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Hong Kong police have arrested three men believed to be tied to a broader syndicate who allegedly cheated Bitcoin ATMs out of nearly HK$230,000 (US$30,000), the first case of its kind in the city. The force took action over the past two days after reports were filed by two cryptocurrency exchanges. The exchanges suspected the culprits had taken advantage of "loopholes" in the ATMs, withdrawing cash without official authorisations.

On Thursday, a bill that would begin feasibility studies into regulating and classifying the virtual currency industry passed the Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee unanimously 7-0 in California (USA). Assembly Bill 2150, authored by Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon (D-Whittier), would have the Department of Business Oversight oversee a report on how greater regularity clarity in digital assets such as digital currency and blockchain technology, the digital records and transactions of various digital currencies. The report, which would spell out the pluses and minuses of such a system being enacted in California, would be due by January 1, 2022 and could lead to more permanent legislation. Supporters of AB 2150 have said that the bill is a vital step to bring more innovative companies into California and would influence the United States government to make similar actions.

A Lightning Network developer Rene Pickhardt has questioned the fact that USDT coins are properly backed by USD as is announced by Tether. To that Paolo Ardoino responded that Tether constantly receives wires to back the new USDT with. According to the Tether CTO, these transfers come from multiple hedge funds and crypto holders. The Tether website enables users to send in cash directly and turn it into USDT backed by USD, EUR and CNH (Investopedia also mentions JPY as a collateral). They can issue coins on various platforms – Omni, Ethereum, Tron, etc. So far, ERC20 remains the most popular standard for USDT after Omni and is followed by Tron.

As of 11:00 (UTC) on August 15, the global price index of Bitcoin (BTC) trades above the $11,800 level. At present, the coin marks $11,890.37 with an increase of 1.24% in the past 24 hours.
The CoinNess.com Bullish vs. Bearish Indicator shows our four-hour technical bias on BTC is "Buy" with one indicator sending out a selling signal, four showing neutral signals, and 13 indicating buying signals.
The broad market is experiencing a sideways trend, with 57 out of Top 100 cryptos by market cap dropping.
The global market cap reads $372.43 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $103.45 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show 11,911.73 USDT on Binance, $11,886.55 on Bitfinex, $11,875.40 on Coinbase Pro and 11,884.80 USDT on Boboo.com;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $437.26 (+2.26%); XRP marks $0.2984 (+0.69%); BCH marks $296.27 (+0.51%); LTC marks $57.45 (+1.39%); EOS marks $3.43 (+8.78%); ETC marks $7.04 (+1.61%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: SNX (+27.71%), LRC (+24.78%), and QNT (+19.57%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: ANT (-17.05%), YFI (-15.35%), and ALGO (-13.17%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: ETH (+$149.61 mln), BTC (+$98.33 mln), and AAC (+$16.38 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: XRP (-$24.02 mln), SAND (-$20.07 mln), and SXP (-$16.65 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (-$110.37 mln), Bitfinex (-$3.88 mln), and Coinbase Pro (+$36.73 mln).

Monitored by CoinNess.com, from 00:00 to 10:00 (UTC) on August 15, BTC registered a net inflow of about $80.14 million in the past 10 hours.
1. The Top 3 net cap inflows in the crypto market are: BTC (+$80.14 mln), EOS (+$19.30 mln), and LINK (+$10.15 mln);
2. The Top 3 net cap outflows in the crypto market are: ETH (-$42.59 mln), BCH (-$9.65 mln), and XRP (-$4.51 mln).
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Matic Network tweeted: "India's largest exchange WazirX will launch an automated market maker (AMM) DeFi protocol on Matic Network. The AMM DEX will enable users to swap crypto assets and earn fees by providing liquidity."

