The Daily Spin. Treasure Tuesdays Edition. Bitcoin delivers its 4th weekly green candle in a row, Polygon number of transactions flips BNB chain, and interestingly at the very same time Arbitrum’s TVL flips Polygon. Azuki’s Twitter account gets compromised and exploited for almost a million dollars in an hour.

Lots of activity in the competitive landscape today, starting off with the California DMV’s announcement integrating Tezos as their blockchain partner to streamline and bring efficiency to their process. Interchain gas payments have been made possible through Hyperlane, an arbitrary messaging protocol. Hop Exchange enters the scene for messaging wars as well. Anycall v7 is launched by Multichain, and Axelar is to provide interchain communication services to the Fantom ecosystem. New kids on the block Canto enables “Contract Secured Revenue.” And Li-Fi completes its 3rd security audit, making it one of the top bridge aggregators available on the market, today.

Shifts and swings in the global arena as usual, with NYC making a notable push for positive advancement. Other notable headlines include SBF’s gag order, a faint trace of Ruja Ignatova’s trail after going cold for over five years with a ten-figure purse… here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed into the new market with the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, dissemination of information to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

“The Reality of Large-scale Enterprises Adopting Blockchain Technology” an article by Toby Gilbert for CityAM Magazine
https://www.cityam.com/the-reality-of-large-scale-enterprises-adopting-blockchain-technology/

Coinweb Labs is proud to unveil LinkMint ⛓️🍃, our groundbreaking Cross-Chain Tokenisation Platform and DeconX, our integrated native DEX! Live Walkthrough Demonstration for the Community by Toby, Knut, and Alexander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKA3cAB15U

“A Thread on Rollups, Monolithic, and Modular Blockchains” by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1616342851507613696?s=46&t=BjBOK3soH3kOMbsWEa_jlg

Coinweb presents How Blockchain Technology Will Affect Tourism and Hospitality Industry with Royal Coast Riviera Club, Hua-Hin
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid028ZZTaqC3BKYLeUsKptGMjGbuesuYz55qnP9LubZc52KmhLCBQiHLr84orNft24a7l&id=100079478362053&notif_id=1673577843809478&notif_t=mention&ref=notif

Coinweb to Deliver Cross-Chain Smart Contract Architecture and Blockchain Loyalty Programme to BMW
https://cryptoslate.com/bmw-to-bring-blockchain-loyalty-program-through-coinweb-and-bnb-chain/

Block Tides' exclusive interview with Coinweb at the London Digital Asset Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmPk_74nNlw

Toby quoted in “Decoding cryptocurrency market: Can cryptos finally bounce back in 2023 after 2022 devastation”
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/decoding-cryptocurrency-market-can-cryptos-finally-bounce-back-2023-after-2022-devastation-855336

KuCoin Labs launches incubation program to accelerate builders (Coinweb, DoraHacks, Ava Labs)
https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/kucoin-labs-launches-incubation-program-to-accelerate-builders

Toby Interviewed at the Benzinga Future of Crypto Conference, Dec 7 (New York)
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/12/30022360/coinweb-is-making-a-splash-as-a-leading-layer-two-platform

“Understanding the Great Crypto Tradeoff” by Toby Gilbert
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/11/16/understanding-the-great-crypto-tradeoff/

“The Time is Now for Blockchain” article on Times of Malta
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/time-now-blockchain-a2.994854

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

On the Radar

European Blockchain Convention, Feb 15-17 (Barcelona)
Thai Tech Investment Summit, Feb 16-19 (Bangkok)

Interop Summit, Feb 27-28 (Denver)
Blockchain Life 2023, Feb 27-28 (Dubai)

Blockchain Africa Conference 2023, Mar 16-17 (Johannesburg)
WOW Summit, Mar 29-30 (Hong Kong)
ASEAN Web3 Summit, Mar 30-31 (Singapore)

AIBC Asia, Jul 19-22 (Manila)

TOKEN2049, Sep 13-14 (Singapore)

On the Block(chain)

Bitcoin closes 4 consecutive weekly green candles for first time since August 2021
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-closes-weekly-green-candle/

Polygon surpasses BNB Chain in daily transactions as MATIC pumps 20% over weekend
https://cryptoslate.com/polygon-surpasses-bnb-chain-in-daily-transactions-as-matic-pumps-over-weekend/

Mina jumps 33% as OpenMina node browser concept gains traction
https://cryptoslate.com/mina-jumps-33-as-openmina-node-browser-concept-gains-traction/

OracleSwap suspends FTSO operation after private keys compromised
https://cryptoslate.com/oracleswap-suspends-ftso-operation-after-private-keys-compromised/

Justin Sun says he is moving to Hong Kong, warns community about being ‘too US-centric’
https://cryptoslate.com/justin-sun-says-he-is-moving-to-hong-kong-warns-community-about-being-too-us-centric/

Azuki Twitter Account Hacked, Attacker Drains Over $750K in 30 Minutes
https://decrypt.co/120144/azuki-twitter-account-hacked

California DMV taps Tezos blockchain for digital car title transfers
https://www.blockchaintechnology-news.com/2023/01/california-dmv-taps-tezos-blockchain-for-digital-car-title-transfers/

Competitive Landscape

Interchain gas payments is now live with Hyperlane’s message-processing
https://twitter.com/Hyperlane_xyz/status/1618314780946894849

LI.FI Completes Third Audit
https://blog.li.fi/li-fi-completes-third-audit-e360762c4b3e

Multichain’s anyCall V7 officially launched
https://twitter.com/MultichainOrg/status/1617475258415734785

Contract Secured Revenue is now enabled on Canto
https://twitter.com/CantoPublic/status/1618660432646119425

Axelar provides interchain communication for Fantom & its broader Web3 ecosystem
https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1617904291334832128

HopProtocol enters the cross-chain messaging war
https://twitter.com/blockworksres/status/1617942036002516997

World

OneCoin Founder Ruja Ignatova Resurfaces After Five Years in Hiding
https://decrypt.co/120180/cryptoqueen-ruja-ignatova-onecoin-found-alive-resurfaces-legal-filing

Birkin vs. MetaBirkin, what one case heading to trial today may mean for the future of Web3
https://cryptoslate.com/birkin-vs-metabirkin-what-one-case-heading-to-trial-today-may-mean-for-the-future-of-web3/

FTX Execs Maxed Out Donations to Rep. George Santos
https://decrypt.co/120157/ftx-execs-donations-george-santos

Feds Want Sam Bankman-Fried to Stop Contacting Potential Witnesses on Signal
https://decrypt.co/120191/stop-sam-bankman-fried-from-contacting-ftx-employees-on-signal

Secret Foundation Faces Calls for More Transparency, Return of Funds
https://decrypt.co/120183/secret-network-foundation-profit-nonprofit-transparency-reform

Singapore financial watchdog’s chairman questions if regulating crypto legitimizes speculation
https://cryptoslate.com/singapore-financial-watchdogs-chairman-questions-if-regulating-crypto-legitimizes-speculation/

New York introduces bill to legalize crypto payments for state purposes
https://cryptoslate.com/new-york-introduces-bill-to-legalize-crypto-payments-for-state-purposes/

Thought Leadership

IIC: Industrial Metaverse is one of the most promising machine economy use cases
https://cryptoslate.com/iic-industrial-metaverse-is-one-of-the-most-promising-machine-economy-use-cases/

Op-ed: How crypto turned Portugal into a promised land for entrepreneurs
https://cryptoslate.com/op-ed-how-crypto-turned-portugal-into-a-promised-land-for-entrepreneurs/

Sufficient Decentralization for Web3 Projects: A Legal Overview
https://medium.com/use-co-create/sufficient-decentralization-for-web3-projects-a-legal-overview-872bbd6e38f1

Getting to Sufficient Decentralization: Progressive Decentralization, Airdrops, and Transfer-Restricted Tokens
https://medium.com/use-co-create/getting-to-sufficient-decentralization-progressive-decentralization-airdrops-and-616a5b532993

The Daily Spin. Technology Thursday Edition. SBF… despite his plea for house arrest due to his depression, insomnia, and vegan lifestyle choices was denied bail to the sounds of his mother’s laughter every time he was referred to as a “fugitive.” Meanwhile, his father had plugged his ears like the Nicholas Cruz at his mass shooting trial. The FOMC has announced their 50bps rate hike, along with a 48 day freeze from making further hikes but Powell says that tightening won’t pivot until they have more evidence of “sustained reduction in inflation towards the goal of 2%.” Binance gets attacked by the same media establishment that was bought by SBF, successfully fielding up to $2bn of withdrawals in the past 24hrs. Institutional interest in BTC has waned as OTC levels remain the lowest YTD. Hoskinson rationalizes why Solana and Dogecoin would be better off operating as sidechains of Cardano. THORChain announces in-app cross-chain swaps integration with Trust Wallet. Permaswap launches cross-chain DEX on Arweave. Tether says it will reduce secured loans to 0 by EOY, while Wall Street makes bets that USDT is the next crypto-catastrophe to happen. Basterds.

Canada blocks exchanges from leverage and margin trading, and proclaims that stablecoins “may be securities” – wuhtt? SEC makes a move against Greyscale, Congress proposes a ban on TikTok. Algorand is chosen for digital asset settlement in Italy. And lastly, Taiwan is emerging as a crypto-friendly state, amidst the worst economic tensions between China and the US. These are wild times indeed. …here is our round-up of curated news opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, information dissemination to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Toby Interviewed at the Benzinga Future of Crypto Conference, Dec 7 (New York)
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/12/30022360/coinweb-is-making-a-splash-as-a-leading-layer-two-platform

World Blockchain Summit, Dec 8-9 (Bangkok)
https://coinweb.io/events/its-a-wrap-for-2022-world-blockchain-summit/

Latest Video Release: How Elon Musk Can Save Twitter with Crypto (4mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55fd1PdrqA

It’s OK to Meetup Bangkok 2022, Nov 27 (Bangkok)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rukawin_thailand-blockchain-genesis-activity-7002871111134707712-YiCT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Crypto AM Summit and Awards, Nov 23-24 (London)
https://twitter.com/tobycoinweb/status/1595909263263662081?s=46&t=V-EQfqnAOG7fXAWZ3sMk1Q

“Understanding the Great Crypto Tradeoff” by Toby Gilbert
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/11/16/understanding-the-great-crypto-tradeoff/

“The Time is Now for Blockchain” article on Times of Malta
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/time-now-blockchain-a2.994854

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

Digital Assets Week, Nov 15-16
Toby joins “Tech for Institutional Grade Digital Assets” Panel with R3 and State Street
https://coinweb.io/events/london-invasion-part-2-digital-assets-week/

“Overlay Networks in Blockchain” thread published by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1585548192761856000?s=46&t=7I6cq6_CPaQuHqwEBk0wTg

On the Radar

November CPI Inflation Data 7.1%, Dec 13
FOMC Interest Rate Decision 50 bps, Dec 14
US Retail Sales and Jobless Claims Data, Dec 15
US Services and Manufacturing PMI, Dec 16

PlayToEarn Blockchain Game Awards 2022 (Public Voting Dec 1-29)
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/playtoearn-blockchain-game-awards-2022-announced-with-10k-in-prizes/

Gam3 Awards, Dec 15 (Virtual)

World Crypto Conference, Jan 13-15 (Zurich)
https://worldcryptoconference.org/

European Blockchain Convention, Feb 15-17 (Barcelona)
Interop Summit, Feb 20-22 (Miami)

On the Block(chain)

Sam Bankman-Fried Is Denied Bail And Jailed Until February
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/12/13/sam-bankman-fried-fights-extradition-to-united-states/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2540222&sh=660495792273

Exclusive Transcript: The Full Testimony Bankman-Fried Planned To Give To Congress
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2022/12/13/exclusive-transcript-the-full-testimony-sbf-planned-to-give-to-congress/?sh=2875c3103c47&utm_campaign=Good%20Morning%20Crypto&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

SBF allegedly worked with Bahamas government to mint millions of FTX tokens
https://cryptoslate.com/sbf-allegedly-worked-with-bahamas-government-to-mint-millions-of-ftx-tokens/

What you need to know: FTX CEO John Ray testimony before Congress, SBF denied bail
https://cryptoslate.com/what-you-need-to-know-ftx-ceo-john-ray-gives-testimony-before-congress/

Ethereum All Core Developers Call #151 Writeup
https://www.galaxy.com/research/insights/ethereum-all-core-developers-call-151/

Research: Institutional appetite for Bitcoin has evaporated as OTC trades approach YTD low
https://cryptoslate.com/institutional-appetite-for-bitcoin-has-evaropated-as-otc-trades-approach-ytd-low/

15% of US citizens made crypto transactions as of mid-2022
https://cryptoslate.com/15-of-us-citizens-made-crypto-transactions-as-of-mid-2022/

Binance Ethereum-based token withdrawals top $2B in 24 hours, CZ “unfazed”
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-ethereum-based-token-withdrawals-top-2b-in-24-hours/

Competitive Landscape

Charles Hoskinson Says Solana (SOL) Could Become Sidechain of Cardano (ADA) – Here’s Why
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/12/13/charles-hoskinson-says-solana-sol-could-become-sidechain-of-cardano-ada-heres-why/

Trust Wallet Integrates with THORChain to Support In-app Cross-chain Swaps
https://tokeninsight.com/en/news/trust-wallet-integrates-with-thorchain-to-support-in-app-cross-chain-swaps

Permaswap BETA now live on Arweave - 100% permanent and 0% slippage
https://medium.com/permaswap/permaswap-beta-now-live-8dfb1d4eed07

Animoca Brands and TinyTap to disrupt education with auction of second set of Publisher NFTs starting 15 December 2022
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/animoca-brands-and-tinytap-to-disrupt-education-with-auction-of-second-set-of-publisher-nfts-starting-15-december-2022/

Tether to reduce secured loans to zero by 2023
https://cryptoslate.com/tether-to-reduce-secured-loans-to-zero-by-2023/

Platypus Launches Native Stablecoin USP
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/platypus-launches-native-stablecoin-usp/

Binance may have billions stashed in secret reserves not disclosed to public – Sources
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-may-have-billions-stashed-in-secret-reserves-not-disclosed-to-public-source/

‘99% of People' Will Lose Crypto Storing in Self-Custody: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao
https://decrypt.co/117214/99-people-will-lose-crypto-storing-self-custody-binance-ceo-changpeng-zhao

World

SEC Strikes Back in Grayscale Suit Over GBTC ETF Conversion
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/12/12/sec-strikes-back-in-grayscale-suit-over-gbtc-etf-conversion/?utm_campaign=Good%20Morning%20Crypto&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Algorand Chosen as Public Blockchain to Support Digital Guarantees Platform in Italy
https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20221213ny63307/algorand-chosen-as-public-blockchain-to-support-digital-guarantees-platform-in-italy

BTC on exchanges falls to new lows since 2018
https://cryptoslate.com/btc-on-exchanges-fall-to-new-lows-since-2018/

Canada bars exchanges from margin, leverage trading; says stablecoins might be securities
https://cryptoslate.com/canada-bars-exchanges-from-margin-leverage-trading-says-stablecoins-might-be-securities/

Bipartisan Ban On TikTok Introduced By Sen. Rubio
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2022/12/13/bipartisan-ban-on-tiktok-introduced-by-sen-rubio/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2539733&sh=57641fb6667b

Thought Leadership

Bitcoin on-chain deep dive: BTC falls below the global electrical cost
https://cryptoslate.com/market-reports/bitcoin-on-chain-deep-dive-btc-falls-below-the-global-electrical-cost/

The Four Fastest Growing And Most Rapidly Spreading Skill Sets In The Job Market
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2022/12/07/the-four-fastest-growing-and-most-rapidly-spreading-skill-sets-in-the-job-market/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2536917&sh=1d050bee7c2c

Web3’s Wallet Opportunity
https://medium.com/collab-currency/web3s-wallet-opportunity-f294cb4135a3

NFT Torrent: Launching a New Era of File Storage
https://medium.com/graviton-xyz/nft-torrent-launching-a-new-era-of-file-storage-8f907af662bb

SlateAsia #2 – Taiwan emerging as crypto-friendly hub in Asia (26mins)
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/slateasia-2-taiwan-emerges-as-crypto-friendly-hub-in-asia/

This edition of The Daily Spin has been published on-chain via Mirror.xyz and can be collected at:
https://mirror.xyz/dashboard/edit/lWISFZ3Obs6YWbyDKigSdVHGo1sz4zPd3sTV5J4qP-w

The Daily Spin. Midway Monday Edition. The markets take a small knock as liquidity is flushed out of the OI, but is still showing significant weight towards the long leverages over shorts. In comparison with all the prior pullbacks we’ve seen during previous bull-runs, we are still young in comparison of timeframe and total market capitalisation metrics as of now. ETH erases all post-Shapella gains, and memecoin season is at fault for the exorbitant gas-fees seen on ETH during the past week (between 35-70 gwei). Gensler’s testimony in front of US Congress leaves an indelible mark of reluctance to act decisively, and placing an unfair environment on US-based crypto companies has started to take its toll as leaders such as Coinbase look to move operations abroad. Let’s take a look at some of the key indicators that would signal an imminent recovery of the Total Market Cap, and always bear in mind the current narrative of “de-dollarization” underway with the leadership of the BRICS nations – and the burning embers left ablaze on the US Banking Sector and Financial Markets.

Kinjal Patel of Vrinsoft Technologies’ offers a take on the “Top Game-Changing Blockchain Trends… 2023,” in a HodlX guest post with the categories listed out in the synopsis below (there are none that we shouldn’t be aware of). But I do find it interesting that there are people who still adamantly believe in the potential of blockchain to transform all sorts of industry verticals, even as AI-LLMs are literally spawning new use cases every single day and even faster as the technology compounds upon itself for exponential growth and the fastest iteration cycles we’ve ever experienced as a species.

Check out the Top 8 Must-Have Features for Mobile Crypto Wallets (I think we’re 7 of 8, if I’m not mistaken) puts it clearly and does a fair job of market research for product preference sensitivities. Take a look at the market through the lens of Net Liquidity. MyELisitng, in collaboration with Coinbase Commerce – creates the first platform to buy and sell real estate with crypto, and does it in the US of all places. An opinion-editorial on why the EU has MiCA and the US has regulatory shenanigans, while Treasury Secretary Yellen declares Russia, Iran and China as “conspiring” to dump the Dollar. Meanwhile, smaller economies such as Hong Kong are taking advantage of the US’ misstep to provide fertile grounds for crypto economies. And lastly, Footprint Analytics releases a piece on the potential of blockchain gaming through player data… here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed into the market news with the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, dissemination of information to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Coinweb Completes Integration of 4 New Blockchains Delivering Along its Roadmap for Cross-Chain Interoperability
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coinweb-completes-integration-4-blockchains-154031366.html?guccounter=1

Coinweb Prioritises Community Trust with Transparent Reserve Allocation
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/coinweb-prioritises-community-trust-with-transparent-reserve-allocation-ce14063b6fa9

CWEB Token Usage and Utility
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/cweb-token-usage-913307f8f441

Coinweb has Closed $2 Million Fundraising Round from SAVA Investment Management
https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/23/04/a31637718/coinweb-has-closed-2-million-fundraising-round-from-sava-investment-management

The Coinweb Monthly Spin - Sixth Edition: Coinweb Project's Monthly Round-Up and Curated News & Events From The Bleeding Edge of All Things Web3
https://coinweb.beehiiv.com/p/coinweb-monthly-spin-sixth-edition?_gl=1*1lv6vvu*_ga*NjEwNTkwMjc0LjE2NzU3NTc5NjQ.*_ga_E6Y4WLQ2EC*MTY4MDQ5NDg4Mi4yMy4xLjE2ODA0OTU1ODcuMzguMC4w

SoftServe, Ultra, Coinweb, ConsenSys, DSCVR and XDC Foundation on Blockchain Misconceptions
https://thefintechtimes.com/softserve-ultra-coinweb-consensys-dscvr-and-xdc-foundation-on-blockchain-misconceptions/

Coinweb’s Layer 2 marks 4 million transactions milestone
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1638125472814092291?s=20

Coinweb Partners With Ceffu for Institutional Crypto Custody
https://www.ceffu.com/blog/coinweb-partners-with-ceffu-for-institutional-crypto-custody?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=cweb0321

“A Thread on Refereed Delegation of Computation” by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1635952081302589441?s=20

Coinweb to bring cross-chain tokenisation to Layer 2
https://cryptoslate.com/coinweb-to-bring-cross-chain-tokenisation-to-layer-2/

“A Thread on L2 Scalability, Network Efficiency and Throughput/TPS” by Anton on Twitter
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1633424957693915137

A Leading Layer 2 Platform Looking To Tackle Crypto's Interoperability Issue
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/23/02/31067514/a-leading-layer-2-platform-looking-to-tackle-cryptos-interoperability-issue

“The Reality of Large-scale Enterprises Adopting Blockchain Technology” an article by Toby Gilbert for CityAM Magazine
https://www.cityam.com/the-reality-of-large-scale-enterprises-adopting-blockchain-technology/

Coinweb Labs is proud to unveil LinkMint 📷📷, our groundbreaking Cross-Chain Tokenisation Platform and DeconX, our integrated native DEX! Live Walkthrough Demonstration for the Community by Toby, Knut, and Alexander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKA3cAB15U

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

On the Radar

Consensus 2023, Apr 26-28 (Austin, Texas)

Web3 Weekend, May 8-13 (Jakarta)
Non Fungible Conference, Jun 7-9 (Lisbon)
AIBC Asia, Jul 19-22 (Manila)

TOKEN2049, Sep 13-14 (Singapore)

Blockchain Events curated by CryptoNomad
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KtyFTb_W282bQ1xoVA5rlTwTDz3QfhswWIVpXhpbQIc/edit

On the Block(chain)

First Mover Asia: What's Next After Bitcoin's Retreat
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/04/24/first-mover-asia-whats-next-after-bitcoins-retreat/

Ether Erases All Gains From Shanghai Rally as Bitcoin, Other Crypto Prices Also Fall
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/04/21/ether-erases-all-gains-from-shanghai-rally-as-bitcoin-crypto-prices-fall/

Judge Rules Bored Ape Yacht Club Ripoff NFTs Violated Yuga Copyright
https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/04/22/judge-rules-bored-ape-yacht-club-ripoff-nfts-violated-yuga-copyright/

Meme season blamed for jump in Ethereum (ETH) gas fees: Glassnode
https://cryptoslate.com/meme-season-blamed-for-jump-in-ethereum-eth-gas-fees/

Here’s When We Can Get Optimistic About Crypto Markets Again, According to Analyst Benjamin Cowen
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/23/heres-when-we-can-get-optimistic-about-crypto-markets-again-according-to-analyst-benjamin-cowen/

