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Coinbase Gets a Stake in Stablecoin Operator Circle and USDC Adds 6 New Blockchains

The Centre Consortium, jointly managed by Circle and Coinbase, is being shut down and Circle is bringing issuance and governance of the USDC stablecoin in-house.

Circle's Jeremy Allaire and Coinbase's Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk/Coinbase)

Tecnologie

De.Fi's Antivirus Tool Releases on zkSync Era Mainnet

The antivirus tool protects users against common malicious crypto exploits, such as phishing, smart contract vulnerabilities, blind signing, and more.

(Getty Images)

Mercati

Sei Mainnet is Live After Testnet Sees More Than 7.5M Wallets Created

The trading focused layer 1 blockchain is backed by Jump Crypto and Flow Traders.

After weeks of delays, the VanEck Bitcoin Strategy ETF is ready to launch. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finanza

Struggling Crypto Custodian Prime Trust Looks Poised for Potentially Massive Layoffs, Sources Say

Nevada regulators recently ordered the crypto company, which BitGo had planned to buy, to cease operations and noted a shortfall in customer funds.

(Raj Rana/Unsplash)

Finanza

Jump Crypto Backs $5M Round for Bitcoin Wallet Xverse

The Web3 app supports Ordinals, the technology that brought non-fungible tokens to the Bitcoin ecosystem.

(Pixabay)

Finanza

Brevan Howard Backs Crypto Infrastructure Startup Puffer in $5.5M Round

The seed round for the liquid staking startup was co-led by Lemniscap and Lightspeed Faction.

Brevan Howard Digital was among the backers for Puffer's $5.5 million round. (Pixabay)

Tecnologie

Blockchain Security Firm Forta Upgrades Its Scam Detector to Battle Growing Crypto Fraud

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been lost to scams and exploits in July alone.

Scam alert (Getty)

Finanza

Multicoin Backer L1 Digital Raises $152M for Second Crypto VC Fund

The Swiss advisor makes direct investments in crypto projects and also backs early-stage crypto investment firms.

The team of Swiss crypto investor L1 Digital (L1D)

Tecnologie

Shiba Inu Takes Step to Become DeFi Contender With Digital IDs

Digital identity verification will be a part of all Shiba Inu developments in the future, including on the upcoming Shibarium layer 2 blockchain.

Shiba Inu (Atsuko Sato)

Finanza

Nomura Backs $6M Round for On-Chain Fund Platform Solv Protocol

The Singapore-based startup allows institutions and venture capitalists to create, use and sell financial products.

Nomura. (charnsitr/Shutterstock)