Category: Exchange
Coinbase Inc., which on Monday said it got the green light from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to move forward with a trio of acquisitions, now says it never got such an endorsement.

Nor did it need it.

Price sensitive: No
More Info:
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-07-17/coinbase-says-it-was-wrong-about-sec-approval-of-acquisitions

Category: Exchange
Coinbase Inc., one of the most popular cryptocurrency platforms, said it got the green light from U.S. watchdogs to move forward with a trio of acquisitions that will allow it to become one of the first federally regulated venues for trading digital coins deemed to be securities.

Price sensitive: No
More Info:
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-07-16/coinbase-says-it-has-green-light-to-list-coins-deemed-securities

Category: Exchange
We are aware of the API keys exposure issues of many other digital asset trading platforms. To protect and secure our users’ assets, we will deactivate all API keys created before 00:00 Jul 1, 2018 (Hong Kong time) at 12:00 Jul 16, 2018 (Hong Kong time). Please create new API keys as soon as possible in order to use our trading services normally. Please also be reminded not to expose your OKCoin API key and secret to any other third-party software.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Price sensitive: No
More Info:
https://support.okcoin.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007143552-Expiration-of-All-Current-API-Keys

Category: Other
Anonymous user "Shillexed" creates a twitter handle dedicated to exposing those who do not disclose their paid shills.

"We are unbiassed and seek to provide a transparent Crypto Twitter. DM us any intel you have of someone shilling without disclosing! Any info sent to us will stay 100% anonymous #Shillexed"

Price sensitive: No
More Info:
https://twitter.com/shillexed

Category: Exchange
Announcing the official Poloniex mobile app We’ve got exciting news! In our effort to deliver the best possible experience across all platforms, we’ve acquired the best-in-class Poloniex app for iOS and Android! This app will now be the only officially supported Poloniex app in the App Store and Play Store.

Price sensitive: No
More Info:
https://medium.com/circle-blog/announcing-the-official-poloniex-mobile-app-3114880449e1

Category: Exchange
Coinbase announces they're exploring adding the following assets to Coinbase: Cardano (ADA), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Zcash (ZEC) and 0x (ZRX).

Price sensitive: Yes
More Info:
https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-exploring-cardano-basic-attention-token-stellar-zcash-and-0x-9e44f0eb823f?gi=f93989c1266

Category: Exchange
Exciting and important revelation for the community today. Kraken has been contemplating the exploration of maybe adding over 1600 new coins, pending the outcome of our highly sophisticated review process. For a glimpse of the possibilities:

Price sensitive: No
More Info:
https://twitter.com/krakenfx/status/1017933203875622914?s=19

Category: Exchange
OKCoin, one of the world’s largest digital asset exchanges, officially announces its presence in the United States.

Price sensitive: No
More Info:
https://medium.com/okcoin-blog/okcoin-enters-us-market-7a2db2f45498

Category: Regulation
Crypto: Tether
Tether Appoints Former AML Quality Control Manager at Bank of Montreal as Chief Compliance Officer

Price sensitive: Yes
More Info:
https://tether.to/tether-appoints-former-aml-quality-control-manager-at-bank-of-montreal-as-chief-compliance-officer/

Category: Exchange
Crypto: Litecoin
You can now buy & sell Litecoin & Bitcoin Cash on Robinhood.com

Price sensitive: No
More Info:
https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2018/7/12/litecoin-and-bitcoin-cash-now-on-robinhood-crypto
Plug: @Litecoin

Category: Other
Crypto: Litecoin
LTC Foundation has acquired a near 10 percent stake in a German bank.

Price sensitive: Yes
More Info:
https://www.coindesk.com/litecoin-foundation-acquires-9-9-of-bank-in-payments-partnership/
Plug: @Litecoin

Category: Blockchain
Crypto: Bitcoin
Bitcoin Blocksize Data Visualization

After the upgrade to SegWit in August 2017, although in a much slower fashion than many had hoped, the old 1MB blocksize limit is slowly starting to fade away, as our new chart with data to July 2018 illustrates.

Price sensitive: No
More Info:
https://blog.bitmex.com/the-segwit-transaction-capacity-increase/