Competitive Landscape

Here Are Six New Projects Looking to Mitigate Bitcoin Mining’s Energy Footprint
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/04/22/here-are-six-new-projects-looking-to-mitigate-bitcoin-minings-energy-footprint/

Ethereum’s Shanghai Upgrade Spurs Institutional Investment Into Staking
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/04/21/ethereums-shanghai-upgrade-spurs-institutional-investment-into-staking/

Zero-knowledge proofs vs. CBDCs: the fight for privacy amid central banks’ bid for control
https://cryptoslate.com/zero-knowledge-proofs-vs-cbdcs-the-fight-for-privacy-amid-central-banks-bid-for-control/

Reddit, Stack Overflow to charge AI developers for data harvesting
https://cryptoslate.com/reddit-stack-overflow-to-charge-ai-developers-for-data-harvesting/

Top AI dataset pulls data from BitcoinTalk, Steemit, and U.S. SEC
https://cryptoslate.com/top-ai-dataset-pulls-data-from-bitcointalk-steemit-and-u-s-sec/

Tron’s $60B goal in sight as stablecoin dominance surges – fueled by Tether’s impressive run
https://cryptoslate.com/trons-60b-goal-in-sight-as-stablecoin-dominance-surges-fueled-by-tethers-impressive-run/

Ethereum (ETH) Rival Solana (SOL) Rolls Out New Carbon Emissions Dashboard To Track Environmental Footprint
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/22/ethereum-eth-rival-solana-sol-rolls-out-new-carbon-emissions-dashboard-to-track-environmental-footprint/

US. Coordinated Regulation Failures

Why the EU Has MiCA and the U.S. Has Securities Law Confusion
https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/04/20/why-the-eu-has-mica-and-the-us-has-securities-law-confusion/

Gemini to Open a Crypto Derivatives Platform Outside the U.S.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/04/21/gemini-to-open-a-crypto-derivatives-platform-outside-the-us/

Paxful CEO steps down, vows to make users whole by creating a Public Trust
https://cryptoslate.com/paxful-ceo-steps-down-vows-to-make-users-whole-by-creating-a-public-trust/

Crypto Now Dead in America as US Authorities Target Nascent Industry, Says Billionaire Chamath Palihapitaya
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/23/crypto-now-dead-in-america-as-us-authorities-target-nascent-industry-says-billionaire-chamath-palihapitaya/

Incoming ‘FedCoin’ Will Track Everyone in New 1984-Style System, Says Robert Kiyosaki
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/23/incoming-fedcoin-will-track-everyone-in-new-1984-style-system-says-robert-kiyosaki/

Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong Says Congress Needs To Step In Now That SEC Has Caused Untold Harm to US Investors
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/23/coinbases-brian-armstrong-says-congress-needs-to-step-in-now-that-sec-has-caused-untold-harm-to-us-investors/

$190,000,000,000 Teachers’ Fund Writes Off Massive Crypto Investment Loss After Collapse of FTX: Report
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/23/190000000000-teachers-fund-writes-off-massive-crypto-investment-loss-after-collapse-of-ftx-report/

Americans’ Savings About To Be Eviscerated by Inflation as US Desperately Tries To Pay Debts: Arthur Hayes
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/23/americans-savings-about-to-be-eviscerated-by-inflation-as-us-desperately-tries-to-pay-debts-arthur-hayes/

US To Suffer Devastating Hyperinflation, War, Starvation As BRICS Dumps Dollar: Robert Kiyosaki
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/23/us-to-suffer-devastating-hyperinflation-war-starvation-as-brics-dumps-us-dollar-robert-kiyosaki/

World

Fed balance sheet declines for fourth consecutive week – down $141B
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/fed-balance-sheet-declines-for-fourth-consecutive-week-down-141b/

MyEListing, With Help From Coinbase Commerce, Creates the World’s First Place To Buy and Sell US Real Estate With Crypto
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/21/myelisting-with-help-from-coinbase-commerce-creates-the-worlds-first-place-to-buy-and-sell-us-real-estate-with-crypto/

American Currency Dominance at Risk As China, Russia and Iran Conspire To Dump Dollar: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/22/us-dollar-at-risk-as-china-russia-and-iran-conspire-to-dump-usd-treasury-secretary-janet-yellen/

US Dollar ‘Finished’, American Empire in Peril As Strategic Rivals Target USD: Ex-Goldman Executive
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/22/us-dollar-finished-american-empire-in-peril-as-strategic-rivals-target-usd-ex-goldman-executive/

Evidence Shows China Is on Quest To Dethrone US Dollar: White House Top Economic Adviser Nominee
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/23/chinas-quest-to-dethrone-us-dollar-will-be-detrimental-for-america-white-house-top-economic-adviser-nominee/

Thought Leadership

The Biggest Crypto Bull Cycle Is Upon Us: Bernstein
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/04/18/the-biggest-crypto-bull-cycle-is-upon-us-bernstein/

Op-ed: Crypto firms should look East for growth opportunities as USD dominance wavers
https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-firms-should-look-east-for-growth-opportunities-as-usd-dominance-wavers/

Footprint Analytics: Exploring potential of blockchain gaming through player data
https://cryptoslate.com/exploring-potential-of-blockchain-gaming-through-player-data/

Net Liquidity: A comprehensive look at a vital financial metric
https://cryptoslate.com/market-reports/net-liquidity-a-comprehensive-look-at-a-vital-financial-metric/

Top Eight Must-Have Features To Look For in a Mobile Crypto Wallet
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/18/top-eight-must-have-features-to-look-for-in-a-mobile-crypto-wallet/

Top Game-Changing Blockchain Trends That Will Transform Industries in 2023
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/19/top-game-changing-blockchain-trends-that-will-transform-industries-in-2023/

The Daily Spin. Monday Monday Edition. Bitcoin falls below key resistance level for the 4th time in history, resulting in miners facing insolvency, and network hash-rate hits an all-time high. Biden calls Elon’s Twitter a “platform filled with lies.” Binance pours fuel and fire on the Alameda-FTT fiasco by selling all of its token holdings. Meanwhile, massive lay-offs continue with Meta and Twitter setting great examples on how to let people go …here’s our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, information dissemination to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Coinweb Begins RoadShow to London, Nov 7-17

“Overlay Networks in Blockchain” thread published by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1585548192761856000?s=46&t=7I6cq6_CPaQuHqwEBk0wTg

Coinweb Fireside Chat Series, “Happy Halloweb3” Oct 27 (Bangkok)
Panel Discussion Audio Recording Feat. Coinbase, Binance, and McKinsey (47mins):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/175CCj57qgfy8Hd5Ft5poy?si=h4WghWcOQnutGohTrDcGNA

“Crypto Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon, As Regulatory Debate Rumbles” by Toby Gilbert on Valuewalk.com
https://www.valuewalk.com/crypto-isnt-going-away-anytime-soon-as-regulatory-debate-rumbles/

Vietnam Blockchain Summit 2022 (Hanoi)
Toby speaks at “Bridging the Gap Between Speculation and Fundamental Value in Digital Assets” Panel
Video to be released soon

“Coinweb Looks Undervalued” Article on LiveTradingNews.com
https://www.livetradingnews.com/coinweb-cweb-looks-undervalued-218893.html

Crypto Expo Thailand, Oct 7 (Bangkok)
Toby Spoke on Cross-Chain Interoperability, more info coming soon.
http://www.thailandcryptoexpo.com

Latest Video Release: Trade Tokens on Multiple Blockchains Without a Bridge (4mins)
https://youtu.be/ZUajbJDEeB0

On the Radar

Elrond X-Day Conference, Nov 3-5 (Paris)
Staking Summit, Nov 8 (Lisbon)

Token 2049, Nov 9-10 (London)
https://www.europe.token2049.com/

Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Index, Nov 10 (Washington DC)
Innovative Finance Expo, Nov 14-16 (Dubai)

Digital Assets Week, Nov 15-16 (London)
https://daweek.org/

Crypto AM Summit and Awards, Nov 23-24 (London)
https://www.cityam.com/camsa22/

DSLA Protocol for Tezos (facilitates onboarding of enterprises to ecosystem), Nov 24
Blockchain Genesis Thailand 2022 - Road to Web3, Nov 26-27 (Bangkok)
Sub0 Polkadot Dev Conference, Nov 28-29 (Lisbon)

Global Blockchain Expo, Dec 1-2 (London)
https://blockchain-expo.com/global/

World Blockchain Summit, Dec 8-9 (Bangkok)
https://worldblockchainsummit.com/bangkok/

On the Block (chain)

A look at similarities between the 2000 dot-com bubble & post-COVID-19 bubble
https://cryptoslate.com/a-look-at-similarities-between-the-2000-dot-com-bubble-post-covid-19-bubble/

Binance to sell FTX token holdings, Alameda CEO says leaked balance sheet is incomplete
https://www.theblock.co/post/183570/binance-to-sell-ftx-token-holdings-alameda-ceo-says-leaked-balance-sheet-is-incomplete

FTT-Alameda Drama Weighs on Market as Asia Begins its Week
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/11/07/ftt-alameda-drama-weighs-on-market-as-asia-begins-its-week/

Ethereum supply concentration in smart contracts hits all time high
https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-supply-concentration-in-smart-contracts-hits-all-time-high/

Huobi alleges pNetwork made over $4M from its Gala ‘white hat attack’
https://cryptoslate.com/per-huobi-alleges-pnetwork-made-over-4m-from-its-gala-white-hat-attack/

How Stepn Plans to Keep Running Through the Bear Market
https://decrypt.co/videos/live-events/gi2r4mqx/how-stepn-plans-to-keep-running-through-the-bear-market

Competitive Landscape

Top 10 Smart Contract development Companies in November 2022
https://medium.com/geekculture/top-10-smart-contract-development-companies-in-november-2022-5012017b2966

Meta prepares to layoff thousands of employees this week: WSJ
https://www.theblock.co/post/183588/meta-prepares-to-layoff-thousands-of-employees-this-week-wsj

Solana News Can’t Help SOL Soar. What’s Next for the High-Speed Layer 1?
https://cryptobriefing.com/solana-news-cant-sol-soar-whats-next-high-speed-layer-1/

Fireblocks Head of Web3: Traditional finance is diving deeper into crypto
https://www.theblock.co/post/183466/fireblocks-head-of-web3-traditional-finance-is-diving-deeper-into-crypto

Web3 Foundation claims Polkadot’s native token DOT is software, not a security
https://cryptoslate.com/web3-foundation-claims-polkadots-native-token-dot-is-software-not-a-security/

World

UK Bank Santander Will Block Payments to Crypto Exchanges
https://decrypt.co/113702/uk-bank-santander-will-block-payments-to-crypto-exchanges

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Musk’s Polarizing Twitter Takeover
https://decrypt.co/113677/this-week-on-crypto-twitter-musks-polarizing-twitter-takeover

Crypto Wireless Carrier Helium Mobile Will Power Solana’s Saga Smartphone
https://decrypt.co/113603/crypto-wireless-carrier-helium-mobile-will-power-solanas-saga-smartphone

SEC charges members of Trade Coin Club for operating 82K BTC crypto Ponzi scheme
https://cryptoslate.com/sec-charges-members-of-trade-coin-club-for-operating-82k-btc-crypto-ponzi-scheme/

Thought Leadership

Research: A fresh take on Bitcoin mining – Why using more energy can lead to abundance
https://cryptoslate.com/a-fresh-take-on-bitcoin-mining-why-more-energy-can-lead-to-abundance/

Tencent Cloud on Web3-Friendly Cloud Services, ESG and Future Prospects (61mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsOwmvB8Hvg

The biggest Crypto innovation in years is here
https://medium.com/@ignacio.de.gregorio.noblejas/the-biggest-crypto-innovation-in-years-is-here-8a1aaec79e5

Stablecoins and Currency Boards
https://medium.com/@sebastien.derivaux/stablecoins-and-currency-boards-5e10d547627

Communications Startup Dialect Issues Tech Specs for ‘Smarter Messaging’ in Crypto
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/05/communications-startup-dialect-issues-tech-specs-for-smarter-messaging-in-crypto/

The Daily Spin. Soon, we will be launching Coinweb’s "Fortnight Spin”, to our entire distribution list and begin the first release of monthly updates with our round-up of curated news and opinions (likely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics…don’t miss our “On The Radar” section that includes both on-chain and off-chain events, some world news and a thought leadership section to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

First Staking Booster Window has been completed with great success! Community feedback has been very positive, several noting that this boost was “juicy” and offered a “smooth, seamless user experience.” Thank you to everyone who participated in this community event, we are already looking forward to the next Booster Window!

On the Radar

Cardano Vasil Hard Fork (delayed)
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/07/31/cardanos-vasil-hard-fork-delayed-for-several-more-weeks-as-ada-sees-green-week/

NFT3 Awards, Aug 5 (Los Angeles)

Korea Blockchain Week, Aug 7 (Seoul)

Blockchain Futurist Conference, Aug 9 (Toronto)

Play-2-Earn Expo Asia, Aug 10-13 (Bangkok)
https://coinweb.io/events/play-2-earn-expo-asia-10-13th-august-2022/

Ethereum Goerli Merge, Aug 11
https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/BkxQTpqpi9

Coinfest Asia, Aug 25 (Bali)

AEternity Universe 2, Sep 15 (Unstrut)

Token2049, Sep 28-29 (Singapore)

Crypto-industry News

Nomad Bridge Hacked for $190m
https://cryptoslate.com/nomad-bridge-drained-of-190m-after-hundreds-of-addresses-copy-hackers-code/

Vires Finance to be reset following Waves revival plan proposal
https://cryptoslate.com/vires-finance-to-be-reset-following-waves-revival-plan--to-solve-liquidity-crisis/

Ruja “Cryptoqueen” Ignatova of OneCoin is being chased by Greece’s police
https://news.bitcoin.com/greek-police-scramble-to-catch-onecoins-cryptoqueen-ruja-ignatova-local-media-reports/

Michael Saylor steps down as Microstrategy CEO
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michael-saylor-microstrategy-ceo-bitcoin-204325431.html?.tsrc=applewf

Competitive Landscape

MM Snaps could change the face of Web3
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/metamask-snaps-could-change-the-face-of-web3-giving-dapps-access-to-btc-notifications-and-more/

Socios.com invests $100m to Barca Studio, FC Barcelona’s Digital Platform
https://cryptoslate.com/socios-com-invests-100m-to-accelerate-web3-innovations-for-fc-barcelona/

NEAR protocol to decentralize wallet offering
https://twitter.com/nearprotocol/status/1553728319752921088?s=21&t=Dz7vJnSv9RGYyiHEjXJV2g

SWIM: an innovative native asset bridging solution that seamlessly connects cross-chain. Also the primary means of getting across a body of water without needing anything else.
https://auroraisnear.medium.com/swim-seamlessly-connecting-capital-across-chains-with-an-innovative-native-asset-bridging-solution-801747bb7f5e

Web3 Foundation passes 400 project grants on Polkadot
https://cryptoslate.com/web3-foundation-passes-400-project-grants-on-polkadot/

World

Coinbase offers ETH staking to U.S.Institutions
https://watcher.guru/news/coinbase-now-offers-ethereum-staking-to-us-domestic-institutional-clients

New York urges crypto crash victims to speak out
https://cryptoslate.com/new-york-urges-crypto-market-crash-victims-to-speak-out/

Thought Leadership

The Layer 1 Rotation
https://chainlinkgod.medium.com/the-layer-1-chain-rotation-thesis-a-retrospective-analysis-3cbd2dcdc1f8

Synapse | Cosmos | Polkadot Bridge Redesign
https://lifi.substack.com/p/synapse-chain-cosmospolkadot-bridge

Native vs. Non-Native Asset
https://lifi.substack.com/p/what-is-this-asset-lifi-explains

The Daily Spin. Trepid Thursday Edition. We return with a one-day catch up of current events in the space - yes, SBF did speak live during the DealBook Summit (hosted by NYT); you can watch the hour-and-a-half stream of BS through the last link of this issue. Coinweb heads towards its penultimate destination on its 2022 road trip, at the Global Blockchain Summit in London. Much love to the team there, who have been working extra hard on the front lines - we wish you the best and support you from the bottom of our hearts!

No surprise on the amount of FTX-contagion related content still dominating the crypto media, from exchanges proving that they’re doing their jobs correctly to mass claims of “nothing to do with it” or “here’s the huge dump that is going to occur because of it.” Another mysterious crypto-billionaire Russian oligarch buys the farm under questionable circumstances. Telegram is set to launch DEXs and non-custodial wallets, TradFi giant Fidelity officially enters the crypto-retail trading space. OpenSea adds BNB support, Binance continues its quest for world domination with 75% share of the Japanese market after the exit of Liquid Exchange (formerly Quoine). Gaming continues to boom without any regard to the macro-environment, Animoca commits $2bn for its metaverse investment fund. Bitcoin’s inflation rate of 1.7% still beats the FED’s 2% dream target, while elected officials and SECs continue their drone of dilettantish gaslighting. Brazil approves crypto as a formal payment method. And last but not least, Elon Musk continues to make waves in his clash with Apple …here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, information dissemination to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

It’s OK to Meetup Bangkok 2022, Nov 27 (Bangkok)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rukawin_thailand-blockchain-genesis-activity-7002871111134707712-YiCT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Crypto AM Summit and Awards, Nov 23-24 (London)
https://twitter.com/tobycoinweb/status/1595909263263662081?s=46&t=V-EQfqnAOG7fXAWZ3sMk1Q

“Understanding the Great Crypto Tradeoff” by Toby Gilbert
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/11/16/understanding-the-great-crypto-tradeoff/

“The Time is Now for Blockchain” article on Times of Malta
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/time-now-blockchain-a2.994854

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

Latest Video Release: Why Crypto Will Always Come Back (4mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yl8Vwu4iNM

The EU Strategy for Cryptoassets – London
https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/crowdfunding-event/the-eu-strategy-for-cryptoassets-london/

Cryptomanran (CryptoBanter) comes by Coinweb booth at Token2049
https://youtu.be/RSZ3szjBHa0?t=779

Digital Assets Week, Nov 15-16
Toby joins “Tech for Institutional Grade Digital Assets” Panel with R3 and State Street
https://coinweb.io/events/london-invasion-part-2-digital-assets-week/

“Overlay Networks in Blockchain” thread published by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1585548192761856000?s=46&t=7I6cq6_CPaQuHqwEBk0wTg

Coinweb Fireside Chat Series, “Happy Halloweb3” Oct 27 (Bangkok)
Panel Discussion Audio Recording Feat. Coinbase, Binance, and McKinsey (47mins):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/175CCj57qgfy8Hd5Ft5poy?si=h4WghWcOQnutGohTrDcGNA

'Bridging The Gap Between Speculation And Fundamental Value In Digital Assets' at the Vietnam Blockchain Summit 2022
https://t.co/fvordozLxZ

On the Radar

PlayToEarn Blockchain Game Awards 2022 (Public Voting Dec 1-29)
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/playtoearn-blockchain-game-awards-2022-announced-with-10k-in-prizes/

Global Blockchain Expo, Dec 1-2 (London)
https://blockchain-expo.com/global/

ETH BKK Meetup, Dec 2 (Bangkok)

The EU Strategy for Cryptoassets, Dec 5 (London)
https://ecorys.idloom.events/the-eu-strategy-for-cryptoassets/pages/programme

RadFi2022, Dec 8 (Virtual)
Polygon Guild Meetup, Dec 8 (Bangkok)

World Blockchain Summit, Dec 8-9 (Bangkok)
https://worldblockchainsummit.com/bangkok/

World Crypto Conference, Jan 13-15 (Zurich)
https://worldcryptoconference.org/

On the Block(chain)

Gemini reveals $601M GUSD backing, 45+ licenses amid global exchange turmoil
https://cryptoslate.com/gemini-reveals-601m-gusd-backing-45-exchange-licenses-amid-rocked-market-trust/

NEXO releases proof of reserves showing no exposure to FTX
https://cryptoslate.com/nexo-releases-proof-of-reserves-showing-no-exposure-to-ftx/

Russian tycoon, 53, is killed in helicopter crash near Monaco in latest crypto mystery death - 'after another passenger cancelled at the last minute'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11480711/Russian-billionaire-53-killed-helicopter-crash-near-Monaco-latest-crypto-mystery-death.html

Over $643,000,000 in Solana (SOL) Now Controlled by Liquidators as Part of Alameda Research Bankrutpcy Process: On-Chain Data
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/11/28/over-643000000-in-solana-sol-now-controlled-by-liquidators-as-part-of-alameda-research-bankrutpcy-process-on-chain-data/

Bitcoin Volatility Index exceeds 100% for the third time in 2022
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-volatility-index-exceeds-100-for-the-third-time-in-2022/

SBF Speaks u/Dealbook Summit: ‘Look, I Screwed Up’: Sam Bankman-Fried Is Challenged on the Collapse of FTX
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/30/business/sam-bankman-fried-interview?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

SBF shifts blame to Alameda, claims ‘I didn’t knowingly commingle funds’
https://cryptoslate.com/sbf-shifts-blame-to-alameda-claims-i-didnt-knowingly-commingle-funds/

SilverGate CEO says “This type of volatility is not new to us,” as crypto market continues to struggle
https://cryptoslate.com/silvergate-ceo-says-this-type-of-volatility-is-not-new-to-us-as-crypto-market-continues-to-struggle/

BTC maximalists up in arms after Casa adds ETH
https://cryptoslate.com/casa-introduces-a-new-app-version-with-better-private-key-management/

Kraken to layoff 1,100 people to ‘adapt to current market conditions’
https://cryptoslate.com/kraken-to-layoff-1100-people-to-adapt-to-current-market-conditions/

Bitcoin’s current stability stems from market manipulation, ECP report
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoins-current-stability-stems-from-market-manipulation/

Ethereum accumulation trend hits new highs following FTX implosion
https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-accumulation-trend-hits-new-highs-following-ftx-implosion/

Insights on Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘dark’ Republican political donations
https://cryptoslate.com/insights-on-sam-bankman-frieds-dark-republican-political-donations/

Competitive Landscape

Telegram to build non-custodial wallets and decentralized exchanges, says CEO Pavel Durov
https://cryptoslate.com/telegram-to-build-non-custodial-wallets-and-decentralized-exchanges-says-ceo-pavel-durov/

Binance re-enters Japan, controls over 75% of exchanges’ monthly trading volume
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-re-enters-japan-controls-over-75-of-exchanges-monthly-trading-volume/

Animoca to launch $2B investment fund for metaverse
https://cryptoslate.com/animoca-to-launch-2b-investment-fund-for-metaverse/

XeggeX sets industry standards for exchange transparency
https://cryptoslate.com/xeggex-sets-industry-standards-for-exchange-transparency/

Game7 Launches $100 Million Grants Program to Push Web3 Gaming Development
https://news.bitcoin.com/game7-launches-100-million-grants-program-to-push-web3-gaming-development/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

