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- Coinbase will add the 0x protocol token to its professional trading platform, Coinbase Pro. It's the first ERC-20 token to get a place on the platform.
- A region in Northern Syria is looking to cryptocurrency as a way to overcome economic sanctions.
- Crypto giveaway scams featuring Elon Musk impostors are common on Twitter, but on Thursday they went to new heights, with a promoted tweet from a verified account.
- The Securities and Exchange Commission moves against an initial coin offering and its organizer who allegedly claimed to have received approval from the agency.
- Know any Mandarin-speaking blockchain experts? The People's Bank of China is hiring as it continues development of its central bank digital currency.
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