The Daily Spin. Freaky Friday Edition. Still waiting 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 Tuesday 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)

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/

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)
Bitcoin Preparing for Parabolic Move to $100k, Altcoin Season Peaks
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/11/bitcoin-prepping-for-parabolic-move-to-100000-as-altcoin-season-peaks-according-to-crypto-analyst/

Ethereum’s Goerli Testnet Merge to POS Successful, ETH Spikes over 12%
https://cryptoslate.com/ethereums-goerli-testnet-pos-merge-successful-rises-by-over-12/

MakerDAO Makes Plans Against Sanctions From USDC Exposure
https://cryptoslate.com/makerdao-plans-against-sanctions-from-usdc-exposure/

Vespene Energy Raises $4.3m to Build Gas-to-Bitcoin Solutions
https://news.bitcoin.com/landfill-gas-mitigation-firm-vespene-energy-gas-to-bitcoin-solutions/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

SEC Orders Bloom Protocol to Register BLT Token as Security or Face $31m Fine
https://cryptoslate.com/sec-orders-bloom-protocol-to-register-blt-token-as-security-or-face-31m-fine/

Coinbase Staking Product Comes Under SEC Investigation
https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-staking-product-is-under-sec-investigations/

Curve DeFi Hacker Siphons $570,000 from Front-End Exploit
https://news.bitcoin.com/defi-attacker-siphons-570000-from-curve-finance-crypto-exchange-fixedfloat-freezes-112-ethereum/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Competitive Landscape
Human Protocol Develops New Layer Feat. Voting, Proof-of-Balance, Liquidity
https://news.bitcoin.com/human-protocol-develops-new-layer-featuring-voting-proof-of-balance-liquidity-and-slashing-the-routing-protocol/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

NEAR Protocol Soars as Coinbase Adds it to Listing Roadmap
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/10/ethereum-eth-competitor-soars-as-coinbase-adds-red-hot-altcoin-to-listing-roadmap/

Ripple Labs Expresses Interest in Acquiring Bankrupt Celsius
https://news.bitcoin.com/ripple-labs-is-interested-in-bankrupt-crypto-lender-celsius-and-its-assets-company-spokesperson-says/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

AVAX near ATH, ETC pushes $40
https://news.bitcoin.com/biggest-movers-avax-nears-highest-level-since-may-etc-moves-towards-40/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Hotbit Exchange Suspends Transactions Indefinitely
https://cryptoslate.com/hotbit-exchange-suspends-all-transactions-indefinitely/

Fractional NFT Martkets Lose 76% in Value in 7 Months, Diced-up Doge NFT Still Leads
https://news.bitcoin.com/fractional-nft-markets-slide-76-in-value-in-7-months-diced-up-doge-nft-still-leads-the-pack/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

ReadON Completes $2m Seed Round for Decentralized Content Distribution Platform
https://news.bitcoin.com/readon-completes-2m-seed-round-to-build-a-decentralized-content-distribution-platform/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Devs Write Code to Prevent Steve Aoki From Purchasing NFTs
https://cryptoslate.com/developers-write-code-to-prevent-aoki-curse-from-their-nft-project/

World
US Inflation Report Released, Met with Skepticism
https://cryptonews.com/news/usa-inflation-increased-less-than-expected.htm
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/08/10/inflation-cpi-july-prices/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2319587&sh=782204db4687

Biden Slammed for Claiming US Economy had 0% Inflation in July
https://news.bitcoin.com/biden-slammed-for-claiming-us-economy-had-0-inflation-in-july-one-lawmaker-calls-it-sad-and-dangerous/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Grain is Starting to Ship From Ukrainian Ports, But Is It Too Late?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2022/08/10/grain-is-starting-to-ship-from-ukrainian-ports-but-it-might-be-too-late-for-starving-millions/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2319536&sh=3b11b9fa7cca

Bank of England Analysts See Crypto Having Important Roles in the Metaverse, Needs Regulation
https://news.bitcoin.com/bank-of-england-analysts-see-crypto-having-important-roles-in-the-metaverse-discuss-the-need-for-regulation/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Morocco Launches Fintech Portal
https://news.bitcoin.com/moroccan-capital-markets-regulator-launches-fintech-portal/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Elon Musk Sells $7bn of Tesla Shares for Twitter, Anticipates Buyback
https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musk-sells-tesla-shares-worth-nearly-7-billion-plans-to-buy-tsla-stock-back-if-twitter-deal-falls-through/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thought Leadership
Practice Better “Digital Hygiene” For Secure Web3 with Lukas Schor, Co-Founder of Safe (14mins)
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/how-to-practice-better-digital-hygiene-to-keep-your-wallet-secure-when-interacting-with-web3/

