Links:

• Venmo enables users to automatically buy crypto with ‘cash back’ rewards
• Coinbase Rakes In $1.9B in Transaction Revenue in Q2, Beating Estimates - CoinDesk
• SEC Needs More Authority to Regulate Crypto, Gensler Says - CoinDesk

Links:

• PayPal-owned Venmo launches cryptocurrency trading
• Facebook-backed Diem Association reportedly to launch stablecoin pilot in 2021
• Former currency comptroller to become CEO of Binance US crypto exchange

Bitcoin is up 1% at $11,469
Ethereum is up 2% at $393
and XRP is up 0.5% at 27 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Numeraire up 45%
UMA up 39%
and Elrond up 16%

The New Zealand stock exchange faced a barrage of criminal cyberattacks this week.

US House members have called for a briefing on recent seizure of crypto assets from terrorist groups.

NASA is backing a blockchain-based communications system.

Fidelity’s head of strategy and planning is at the helm of a new bitcoin-focused fund.

Bitcoin is down 2.5% at $9,219
Ethereum is down 3.5% at $232
and XRP is down 1.5% at 18 cents

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Request Network, up 32%
and Quant Network up 25%

Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun has been arrested.

PayPal and Venmo are planning to let users buy and sell crypto.

Brazil’s central bank has suspended WhatsApp’s payments service only a week after launch.

The final judgement has been handed down in the case between the SEC and Shopin

Links:

• PayPal and Venmo are reportedly planning to let users buy and sell crypto - The Block
• Eran Eyal and UnitedData, Inc. d/b/a/ "Shopin, " (Release No. LR-24842; Jun. 23, 2020)
• Banco Central do Brasil
• Wirecard’s Former Billionaire CEO Markus Braun Arrested Over Allegations Of Fraud