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

Australia’s crypto exchange CoinJar has launched a card backed by Mastercard allowing users to buy, sell and spend digital assets directly from its platform using local dollars.

The CoinJar Card is available either physically or digitally through both Google and Apple Pay integration.

CoinJar’s card supports up to 30 different cryptocurrencies and features a 1% conversion rate that is returned to customers via an in-house rewards program.

https://www.coindesk.com/australia-mastercard-coinjar-exchange-crypto-card

In 2020, OpenSea did about $21M in total transaction volume.
In the last two days, the company did $95M.

https://twitter.com/dfinzer/status/1422016457290956800

Weekly NFT trade volume surpasses $300 million for the first time.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/113252/weekly-nft-trade-volume-surpasses-300-million-for-the-first-time

dYdX has introduced its governance token and reward system, including retroactive mining rewards.

DYDX will become transferrable on September 8, ~15:00 UTC.

https://dydx.foundation/blog/ru/introducing-dydx-token