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'AI helps traders utilize more intuitive strategies,' says Exchange

Bitget currently has a Martingale AI trading bot and a Grid Trading AI bot on its platform.

Cosmos-based Osmosis launches concentrated liquidity, lets LPs choose price

The new feature offers higher fees to LPs who provide liquidity within tighter price ranges but also causes them to not earn fees if the price goes outside of the range.

Bitcoin mining difficulty hits all-time high as BTC miner selling peaks

In recent weeks BTC miners sent a record amount of Bitcoin to exchanges right as the network’s difficulty metric hit a new all-time high.

Crypto scams are down 77% — but this exploit is making a huge comeback

Attackers of this kind are supposedly "big game hunting” large-scale organizations with deep pockets to extract ”the most money possible” out of these firms.

Coinbase Wallet launches instant messaging feature with XMTP

The new feature offers end-to-end encrypted private messaging for anyone with a cb.id username, .eth domain, or Lens ID.

Bank of China trials offline payments for digital yuan via SIM cards

The bank plans to enable users to make phone payments by integrating its e-CNY app with specialized "super SIM cards" that have near-field communication capabilities.

US GAO explores blockchain for SBA’s small business programs oversight

the GAO highlighted blockchain’s ability to streamline and improve annual reporting, facilitating safe loans and monitoring business development progress among others.

Bad news for Ripple? LBRY judge passes ruling on if secondary crypto sales are securities

In January, lawyer John Deaton persuaded the Judge in the SEC vs LBRY case that secondary LBC token sales don’t constitute a securities offering.

Arkham CEO rebuts claims of ‘snitch-to-earn’ program, says it's to find bad actors

Arkham CEO Miguel Morel said public blockchains are "probably the worst possible way of keeping one's private information private.”

Experiments show AI could help to audit smart contracts, but not yet

Artificial intelligence has proven effective at identifying security vulnerabilities, but early tests indicate it won’t be able to replace humans for a while.

Multichain Executor has been 'draining' AnySwap tokens: Report

The contract has used an “anySwapFeeTo” function to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tokens to itself, which on-chain sleuth Spreek suspected may have been malicious.

Bitcoin continues dominance as 3rd week of fund inflows correct previous months’ outflows

Blockchain equities inflows reached a recent high of $15 million as well. However, total trading volume dropped.

Algorand decentralized lending protocol Algofi to shut down by end of year

Developers say building the borrowing and lending protocol is "no longer a viable path" for Algorand.

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF could unlock $30 trillion worth of wealth, Bloomberg analyst says

Following the Blackrock application, a Bitcoin spot ETF was never so close to being approved and it could be a game changer for the crypto industry, explains ETF analyst Eric Balchunas.

Near Foundation treasury drops to $900M as token price plunges

The $200 million decline was mostly due to a drop in the price of Near tokens, in line with the crypto bear market.

ConsenSys launches Linea zkEVM to further scale Ethereum

ConsenSys rolls scaling network Linea, which delivered faster throughput and 15 times lower transaction costs than Ethereum’s layer 1.

Axelar partners with Microsoft for hybrid blockchain solutions

Through the collaboration, Axelar will be the first cross-chain protocol to join Microsoft’s Azure marketplace.

Arbitrum-based Rodeo Finance exploited for $1.53M, the second time in a week

The exploiter manipulated price oracles to gain the upper hand on trades they executed using the manipulated price.

China could benefit from yuan stablecoin over its CBDC - Circle CEO

China may have banned the use of cryptocurrencies but stablecoins might have a role to play in the proliferation of its national currency.

Multichain's ‘mysterious withdrawals’ have whiffs of a ‘rug pull’ — Chainalysis

Chainalysis told Cointelegraph that they were “describing it as a possible rug pull,” based on an analysis of Multichain’s spurious transactions and internal problems.

Brazil's CBDC pilot contains code that can freeze or reduce funds, dev claims

Pedro Magalhães, a blockchain developer who claims to have reverse-engineered Brazil's pilot CBDC has found code that would allow accounts to be frozen or drained at will.

China expands CBDC’s tentacles, Malaysia is HK’s new crypto rival: Asia Express

China’s president Xi Jinping expands CBDC cooperation at SCO, Hong Kong’s crypto licensing costs surge, and Multichain is hacked yet again.

Arkham on-chain ‘Intel Exchange’ labeled ‘snitch-to-earn’ by Crypto Twitter

Users who shared links to a waitlist for the Arkham service had their email addresses exposed on Twitter due to how the references were encoded.

Connext founder proposes 'Sovereign Bridged Token' standard after Multichain incident

EIP-7281 will allow token issuers to list official bridges and limit the rate at which they can mint tokens, potentially limiting losses from bridge hacks.

48% fewer new crypto coders last year - developer report

Newcomers account for the highest percentage of developers that have left the industry over the past 12 months.

XRP grows strong in Q2 despite SEC lawsuit concerns, Messari report

The XRPL saw a significant increase in the total new address count, which reached 138,790, representing a growth of 31.8% compared to the same period last year.

Multichain attack triggers Twitter phishing scheme for FTM distribution

A phishing link was included in the tweet and shared with the affected users of the hack, leading them to believe it is associated with Fantom Foundation.

BlackRock bullish on Bitcoin, Gemini CEO’s ‘delusion,’ and CEXs’ unhappy staff: Hodler’s Digest, July 2-8

BlackRock’s PR campaign for a Bitcoin ETF, Gemini’s fight with DCG over Earn program funds, and CEX employees’ sentiment.

Circle, Tether freezes over $65M in assets transferred from Multichain

Multichain has suspended its operations after an unexplained transfer of crypto assets worth millions of dollars took place on July 6.

What is The Graph, and how does it work?

The Graph is an indexing protocol for Web3 applications that organizes blockchain data to make it easily accessible with GraphQL..

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