.CPI exceeds market expectations.
.Goerli testnet officially Merged.
.SpiritSwap V2 live.
.Hotbit says user assets are safe.

.Tornado Cash sanctions consequences.
.Bitcoin: Will BTC continue its uptrend?
.Despite no meeting, Jim Cramer says the FED could raise rates in August.
.Reddit chooses Arbitrum for its community points system.

San Francisco, California: Creator tech platform Nas Academy has partnered with Invisible College to launch the world’s first bundle of courses that can be unlocked with an NFT collection. More than $2,000 worth of courses will be made available initially, covering topics like NFT investing, Community Building, Video Editing, and Crypto fundamentals.

Did you know that Ethereum’s (ETH) blockchain, which enables the existence of NFTs, owns an annual carbon footprint equal to the size of Hong Kong’s? Or that in order to create and sell a single NFT it costs roughly 660 kilowatt hours (kWh), which releases an estimated 153 kilograms (kgs) of CO-2 into the atmosphere? The voluntary target for personal annual carbon allowance (PACA) is about 4,660 kgs per person on earth, per year. Therefore the creation of a single NFT only uses about 3% of that allowance. The creation of 250 NFTs, however, blows that target out of the water by releasing over 38,000 kgs of CO-2.

.The Merge ELI5
.Market: Can BTC break through resistance?
.US authorities ban the use of Tornado Cash. 
.Don’t fall for the traps during the merge. 

Geneva, Switzerland / August 9 / – The TRON DAO Reserve has announced Wintermute as the ninth Member and Whitelisted Institution to mint Decentralized USD (USDD), the over-collateralized decentralized stablecoin on TRON, Ethereum, and BNB Chain.

Seoul, August 8, 2022 – Crypto.com, the world’s fastest growing cryptocurrency platform, announced today it has secured Electronic Financial Transaction Act and Virtual Asset Service Provider registration by acquiring payment service provider ‘PnLink Co., Ltd.’ and virtual asset service provider ‘OK-BIT Co., Ltd.’.

.Vitalik Buterin shares thoughts on ETHW.
.The golden nuggets of TVL. 
.Markets: Quiet week but NOT for Optimism.
.Crypto OG buys Ether Call Options.
.Uniswap’s exciting growth plan. 
.Arbitrum Nitro: Imminent! 

When I notice that the currency a society uses has steadily devalued for at least half a century causing mass coping and an overall decline in the quality of living for most people, I buy crypto.

.Senate bill to give CFTC oversight of crypto commodities.
.Aglaé Ventures to launch web3 fund.
.Ancient BTC whale moves funds.
.SBF says Solana is undervalued.
.Tinder halts NFT and metaverse plans.

.Solana wallet exploit.
.Micheal Saylor steps down.
.Markets pause amidst Taiwan tensions.
.DYdX introduces free trading. 
.Magic Eden adding Ethereum NFTs.

The problem with being a Chicken Little Perma-Bear is, it’s very easy to underestimate the viciousness, incompetence, and/or depravity of the Boomers that control the levers of global finance.

.ELI5: Soulbound Tokens (SBT).
.Bitcoin run begins to flutter.
.DXY testing major support.
.Binance’s Soulbound token (BAB).
.The $190m Nomad Bridge hack.

.Babel Finance trading customer funds.
.Israel limits cash purchases.
.Robot dogs looking for Bitcoin hard drives.
.Vasil fork delayed.