Investment firm Victory Capital Management has filed an application with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund. In a Form S-1 registration filed Tuesday with the regulatory body, Victory said it intended to move forward with listing an exchange-traded fund, or ETF, tracking the Nasdaq Crypto Index as part of an agreement with Brazilian fund manager Hashdex. The index consists of eight cryptocurrencies: BCH, ETH, LTC, LINK, BTC, UNI, XLM and FIL.
Roger Ver joined an interview on July 28th with the London Real website, talking about the future of DeFi and the benefits of BCH. London Real was founded in 2011 by former Wall Street banker Brian Rose, and so far the site has conducted over 1000 long format interviews with the most important voices in the world. Users can visit the London Real website to watch the full version of Roger Ver's video interview.
Kim Dotcom and Roger Ver joined the zoom get-together event on BCH Day (Bitcoin Cash's Independence Day) on August 1st, 2021, and told the participants about some of the amazing things they have been working on. For those who missed the live stream, you can visit Satoshi's Angels' YouTube page to watch the recorded video.
Matrixport, a crypto financial services platform, announced the close of a Series C fundraiser that clinches the firm $100 million at a more than $1 billion pre-money valuation. Launched in 2019 as a spin-off of Bitmain, Matrixport is a large crypto player in Asia with around $10 billion in assets under management (AuM). Its platform offers a wide range of services, including trading, lending, and fixed-income-like products.
Build.Cash has released its July 2021 Progress Report, which includes details on the project's financial situation, current progress, and August priorities. Build.Cash aims to be an information resource, and an encyclopedia of projects and people building new cash for the world.
Bitdeer, a leading hashrate provider, is giving away free cloud hashrate plans to celebrate Bitcoin Cash's 4th anniversary. By completing the forms, users are automatically entered into the prize pool to win 10TH/S of Antminer S19 for 10 days. The event ends on 10 August 2021 12:00 PM (GMT+10).
Knuth has released Javascript/TypeScript API v1.8.0, which mainly fixes some security vulnerabilities and updates some dependencies. Knuth is a high performance implementation of the Bitcoin protocol focused on users requiring extra capacity and resilience. It is a BCH full node software client, but also a development platform, designed for miners, mining pools, exchanges, enterprises and blockchain developers.
Bitdeer and BTC.com have jointly released a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Data Report for the 4th Year of BCH on Medium. The report details BCH technology development, data analysis, merchant adoption, NFT, applications, community dynamics, and more for the period of August 1st, 2020 to August 1st, 2021.
BCH.games, a cryptocurrency gaming site, has launched a new multiplayer roulette game.
