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Market Watch Most coin prices remain up again during Thursday trading. Will Bitcoin be able to reach $9,500 before the week's out? | Bitcoin | $9,373 | +0.98% | | Ethereum | $245 | +1.54% | | Tether | $0.999 | +0.08% | | XRP | $0.203 | +2.33% | | Top 100 Winner: Dogecoin | $0.004 | +18.88% | | Top 100 Loser: Cardano | $0.123 | -6.87% | Prices are as of 3:00 p.m. ET.
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Crypto exchange Coinbase plans a stock market listing, Reuters reported. Sources familiar with the plan said that Coinbase has yet to file an IPO registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). If the SEC gives authorizes the listing, the IPO could take place later this year or early next year. More: - Earlier this month, Lawrence Zlatkin, chief tax officer at Coinbase, said that capital will leave the U.S. because of its crypto tax laws.
- On Wednesday, Coinbase announced the hiring of Facebook's former vice president and deputy general counsel Paul Grewal as its new chief legal officer.
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 Santander is teaming up with blockchain and crypto payments company Ripple on international payments. Santander customers had complained that blockchain transactions carried hidden costs including exchange rate fees, said Ed Metzger, chief technology officer of One Pay FX, Santander's blockchain-based payment channel. A partnership with Ripple will help Santander address these issues because it will make blockchain transactions "faster, cheaper, and more transparent," Metzger said. RIPPLE
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) has great potential but security remains a challenge, according to a blockchain executive. Richard Ma, the CEO and founder of blockchain security startup Quantstamp, said that security is important to DeFi's growth. Speaking at the Unitize digital conference, Ma reflected on how the industry has grown from $700m in December 2019 to its current $2bn, adding that this illustrates a desire for a different financial system. According to Ma, one of the biggest attack angles is through undercollateralized loans. This is when hackers boost assets temporarily before moving them to a lending protocol and then borrow a different asset with the manipulated price. COINTELEGRAPH
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The CENTRE Consortium has blacklisted an Ethereum address holding $100,000 in the USDC stablecoin after responding to a law enforcement request. The Circle-Coinbase founded organization, which issues the dollar-pegged stablecoin, confirmed the move. However, a Circle spokesperson said they couldn't provide any specifics as to the reasons behind the blacklisting, which took place in mid-June. A transaction viewed through blockchain explorer Etherscan shows that CENTRE called a "blacklist(address investor" function on an address, which froze all coins in it. It's not known who owns the address. COINDESK
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Quick Hits - Japanese crypto exchange bitFlyer has teamed up with privacy-protecting browser Brave to develop "a crypto asset wallet for Brave browser users."
- Crypto exchange OKEx recorded 8,500 Bitcoin whale trades in June. For the platform, a whale trade is more than 10 Bitcoin. OKEx said it made the largest Bitcoin transaction on all 11 exchanges last month, totaling 513.1 Bitcoin.
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 |  | This newsletter was written and curated by Rebecca Campbell. She has been writing and reporting on various industries for the past 10 years, more specifically tech in the last three. | | | | Editor | Written and curated by Eduardo Garcia in New York. Eduardo is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School M.A. Science program and writes regularly for the New York Times Climate Fwd: newsletter. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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