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• SEC Votes on Expedited Review Process — Shorter Wait Times for EFTs?
  The US Securities and Exchange Commission voted on amendments to rules governing the processing time for companies applying for listings. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it would be streamlining the application process for investment companies, potentially resulting in expedited crypto and blockchain firms operating in a “more efficient and less costly […]
• Gavin Wood: ‘Governance is Critical’ for Crypto Ecosystem
  Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood spoke at the Unitize conference on July 6 regarding blockchain governance in the Polkadot project. Gavin Wood, the co-founder of Ethereum and Parity Technologies, says crypto-economic systems act like “nation-states” of the internet, running on governance as a type of parliamentary democracy. Wood joined the Unitize conference on July 6 to talk […]
• Telegram Will Shut Down the TON Testnet by August 2020
  Users will need to install their own testnet validators to continue using the network. Although Telegram has terminated its blockchain project, Telegram Open Network (TON), in May 2020, the TON test net has been apparently running for almost one year.In a July 6 update, the official TON development group on Telegram announced that it would […]
• Record Bitcoin Options Market Volume Shows Institutions Keen on Crypto
  Record surges in regulated Bitcoin options market volume signals increasing interest and participation from institutional investors. A CryptoCompare report published on July 6 has closely analyzed monthly trends in the cryptocurrency exchange market and found that crypto derivatives volumes have begun to taper off after peaking this May. Crypto derivatives volumes dropped 35.7% in June […]
• 3 Big Blockchain Companies Teamed Up on a DeFi Product That Pays Passive Income
  Cosmos, Polkadot, and Terra have announced “Anchor.” In a special announcement made at the Unitize conference on July 6,  Cosmos, Polkadot, and Terra revealed a new DeFi savings product called Anchor that aims to offer dependable interest rates on stablecoins deposits.The companies involved in the creation of Anchor plan to launch it across their respective […]
• IPOs Are ‘Really Not Worth It’ Says Tim Draper
  Serial blockchain investor Tim Draper welcomes diversity in terms of funding blockchain and crypto startups. Tim Draper, a famous American venture capitalist and serial cryptocurrency investor, believes that initial public offerings, or IPOs, are not the best source of funding for industry firms.The billionaire investor joined the Unitize conference on July 6 to talk about […]
• Three Female Binance Award Nominees Get Blocked From Instagram
  Three female crypto influencers were “deplatformed” from Instagram after critiquing the Binance Influencer Awards. Rachel Siegel, also known as CryptoFinally, was recently the only woman nominated for the Binance Influencer Awards. She alleges that she and two fellow female crypto influencers were deplatformed from Instagram following their criticism of the underrepresentation of women in the […]