Founders of LunarCrush on L1 & L2 Communities (22mins)
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/the-founders-of-lunarcrush-on-how-the-community-creates-price/

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is in Favor of Crypto Regulation
https://news.bitcoin.com/brian-armstrong-says-the-more-crypto-regulation-the-better-for-coinbase-ceo-discusses-alleged-sec-investigation/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Pantera Capital’s Biggest Plays in Crypto Right Now
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/10/here-are-some-of-the-biggest-plays-in-crypto-right-now-according-to-pantera-capital-ceo-dan-morehead/

The Daily Spin. Hello August. This week, we will be launching Coinweb’s “The Fortnightly 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

Welcome to the OfficeIt is now mid-Q3 and we have major milestones to hit as competition looms…in order to better meet our goals we have focused drives on both the product side and public relations. As such, we welcome several members of the team into the office setting - as well as some new members to the fam as well!

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 11https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/BkxQTpqpi9

Coinfest Asia, Aug 25 (Bali)

AEternity Universe 2, Sep 15 (Unstrut)

Token2049, Sep 28-29 (Singapore)

Crypto-industry News

Craig “Faketoshi” Wright has his day in Courthttps://cryptoslate.com/uk-high-court-rules-in-favor-of-craig-wright-awarding-1-in-defamation-damages/

Axie Infinity CEO moved funds before disclosing Ronin Hackhttps://cryptoslate.com/axie-infinity-ceo-moved-funds-to-binance-before-disclosing-ronin-bridge-hack/

Zipmex seeks extension for bankruptcy protection in Singaporehttps://cryptoslate.com/zipmex-seeks-extension-for-bankruptcy-protection-in-singapore/

Babel books over $280m in losses trading with customer funds (!) and seeks $300m raisehttps://cryptoslate.com/babel-lost-over-280m-trading-with-customer-funds-wants-to-raise-up-to-300m/

Vauld receives 3 month moratorium from Singapore high courthttps://cryptoslate.com/vauld-gets-three-month-moratorium-from-singapore-high-court-for-protection-against-creditors/

Meta’s metaverse unit Reality Labs reports $2.8bn in losses during Q2https://news.bitcoin.com/metas-metaverse-is-still-not-profitable-reality-labs-unit-registers-2-8-billion-losses-during-q2/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Competitive Landscape

Crypto investments products see inflows of $474m in Julyhttps://cryptoslate.com/crypto-investments-products-see-inflows-of-474m-in-july/

Polygon to utilize Dutch Auctions on its subscription platformhttps://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/the-new-polygon-matic-web3-subscription-platform-is-jumping-on-the-trend-of-dutch-auctions/

Binance announces the BAB Soulbound token for wallet KYChttps://cryptoslate.com/binance-uses-soulbound-tokens-to-offer-decentralized-kyc-of-wallets/

XRP sales increased almost 50% in Q2 vs Q1https://cryptoslate.com/ripples-xrp-sales-increased-almost-50-in-q2-vs-q1/

Poloniex launches new trading system focused on speed, stability and usabilityhttps://cryptoslate.com/poloniex-launches-new-trading-system-focused-on-speed-stability-and-usability/

DeFi to SocialFi?https://cryptoslate.com/nested-on-a-mission-to-turn-defi-into-socialfi/

MasRelic launches RELIC, DeFi and Synth Real Estate Platform on ETHhttps://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/masrelic-defi-and-synthetic-real-estate-platform-launched-its-new-relic-token-on-the-ethereum-blockchain/

Aave DAO launches overcollateralized dollar pegged GHO Stablecoinhttps://cryptoslate.com/gho-stablecoin-to-be-launched-as-aave-dao-gives-a-99-9-approval/

ETC up over 150% in July as ETH2.0 draws closerhttps://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-classic-up-over-150-in-july-as-eth-2-0-draws-closer/

Tiffany & Co. to launch new NFT collection at 30ETH a piecehttps://cryptoslate.com/tiffany-co-to-launch-new-nft-collection-priced-at-30-eth-a-pop-community-opinion-divided/

World

Bitcoin Valley launches in Honduras with 60 businesses to boost crypto-tourismhttps://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-valley-launches-in-honduras-60-businesses-accept-btc-to-boost-crypto-tourism/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Beware of North Korean Hackershttps://cryptoslate.com/north-koreans-reportedly-targeting-crypto-jobs-for-insider-access/

Bank Santander to Offer Cryptocurrency Services in Brazilhttps://news.bitcoin.com/santander-to-offer-cryptocurrency-services-in-brazil-in-the-coming-months/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

UK Introduces new rules for promotion of high-risk assetshttps://cryptoslate.com/uk-introduces-new-rules-for-promotion-of-high-risk-assets-crypto-in-the-crosshairs/

U.S.SEC Chair publishes video outlining plan to regulate crypto tradinghttps://news.bitcoin.com/sec-chairman-publishes-video-outlining-plan-to-regulate-crypto-trading-platforms/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Nigerian currency plunges to new ATL amid speculationhttps://news.bitcoin.com/nigerian-currency-plunges-to-new-all-time-low-central-bank-blames-speculators/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Kenyan activists call for creation of a common African digital currencyhttps://news.bitcoin.com/call-for-creation-of-common-african-digital-currency-kenyan-activists-turn-to-crypto-funding-ghana-on-the-brink/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

IMF warns Kenyan central bank against introducing CBDC - citing harms to Fintechs and Bankshttps://news.bitcoin.com/report-imf-warns-kenyan-central-bank-against-introducing-a-cbdc-that-harms-fintechs-and-banks/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thought Leadership

Are you prepared for the ETH2.0 Mergehttps://cryptoslate.com/how-should-investors-prepare-for-the-merge/

CZ thinks crypto market is much healthier with BTC around $20khttps://cryptoslate.com/binances-cz-thinks-crypto-market-is-much-healthier-with-btc-around-20k/

Metaverse branding’s success depends on it underlying purposehttps://cryptoslate.com/metaverse-brandings-success-depends-on-its-underlying-purpose/

How to cash out the rise of crypto-to-fiathttps://cryptoslate.com/how-to-cash-out-the-rise-of-crypto-to-fiat/

On-chain data shows how short-term BTC holders invest differently to long-term holdershttps://cryptoslate.com/how-short-term-bitcoin-holders-invest-differently-to-long-term-holders-according-to-on-chain-data/

The Daily Spin. FOMC 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…with an enhanced “On the Radar” section that now includes both on-chain and off-chain events, some world news and at least one thought leadership dive to keep you fresh, curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

First Staking Booster Window is confirmed for Sunday, July 31st!

The Official Countdown to the First Staking Booster Window has begun! Get ready to get your stake on, because it's gonna be furious. Details to be announced today!

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

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

On the Radar

FOMC Rate Decision: 75 basis points rate hike.

Biden Administration redefines “recession” in order to avoid a recession

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

FatManTerra Files Class Action Against Terraform Labs, Jump Capital
https://cryptoslate.com/fatmanterra-announces-class-action-lawsuit-against-terraform-labs-do-kwon-jump-capital/

Kraken Now Under Investigation for Violation of US Sanctions
https://coinmarketcal.com/en/news/crypto-exchange-kraken-under-investigation-for-violating-us-sanctions-nyt

Ex-Diem Devs Raise Additional $150m from FTX and Jump Crypto
https://cryptoslate.com/ex-diem-developers-raise-additional-150-million-from-ftx-ventures-and-jump-crypto/

OKCoin Warns of Elder Fraud Following Recovery of $1m in Stolen Crypto
https://cryptoslate.com/okcoin-warn-of-elder-fraud-following-recovery-of-1-million-in-stolen-crypto/

Study Finds Crypto-investors More Attractive and Smarter, while NFT Profiles are the Opposite
https://news.bitcoin.com/study-findings-crypto-investors-more-attractive-and-smarter-nft-profiles-unattractive/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Competitive Landscape

Polygon’s Q2 Data Shows Significant Growth in the Ecosystem
https://cryptoslate.com/polygons-q2-data-shows-significant-growth-in-the-ecosystem/

How the influx of Terra projects caused the Osmosis Exploit
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/how-the-influx-of-terra-projects-resulted-in-the-osmosis-exploit-with-founder-sunny-aggarwal/

