Kevin O’Leary has claimed that Bitcoin can make the breakthrough of $100K+ after it reaches mining sustainability. The environmental question is an ever present one for crypto, especially after Elon Musk dropped its price by reverting Tesla’s acceptance of Bitcoin, citing those exact concerns. Nevertheless, Kevin O’Leary has announced that he’s going to increase the portion of bitcoin in his portfolio from its current 3%, up to 5%. 

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin questions the existing model of decentralized governance.

Buterin believes that coin voting-based governance is holding DeFi back. According to him, the biggest risks are whale manipulation and governance system manipulation through vote buying.

Vitalik Buterin sees limited governance, or non-coin-based governance as an alternative. This “skin in the game” method, which brings individual responsibility instead of collective), was also mentioned as an option in Buterin’s blog post.

Token-based voting governance relies on a model when token holders attain voting rights according to the amount of their holdings. The model is currently used by the majority of DeFi protocols. 

Visa is taking acute actions to connect digital currencies to its global electronic payments network. To date, Visa has partnered with 54 crypto companies in order to enable crypto spending.

The aim is to prepare for a financial future where digital assets are merged with the overall saver’s wealth.

ETH’s London hard fork became another turnaround in the history of Ethereum. It’s Not only because it was one of the critical stages to ETH 2.0, but also because of the amount of news that comes out daily regarding Ethereum burnings.  

As of now, over $180 million worth of ETH has been burned over the timespan of almost two weeks. Generally speaking, 4-5 ETH is burned per minute. Analytics from Glassnode claim that it has a significant influence on Ethereum’s daily supply. On the other hand, Chinese journalist Wu Blockchain reported that liquidations are reaching way more, closer to $200 million in 4 hours.  

• With the escalating conflict throughout Afghanistan, Jack Butcher, creator of Visualize Value has turned to NFTs as a way of helping people in need by establishing “Care Package.” 

The United Nations Refugee Agency estimates that half a million people in Afghanistan are in desperate need of food, water, shelter, and other essential necessities.

Butcher is directing all funds to Care.org via The Giving Block. Butcher minted the NFTs on Mirror, and for each NFT purchase, funds are held in a smart contract and sent to a Care.org ETH address. 

“Care Package” is a series of 1,000 NFTs priced at 0.03 ETH (approximately $87) that will cover one family’s emergency needs for one month. 

There are also packages of 10 available for 0.28 ETH. In less than 24 hours since the release of the NFTs, Butcher has raised over 25 ETH, which is north of $75,000 USD, between the single and 10-pack NFTs.

• NFT Marketplace OpenSea has crossed the $1 billion trading volume mark for August.
• The Autograph NFT platform has launched a special NFT by NFL legend Tom Brady: the Wayne Gretzky Premier Access Collection.
• The team at SuperRare has unveiled the $RARE curation token, and a new network of features under the platform’s umbrella. NFT marketplace SuperRare is not known for being open to all applicants, and instead tends to select contemporary NFT artists.
• Cryptograph, the first company to connect mainstream celebrities with NFTs, is celebrating their one year anniversary. Cryptograph will debut their new technology and upcoming collector app on the Apple and Android stores and GBM auctions, which will fund selected charities.