🔛 #CCD Concordium announced the launch of their own DEX - Concordex.
medium.com

🇺🇸 USA. Trade balance (May) (pre): -91.13 billion USD (pre -96.77 billion USD)

📊 Crypto taxes in the world

📊 According to report TRM Labs, #BTC dominance in crypto crime has dropped significantly from 97% in 2016 to 19% in 2022. The report points to criminals moving to other blockchains such as #ETH, #TRX and #BSC.

🥳 #MPL Maple Finance launches Maple Direct direct lending arm

🇲🇽 #USDP Paxos Joins Mercado Libre to Offer Pax Dollar Stablecoin in Mexico

🤝 #MATIC Warner Music Group cooperates with Polygon as part of the Blockchain music accelerator

🔛 Ledger introduces Ledger Enterprise Tradelink, an institutional level trading network. The network includes a number of partner firms including Crypto com, Bitstamp, Huobi, Wintermute and Komainu.
coindesk.com

🔛 Sys Labs (developer of #SYS) launched Rollux L2 network.
coindesk.com

🤝 #XCH Carbon Opportunities Fund, a private equity fund to develop carbon credit verification, has launched its first tokenized carbon credit transactions using the Chia blockchain.

🤖👀 #AI OpenAI will open its first international office in London

👀 #AI Gensler (SEC): Predictive data analytics and AI are changing much of our economy, and finance is no exception twitter

💰 DeFi Mortgage Lending Protocol PWN completes $2M funding. pwn.mirror.xyz

📊 K33: #BTC mainly falls on buy announcements from MicroStrategy

🖼 #BLUR Messari: In May, Blend earned more than most of its #NFT lending competitors in a year - $365M

👀 #CELO #LINK Chainlink data streams are now available on Celo @cryptoattackbot
blog.celo.org

📊 TOP 15 Dapps by revenue in 30 days #DYDX #LDO #GMX

📊 glassnode: #BTC is actively flowing into illiquid wallets

🍿 ARK Invest have amended their #BTC ETF spot to include a joint oversight agreement with the CBOE and a crypto exchange (probably Coinbase), which makes them look like a BlackRock filing and puts them in an advantageous position to be approved first as they filed first.

👀 #IDEX is intriguing

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👀 Bloomberg Int Analyst: This means that the CBOE and 21shares/Ark also believe this could be a key step for SEC approval. Ark is due out on August 13 and will be first in line.