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Market Watch Coin prices remain largely unchanged during Tuesday trading. Chainlink has seen the biggest increase, pushing its coin price closer to the $6 mark. | Bitcoin | $9,280 | -0.10% | | Ethereum | $239 | +0.24% | | Tether | $1.00 | +0.30% | | XRP | $0.185 | -0.41% | | Top 100 Winner: Chainlink | $5.78 | +19.08% | | Top 100 Loser: KuCoin Shares | $0.734 | -14.08% | Prices are as of 3:00 p.m. ET.
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 Crypto exchange Binance has completed its acquisition of Swipe. Binance said that the acquisition would further the adoption of crypto by "bridging the gap between fiat and digital assets." Price details of the deal were not disclosed. As part of the deal, Binance is listing Swipe's SXP token today, with opening trading for SXP/BTC, SXP/BNB and SXP/BUSD trading pairs. More: BINANCE 
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 Users can now send crypto through platforms such as Twitter. Torus, a private key management startup, has enabled this through its latest update, v.1.7.2., which allows users to send crypto assets to any Twitter or GitHub account, even if that user has never logged into the Torus Wallet before, the firm said. Torus demonstrated how this works by sending 0.01 Ethereum to Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, and Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao.
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Our Crypto Masterclass features a well-known thought leader or expert in the crypto space. In an email sent to Inside Crypto writer Rebecca Campbell, Kosala Hemachandra, founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet (MEW), talks about Ethereum's upcoming 5th anniversary. | |
Web 3.0 will see a push toward decentralized models. That's according to Kevin Chou, CEO and co-founder at blockchain ecosystem Rally. He said that content platforms should move away from Web 2.0 models that see platforms taking a large share of the revenue and should, instead, create a decentralized model that favors content creators. Chou said that the Web 2.0 era has been about creating a large platform and giving that service away for free while collecting a lot of data. He went on to say that many blockchain and Web 3.0 projects are focused on creating something that will eventually be decentralized. COINTELEGRAPH
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that a group of Nigerian nationals who allegedly stole around $17.5m hid some of the proceeds in Bitcoin. The suspects allegedly compromised two Chicago-based firms' business emails by posing as the companies' accountants. The Daily Post reported that they were planning to defraud on a "global scale" that would generate $435m for them. The suspects were arrested in Dubai and have been extradited to the U.S. where they face charges of conspiracy to commit fraud. DECRYPT
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Quick Hits - Telegram plans to discontinue its support of the Telegram Open Network (TON), with remaining validators switched off by August 2020. In a post, a TON official recommended that network participants save all relevant data and terminate their testing process.
- Block.One has launched a new social media app called Voice. Built on the EOSIO blockchain network, Voice is available in a read mode for the public, but only registered users can publish content. From August 15, those who have registered through early access will able able to invite friends to join.
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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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