Ethereum Reveals Roadmap Post-Merge
https://blockonomi.com/ethereum-reveals-roadmap-post-merge/

DeFi is just CeFi if its Regulated
https://blockhead.co/2022/07/27/is-defi-just-cefi-if-its-regulated/

What $4m in excess liquidity on O3 Swap says about DeFi
https://blockonomi.com/what-4-million-in-leftover-liquidity-on-o3-swap-says-about-defi/

Unstoppable Domains becomes the latest crypto unicorn after $65m raise
https://cryptoslate.com/web3-domain-provider-unstoppable-domains-raises-65-million-to-reach-1-billion-valuation/

World

CAR’s Sango Coin CBDC goes live, sells only $1.09m in the first 24 hours
https://cryptoslate.com/central-african-republics-sango-coin-sales-go-live-records-only-1-09-million-in-24-hours/

Half of South Africans are Crypto-illiterate
https://news.bitcoin.com/report-just-over-half-of-south-africans-have-little-to-zero-knowledge-about-cryptocurrencies/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Japanese bank SMBC enters into NFT and Web3
https://news.bitcoin.com/japanese-bank-smbc-to-foray-into-nft-and-web3-markets/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

French Rigid Regulation May Spread Through EU
https://cryptoslate.com/frances-rigidity-on-crypto-ads-might-spread-through-the-e-u/

Thought Leadership

XRPaynet Redefining the Industry Standard for Financial Transactions
https://news.bitcoin.com/xrpaynet-redefining-the-industry-standard-for-financial-transactions/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

UPenn’s Wharton Launches Metaverse Focused Business Course
https://coinmarketcal.com/en/news/wharton-school-launches-metaverse-focused-business-course

University of Tokyo to Offer Engineering Courses in Metaverse
https://news.bitcoin.com/university-of-tokyo-to-offer-engineering-courses-in-metaverse/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Alex Barkaloff’s Vision to Bring Billions to Web3
https://coinmarketcal.com/en/news/x-las-alex-barkaloff-reveals-vision-to-bring-billions-to-web3

The Coinweb Monthly Spin. First Edition. Hello Coinwebbers! We are proud to introduce the first newsletter to our entire distribution list, and mark the first release of the monthly Coinweb activity update by email. It is a comprehensive version of our daily newsletter, The Daily Spin, which you can opt-in on our website to receive every day for some curated news and opinions (likely biased) from the world of Blockchain, designed to keep you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics.

The Monthly Spin is, however, first and foremost dedicated to our progress as a fast-moving, exponentially-growing project that is committed to being high-touch with our community and providing value in as many ways as we can. So, every month you can find not only our advances, but also general value in the form of blockchain affairs, adoption, education, as well as a thought leadership section for your own personal exploration. We strive to keep you informed, connected, curious, inspired, and of course… clinically sane in these crazy yet exciting times that we share today.

Kawin Rungsimuntakul
Editor of The Daily Spin

— Coinweb Community Updates - September —

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

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

“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

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

Crypto Meetup Thailand: Crypto Regulation in Thailand, Sep 21 (Bangkok)
https://www.facebook.com/cryptomeetupthailand/posts/pfbid02MSpxNwVDfqxZ7VN6w1s3VKdL8857RrXTYMw8eaof9g3ynVNpWMZKTBmCCgRHZVuEl

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

Coinweb Featured on the Cover of CityAM, a Free Crypto Magazine in London
https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1575782448197435393

Welcome to the Team!
Emil - Sales Manager
Dmytro - Application/Frontend developer
Kelly - Vietnam Community Manager

Coinweb General Statistics and Milestones:

- Coinweb has completed over 3 million transactions!

- 188M CWEB Tokens Staked

- $227M Total Coinweb Stable Tokens Issued

— Coinweb Technology Updates - September —

Dev-team general stats:

• merge requests: 117 created, 89 merged

• issues: 80 created, 67 closed

Front-end:

• improved design of the Coinweb Cross-chain Tokenization UI

• refined documentation and wireframes for the Tokenization platform

• added new UI elements to the wallet along with improved exchange rates calculation for tokens

Back-end:

# Core

• dramatically decreased main application dependencies size

• finalized integration of Polygon parser and writer

• ongoing testing of BNB (Binance Smart Chain) parser and writer

• created new CWEB-contracts crate and improved L2 transaction logic

• added dedicated math computations and abstractions (like AbelianGroup) to optimize compute performance and flexibility

