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BAYC has 10% of the total market cap of NFTs, this project has been at the center of the conversations about copycats.
Solidus Labs launches its financial risk assessment platform HALO, assisting in the integration of crypto and DeFi into the financial market.
Institutional interest in adopting Web3 technology is (very) slowly but surely picking up. Quick on the uptake, NayaOne could help streamline.
For more than a week, thousands of crypto devs and eth fanatics poured into Denver for the latest ETHDenver conference.
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The FTX debacle continues- when you thought it was all over, things just get weirder.
Companies face more pressure to detail the environmental footprints of their investments, thanks to regulations and the ESG trends.
As the invasion of Ukraine progressed, NFTs played a significant role, with many joining the conversation, and donating.
Quadrata launched Web3 passports on the ethereum network, handing out non-transferable NFTs after AML checks.
This week we continue the discussion of the shape of DeFi 2.0. We highlight Tokemak, a protocol that aims to aggregate and consolidate liquity across existing projects. Instead of having many different market makers and pools across the ecosystem, Tokemak could provide a clear meta-machine that optimizes rewards and rates across protocol emissions. This has interesting implications for overall industry structure, which we explore and compare to equities and asset management examples.
The Securities and Exchange Comission punted again on allowing a passive Bitcoin ETF to enter the market. It failed to approve the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust, instead opting to open a commentary period to address several questions around Bitcoin price formation and the health of the exchanges. A similar outcome faces the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF. You can tell I am not a fan of this waffling, and there are two core reasons: (1) the years-long delay and uncertainty is responsible for financial damage to both traditional and crypto investors, and (2) the premise of the objections misunderstand the environment of the Internet and the way our world is shaping up in the 21st century.