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Coinbase CEO: Would Exit Staking Biz If Forced To Censor Transactions

Uniswap Foundation Proposal Clears Hurdle

Fractional Raises $20M And Rebrands To Tessera

Crypto Markets Falter As Investors Digest Fed Minutes

Quick Take: Democracy Manifest: $1.6 Billion Burnt

Solana’s Biggest DeFi Lender is Leaning Into ‘Permissionless’ Loan Markets: CoinDesk

Ethereum Name Creation Doubles In Four Months to 2 Million: Decrypt

Sky Mavis’ Ronin sidechain expands to 17 validators to boost security

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MakerDAO May Execute ‘Emergency Shutdown’ If Sanctions Hit DAI

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Largest US Exchange Accounts For 14% Of All Staked ETH

 After several days of mounting pressure, Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong said that he would rather shut down the company’s Ethereum staking service than comply with a government order to censor sanctioned transactions.

 “Its a hypothetical we hopefully wont actually face. But if we did wed go with B i think,” Armstrong 

 founder Lefteris Karapetsas, who had asked Coinbase and its peers whether they would censor or leave the staking business if pressured by regulators.

 “Got to focus on the bigger picture. There may be some better option (C) or a legal challenge as well that could help reach a better outcome,” Armstrong continued. Coinbase accounts for about 14% of all staked Ether, with more than 1.9M ETH locked on behalf of its users in the networks Beacon chain. Ether is trading at $1,850 on Wednesday evening in New York, making Coinbases stake worth more than $3.5B.

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Bitcoin Dropped 3% While Ether Slid 2.3%.

 Crypto markets are on track for a fourth day of losses as investors mull over weaker-than-expected U.S. retail sales and minutes from the Feds July meeting.

 Total market capitalization is down 1.5% to $1.18T in the past 24 hours as month-over-month 

 for July came in flat at 0%. Economists had expected a 0.1% gain. Bitcoin dropped 3% while Ether slid 2.3%. The DeFi sector, as categorized by 

 which moved $2.7B worth of ETH to Binance, the worlds largest cryptocurrency exchange.

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New Organization Would Be Tasked To Boost Growth and Improve Governance at No. 1 DEX

 to create the Uniswap Foundation (UF), a new organization that will, if passed, “support Uniswaps decentralized growth, reinvigorate governance, and serve as an advocate for the protocol.”

 So far, voters are unanimously in favor of the move, with 50.56M UNI tokens voting for it. A proposal must receive a minimum of 40M affirmative votes and win the majority to pass.

 The proposal calls for an operating budget of $14M with roughly 90% earmarked for salaries to sustain a 12-person team for three years. It’s also requesting $60M to expand the Uniswap Grants Program (UGP), which the Foundation would be tasked with administering.

Collective NFT Ownership Platform Closes Series A Led By Paradigm

 Despite the bear market, institutional investors continue to place bullish bets on NFTs. Tessera, a collective NFT ownership platform formerly known as Fractional, has raised 

, a major venture fund with over $10B in assets under management.

 Since launching in 2021, more than 70,000 people have used Fractional to collectively own 6,500 prized NFTs, and the protocol has facilitated over $2B in total trading volume.

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 next month, the number of Ethereum Name Service (ENS) addresses created has surged, surpassing 2 million yesterday, after crossing the 

Ronin, an Ethereum-linked sidechain that hosts the Axie Infinity play-to-earn game, has added three new validators as it aims to boost security following the $600 million hack in March.

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Now it’s MakerDAO’s turn. The DeFi blue chip is the latest protocol to be struck by shock waves from the U.S. Treasury Department’s decision Monday to sanction Tornado Cash, a so-called “mixer” that lets crypto users anonymize their transactions.

First, it was the third quarter. Then it was sometime in September. Now, we know that The Merge, the most sweeping upgrade in Ethereums history, will likely take place on Sep. 15.

The final installment of the testnet Merge trilogy is complete. On Aug. 10 at 9:45pm ET, Ethereums Goerli testnet transitioned to Proof-of-Stake consensus.

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