CrediX Team Vanishes After Hack

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Crypto News

• ⭐️ BlackRock $BLK says, "At this time, BlackRock does not have any plans to file an $XRP or $SOL ETF."; currently lists and trades $BTC & $ETH ETFs.

• ⭐️ Ripple $XRP & US SEC end legal battle following joint dismissal of appeals; July 2023 ruling that XRP secondary-market trades aren’t securities but institutional sales are stands as the final judgment.

• Coinbase $COIN launches DEX trading in its app; supports Base & Base assets with Solana $SOL support coming soon.

• Paxos to pay $26.5M fine over failures when it partnered with Binance on the BUSD stablecoin; to also put an additional $22M into improving its compliance program.

• Ethereum $ETH Foundation offers to match up to $500K in further donations to support Tornado Cash $TORN developer Roman Storm's legal aid.

Alpha

• Airdrop, Checkers, & Points by Olimpio.

• About $LINEA by Hawk Drops.

• Phi posts, "The ticker is $PHI... September 2025," on X; to potentially launch TGE & airdrop soon.

• ICYMI 1Money Network launches Public Testnet; 1Money raised $20M in Seed funding in January.

Airdrops

• ⭐️ SatLayer to close $SLAY airdrop registration on August 9th; SatLayer rewards program participants, SatLayer community members, & more are eligible.

• ICYMI Succinct launches $PROVE TGE & airdrop claim; Succinct community members, open-source developers, & more are eligible.

• ICYMI Towns launches $TOWNS TGE & airdrop claim; Towns users with activity between June 7th, 2024 & July 10th, 2025 are potentially eligible.

• ICYMI Airdrop, Checkers, & Points (July 28th) by Olimpio.

Finance News

• US President Trump appoints current Council of Economic Advisers Chair Stephen Miran to fill vacant seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; succeeds Adriana Kugler who recently resigned.

• ⭐️ US President Trump fires IRS Commissioner Billy Long; Treasury Secretary Bessent to serve as IRS Commissioner temporarily.

• Two Seas Capital, the largest shareholder of Core Scientific $CORZ, to vote against CoreWeave's $CRWV proposed $9B all-stock acquisition of Core Scientific; cites low valuation and structural flaws.

• Block $XYZ reports Q2 2025 earnings; reports $2.54B in gross profit, $538.46M in net income, & adds 108 Bitcoin $BTC to its holdings.

Security and Exploits

• ⭐️ CrediX team goes dark after $4.5M exploit; deletes socials and takes website offline.

• ICYMI Arkham uncovers 127,426 Bitcoin $BTC (~$14.4M) heist from Lubian, a Chinese mining pool, in 2020; attacker may have exploited a vulnerability in the algorithm LuBian used to generate its private keys.

• ICYMI Google releases Android security updates patching multiple security vulnerabilities; includes two Qualcomm flaws being actively exploited in the wild.

Token Unlocks

• Immutable $IMX / ~$13M / AUG 08th
• Movement $MOVE / ~$7M / AUG 09th
• BounceBit $BB / ~$6M / AUG 11th
• io[.]net $IO / ~$8M / AUG 11th
• Solayer $LAYER / ~$17M / AUG 11th
• Aptos $APT / ~$53M / AUG 12th
Sourced from Tokenomist

Funding

• Perle raises $17.5M in Pre-Seed & Seed funding led by CoinFund & Framework Ventures.

• Euphoria raises $7.5M in Pre-Seed & Seed funding led by Robot Ventures, Figment Capital, & Karatage.

• Doppler Finance raises $3M in Seed funding led by Reforge.

• Levr Bet raises $3M in Seed funding led by Blockchain Capital & Maven 11.

• Hylo raises $1.5M in Seed funding led by Robot Ventures.

• Multiple Network raises an undisclosed amount in funding from Gate Labs, 071 Labs, & IBC Group.

• Cool Cats raises an undisclosed amount in Strategic funding from Animoca Brands.

• TradeTide AI raises an undisclosed amount in Seed funding from several investors.

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