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Presented by Subscribe | View in browser 1. Market Watch: The overall crypto market remains generally green as Bitcoin has stayed above $8,000. Litecoin is down more than 3 percent of its 24-hour high.  Bitcoin: $8,215.08 (⬆️ 0.81%) // $145.88 billion market cap. Ethereum: $260.54 (⬆️ 1.32%) // $27.7 billion market cap. XRP: $0.40 (⬆️0.50%) // $17.1 billion market cap. Litecoin: $133.01 (⬇️ 3.49%) // $8.2 billion market cap. Top 100 Winner: Link: $1.74 (⬆️ 52.34%) // $609 million market cap. Top 100 Loser: Maximine Coin: $1.58 (⬇️ 41.56%) // $64 million market cap. Prices are as of 2:36 EST.       2. Institutional crypto platform Bakkt announced that it will begin testing its first Bitcoin futures product on July 22nd. Bakkt COO Adam White said, "This is no small step. This launch will usher in a new standard for accessing crypto markets. Compared to other markets, institutional participation in crypto remains constrained due to limitations like market infrastructure and regulatory certainty." Bakkt will settle its contracts in physical bitcoin, rather than fiat currency like traditional platforms. - COIN DESK       A MESSAGE FROM HACKAJOB The companies that change the world have one thing in common - world-class talent. We work with over 100k developers and software engineers to match them with the right role. We automate it using our unbiased AI so we're fairer, faster and cheaper than anywhere else. It works, with a time to hire of 17 days and more live candidates than anywhere else in Europe. Check us out. 3. Throwback Thursday: Litecoin Halving. Litecoin is one of the best performing cryptocurrency assets this year rising over 350 percent since the start of the year. Many assume that the upcoming halving event in August is causing investors to accumulate the currency before block rewards cut in half.  The last Litecoin halving event occurred in August 2015 when the mining block rewards were decreased from 50 LTC per block to 25 LTC per block. Leading up to the last halving event the price of Litecoin skyrocketed from under $2 to over $8 from June 1st to July 1st, which preceded the halving that took place a month later in August 2015. After the halving, the price of Litecoin remained steady and then continued a gradual rise throughout the year. Is Litecoin going to follow that path again during this next halving event? Only time will tell.       4. From The Forums: On Twitter, Alex Svanevik hopped on the Litecoin train as the cryptocurrency rose to its highest price since May 2018 reaching $141 yesterday. In a joke about Craig Wright and his claim that he is the inventor of Bitcoin, Alex tweeted - @ASvanevik - "Litecoin is doing so well Craig Wright will soon be claiming he's Charlie Lee." @Cavernicus - had the response of the day saying, "I smell another fork coming. $LCV - Charlie's Vision!"       A MESSAGE FROM AIRBNB Earn money by sharing your space. Millions of travelers stayed in an Airbnb last year. Turn your extra space into extra money. 5. Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert says that the crypto winter is over. - COIN TELEGRAPH 6. Gaming giants Ubisoft is exploring ways to implement blockchain technology for cross-game item transfers. - BLOCKONOMI 7. Reuters, Bloomberg, and TradingView are adding a new cryptocurrency index. - COIN DESK 8. Circle will shut down Circle Pay its peer-to-peer cryptocurrency transfer app. - THE BLOCK CRYPTO 9. Global Coin will be integrated within Whatsapp. - MY BROADBAND 10.  Square Crypto makes its fire hire, Steve Lee, a former product manager for mobile applications at Google. - THE BLOCK CRYPTO       Written and curated by Darren Webb. He created Currencylists and has worked in marketing roles for a multitude of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects since 2014. Based in NYC, Darren loves to read and continue to learn about cryptocurrency and emerging technology in his spare time. You can find him on Twitter @Dwebbny. Editing team: Kim Lyons (Pittsburgh-based journalist and managing editor at Inside), David Stegon (senior editor at Inside, whose reporting experience includes cryptocurrency and technology), and Bobby Cherry (senior editor at Inside, who's always on social media).

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