Frank, CEO of MultiVAC, said that the launch of Binance 'Venus' project is a distinct signal that exchanges will no longer be restricted to cryptocurrency, but spread into traditional financial fields. For its features of transparency and effective liquidity, Venus can cause devastating blows to traditional finance. He also added that as a leading exchange, Binance's initiative may have a profound impact on global exchanges and produce more "Libra" and facilitate the prosperity of the whole blockchain.

As of 04:58 (UTC) on August 20, Coinhills statistics show that the US Dollar remains the most traded national currency for Bitcoin with a significant market share of 68.35%, followed by the Japanese Yen (21.16%), the Korean Won (6.68%), the Euro (1.66%) and the British Pound (0.84%).

Citing the official release, the crypto exchange DigiFinex will enable the deposit of Bitcoin Free Cash (BFC) at 07:00 UTC on August 20. The withdrawal of BFC will be available at 10:00 on August 21, and the BFC/USDT trading pair will be launched a the same time.

Citing the official release, the crypto exchange CC will enable the deposit and withdrawal of XBBC at 02:00 UTC on August 20. The XBBC/QC trading pair will be listed at 06:00 on the same day.

Citing statistics from alternative.me, the Fear & Greed Index currently reads 39, nine units more than yesterday, indicating the crypto market still holds the status of "Fear."
As per the index, a value of 0 means "Extreme Fear" while a value of 100 represents "Extreme Greed."

Citing data from Binance, BTC has fallen below the 10,800 USDT level, currently marking 10,792.00 USDT.
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As of 03:00 (UTC) on August 20, the global index of Bitcoin (BTC) price has increased above the $10,800 level. Currently, it marks $10,874.00 with an increase of 4.57% in the past 24 hours.
The CoinNess.com Bullish vs. Bearish Indicator shows our four-hour technical bias on BTC is "Buy" with three indicators sending out selling signals, two showing neutral signals, and 13 indicating buying signals.
The broad market is trading upwards, with 67 out of Top 100 cryptos by market cap rising.
The global market cap reads $281.45 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $50.16 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show 10,867.14 USDT on Binance, $10,909.00 on Bitfinex, and $10,873.17 on Coinbase Pro;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $201.46 (+2.90%); XRP marks $0.2808 (-1.18%); BCH marks $324.26 (+2.13%); LTC marks $76.89 (+0.35%); EOS marks $3.71 (-0.01%); ETC marks $5.63 (+0.86%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: REP (+12.99%), DGTX (+10.99%), and BEAM (+9.20%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: EGT (-17.03%), HC (-8.24%), and GXC (-5.97%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Categories
1. Top 3 gainers among 24 categories: E-Commerce (+11.42%), DApp Platform (+6.62%), and Authentication (+6.10%);
2. Top 3 losers among 24 categories: Cross Chain Technology (-7.19%), Decentralized Transactions (-0.76%), and Smart Economy (-0.62%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: DASH (+$735.02 mln), BTC (+$562.06 mln), and ETH (+$109.76 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: BNB (-$29.26 mln), XRP (-$19.87 mln), and EOS (-$16.56 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (+$7.36 mln), Bitfinex (+$13.87 mln), and Coinbase Pro (+$13.19 mln).

INX Limited, a crypto exchange startup, plans to raise up to $129.5 million through an IPO, in the first security token sale registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Since INX will be listing security tokens, it will have to first become a broker-dealer, which requires a separate registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and acceptance into FINRA, a self-regulatory organization (SRO), and an alternative trading system (ATS), which requires filing additional forms with the SEC.
On top of securities-related approvals, to operate as a crypto exchange where investors can buy and sell Bitcoin and the like, INX will need money transmitter licenses from the individual states where it does business.

According to the analysis of Jins, the in-house, leading crypto analyst at CoinNess.com, in the case of extremely shrinking trading volume of Bitcoin (BTC) and other major cryptocurrencies, the market's trading activity has been greatly reduced, during which the trading enthusiasm of investors has dropped to the "freezing point." From the price performance of BTC in the past two months, there is no basis for a substantial increase in the near future. Under such circumstances, on the daily chart, BTC saw a closing price with an increase of 5.87%, which may suggest the main force began to cover the short positions, prompting the emergence of the buy point.
Taken in the performance of whale transactions, the number of whale transactions of more than 10 BTC decreased to 266 on August 19, which is the lowest since January 11, 2019. It can be inferred that the trend of the short-term main force is not obvious enough. Although the number of transactions with a large amount has fallen sharply, BTC is still running above the $10,000 threshold. Perhaps, the main force will not suppress the BTC price without any restrictions.
With respect to the addresses which hold a large amount of BTC, the number of BTC stored in the address 34xp4vRoCGJym3xR7yCVPFHoCNxv4Twseo has continued to rise recently. It is worth mentioning that this address is not only a large holder with a holdings of up to 157,000 BTC, but also owns the most circulated BTC. The BTC held by the above-mentioned address has steadily recovered since July 30, which might be a signal that the main force began to cover the short positions.
In the meantime, another address 19Te6hzGFSbryomVYqzG2kpBmAJYykx5Yv that is one of top 10 addresses which hold most circulated BTC also stored an increasing number of the king coin, with the figure increasing to 12,000. That is to say, from a certain point of view, this may indicate that the trading initiated by main force is relatively stable, which is favorable for the BTC to gain some lost ground.

