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- Bithumb, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea by trading volume, has been sold.
- Ethereum's next system-wide upgrade is on track for November release, according to coders.
- Gary Cohn, once the chief economic advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, has just joined a blockchain startup called Spring Labs.
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair J. Christopher Giancarlo says that an influx of institutional investors to the cryptocurrency markets may help the space "mature.”
- Crypto exchange Coinbase is shutting down its institutional-investor focused index fund product, a spokesperson told CoinDesk.
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