Germany Runs Out of Bitcoin

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Crypto News

• ⭐️ German Government has 0 Bitcoin $BTC remaining as sends remaining coins to Flow Traders & 139P.

• Genesis Trading has transferred ~$720M of Bitcoin $BTC to Coinbase in the past 30 days following settlement.

• ⭐️ US Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump to speak at Bitcoin 2024 Conference.

• US SEC ends investigation into Paxos & declares $BUSD as not a security.

• US SEC ends investigation into Stacks $STX with no recommended enforcement action.

• BitMEX pleads guilty to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act in anti-money laundering case.

Alpha

• Coinbase releases free Relic in Fall NFT to celebrate 50 years of USA Basketball.

• Catalyst distributes weekly Catalyst Egg rewards.

• Grass Epoch 7 to begin tomorrow, the final epoch of the Closed Beta.

• ICYMI Mind Network launches Alpha Mainnet allowing users to earn Mind XP for staking.

• ICYMI Caldera launches Caldera Crusade Soulbound NFT claim on Galxe.

Airdrops

• Lava Network makes changes to $LAVA Vesuvius Airdrop claim checker.

• ICYMI Mitosis Airdrop Strategy by Earndrop.

• EtherFI $ETHFI Season 2 Airdrop claim to be available next week.

• ICYMI Q Blockchain launches $Q Airdrop eligibility checker.

• ICYMI Mocaverse launches $MOCA Airdrop eligibility & allocation checker.

Finance News

• MicroStrategy $MSTR announces 10-for-1 stock split.

• US Inflation falls to 3% in June, lower than expected 3.4%.

• US Treasury Department & IRS collect $1B in past-due taxes from high-income individuals.

• US Lawmakers ask for intelligence assessment of Microsoft's $MSFT $1.5B investment in G42.

• Archegos Capital founder Bill Hwang convicted of securities & market manipulation fraud.

• Citi $C fined $136M by US regulators for failing to fix data management issues.

• Wells Fargo $WFC shares slide as Q2 profits decline & misses interest income estimates.

• AMD $AMD to acquire Silo AI for $655M to boost its AI solutions.

Security and Exploits

• Compound, Celer, Pendle, & Unstoppable Domains hijacked due to Squarespace migration.

• Dough Finance exploited for ~$1.8M due to flash loan attack.

• RAILGUN blocks Inferno Drainer's intent to launder ~$500K of Ethereum through the protocol.

• ⭐️ AT&T data breach exposes phone numbers & call logs for ~109M customers.

• Google increases bug bounty rewards by 5X up to ~$151K.

• GitLab patches critical vulnerability allowing unauthorized pipeline jobs.

• Signal makes changes to encryption key storage following X drama.

Token Unlocks

• dYdX / 1.55M $DYDX / ~$2M / JUL 09
• Moonbeam / 3.04M $GLMR / ~$596K / JUL 11
• IO / 2.11M $IO / ~$5.2M / JUL 11
• Immutable / 32.47M $IMX / ~$40M / JUL 12
• Aptos / 11.31M $APT / ~$68M / JUL 12
• Ethena / 14.89M $ENA / ~$5.9M / JUL 14
• Optimism / 10M $OP / ~$16.6M / JUL 15
⭐️• Starknet / 64M $STRK / ~$35.9M / JUL 15
• Cyber / 886.12K $CYBER / ~$3.7M / JUL 15

Funding

• Partior, a blockchain payment network, raises $60M in Series B funding led by Peak XV Partners.

• ⭐️ ZAP, a token launch protocol on Blast, raises $15M in funding led by Rarestone Ventures, Cypher Capital Group, & Sharding Capital.

• Aidatify, an all-chain AI aggregator, raises $8.3M in funding.

• Soccerverse, a fully autonomous football management MMO, raises $3.1M in funding led by Square Enix.

• Pixelverse, a cyberpunk game ecosystem, raises $2M in funding.

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