The Japanese virtual currency exchange bitFlyer partners with the country's credit service provider T-Point Japan to launch "Tpoint Program." Through the cooperation, the Tpoint credits will be available on the exchange, by which users are able to acquire Bitcoin.
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Citing data from Huobi Global, HT just rose to the $5.00 level, with the current price marking $4.99.
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Monitored by CoinNess.com, from 00:00 to 02:00 (UTC) on August 20, BTC registered a net outflow of $20.16 million in the past two hours.
1. The Top 3 net cap inflows in the crypto market are: ETC (+$933 k), USDT (+$592 k), HTC (+$497 k);
2. The Top 3 net cap outflows in the crypto market are: BTC (-$20.16 mln), ETH (-$3.84 mln), XRP (-$2.63 mln).
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Monitored by CoinNess.com, as of 00:00, August 20 (UTC), 1) the number of Bitcoin active addresses is on a day-to-day increase of 20.45%, marking 616,500.
2) The number of Bitcoin on-chain transactions is 276,200 with a day-to-day decrease of 4.13%.
3) The number of whale transfers (over 100 BTC each) is 319 with a day-to-day decrease of 33.54%.
4) Active addresses on Ethereum report 374,300 with a day-to-day increase of 16.13%.
Note: On-chain transactions and active addresses of a cryptocurrency have a positive correlation with its price.

Citing data from Coin Dance, Coingeek currently controls over 51% Bitcoin (BSV) hash rate, marking 51.39%. In contrast, Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash whose miners have also followed "Proof of Work" are more "decentralized" with no mining pool controlling over 20% of whole hash rate.
In general, if a mining pool has more than 51% of the total hash rate, the cryptocurrency may be considered vulnerable to "51% attack."

Weiss Crypto Ratings tweeted to state that "XRP vs. BTC" is just like "apples vs oranges." XRP is better suited for money transactions, while Bitcoin is better as a store of value, it furthered.

A Supreme Court judge in British Columbia (BC), Canada, has denied a motion to set aside an asset freeze, which was requested by the defendants in a multimillion dollar cryptocurrency fraud case.
The defendants had filed to set aside an interim preservation order that was issued by the British Columbia Civil Forfeiture Office in order to prevent case-related assets from being sold or accumulating debt.
Vancouver news daily The Province reported the ruling on Aug. 19. According to the report, the defendants, Lisa Angela Cheng and Kevin Patrick Hobbs, stand accused of committing fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.

According to the data of OKEx's contract, as of 00:00, August 20 (UTC), among the rich accounts of OKEx Bitcoin quarterly contract, the proportion of long positions (19.54%) is less than that of short positions (24.43%), with a gap of 4.89%.
Among the rich accounts of OKEx Ethereum quarterly contract, the proportion of short positions (25.73%) is still more than that of long positions (14.93%), with a gap of 10.80%.
At present, the number of BTC contract positions decreases to 54,500 BTC, and the number of ETH contract positions drops to 423,400 ETH.

1. Huobi Global will suspend the deposit and withdrawal service for NANO at 02:00 UTC;
2. Huobi Global will launch the margin trading of BTC/HUSD, ETH/HUSD, XRP/HUSD and EOS/HUSD at 03:00;
3. Trading service of gate.io Startup project Harmony (ONE) will be enabled at 4:00;
4. Binance DEX will list MultiVAC (MTV) at 08:00.

The New York State Supreme Court has decided that it has jurisdiction to rule over the case between the New York Attorney General (NYAG) and iFinex, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. The decision now allows the NYAG to continue its investigation and demands the company to produce documents at the request of the law enforcement agency, according to a filing.

