Last Week in Review: Were the rate hikes priced in, and what is Mithril on Cardano?

by Team Luno
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The highlights from last week’s headline grabbers. All the important news, numbers and events from the world of crypto in one place. 

News from the block

💫 Mithril nears Cardano mainnet release

  • Now in its final testing stages, the Mithril update is preparing for launch on Cardano.
     
  • With Mithril, Cardano claims the network will become more efficient, streamlined, and capable of supporting a wider range of applications and use cases.
  • “DApp developers will be able to deploy light clients and mobile applications or streamline sidechain operations,” said IOHK, the company behind much of the blockchain tech on Cardano.

  • “Mithril will also empower stake-based voting applications and governance solutions, regardless of the protocol’s complexity,” the company said.


🔺 US Central Bank raised interest rates to 22-year high

  • “Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low.

  • Inflation remains elevated,” the Federal Reserve said in a press statement following its decision yesterday to raise interest rates by another 0.25%.

  • The Fed is targeting a long term inflation rate of 2%.


🔺 Avalanche invests $50 million in asset tokenisation on its network

  • Avalanche has put aside $50 million to buy assets tokenised on its blockchain as an exercise in proving the scalability and efficiency of tokenisation.

  • “It creates a faster, more efficient way for companies to issue assets, individuals to own them, and everyone to transfer value,” John Wu, president of Ava Labs, the firm that created Avalanche, told TechCrunch.

  • The programme, called Avalanche Vista, “intends to accelerate the growth of tokenisation and its role in on-chain finance (“OnFi”) by demonstrating the merits of applying blockchain rails to historically more manual and operationally-intensive use cases, including asset issuance, settlement, transfer, and administration,” the company said.

  • How is Avalanche aiming to change finance? Brush up on your Avalanche knowledge HERE.


🌤️ Bitcoin and ether futures peak on CME among large traders 

  • “Derivatives giant Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) regulated bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) futures saw record participation from large traders in the second quarter,” according to CoinDesk. 
  • “Bitcoin futures institutional interest continued to increase throughout the quarter as investors sought regulated venues/products to hedge rising market volatility and manage risk and exposure,” the exchange said. 

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Crunching the numbers

✂️ 205,400 – The amount of Litecoin, worth around $19 million, that mid-tier holders have accumulated ahead of the Litecoin halving expected tomorrow. 

💰 $850 million – The value of assets in Dollar terms that Tether recently added to its excess reserves. 

🎂 8 – Ethereum marked its eighth birthday on 30 July, the date when the first block was loaded on the network in 2015. 

⛓️ $50.6 billion – The amount of crypto in Dollar terms traded on decentralised exchanges in July. 

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