Bitcoin is up 1% at $37,929
Ethereum is up slightly at $1665
and Polkadot is down 1% at 20.58.

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Maker up 37%
Cardano up 17%
Theta Token up 16%

Yearn Finance suffered an exploit in a DAI lending protocol.

LL Cool J, Paul Tudor Jones among backers of stealth crypto fund

Suzhou will give away about $5M in the latest digital yuan test.

Crosstower is launching a bitcoin fund

Stefan He Qin facing charges for $90M security fraud.

Links:

• Founder Of $90 Million Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund Charged With Securities Fraud And Pleads Guilty In Federal Court | USAO-SDNY | Department of Justice
• Suzhou to give away around $5 million in latest digital yuan test
• yearn.finance on Twitter: "We have noticed the v1 yDAI vault has suffered an exploit. The exploit has been mitigated. Full report to follow." / Twitter
• $72M Crypto Fund Backed by Paul Tudor Jones and LL Cool J Comes Out of Stealth - CoinDesk
• CrossTower Launches Bitcoin Fund to Compete With Grayscale’s GBTC - CoinDesk

Bitcoin is down 2% at $40,014
Ethereum is up 8% at $1317
and XRP is up 4% at 33 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Dash up 50%
Maker up 47%
Bitcoin Cash up 34%

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty reaches record high.

A test for the digital yuan has given us a look at the card-based hardware wallets.

PayPal, Coinbase invest in TaxBit.

Brad Garlinghouse takes to Twitter to answer questions re: SEC lawsuit.

SoFi may go public.

Kyrgyzstan proposed first regulatory framework for crypto.

Links:

• Kyrgyzstan Has Proposed Its First Regulatory Framework for Crypto - CoinDesk
• EXCLUSIVE-SoFi to go public through merger with Palihapitiya-backed SPAC | Reuters
• TaxBit Secures Investments from PayPal Ventures and Coinbase Ventures; Winklevoss Capital Doubles Down
• Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Record High Amid Miner Revenue Surge - CoinDesk
• China Is Testing A Hardware Wallet For Digital Yuan
• Brad Garlinghouse on Twitter: "I’m not going to litigate the SEC’s unproven allegations on Twitter, and as you can imagine, there are new considerations to what can / should be said publicly after the litigation process starts. However, I would like to address 5 key questions I’ve seen. 1/10" / Twitter

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Bitcoin is up 2% at $11,311
Ethereum is up 4% at $372
and XRP is up 0.5% at 25 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
UMA up 36%
Arweave up 22%
and Siacoin up 15%

VC Firm Paradigm hires white hat hacker Samczsun

Government officials in Shenzhen host digital currency lottery as part of the digital currency electronic payment trial.

Ethereum 2.0 developers are opening up a new bug bounty program

The US DHS' R&D arm is working with 5 blockchain firms for innovation.

Links:

• Chinese city to host digital currency lottery as part of DCEP trial - The Block
• Changing Lanes
• dannyryan on Twitter: "Announcing the eth2 bounty program! https://t.co/S6SHqN4D2q The spec and attacknet programs are now deprecated in favor of this general program for all of eth2 Happy 🐛 hunting! (Note! This is a sister program to https://t.co/8Zy1qo3S1i program and will be run in parallel)" / Twitter
• US Homeland Security Funds Anti-Forgery Blockchain Projects in Latest R&D Round - CoinDesk