As of 09:00 UTC on August 15, 1) Most of the DeFi coins are in an upward trend, and the top three gainers are AST (+32.57%), WGRT (+31.45%), and LRC (+27.76%).
2) The total market cap of DeFi coins marks $10.07 billion, and the top five coins by market cap are cDAI ($1.02 billion), SNX ($803 million), MKR ($622 million), COMP ($618 million), and LEND ($611 million).
3) Assets locked in DeFi are by far worth $5.79 billion, where $1.49 billion (25.80%) is from Maker, $995 million is from Aave, and $821 million is from Curve.

In a major new partnership, Samsung has announced that the Samsung Blockchain Wallet will be integrated with Gemini, a New York-based crypto exchange. This integration will allow owners of newer Samsung Galaxy phones to not only use their devices as cold storage wallets but to buy and sell crypto via the Gemini exchange as well.
Samsung is the global leader in the smartphone market, with 298.1 million units shipped and a 21.8% market share in 2019, according to tech analytic firm Canalys. Adding support for Gemini will lower the barrier to entry to cryptocurrency use for millions of people.

Citing statistics from alternative.me, the Fear & Greed Index currently reads 79, one unit more than yesterday's, indicating the crypto market is still in "Extreme Greed."
Note: As per the index, a value of 0 means "Extreme Fear" while a value of 100 represents "Extreme Greed." The current index is for Bitcoin only and is measured based on volatility (25%), market momentum/volume (25%), social media (25%), surveys (15%), dominance (10%), and trends (10%).

Texas Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles entered an emergency cease and desist order to stop South African firms from fraudulently recruiting Austin residents to participate in a cryptocurrency credit card scheme.
The order targets Lance Angus Jerrard and his companies, Liquidity Gold Trust, Liquidity Gold Solution LLC and Liquidity Global Card Solution (PTY) LTD. The order accuses them of running advertisements on 590 AM KLBJ Radio, a radio station that broadcasts in Austin, Texas. They are also allegedly promoting their scheme through internet websites and social media, such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Monitored by CoinNess.com, as of 7:00 UTC on August 15, 1) Google Trends indicates searches of "Bitcoin" have increased by 19.05%;
2) Baidu Search Index shows the search frequency of "Bitcoin" has increased by 58.22%;
3) Weibo sees the search of "Bitcoin" have decreased by 8.33%;
4) WeChat Search Index witnessed a decrease of 0.10% in the search of "Bitcoin";
5) CoinNess shows "CNNS" takes the crown in the list of Coin Search Index, followed by BAND and SRM.

TRON has officially passed the No. 40 voting request at 12:00 UTC on August 14, proposing to enable the function of verifying zero-knowledge proofs in the virtual machine (Proposal No. 39).

yearn.finance (YFI) said on Twitter, "YIP 36 (system rewards as operational capital) reached quorum and was voted 'for.' Treasury cap is $500,000."

Curve's official website shows that three audit reports on its project have been released. The auditors are: Trail of Bits, Quantstamp and Mix Bytes.
According to CoinGecko market data, Curve DAO Token (CRV) is now quoted at $12.01, a 24-hour decline of 68.8%.

Zilliqa will join Switcheo TradeHub network as a validator. SWTH holders could stake their tokens with Zilliqa via Switcheo TradeHub staking interface.

Kava Labs announced Kava filled the $USDX borrow limit increase from 8,250,000 to 11,500,000 USDX. A new USDX limit increase proposal will be issued soon.

AICoin PRO shows from 00:05 UTC to 03:42 on August 15, BTC spot whale orders on Huobi Global frequently appeared and traded. Among them, a total of 41 whale consignment orders appeared, totaling 3,410.7 BTC with a selling transaction of 1,063.95 BTC.

Balancer Labs tweeted that at 16:00 UTC on August 15, voting will be active on the proposal to update the token whitelist process for BAL liquidity mining. The voting will end 24 hours later on August 16.

Daniel Larimer (also known as BM) tweeted EOS is a better stack for building complex high-performance Defi, adding, "Defi on ETH is a hack and requires many ugly comprises to compensate for latency, gas attacks, reorganization, and lack of sorted databases."

Crypto trader Stacking claimed via Twitter someone hacked into his Ledger account and stole over 100k in ERC-20 tokens. His Ledger account is in a safe, and he reset it last week, so no one knows the recovery phrases.

