Bitcoin is down .5% at $58,180
Ethereum is down 1% at $1797
and Cardano is down 1.5% at $1.43

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Basic Attention Token up 30%
Filecoin up 23fi%
Crypto(.)com Chain up 15%

Morgan Stanley annouces three Bitcoin-related funds for its top tier clients.

Maple Finance raised $1.4M for its reputation based DeFi lending platform

US GSA auctioned off 3/4 of a Bitcoin at just over $9k above the market price

Vladimir Putin is calling for more scrutiny into the illicit use of digital assets

Digital art heist.

Links:

• Bitcoin: Morgan Stanley is the first big U.S. bank to offer wealthy clients access to bitcoin funds
• Maple Finance Raises $1.4M for Its Reputation-Based DeFi Lending Platform - CoinDesk
• The U.S. government auctions off 0.7501 BTC for $9,000 above market price
• Putin Says Russia Must Stop Illegal Cross-Border Crypto Transfers - CoinDesk
• Nifty Gateway on Twitter: "Please see our statement below on reports circulating around security concerns on Nifty Gateway 👇👇👇" / Twitter

Polychain Capital Leads Funding Round for Findora

Electronic Stock Certificates on Blockchain Approved in Germany

Bitcoin Builds to Blast Past $20,000.00

Links:

• Germany Legalizes Electronic Securities on the Blockchain - CoinDesk
• Polychain, Foxconn's Jack Lee Join 8-Figure Round for 'Open Finance' Project Findora - CoinDesk
• Bitcoin hits 2-week high, breaking last big resistance before $20K

Bitcoin is down 1% at $10,681
Ethereum is down 1.5% at $347
and XRP is down 2% at 24 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
IDEX up 14%

Russia’s ministry of finance is calling for higher reporting standards in the crypto space.

Roskomnadzor blacklists Binance’s website.

Chinese state-owned media make coordinated report that crypto is the year’s top performing investment.

Liquity raises $2.4 million in seed funding in a round led by Polychain capital.

Knesset members in Israel are looking to relax the tax burden on cryptocurrencies.

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Links:

• China State Media Make Rare Reports Calling Crypto 2020's Best Performing Asset - CoinDesk
• Israeli regulators propose Bitcoin be taxed as a currency, not an asset
• Liquity secures $2.4M in seed funding to further develop lending protocol - The Block

Bitcoin is down 1.5% at $11,580
Ethereum is down 4% at $390
and XRP is down 2.5% at 28 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Augur up 39%
and Decentraland up 26%

Former UBER CSO faces felony charges for a 2016 attempt to quash security breach with six-figure Bitcoin hush money.

A new bitcoin mining facility with 50-thousand rigs is readying for a september debut.

Polychain capital’s cryptocurrency hedge fund has added 19.5 million in investments

A Tokyo court has granted a protective order that will aid in the recovery of funds lost in a 2018 Coincheck hack

Links:

• Polychain Capital's Original Crypto Fund Raises an Additional $19.5M - CoinDesk
• Bitcoin Mining Facility With Room for 50,000 Rigs Set to Launch in Kazakhstan - CoinDesk
• Tokyo court grants protective order to recover some funds lost in the 2018 Coincheck hack - The Block

Bitcoin is up 1% at 8,857
Ethereum is down half a % at $202
and XRP is up slightly at 19 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Theta Token up 26%
and Metic Network up 15%

CoinDCX picks up $2.5 million from Coinbase Ventures and Polychain Capital.

Tencent will invest $70 billion into new tech to move past the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Thailand announced the Thai Digital Energy Development, a public-private venture with Power Ledger.

Craig Wright claims to own bitcoin addresses, those addresses send a message back.

Bitcoin is down 3% at $9,923
XRP is down 8% at 30 cents
and Ethereum is down 6% at $265

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Syscoin up 31%
Singularity net up 20%
Swissborg up 15%

DeFi lending protocol bZx has suffered an exploit hack that resulted in the loss of some undisclosed amount of ETH.

Coinbase Commerce is integrating DAI is as a payment option for its merchant customer base.

Polychain Capital is raising $200 million for a second fund that has its sights set on venture investing.

Links:

• Polychain Capital Targets $200M for Second Venture Fund, Slide Deck Reveals - CoinDesk
• DeFi lending protocol bZx exploited, ‘a portion of ETH lost’ - The Block
• Coinbase Commerce adds DAI as payment option - The Block