- SEC is set to decide this week whether to approve the listing of six spot Bitcoin ETF applications, including BlackRock.
- Telegram raised $210 million through bond issuance, with Telegram founder Pavel Durov purchasing approximately a quarter of the bonds.
- CoinFund raised $158 million for its new fund to support early-stage crypto startups.
- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that stablecoins could potentially replace official currencies and called for effective cryptocurrency policies to be developed.
- Pendle Finance launched the Pendle Earn , which allows for anytime withdrawals according to the official announcement.
- ConsenSys L2 network Linea opened access to its Alpha mainnet for the entire community.
- Meta and Microsoft collaborated to release an open-source large-scale language model called Llama 2.
- Binance completed its 24th quarterly BNB burn, destroying nearly 2 million BNB tokens.
- The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) revoked FTX Australia’s AFS license.
- RippleX announced the 15 winning projects of its fifth XRPL Grants program, with over $1.6 million in grants to be disbursed.