Vitalik Buterin forwarded an article he wrote in 2017, which reads his idea of full nodes and verification being important, though the arguments are quite different than that of the BTC camp.
In this article, he said that the blockchain consensus mechanism and its client verification make it difficult to change the rules of assets on the chain, which brings strong security. The verification of this by the blockchain client means that for miners who want to do evil, the system removes malicious miners at the mechanism level, and the entire network is beneficial to users.

According to DeBank data, the total value of assets locked in the Ethereum DeFi protocol exceeds $7 billion.
Note: The total value locked (TVL) is the most important indicator to measure the scale of a DeFi project. It is calculated by the total value of all ETH and various ERC-20 tokens locked in the project's smart contract.

As of 03:00 (UTC) on August 15, the global price index of Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading above the $11,800 level. At present, the coin marks $11,889.78 with an increase of 1.06% in the past 24 hours.
The CoinNess.com Bullish vs. Bearish Indicator shows our four-hour technical bias on BTC is "Strong Buy" with two indicators sending out selling signals, two showing neutral signals, and 14 indicating buying signals.
The broad market experiences upward trading, with 72 out of Top 100 cryptos by market cap rising.
The global market cap reads $372.43 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $105.82 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show 11,899.31 USDT on Binance, $11,911.01 on Bitfinex, $11,913.39 on Coinbase Pro and 11,886.11 USDT on Boboo.com;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $439.84 (+3.05%); XRP marks $0.3011 (+1.42%); BCH marks $299.21 (+0.88%); LTC marks $57.80 (+1.40%); EOS marks $3.38 (+7.26%); ETC marks $6.94 (-0.06%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: LRC (+22.30%), SNX (+18.12%), and ZRX (+16.76%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: ANT (-14.21%), SXP (-13.73%), and BAL (-13.32%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: ETH (+$245.16 mln), BTC (+$137.77 mln), and EOS (+$25.61 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: SAND (-$16.99 mln), LINK (-$15.78 mln), and SXP (-$15.40 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (-$76.95 mln), Bitfinex (+$9.89 mln), and Coinbase Pro (+$42.97 mln).

According to data from Defi Pulse, the current USD locked positions of Ethereum mutual insurance Nexus Mutual (NXM) reached $43.3 million, a record high, with an increase of nearly 14% in 24 hours. The amount of Ethereum locked positions reached 99,300, an increase of 9.7% in 24 hours. The amount of Bitcoin locked positions reached 3,700, an increase of nearly 12% in 24 hours.

Monitored by CoinNess.com, from 00:00 to 02:00 (UTC) on August 15, BTC registered a net inflow of $104.63 million in the past two hours.
1. The Top 3 net cap inflows in the crypto market are: BTC (+$104.63 mln), EOS (+$21.23 mln), and LTC (+$4.35 mln);
2. The Top 3 net cap outflows in the crypto market are: ETH (-$9.74 mln), LINK (-$2.79 mln), and TRX (-$1.81 mln).
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Citing data from Boboo.com, as of 01:00 UTC on August 15, 1) the BTC perpetual contract price is $11,935.1, meaning the premium of $17.7 compared with the BTC spot price ($11,917.40).
2) The ratio of longs to shorts increases to 2.43 from August 14's 2.33.
3) The carrying charge marks -0.0001%, marking a change into a negative status.

Monitored by CoinNess.com, as of 00:00, August 15 (UTC), 1) the number of Bitcoin active addresses is on a day-to-day increase of 15.41%, marking 934,900.
2) The number of Bitcoin on-chain transactions is 363,400 with a day-to-day increase of 12.82%.
3) The number of BTC whale transfers (over 100 BTC each) is 1,030 with a day-to-day increase of 12.81%.
4) Active addresses on Ethereum report 562,900 with a day-to-day decrease of 0.76%.
Note: On-chain transactions and active addresses of a cryptocurrency have a positive correlation with its price.