Cosmos Ecosystem's EVM-Compatible Chain Evmos Launches Version 2.0｜Cryptocurrency Trends

● KuCoin announces that it will suspend the provision of mining pool services from August 16, 12:00 AM until further notice.

● An internal Binance address was hit by a zero-transfer phishing attack on August 2. The operator realized the error immediately after transferring 20 million USDT and promptly requested the assets be frozen.

● According to U.S. financial media outlet Semafor, U.S. Department of Justice officials are considering filing fraud charges against Binance but are concerned about the impact on retail traders. Prosecutors are considering other options, such as fines and deferred or non-prosecution agreements.

● Binance to remove the ATA/BUSD, BNT/BUSD, COS/BUSD, DF/BUSD, DOCK/BUSD, OSMO/BUSD, STRAX/BUSD, and XNO/BUSD spot pairs on August 4, 11:00 AM.

● Mainstream Exchange Listings (CEX: Token – Time of Listing in UTC)

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● BNB Chain announces that the opBNB mainnet will launch in mid-August. The mainnet will open to infrastructure providers first and is expected to open to ordinary users from late August to early September.

● VM-compatible Cosmos chain Evmos launches Evmos 2.0.

● Uniswap removes HEX tokens from its interface after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) called them unregistered securities earlier this week.

● Grayscale's flagship Bitcoin and Ethereum trusts, GBTC and ETHE, recorded estimated revenues of US$41.92 million in July and estimated revenues of US$126.2 million for Q2.

● Offchain Labs officially enables support for account abstraction endpoints on Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova.

● The Abracadabra community puts forward an urgent proposal to fix the price of cauldron oracles in case of extreme CRV liquidity conditions to optimize the value of the DAO and avoid a chain of liquidations.

● Six companies, including Grayscale, Bitwise, Roundhill, VanEck, and ProShares, file for an Ether Futures ETF on August 1, local time.

● Socket, an open-source software security solution, raises US$20 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

● Terminal 3, a provider of decentralized user data infrastructure services, raises an undisclosed amount from an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round.

● The Kenyan government suspends the operations of Worldcoin, an identity crypto protocol co-founded by OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman.