Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has launched tether (USDT)-settled perpetual contracts that track two European equity market indices… https://www.coindesk.com/bitfinex-tether-perpetual-contracts-european-equities-dax-stoxx

Firstly, the government department responsible for regulating cryptos has legalized the mining industry, local industry news site CriptoNoticias reported Tuesday… https://www.coindesk.com/venezuela-legalize-cryptocurrency-mining-national-pool

Digital asset infrastructure provider Fireblocks has teamed with X-Margin, a distributed clearing and settlement platform, in a bid to boost institutional offerings in the crypto derivatives market… https://www.coindesk.com/fireblocks-x-margin-counterparty-risk-tradi-crypto-derivatives

Cryptocurrency exchange Mexo, developed with Latin American users in mind, launched on Thursday… https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-mexo-latin-america

The League of Entropy is launching the first production-ready version of drand, a network that produces “randomness”… https://www.coindesk.com/how-a-decentralized-randomness-beacon-could-boost-cryptographic-security

“Though now evolved in many ways,” Gavin Wood wrote in Ethereum’s 2015 yellow paper, “the key functionality of a blockchain with a Turing-complete language and an effectively unlimited inter-transaction storage capability remains unchanged.”… https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-2-0-closer-than-ever-still-plenty-of-work-to-do

In a paradoxical twist, bitcoin’s price, which is denominated in dollars, has become unusually stable in recent weeks, prompting some Twitter users to joke that it’s trading like a stablecoin… https://www.coindesk.com/first-mover-boring-bitcoin-shrugs-off-twitter-hack-as-stablecoins-co-opt-satoshis-dream