Bitcoin is up slightly at $24,422
Ethereum is down slightly at $1984
and Binance Coin down slightly at $331

Announce of August 10th arrest of Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev shakes crypto world.

Binance seized $450k from Curve exploiter

CFTC accuses Ohio man of operating a $12M Bitcoin ponzi scheme.

Indian authorities freeze $46M worth of the crypto lender Vauld’s assets.

SkyNet labs to shutter.

Bitcoin is up slightly at $40,470
Ethereum is up slightly at $3,045
and Binance Coin is down slightly at $416

Tornado Cash to block sanctioned addresses.

President Biden nominates former Ripple advisor Michael Barr as Fed regulator.

Terraform labs has given $820M in Luna tokens to the Luna Foundation Guard.

Emirates plans NFTs and expanded activity in metaverse

Links:

• Emirates to launch NFTs and experiences in the metaverse
• Terra (UST) 🌍 Powered by LUNA 🌕 on Twitter: "TFL has gifted an additional 10 million $LUNA to the @LFG_org. https://t.co/tNirkgGGm0" / Twitter
• Statement from President Biden on His Intent to Nominate Michael Barr to Serve as Vice Chair for Supervision of the Federal Reserve | The White House
• Ethereum mixer Tornado Cash blocks sanctioned addresses from its frontend

Bitcoin is down .5% at $49,299
Ethereum is down .5% at $4,213
and Binance Coin is down .5% at $573

Terra, up 27%
Gala up 20%
Polygon up 16%

BitMart was exploited for over $150M

SEC chairperson Gary Gensler coy in response to Senator Pat Toomey’s follow-up questions.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is looking to raise a total of $1.5 billion for FTX.US.

Links:

• Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150 million in crypto
• Gensler hedges on classifying cryptocurrencies as securities in response to Senator's questions
• FTX to Seek $1.5B in New Funding Round at $32B Valuation: Report

Bitcoin is down slightly at $15,891
Ethereum is up 1.5% at $459
and XRP is up 1.5% at 26 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Aave up 25%
Uniswap up 15%

Maker Dao’s DAI stable coin broke the $1 billion market capitalization this week.

DeFi project Akropolis was exploited late this week for over $2M in DAI.

Ethereum-based mixer Tornado Cash’s privacy pool value hit $13M.

Ethereum unnanounced hard-fork.

Binance has launched an Ethereum mining pool.

Links:

• MakerDAO's DAI Stablecoin Breaks $1B Market Cap - CoinDesk
• Delphi Savings Pool Exploit - Akropolis Newsletter
• Tornado Cash's privacy pool USD value surpasses $13M, hitting a new high - The Block
• Ethereum Service Providers Scramble to Update Software After 'Unannounced Hard Fork' - CoinDesk
• Binance Pool Officially Launches Ethereum Mining Pool, Enjoy Zero Pool Fees for the First Month! | Binance Support