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The token now is trading hands at $126, according to YAMalytics.

Ever factoring in the 12 percent correction Tezos has seen in the past day, the cryptocurrency is one of the top-performing in the past week.

Aug 12, 2020 at 16:00 UTC.With bitcoin prices sitting around $12K and Russia developing "Transparent Blockchain" AI, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!

The daily chart shows a crucial support level in the green box.

Global DeFi markets are continuing to scale up to all-time highs in terms of total value locked, reaching a peak of $4.75 billion on August 11.

Listen to article Markets News Coronavirus lockdowns will force people out of fiat currency and into gold and Bitcoin, the CEO of cryptocurrency asset manager BitGo has warned.

Bitcoin, the industry's pioneer asset, has also shown significant upside action.

The continent has greatly taken to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, and women have been playing a key role.

Categorizing the sale of a digital token as a securities transaction would have an outsized impact on how the token can be offered, who can purchase it, how it is traded, its tax implications and beyond.

Robinhood doubled its trading revenue in the second quarter, and more old-school competitors like TD Ameritrade and E-Trade saw their own numbers jump by more than 50%.There is an exciting argument that this rise in retail trading activity will flow from the stock market into the crypto markets.

The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, an investment tool that aims to provide an indirect exposure to Bitcoin for investors in traditional markets, reported a significant increase in how many shares it issued between Q2 and Q1 of 2020.

A former New York Stock Exchange broker has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging involvement in a crypto trading scheme that defrauded over a hundred investors.

Aside from DeFi, the debate about Ethereum's current circulating supply has been the most-discussed topic on Crypto Twitter over recent days.

As the DeFi market reached $4 billion in locked value and leading cryptocurrencies started their rally to yearly highs, we might soon see a hockey-stick growth pattern in the NFT space.

Aug 12, 2020 at 12:19 UTCUpdated Aug 12, 2020 at 14:52 UTC.Schematic of Aug. 10 stablecoin arbitrage trade using DeFi.In digital-asset markets, stablecoins like tether and USDC are supposed to represent $1 of value.

Revolut, a crypto-friendly trading app and one of the biggest fintechs in Europe, reportedly tripled its losses in 2019 despite growth in revenue and new customers.

The Russian agency charged with collecting data to counter financial crimes has proposed building its own software to track cryptocurrency transactions and link them to users.

The total value of Grayscale's flagship Bitcoin Trust increased over $1.6 billion in the first six months of 2020.The New York-based crypto investment firm said the dollar value of total assets in GBTC went from $1.87 billion at the end of 2019 to $3.5 billion by the end of Q2 2020 - an increase of 90%.The disclosure came in a quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission last Friday.

Blockchain firm HashCash Consultants claims that banks are "Chief arbiters" of people's identities, and need blockchain technology to do it better.

PornVisory is moving to a decentralized governance structure based on the DFO standard, which allegedly allows greater user influence than DAOs.

Yam, a new DeFi project put together in ten days with no audit, guaranteed risks, and never-seen-before returns locked upwards of $180 million hours after launch on August 11.

The LFPHI's goal is to promote the use of open source by public health authorities, which can be scrutinized by anyone, to fight not just COVID-19 but future pandemics as well.

MicroStrategy has adopted Bitcoin as its reserve currency - and stunned commentators by purchasing over 21,000 BTC on Aug. 11.

The State Government of Telangana may develop a blockchain e-voting platform for state and national-level use.

Rew Hamilton, a lawyer with a background in computer science, is spearheading a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media and search giants Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for cartel-like behavior intended to kill off the burgeoning cryptocurrency sector.

Band Protocol has been garnering significant attention over the past few weeks due to its intense rally that sent it from the lower-$4.00 region in early-August to highs of nearly $18.00 that were set earlier this week.

Around 100,000 people in total attended the 2020 Great Bay Area International Blockchain Week, hosted by Cointelegraph China and Cointelegraph in Shenzhen's Great Bay district in the first week of August.

Venezuelan mayors agreed to join the government's plan to expand the adoption of Petro despite some municipalities not having the technology to handle it.

The CEO of Animoca Brands, Yat Siu discussed his firm's strategy of bringing the benefits of blockchain technology to non-crypto-native games with loyal audiences.

Bitcoin Cash advocate and CEO of BitcoinBCH.com, Hayden Otto, has launched a fundraising campaign to create viral videos promoting BCH to mainstream audiences - after failing to win over crypto converts to the cause.