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? Top News from Friday to Today

In advance of the halving, here is what your token narrative is in the Chinese community- XTZ, DCR, ATOM, DASH, DOT, LINK, SKALE, XRP, CELO. https://bit.ly/2YvqijC

Halving, stocks, fundamentals:3 things to watch in Bitcoin this week. https://bit.ly/2WsMgAX

DeFi platform Compound now supports USDT lending and borrowing. https://bit.ly/35sZemu

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Stablecoins, spearheaded by Tether, are at nearly $10B as transaction volume hits all-time highs. https://bit.ly/2KUswB8

With Ethereum 2.0 set for launch in coming months, a manual auditing of the top 10,000 Ethereum addresses to learn about liquidity, profitability, and market manipulation among others by a Partner at Metacartel Ventures has revealed through a data set that Ethereum’s Ether is as equally distributed as Bitcoin when compared based on individual holders. https://bit.ly/2YwJKfP

VeChain, Mastercard and Alipay are among the heavy hitters backing the new APAC Provenance Council, focused on Australia’s $76 billion of exports to China. https://bit.ly/3fkDgXx

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A series of scam emails sent from Japan has been asking people to donate in cryptocurrency to the Olympic Games’ organization in Tokyo. https://bit.ly/2zddmnJ

To gain transparency and consumer safety, the food-processing and meatpacking plants are implementing blockchain technology to their operation services. https://bit.ly/2yqpNN5

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Regardless of recent developments showing China’s big ambitions for new technologies, it will take more to dislodge the dominance of the U.S. and Europe. This is particularly important as plans to release “China Standards 2035” that aims to enable the Asian country to influence how the next generation of technologies will work later this year is drawing closer. https://bit.ly/2WvWr8e