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Walmart is seeking a crypto product lead, the Dogecoin Foundation is active again after a long break, Coinbase has amassed a $4 billion cash-backed war chest: Holder’s Digest, Aug. 15-21

Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulat...

Unicorns in crypto: A growing herd of billion-dollar crypto companies

As Bitcoin garners more mainstream attention, crypto-centric startups are also scoring funding from VC firms to become crypto unicorns. The second half of 2021 just s...

NASA is eyeing up a nearby asteroid that contains enough gold to make everyone on Earth a billionaire.

So much for gold being scarce. I know this is all hypothetical at this point, but it goes to show if this at one point becomes reality the price of gold would drop considerably. Meanwhile, there is only 21 million bitcoins, regardless of what happens...

First Reddit Talk on r/CryptoCurrency: A Session With Crypto Lawyers About The Crypto Provisions In The Infrastructure Bill [Monday, 23rd August 2021, 7 PM PST]

Hello r/CryptoCurrency! We will be hosting our first Reddit Talk this upcoming Monday, 23rd August 2021, 7 PM PST. You can use this Timezone Converter to schedule ahead. Earlier we had announced Reddit’s new live audio feature Talk! Now we are please...

Weekly Defi Swaps Tap $17 Billion While Dex Aggregators Now Share 22% of the Trade Volume

Over the last seven days, decentralized exchange (dex) trade volume has tapped $17 billion across the 21 Ethereum dex platforms. Pancakeswap has seen between $400K to $860K every 24 hours during the last week as well. Meanwhile, dex aggregators are e...

Vitalik helping billionaires with their bags. Not cool.

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Liquid, a Japanese exchange, has been hacked today, losing 80 million USD of funds. There are now a total of 52 exchange hacks since 2011, with a total loss of around 2.1 billion USD.

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Did you know that in one point in time someone owned 92 billion bitcoin?

https://decrypt.co/39750/184-billion-bitcoin-anonymous-creator In August 2010, Bitcoin’s source code was exploited by someone who to this day remains anonymous. Enter block 74,638, the fateful block that created 184,467,440,737.09551616 Bitcoin, wit...

Billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir is Now Accepting Bitcoin

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Crypto language in the infrastructure bill is a political shell game, says Cointelegraph GC

According to Zachary Kelman, Republicans and moderate Democrats may know the tax reporting requirements for crypto firms are impossible but want to have a provision to fund some of the pr...

Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Palantir To Accept Bitcoin Payments

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Crypto industry blindsided by US Infrastructure Bill: Chervinsky

The Treasury Department is influencing the infrastructure bill to gain jurisdiction over the DeFi industry, says the advocate Jake Chervinsky, the General Counsel for FinTech company Compound Labs, has spoken up against the United States Senate&rsquo...

Bitstamp boss on dogecoin: We won’t list a crypto that ‘crashes on a billionaire’s tweet’

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Treasury Dept. wants to ‘capture DeFi’ with infrastructure bill: Jake Chervinsky

General counsel to Compound Labs, Jake Chervinsky has warned that the Treasury Department wants to “capture” the DeFi sector through the crypto provisions added to the infrastructure bill...

Billionaire Mike Novogratz unfazed by Galaxy Digital’s $175.8M loss in Q2

Galaxy Digital founder and CEO Mike Novogratz was unfazed by the firm’s $175.8-million loss as he emphasized the importance of digital asset adoption. Mike Novogratz’s...

Multi-Billion Dollar Financial Services Firm Lloyds Looks to Hire a Digital Currency Expert

Lloyds Banking Group, the British parent company of Lloyds Bank, is currently hiring a “digital currency [and] innovation senior manager,” according to a recent job listing posted to BYP Network. Lloyds is one of the largest financial ser...

Ethereum 2.0 Becomes The Leading Hodler of Ether With $21.5 Billion in Funds

Presently, the staking contract of Eth2 has become the largest holder of Ethereum. Moreover, it is compliant with ERC-20 standards and leads the other projects using the same tokens. The blockchain analytics source Nansen carries that the staking con...

Global total value locked in DeFi just reached $148 billion and is rapidly approaching new ATHs

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The world's biggest banks are pouring billions into crypto

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As of today, there are a total of 60 DeFi exploits that have occurred, with lost funds amounting to a total of approximately $1.2 billion. 44 of these exploits occurred on the Ethereum chain while 17 are on BSC. - CryptoSec