Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss Each Contributed $250,000 to New Trump-Aligned Super PAC An elite group of venture capitalists, business moguls and tech executives including Gemini co-founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have contributed a combined $8.75 million to a new super political action committee (PAC) backing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Defi Protocol LI.FI Struck by $8M Exploit Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform LI.FI protocol has been hit by an exploit worth around $8 million following a series of suspicious withdrawals, on-chain data shows.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: NEAR and XRP Lead as Index Posts Modest Gain Gains by NEAR (7.8%) and XRP (2.2%) buoyed the CoinDesk 20 Index in overnight trading.

Trump Campaign’s Crypto Donations Amounted to $3M of $331M Raised Last Quarter: WSJ

What Does It Actually Take to Build a Blockchain? Focus on builders, builders and builders. After liquidity, they are key to success, says Azeem Khan, co-founder of MorphL2.

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Surges 15% as Investor and Team Lockup Extended Decentralized identity project Worldcoin has announced that it is extending lock ups for early investors and team members, the project’s native token (WLD) rose by 13% after the announcement was published.

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Retreats as Mt. Gox Moves $3B of BTC The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for July 16, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

U.S.-Listed Bitcoin Miners’ Share of Global Hashrate Reached Record in July: JPMorgan The aggregate market cap of the fourteen bitcoin miners listed in the U.S. that the bank tracks rose 29% since the end of June, the report said.

Crypto Exchange Kraken Signs Sleeve Sponsorship Deal With Premier League Club Spurs Last week, Kraken announced an equivalent deal with Spanish soccer team Atlético Madrid, meaning the company now has a presence in both England’s Premier League and Spain’s La Liga.

Polygon’s New ZK Proving System, ‘Plonky3,’ Comes as Open-Source Toolkit Proving systems are a crucial component at the heart of blockchain ecosystems, allowing secondary “rollup” networks to confirm transactions on a base chain like Ethereum. Polygon’s prior version, Plonky2, was released in 2022.

Loka Launches Bitcoin Mining Pool for Institutional Investors With Support From Hashlabs Institutional investors will be able to buy bitcoin futures at below-market rates from miners using sustainable energy.

Meme Coins Outperform BTC, ETH and SOL as Traders Rotate Holdings The $53 billion meme coin sector rose by more than 12% on Tuesday with the likes of pepe (PEPE) and dogwifhat (WIF) surging by 22% and 25% respectively, data from CoinGecko shows.

Craig Wright Referred to UK Prosecutors for Consideration of Perjury Charges In March, a U.K. judge ruled that Wright was not, as he had claimed, the creator of bitcoin.

Crypto Traders Search for Clues in Solana’s Triangle Pattern SOL’s months-long triangular price consolidation could bring good news for the bulls.

Ether Spot ETFs Could See Up to $5.4B of Net Inflows in First 6 Months: Citi Spot ether exchange-traded funds are expected to see 30%-35% of bitcoin ETFs’ net inflows, and may disappoint due to a number of other factors such as the lack of staking, the report said.

CarnationFM: A Decentralized Radio Playing Songs With Encrypted Hidden Messages A music-focused radio FM which allows songs to act as a transport vessel for hidden messages has emerged from EthBerlin 2024 as the award winner for the Best Social Impact.

Ether Hedging Activity Picks Up as U.S. ETF Debut Nears Investors’ focus on ether is evident from ETH’s sustained volatility premium over BTC.

Bitcoin Dips Below $63K As Mt. Gox Moves $2.8B BTC to Internal Wallets One observer said the movement of coins was likely a part of the exchange’s creditor reimbursement plan.

Pro-Crypto Ohio Senator J.D. Vance Is Donald Trump’s Vice President Pick Former President Donald Trump and presumptive Republican nominee for the position announced he chose Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate on Monday.

Plaintiffs File New, Slimmed Down Complaint in Class Action Lawsuit Against Tether Plaintiffs in an ongoing class action lawsuit against Tether and Bitfinex have filed a new, slimmed-down complaint accusing the crypto companies of manipulating the crypto markets and violating antitrust laws.