news, FARM increased by 2 times.

https://blog.coinbase.com/harvest-finance-farm-is-now-available-on-coinbase-d938c7cc773

PayPal set to launch crypto trading in the UK and may embrace DeFi

https://cointelegraph.com/news/paypal-set-to-launch-crypto-trading-in-the-uk-and-may-embrace-defi

Efinity (EFI) and Swarm (BZZ) will be available for trading on CoinList Pro, CoinList.co and the CoinList mobile app starting next week.

https://blog.coinlist.co/efinity-efi-and-swarm-bzz-trading-soon-on-coinlist/

Binance plans to wind down its futures and derivatives products offerings across the European region, commencing with Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. With immediate effect, users from these countries will not be able to open new futures or derivatives products accounts. With effect from a later date to be announced in a further notice, users from these countries will have 90 days to close their open positions.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/f72d0fff2bd24b488213fa30284dd4cd

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today announced enforcement actions against Binance for illegally operating a Digital Asset Exchange (DAX).

The SC has issued a public reprimand against Binance for continuing to operate illegally in Malaysia despite being included in the SC’s Investor Alert List in July 2020. In this regard, the public reprimand was issued against Binance Holdings Limited (Registered in the Cayman Islands), its CEO Zhao Changpeng, as well as three other Binance entities, namely Binance Digital Limited (Registered in the UK), Binance UAB (Registered in Lithuania) and Binance Asia Services Pte Ltd (Registered in Singapore).

All four Binance entities have been ordered by the SC to:
disable the Binance website and mobile applications in Malaysia;
immediately restrict Malaysian investors from accessing Binance’s Telegram group.

https://www.sc.com.my/resources/media/media-release/sc-takes-enforcement-actions-on-binance-for-illegally-operating-in-malaysia

Visa says crypto purchases during this spring's price peak boosted cross-border volumes during fiscal Q3

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/113042/visa-says-crypto-purchases-during-this-springs-price-peak-boosted-cross-border-volumes-during-fiscal-q3

Australian lending startup Loda attracted more than 15 investors who poured $15 million into the lender’s first of three completed institutional liquidity pools, according to a press release on Friday,

The two remaining pools, which are still live, will be completed once demand calls for it.

Participation in the first liquidity pool came from Framework Ventures, Spartan Capital, One Block, Mechanism Capital, Liquefy Labs, Apollo Capital, Maven 11, Ledger Prime, Cluster Capital, Signum Capital, X21 and others.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/australian-lending-startup-loda-gets-%2415m-to-further-crypto-collateralization-efforts-2021

Horizon Blockchain Games has raised another $4.5 million, bringing its total raised to a little over $13 million for its NFT trading card game "Skyweaver" and wallet.

Investors: CMT Digital, The Xchange Company, BITKRAFT Ventures, Khaled Verjee and Zyshan Kaba.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/29/horizon-blockchain-games-raises-4-5m-for-its-nft-trading-card-game-and-wallet/

AlchemyNFT raises $6 million for remix platform to autograph NFTs.

Investors: Crypto.com Capital, Digital Renaissance Fund, Fenbushi Capital, Framework Ventures, Free Company, Hash Global, HashKey, Huobi Ventures, LongHash Ventures, Mask Network, Mechanism Capital, OKEx Blockdream Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, SevenX Ventures, and billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

https://medium.com/alphawallet/alchemynft-raises-6-million-for-remix-platform-to-autograph-nfts-78c7a47228d1