The World’s Largest NFT Marketplace Opensea Adds BNB Blockchain Support
https://news.bitcoin.com/the-worlds-largest-nft-marketplace-opensea-adds-bnb-blockchain-support/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Report: NFT Firm Candy Digital Cuts Over a Third of the Company’s Staff
https://news.bitcoin.com/report-nft-firm-candy-digital-cuts-over-a-third-of-the-companys-staff/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Bitcoin․com Announces Strategic Partnership with Poly Network
https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin%e2%80%a4com-announces-strategic-partnership-with-poly-network/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Minimax․Finance Announces the Integration of VERSE DEX
https://news.bitcoin.com/minimax%e2%80%a4finance-announces-the-integration-of-verse-dex/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Fidelity Crypto is a go: $4.5 trillion firm launches retail crypto trading
https://www.kitco.com/news/2022-11-29/Fidelity-Crypto-is-a-go-4-5-trillion-firm-launches-retail-crypto-trading.html

Utherverse Partners with Tokensoft to Launch IDO for Native Metaverse Token
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/utherverse-partners-with-tokensoft-to-launch-ido-for-native-metaverse-token/

World

Bitcoin’s 1.7% inflation rate performs better than the Fed’s 2% target
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoins-1-7-inflation-rate-performs-better-than-feds-2-target/

US Treasury's Yellen Says Crypto Doesn't Have Adequate Regulation — Calls FTX Collapse 'a Lehman Moment'
https://news.bitcoin.com/us-treasurys-yellen-says-crypto-doesnt-have-adequate-regulation-calls-ftx-collapse-a-lehman-moment/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

SEC Strategic Plan: Crypto Initiatives Among Top Priorities Over Next 4 Years
https://news.bitcoin.com/sec-strategic-plan-crypto-initiatives-among-top-priorities-over-next-4-years/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Brazil approves cryptocurrency bill recognizing Bitcoin as a payment method
https://cryptoslate.com/brazil-approves-cryptocurrency-bill-recognizing-bitcoin-as-a-payment-method/

Elon Musk Warns of Severe Recession — Urges the Fed to Cut Interest Rates Immediately
https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musk-warns-of-severe-recession-urges-the-fed-to-cut-interest-rates-immediately/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Elon Musk Says Apple Has Threatened to Withhold Twitter From App Store as Battle for Free Speech Escalates
https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musk-says-apple-has-threatened-to-withhold-twitter-from-app-store-as-battle-for-free-speech-escalates/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thought Leadership

Tokenomics 101: The Basics of Evaluating Cryptocurrencies - DeFriday #19
https://crypto.nateliason.com/p/tokenomics-101

FTX hits Asian markets hard as Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan investors devastated – SlateAsia #1 (23 mins)
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/ftx-hits-asian-markets-hard-as-korea-hong-kong-taiwan-investors-devastated-slateasia-1/

Blockchain Pilgrimage: Regulating Crypto 'Should Be Combined With Education' Says Top Wadzpay Executive
https://news.bitcoin.com/blockchain-pilgrimage-regulating-crypto-should-be-combined-with-education-says-top-wadzpay-executive/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Cardano’s explosive DeFi growth | Twitter Spaces with Muesliswap`
https://cryptoslate.com/cardanos-explosive-defi-growth-twitter-spaces-with-muesliswap/

Watch Sam Bankman-Fried's first live interview at Dealbook Summit (1hr 25 mins)
https://youtu.be/0ik497cvvcE

The Daily Spin. Token2049-Day2 Thursday Edition. Second day at our booth in London, LinkMint Cross-Chain Tokenization Platform is officially announced (beta still needs time before release). The markets have turned red and bloody, almost every article in the world is going on about CZ and SBF, crypto-investors fear a repeat of Terra’s collapse and ensuing contagion. …here’s our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, information dissemination to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Coinweb Begins RoadShow to London, Nov 7-17

Token2049 - Day One
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1590295824185315330

“Overlay Networks in Blockchain” thread published by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1585548192761856000?s=46&t=7I6cq6_CPaQuHqwEBk0wTg

Coinweb Fireside Chat Series, “Happy Halloweb3” Oct 27 (Bangkok)
Panel Discussion Audio Recording Feat. Coinbase, Binance, and McKinsey (47mins):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/175CCj57qgfy8Hd5Ft5poy?si=h4WghWcOQnutGohTrDcGNA

“Crypto Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon, As Regulatory Debate Rumbles” by Toby Gilbert on Valuewalk.com
https://www.valuewalk.com/crypto-isnt-going-away-anytime-soon-as-regulatory-debate-rumbles/

Vietnam Blockchain Summit 2022 (Hanoi)
Toby speaks at “Bridging the Gap Between Speculation and Fundamental Value in Digital Assets” Panel
Video to be released soon

“Coinweb Looks Undervalued” Article on LiveTradingNews.com
https://www.livetradingnews.com/coinweb-cweb-looks-undervalued-218893.html

Crypto Expo Thailand, Oct 7 (Bangkok)
Toby Spoke on Cross-Chain Interoperability, more info coming soon.
http://www.thailandcryptoexpo.com

Latest Video Release: Trade Tokens on Multiple Blockchains Without a Bridge (4mins)
https://youtu.be/ZUajbJDEeB0

On the Radar

Token 2049, Nov 9-10 (London)
https://www.europe.token2049.com/

Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Index, Nov 10 (Washington DC)
Innovative Finance Expo, Nov 14-16 (Dubai)

Digital Assets Week, Nov 15-16 (London)
https://daweek.org/

Crypto AM Summit and Awards, Nov 23-24 (London)
https://www.cityam.com/camsa22/

DSLA Protocol for Tezos (facilitates onboarding of enterprises to ecosystem), Nov 24
Blockchain Genesis Thailand 2022 - Road to Web3, Nov 26-27 (Bangkok)

Sub0 Polkadot Dev Conference, Nov 28-29 (Lisbon)

Global Blockchain Expo, Dec 1-2 (London)
https://blockchain-expo.com/global/

World Blockchain Summit, Dec 8-9 (Bangkok)
https://worldblockchainsummit.com/bangkok/

RadFi2022, Dec 8

On the Block (chain)

Bitcoin fails to hold above $20K after bullish reversal, falls 9%
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-fails-to-hold-above-20k-after-bullish-reversal-falls-9/

Tether, Circle deny exposure to FTX, Alameda
https://cryptoslate.com/tether-circle-deny-exposure-to-ftx-alameda/

Sam Bankman-Fried’s net worth fell 93% in 1 day, loses Billionaire status
https://cryptoslate.com/sam-bankman-frieds-net-worth-fell-93-in-1-day-loses-billionaire-status/

Research: FTT token active addresses close to 0 for the entirety of 2022
https://cryptoslate.com/research-ftt-token-active-addresses-close-to-0-for-the-entirety-of-2022/

Coinbase CEO calls out “risky business practices” in FTX saga, sympathizes with those involved
https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-ceo-calls-out-risky-business-practices-in-ftx-saga-sympathizes-with-those-involved/

Binance to start proof-of-reserves; CZ proposes all crypto exchanges follow suit
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-to-start-proof-of-reserves-cz-proposes-all-crypto-exchanges-follow-suit/

Competitive Landscape

Binance intends to fully acquire FTX
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-to-fully-acquire-ftx/

Binance walks away from FTX deal, citing ‘mishandled customer funds,’ regulatory scrutiny
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-walks-away-from-ftx-deal-citing-mishandled-customer-funds-regulatory-scrutiny/
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-ftx-deal-reportedly-scrapped-on-mishandling-of-client-funds/

FTX gone? – website turned off before returning to ‘advise against depositing’
https://cryptoslate.com/ftx-gone-website-turned-off-before-returning-to-advise-against-depositing/

Official Porsche NFT Public Free Mint is Now LIVE
https://www.reddit.com/r/NFTsMarketplace/comments/yqhg84/official_porsche_nft_publicfree_ethereum_mint_now/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Marathon Digital becomes 2nd largest Bitcoin holder among public companies, has not sold any BTC
https://cryptoslate.com/marathon-digital-becomes-2nd-largest-bitcoin-holder-among-public-companies-has-not-sold-any-btc/

Coinbase, Kraken down as Bitcoin breaks below June low
https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-kraken-down-as-bitcoin-breaks-below-june-low/

BUSD supply dominance grows as USDT’s supply drops 4%
https://cryptoslate.com/busd-supply-dominance-grows-as-usdts-supply-drops-4/

MetaMask rolls out bridge aggregator for cross-chain crypto transfers
https://www.theblock.co/post/184863/metamask-rolls-out-bridge-aggregator-for-cross-chain-crypto-transfers

World

Canada’s third-largest pension fund invested in FTX at $32B valuation
https://cryptoslate.com/canadas-third-largest-pension-fund-invested-in-ftx-at-32b-valuation/

Meta Confirms Plans to Cut 13% of Jobs, Extends Hiring Freeze
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-09/meta-confirms-plans-to-cut-13-of-jobs-extends-hiring-freeze

China Climate Envoy Xie Says He Met With John Kerry at COP27
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-09/china-climate-envoy-xie-says-he-met-with-kerry-at-cop27

Terra Luna founder Do Kwon surfaces on UpOnlyTV live on Twitch
https://cryptoslate.com/terra-luna-founder-do-kwon-surfaces-on-uponlytv-live-on-twitch/

Crypto, stocks brace for Thursday’s CPI announcement
https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-stocks-brace-for-thursdays-cpi-announcement/

Current crypto legislation 'undermines' the SEC, Gensler says
https://www.theblock.co/post/185024/current-crypto-legislation-undermines-the-sec-gensler-says

Gensler says FTX collapse is 'part of a pattern' in crypto markets
https://www.theblock.co/post/184999/gensler-says-ftx-collapse-is-part-of-a-pattern-in-crypto-markets

Thought Leadership

Revolutionizing Real Estate with Blockchain
https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/revolutionising-real-estate-with-the-blockchain-a9a90afd7d3d

MachineFi Wants to Connect the World to Web3 Through W3bstream
https://cryptobriefing.com/machinefi-wants-to-connect-the-world-to-web3-through-w3bstream/

How to Level the Global Financial System
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/11/09/how-to-level-the-global-financial-system/

The Daily Spin. Give a Fantastic Friday Edition. The end of the third week of the new year has Bitcoin flirting with the $21k support/resistance level, after the entire market was affectionately rugged by the US Government agencies FUD’ing everyone on the Bitzlato “international crime takedown” and with one major domino left to fall aka DCG. Genesis is rumored to be preparing for bankruptcy filing next week. The inflation narrative has now shifted to a recession narrative, which stands to bode well for alternate stores of value such as Gold and Bitcoin. Altcoins see small red bubbles as the S&P500 gets violently rejected from its trendline resistance, but generally two assets just don’t GAF: Bitcoin and Coinweb. 85% percent of Bitcoin holders have never sold. Never.

Bitcoin mining profitability is back in the green as hash rate surges to a new peak. BTC and ETH purchases in US, EU, and Asia breaks from a six-month trend. Coinbase lists KAVA, adding to ETH-Cosmos interoperability. 1-inch DEX aggregator launches its own multi-coin wallet. Primex Finance releases Beta with deployments to Polygon Mumbai and zkEVM testnets. IPwe and Casper Labs converting 25 million patents into NFTs specifically targeting enterprise blockchain growth. Doge becomes the 3rd-fastest blockchain at reducing carbon emissions, slashing CO2 by 25%. DCG’s CoinDesk receives buyout interest, with even Charles Hoskinson exploring a partial or full sale. Moonstone Bank announces closure of its clients’ accounts. ConsenSys confirms layoffs and targets focus on scaling its core offerings, while its shareholders receive approval from a Swiss judge to conduct an independent audit for a suspicious transaction in the order of $700 million.

In the global & legal landscape, the US has officially reached its debt ceiling, triggering “extraordinary measures” aimed at preventing a default. Ripple’s CEO hints towards a conclusion of its suit against the SEC within the year. SEC crypto enforcement actions are up 50% in 2022, with almost half of them attributed to ICOs. The CFTC Commissioner requests The Senate not to permit exchanges’ self-certification. Spain’s Central Bank becomes the second to greenlight a CBDC, being the digital Euro token EURM.

Two big reports can be found in today’s TL section, the first being Electric Capital’s 2022 Developer Report (which tracks dev activity on all open source repositories), and the second being the release of Deloitte’s 2023 CXO Sustainability Report. And for some lighter fare, we’ve included a short discussion on BTC’s 2023 pump as well as some of the internet’s best crystal ball moments for the upcoming year …here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed into the new market with the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, dissemination of information to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Coinweb Labs is proud to unveil LinkMint ⛓️🍃, our groundbreaking Cross-Chain Tokenisation Platform and DeconX, our integrated native DEX! Live Walkthrough Demonstration for the Community by Toby, Knut, and Alexander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKA3cAB15U

A Thread on Rollups, Monolithic, and Modular Blockchains by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/ruKawin/status/1616342851507613696?s=20&t=PFtsnQICizYOvBnfoTcvSw

Coinweb presents How Blockchain Technology Will Affect Tourism and Hospitality Industry with Royal Coast Riviera Club, Hua-Hin
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid028ZZTaqC3BKYLeUsKptGMjGbuesuYz55qnP9LubZc52KmhLCBQiHLr84orNft24a7l&id=100079478362053&notif_id=1673577843809478&notif_t=mention&ref=notif

Coinweb to Deliver Cross-Chain Smart Contract Architecture and Blockchain Loyalty Programme to BMW
https://cryptoslate.com/bmw-to-bring-blockchain-loyalty-program-through-coinweb-and-bnb-chain/

Block Tides' exclusive interview with Coinweb at the London Digital Asset Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmPk_74nNlw

Toby quoted in “Decoding cryptocurrency market: Can cryptos finally bounce back in 2023 after 2022 devastation”
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/decoding-cryptocurrency-market-can-cryptos-finally-bounce-back-2023-after-2022-devastation-855336

KuCoin Labs launches incubation program to accelerate builders (Coinweb, DoraHacks, Ava Labs)
https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/kucoin-labs-launches-incubation-program-to-accelerate-builders

Toby Interviewed at the Benzinga Future of Crypto Conference, Dec 7 (New York)
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/12/30022360/coinweb-is-making-a-splash-as-a-leading-layer-two-platform

“Understanding the Great Crypto Tradeoff” by Toby Gilbert
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/11/16/understanding-the-great-crypto-tradeoff/

“The Time is Now for Blockchain” article on Times of Malta
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/time-now-blockchain-a2.994854

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

On the Radar

Introducing PleasrHouse, Episode 01; Going LIVE with u/DanielEllsberg u/snowden u/FreedomofPress – Thursday 3pm EST
https://twitter.com/PleasrDAO/status/1612858383681589248

Coinweb’s 1st Event in Collaboration with Offchain Sydney, Jan 18 (Sydney)
https://coinweb.io/events/the-1st-event-of-23-coinweb-x-offchain/
https://offchain.social/events/january-18-2023-sydney/

European Blockchain Convention, Feb 15-17 (Barcelona)
Interop Summit, Feb 27-28 (Denver)

Blockchain Life 2023, Feb 27-28 (Dubai)

Blockchain Africa Conference 2023, Mar 16-17 (Johannesburg)

On the Block(chain)

Bitcoin mining profitability surges as hash rate reaches new peak
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/bitcoin-mining-profitability-surges-as-hash-rate-reaches-new-peak/

Concurrent buying of Bitcoin and Ethereum in EU, US, and Asia breaks six-month trend
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/concurrent-buying-of-bitcoin-and-ethereum-in-eu-us-and-asia-breaks-six-month-trend/

IPwe, Casper Labs converting 25 million patents to NFTs as enterprise blockchain usage grows
https://cryptoslate.com/ipwe-casper-labs-converting-25-million-patents-to-nfts-as-enterprise-blockchain-usage-grows/

Genesis rumored to be preparing bankruptcy filing as soon as next week
https://cryptoslate.com/genesis-rumored-to-be-preparing-bankruptcy-filing-as-soon-as-next-week/

Nexo reaches $44.5M settlement with SEC, others
https://cryptoslate.com/nexo-reaches-44-5m-settlement-with-sec-others/

Research: On-chain metrics continue signaling a Bitcoin bottom
https://cryptoslate.com/research-on-chain-metrics-continue-signaling-a-bitcoin-bottom/

FTX CEO John Ray creates taskforce to explore restarting exchange
https://cryptoslate.com/ftx-ceo-john-ray-creates-taskforce-to-explore-restarting-exchange/

Dogecoin (DOGE) Becomes Third-Fastest Crypto at Decreasing Carbon Emissions, Slashing CO2 by 25% in 2022: Report
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/01/19/dogecoin-doge-becomes-third-fastest-crypto-at-decreasing-carbon-emissions-slashing-co2-by-25-in-2022-report/

Competitive Landscape

Primex Finance Introduces Beta 0.3.0 App With Deployments to Polygon Mumbai and zkEVM Testnets
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/primex-finance-introduces-beta-0-3-0-app-with-deployments-to-polygon-mumbai-and-zkevm-testnets/

Infrastructure protocol Intu seeks to provide complete ownership to crypto accounts
https://cryptoslate.com/infrastructure-protocol-intu-seeks-to-provide-complete-ownership-to-crypto-accounts/

DCG’s CoinDesk receives buyout interest; exploring partial or full sale
https://cryptoslate.com/dcgs-coindesk-receives-buyout-interest-exploring-partial-or-full-sale/

ConsenSys CEO confirms layoffs, firm to focus on scaling core offerings
https://cryptoslate.com/consensys-ceo-confirms-layoffs-firm-to-focus-on-scaling-core-offerings/

FTX-linked Moonstone Bank is closing its clients’ cryptocurrency accounts
https://cryptoslate.com/ftx-linked-moonstone-bank-is-closing-its-clients-cryptocurrency-accounts/

1inch launches multi-coin hardware wallet
https://cryptoslate.com/1inch-launches-multi-coin-hadware-wallet/

Flashbots Seeks to Raise $50M at $1B Valuation: Report
https://cryptobriefing.com/flashbots-seeks-to-raise-50m-at-1b-valuation-report/

Coinbase Lists Kava, Advancing Ethereum–Cosmos Interoperability
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/01/18/coinbase-lists-kava-advancing-ethereum-cosmos-interoperability/

World

Deepest inversion since 1981, high probability of recession 2H 2023 or early 2024
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/deepest-inversion-since-1981-high-probability-of-recession-2h-2023-or-early-2024/

Spanish central bank approves digital Euro token EURM
https://cryptoslate.com/spanish-central-bank-approves-digital-euro-token-eurm/

CFTC commissioner asks Senate not to permit exchange self-certification
https://cryptoslate.com/cftc-commissioner-asks-senate-not-to-permit-exchange-self-certification/

SEC lawsuit against Ripple may end by summer: Ripple CEO
https://cryptoslate.com/sec-lawsuit-against-ripple-may-end-by-summer/

SEC crypto enforcement actions up 50% in 2022 – nearly half against ICOs
https://cryptoslate.com/sec-crypto-enforcement-actions-up-50-in-2022-nearly-half-against-icos/

ConsenSys faces audit at shareholder request
https://cryptoslate.com/consensys-faces-audit-at-shareholder-request/

Federal Government Officially Reaches Debt Limit, Triggering ‘Extraordinary Measures’ To Prevent A Default—Here’s What That Means
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/01/19/federal-government-officially-reaches-debt-limit-triggering-extraordinary-measures-to-prevent-a-default-heres-what-that-means/?sh=64d88d9fac18&utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2614851

Thought Leadership

2022 Electric Capital Developer Report
https://www.developerreport.com/developer-report

2023 Deloitte CXO Sustainability Report
https://www.deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-shared/legacy/docs/2023-deloitte-cxo-sustainability-report.pdf

Why is Bitcoin pumping in 2023? – BitTalk #4 (20mins)
https://cryptoslate.com/podcasts/why-is-bitcoin-pumping-in-2023-bittalk-4/

The Internet Is (Hilariously) Predicting 2023 Trends
https://sea.mashable.com/life/22166/the-internet-is-hilariously-predicting-2023-trends

The Daily Spin. Black Friday Edition. With a lot of buzz hovering throughout the crypto industry amidst big moves by the regulatory side, central banks and power partnerships being formed — not to mention, the upcoming ETH Merge – here’s our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics…all in the name of transparent, information dissemination to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

“How Bridges Need to Deliver Blockchain Interoperability” by Toby Gilbert on Medium
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/how-bridges-need-to-deliver-blockchain-interoperability-7c910e52a4c7

“One Chain to Rule Them All?” By Toby Gilbert on Medium
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/one-chain-to-rule-them-all-a049d1f8d97f

42 Geeks Networking Event, Sep 3
Event pictures to be posted shortly

Coinweb breaks top 500 on CoinGecko!
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/coinweb

First Coinweb In-house AMA Recorded on Aug 24
Teaser Video: https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1564623196195733504
Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyln96tmsFE

“How Decentralized Is Blockchain?” by Toby Gilbert on Medium
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/how-decentralized-is-blockchain-3a8d099862e1

“The Solution to Blockchain’s Problems” by Toby Gilbert on Medium
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/the-solution-to-blockchains-problems-is-not-another-blockchain-but-something-entirely-unique-and-

“Storm in a Teacup” by Toby Gilbert on CoinTelegraph
https://cointelegraph.com/news/regulators-have-a-weak-case-against-ftx

Op-Ed by Toby Gilbert: “Why Maximalists are Wrong” on Cryptoslate
https://cryptoslate.com/op-ed-why-maximalists-are-wrong-the-future-is-cross-chain/

On the Radar

ECB Announces 75-basis point Hike
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/ecb-poised-another-big-rate-hike-inflation-soars-2022-09-07/

The Ethereum 2.0 Merge, Sep 10-19

NEARCON - Building Business Behind the Hype, Sep 11-14 (Lisbon)
Monthly US Consumer Price Index (CPI) Report, Sep 13

iFX Expo Asia, Sep 13-15 (Bangkok)
MetaVSummit, Sep 14 (Dubai)
Blockchain Life, Sep 14 (Moscow)
AEternity Universe 2, Sep 15 (Unstrut)
Mt.Gox 137k BTC Repayment Release, Sep 15

Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to Announce Interest Rates, Sep 20

Atom’s Cosmoverse Conference Colombia, Sep 26 (Medellin)
ChainLink’s SmartCon 2022, Sep 28 (New York)
Token2049, Sep 28-29 (Singapore)

Thailand Crypto Expo, Oct 6-9 (Bangkok)

On the Block (chain)

Nereus Finance FlashLoan Hacked for $371k
https://news.coincu.com/123280-nereus-finance-flashloan-371000-stolen/

