This has been quite a boring week for Bitcoin, to say the least. After forming a double bottom at $7,700 the digital asset slowly recovered to lower high at $8,515 before spending the remainder of the week pinned in between the $8,150 to $8,350 range.

Bitcoin continues to struggle in overtaking the $8,500 resistance and additional failures to conquer this level could lead to a downside move that leads Bitcoin price back to this week’s swing low.

Bitcoin price action aside, there are other important developments taking place in the crypto-space. Let’s take a look at some of the most exciting events of the week.

Coinbase Reportedly Lifts Fees, Becoming Priciest Crypto Exchange for Individual Investors

With major stock market brokerages including Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade eliminating trading commissions, crypto exchanges are in the spotlight. But instead of lowering fees or removing them altogether, U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is going in the opposite direction.

The Block’s Larry Cermak published a chart entitled “trading fees for major exchanges (lowest tier,)” stating: “Coinbase just hiked their fees for retail and became the most expensive exchange (tied with Bitstamp) for retail investors.

They used to charge 0.15% maker and 0.25% for the taker. Now they charge 0.5% for both maker and taker. Yikes.” Binance in the thread asked to be added to the analysis, in response to which Cermak said he would do after Nov. 1.

John McAfee Reveals Ethereum-Powered Crypto Exchange, McAfeeDex

On Friday billionaire extraordinaire and Bitcoin advocate John McAfee made media waves by announcing the launch of McAfeeDex, which he described as “a decentralized exchange running on the Ethereum blockchain”. McAfee tweeted a screenshot of the platform and said that the platform “requires no name, no documents, no email, no bank info.”

The software engineer also emphasized that “nothing [is] monitored. Nothing recorded. No restrictions. No listing fees. 0.25% transaction fees. Completely decentralized.” McAfeeDex is scheduled to launch on Oct. 7 and the platform will run on Ethereum blockchain.

Binance Reveals New XRP-Backed Digital Asset on Binance Chain

Changpeng Zhao, the founder, and CEO of Binance took to Twitter to reveal that the exchange is set to launch a new asset pegged 1:1 to XRP. It will be backed over 100% by XRP and will on Binance Chain.

It will enable users of Binance DEX, the decentralized exchange of Binance to trade XRP. CZ added that introducing such tokens would mean users would be able to trade most cryptocurrencies without a custodian. Back in June, Binance launched a token pegged to Bitcoin for similar purposes. XRP is priced at $0.2502, gaining 0.41% over the last 24 hours.