| Goldman Sachs: 15% of family offices have invested in cryptocurrencies, and another 45% are willing to invest; Ethereum Classic is expected to undergo a Magneto hard fork upgrade on July 24 (July 22)

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Circle sets aside $10.4 million to settle SEC lawsuit over Poloniex.

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Goldman Sachs: 15% of family offices have invested in cryptocurrencies, and another 45% are willing to invest

Ethereum Classic is expected to undergo a Magneto hard fork upgrade on July 24

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According to the Tokenview block explorer, Ethereum Classic (ETC) will undergo a hard fork upgrade called Magneto at block height 131,891,33. Magneto will include the Ethereum upgrade feature, which includes a series of EIPs that optimize gas and transactions. The current ETC block height is 13170164, and the block interval is about 12.3 seconds. It is expected to reach the scheduled upgrade height around noon on July 24.

Sora Aoi will release the first NFT on Binance NFT at 21:30 on July 22

Chainlink oracles launched on Avalanche mainnet, promoting the rapid development of advanced DeFi App development

According to the official announcement, Chainlink Price Feeds has been launched on the Avalanche mainnet, and developers of the Avalanche platform will be able to seamlessly and smoothly obtain the safest and highest-quality price data of various asset classes. Chainlink's Price Feeds mechanism will empower smart contract developers to freely build advanced DeFi applications on Avalanche's open source platform, such as price-sensitive derivatives markets, low-cost lending applications, high-throughput trading strategies, etc. The integration was facilitated by the Protofire project, which is both a leading development workshop and an Avalanche validator, and they also received a Chainlink community incentive bounty to debug and natively run Chainlink oracles on the Avalanche mainnet.

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Alternative asset investment search engine Vincent completes $6 million in financing led by Jason Calacanis' LAUNCH

Steve Jobs' handwritten 1973 job application to be auctioned side-by-side in physical and NFT form

Vincent, an encryption-friendly alternative asset investment search engine created by the founder of Indiegogo, has completed $6 million in financing. Jason Calacanis' LAUNCH led the investment, and investment companies 8VC and DCG participated in the investment. In December last year, Vincent completed a $2 million seed round of financing. In June, cryptocurrencies accounted for 12% of Vincent asset searches, down 4% month-on-month, dropping out of the top 5. Venture capital was the most popular at 28%, followed by real estate investing at 26%.

Steve Jobs' handwritten 1973 job application to be auctioned side-by-side in physical and NFT form

Steve Jobs' handwritten job application from 1973 will be auctioned side-by-side both in physical form and in an NFT created in partnership with Rarible. The auction will begin at 9:41 a.m. PDT on July 21 and end at 2:00 p.m. PDT on July 28, and bids can be made through the auction's official website. Digital entrepreneur and NFT vs physical auction founder Olly Joshi believes that the most common question surrounding NFTs is "do they represent real value or is it just a bubble?" Coexist with digital assets.

NFT platform Autograph has reached strategic cooperation with Lionsgate and DraftKings to develop IPs such as Hunger Games and Twilight

Autograph, an NFT platform founded by football player Tom Brady, announced a strategic partnership with Lionsgate and digital sports entertainment company DraftKings. Autograph will establish multi-year exclusive NFT partnerships with several sports stars, including Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, Derek Jeter, Naomi Osaka and Tony Hawk, who will join Autograph's advisors committee. And Lionsgate will launch Autograph's entertainment business with several iconic film and TV rights, including John Wick, The Hunger Games, Twilight, Mad Men and more.

Blockchain horse racing game Zed Run developer VHS completes $20 million in Series A financing led by TCG

Australia-based Virtually Human Studio (VHS) has completed a US$20 million Series A financing led by TCG, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Red Beard Ventures. The funds will be used for project development and staff expansion. Virtually Human Studio was established in 2018. In 2019, it developed a blockchain-based virtual horse racing game called Zed Run. Users can buy, sell and raise virtual horses, and compete with other horses in a video game environment. Its price ranges from $130 to $45,000, and since its launch in 2019, more than $30 million in horse racing NFTs have been sold.

The signing of the joint construction agreement of the National Financial Industry Cryptography Application Research Center and the release of the results of the Shandong Blockchain Research Institute were held in Jinan

On July 21, the signing of the joint construction agreement of the National Financial Industry Cryptography Application Research Center and the release of the results of the Shandong Blockchain Research Institute were held in Jinan. The theme of this event is "Focus on National Currency Security and Jointly Build a Highland of Financial Cryptography". Key role.

Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN) Launches "Cargo Release" Blockchain Solution

Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN) has launched its first blockchain application, Cargo Release, in China. Utilizing blockchain technology, the app provides a paperless and transparent solution that connects everyone at the port of entry, including shipping lines, consignees, their agents and terminals. GSBN explained that by eliminating the need for paper, it simplifies data exchange and reduces operational time for all parties through real-time updates, reducing the time it takes for goods to be ready for release from days to hours. According to previous news, GSBN was jointly established by major shipping companies and terminal operators in November last year, including COSCO SHIPPING, COSCO SHIPPING Ports, Hapag-Lloyd, Hutchison Ports, OOCL, SPG Qingdao Port, PSA International and Shanghai International Port group. After obtaining regulatory approval in multiple jurisdictions, GSBN has been established as a non-profit organization in Hong Kong and has officially started operations."UK-listed mining company Argo Blockchain plans to launch ADS listing in the US in Q3"Argo Blockchain, a U.K.-listed crypto mining company, said it expects to sell shares in the U.S. in the third quarter, subject to regulatory approval. The London-based company said on Wednesday it had submitted a draft registration statement for the sale of American Depositary Shares to the U.S. SEC, which still needs approval from the U.S. SEC, as well as market conditions and other conditions . The number of shares and price range have not yet been determined. In early July, Argo Blockchain announced when it announced its June operational update that the global cryptocurrency space

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Afterwards, it is exploring the possibility of a secondary listing on Nasdaq. According to the data disclosed at the time, Argo Blockchain dug up a total of 167 bitcoins in June, and the total this year has reached 883 BTCs.

BNY Mellon joins State Street to back crypto trading platform Pure Digital

Three months after State Street first backed cryptocurrency exchange Pure Digital, BNY Mellon has joined a consortium of six banks in publicly announcing its support for the soon-to-launch exchange. So far, the world's two largest custodian banks have stood behind Pure Digital. Pure Digital will be the first bank-driven cryptocurrency trading platform, aiming to create a cash cryptocurrency trading venue to compete with larger incumbent exchanges. BNY Mellon and State Street both plan to trade on Pure Digital and offer other services, including technology services."Circle sets aside $10.4M to settle SEC lawsuit over Poloniex". In March, Poloniex offered to settle the case for $10.4 million.

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Shanghai: Accelerate the construction of a number of blockchain service platforms, and promote the demonstration and application of blockchain in various fields such as finance

The General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government issued a notice on printing and distributing the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of Strategic Emerging Industries and Leading Industries in Shanghai. It is mentioned in the plan that driven by innovative applications, we will promote the rapid development of emerging technologies such as big data, cloud computing, industrial Internet, and blockchain, and accelerate the process of digital transformation in the economic field. Focus on breakthroughs in key technologies such as smart contracts, consensus algorithms, encryption algorithms, and distributed systems, accelerate the construction of a number of blockchain service platforms, promote the demonstration and application of blockchain in the fields of finance, commerce, logistics, energy, and manufacturing, and build application scenarios , forming a blockchain application technology system and industrial ecology.

The National Financial Industry Encryption Application Research Center was inaugurated in Jinan

On July 21, the signing of the joint construction agreement of the National Financial Industry Cryptography Application Research Center and the release of the results of the Shandong Blockchain Research Institute were held in Jinan. According to reports, the National Financial Industry Cryptography Application Research Center unveiled at this event mainly conducts research on the innovative application and security application of domestic cryptographic technology in national legal digital currency, and enhances the impact of cryptographic technology on national legal digital currency operation security and network information security. The core support capabilities and key roles of the platform are jointly built by Tsinghua University, the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China, and the Jinan Municipal People's Government based on their respective advantages. After the completion of the center, it will escort the issuance of my country's digital currency. At the same time, according to the agreement, relevant scientific and technological achievements will be first implemented and transformed in Jinan.

Bank of Canada research report: Canadian CBDC can promote domestic digital innovation

Six departments including the Ministry of Education: In-depth application of new generation information technology such as blockchain to promote digital transformation of education

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The Ministry of Education and other six departments issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Construction of New Educational Infrastructure and Building a High-quality Education Support System". The guidance proposes to deeply apply new-generation information technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and blockchain, to give full play to the role of data as a new factor of production, and to promote the digital transformation of education. In addition, the guidance also mentioned that in terms of improving the efficiency of resource supervision, blockchain technology should be used to protect intellectual property rights, and explore personalized resource purchase and use and post-payment mechanisms. Promote the iterative update of digital resources through the combination of user evaluation and third-party evaluation.

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