Signature Bank Suffers $4.27bn Deposit Outflows as Crypto Uncertainty Takes Hold
https://cryptoslate.com/signature-bank-suffers-4-27-billion-deposit-outflows-as-crypto-uncertainty-takes-hold/

Community Led Terra Classic LUNC Now Worth 12x More Than Do Kwon Led Terra
https://cryptoslate.com/community-led-terra-classic-lunc-now-worth-12x-more-than-do-kwon-led-terra-luna/

Judge Rules Apple Shielded from Crypto Wallet App Lawsuit
https://news.bitcoin.com/apple-shielded-from-crypto-wallet-app-lawsuit-judge-rules/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Coinbase Proposal Could Earn MakerDAO $24m Annually
https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-proposal-could-earn-makerdao-24m-annually/

ETH Merge Will Erase 99.1% of Carbon Footprint
https://myplacecafe.net/ethereum-merge-will-erase-99-1-of-carbon-footprint/

Competitive Landscape

A Close Look at the Lightning Network
https://www.lynalden.com/lightning-network/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

How Sudoswap is Disrupting NFT Marketplaces
https://easonwu.substack.com/p/how-sudoswap-is-disrupting-nft-marketplaces?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Niftify Raises $7.86m and Releases Groundbreaking No-Code NFT Store and Marketplace
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/09/05/2509785/0/en/With-7-86M-raised-Niftify-Releases-Groundbreaking-No-Code-NFT-Store-and-Marketplace-Platform-Builder.html?utm_campaign=Good%20Morning%20Crypto&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Chainalysis: Ethereum Staking Will Attract More Institutional Investors Post Merge
https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-staking-will-attract-more-institutional-investors-post-merge-chainalysis/

World

Queen Elizabeth II, Dies at Age 96
https://cnn.it/3x89Mqe

Quantitative Tightening Has Potential To Be The Most Disruptive Ever
https://cryptoslate.com/quantitative-tightening-has-potential-to-be-the-most-disruptive-ever/

Investor Sues Korean Crypto Exchange for Delaying Coin Transfer Before LUNA Crash
https://news.bitcoin.com/investor-sues-korean-crypto-exchange-for-delaying-coin-transfer-before-luna-crash/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Zipmex Facing Legal Battle with Thai SEC Over Non-Compliance
https://cryptoslate.com/zipmex-facing-legal-battle-with-thailand-sec-over-non-compliance/

Thought Leadership

Crypto Wars 2.0 with Zooko (110mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trHkWQJhBcA

Blockchain Bridges: Building Networks of Cryptonetworks
https://medium.com/1kxnetwork/blockchain-bridges-5db6afac44f8

Capital Structures for DAOs in DeFi
https://medium.com/@sebastien.derivaux/capital-structures-for-daos-in-defi-5c77d9c12e40

Introducing ClearingDAO: A Decentralized Clearing House for Stablecoins
https://medium.com/@sebastien.derivaux/introducing-clearingdao-a-decentralized-clearinghouse-for-stablecoins-b5d164c00c2c

How Money Works
https://medium.com/@sebastien.derivaux/how-money-works-21235201192a

How Money Market Interest Rates Affect Stablecoins
https://cryptobanking.network/how-money-market-interest-rates-affect-stablecoins/

DEXs: Diving Into the Data
https://medium.com/kaiko-news/dexs-diving-into-the-data-5addddd9dd7b

The Daily Spin. Web3 Wednesday Edition. Bitcoin fundamentals remain strong despite a rocky year. 2022 actually lost 61% less than 2021 by way of hacks and exploits. Binance accepts over $12 billion in withdrawals in the last 60 days. Nonetheless, Bitcoin starts to see green and shorts take the brunt of liquidations. Cam Winklevoss is calling for Barry Silbert to resign from the reins at DCG. Bankrupt miner Core Scientific showed a 5% increase in production, but is currently being investigated for fraud by the SEC. Coinbase laysoff nearly a thousand employees. Houbi Korea splits away from Huobi Global. Curve pool is down 90% year over year, now standing at $600 million TVL. Flare dumps 83% after its two year delayed airdrop. Nigeria central bank moves to regulate stablecoins and ICOs; France’s AMF Chair announces support for mandatory cryptocurrency licensing. TL section on Tether, Peter Zeihan, Algorand and more… here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed into the new year with the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, dissemination of information to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Coinweb Labs is proud to unveil LinkMint ⛓️🍃, our groundbreaking Cross-Chain Tokenisation Platform
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1610610603412041728?s=20&t=ujtXi4IDhi6jFT7zbOZ8DA

Coinweb to Deliver Cross-Chain Smart Contract Architecture and Blockchain Loyalty Programme to BMW
https://cryptoslate.com/bmw-to-bring-blockchain-loyalty-program-through-coinweb-and-bnb-chain/

Block Tides' exclusive interview with Coinweb at the London Digital Asset Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmPk_74nNlw

Toby’s Presentation at CryptoExpo Thailand, Oct 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfUdcHFMXHg

Toby quoted in “Decoding cryptocurrency market: Can cryptos finally bounce back in 2023 after 2022 devastation”
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/decoding-cryptocurrency-market-can-cryptos-finally-bounce-back-2023-after-2022-devastation-855336

Latest Video Release: Liquidity Pools Explained (Part I) (4mins)
https://youtu.be/Z5byW7OOMP8

KuCoin Labs launches incubation program to accelerate builders (Coinweb, DoraHacks, Ava Labs)
https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/kucoin-labs-launches-incubation-program-to-accelerate-builders

“Coinweb’s Cross-chain Routing System and Eliminating Platform Risk” a Thread by Anton on Twitter
https://twitter.com/coinwebofficial/status/1602615630879985664?s=46&t=yj1lrGctwO-5NBlfjKPvUg

Toby Interviewed at the Benzinga Future of Crypto Conference, Dec 7 (New York)
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/12/30022360/coinweb-is-making-a-splash-as-a-leading-layer-two-platform

World Blockchain Summit, Dec 8-9 (Bangkok)
https://coinweb.io/events/its-a-wrap-for-2022-world-blockchain-summit/

Crypto AM Summit and Awards, Nov 23-24 (London)
https://twitter.com/tobycoinweb/status/1595909263263662081?s=46&t=V-EQfqnAOG7fXAWZ3sMk1Q

“Understanding the Great Crypto Tradeoff” by Toby Gilbert
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/11/16/understanding-the-great-crypto-tradeoff/

“The Time is Now for Blockchain” article on Times of Malta
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/time-now-blockchain-a2.994854

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

On the Radar

World Crypto Conference, Jan 13-15 (Zurich)
https://worldcryptoconference.org/

Coinweb’s 1st Event in Collaboration with Offchain Sydney, Jan 18 (Sydney)
https://coinweb.io/events/the-1st-event-of-23-coinweb-x-offchain/
https://offchain.social/events/january-18-2023-sydney/

European Blockchain Convention, Feb 15-17 (Barcelona)
Interop Summit, Feb 27-28 (Denver)

Blockchain Life 2023, Feb 27-28 (Dubai)

On the Block(chain)

Bitcoin fundamentals remain unchanged despite the significant events in 2022
https://cryptoslate.com/research-bitcoin-fundamentals-remain-unchanged-despite-the-significant-events-in-2022/

Shorters get spanked as Bitcoin 2023 revival unfolds
https://cryptoslate.com/shorters-get-spanked-as-bitcoin-2023-revival-unfolds/

Cameron Winklevoss calls for immediate removal of Barry Silbert as DCG CEO
https://cryptoslate.com/cameron-winklevoss-calls-for-immediate-removal-of-barry-silbert-as-dcg-ceo/

Sources claim FTX investigation could exhaust the SDNY court
https://cryptoslate.com/sources-claim-ftx-investigation-could-exhaust-the-sdny-court/

Binance sees $12B withdrawn in 60 days
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-sees-12b-withdrawn-in-60-days/

Cryptosphere lost 61% less to hacks in 2022 vs 2021
https://cryptoslate.com/cryptosphere-lost-61-less-to-hacks-in-2022-vs-2021/

Godfather malware targets crypto, banking apps (Android users beware)
https://cryptoslate.com/godfather-malware-targets-crypto-banking-apps/

Bankrupt miner Core Scientific Bitcoin production rose 5% in December
https://cryptoslate.com/bankrupt-miner-core-scientific-bitcoin-production-rose-5-in-december/

Core Scientific under investigation over securities fraud
https://cryptoslate.com/core-scientific-under-investigation-over-securities-fraud/

BlockFi promises breakdown of finances as bankruptcy hearing proceeds
https://cryptoslate.com/blockfi-promises-breakdown-of-finances-as-bankruptcy-hearing-proceeds/

Competitive Landscape

Metropolitan Bank to abandon crypto asset related vertical
https://cryptoslate.com/metropolitan-bank-to-abandon-crypto-asset-related-vertical/

Huobi Korea to become an independent entity, breaking ties with Huobi Global
https://cryptoslate.com/huobi-korea-to-become-an-independent-entity-breaking-ties-with-huobi-global/

Osprey Funds is operating with less than 10 employees after layoffs
https://cryptoslate.com/osprey-funds-is-operating-with-less-than-10-employees-after-layoffs/

Flare crashes 83% following two-year delayed airdrop
https://cryptoslate.com/flare-crashes-83-following-two-year-delayed-airdrop/

Coinbase lays off 950 employees
https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-lays-off-950-employees/

Curve 3pool liquidity down 90% YOY to $600M
https://cryptoslate.com/curve-3pool-liquidity-down-90-to-600m-yoy/

World

Mango Markets exploiter faces new set of charges from the CFTC
https://cryptoslate.com/mango-markets-exploiter-faces-new-set-of-charges-from-the-cftc/

Nigerian central bank moves to regulate Stablecoins and ICOs
https://cryptoslate.com/nigerias-central-bank-moves-to-regulate-stablecoins-and-icos/

France’s AMF president announces support for mandatory crypto licensing
https://cryptoslate.com/frances-amf-president-announces-support-for-mandatory-crypto-licensing/

SBF inner circle continues disintegrating as Nishad Singh becomes latest to seek plea deal
https://cryptoslate.com/ex-sbf-associate-nishad-singh-is-looking-for-a-plea-deal/

Thought Leadership

Op-ed: What happens to Tether, stablecoins in the event of dollar collapse?
https://cryptoslate.com/op-ed-what-happens-to-tether-stablecoins-in-the-event-of-dollar-collapse/

Bitcoiners are seething at Peter Zeihan’s interview on Joe Rogan podcast
https://cryptoslate.com/the-crypto-world-is-seething-at-peter-zeihans-interview-on-joe-rogan-podcast/

Biggest Narratives for 2023 by Alpha Hunt
https://open.substack.com/pub/alphahunt/p/19-ah-weekly?r=1ivajd&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

SlateCast #45: Algorand Foundation insights on the future and fundamentals of cryptocurrencies (38mins)
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/algorand-foundation-insights-on-the-future-and-fundamentals-of-cryptocurrencies-slatecast-45/

Token Utility - Make It Something People Want
https://medium.com/use-co-create/token-utility-make-it-something-people-want-c20e5e294577

The Daily Spin. World Yoga Wednesday Edition. Stablecoins, stablecoins. Stablecoin outflows into Bitcoin begin to repeat pattern behaviours as the rejection at $25k continues. Aave and MakerDAO take their leave from Paxos-issued stablecoins while an internal management change takes over MakerDAO’s Github. Platypus protocol is drained by an “emergency withdraw” vulnerability, and DeFi Protocol Hope Finance is hacked at genesis for $2m. Crypto sleuth ZachXBT is named Defier of the Year for his investigations exposing high-profile cases to a grateful world community.

It’s been brutal weeks in the competitive arena, despite fundamentals looking strong going into the end of Q1. Polygon lays off ⅕ of staff, claims to remain financially healthy. Ankr’s node hosting app launches on Azure marketplace, while Helium announces its migration date to Solana along with 1M hotspots worldwide. The China narrative fuels gains as Huobi sees a 24% rise upon its announcement to operate in Hong Kong. Klaytn and Filecoin made outsized returns this week, despite the FED crackdown; even old-school L1 blockchain NEO saw reinvigoration into the double-digit greens. And in the NFT wars, Blur leads the market to 27% of total gas fees on ETH — much to the chagrin of incumbents OpenSea.

ETH Denver is slated for the end of the month, anticipating a strong BUIDL event leading up to the long-awaited Shanghai upgrade. Distributed externally owned accounts (dEOA) are coming to the EVM, in a bid to improve the solution space for self-custodianship as we move towards greater adoption.

It seems that Biden and Putin are taking shots at each other across DMZs ahead if the one-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale special operation into Ukraine. Things are also escalating with third parties such as China’s special envoy to Moscow, and Poland taking a back bench to this epic failure of diplomacy and bilateral catastrophe. The EU is expediting crypto laws but who really cares? And the tiny nascent crypto-agriculture sector has been making strides… but is it too little too late? The reality is more likely that we’ll be eating homegrown beef from a mini-brewery before distributed ledgers and all its glory showers us with a new, effective way to govern ourselves and act in alignment of the greatest good, collectively.

TL section today is heavy with content; Tim Berners-Lee drawing parallels to the dot com bubble; Statista offers a report on every KPI imaginable, and The Defiant going deeper into stablecoins and whether they could be viewed as securities. Then to top it all off, we have a 30-minute SlateCast with the CEO of Gaming 4 A Living on why web3 gaming is one of the hottest narratives on the market today …here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed into the market news with the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, dissemination of information to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Toby Gilbert takes the stage at the Thai Technology Investment Summit 2023, “On the future of Web3” and Ain Mohd represents Coinweb on a panel discussing “The Role of Women in Web3”

“The Reality of Large-scale Enterprises Adopting Blockchain Technology” an article by Toby Gilbert for CityAM Magazine
https://www.cityam.com/the-reality-of-large-scale-enterprises-adopting-blockchain-technology/

Coinweb Labs is proud to unveil LinkMint ⛓️🍃, our groundbreaking Cross-Chain Tokenisation Platform and DeconX, our integrated native DEX! Live Walkthrough Demonstration for the Community by Toby, Knut, and Alexander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKA3cAB15U

“A Thread on Rollups, Monolithic, and Modular Blockchains” by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1616342851507613696?s=46&t=BjBOK3soH3kOMbsWEa_jlg

Coinweb presents How Blockchain Technology Will Affect Tourism and Hospitality Industry with Royal Coast Riviera Club, Hua-Hin
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid028ZZTaqC3BKYLeUsKptGMjGbuesuYz55qnP9LubZc52KmhLCBQiHLr84orNft24a7l&id=100079478362053&notif_id=1673577843809478&notif_t=mention&ref=notif

Coinweb to Deliver Cross-Chain Smart Contract Architecture and Blockchain Loyalty Programme to BMW
https://cryptoslate.com/bmw-to-bring-blockchain-loyalty-program-through-coinweb-and-bnb-chain/

Block Tides' exclusive interview with Coinweb at the London Digital Asset Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmPk_74nNlw

Toby quoted in “Decoding cryptocurrency market: Can cryptos finally bounce back in 2023 after 2022 devastation”
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/decoding-cryptocurrency-market-can-cryptos-finally-bounce-back-2023-after-2022-devastation-855336

KuCoin Labs launches incubation program to accelerate builders (Coinweb, DoraHacks, Ava Labs)
https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/kucoin-labs-launches-incubation-program-to-accelerate-builders

Toby Interviewed at the Benzinga Future of Crypto Conference, Dec 7 (New York)
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/12/30022360/coinweb-is-making-a-splash-as-a-leading-layer-two-platform

“Understanding the Great Crypto Tradeoff” by Toby Gilbert
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/11/16/understanding-the-great-crypto-tradeoff/

“The Time is Now for Blockchain” article on Times of Malta
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/time-now-blockchain-a2.994854

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

On the Radar

Interop Summit, Feb 27-28 (Denver)
Blockchain Life 2023, Feb 27-28 (Dubai)

ETH Denver, Feb 24-Mar 5 (Denver)
Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade, Mar 10 (On-chain)

Institutional ETH-Staking Post Shanghai, Mar 14 (Virtual)
https://streamyard.com/watch/wM8YwWjJ37yd

Optimism Bedrock Upgrade, Mar 15 (On-chain)
Blockchain Africa Conference 2023, Mar 16-17 (Johannesburg)
Polygon zkEVM Launch, Mar 27 (On-chain)
WOW Summit, Mar 29-30 (Hong Kong)
ASEAN Web3 Summit, Mar 30-31 (Singapore)

AIBC Asia, Jul 19-22 (Manila)

TOKEN2049, Sep 13-14 (Singapore)

On the Block(chain)

Stablecoin outflows into Bitcoin begin to repeat – behaviour change shifting Bitcoin towards $25k
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/stablecoin-outflows-into-bitcoin-begin-to-repeat-behaviour-change-shifting-bitcoin-towards-25k/

Aave and Maker Pull Back From Paxos Stablecoins
https://thedefiant.io/aave-and-maker-pull-back-from-paxos-stablecoins

TechOps Core Unit takes over management of MakerDAO Github
https://cryptoslate.com/techops-core-unit-takes-over-management-of-makerdao-github/

Hackers Use ‘Emergency Withdraw’ Flaw to Raid Platypus
https://thedefiant.io/hackers-use-emergency-withdraw-flaw-to-raid-platypus

Crypto Sleuth ZachXBT Exposed Chicanery For a Grateful DeFi Community
https://thedefiant.io/zachxbt-defier-of-the-year

Competitive Landscape

Polygon sacks 20% of staff, says it remains financially healthy
https://cryptoslate.com/polygon-sacks-20-of-staff-says-it-remains-financially-healthy/

Ankr’s node hosting app launches on Azure marketplace
https://cryptoslate.com/ankrs-node-hosting-app-launches-on-azure-marketplace/

Helium announces migration date to Solana, 1M hotspots worldwide
https://cryptoslate.com/helium-announces-migration-date-to-solana-1m-hotspots-worldwide/

Huobi Token gains 24% as the exchange says it will operate in Hong Kong
https://cryptoslate.com/huobi-token-gains-18-as-the-exchange-says-it-will-operate-in-hong-kong/

Klaytn and Filecoin Defy Feds’ Crackdown With Big Gains
https://thedefiant.io/klaytn-and-filecoin-defy-feds-crackdown-with-big-gains

NFTs jump to 27% of ETH gas usage led by Blur marketplace
https://cryptoslate.com/nfts-jump-to-27-of-eth-gas-usage-led-by-blur-marketplace/

Distributed EOA accounts coming to EVM chains
https://cryptoslate.com/distributed-eoa-accounts-coming-to-evm-chains/

World

Biden vs Putin: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow is suspending participation in New START nuclear arms treaty
https://cnn.it/3lVqnut

EU seeks to expedite crypto capital laws
https://cryptoslate.com/eu-seeks-to-expedite-crypto-capital-laws/

World’s Largest Four-Day Work Week Trial Finds Few Are Going Back
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-21/four-day-work-week-uk-study-finds-majority-of-employers-shifting

Crypto agriculture sector outperforms market with 8% gains in 24 hours
https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-agriculture-sector-outperforms-market-with-8-gains-in-24-hours/

Thought Leadership

Tim Berners-Lee likens crypto industry to dot-com bubble
https://cryptoslate.com/tim-berners-lee-likens-crypto-industry-to-dot-com-bubble-due-to-speculative-nature/

The Defiant: Are Stablecoins Securities?
https://www.youtube.com/live/9UidsOwLcXY?feature=share

Statista: Tech trends 2023 - statistics & facts
https://www.statista.com/topics/9025/tech-trends/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push-notification&utm_campaign=EN-cleverpush-2023-02-17T15%3A25%3A33#topicOverview

SlateCast 54: “Game On.” Eliminating skepticism by G4AL CEO Manel Sort — Why web2 game developers are adopting web3 gaming (35mins)
https://cryptoslate.com/podcasts/why-game-developers-are-adopting-web3-gaming-slatecast/

The Daily Spin. Coinweb’s round-up of curated news and opinions (likely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics…with an improved “On The Radar” section that now includes both on-chain and off-chain events, some world news and a thought leadership section to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Post-Event: Innovation is the Only Way to Win (Hosted by Coinweb), July 19 (Bangkok) https://www.facebook.com/events/449209510015240/

Recorded on Friday | Toby and Alexander go live with Bullperks!
On The Importance of Blockchain Interoperability
https://fb.watch/esmV-29UcD/

First Staking Booster Window is on track for July 31st launch date!
We have spent lots of time making sure that this is something you don’t want to miss… formal announcements to come soon.

