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

Kraken lists Band Protocol (BAND), Injective Protocol (INJ), Mirror Protocol (MIR) and 1inch network (1INCH).

Trading will begin on August 10 at approximately 15:30 UTC.

https://blog.kraken.com/post/10497/band-inj-mir-and-1inch-trading-starts-august-10-deposit-now/

Elrond has partnered with Offsetra to become carbon negative by offsetting more CO2 than the network accounts for.

Every Maiar transaction, NFT or DeFi product on the Elrond network will have a positive impact on the environment.

https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-carbon-negative-offsetra/

UniLend’s UFT Token has been listed on Binance Bridge.

https://twitter.com/UniLend_Finance/status/1423241737581993991

Crypto Data Firm Messari has raised $21 million in Series A funding.

The raise was led by early-stage investors Point72 Ventures.

Other investors: Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, and Blockchain Ventures.

https://decrypt.co/77717/crypto-data-firm-messari-records-21-million-series-a-funding

Binance will wind down its derivatives products offerings in Hong Kong.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/25a2571392a24367a7d927bd37ab2b86

🔥ETH has surpassed $3,000

https://dropstab.com/ethereum

Brian Brooks has resigned as CEO of ⁦⁦⁦Binance US due to differences over strategic direction.

https://twitter.com/BrianBrooksUS/status/1423727097323802626

Nakji Network, an indexing protocol for organizing blockchain data, has raised $8.8 million in a funding round.

The funding was secured via a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) sale.

Animoca Brands, CMS Holdings, Primitive Ventures, One Block, Panony, and others backed the round.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/113780/indexing-protocol-nakji-network-blockchain-data-saft-funding