Ripple is helping Santander Bank to perform thousands of transactions per day through the One Pay FX platform that was launched back in 2018. According to a recent update released on Twitter by Santander, the platform has already executed €450 million ($527 million) in cross-border transactions.

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has warned of the dangers of ‘smart contract risk’ in DeFi protocols in an interview to mark Ethereum's fifth birthday. Buterin also warned users not to ‘risk their life savings’ in DefI.

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Bitfinex will open Elrond (ERD) deposits at 9:00AM UTC on 17/08/2020 and support staking soon thereafter.

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Tether Treasury has printed 300 mln USDT on Tron network.

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Cardano's Shelley mainnet went live. Now Cardano offers two types of staking.

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The crypto-powered Esports streaming platform Theta has partnered with South Korean social gaming platform Ludena Protocol to reward its gamers for viewing or streaming content.

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Binance will remove and cease trading on BTT/PAX, NEO/TUSD, TNT/BTC and XZC/BNB trading pairs at 2020/07/31 12:00 PM (UTC).

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Fidelity Digital Assets, the subsidiary of the large American investment company Fidelity Investments, has published a report on Bitcoin highlighting that its benefits have helped BTC to become an “aspirational store of value” for investors.

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The United States economy has seen its worst quarter in almost a century by contracting 32.9% in the second quarter on top of 5% in the first quarter.

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Binance is testing new desktop app. Beta version will be available next week.

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The first phase of the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade was originally set for Jan 2020 but then postponed to coincide with this week’s fifth anniversary. It’s since been delayed again with a launch now expected sometime between November and early 2021.

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The Bank of Japan has a appointed new department director to spearhead CBDC research. The central bank of Japan has set CBDC tests as a top priority.

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Scalable blockchain Elrond has made the leap onto its mainnet and drastically reduced the token supply in the process. As part of the transition, Elrond said total token supply had been drastically reduced from 20 billion to just 20 million.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill that will prohibit cryptocurrencies as a means of payment in the country.

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Bitcoin breaks $12000 and then falls to $10,694 in 35 minutes. Bitcoin broke through the $12,000 resistance level for the first time since 21 January 2018.

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Asset capital firm Zeus recommends clients to short Chainlink (LINK) because of lack of commercial applications. Chainlink looks like small, doomed, inactive blockchain project that will most likely never ever make it.

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The hash rate of the Bitcoin blockchain network has hit an all-time high merely three months from the halving.

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The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) plans to launch its blockchain-based securities lending pool in November.

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The Ethereum Foundation is building an internal security team “dedicated to Eth2,” one that will include Fuzzing, bounty hunting, pager duty, crypto-economic modeling, applied cryptanalysis, formal verification.

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