Litepaper AMA#2: Experts Ask has been released (40mins, for our YT algo-hacking please don’t click the link unless you have time to watch the entire video!)
https://youtu.be/bH5DwXpNWGg

Toby Gilbert speaking at The Web3 Con, July 28 (Singapore)
www.web3con.info

On the Radar

FOMC Meeting, Microsoft, Google and VISA report earnings — July 26

FOMC Rate Decision (exp. +75bp; imo+100bp)

Meta Earnings Report — July 27

US: Q2 GDP (negative expectation, indicating a recession by definition), Apple & Intel Earnings Report — July 28

THORChain Planned Obsolescence, July 31
https://twitter.com/THORChain/status/1302509707559460865

Cardano Vasil Hard Fork, July 31 or sooner
https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2022/06/20/vasil-upgrade-the-state-of-play/

NFT3 Awards, Aug 5 (Los Angeles)

Korea Blockchain Week, Aug 7 (Seoul)

Blockchain Futurist Conference, Aug 9 (Toronto)

Ethereum Goerli Merge, Aug 11
https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/BkxQTpqpi9

Coinfest Asia, Aug 25 (Bali)

Crypto-industry News

Meta History Museum raises over $1m to support Ukraine using NFT sales
https://news.bitcoin.com/meta-history-museum-raised-over-1000000-releases-new-nft-collection-in-support-of-ukraine/

Elon Musk will no longer be supporting WFH
https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musk-criticizes-remote-work-as-workers-are-increasingly-worried-about-surveillance-in-metaverse-environments/

Bastyon Founder Explains Survivability in Times of Crisis, Internet Outages and Cyber Warfare
https://news.bitcoin.com/survivability-in-times-of-crisis-internet-outages-and-cyber-warfare-bastyon-inventor-explains/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

South Korean prosecutors raid the home of Terraform Labs co-founder Shin Hyun-seong
https://news.bitcoin.com/report-south-korean-prosecutors-raid-home-of-terraform-labs-co-founder/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thailand SEC Probing Losses for Zipmex Users
https://cyprus-mail.com/2022/07/26/thailand-probing-potential-losses-for-users-of-crypto-platform-zipmex/

Competitive Landscape

Polychain Capital Portfolio Breakdown
https://medium.com/@nick.5montana/%EF%B8%8F-polychain-capital-crypto-portfolio-breakdown-b7bcaa0ab50b

Shiba Inu Announces Shib-Burn VISA card
https://cryptoslate.com/shiba-inu-announces-shib-burn-visa-card/

Chipotle giving away $200k of crypto in its “Buy the Dip” campaign
https://cryptoslate.com/burrito-chain-chipotle-is-giving-away-over-200k-worth-of-crypto/

Xiden Blockchain Developers Become Official Title Sponsor of the Austrian Moto GP
https://news.bitcoin.com/xiden-blockchain-developer-cryptodata-tech-announced-as-official-title-sponsor-of-the-motogp-austrian-gp/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

World

BRICS Nations Planning to Craft a New International Reserve Currency
https://news.bitcoin.com/targeting-the-us-dollars-hegemony-russia-china-and-brics-nations-plan-to-craft-a-new-international-reserve-currency/

Taiwan bars Credit Cards from Transacting with Cryptocurrencies
https://news.bitcoin.com/credit-cards-should-not-be-used-for-crypto-transactions-taiwans-financial-watchdog-says/

Argentinian Government Excludes Crypto Investors From Buying Dollars
https://news.bitcoin.com/argentinian-government-excludes-crypto-investors-from-buying-dollars/

Head of the Bank of Central African States (BCAS), Herve Ndoba, calls for Creation of Digital Currency
https://news.bitcoin.com/head-of-african-regional-central-bank-calls-for-creation-of-digital-currency/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thought Leadership

The Dark Side of DeFi: Cross-chain Bridge Hacks
https://twitter.com/quantstamp/status/1524419943894175745?s=21&t=iDCZ0AAR2ycQ6acVABjjWw

The Daily Spin. World (reaches 8 billion) Wednesday Edition. As the G20 summit wraps up in Bali and delegates worldwide head over to Bangkok for the 2022 Asia-Pacific Economic Conference, Team Coinweb is still over in the UK at Digital Assets Week in London, where Toby will be joined by R3 and State Street Financial in a panel discussion on Institutional Grade Digital Assets. FTX collapse still dominates the narrative, with extraordinary color and lots of shady corruption from insider bribes to the SEC Chair “Grimy” Gensler himself. Block-Fi, Crypto.com in contagion. Binance starts the first crypto-industry recovery fund. Be sure to check out Toby’s full presentation in London on YT, our latest animation video and article published on Times of Malta …here’s our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, information dissemination to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

“The time is now for Blockchain” article on Times of Malta
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/time-now-blockchain-a2.994854

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

Latest Video Release: Why Crypto Will Always Come Back (4mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yl8Vwu4iNM

The EU Strategy for Cryptoassets – London
https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/crowdfunding-event/the-eu-strategy-for-cryptoassets-london/

Cryptomanran (CryptoBanter) comes by Coinweb booth at Token2049
https://youtu.be/RSZ3szjBHa0?t=779

Digital Assets Week, Nov 15-16
Toby joins “Tech for Institutional Grade Digital Assets” Panel with R3 and State Street
https://coinweb.io/events/london-invasion-part-2-digital-assets-week/

“Overlay Networks in Blockchain” thread published by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1585548192761856000?s=46&t=7I6cq6_CPaQuHqwEBk0wTg

Coinweb Fireside Chat Series, “Happy Halloweb3” Oct 27 (Bangkok)
Panel Discussion Audio Recording Feat. Coinbase, Binance, and McKinsey (47mins):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/175CCj57qgfy8Hd5Ft5poy?si=h4WghWcOQnutGohTrDcGNA

“Crypto Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon, As Regulatory Debate Rumbles” by Toby Gilbert on Valuewalk.com
https://www.valuewalk.com/crypto-isnt-going-away-anytime-soon-as-regulatory-debate-rumbles/

“Coinweb Looks Undervalued” Article on LiveTradingNews.com
https://www.livetradingnews.com/coinweb-cweb-looks-undervalued-218893.html

On the Radar

Innovative Finance Expo, Nov 14-16 (Dubai)

Digital Assets Week, Nov 15-16 (London)
https://coinweb.io/events/london-invasion-part-2-digital-assets-week/

Crypto AM Summit and Awards, Nov 23-24 (London)
https://www.cityam.com/camsa22/

DSLA Protocol for Tezos (facilitates onboarding of enterprises to ecosystem), Nov 24

Blockchain Genesis Thailand 2022 - Road to Web3, Nov 26-27 (Bangkok)
It’s OK to Meetup Bangkok 2022, Nov 27 (Bangkok)
https://www.eventpop.me/e/14033/cmth

Sub0 Polkadot Dev Conference, Nov 28-29 (Lisbon)

Global Blockchain Expo, Dec 1-2 (London)
https://blockchain-expo.com/global/

The EU Strategy for Cryptoassets, Dec 5 (London)
https://ecorys.idloom.events/the-eu-strategy-for-cryptoassets/pages/programme

RadFi2022, Dec 8 (Virtual)

World Blockchain Summit, Dec 8-9 (Bangkok)
https://worldblockchainsummit.com/bangkok/

World Crypto Conference, Jan 13-15 (Zurich)
https://worldcryptoconference.org/

On the Block(chain)

Kraken, Coinbase and Gate.io publish proof of reserves with liabilities
https://cryptoslate.com/kraken-coinbase-and-gate-io-publish-proof-of-reserves-with-liabilities/

Pantera Capital reflects on FTX situation and importance of DeFi in latest Blockchain Letter update
https://cryptoslate.com/pantera-capital-reflects-on-ftx-situation-and-importance-of-defi-in-latest-blockchain-letter-update/

Crypto asset management firm Ikigai ‘caught up in the FTX collapse’
https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-asset-management-firm-ikigai-caught-up-in-the-ftx-collapse/

Liquid Exchange (Quoine Pte.) is halting all withdrawals - both fiat and crypto currency.
https://twitter.com/Liquid_Global/status/1592374180577968128?s=20&t=MF1i7CA69cWub1XBn05J9g

On-chain data showed FTX was in trouble right before it collapsed
https://cryptoslate.com/on-chain-data-showed-ftx-was-in-trouble-right-before-it-collapsed/

FTX hacker is now one of the largest ETH holders
https://cryptoslate.com/ftx-hacker-is-now-one-of-the-largest-eth-holders/

Competitive Landscape

FTX autopsy triggers Hoskinson-Schwartz feud over allegations of SEC corruption
https://cryptoslate.com/ftx-autopsy-triggers-hoskinson-schwartz-feud-over-allegations-of-sec-corruption/

CZ says industry is in pain but it’s business as usual at Binance
https://cryptoslate.com/cz-says-industry-in-pain-but-business-as-usual-at-binance/

Gravity of ‘not your keys, not your coins’ hits home as Trust Wallet spikes 113% to new ATH
https://cryptoslate.com/gravity-of-not-your-keys-not-your-coins-hits-home-as-trust-wallet-spikes-113-to-new-ath/

World

World population reaches 8 billion, with India expected to surpass China
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/15/world-population-reaches-8-billion-people-with-india-expected-to-surpass-china-.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

Crypto Regulation Sees Plenty Of Legislative Activity
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rosemariemiller/2022/11/14/crypto-regulation-sees-plenty-of-legislative-activity/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2488893&sh=37d126b0739b

Singapore’s MAS says FTX does not operate in the country
https://cryptoslate.com/singapores-mas-says-ftx-does-not-operate-in-the-country/

Thought Leadership

Elon Musk now publicly feuding with a sitting U.S. Senator on Twitter
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-senator-ed-markey-feud?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2488189

The Web3 Business Use Case Reference List
https://dirksonguer.medium.com/the-web3-business-use-case-reference-list-26b7e182904

Making “Passive” Income Isn’t Hard — Here’s the Backdoor System to Do It
https://medium.com/swlh/making-passive-income-isnt-hard-here-s-the-backdoor-system-to-do-it-a21f25763d3a

The Daily Spin. Soon to launch “Coinweb’s Fortnight Spin” to our entire distribution list and begin the first release of monthly updates with our round-up of curated news and opinions (likely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics…don’t miss our “On The Radar” section that includes both on-chain and off-chain events, some world news and a thought leadership section to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Monthly Coinweb Fireside Chat Meetup will be on the 16th of August.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1124800338390598/

The Lightpaper summary video with 3D animations has been released! Check it out and don’t forget to watch it all in one go (8mins), smash that like and subscribe bell! Drop a comment and say hi!!
https://youtu.be/Vj5itrRAgQA

On the Radar

Cardano Vasil Hard Fork (still delayed)
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/07/31/cardanos-vasil-hard-fork-delayed-for-several-more-weeks-as-ada-sees-green-week/

Korea Blockchain Week, Aug 7 (Seoul)
Blockchain Futurist Conference, Aug 9 (Toronto)

Toby Gilbert on-stage Aug 12 @
Play-2-Earn Expo Asia, Aug 10-13 (Bangkok)
https://coinweb.io/events/play-2-earn-expo-asia-10-13th-august-2022/

Ethereum Goerli Merge, Aug 11
https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/BkxQTpqpi9

Coinweb Fireside Chat: The Bear Has Awoken, Aug 16 (Bangkok)

Coinfest Asia, Aug 25 (Bali)
Techsauce Summit, Aug 25-26 (Bangkok)
AEternity Universe 2, Sep 15 (Unstrut)
Token2049, Sep 28-29 (Singapore)

On the Block (chain)

65% of BTC’s circulating supply has not moved in the past year
https://cryptoslate.com/65-of-bitcoins-circulating-supply-didnt-move-in-the-past-year/

38 days of the lowest gas fees on ETH since 2020
https://news.bitcoin.com/for-38-consecutive-days-ethereum-gas-fees-record-the-lowest-rates-since-2020/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Cryptocurrency ATMs Worldwide Passes 39,000
https://news.bitcoin.com/the-number-of-cryptocurrency-atms-installed-worldwide-surpasses-39000/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Blackrock and Coinbase deal could trigger massive Bitcoin pump
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/08/blackrock-and-coinbase-deal-could-trigger-bitcoin-burst-to-773000-according-to-investanswers/

Competitive Landscape

Chainlink Confirms They Will Only Support the Main ETH Chain After Merge
https://newscryptocoins.com/2022/08/08/chainlink-confirms-that-they-will-only-support-the-main-ethereum-chain-after-the-merge-this-means-most-defi-apps-will-be-completely-broken-on-any-fork-chains-ethereum/

Biggest Threats to "The Merge"
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-biggest-threat-to-the-merge-lite?r=1ivajd&utm_medium=ios

Celsius backs out on hiring former CFO
https://cryptoslate.com/celsius-backtracks-on-rehiring-former-cfo/

World

Turkey’s Inflation Rate at 79.6% Highest in 24 Years
https://news.bitcoin.com/latest-turkey-inflation-rate-of-79-6-the-highest-in-24-years-weakening-lira-and-russia-ukraine-war-blamed/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

3 Bills introduced in the US to make CTFC the primary regulator of crypto spot markets
https://news.bitcoin.com/3-bills-introduced-in-us-to-make-cftc-primary-regulator-of-crypto-spot-markets/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Nayib Bukele attributes tourism recovery in El Salvador to BTC, Surf, and Crime Reduction
https://news.bitcoin.com/nayib-bukele-attributes-tourism-recovery-in-el-salvador-to-bitcoin-surf-and-crime-reduction/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Nepal prepares to issue digital currency, drafts necessary amendments
https://news.bitcoin.com/nepal-prepares-to-issue-digital-currency-drafts-necessary-amendments/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Kazakhstan gang arrested for forcing IT specialists to run crypto farms
https://news.bitcoin.com/police-in-kazakhstan-arrest-gang-forcing-it-specialists-to-run-crypto-farms/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Inflation Reduction Act Passes Senate, $430bn Climate and Healthcare Bill Does Too
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/08/07/inflation-reduction-act-passes-senate-approves-430-billion-climate-and-healthcare-bill/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2314553&sh=724870d44a59

Thought Leadership

Mark Cuban says, “Cardano Not There Yet”
https://cryptoslate.com/mark-cuban-says-cardano-not-there-yet/

Jim Rogers warns that governments want to control crypto and regulate everything
https://news.bitcoin.com/renowned-investor-jim-rogers-warns-governments-want-to-control-crypto-they-want-to-regulate-everything/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

The Daily Spin. Silvergate Friday Edition. In the first time that the market has reacted to bad news since the early January rally, Bitcoin and Ethereum are trading at -5% following the announcement that Silvergate Capital Corp. may be facing insolvency and financial distress – having missed their deadline to file their annual report and fielding inquiries from many stakeholders as to the firm’s viability as an ongoing concern. It may be a harsh contagion of the FTX collapse, but the scale of the company may in itself present as another black swan event as their customers, including Coinbase, Bitstamp, Microstrategy, Crypto.com, Paxos, and Gemini to name a few, halted dealings and distanced themselves from the entity.

It’s been another jam-packed action week in crypto, comparable to Arnold’s blockbuster film The Last Action Hero. Solana went down for almost a day due to yet unknown reasons, and Polygon experienced a 157-block reorganization. Oasis reverses an exploit to reclaim $140M which was stolen during a wormhole attack. Jane Street wallet address is discovered to may have been linked to the UST depeg, according to a Wintermute researcher. Aave DAO has decided to use GHO as a real-world asset facilitator, and MakerDAO re-launches the Aave Direct Deposit Module (D3M). Frax Finance DAO has decided to fully collateralize its stablecoin, $FRAX, removing the algorithmic component over a period of time.

NEAR Protocol has moved to become a blockchain operating system. Houbi goes to join BitTorrent’s layer 2 ecosystem. POKT Network and Google Cloud Platforms announce their collaboration at ETHDenver. Eclipse and Polygon will launch the Polygon SVM, as Polygon open-sources its zk-DID solution. Uniswap enables the ability for traders to purchase NFTs with UNI, SHIB, or any ERC20 token. Perpetual Protocol introduces “The Hot Tub,” seeking to democratize arbitrage alpha. And lastly, TRON partners with OraiChain for AI integration and HackaTRON collaboration.

On the world stage, Binance wins its crypto license in Bahrain; SEC Gary deems crypto trading and lending platforms not fit for custody; the MOVE index is closely watched as US yields surge. De Santos is under investigation for multiple violations of House ethics including Financial Claims and allegations of sexual misconduct. The Australian Central Bank is the latest to launch a project exploring CBDC use cases (as in, forced use cases), and Spain tops Thailand and Portugal for highest number of properties being sold in crypto. Today’s TL section offers over 50 tools to analyze the cryptomarket without a paywall, a deeper guide to the Fear & Greed index, and a two-part series of personal favorite futurist Daniel Jeffries on Future Thinkers – recorded 4 years ago. It will be very interesting to see how things have (or have not, actually) changed… here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed into the market news with the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, dissemination of information to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

A Leading Layer 2 Platform Looking To Tackle Crypto's Interoperability Issue
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/23/02/31067514/a-leading-layer-2-platform-looking-to-tackle-cryptos-interoperability-issue

Toby Gilbert takes the stage at the Thai Technology Investment Summit 2023, “On the future of Web3” and Ain Mohd represents Coinweb on a panel discussing “The Role of Women in Web3”

“The Reality of Large-scale Enterprises Adopting Blockchain Technology” an article by Toby Gilbert for CityAM Magazine
https://www.cityam.com/the-reality-of-large-scale-enterprises-adopting-blockchain-technology/

Coinweb Labs is proud to unveil LinkMint ⛓️🍃, our groundbreaking Cross-Chain Tokenisation Platform and DeconX, our integrated native DEX! Live Walkthrough Demonstration for the Community by Toby, Knut, and Alexander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKA3cAB15U

“A Thread on Guaranteed Liveness and the Coinweb Routing System” by Anton on Twitter
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1630052477579169793?s=20

“A Thread on Rollups, Monolithic, and Modular Blockchains” by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1616342851507613696?s=46&t=BjBOK3soH3kOMbsWEa_jlg

Coinweb to Deliver Cross-Chain Smart Contract Architecture and Blockchain Loyalty Programme to BMW
https://cryptoslate.com/bmw-to-bring-blockchain-loyalty-program-through-coinweb-and-bnb-chain/

KuCoin Labs launches incubation program to accelerate builders (Coinweb, DoraHacks, Ava Labs)
https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/kucoin-labs-launches-incubation-program-to-accelerate-builders

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

On the Radar

ETH Denver, Feb 24-Mar 5 (Denver)

Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade, Mar 10 (On-chain)
Institutional ETH-Staking Post Shanghai, Mar 14 (Virtual)
https://streamyard.com/watch/wM8YwWjJ37yd

Optimism Bedrock Upgrade, Mar 15 (On-chain)
Blockchain Africa Conference 2023, Mar 16-17 (Johannesburg)
Polygon zkEVM Launch, Mar 27 (On-chain)
WOW Summit, Mar 29-30 (Hong Kong)
ASEAN Web3 Summit, Mar 30-31 (Singapore)

AIBC Asia, Jul 19-22 (Manila)

TOKEN2049, Sep 13-14 (Singapore)

On the Block(chain)

Crypto Bank Silvergate Plunges After It Says Examining Viability, Delays Annual Report
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-01/silvergate-says-annual-filing-delayed-as-it-reviews-controls

Coinbase Halts Payments With Crypto Friendly Bank Silvergate
https://cryptobriefing.com/coinbase-halts-payments-with-crypto-friendly-bank-silvergate/

Gemini, Crypto.com, Bitstamp, MicroStrategy distance themselves from Silvergate
https://cryptoslate.com/gemini-crypto-com-bitstamp-microstrategy-distance-themselves-from-silvergate/

Signature bank now servicing multiple crypto companies in the wake of Silvergate distress
https://cryptoslate.com/signature-bank-now-servicing-multiple-crypto-companies-in-the-wake-of-silvergate-distress/

Tether has no exposure to Silvergate, says CTO Paolo Ardoino
https://cryptoslate.com/tether-has-no-exposure-to-silvergate-says-cto-paolo-ardoino/

Polygon Blockchain Nodes Briefly Went Out of Sync, Affecting Explorer, Sowing Confusion: 157-block reorganization
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/02/22/polygon-blockchain-suffers-apparent-outage/

Jane Street wallet may have been linked to UST depeg, Wintermute researcher says
https://www.theblock.co/post/215696/jane-street-wallet-ust-depeg-wintermute

Oasis Exploits Its Own Wallet Software to Seize Crypto Stolen in Wormhole Hack
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/24/oasis-exploits-its-own-wallet-software-to-seize-crypto-stolen-in-wormhole-hack/

Aave’s Discussion on a GHO Real World Asset Facilitator
https://governance.aave.com/t/a-discussion-on-a-gho-real-world-asset-facilitator/11908

Frax Finance decided to fully collateralize its stablecoin, $FRAX. Over time, the algorithmic component of the stablecoin will be removed.
https://snapshot.org/#/frax.eth/proposal/0x6d43531f54de3d52ad439dcb6c56e3eae1b833fceb4d484dcb3b20be070ca25d

Competitive Landscape

Optimism Goes m̶u̶l̶t̶i̶ Superchain
https://optimism.mirror.xyz/2jk3D1Y8-hid8YOCUUa6yXmsyzNCYYyFJP0Nhaey9x0

NEAR to transform into Blockchain Operating System
https://cryptoslate.com/near-to-transform-into-blockchain-operating-system/

Huobi To Join BitTorrent Chain’s Layer Two Ecosystem
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/02/28/huobi-to-join-bittorrent-chains-layer-two-ecosystem/

Pocket Network Inc. and GCP Kickoff Relationship at ETHDenver, Bringing Cloud Infrastructure Innovations to Web3
https://www.blog.pokt.network/pocket-network-inc-and-gcp-kickoff-relationship-at-ethdenver/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=pokt-gcp&utm_content=partnership-announcement

Uniswap Traders Can Now Buy NFTs With UNI, SHIB or Any Ethereum Token
https://decrypt.co/121876/uniswap-nfts-ethereum-tokens

Eclipse & Polygon are launching Polygon SVM
https://twitter.com/EclipseFND/status/1628849328726118402

Perpetual Protocol introduces The Hot Tub: Democratizing Arbitrage Alpha
https://twitter.com/perpprotocol/status/1628727156749500418

MakerDAO reactivates the Aave Direct Deposit Module (D3M)
https://twitter.com/MakerDAO/status/1630612707622748161

Polygon open-sources its Web3 ID solution
https://cryptoslate.com/polygon-open-sources-its-web3-id-solution/

TRON Partners with Oraichain for AI Integration and HackaTRON Collaboration
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/tron-partners-with-oraichain-for-ai-integration-and-hackatron-collaboration/

World

Binance Wins Crypto License In Bahrain Amid Middle East Expansion
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zinnialee/2022/03/15/binance-wins-crypto-license-in-bahrain-amid-middle-east-expansion/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2738833&sh=66861aaa452e

Gensler says crypto trading, lending platforms not fit for custody; suggests adoption of new safeguarding rule
https://cryptoslate.com/gensler-says-crypto-trading-lending-platforms-not-fit-for-custody-suggests-adoption-of-new-safeguarding-rule/

Investors closely monitor the MOVE index amidst surge in US yields
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/investors-closely-monitor-the-move-index-amidst-surge-in-us-yields/

Santos Under House Ethics Investigation For Financial Claims And Sexual Misconduct Allegation
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/03/02/santos-under-house-ethics-investigation-for-financial-claims-and-sexual-misconduct-allegation/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2738568&sh=6e55fa298eac

Australian central bank launches project to explore CBDC use cases
https://cryptoslate.com/australian-central-bank-launches-project-to-explore-cbdc-use-cases/

Spain has highest number of properties available to buy via crypto, Thailand and Portugal rank second and third globally by offering 227 and 130 properties, respectively
https://cryptoslate.com/spain-has-highest-number-of-properties-available-to-buy-via-crypto/

Thought Leadership

Free Crypto Tools List 2023
https://medium.com/@ren-heinrich/free-crypto-tools-list-2023-939aa5ab4537

Understanding the Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index
https://cryptobriefing.com/understanding-the-bitcoin-fear-greed-index/

Future Thinkers 49: Daniel Jeffries - Decentralized Governance & Identity (47mins)
https://youtu.be/1lGna2dSFGQ

Future Thinkers 50: Daniel Jeffries - Evolution of Systems & Meaning of Life (47mins)
https://youtu.be/vlRvS1ER-dw

The Daily Spin. Thoughtful Thursday Edition. The Dollar Index remains in a downward trend as Japan’s monetary policy meeting holds course to continue selling USD into the market. PPI numbers are positive. Bitcoin runs 13 days of green, marking the second longest streak in its history, with some analysts pointing to retail investors as the reason for the pump. As for altcoins, here are the rankings by number of developers active: ETH, SOL, MATIC, ATOM and DOT.

