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

Dolphin Entertainment and West Realm Shire Services Inc., owner and operator of FTX.US, are teaming up to create an NFT marketplaces for major sports and entertainment brands.

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/dolphin-entertainment-ftx-nft-marketplace-sports-1235032453/

OKEx lists Efinity.
Trading: August 4, 10:00 UTC.

https://www.okex.com/support/hc/en-us/articles/4406436372621

Efinity trading has started on OKEx.
EFI is now trading at ~14х from the Coinlist sale price.

EFI tokens have not been distributed on Coinlist. Tokens release linearly over 9 months.

https://www.okex.com/ru/trade-spot/efi-usdt

Cryptocurrency exchange FTX will sponsor the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) esports competition in a seven-year deal.

FTX already sponsors LCS team TSM FTX via a $210 million deal announced in June.

https://decrypt.co/77583/ftx-crypto-league-of-legends-esports

Hashflow is launching the Open Alpha version.

https://twitter.com/hashflownetwork/status/1422603639198212099

NAOS Finance and Chainlink to Develop Oracle Solutions for Bringing Real World Assets On-Chain

https://medium.com/naos-finance/naos-finance-and-chainlink-to-develop-oracle-solutions-for-bringing-real-world-assets-on-chain-ef01474dbba0

NFT marketplace MakersPlace has raised $30 million in a Series A fundraising round.

The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Pantera Capital with participants including Uncork Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Sony Music Entertainment.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/113494/nft-marketplace-makersplace-secures-30-million-in-series-a-round

Coinlist has distributed Efinity tokens.
EFI is now trading on Coinlist at 7.35x from the sale price.

EFI withdrawals are still closed. Tokens release linearly over 9 months.

https://pro.coinlist.co/trader/EFI-USD

Bakkt partners with Quiznos to pilot bitcoin payments in Denver.

Bakkt users who purchase a meal with bitcoin will receive $15 in BTC as a reward.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/113424/bakkt-quiznos-bitcoin-test-denver

Aspen Digital, a crypto investment platform for asset managers, institutions, and other professional investors, has raised $8.8 million in a pre-Series A funding round.

The round was co-led by RIT Capital Partners — a publicly traded investment firm founded by British billionaire banker Jacob Rothschild — and Liberty City Ventures, an investor in crypto firms such as BitGo, Paxos, and ConsenSys.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/113475/rothschild-rti-funding-crypto-platform-aspen-digital

Elrond has started a collaboration with Impossible Finance.

Through the collaboration, the Elrond Network will be integrated with the Impossible Finance platform, enabling projects to deploy on our mainnet using the Impossible Finance launchpad and their unique “Business to Developer” incubator and Self-Sustaining IDO model.

https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-projects-launchpad-swap-impossible-finance/

Beijing subway has fully integrated China's central bank digital currency with its payment ecosystem

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/113470/beijing-subway-full-integrate-digital-yuan-ecny

Binance has partnered with crypto-fiat hybrid payment solutions provider Alchemy Pay to build a payment bridge between crypto and fiat through the Binance Pay wallet.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210803005696/en/Alchemy-Pay-Binance-Partner-to-Drive-Binance-Pay-Merchant-Integration

TrustToken, operator of decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol TrueFi and stablecoin TUSD, has raised $12.5 million in a new funding round.

Blocktower Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Alameda Research led the round by purchasing TRU, TrueFi’s native token.

https://www.coindesk.com/a16z-blocktower-alameda-back-12-5m-round-for-trusttoken

Injective has announced its rebrand.

Injective will now focus on creating the DeFi hub for the new internet economy.

https://twitter.com/InjectiveLabs/status/1423102881000050690

JPMorgan Launches In-House Bitcoin Fund for Wealthy Clients

https://www.coindesk.com/jpmorgan-launches-in-house-bitcoin-fund-for-wealthy-clients

London upgrade has gone live on the Ethereum network.
https://ethereum.org/en/history/#london

At the moment, 672 ETH has already been burned.
https://ethburned.info/

Lithium Finance trading has started.
LITH is now trading at ~2.6x from the IEO/IDO price.

https://trade.kucoin.com/LITH-USDT

Coinbase has introduced new and seamless ways to enable crypto buys with linked debit cards to Apple Pay and Google Pay, and instant cashouts up to $100,000 per transaction available 24/7.

https://blog.coinbase.com/more-ways-to-buy-crypto-and-cash-out-now-on-coinbase-2790e3bbc751