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Bitcoin is up 1% at $24,626 
Ethereum is up 1% at $1915 
and Binance Coin down slightly at $330

Those are your leaders by market cap — top gainers in the last 24 hours: 
celsius network up 22% 
Nexo up 15%

BlackRock will offer direct exposure to BTC

Crypto exchange dYdX has blocked accounts that interacted with tornado cash.

Man in California will pay 61k in restitution for SIM swapping hack. 

Merge passes Goerli.

Fixed Float says it froze 200k of stolen ether.
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