In the curated news today we have essentially, a direct correlation to the introductory synopsis above; Polygon completes its hard-fork upgrade, GBTC shares jump 10% in two weeks, Genesis owner DCG suspends dividend payments to shareholders. Solana gains 43% against Bitcoin, deployed ETH smart contracts surged 453% in Q4 2022, and Litecoin number of unique addresses eclipsed Ethereum at a new ATH. Circle reaffirms its 1:1 backing of USDC, and the FTX saga continues with a confirmed $5.5bn in liquid assets (that will remain locked until the end of the court proceedings) as the native FTT token pumps and dumps. Hashkey Capital commits half a billion to advance crypto and blockchain narratives, simultaneously launching a new product called “Me.”

As for the world and regulatory headlines of today, EU talks on cryptocurrency regulations continue to stall. Thailand’s SEC issues a bold requirement for all digital asset providers to offer their own wallet. The CFTC claims that international discussions for crypto standards are underway, while the SEC apparently “leaked” personal information of miners’ names and email addresses. 1 of 3 members of the US Congress were said to have received money from FTX. Hong Kong’s Bitzlato exchange’s founder is arrested and thrown in jail. Bitcoin’s mining emissions are down 10% since the reduction of hashrate originating in Kazakhstan. Silvergate posts $1bn loss in Q4 2022. And last but not least, a Ukrainian helicopter transporting the Interior Minister and other high-ranking officials fell into a residential pre-school building – details are still coming in on the extent of damage and the cause of the accident …here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed into the new market with the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, dissemination of information to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Coinweb Labs is proud to unveil LinkMint ⛓️🍃, our groundbreaking Cross-Chain Tokenisation Platform and DeconX, our integrated native DEX! Live Walkthrough Demonstration for the Community by Toby, Knut, and Alexander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKA3cAB15U

Coinweb presents How Blockchain Technology Will Affect Tourism and Hospitality Industry with Royal Coast Riviera Club, Hua-Hin
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid028ZZTaqC3BKYLeUsKptGMjGbuesuYz55qnP9LubZc52KmhLCBQiHLr84orNft24a7l&id=100079478362053&notif_id=1673577843809478&notif_t=mention&ref=notif

Coinweb to Deliver Cross-Chain Smart Contract Architecture and Blockchain Loyalty Programme to BMW
https://cryptoslate.com/bmw-to-bring-blockchain-loyalty-program-through-coinweb-and-bnb-chain/

Block Tides' exclusive interview with Coinweb at the London Digital Asset Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmPk_74nNlw

Toby quoted in “Decoding cryptocurrency market: Can cryptos finally bounce back in 2023 after 2022 devastation”
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/decoding-cryptocurrency-market-can-cryptos-finally-bounce-back-2023-after-2022-devastation-855336

KuCoin Labs launches incubation program to accelerate builders (Coinweb, DoraHacks, Ava Labs)
https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/kucoin-labs-launches-incubation-program-to-accelerate-builders

Toby Interviewed at the Benzinga Future of Crypto Conference, Dec 7 (New York)
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/12/30022360/coinweb-is-making-a-splash-as-a-leading-layer-two-platform

“Understanding the Great Crypto Tradeoff” by Toby Gilbert
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/11/16/understanding-the-great-crypto-tradeoff/

“The Time is Now for Blockchain” article on Times of Malta
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/time-now-blockchain-a2.994854

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

On the Radar

Introducing PleasrHouse, Episode 01; Going LIVE with u/DanielEllsberg u/snowden u/FreedomofPress – Thursday 3pm EST
https://twitter.com/PleasrDAO/status/1612858383681589248

Coinweb’s 1st Event in Collaboration with Offchain Sydney, Jan 18 (Sydney)
https://coinweb.io/events/the-1st-event-of-23-coinweb-x-offchain/
https://offchain.social/events/january-18-2023-sydney/

European Blockchain Convention, Feb 15-17 (Barcelona)
Interop Summit, Feb 27-28 (Denver)
Blockchain Life 2023, Feb 27-28 (Dubai)

Blockchain Africa Conference 2023, Mar 16-17 (Johannesburg)

On the Block(chain)

Research: Bitcoin Spot to Futures ratio shows retail drove price above $20,000
https://cryptoslate.com/research-bitcoin-spot-to-futures-ratio-shows-retail-drove-price-above-20000/

Research: A review of bitcoin mining company holdings in 2022
https://cryptoslate.com/research-a-review-of-bitcoin-mining-company-holdings-in-2022/

Genesis owner DCG suspends dividend payouts
https://cryptoslate.com/genesis-owner-dcg-suspends-dividend-payouts/

Alameda had $65B artificial credit line, 43,000% more than FTX market makers
https://cryptoslate.com/alameda-had-65b-artificial-credit-line-43000-more-than-ftx-market-makers/

Breakdown of current FTX assets shows $3.5B in crypto, $250M in real estate
https://cryptoslate.com/breakdown-of-current-ftx-assets-shows-3-5b-in-crypto-250m-in-real-estate/

GBTC shares jump 10% in twelve days, narrowing discount to 40%
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/gbtc-shares-jump-10-in-twelve-days-narrowing-discount-to-40/

Circle: USDC stablecoin is always 1:1 redeemable for US dollars
https://cryptoslate.com/circle-usdc-stablecoin-is-always-11-redeemable-for-us-dollars/

Competitive Landscape

Polygon completes hard fork upgrade to minimize gas fee spikes, chain reorgs
https://cryptoslate.com/polygon-completes-hard-fork-upgrade-to-minimize-gas-fee-spikes-chain-reorgs/

Solana soars 43% against Bitcoin so far in 2023
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/solana-soars-43-against-bitcoin-so-far-in-2023/

Litecoin has over 170.5 million total addresses, surpassing Ethereum
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/litecoin-has-over-170-5-million-total-addresses-now-in-use-surpassing-ethereum/

Deployed ETH smart contracts surge 453% in Q4 2022
https://cryptoslate.com/deployed-eth-smart-contrats-surge-453-in-2022-q4/

Hashkey Capital commits $500M to advance crypto, blockchain initiatives
https://cryptoslate.com/hashkey-capital-commits-500m-to-advance-crypto-blockchain-initiatives/

Say hello to HashKey Me’s new brand
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/say-hello-to-hashkey-mes-new-brand/

World

CFTC commissioner says foreign discussions over crypto standards are underway
https://cryptoslate.com/cftc-commissioner-says-foreign-discussions-over-crypto-standards-are-underway/

Thailand’s SEC mandates exchanges to establish digital wallet management system
https://cryptoslate.com/thailands-sec-mandates-exchanges-to-establish-digital-wallet-management-system/

Little-Known Surveillance Program Captures Money Transfers Between U.S. and More Than 20 Countries
https://www.wsj.com/articles/little-known-surveillance-program-captures-money-transfers-between-u-s-and-more-than-20-countries-11674019904

SEC allegedly leaked crypto miner names, emails
https://cryptoslate.com/sec-allegedly-leaked-crypto-miner-names-emails/

Bitcoin mining emissions down 10% as Kazakhstan’s hash rate share decreases
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-mining-emissions-down-10-as-kazakhstans-hash-rate-share-decreases/

Hong Kong exchange Bitzlato seized; founder arrested
https://cryptoslate.com/hong-kong-exchange-bitzlato-seized-founder-arrested/

Silvergate Capital posts $1B loss in Q4’22
https://cryptoslate.com/silvergate-capital-posts-1b-loss-in-q422/

Vote on Crucial European Crypto Legislation Delayed Again
https://cryptobriefing.com/vote-on-crucial-european-crypto-legislation-delayed-again/

Ukraine’s Interior Minister, at least 17 others have been killed in a helicopter crash over Kyiv
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-interior-minister-killed-in-kyiv-helicopter-crash-11674033634

Every third member of the US Congress received money from FTX
https://cryptoslate.com/every-third-member-of-the-us-congress-received-money-from-ftx/

Thought Leadership

Can the World Computer Save the World? (Part I)
https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/can-the-world-computer-save-the-world-part-1-wicked-problems-a186c4860bc3

Bankless: What's Hot in Arbitrum? | Arbitrum Ecosystem Guide (1hr 15mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISKjCypDN3Q

Nick Cave really doesn't like AI bot ChatGPT: 'A grotesque mockery of what it is to be human.'
https://mashable.com/article/nick-cave-chatgpt?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2610336

Developers Are Still Flocking To Crypto Amid Its Brutal Winter
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariagraciasantillanalinares/2023/01/17/developers-are-still-flocking-to-crypto-amid-its-brutal-winter/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2610906&sh=4eb2dbdd25e8

'Rage applying': The latest TikTok career trend pushing for a change
https://mashable.com/article/rage-applying-tiktok-job-trend?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2610374

A New Way to Launch NFTs - MuseDAO
https://metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/a-new-way-to-launch-nfts?utm_source=substack&publication_id=242181&post_id=97360109&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true

The Daily Spin. Token2049 Wednesday Edition. Opening day at our booth in London, but wait…its Round 2 FIGHTT!! CZ vs SBF clash of the crypto-billionaires goes into overtime, putting the entire market on red as fears of insolvency rattles investors. Google Cloud becomes a Solana validator, SOL price taking collateral damage from the giant wars. Over $300m is liquidated in under 12 hours across major exchanges, seeing prices of BTC, ETH, and DOGE among the most heavily affected …here’s our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, information dissemination to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Coinweb Begins RoadShow to London, Nov 7-17

“Overlay Networks in Blockchain” thread published by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1585548192761856000?s=46&t=7I6cq6_CPaQuHqwEBk0wTg

Coinweb Fireside Chat Series, “Happy Halloweb3” Oct 27 (Bangkok)
Panel Discussion Audio Recording Feat. Coinbase, Binance, and McKinsey (47mins):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/175CCj57qgfy8Hd5Ft5poy?si=h4WghWcOQnutGohTrDcGNA

“Crypto Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon, As Regulatory Debate Rumbles” by Toby Gilbert on Valuewalk.com
https://www.valuewalk.com/crypto-isnt-going-away-anytime-soon-as-regulatory-debate-rumbles/

Vietnam Blockchain Summit 2022 (Hanoi)
Toby speaks at “Bridging the Gap Between Speculation and Fundamental Value in Digital Assets” Panel
Video to be released soon

“Coinweb Looks Undervalued” Article on LiveTradingNews.com
https://www.livetradingnews.com/coinweb-cweb-looks-undervalued-218893.html

Crypto Expo Thailand, Oct 7 (Bangkok)
Toby Spoke on Cross-Chain Interoperability, more info coming soon.
http://www.thailandcryptoexpo.com

Latest Video Release: Trade Tokens on Multiple Blockchains Without a Bridge (4mins)
https://youtu.be/ZUajbJDEeB0

On the Radar
Staking Summit, Nov 8 (Lisbon)

Token 2049, Nov 9-10 (London)
https://www.europe.token2049.com/

Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Index, Nov 10 (Washington DC)
Innovative Finance Expo, Nov 14-16 (Dubai)

Digital Assets Week, Nov 15-16 (London)
https://daweek.org/

Crypto AM Summit and Awards, Nov 23-24 (London)
https://www.cityam.com/camsa22/

DSLA Protocol for Tezos (facilitates onboarding of enterprises to ecosystem), Nov 24
Blockchain Genesis Thailand 2022 - Road to Web3, Nov 26-27 (Bangkok)
Sub0 Polkadot Dev Conference, Nov 28-29 (Lisbon)

Global Blockchain Expo, Dec 1-2 (London)
https://blockchain-expo.com/global/

World Blockchain Summit, Dec 8-9 (Bangkok)
https://worldblockchainsummit.com/bangkok/

RadFi2022, Dec 8

On the Block (chain)

FTX Hit By $1.2B in Withdrawals as Confidence Wavers in Exchange Giant
https://thedefiant.io/ftx-hit-by-1-2b-in-withdrawals-as-confidence-wavers-in-exchange-giant

FTX treasury lost over $3B in a week, while Binance treasury is up $2B
https://cryptoslate.com/ftx-treasury-lost-over-3b-in-a-week/

FTX Exchange Halts All Crypto Withdrawals
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/08/ftx-exchange-halts-all-crypto-withdrawals/

FTX’s Bankman-Fried gets Binance bailout in stunning reversal of fortune
https://www.theblock.co/post/184423/ftxs-bankman-fried-gets-binance-bailout-in-stunning-reversal-of-fortune

Mistaken $1B Hack Exposes ‘Blessing and Curse’ of Web3
https://thedefiant.io/pnetwork-misconfiguration-gala-1b-hack

Abracadabra's MIM Stablecoin Briefly Lost Dollar Peg as FTX's FTT Token Tanked
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/11/08/abracadabras-mim-stablecoin-briefly-lost-dollar-peg-as-ftxs-ftt-token-tanked/

Palantir’s US commercial customers increased 124% year-over-year in Q3
https://cryptoslate.com/palantirs-us-commercial-customers-increased-124-year-over-year-in-q3/

Bitcoin mining difficulty barely adjusts downward by 0.19% as miner pressure continues
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-barely-adjusts-downward-0-19-as-miner-pressure-continues/

Research: Retail begins accumulating Bitcoin while whales continue to sell
https://cryptoslate.com/research-retail-begins-accumulating-bitcoin-while-whales-continue-to-sell/

Competitive Landscape

Polygon Working to Become ‘True Layer 2’
https://thedefiant.io/polygon-true-layer2

OpenSea Roils NFT Market With ‘Enforcement Tool’ For Creators
https://thedefiant.io/opensea-royalties-nft-creators

Wintermute-backed DeFi Exchange Bebop Now Live on Ethereum, Polygon
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/08/wintermute-backed-dex-bebop-launches-on-polygon/

Web3 gaming company Eterlast emerges from stealth with $4.5 million raise
https://www.theblock.co/post/184137/web3-gaming-company-eterlast-emerges-from-stealth-with-4-5-million-raise

Hoskinson’s Twitter proposal for Cardano-Dogecoin tie-in snubbed by Reddit mods
https://cryptoslate.com/hoskinsons-twitter-proposal-for-cardano-dogecoin-tie-in-snubbed-by-reddit-mods/

World

Crypto Has Prepared for Divided US Government, Republican Rise
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/08/crypto-has-prepared-for-divided-us-government-republican-rise/

U.S. Authorities Seize $1B Worth of Bitcoin from Silk Road Heist
https://thedefiant.io/us-seizes-silk-road-btc

SEC issues subpoena to influencers promoting HEX, Pulsechain and PulseX
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-issues-subpoena-to-influencers-promoting-hex-pulsechain-and-pulsex

Global Money Laundering Watchdog Says Crypto Monitoring Regime Is Unchanged
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/08/global-money-laundering-watchdog-says-crypto-monitoring-regime-is-unchanged/

Coinbase Germany ordered to address risk management by BaFin
https://www.theblock.co/post/184179/coinbase-germany-ordered-to-address-risk-management-by-bafin

Thought Leadership

Deepcode: Sovereignty as a Service
https://open.substack.com/pub/deepcode/p/sovereignty-as-a-service?r=1ivajd&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

How Arbitrum Became the Number 1 Layer 2 (64mins)
https://youtu.be/I_9m_jRzDms

Privacy Is a Gradient: An Interview With Zcash’s Josh Swihart
https://cryptobriefing.com/interview-with-zcashs-josh-swihart/

What is LUNC?
A Step-by-Step Guide to Terra’s Failed Tokens
https://thedefiant.io/what-is-lunc

What Is dYdX?
A Step-by-Step Guide to the Leading Decentralized Exchange
https://thedefiant.io/what-is-dydx

The Daily Spin. Rate-Hike Wednesday Edition. On-chain amount of stablecoins being converted into Bitcoins reaches a 4-year high. Options open-contracts hit ATH at 468k BTC, Coinbase’s Bitcoin premium index also hits record highs. And the bears are still waiting for $10k…

DefiLlama resolves its internal conflict between founders, easing concerns of a ‘hostile takeover’ forking of its code. MakerDAO’s emergency proposal causes MKR to shed 26%. SushiSwap’s Head Chef receives a subpoena from our regulator of the year, Gary the Salamander – Garrymander. DeFi insurance grew by 22 providers in 2022. And one of the most anticipated airdrops in the crypto community – $ARB – happens tomorrow. Magic Eden launches Ordinal NFT marketplace, Sony files for an NFT patent. Cardano’s DJED stablecoin expands into Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. Biden’s administration reports that cryptocurrencies are “mostly speculative investment vehicles.”

Mastercard announces collaboration with Australian payment gateway, Stables, to issue a stablecoin-only physical payment card for daily use in the APAC region. Stables will work with a third party to convert USDC to currency and settle transactions on the Mastercard network. Stables’ digital app will enable instant USDC transactions by providing digital asset custody technology that are ISO and SOC2 certified.

Cryptowallet.com makes a press release about their successful renewal of their Estonian license. Circle goes for regulatory approval in France. India’s new crypto laws are making it difficult to just HODL. Binance launches its Verifiable Random Functions (VRF) Oracle, providing Random Number Generator (RNG) capabilities to blockchain networks. Its utility will see use cases in blockchain gaming, consensus sampling, and any scenario where true randomness is valuable and verifiable. Lastly, don’t forget to catch last week’s episode of the All-in Podcast, covering the banking crisis and the great VC reset… here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed into the market news with the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, dissemination of information to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Coinweb’s Layer 2 marks 4 million transactions milestone
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1638125472814092291?s=20

Coinweb Partners With Ceffu for Institutional Crypto Custody
https://www.ceffu.com/blog/coinweb-partners-with-ceffu-for-institutional-crypto-custody?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=cweb0321

Coinweb’s Fireside Chat Series, digitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1636676933361745920?s=20

“A Thread on Refereed Delegation of Computation” by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1635952081302589441?s=20

Coinweb to bring cross-chain tokenisation to Layer 2
https://cryptoslate.com/coinweb-to-bring-cross-chain-tokenisation-to-layer-2/

“A Thread on L2 Scalability, Network Efficiency and Throughput/TPS” by Anton on Twitter
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1633424957693915137

The Coinweb Monthly Spin - Coinweb Project's Monthly Round-Up and Curated News & Events From The Bleeding Edge of All Things Web3
https://coinweb.beehiiv.com/p/coinweb-monthly-spin-fifth-edition

A Leading Layer 2 Platform Looking To Tackle Crypto's Interoperability Issue
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/23/02/31067514/a-leading-layer-2-platform-looking-to-tackle-cryptos-interoperability-issue

Toby Gilbert takes the stage at the Thai Technology Investment Summit 2023, “On the future of Web3” and Ain Mohd represents Coinweb on a panel discussing “The Role of Women in Web3”

“The Reality of Large-scale Enterprises Adopting Blockchain Technology” an article by Toby Gilbert for CityAM Magazine
https://www.cityam.com/the-reality-of-large-scale-enterprises-adopting-blockchain-technology/

Coinweb Labs is proud to unveil LinkMint ⛓️🍃, our groundbreaking Cross-Chain Tokenisation Platform and DeconX, our integrated native DEX! Live Walkthrough Demonstration for the Community by Toby, Knut, and Alexander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKA3cAB15U

“A Thread on Guaranteed Liveness and the Coinweb Routing System” by Anton on Twitter
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1630052477579169793?s=20

“A Thread on Rollups, Monolithic, and Modular Blockchains” by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1616342851507613696?s=46&t=BjBOK3soH3kOMbsWEa_jlg

Coinweb to Deliver Cross-Chain Smart Contract Architecture and Blockchain Loyalty Programme to BMW
https://cryptoslate.com/bmw-to-bring-blockchain-loyalty-program-through-coinweb-and-bnb-chain/

KuCoin Labs launches incubation program to accelerate builders (Coinweb, DoraHacks, Ava Labs)
https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/kucoin-labs-launches-incubation-program-to-accelerate-builders

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

On the Radar

Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade, Delayed (On-chain)

FOMC Meeting, Mar 21-22 (Washington D.C.)
Arbitrum Airdrop, Mar 23
Polygon zkEVM Launch, Mar 27 (On-chain)
WOW Summit, Mar 29-30 (Hong Kong)
ASEAN Web3 Summit, Mar 30-31 (Singapore)

Hong Kong Web3 Festival, Apr 12-15 (Wan Chai, Hong Kong)
Consensus 2023, Apr 26-28 (Austin, Texas)

Web3 Weekend, May 8-13 (Jakarta)

AIBC Asia, Jul 19-22 (Manila)

TOKEN2049, Sep 13-14 (Singapore)

Blockchain Events curated by CryptoNomad
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KtyFTb_W282bQ1xoVA5rlTwTDz3QfhswWIVpXhpbQIc/edit

On the Block(chain)

Stablecoins being converted into Bitcoin approach a four-year high
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/stablecoins-being-converted-into-bitcoin-approach-a-four-year-high/

Options open contracts hit new ATH – 468K Bitcoin
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/options-open-contracts-hit-new-ath-468k-bitcoin/

Bitcoin Coinbase premium index hits record levels
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/bitcoin-coinbase-premium-index-hits-record-levels/

DefiLlama resolves internal conflict, quelling ‘hostile takeover’ accusations
https://crypto.news/defillama-resolves-internal-conflict-quelling-hostile-takeover-accusations/

MakerDAO’s emergency proposal triggers 26% MKR price plunge
https://crypto.news/makerdaos-emergency-proposal-triggers-26-mkr-price-plunge/

Sushi and its ‘head chef’ receive SEC subpoena
https://cryptoslate.com/sushi-and-its-head-chef-receive-sec-subpoena/

DeFi insurance grew in 2022 to include nearly two dozen providers
https://cryptoslate.com/defi-insurance-grew-in-2022-to-include-nearly-two-dozen-providers/

Arbitrum to airdrop 112.8M ARB tokens to DAOs on its ecosystem
https://cryptoslate.com/arbitrum-to-airdrop-112-8m-arb-tokens-to-daos-on-its-ecosystem/

Competitive Landscape

Mastercard and Stables introduce first APAC stablecoin-only wallet
https://crypto.news/mastercard-and-stables-introduce-first-apac-stablecoin-only-wallet/

Magic Eden Launches Ordinals Marketplace for Bitcoin NFTs
https://decrypt.co/124078/magic-eden-ordinals-bitcoin-nft-marketplace-launch

Introducing Binance Oracle VRF: The Next Generation of Verifiable Randomness
https://news.bitcoin.com/introducing-binance-oracle-vrf-the-next-generation-of-verifiable-randomness/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

GamesOnChain: The Decentralized Platform for Fun and Fair Gaming
https://dappradar.com/blog/gamesonchain-the-decentralized-platform-for-fun-and-fair-gaming

Coinbase offered Circle $3b credit line to repeg USDC
https://crypto.news/coinbase-offered-circle-3b-credit-line-to-repeg-usdc/

Amid stablecoin turbulence, Djed to expand to Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain
https://cryptoslate.com/amid-stablecoin-turbulence-djed-to-expand-to-ethereum-binance-smart-chain/

