Trump Campaign Raises $21M & 'Hamster Kombat' Prepares for Historic Airdrop!

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In today’s Alpha Bytes👇

Trump campaign raises $21M at Bitcoin 2024 conference. BitClout founder ‘Diamondhands’ charged with securities fraud. Hamster Kombat surpasses 300M players and prepares for historic crypto airdrop. 

BTC $66,439 (-0.58%), ETH $3,328 (-0.09%), SOL $183.26 (+0.35%)

Crypto News 📰

• Russian lawmakers pass a bill allowing select businesses to use crypto in international trade

• California uses Avalanche Blockchain to streamline vehicle title transfers

• Starknet-based ZKX protocol shutters, blaming lack of users

• ‘Golden Boys’ behind Compound ‘governance attack’ agree to rescind proposal

• SEC sues BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji, says he lied to investors about the project's decentralization

• Mt. Gox moves over $2B worth of bitcoin to fresh address: Arkham data

• Ripple execs denounce SEC over its plan to amend its complaint against Binance, says it adds to confusion

• SEC posts information page for investors harmed by Terraform fraud

• FTX class action lawyers move to block Sullivan & Cromwell’s dismissal motion

• Bank of England to experiment with wholesale CBDC, synchronization

• California DMV building blockchain on Avalanche for title transfers

• Judge grants ex-FTX exec’s request to postpone reporting to prison

• Polymarket tops $1B in betting volume amid US election hype

• Spot Ethereum ETFs flip positive after $34M inflow on July 30

• Polymarket sets position on Venezuelan election bet outcome

• Tron founder Justin Sun calls on China to warm up to Bitcoin

Project Updates 🔥 

• @TLX_FI announces stop trading perps summer incentives prog

• Eclipse is now open for builders

• Crypto game Hamster Kombat allocates 60% of token airdrop to players in new whitepaper

• Movement Labs joins Polygon's AggLayer; testnet launch attracts $160M in committed TVL

• UAE residents can now trade crypto directly with their bank accounts

• exSat unveils testnet with leading validators and mining pools

• Polymarket embeds in partnership with @SubstackInc

Threads 🧵 

• DeFi composability summer is coming

• The game theory of bitcoin adoption among nations

• Behind the orange veil

• Summaries of 19 AI articles by @sequoia

• Eth Neiro flipped Sol Neiro

Launches 🚀 

• Coinbase-backed Router Protocol launches its own Layer 1 blockchain

• Router Protocol launches mainnet for L1 solution Router Chain

• L3 claim & staking is live

• Web3 restaurant app Blackbird launches new payments platform Blackbird Pay

• Lava Network launches public mainnet

• Irys launches layer-1 programmatic data blockchain

• MultiversX to launch xExchange V3 with new testing fork technology

• makenow.meme lets anyone launch a meme coin directly from a tweet on X

Fundraise 💰

• NFT startup Mintify raises $3.4M in additional funding

• Web3 AI firm Hyperbolic raises $7M in seed funding

• New L2 memecoin Pepe Unchained raises $6M in ICO and may perform like Pepe

• Liquorice secures $1.2M pre-seed funding led by Greenfield Capital

• Argo Blockchain raises £6.5M through private placement

That's a wrap for today!

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