Cosmos ecosystem's EVM-compatible chain, Evmos, is set to launch Evmos 2.0 on August 2nd | Cryptocurrency Trends

● Binance withdraws its crypto license application from the German financial regulator BaFin.

● Binance postpones First Digital USD (FDUSD) listing on July 26, 5:45 PM, due to technical issues with the liquidity provider for the FDUSD pair.

● Binance launches Seed Tags and Monitoring Tags on July 26th.

● Mainstream Exchange Listings (CEX: Token – Time of Listing in UTC)

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First Digital USD (FDUSD) — July 26, 2:00 PM

● Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says that he does not expect inflation return to 2% until around 2025 but that the Fed may stop raising interest rates until inflation reaches 2%.

● The Federal Reserve resumes interest rate hikes in July, raising its benchm ark interest rate by 25 basis points to a range of 5.25%–5.50%, the highest level since 2001.

● Bitcoin mining difficulty was adjusted at block height 800352, with mining difficulty lowered by –2.94% to 52.33T.

● At present, 126,481 Worldcoin users have received 3,161,511 WLD in airdrops, accounting for approximately 7.3% of total airdrops.

● EVM-compatible Cosmos chain Evmos to launch Evmos 2.0 on August 2.

● Flashbots raises approximately US$60 million in Series B funding at a US$1 billion valuation.

● Valhalla Ventures announces the launch of its first US$66 million flagship fund, which will focus on investing in startups in the deep tech and gaming sectors.

● The High Court of Singapore recognizes cryptocurrency as a property that can be held in trust in a case involving Seychelles-based exchange Bybit and a contractor.

● Korea establishes the Joint Investigation Centre for Crypto Crimes.

● The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate reach a bipartisan agreement on a cryptocurrency bill that proposes to require cryptocurrency trading platforms to register with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and create a new regulatory framework for Bitcoin and the entire alternative finance industry.