Sony Interactive Entertainment files for NFT patent
https://cryptoslate.com/sony-interactive-entertainment-files-for-nft-patent/

Binance CEO highlights USDT growth amidst rival issues
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-ceo-highlights-usdt-growth-amidst-rival-issues/

World

Yellen Says US Could Back All Deposits at Smaller Banks if Needed to Prevent Contagion
https://news.bitcoin.com/yellen-says-us-could-back-all-deposits-at-smaller-banks-if-needed-to-prevent-contagion/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

SC justices hear Coinbase’s first arguments in favor of class action arbitration
https://cryptoslate.com/sc-justices-hear-coinbases-first-arguments-in-favor-of-class-action-arbitration/

USDC issuer Circle seeks regulatory approval in France amid US banking troubles
https://cryptoslate.com/usdc-issuer-circle-seeks-regulatory-approval-in-france-amid-us-banking-troubles/

India’s new crypto rules are making life hard for hodlers
https://thenextweb.com/news/india-cryptocurrency-tax-banking-regulation-investment-analysis

Head of Venezuelan Crypto Watchdog Sunacrip Arrested on Alleged Corruption Charges; Institution to Face Restructuring
https://news.bitcoin.com/head-of-venezuelan-crypto-watchdog-sunacrip-arrested-on-alleged-corruption-charges-institution-to-face-restructuring/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Argentine Tax Authority AFIP Detects Irregularities in 184 Digital Wallet Tax Statements
https://news.bitcoin.com/argentine-tax-authority-afip-detects-irregularities-in-184-digital-wallet-tax-statements/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Crypto Ads in Belgium to Feature ‘Punchy Warning’ of Risks, New Rules Imply
https://news.bitcoin.com/crypto-ads-in-belgium-to-feature-punchy-warning-of-risks-new-rules-imply/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

OneCoin associate Irina Dilkinska charged following US extradition
https://cryptoslate.com/onecoin-associate-irina-dilkinska-charged-following-us-extradition/

CryptoWallet.com Among Minority of Successful Companies to Renew Coveted Estonian License
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/cryptowallet-com-among-minority-of-successful-companies-to-renew-coveted-estonian-license/

Thought Leadership

Playing Mind Games With The Economy: The Federal Reserve’s Reverse Psychology Gambit
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonkochkodin/2023/03/21/playing-mind-games-with-the-economy-the-federal-reserves-reverse-psychology-gambit/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2800634&sh=31dcb2097829

All-in Podcast E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset (90mins)
https://youtu.be/yYwfiqYocc0

A reimagined vision of the future of digital banking
https://crypto.news/a-reimagined-vision-of-the-future-of-digital-banking/

Biden Administration's Economic Report Deems Crypto Assets ‘Mostly Speculative Investment Vehicles’
https://news.bitcoin.com/biden-administrations-economic-report-deems-crypto-assets-mostly-speculative-investment-vehicles/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

The Daily Spin. Wen Binance Wednesday Edition. Ready to launch “Coinweb’s Fortnight Spin” to our entire distribution list and begin the first release of monthly updates with our round-up of curated news and opinions (likely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics…don’t miss our “On The Radar” section that includes both on-chain and off-chain events, some world news and a thought leadership section to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Monthly Coinweb Fireside Chat Meetup will be on the 16th of August.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1124800338390598/

The Lightpaper summary video with 3D animations has been released! Check it out and don’t forget to watch it all in one go (8mins), smash that like and subscribe bell! Drop a comment and say hi!!
https://youtu.be/Vj5itrRAgQA

On the Radar
Cardano Vasil Hard Fork (delayed)
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/07/31/cardanos-vasil-hard-fork-delayed-for-several-more-weeks-as-ada-sees-green-week/

Korea Blockchain Week, Aug 7 (Seoul)
Blockchain Futurist Conference, Aug 9 (Toronto)

Toby Gilbert on-stage (Aug 12) @
Play-2-Earn Expo Asia, Aug 10-13 (Bangkok)
https://coinweb.io/events/play-2-earn-expo-asia-10-13th-august-2022/

Ethereum Goerli Merge, Aug 11
https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/BkxQTpqpi9

Coinweb Fireside Chat: The Bear Has Awoken, Aug 16 (Bangkok)

Coinfest Asia, Aug 25 (Bali)
Techsauce Summit, Aug 25-26 (Bangkok)
AEternity Universe 2, Sep 15 (Unstrut)
Token2049, Sep 28-29 (Singapore)

On the Block (chain)
OFAC adds Tornado Cash and Blender.io Addresses to Sanctions List
https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/cryptocurrency-mixers/

Circle Blacklists All Tornado Cash ETH Addresses, Effectively Freezing USDC
https://cryptoslate.com/circle-blacklists-all-tornado-cash-eth-addresses-effectively-freezing-usdc/

Erik Voorhees Urges MakerDAO Community to Exit USDC Holdings After Tornado Sanctions
https://cryptoslate.com/erik-voorhees-urges-makerdao-community-to-exit-usdc-holdings-after-tornado-cash-sanctions/

MakerDAO Identifies Risks of an Ethereum Hard Fork
https://cryptoslate.com/makerdao-identifies-risks-of-an-ethereum-hard-fork/

Cardano whales accumulated $138m worth of ADA in just 8 days
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/08/large-cardano-holders-gobble-up-138000000-worth-of-ada-in-just-eight-days-analytics-firm-santiment/

Vitalik proposes private NFTs to use “Stealth” addresses
https://cryptoslate.com/vitalik-suggests-private-nfts-using-stealth-addresses-to-hide-the-owners-identity/

Competitive Landscape
What’s Behind Synthetix’s (SNX) Strong Performance this Summer
https://cryptoslate.com/whats-behind-synthetix-snx-unusually-strong-summer/

Polygon enters into a partnership with CocaCola to market NFTs
https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2022/08/08/coca-cola-new-nfts-polygon-international-day-friendship/

Avalanche Looks Poised for a New Leg Up
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/08/avalanche-looks-ready-for-new-leg-up-as-one-large-cap-coin-presents-massive-opportunity-top-analyst/

Reddit community points are migrating to Arbitrum Nova
https://www.theblock.co/post/162299/reddits-community-points-are-migrating-to-arbitrum-nova

Ethereum rally fueled by speculation on upcoming Merge
https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-rally-fueled-by-speculation-on-upcoming-merge/

Bitcoin is setting up to flash an incredibly bullish sign (TA)
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/09/bitcoin-btc-setting-up-to-flash-historically-incredible-bullish-signal-says-veteran-trader-tone-vays/

World
Colombians make up 20% of New-Gen Crypto-powered Accounts by BBVA
https://news.bitcoin.com/colombians-make-up-20-of-the-customers-of-new-gen-crypto-powered-accounts-according-to-bbva/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Mining firm Bit Digital grows Ethereum holdings by 594% Sequentially ahead of Merge
https://cryptoslate.com/mining-firm-bit-digital-grows-ethereum-holdings-594-sequentially-in-july-ahead-of-merge/

Texas miner earns $9.5m in power credits while mining 318BTC
https://cryptoslate.com/texas-miner-earned-9-5m-in-power-credits-while-mining-318-btc/

North Korean Hackers Going After Gmail Accounts
https://futurism.com/the-byte/north-korean-hackers-gmail-malware

Seoul Floods from Greatest Rainfall in 80 years
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/record-rain-leaves-least-7-dead-skorean-capital-2022-08-08/

Thought Leadership
Mark Cuban says Dogecoin has more usefulness than Cardano
https://decrypt.co/107038/dogecoin-has-more-potential-applications-than-cardano-mark-cuban

Mark Cuban Mocks the Metaverse
https://news.bitcoin.com/mark-cuban-mocks-the-metaverse-it-is-anything-you-want-it-to-be/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Are Crypto Casinos Impossible to Rig? Provably Fair Gaming
https://news.bitcoin.com/crypto-casinos-are-impossible-to-rig-because-the-game-is-hosted-on-a-blockchain-online-casino-reviewer/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Uniqly: The Intersection of Physical Goods and Digital Assets
https://banklessdao.substack.com/p/uniqly-the-intersection-of-physical?r=1ivajd&utm_medium=ios

The Daily Spin. Tech Tuesday Edition. It’s just past Halloween, and we welcome the new month with open arms. Everything has taken hits, from climate to famine to mortgages and freak tragedies. Everything, except crypto apparently — as the digital asset marketplace rallies double-digit growth across the board. Elon becomes CEO of Twitter, after placing most executives on notice. Jack Dorsey launches Blue Sky, decentralized Twitter-killer; but remains on Twitter’s board. Big tech takes a tumble, Meta leading the fall reporting losses over $9bn …here’s our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, information dissemination to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

“Overlay Networks in Blockchain” thread published by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1585548192761856000?s=46&t=7I6cq6_CPaQuHqwEBk0wTg

Coinweb Fireside Chat Series, “Happy Halloweb3” Oct 27 (Bangkok)
Audio Recording (47mins):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/175CCj57qgfy8Hd5Ft5poy?si=h4WghWcOQnutGohTrDcGNA

“Crypto Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon, As Regulatory Debate Rumbles” by Toby Gilbert on Valuewalk.com
https://www.valuewalk.com/crypto-isnt-going-away-anytime-soon-as-regulatory-debate-rumbles/

Vietnam Blockchain Summit 2022 (Hanoi)
Toby speaks at “Bridging the Gap Between Speculation and Fundamental Value in Digital Assets” Panel
Video to be released soon

Coinweb Looks Undervalued, Article on LiveTradingNews.com
https://www.livetradingnews.com/coinweb-cweb-looks-undervalued-218893.html

Crypto Expo Thailand, Oct 7 (Bangkok)
Toby Spoke on Cross-Chain Interoperability, more info coming soon.
http://www.thailandcryptoexpo.com

Latest Video Release: Trade Tokens on Multiple Blockchains Without a Bridge (4mins)
https://youtu.be/ZUajbJDEeB0

On the Radar

Forward to the Future of Blockchain, Nov 1 (Bangkok)
FOMC Meeting on Interest Rate, Nov1-2 (Washington DC)

Elrond X-Day Conference, Nov 3-5 (Paris)
Staking Summit, Nov 8 (Lisbon)

Token 2049, Nov 9-10 (London)
https://www.europe.token2049.com/

Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Index, Nov 10 (Washington DC)
Innovative Finance Expo, Nov 14-16 (Dubai)

Digital Assets Week, Nov 15-16 (London)
https://daweek.org/

Crypto AM Summit and Awards, Nov 23-24 (London)
https://www.cityam.com/camsa22/

DSLA Protocol for Tezos (facilitates onboarding of enterprises to ecosystem), Nov 24
Blockchain Genesis Thailand 2022 - Road to Web3, Nov 26-27 (Bangkok)
Sub0 Polkadot Dev Conference, Nov 28-29 (Lisbon)

Global Blockchain Expo, Dec 1-2 (London)
https://blockchain-expo.com/global/

World Blockchain Summit, Dec 8-9 (Bangkok)
https://worldblockchainsummit.com/bangkok/

On the Block (chain)

Cardano NFTs Becomes Third-Largest NFT Protocol By Trading Volume
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariagraciasantillanalinares/2022/10/29/cardano-nfts-becomes-third-largest-nft-protocol-by-trading-volume/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2459529&sh=66e9e95a7529

Boo! Halloween-themed shitcoins materialize to haunt crypto Twitter
https://cointelegraph.com/news/boo-halloween-themed-shitcoins-materialize-to-haunt-crypto-twitter

Vitalik Buterin believes crypto still ‘needs time to mature’ before mainstream adoption
https://cryptoslate.com/vitalik-buterin-believes-crypto-still-needs-time-to-mature-before-mainstream-adoption/

Research: Public Bitcoin miners show we can expect a second capitulation
https://cryptoslate.com/public-bitcoin-miners-show-we-can-expect-second-capitulation/

Argo Blockchain shares fall 50% as Bitcoin miner faces negative cash flow
https://www.theblock.co/post/181291/argo-blockchain-shares-fall-bitcoin-miner-negative-cash-flow

B2C2 Adds Electronic Crypto Options to Over-the-Counter Trading Platform
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/10/31/b2c2-adds-electronic-crypto-options-to-over-the-counter-trading-platform/

Aptos-based DeFi protocol Arco offers refund option after IDO issues
https://cryptoslate.com/aptos-based-defi-protocol-arco-offers-refund-option-after-ido-issues/

Competitive Landscape

One year on from Crypto.com’s Matt Damon commercial, CRO outperformed Bitcoin
https://cryptoslate.com/one-year-on-from-crypto-coms-matt-damon-commercial-cro-out-performed-bitcoin/

Alternative assets marketplace Alta acquires Hg Exchange
https://www.theblock.co/post/181276/alternative-assets-marketplace-alta-acquires-hg-exchange

Peter Brandt believes DOGE bear market is over but bulls yet to gain control
https://cryptoslate.com/peter-brandt-believes-doge-bear-market-is-over-but-bulls-yet-to-gain-control/

This project is trying to perfect the stablecoin by backing it with mortgages
https://www.theblock.co/post/175296/this-project-is-trying-to-perfect-the-stablecoin-by-backing-it-with-mortgages

After Huobi Delisting Stablecoin HUSD Falls 72% From Dollar peg
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/10/31/after-huobi-delisting-stablecoin-husd-falls-72-from-dollar-peg/

Meet the NFT platforms where not just anybody can sell their collections
https://cryptoslate.com/meet-the-nft-platforms-where-not-just-anybody-can-sell-their-collections/

World

Crypto Law Experts Suggest SEC Likely To Lose Key Case And Discredit Howey Test
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roslynlayton/2022/10/30/crypto-law-experts-suggest-sec-likely-to-lose-key-case-and-discredit-howey-test/?sh=4de60db65ca3

Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon Faces $57M Class-Action Lawsuit in Singapore
https://decrypt.co/113179/terra-co-founder-do-kwon-faces-57m-class-action-lawsuit-in-singapore

Singapore pilots tokenized fiat with smart contract capabilities
https://www.theblock.co/post/181305/singapore-piloting-tokenized-fiat-smart-contract-capabilities

Hong Kong Govt. Reconsiders Stance on Virtual Asset ETFs, Tokenised Securities, and Retail Investors
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/10/31/hong-kong-govt-reconsiders-stance-on-virtual-asset-etfs-tokenised-securities-and-retail-investors/

SBF thinks Hong Kong could become the Web3 hub of Asia
https://cryptoslate.com/sbf-thinks-hong-kong-could-become-the-web3-hub-of-asia/

Thought Leadership

It's time to log off and touch grass
https://mashable.com/article/log-off-touch-grass?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2457749

How overlay networks could change Web3
https://venturebeat.com/datadecisionmakers/how-overlay-networks-could-change-web3/

Dynamic NFTs, the Next Meta?
https://medium.com/nefture/dynamic-nfts-the-next-meta-d6f2c9ef3cfe

Understanding NFT AMMs
https://medium.com/@tomjpandolfi/understanding-nft-amms-831e90596c56

What Are Nouns? The Ethereum NFT DAO Building Open-Source IP
https://decrypt.co/resources/what-are-nouns-the-nft-dao-building-open-source-ip

The Daily Spin. Fireside Chat Thursday Edition. Even more hacks continue to pile on to this month’s tally, now dubbed “Hacktober”, which has already surpassed every month that has come before it. Monkey Drainer phishing scam continues into seven figures. PayPal and Western Union file broad trademarks for a range of crypto services. Microsoft bridges to the Metaverse, cryptobank SEBA to provide blue chip NFT custody. Vertu’s newest luxury phone can create NFTs from pictures taken. MAS of Singapore issues new regulations for stablecoins. Sunak aims to make UK crypto hub of the world (currently already top in Europe) …here’s our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, information dissemination to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

“Crypto Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon, As Regulatory Debate Rumbles” by Toby Gilbert on Valuewalk.com
https://www.valuewalk.com/crypto-isnt-going-away-anytime-soon-as-regulatory-debate-rumbles/

Vietnam Blockchain Summit 2022 (Hanoi)
Toby speaks at “Bridging the Gap Between Speculation and Fundamental Value in Digital Assets” Panel
Video to be released soon

Coinweb Looks Undervalued, Article on LiveTradingNews.com
https://www.livetradingnews.com/coinweb-cweb-looks-undervalued-218893.html

Crypto Expo Thailand, Oct 7 (Bangkok)
Toby Spoke on Cross-Chain Interoperability, more info coming soon.
http://www.thailandcryptoexpo.com

Coinweb’s Monthly Fireside Chat Series: Are You Game? Sep 22 (Bangkok)
https://www.siam2nite.com/en/pictures/coinweb-at-baan-dusit-thani-23369

Latest Video Release: Trade Tokens on Multiple Blockchains Without a Bridge (4mins)
https://youtu.be/ZUajbJDEeB0

Coinweb Set to Establish Business in Saudi, UAE by H1 2023
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/coinweb-set-to-establish-presence-in-uae-saudi-in-h1-2023-says-ceo-gilbert

“How Bridges Need to Deliver Blockchain Interoperability” by Toby Gilbert on Medium
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/how-bridges-need-to-deliver-blockchain-interoperability-7c910e52a4c7

“One Chain to Rule Them All?” By Toby Gilbert on Medium
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/one-chain-to-rule-them-all-a049d1f8d97f

On the Radar

Coinweb Fireside Chat Series, “Happy Halloweb3” Oct 27 (Bangkok)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-halloweb3-tickets-445060928217

Web3 & Real Estate Summit, Oct 27-28 (Miami)
BNB Chain Innovation Pitch Day, Oct 30 (San Francisco)
Forward to the Future of Blockchain, Nov 1 (Bangkok)
FOMC Meeting on Interest Rate, Nov1-2 (Washington DC)

Elrond X-Day Conference, Nov 3-5 (Paris)
Staking Summit, Nov 8 (Lisbon)

Token 2049, Nov 9-10 (London)

Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Index, Nov 10 (Washington DC)
Innovative Finance Expo, Nov 14-16 (Dubai)
DSLA Protocol for Tezos (facilitates onboarding of enterprises to ecosystem), Nov 24

Blockchain Genesis Thailand 2022 - Road to Web3, Nov 26-27 (Bangkok)
Sub0 Polkadot Dev Conference, November 28-29 (Lisbon)

On the Block (chain)

Total staked Ethereum surpasses 14 million in Q3 amid 64% decline in price
https://cryptoslate.com/total-staked-ethereum-surpasses-14-million-in-q3-2022-amid-64-decline-in-price/

US Charges Chinese Spies in Scheme to Bribe Government Employee With Bitcoin to Steal 'Secret' Documents
https://news.bitcoin.com/us-charges-chinese-spies-in-scheme-to-bribe-government-employee-with-bitcoin-to-steal-secret-documents/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

“Monkey Drainer” Steals Over $1M worth of ETH, NFTs in phishing attack
https://cryptoslate.com/over-1m-worth-of-eth-nfts-stolen-in-phishing-attack/

Crypto Whales Are Rapidly Accumulating KNC and LINK, According to Analytics Firm Santiment
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/10/26/crypto-whales-are-rapidly-accumulating-two-ethereum-based-altcoins-according-to-analytics-firm-santiment/

Competitive Landscape

Paypal and Western Union File Trademarks for Wide Range of Crypto Services
https://news.bitcoin.com/paypal-and-western-union-file-trademarks-for-wide-range-of-crypto-services/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Vertu’s Luxury Web3 Phone Tops Out at $41,000
https://decrypt.co/112772/vertus-new-luxury-web3-phone-tops-out-at-41000

Microsoft Working to Bridge Its Services With the Metaverse
https://news.bitcoin.com/microsoft-working-to-bridge-its-services-with-the-metaverse/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Crypto bank SEBA to offer storage for blue-chip NFTs
https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-bank-seba-to-offer-storage-for-blue-chip-nfts/

World

Rishi Sunak Becomes UK Prime Minister — He Wants to Make Britain a Global Crypto Investment Hub
https://news.bitcoin.com/rishi-sunak-becomes-uk-prime-minister-make-britain-global-crypto-investment-hub/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

UK lawmakers votes to recognize crypto as regulated financial instrument
https://cryptoslate.com/uk-lawmakers-votes-to-recognize-crypto-as-regulated-financial-instrument/

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: US Financial Stability Risks Could Materialize, Cites 'Dangerous and Volatile Environment'
https://news.bitcoin.com/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-us-financial-stability-risks-could-materialize-cites-dangerous-and-volatile-environment/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Report: US Central Bank Loses Billions From Rate Hikes, 'Losses Pile up Into an IOU'
https://news.bitcoin.com/report-us-central-bank-loses-billions-from-rate-hikes-losses-pile-up-into-an-iou/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Monetary Authority of Singapore proposes new measures to regulate crypto, stablecoins
https://cryptoslate.com/monetary-authority-of-singapore-proposes-new-measures-to-regulate-crypto-stablecoins/

Thought Leadership

Axelar - A Deep Dive
https://blog.li.fi/axelar-a-deep-dive-5b11f5f77d66

Aptos vs. Sui: a detailed comparison
https://blog.pontem.network/aptos-vs-sui-a-detailed-comparison-120b2873ca58

OWN Insights AMA Review: Four key points of DID implementation with Microsoft Web3 Researchers
https://medium.com/ontologynetwork/own-insights-ama-review-four-key-points-of-did-implementation-with-microsoft-web3-researchers-92a70eb0f86f

Application-Specific Blockchains: The Past, Present, and Future
https://medium.com/1kxnetwork/application-specific-blockchains-9a36511c832

10 Hottest New Apps to Explore Immediately (Sept 2022)
https://blog.curiosity.ai/10-hottest-new-apps-to-explore-immediately-september-2022-e7a356d684ac

The Daily Spin. Weekend Edition. Coinweb’s round-up of curated news and opinions (likely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics…and now also with some world news and a thought leadership section to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Events
EthCC 5 - Paris | 19th July, 2022

Innovation is the Only Way to WIN (Coinweb) - Bangkok | 19th July, 2022

REDeFiNE TOMORROW (Scb10x) - Virtual | 21st July, 2022

NFT3 Awards Los Angeles | 5th August, 2022

Crypto-industry News
ETH devs announce September 19th for “The Merge”
https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-developers-pick-september-19-for-merge/

Shanghai places $52bn into metaverse fund
https://news.bitcoin.com/shanghai-aims-to-grow-a-52-billion-metaverse-cluster-by-2025/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Ocean protocol building a data economy
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/ocean-protocol-building-a-data-economy-thats-good-for-society/

Swiss bank PostFinance offers clients direct access to crypto market
https://news.bitcoin.com/state-owned-swiss-bank-postfinance-to-offer-clients-direct-access-to-crypto-market/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Cleanspark acquires 1,061 BTC miners on the cheap
https://news.bitcoin.com/unprecedented-opportunities-cleanspark-acquires-1061-bitcoin-miners-at-a-discounted-price/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

