Daily Dose of Crypto from Whaletank
• Bitcoin dominance: 40.39% (+0.07%)
• Cryptocurrency market cap: 2.186 Trillion Dollars (-0.43%)
• BTC average transaction fee: $1.590 ( -6.30%)
• ETH average gas Price: 62.06 Gwei (-9.49%)
• The long-in-the-making process of bringing multiple blockchains to the Polkadot network culminated this weekend with the official kick-off of five parachains. The five parachains that went live this weekend - Acala, Astar, Clover, Moonbeam, and Parallel Finance - were chosen following successful parachain auctions.
• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week delayed decisions on two Bitcoin exchange-traded fund proposals, one each from asset management groups Bitwise and Grayscale.
• Grim Finance, a DeFi protocol, was hacked for $30 million worth of tokens Saturday, it confirmed, in an "advanced attack."
• Justin Sun will step down from his role as CEO of the Tron Foundation, will join the government of Grenada as its new full-time ambassador to the World Trade Organization
• A group of eight Bitcoin enthusiasts launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish an educational book for America’s federal policymakers, to reduce their reliance on the traditional media narrative on cryptocurrencies.
• The Bank of England wants stronger rules for crypto assets on an international scale as banks and institutional investors deepen their involvement, according to an official at the UK central bank.
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl, sequel to first-person shooter game S.T.A.L.K.E.R., has cancelled its in-game NFT plans after receiving negative criticism on social media, largely from the gaming community.
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