Some highlights from last week:

The total cryptocurrency market cap increased by a healthy 11.8% this past week, growing from $1.54T to $1.72T. The major assets experienced a median 7 day return of 3.5%, with DOT (24.7%) and XRP (14.3%) leading the way with double digit returns. DOGE (-3.1%) was the only major to see negative returns throughout the week. Long term sentiment has remained positive for most majors, besides USDT (58.4 - Neutral). Trading volume surged by 31.9% with most assets volume increasing by double digits. Despite that, Tweet volume decreased by a slight -1.2%.

All six major sectors experienced positive returns over the past week. Exchange tokens had a median return of 14.7%, the most of any sector. Smart Contract Platforms followed behind in 2nd with returns of 10.9%.

The price of BTC traded within a 20.8% range throughout the week, from the low of $35,251 to the high of $42,605. Prices trended upwards from Monday through Friday, before retracing over the weekend. An interesting note is that Bitcoin experienced 10 consecutive green/up days in a row from Jul 21 to Jul 30. 

On Thursday, Coinbase made an announcement stating that Harvest Finance (FARM) is now available to trade. Shortly after this announcement, the price of FARM surged by 160% from $109 to $284. Social conversations surrounding FARM increased by an extraordinary 1860%.

Over the past few weeks, THORChain has experienced attacks that resulted in lost funds and a drop in price for RUNE. To combat this, THORChain has released a bug bounty program rewarding $2M.  Since Monday morning, RUNE has been showing signs of strength, climbing 68% from $4 to $6.7.

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