⚠️ Security service: Hotbit crypto exchange is suspected of conducting a large-scale Rug Pull, as a result of which about $1.7 million was stolen from users twitter.com

👀 BendDAO voted to approve the proposal "DAO Treasury participates in floating loss settlement auction" [snapshot.org](https://snapshot.org/

⛏ Marathon Digital produced 979 #BTC in June, down 21% from the previous month. glonewswire.com

🐶 #SHIB Over the past month, the Shiba Inu network has expanded significantly despite price cuts. There has been a significant increase in new daily addresses, consistently exceeding 2,500 per day.

💰 Team Blackbird (CryptoQuant's parent company) has raised $6.5 million led by Atinum Investment.
coindesk.com

🍿👀Gemini invites DCG founders to negotiate "final proposal" for Genesis debt restructuring.
twitter.com

🔄 #DASH Dash successful held hardfork v19.

📝 #MKR #DAI #GNO New offer MakerDAO is invited to deploy the Spark protocol on Gnosis Chain.

🐳 Keith transferred 50M #USDC to Binance from July 2nd to 6th.
twitter.com

🇺🇸🫡 #AI The US military has begun trials to see if AI can help with planning responses to potential conflicts or performing more mundane tasks, such as providing faster access to inside information.

📊 Grayscale's negative GBTC premium dropped to 26.76%.

🐳 Four whales have increased their holdings by ~53,000 #AAVE (~$3.63 million) in the last 2 weeks. twitter.com

⚠️ Binance is updating its wallet infrastructure and will remove selected deposit addresses in the third quarter (list by link). 
binance.com

🇬🇧🗣 #CBDC First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova:

- The Central Bank will test the digital ruble on real customers in 2023. This will help bring the replacement of SWIFT closer

- We consider the digital ruble precisely as a new means for settlements and payments at more favorable rates.

- I think that all citizens will be able to open wallets, receive digital rubles and use them on the horizon of 2025-2027.

- A common digital currency for the BRICS countries could be a breakthrough, a significant simplification of settlements between our economies. But this is a long process.

🤷‍♂️ The happiest and least happy employees by company, as well as the fastest and slowest growing crypto companies according to TrueUp research. Binance, Coinbase, and Gemini employees are among the least happy.

📝🗣 #UNI Erin Cohen, Director of Management, Uniswap Foundation: Uniswap V4 launch time will depend on factors such as audit time and Cancun upgrade time.
gov.uniswap.org

👀🕹 Bittrex violated Florida laws before filing for bankruptcy - State financial regulator.

👀🇯🇵 #FTT FTX decided not to sell the Japanese business.

📉 #BNB Since the beginning of the year, Binance's share of the spot market has dropped from 63% to 52%.

🤝 #NEO #OKB #OKT Neo partner with OKX to launch an Asia-Pacific-focused hackathon to recruit talent and promote Web3 development in the region.