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

Bank of America, FTX, Coinbase Ventures join Paxos's $300 million Series D funding round.

https://decrypt.co/77080/bank-of-america-ftx-and-coinbase-ventures-join-300m-investment-in-paxos

The New Jersey Bureau of Securities have postponed the effective date of its previous order, which calls for preventing the creation of all new BlockFi Interest Account (BIAS), to September 2, 2021.

https://twitter.com/BlockFi/status/1420373376582004742

Legislation to provide a “comprehensive legal framework” to regulate the digital asset market and possibly grant the federal government the ability to ban some stablecoins was introduced in the House of Representatives Wednesday.

https://www.coindesk.com/congressman-introduces-new-legislation-to-regulate-digital-assets

GoldenTree, $45b Asset Manager, Is Buying Bitcoin.

The New York-based firm has been adding Bitcoin to its balance sheet as a diversifier for the broad mix of debt-focused strategies it has run for years, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/news/golden-tree-asset-manager-buying-bitcoin

Tidal Finance has launched its mainnet.

https://twitter.com/tidaldefi/status/1420010182571089921?s=20

Scalesawap has announced ScaleSCORE, a unique loyalty scoring system, for guaranteed pool participations

https://medium.com/scaleswap/the-scalescore-revolution-fairness-for-the-ido-sphere-78a27336e3ca

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Square’s Cash App generated "$2.72 billion of bitcoin revenue and $55 million of bitcoin gross profit during Q2, each up approximately 3x year over year.

Square is set to acquire Australia payment firm Afterpay for $29 billion, whose 16 million customers will be able to buy bitcoin through Cash App.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/113217/square-bitcoin-revenue-triple-29-billion-fintech-acquisition

Matrixport — the crypto financial services platform that bills itself as a neo-bank — has announced the close of a Series C fundraise that clinches the firm $100 million at a more than $1 billion pre-money valuation.

It was backed by partners at DST Global, C Ventures, and CE Innovation Capital.

Other investors: Tiger Global, Polychain, and Dragonfly.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/113201/matrixport-100-million-series-c-1-billion-valuation

Neo has launched the N3 mainnet version.

https://neo.org/blog/details/4240

Alchemy Pay (ACH), PlayDapp (PLA) and Rai Reflex Index (RAI) are launching on Coinbase Pro.

Trading will begin on or after 16:00 UTC August 3, if liquidity conditions are met.

https://blog.coinbase.com/alchemy-pay-ach-playdapp-pla-and-rai-reflex-index-rai-are-launching-on-coinbase-pro-a73331555189

Swarm tokens have been distributed on Coinlist.
BZZ is now trading at ~3.8x from the public sale price.

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

Lithium Finance Announces IEO on KuCoin to Extend Public Sale.

IEO Date: 05/08/2021
Token Ticker: $LITH
Maximum Total Supply: 10,000,000,000
Total IEO Allocation: 300,000 USD
Initial Market Price: 0.006 USD

https://medium.com/lithiumfinance/lithium-finance-announces-ieo-on-kucoin-to-extend-public-sale-60a256194efa

Miami will launch its very own cryptocurrency tomorrow, MiamiCoin, which will be used to fund infrastructure projects or events in the city.

https://decrypt.co/77487/miami-cryptocurrency-miamicoin-launch-bitcoin-rewards