1. Bithumb will list Xensor on August 19;
2. Vexanium will launch Vexanium Whitepaper 2.0 on August 19;
3. FTX is available on Bitfinex;
4. Nash exchange will go live on August 23;
5. Due to breaking changes for exchanges, LSK has scheduled a soft fork on August 23.
[24H News Roundup August 19: Self Claimed Satoshi Nakamoto Revealed His Real Life Identity]
[Policy]
1. Maharashtra government of India plans to implement blockchain technology in agriculture marketing, supply chain, registration of vehicles and document management system.
[Cryptocurrency]
1. The Winklevoss twins are looking to potentially partner with Facebook (FB) on Libra;
2. Fidelity's charity unit includes XRP to its list of accepted cryptos for donation.
[Exchange & Wallet]
1. CGEX is shutting down in September;
3. Binance is creating Venus - an independent, regional version of Libra.
[Others]
1. Spanish megabank Santander Group is expanding its use of Ripple's technology;
2. Blockchain voting platform Horizon State shuts down after the lawsuit;
3. The World Bank raised over $33 million for its Kangaroo bond on a blockchain;
4. Self-claimed Satoshi Nakamoto revealed his real-life identity as a British Pakistani citizen worked at NHS and has lost his $19 billion worth of Bitcoin due to hardware crash.

1. Bithumb will list Xensor on August 19;
2. Vexanium will launch Vexanium Whitepaper 2.0 on August 19;
3. FTX is available on Bitfinex;
4. Nash exchange will go live on August 23;
5. Due to breaking changes for exchanges, LSK has scheduled a soft fork on August 23.

According to a Medium post released on August 19, decentralized financing platform Compound has announced a project called "The Open Oracle System" to help developers accessing on-chain prices, a system that can operate perpetually without reliance on any one project.

According to Crypto Globe, Huobi's multi-currency wallet, Huobi Wallet, has added support for an EOS-based stablecoin called EOSDT, the eight stablecoin the Huobi Group's wallet supports.
According to a press release, Huobi Wallet and Equilibrium, the framework behind the EOSDT stablecoin, partnered so the multi-currency wallet supports the decentralized EOS-based stablecoin as well as the NUT token.

According to CoinDesk, Blockchain-based customer relations manager (CRM) Cere Network just closed a $3.5 million seed round.
Backed by Binance Labs, Neo Global Capital, and Arrington XRP Capital, among multiple others, Cere Network opened a New York office and will announce an innovation lab in Berlin during Berlin Blockchain Week.
Cere Network provides a blockchain service for integrating various customer relations platforms for businesses. Cere says its customers are looking for alternatives to Salesforce and other mainstream CRM solutions.

CoinNess.com now delivers a special report featuring the closing prices of the U.S. blockchain stocks at the end of the day.
NYSE Bundle:
Eastman Kodak Company (KODK): $2.12 +3.41%;
IBM Common Stock (IBM): $135.04, +0.96%;
Accenture Plc (ACN): $195.18, +1.01%;
Square Inc (SQ): $64.08, +1.92%;
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM): $108.69, +0.89%.
NASDAQ Bundle: Overstock.com (OSTK): $18.9, +4.36%; Marathon Patent Group Inc (MARA): $1.82, -4.21%;
RIOT Blockchain Inc (RIOT): $1.88, +1.62%.

Citing information from whale-alert.io, as of 18:56:04 UTC on August 19, 1001 Bitcoin has been transferred from OKEx exchange to unknown wallet address. The transaction hash is 8cbe3049ebba7de8ef52ea1c7b0ad0d3de74ecdb5b61c31693aa920a5a6dd46a.

In a press release published on Aug. 19, Deloitte revealed the launch of the Blockchain in a Box (BIAB) platform, which the company built based on customer interest in understanding blockchain capabilities in real world use cases.

Erik Finman, known as the "youngest Bitcoin millionaire" due to his young age, has decided to become an angel investor of Metallicus, the company behind Metal Payments.
The investment was announced by the CEO of the company, Marshall Hayner. He will partner with Finman to improve the crypto banking platform and turn into an exchange with over 17 assets and features that are said to be similar to Venmo's.

Citing data from BTC.com, as of 21:48 UTC on August 19, the number of unconfirmed transactions on the BTC network marks 7045. In addition, Bitcoin's mining difficulty marks 10.18 T and is estimated to increase by 2.38% to 10.43. The 24-hour transaction rate (txs/s) marks 3.3 txs/s, with the network hashrate reporting 72.45 EH/s.

According to CoinDesk, Israel's Fintech regulator is rearranging its licensing regime to encourage competition in the field.
The Israeli Capital Market Authority is looking to change how fintech licenses are distributed in Israel according to a Monday announcement reported by Israeli daily newspaper Calcalist. Some 2,000 fintech and blockchain-businesses are currently seeking licenses from the state regulator. Due to the glut, the Authority is setting up a licensing fast track.