Crypto Daily Roundup – Aug 2, 2018

Every day we collate the hottest Cryptocurrency articles from around the web and social media. Below is our reading list for the past 24 hours.

• $415 Million Long liquidated (largest ever) on Okex and it has not been covered
• Crypto, You’re No Dot-com Bubble – 51&Done – Medium
• San Francisco Based Exchange to use XRP as Base Trading Currency
• Daily Discussion Megathread – August 1, 2018
• NANO Developer Update: 7/30/2018
• Monthly Skeptics Discussion – August, 2018 | Pro & Con-test – DAG Coins: IOTA, Nano, Byteball, Oyster
• Ripple quarterly report shows Malta, “not South Korea is now the leading trader of XRP”
• Binance Buys Ethereum Wallet Service in First-Ever Acquisition
• A blockchain-based company is building a platform that works like a data exchange. Their goal is to turn the ad industry on its head and make numerous data management platforms (DMPs) pay us for the use of our data.
• NuMoney Exchange, the Coinbase of Southeast Asia, is launching a coin to merge the underserved region under a single liquidity order-book (like Euro for Europe)
• Capitalise just launched their special Air-drop! Distributing 4,166,667 tokens. Each participant can earn up to 225 CAP, equals to 34.8$!
• Majority of Americans Who Know About Crypto Want to Buy Some – New Survey
• Coinbase web traffic drops, Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin says its ‘tail end of a crypto bubble’
• GTX 1080ti
• Now that ICOs have drastically diminished in numbers due to the SEC and other regulations, are Blockchain startup incubators and accelerators the future?
• CEO of Vietnamese cryptomining company absconds with $35 million
• Tron , Verge and Zencash live as payment option for Pornhub Premium
• PRESS RELEASE: Top Investment Firms Back $10M Series A of Crypto Trading Platform Radar Relay
• Blocknet bridging blockchains like a boss!
• Wikipedia Has ‘Zero Interest’ in an ICO, Says Jimmy Wales
• Livestream from Decentralized Web Summit – Starts today at 10:30am in San Francisco
• Ripple enjoys its highest Q2 report; Malta becomes its top XRP trader
• “Nano The Future of Money” New Video From Nano Center
• Report: The Fake News of Cryptocurrency – coinhub.network (CNBC, China ban, FuzeX, Bitcoin Cash)
• Stratis Releases Breeze with Privacy Protocol on Mainnet
• Nestlé taps blockchain to track baby milk from farm to mouth
• Crypto Sectors Analysis: Gaming & Gambling on the rise, Privacy coins underperform
• What If Top Cryptos Were Superheros?
• Interesting article on XSN’s Cross Chain functionality
• Securing Blockchain Technology: Learn why key management systems (KMS) matters
• Coming Soon: Cryptocurrency Simulation Game “Blockchain Tycoon” on Steam
• Minimum viable decentralization. Interesting article about finding the ‘right amount’ of decentralization by exploring Freenet, I2P, and Darknet markets. Useful for investors and builders
• AMA: We’re an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute & two blockchain teams using cryptocurrency to help categorize millions of deep space photos from the Hubble Space Telescope – Ask Us Anything!
• Today, one year ago, Bitcoin was on his way to 3K.
• “Unhackable” BitFi wallet just got hacked
• AdmREQ of Request Network provides an in-depth clarification of the project and what the team is accomplishing.
• First Lightning Network Exchange live on testnet
• Cyber Physical Chain (CPChain) – Blockchain Applications for the Automotive Industry
• Liberalcoins is the first p2p exchange to introduce Zcash trading.
• PRESS RELEASE: Prysm Group Adds Nobel Prize-Winning Economist and Former Microsoft Chief Economist to Board of Senior Advisors
• REPORT: eToro: LTC Primed For Retail Adoption, Massively Undervalued — New Research Paper from Mati Greenspan
• PRESS RELEASE: AUSTRALIA’S FIRST INDEX-STYLE CRYPTOCURRENCY FUND LAUNCHED
• Blockchain tech a ‘promising innovation’ for financial firms: U.S. Treasury
• New SEC commissioner, Hester Peirce, hopeful to convince her colleagues to approve the next ETF
• LTC and BCH listed to PayFair! Buy or Sell directly with USD!
• HTC to Launch Lightning Network Enabled Cell Phone