Krystal has raised $6.6M to bring its multi-chain DeFi management platform to greater heights.

The round was led by Hashed, with further backing from Crypto.com, Signum Capital, BlockTower, HyperChain, Arrington Capital, LD Capital, DeFi Alliance, ArkStream Capital, Coin98, and a few angel investors.

https://medium.com/krystaldefi/krystal-raises-6-6m-to-build-multi-chain-defi-management-platform-b54ef71b78a2

Onramp Invest has raised $6 million in seed fundraising with major contributions from Coinbase Ventures, Eterna Capital, Fox Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Galaxy Fund Management, Gemini Frontier Fund, Ritholtz Wealth Management and WisdomTree.

Onramp plans to expand its service offering to RIAs, explore broker-dealer registration, and increase the size of its engineering team.

https://www.americanentrepreneurship.com/press-releases/onramp-invest-raises-6m-seed-round-accelerate-growth-integration-plans

13263.30 ETH has already been burned in 3 days after London upgrade.

https://ethburned.info/

Indonesia-based cryptocurrency exchange Pintu has raised $35M in extended Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture.

Investors: Alameda Ventures, Blockchain.com Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Intudo Ventures, Pantera Capital.

https://www.coindesk.com/pintu-indonesia-exchange-series-a-extension-funding

Audi has joined the NFT market and is set to release an NFT collection on Aug 10 with the aid of xNFT.

https://twitter.com/xNFT_Protocol/status/1424291779763863556
https://beincrypto.com/audi-announces-nft-release-on-xnft-protocol/

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SEC has announced that Poloniex has agreed to pay more than $10 million to settle charges for operating an unregistered online digital asset exchange in connection with its operation of a trading platform that facilitated buying and selling of digital asset securities.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-147

Elrond Network has partnered with HUMAN Protocol.

The collaboration will focus on building the tools and integration mechanisms through which data exchanges can be built on Elrond.

https://elrond.com/blog/human-protocol-on-elrond

Tezos 7th Upgrade 'Granada' Is now Live.

- cutting block times by 50%.
- gas improvements, massively reducing gas consumption in smart contracts.
- liquidity baking, leveraging governance mechanism and incentives to provide for public goods.

https://twitter.com/tezos/status/1423588645785776129

Impossible Finance IDO – IDIA (Impossible Decentralized Incubator Access) Token Sale

Launchpad Sale Hard Cap: No less than 240,000 USD*
Hard Cap Per User: 10,000 USD
Total Token Supply: 1,000,000,000 IDIA
Tokens Allocated to Impossible Launchpad: 4,000,000 IDIA* (0.4% of Total Token Supply)
Public Sale Token Price: 1 IDIA = 0.075$
Token Sale Format: IF Staking Subscription

KYC: August 10, 5:00 to August 12, 5:00 UTC
Staking Period: August 12, 5:00 to August 16, 5:00 UTC
Purchase Period: August 16, 10:00 UTC to August 17 10:00 UTC
Claiming Period: starting at August 17, 12:00 UTC

https://medium.com/impossiblefinance/the-impossible-finance-ido-idia-token-sale-c71762418041

Binance has listed Mina (MINA) and Raydium (RAY) in the Innovation Zone

https://www.binance.com/en/trade/MINA_USDT
https://www.binance.com/en/trade/RAY_USDT

Circle is setting out to become National Digital Currency Bank.

https://www.circle.com/blog/our-journey-to-become-a-national-digital-currency-bank

Human trading on CoinList starts in 4 hours.

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

Poly Network was attacked for more than $600 million.

https://twitter.com/O3_Labs/status/1425079239162744842
https://twitter.com/Dogetoshi/status/1425082481963900930

Human trading has started.
HMT is now trading at ~1.25x from the CoinList sale price.

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

BitDAO Dutch Auction to take place on MISO (Minimal Initial SushiSwap Offerings).

Date: August 16th, 13:00 UTC
Tokens available: 200M BIT
Starting Price: ~$2.00
Reserve Price: ~$1.20
Airdrop bonus available: up to 40%

https://medium.com/bitdao/bit-on-sushi-miso-august-16th-5ca96603741e

IoTeX (IOTX), Orion Protocol (ORN), Quickswap (QUICK), Tribe (TRIBE) and TerraUSD (UST) are launching on Coinbase Pro.

Trading will begin on or after 4 pm UTC Wednesday August 11, if liquidity conditions are met.

https://blog.coinbase.com/iotex-iotx-orion-protocol-orn-quickswap-quick-tribe-tribe-and-terrausd-ust-are-1c257deb6ed4

Binance will list Alpaca Finance (ALPACA) and Harvest Finance (FARM) in the Innovation Zone and will open trading for ALPACA/BTC, ALPACA/BNB, ALPACA/BUSD, ALPACA/USDT, FARM/BTC, FARM/BNB, FARM/BUSD and FARM/USDT trading pairs at 2021-08-11 08:00 AM (UTC).

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/df5d03f70fb446fd9f0948fed8b5d7eb

The Sale Period is closed, and 24hr GRACE Period has begun in the Mango DAO.

During this grace period, no deposits are accepted and you can withdraw your USDC if you wish to EXIT the sale.

To stay in the sale and buy MNGO, leave your deposits in the vault through this period

Contributed: 527 275 337 USDC

https://token.mango.markets/

BitMEX has confirmed that it has reached a resolution with both the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in relation to investigations by both agencies.

BitMEX agreed to pay as much as $100 million to resolve the charges.

https://blog.bitmex.com/bitmex-confirms-it-has-reached-settlements-with-cftc-and-fincen/

Helium Inc., a decentralized peer-to-peer 5G wireless network firm, has raised $111 million in a token sale led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Investors: Ribbit Capital, 10T, Alameda Research and Multicoin Capital.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-10/andreessen-backed-5g-blockchain-firm-helium-raises-111-million