ICO Drops - ICO News & Alerts

Daily total net inflow into the spot Bitcoin ETF were ~$422m on 16 July. https://sosovalue.com/assets/etf/us-btc-spot

FTX and CFTC agreed to $12.7 billion settlement following months of negotiations https://www.theblock.co/post/305687/ftx-and-cftc-agree-to-12-7-billion-settlement-following-months-of-negotiations

Deribit will launch BTC and ETH options early in time for the Nov. 8 election https://x.com/DeribitExchange/status/1813228883409273046

Users on Blast can now bridge between Blast and Ethereum Mainnet twice as fast as before — the bridge period has been reduced from 14 days to 7 days. Blast also changed its username from @Blast_L2 to @blast. https://x.com/blast/status/1813272949191024824

Worldcoin Foundation said that the unlock schedule for 80% of the WLD held by TFH’s team members and investors is being extended from 3 to 5 years. The WLD token was up more than 22% to $2.81. https://www.theblock.co/post/305632/worldcoin-token-jumps-20-with-unlock-for-early-contributors-starting-next-week-period-extended

The crypto market is growing BTC Dominance - 53.55% Market Cap - $2.42T BTC - $65,740 (+1.49%) ETH - $3,485.41 (+0.44%) BNB - $579.7 (+0.02%) ZRO - $4.25 (+5.46%) ZK - $0.1751 (+0.3%) STRK - $0.634 (+1.5%) WLD - $2.82 (+22.56%) https://dropstab.com

Coinbase, Ripple, a16z plan to send representatives to the Republican National Convention (RNC) and, later, the Democratic National Convention (DNC). https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-ripple-a16z-to-attend-republican-and-democratic-national-conventions/

According to Cyvers Alerts, suspicious transactions occurred in the cross-chain transaction aggregator LI FI, and users are advised to revoke relevant authorizations. So far, more than $8 million of user funds have been affected, most of which are stablecoins. The attacker is converting USDC and USDT into ETH. https://x.com/wublockchain/status/1813197923062325747 https://x.com/cyversalerts/status/1813189059449102352

Kraken received BTC from Mt.Gox. It will distribute funds within 7-14 days. https://x.com/News_Of_Alpha/status/1813167748115292467

Vitalik Buterin: „My hot take re "too much investment in infra": there's too much investment in *some kinds of infra* and not enough in others, and what's actually going on is, people want to invest in "the casino" but still feel good about themselves, so they invest in the subset of infra that gets spillover profits from the casino.“ https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0xbf4d0a3a