Mt Gox Creditors Finally Get Their BTC

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Crypto News

• ⭐️ Mt Gox creditors begin receiving Bitcoin $BTC & Bitcoin Cash $BCH on Kraken.

• Ethereum $ETH ETFs receive nearly $2B in volume on first two days of trading.

• ⭐️ Proton launches open-source & self-custodial Bitcoin wallet.

• dYdX Trading $DYDX considers selling its software for an undisclosed amount.

• BlockFi completes sale of FTX claims & prepares for final creditor distributions

Alpha

• RedStone Oracles launches Pendle RedStone Expedition onchain quest.

• Caldera launches Caldera Metalayer sneak peek NFT mint.

• Reya launches Season 01 Rank claim.

• DeBank launches Quest Participant Web3 Badge.

• Initia launches Week 2 of The Initiation Part 2 campaign.

• Infinex launches 500% deposit boost until the end of Craterun.

Airdrops

• ⭐️ Avail $AVAIL airdrop claim is live.

• deBridge snapshots Season 1 points with $DBR eligibility & allocation checker coming soon.

• Enjoy launches $ENJOY Season 3 airdrop earning window.

• Sweepr to launch "Free Money" airdrop claim on July 26th.

• Lamina1 to launch community-wide airdrop on July 25th.

• Q Blockchain $Q airdrop claim is live.

Finance News

• Riot Platforms $RIOT acquires Block Mining for $92.5M to expand mining operations.

• Tesla $TSLA shares slide amid weaker-than-expected Q2 earnings.

• Alphabet $GOOGL to invest $5B in self-driving car unit Waymo.

• Wiz walks away from $23B deal from Google $GOOG & will pursue IPO instead.

• Verizon $VZ to pay $16M settlement with US FCC due to 3 data breach incidents.

Security and Exploits

• SlowMist Weekly Security Report highlights ~$251.52M in losses.

• ⭐️ Hamster Kombat players targeted with fake Android & Windows software.

• Microsoft Defender flaw exploited to deliver information stealers.

Token Unlocks

• Galxe / 586.67K $GAL / ~$1.9M / JUL 24
• Galxe / 416.67K $GAL / ~$1.4M / JUL 26
• Yield Guild Games / 14.08M $YGG / ~$6.7M / JUL 27
• SingularityNET / 8.45M $AGIX / ~$5M / JUL 28
• Ethena / 14.89M $ENA / ~$6.8M / JUL 28

Funding

• ⭐️ Caldera, a Rollups-As-A-Service solution, raises $15M in Series A funding led by Founders Fund.

• Bitlayer, a Bitcoin security-equivalent Layer 2, raises $11M in Series A funding led by Franklin Templeton & ABCDE.

• Igloo, the Pudgy Penguins’ parent company, raises $11M in funding led by Founders Fund.

• DAOBase, a DAO data and analytics platform, raises $6M in funding.

• Network3, a Web3 AI firm, raises $5.5M in Pre-Seed & Seed funding.

• Redpill, a permissionless LLM router network, raises $5M in Seed funding led by Animoca Brands & DFG.

• PlutoVision, the Web3 gaming studio behind Catizen, raises an undisclosed amount in funding from Binance Labs.

• Multipool, a DEX for RWAs, raises an undisclosed amount in Strategic funding from Kronos Research.

• Risklayer, a DeFi economic security middleware on Eigenlayer, raises an undisclosed amount in "Builders" funding led by Antler & Momentum 6.

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