Balancer, a popular protocol for programmable liquidity mostly on Ethereum, surprised users with a centralized action. Although it is completely understandable, it does make clear there is a feature here that can turn into a problematic vulnerability later.

So @BalancerLabs just blacklisted a pool and removed it from their frontend… a pool with **$20 million** of funds in it.

They did this without any community governance at all. pic.twitter.com/bKq9Qt8rRv

— ⟠ toast.eth 🦄 (@intocryptoast) July 29, 2020

BREAKING! 📢 The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange @Binance partners with @blockFoundry (CSE:BCFN) to adopt @Syscoin Platform for blazing speed & cost savings for #BUSD #stablecoin users. @cz_binance, you can now use Binance USD on the $SYS platform! ✅ Blog post in thread. pic.twitter.com/kTKYJ037Uw

— Syscoin (@syscoin) July 23, 2020

🙌 “The #US Office of the Comptroller #OCC of the #Currency announced Wednesday that national savings #banks and federal savings associations can provide #cryptocurrency #custody services to their customers.” https://t.co/6sfv90lML8

— Bart van Maarseveen (@bvanmaarseveen) July 22, 2020

Can’t imagine why… pic.twitter.com/Y88if2bE8W

— Alistair Milne (@alistairmilne) July 22, 2020

But will the banks hedge against their own system?

https://www.coindesk.com/dont-expect-banks-to-jump-on-the-occ-crypto-custody-news

But if they do, it will have impact:

Banks Putting 1% of Assets Into Bitcoin Could Send BTC Past $20k: Analyst

New on-chain analysis from Whale Alert says Bitcoin’s anonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto mined an estimated 1,125,150 BTC, now worth an estimated $10.9 billion.

Whale Alert Identifies 1.125 Million BTC as Satoshi’s Stash https://t.co/Xy6pck9Eqa via @coindesk

— ionpayasia@gmail.com (@ionpayasia) July 22, 2020

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-text-generator-gpt-3-learning-language-fitfully/

It’s a real revolution getting interesting discussions on Twitter.

Today the world changed forever.
Why? Because a group of Artificial Intelligence researchers released something called "GPT-3".
In short: it's a computer program that can interact like a ridiculously intelligent human.
And it will blow your mind 👇

— Ed Leon Klinger (@edleonklinger) July 17, 2020

Not only is it an ouroboros (snake eating it’s own tail) of a GPT-3 AI writing a post in the style of the author, the topic of identity reset in modern society is one that I have thinking of for a while but had not seen others write about & it is one I can imagine by @nayafia. https://t.co/8BI4bOCUK5

— Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA) July 23, 2020

BitGo, one of the largest and oldest custodians for digital assets, is joining the fast-growing business of lending out bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to big investors.@Liqquidity reports.https://t.co/uETrk5h58F

— CoinDesk (@coindesk) March 5, 2020

Chinese cryptocurrency lending startup @BabelFinance said it has reached a record of $380 million in outstanding loans as of February.@WolfieZhao reports.https://t.co/mc5LwiaqK0

— CoinDesk (@coindesk) March 5, 2020

DeFi protocol bZx hacked twice, about $954,000 lost https://t.co/pFOH5eKRZk

— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) February 18, 2020

Over 40 German banks have sought regulatory approval to offer digital asset custodial services https://t.co/onujnOUMBR

— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) February 11, 2020

ICYMI: Dr. Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who tried to raise awareness of the coronavirus outbreak in its early days, has been memorialized in a smart contract on ethereum after his death of the disease last week. https://t.co/eD8166Ql36

Report by @WolfieZhao

— CoinDesk (@coindesk) February 8, 2020

Ukraine Introduces ‘Sound’ Crypto Mining Regulatory Policy

Altsbit Crypto Exchange Gets Hacked, ‘Almost All Funds’ Are Gone

Bitcoin Cash Stopped Producing Blocks For 5.5 Hours, Find Out Why

📢 Press release: Major central banks (including #ECB) along with the Bank for International Settlements (#BIS) have formed a group to analyze the potential utility for #CBDC's https://t.co/sXnhYRO9jA #centralbank #cryptocurrency #digitalcurrency #crypto

— Bart van Maarseveen (@bvanmaarseveen) January 21, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/21/bank-of-england-to-consider-adopting-cryptocurrency

With the SEC lawsuit holding up the launch of Telegram's TON network, the Japan-based exchange has cancelled its sale of gram tokens and refunded investors.

Via @Dan_Z_Palmer and @baidakova https://t.co/5IloXhqt71@Liquid_Global

— CoinDesk (@coindesk) January 16, 2020

Bitcoin's Taproot/Schnorr upgrade proposal is 'nearly ready' as it moves through developer feedback phase (via @ChengYilun)https://t.co/Nq9FrPi01D

— The Block (@TheBlock__) January 9, 2020

Deribit to move platform to Panama in response to 5AMLDhttps://t.co/3RK73DKbzM

— The Block (@TheBlock__) January 9, 2020

https://bitcoinist.com/not-your-keys-not-your-coins-what-proof-of-keys-day-means-in-2020/

Coinbase Wallet to remove DApp browser to comply with Apple’s policy

(Coinbase To Remove DApp Browser From Its Crypto Wallet App Due To Apple Store Compliance)https://t.co/d8BbeVZsRlhttps://t.co/IcayeA1ISo pic.twitter.com/ZBsWVtGGx9

— The Crypto Report (@thecryptorep) December 30, 2019