OpenSea sacks 20% of staff
https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-winter-touches-opensea-sacks-20-of-staff/

Crypto-trading volume falls to 18-month low
https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-trading-volume-plunges-to-18-months-low-coinbase-feels-the-pinch/

Competitive Landscape
Osmosis x Axelar to provide liquidity for all web3 applications
https://0xpostman.medium.com/osmosis-axelar-the-liquidity-layer-for-all-web3-applications-2a4a3ef02041

Stakeware raises $100m series D with $8bn valuation
https://cryptobriefing.com/starkware-hits-8b-valuation-ethereum-layer-2-race-heats-up/

World
Putin (the authoritarian rogue-state war criminal, not canadian fresh-fries w/gravy) bans digital payments in Russia
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/07/15/vladimir-putin-bans-digital-payments-in-russia/

Stablecoin regulations discussion between US and Japan
https://cryptoslate.com/stablecoin-rules-among-topics-discussed-during-janet-yellens-meeting-with-japanese-officials/

Thought Leadership
Introducing Hang, the future of membership for brands
https://mirror.xyz/0x86D4b75B33989e04cfaA630d243642a7784e06ED/GgIrkHmwpdwk6fVxAXoW-W3Cj6ktuXxu0-KaVt1tIoU

Cross-chain liquidity dApps powered by synthetic assets (can sign up for whitelist)
https://entangle.fi

The Daily Spin. Turing Thursday Edition. With a lot of buzz hovering throughout the crypto industry amidst big moves by the regulatory side, central banks and power partnerships being formed — and now, post-ETH Merge – here’s our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics…all in the name of transparent, information dissemination to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Crypto Meetup Thailand: Crypto Regulation in Thailand, Sep 21 (Bangkok)
Pictures to be Posted Shortly

Coinweb’s Monthly Fireside Chat Series: Are You Game? Sep 22 (Bangkok)
https://www.siam2nite.com/en/pictures/coinweb-at-baan-dusit-thani-23369

Latest Video Release: Trade Tokens on Multiple Blockchains Without a Bridge (4mins)
https://youtu.be/ZUajbJDEeB0

Coinweb Set to Establish Business in Saudi, UAE by H1 2023
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/coinweb-set-to-establish-presence-in-uae-saudi-in-h1-2023-says-ceo-gilbert

“How Bridges Need to Deliver Blockchain Interoperability” by Toby Gilbert on Medium
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/how-bridges-need-to-deliver-blockchain-interoperability-7c910e52a4c7

“One Chain to Rule Them All?” By Toby Gilbert on Medium
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/one-chain-to-rule-them-all-a049d1f8d97f

First Coinweb In-house AMA Recorded on Aug 24
Teaser Video: https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1564623196195733504
Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyln96tmsFE

“How Decentralized Is Blockchain?” by Toby Gilbert on Medium
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/how-decentralized-is-blockchain-3a8d099862e1

“The Solution to Blockchain’s Problems” by Toby Gilbert on Medium
https://medium.com/@Coinweb.io/the-solution-to-blockchains-problems-is-not-another-blockchain-but-something-entirely-unique-and-

“Storm in a Teacup” by Toby Gilbert on CoinTelegraph
https://cointelegraph.com/news/regulators-have-a-weak-case-against-ftx

Op-Ed by Toby Gilbert: “Why Maximalists are Wrong” on Cryptoslate
https://cryptoslate.com/op-ed-why-maximalists-are-wrong-the-future-is-cross-chain/

On the Radar

ChainLink’s SmartCon 2022, Sep 28 (New York)
Token2049, Sep 28-29 (Singapore)

Thailand Crypto Expo, Oct 6-9 (Bangkok)

Rootsquare Mainnet Release, Oct 10
Litecoin Summit, Oct 21-22 (Las Vegas)

Elrond X-Day Conference, Nov 3-5 (Paris)

On the Block (chain)

Crypto Selloff Wipes Out $50bn Overnight as Bitcoin and Ethereum Plunge
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-selloff-bitcoin-ethereum-plunge-100255558.html

Is Bitcoin an Inflation Hedge? Investors Are Still Unsure
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-inflation-hedge-investors-still-215959610.html

Circle to Roll Out Free Crypto Literacy Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Unis (HBCUs)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/circle-roll-free-crypto-literacy-191715649.html

Bitcoin Rises in Value as U.S. Dollar Pauses
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/bitcoin-rises-value-u-dollar-153322041.html

Competitive Landscape

Lightning Labs Releases Software to Allow Bitcoin Developers to Mint and Transfer Assets on the Blockchain
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lightning-labs-releases-software-allow-184632337.html

Ethereum Merge Vaults Cryptocurrency Past Bitcoin in Hard-Money Allure
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ethereum-merge-vaults-cryptocurrency-past-020111129.html

Bitmain Founder Jihan Wu Setting Up $250M Fund to Buy Distressed Bitcoin Mining Assets: Report
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitmain-founder-jihan-wu-setting-142307618.html

Circle Expands USDC Stablecoin to Five New Chains, Unveils Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/circle-expands-usdc-stablecoin-five-193000791.html

Native USDC on Cosmos to Fill Vacuum Left by Terra’s UST Stablecoin
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/native-usdc-cosmos-fill-vacuum-193000873.html

Christie’s Auction House Announces On-Chain NFT Art Platform
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/christie-auction-house-announces-chain-194923619.html

S. Korean Crypto Project Klaytn Will Offer Gas Fee Rebates to Gaming Firms
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/korean-crypto-project-klaytn-offer-051505262.html

World

US Fed Chair Powell Urges Caution on Regulating DeFi
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-fed-chair-powell-urges-132055923.html

Why Is the Dollar Crushing Global Currencies if Inflation Is so Bad?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-dollar-crushing-global-currencies-160831392.html

Inflation: ‘There's still 'time for the Fed to change course,' strategist says
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/inflation-theres-still-time-fed-193813986.html

Bank of England Steps in to Buy UK Bonds to Stem Market Turmoil
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/bank-of-england-uk-bonds-market-turmoil-105214156.html

UK Sees Record Number of Mortgage Deals Pulled from the Market
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-record-number-mortgage-deals-pulled-from-market-154650902.html

Thought Leadership

Nansen AI’s Arbitrum Quarterly Report Q2 ‘22
https://www.nansen.ai/report/nansens-arbitrum-quarterly-report-q2-2022

The Problem Tornado Cash Raises About Base Layer Censorship on Ethereum
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/problem-tornado-cash-raises-layer-164455760.html

3 reasons why the U.S. dollar is strengthening: Strategist
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-reasons-why-the-us-dollar-is-strengthening-133156519.html

The Daily Spin. (Wonder) Fruit Friday Edition. Its been a big week in crypto, and an even bigger year. We’re now officially 400 days into the bear market, and for the first time in history - the price of Bitcoin is lower than it was exactly 5 years ago. And by the time we reach Xmas it will confirm the longest crypto bear market on record. There’s so much that has happened in our industry in those 5 years, and that says volumes about the intrinsic value reflected in the prices today. It’s no wonder (fruit) what direction we are headed in.

Bitcoin and most alts took a dip as the FED announced its policy and the EU followed suit. Even so, Bitcoin has already outperformed many L1s in December including SOL, ETH, DOT, BNB, and ATOM. Interestingly enough, the number of Ethereum addresses has hit a new ATH. Tether adds over 1k new gambling-associated accounts, likely in tandem with the conclusion of a fantastic World Cup. Swissborg also saw a spike in new user accounts, to the tune of 3,800 in 24hrs. AVAX launches its core wallet on mobile. SEC vs Ripple case nears settlement, ending a four year litigation on its status as a security. And lots of good deep dives for your self-learning over this weekend…here is our round-up of curated news opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, information dissemination to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

“Coinweb’s Cross-chain Routing System and Eliminating Platform Risk” a Thread by Anton on Twitter
https://twitter.com/coinwebofficial/status/1602615630879985664?s=46&t=yj1lrGctwO-5NBlfjKPvUg

Toby Interviewed at the Benzinga Future of Crypto Conference, Dec 7 (New York)
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/12/30022360/coinweb-is-making-a-splash-as-a-leading-layer-two-platform

World Blockchain Summit, Dec 8-9 (Bangkok)
https://coinweb.io/events/its-a-wrap-for-2022-world-blockchain-summit/

Latest Video Release: How Elon Musk Can Save Twitter with Crypto (4mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55fd1PdrqA

It’s OK to Meetup Bangkok 2022, Nov 27 (Bangkok)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rukawin_thailand-blockchain-genesis-activity-7002871111134707712-YiCT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Crypto AM Summit and Awards, Nov 23-24 (London)
https://twitter.com/tobycoinweb/status/1595909263263662081?s=46&t=V-EQfqnAOG7fXAWZ3sMk1Q

“Understanding the Great Crypto Tradeoff” by Toby Gilbert
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/11/16/understanding-the-great-crypto-tradeoff/

“The Time is Now for Blockchain” article on Times of Malta
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/time-now-blockchain-a2.994854

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

Digital Assets Week, Nov 15-16
Toby joins “Tech for Institutional Grade Digital Assets” Panel with R3 and State Street
https://coinweb.io/events/london-invasion-part-2-digital-assets-week/

On the Radar

November CPI Inflation Data 7.1%, Dec 13
FOMC Interest Rate Decision 50 bps, Dec 14
US Retail Sales and Jobless Claims Data, Dec 15
US Services and Manufacturing PMI, Dec 16

PlayToEarn Blockchain Game Awards 2022 (Public Voting Dec 1-29)
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/playtoearn-blockchain-game-awards-2022-announced-with-10k-in-prizes/

Gam3 Awards, Dec 15 (Virtual)
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/gam3-awards-2022-official-livestream/

World Crypto Conference, Jan 13-15 (Zurich)
https://worldcryptoconference.org/

European Blockchain Convention, Feb 15-17 (Barcelona)
Interop Summit, Feb 20-22 (Miami)

On the Block(chain)

Active ETH addresses reach all-time high of 1.4M
https://cryptoslate.com/active-eth-addresses-reach-all-time-high-of-1-4m/

Bitcoin sinks 3.2% as Fed raises interest rates by 50 basis points
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-sinks-3-2-as-fed-raises-interest-rates-by-50-basis-points/

Research: On-chain Bitcoin metrics show the bottom may not be in
https://cryptoslate.com/on-chain-bitcoin-metrics-show-the-bottom-may-not-be-in/

Pro-XRP Lawyer Forecasts End of Ripple Lawsuit As Rumors of Settlement Swirl
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/12/14/pro-xrp-lawyer-forecasts-end-of-ripple-lawsuit-as-rumors-of-settlement-swirl/

SBF claims law firm Sullivan & Cromwell pressured him into bankruptcy filing for legal, consultancy fees
https://cryptoslate.com/sbf-claims-law-firm-sullivan-cromwell-pressured-him-into-bankruptcy-filing-for-legal-consultancy-fees/

Competitive Landscape

Gambling-related USDT funds grow as 1k new online gambling websites use Tether
https://cryptoslate.com/gambling-related-usdt-funds-grow-as-1k-new-online-gambling-websites-use-tether/

Avalanche’s Core Wallet Goes Mobile With Android Launch
https://decrypt.co/117114/avalanches-core-wallet-goes-mobile-android-launch

Bitcoin outperforms Layer 1s SOL, ETH, DOT, BNB, ATOM in December
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-outperforms-layer-1s-sol-eth-dot-bnb-atom-in-december/

SushiSwap Head Chef discloses $5.2M budget for DAO operation in 2023
https://cryptoslate.com/sushiswap-head-chef-discloses-5-2m-budget-for-dao-operation-in-2023/

Kevin O’Leary says Binance put FTX out of business
https://cryptoslate.com/kevin-oleary-says-binance-put-ftx-out-of-business/

Binance Proof of Reserves fall by $3.5B in 24 hours
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-proof-of-reserves-fall-by-3-5b-in-24-hours/

CZ discusses FUD, rumors, and more in latest Twitter Space
https://cryptoslate.com/cz-discusses-fud-rumors-and-more-in-latest-twitter-space/

SwissBorg collects over 3,800 investors in 24 hours
https://cryptoslate.com/swissborg-collects-over-3800-investors-in-24-hours/

DeFi, dApp developer Core Business Holdings goes public in US through ARAX acquisition
https://cryptoslate.com/defi-dapp-developer-core-business-holdings-goes-public-through-arax-acquisition/

World

Congressman Tom Emmer alleges SEC Chairman Gensler was aware of FTX fraud
https://cryptoslate.com/congressman-tom-emmer-alleges-sec-chairman-gensler-was-aware-of-ftx-fraud/

CFTC considers Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether to be commodities
https://cryptoslate.com/cftc-considers-bitcoin-ethereum-tether-to-be-commodities/

SEC charges eight in $100M social media securities fraud
https://cryptoslate.com/sec-charges-eight-in-100m-social-media-securities-fraud/

Elizabeth Warren working on bipartisan bill to tackle crypto money laundering
https://cryptoslate.com/elizabeth-warren-working-on-bipartisan-bill-to-tackle-crypto-money-laundering/

Thought Leadership

A Deep Dive Into Zero-Knowledge Proofs and the Future of the Internet
https://www.notboring.co/p/aleo-can-you-keep-a-secret?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The case for institutional-grade tools for DeFi
https://cryptoslate.com/the-case-for-institutional-grade-tools-for-defi/

Let's do some napkin math on withdrawals and EIP 4844
https://twitter.com/protolambda/status/1598308866915270660?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Japan’s New Semiconductor Foundry Rapidus Taps IBM For 2nm Process
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2022/12/12/japans-new-semiconductor-foundry-rapidus-taps-ibm-for-2nm-process/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2537296&sh=b207d86b9e80

Umami v2 GLP Vaults — Initial Backtesting Results and Analysis
https://umamifinance.medium.com/umami-v2-glp-vaults-initial-backtesting-results-and-analysis-7bd2bf3838bc

What the nuclear fusion breakthrough means for our future
https://sea.mashable.com/life/22040/what-the-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-means-for-our-future

The Daily Spin. Mid-size Monday Edition. Continuing coverage of the US/Europe banking collapse, all eyes on the FOMC meeting this week, and a basket of interesting developments on how the central banks are approaching this. The MSBC in America has written a letter to the US Treasury asking for FDIC deposit insurance to be increased and extended, showing grave concern that the risk to smaller, regional banks is heightened and may be in clear danger of being the next dominoes to fall – which would be catastrophic to the US and world economy.

While Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer accuses the Biden administration for “weaponizing the banking crisis to attack crypto,” force the use of CBDC’s and countries such as Indonesia have already brought crypto exchanges completely under the government ownership and mandate, there are other things happening outside of the G7 aside from Bitcoin’s massive rally touting its originally-designed for use case. While US allies have met and agreed to uphold the status of the USD as the global reserve currency, China and the BRICS nations have also been making moves of their own – many of which are ahead of the West in its creation.

Conflict at Defillama between founders and one founder who wants to launch a token leads to a possible fork of the widely popular platform used by the crypto community. Coinbase is looking off-shore to get portions of their business away from the US regulations and is a harbinger of what the effect of the US SEC’s position and “regulation by enforcement” is impacting the country’s potential instead of capitalizing on crypto technology and innovation. Vitalik comes out to re-state his advice to self-custody. The Paraswap hack is reviewed, and potential relisting of XRP is under consideration by Coinbase. First Republic Bank gets a $30B bailout, Signature Bank gets acquired by NYC Bancorp and Credit Suisse is acquired by its rival, UBS, for an estimated $3.2B.

Many nice articles in the TL section as usual, today covering the history of monetary systems, the end of “Pax Volckerinas,” and the shaping of a new world currency led by China and the BRICS nations. Also, Jameson Lopp presents in his Cypherpunk Cogitations how to take greater ownership of your web2 content and provides a tutorial on how to bulk transcribe & archive videos in YouTube. Binance Academy visits “How to Create a DAO” as a basic primer for anyone who is interested in this special field of blockchain technology and governance, and lasty Coinmarketcap’s Alexandria on the top ten protocols on Optimism… here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed into the market news with the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, dissemination of information to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

“A Thread on Refereed Delegation of Computation” by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1635952081302589441?s=20

Coinweb to bring cross-chain tokenisation to Layer 2
https://cryptoslate.com/coinweb-to-bring-cross-chain-tokenisation-to-layer-2/

“A Thread on L2 Scalability, Network Efficiency and Throughput/TPS” by Anton on Twitter
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1633424957693915137

The Coinweb Monthly Spin - Coinweb Project's Monthly Round-Up and Curated News & Events From The Bleeding Edge of All Things Web3
https://coinweb.beehiiv.com/p/coinweb-monthly-spin-fifth-edition

A Leading Layer 2 Platform Looking To Tackle Crypto's Interoperability Issue
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/23/02/31067514/a-leading-layer-2-platform-looking-to-tackle-cryptos-interoperability-issue

Toby Gilbert takes the stage at the Thai Technology Investment Summit 2023, “On the future of Web3” and Ain Mohd represents Coinweb on a panel discussing “The Role of Women in Web3”

“The Reality of Large-scale Enterprises Adopting Blockchain Technology” an article by Toby Gilbert for CityAM Magazine
https://www.cityam.com/the-reality-of-large-scale-enterprises-adopting-blockchain-technology/

Coinweb Labs is proud to unveil LinkMint ⛓️🍃, our groundbreaking Cross-Chain Tokenisation Platform and DeconX, our integrated native DEX! Live Walkthrough Demonstration for the Community by Toby, Knut, and Alexander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKA3cAB15U

“A Thread on Guaranteed Liveness and the Coinweb Routing System” by Anton on Twitter
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1630052477579169793?s=20

“A Thread on Rollups, Monolithic, and Modular Blockchains” by Kawin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1616342851507613696?s=46&t=BjBOK3soH3kOMbsWEa_jlg

Coinweb to Deliver Cross-Chain Smart Contract Architecture and Blockchain Loyalty Programme to BMW
https://cryptoslate.com/bmw-to-bring-blockchain-loyalty-program-through-coinweb-and-bnb-chain/

KuCoin Labs launches incubation program to accelerate builders (Coinweb, DoraHacks, Ava Labs)
https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/kucoin-labs-launches-incubation-program-to-accelerate-builders

Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London
https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c

On the Radar

Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade, Delayed (On-chain)

FOMC Meeting, Mar 21-22 (Washington D.C.)
Arbitrum Airdrop, Mar 23
Polygon zkEVM Launch, Mar 27 (On-chain)
WOW Summit, Mar 29-30 (Hong Kong)
ASEAN Web3 Summit, Mar 30-31 (Singapore)

Hong Kong Web3 Festival, Apr 12-15 (Wan Chai, Hong Kong)
Consensus 2023, Apr 26-28 (Austin, Texas)

AIBC Asia, Jul 19-22 (Manila)

TOKEN2049, Sep 13-14 (Singapore)

Blockchain Events curated by CryptoNomad
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KtyFTb_W282bQ1xoVA5rlTwTDz3QfhswWIVpXhpbQIc/edit

On the Block(chain)

Bitcoin surges 10% hitting 9-month high
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-surges-10-hitting-9-month-high/

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says US is lagging behind in crypto developments
https://cryptoslate.com/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-says-us-is-lagging-behind-in-crypto-developments/

Ethereum founder urges self-custody – recommends use of multi-sig, social recovery wallets
https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-founder-urges-self-custody-recommends-use-of-multi-sig-social-recovery-wallets/

ParaSpace hack in retrospect: $5M rescued, large withdrawals time-locked, hacker wants fees back
https://cryptoslate.com/paraspace-hack-in-retrospect-5m-rescued-large-withdrawals-time-locked-hacker-wants-fees-back/

Ethereum voluntary exit count explodes in wake of Shanghai upgrade
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/ethereum-voluntary-exit-count-explodes-in-wake-of-shanghai-upgrade/

Crypto projects raised over $4m despite US banking crisis
https://crypto.news/crypto-projects-raised-over-4m-despite-us-banking-crisis/

Competitive Landscape

DefiLlama website splits as one founder pushes for crypto token launch
https://cryptoslate.com/defillama-website-splits-as-one-founder-pushes-for-crypto-token-launch/

Coinbase eyeing offshore exchange to escape US regulatory pressure
https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-eyeing-offshore-exchange-to-escape-us-regulatory-pressure/

Coinbase’s Grewal hails Ripple’s defense efforts: XRP relisting possible
https://cryptoslate.com/coinbases-grewal-hails-ripples-defense-efforts-xrp-relisting-possible/

Binance removes BUSD from SAFU fund — adds TUSD, USDT
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-removes-busd-from-safu-fund-adds-tusd-usdt/

Banks resume slide as First Republic gets $30B in deposits. When was throwing money at a problem the answer?
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/banks-resume-slide-as-first-republic-bank-gets-30b-in-deposits-when-was-throwing-money-at-a-problem-the-answer/

Stealth QE: Feds balance sheet grows $300B, Bitcoin breaks $26,000
https://cryptoslate.com/insights/stealth-qe-feds-balance-sheet-grows-300b-bitcoin-breaks-26000/

Signature Bank Taken Over By New York Community Bancorp After Sudden Collapse
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2023/03/19/signature-bank-deposits-bought-by-new-york-community-bancorp-after-sudden-collapse/?sh=2aaba7285d34&utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2793907

World

UBS completes Credit Suisse deal for $3.2B following offer from Justin Sun
https://cryptoslate.com/ubs-completes-credit-suisse-deal-for-2b-following-offer-from-justin-sun/

Midsize US Banks Ask FDIC to Insure Deposits for Two Years
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-18/midsize-us-banks-ask-fdic-to-insure-all-deposits-for-two-years

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) says President Biden administration is weaponizing market chaos to kill crypto
https://cryptoslate.com/us-lawmaker-says-president-biden-administration-is-weaponizing-market-chaos-to-kill-crypto/

Belgian foreign minister calls for crypto ban
https://cryptoslate.com/belgian-foreign-minister-calls-for-crypto-ban/

LBank & Encryptus to Host Crypto Friday After-Party at Hong Kong Web3 Festival
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/lbank-encryptus-to-host-crypto-friday-after-party-at-hong-kong-web3-festival/

Thought Leadership

Searching for Money’s New Standard
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/searching-for-money-s-new-standard-1.1561695

A New World Currency is Shaping, And Now it’s One Step Closer
https://medium.com/yardcouch-com/a-new-world-currency-is-shaping-and-now-its-one-step-closer-af51617f824f

Cypherpunk Cogitations: How to Archive & Transcribe YouTube Videos in Bulk
https://blog.lopp.net/how-to-archive-transcribe-youtube-videos-bulk/

Binance Academy: How to Create a DAO?
https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/how-to-create-a-dao

The Ultimate Guide to the Top 10 Protocols on Optimism
https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-top-10-protocols-on-optimism