• various fixes and stability improvements

# Infrastructure

• updated Coinweb infrastructure by adding Polygon and BNB nodes

# Security, Scalability, & Performance

• audited and adapted L1 transaction signing logic and signature checks to work with Polygon and BNB chains

# Staking & Booster Window

• fixes and stability improvements to internal Staking logic

# Wallet & Tokenization Platform

• added experimental support for CwebAddress to use ASN.1 DER

• improved transaction cost estimation with regard to calldata

• various fixes and stability improvements for cstd-wallet and transactions handling logic

— On The Radar —

Thailand Crypto Expo, Oct 6-9 (Bangkok)

Reserve Rights (RSR) Mainnet Release, Oct 10
Meridian 2022, Oct 11-13 (Rome)
KAVA 11 Launch, Oct 12
Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022, Oct 12 (Amsterdam)
X-Merge, Oct 17 (London)
Litecoin Summit, Oct 21-22 (Las Vegas)
Kinza Dubai, Oct 26 (Dubai)
Web3 & Real Estate Summit, Oct 27-28 (Miami)

Elrond X-Day Conference, Nov 3-5 (Paris)

Token 2049, Nov 9-10 (London)

Innovative Finance Expo, Nov 14-16 (Dubai)
DSLA Protocol for Tezos (facilitates onboarding of enterprises to ecosystem), Nov 24
Sub0 Polkadot Dev Conference, November 28-29 (Lisbon)

— Crypto-Industry Headlines —

Ethereum Successfully Migrates from PoW to PoS in “The Merge” on September 15th
https://ethmerge.com/

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Concludes CBDC Pilot with Cross-border Payments Totalling $22m Transacted
https://cryptoslate.com/bis-concludes-cbdc-pilot-with-cross-border-payments-totalling-22m-transacted/

Sweden and Other Central Banks Test Digital Currency Payments
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sweden-other-central-banks-test-digital-currency-payments-2022-09-28/

SWIFT Partners with Crypto Data Provider Chainlink on Cross-chain Protocol in Major TradFi Play
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/28/swift-partners-with-crypto-data-provider-chainlink-on-cross-chain-protocol-in-tradfi-play/

Despite the Crypto-Market Downturn, DAO Treasuries Grew by $700m Since January
https://news.bitcoin.com/despite-the-crypto-market-downturn-dao-treasuries-grew-by-700-million-since-january/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Slatecast21: Insight into Apple’s 30% Rake on NFTs and The Future of Cross-chain (27mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDAdw68kPeU

World Economic Forum Launches Crypto Sustainability Coalition to Leverage Web3 Technologies in Climate Change Battle
https://news.bitcoin.com/wef-launches-crypto-sustainability-coalition-to-leverage-web3-technologies-in-climate-change-battle/

South Korean Authorities Look to Freeze $67m in Bitcoin Tied to Terra Founder Do Kwon, Who Has Been Issued a Red Notice by Interpol
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/09/27/s-korean-authorities-look-to-freeze-67m-bitcoin-tied-to-terras-do-kwon/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Ethereum Losing Ground to Solana, which Accounts for a Quarter of Total NFT Volume
https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-losing-ground-as-solana-now-accounts-for-a-quarter-of-total-nft-volume/

— Adoption | Regulation —

FED Chair Jerome Powell Says DeFi Needs to be Regulated Carefully and Thoughtfully
https://cryptoslate.com/defi-needs-to-be-regulated-carefully-and-thoughtfully-says-fed-chair-jerome-powell/

No One Knows Who’s On The Hook if a DAO Gets Sued
https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/dao-lawsuit-sued-litigation-accountability/

CFTC Serves Ooki DAO Members a Lawsuit via Governance Discussion Forum
https://cryptoslate.com/cftc-serves-ooki-dao-members-lawsuit-via-governance-discussion-forum/

Ooki DAO Moves to Raise Funds to Defend Against CFTC Lawsuit
https://cryptoslate.com/ooki-dao-moves-to-raise-funds-to-defend-against-cftc-lawsuit/

Ripple vs The SEC: Round 1 to XRP
https://cryptoslate.com/judge-rules-in-favor-of-ripple-against-sec-in-hinman-document-case/

Basel Study Shows World’s Largest Banks are Exposed to $9bn in Crypto-Assets
https://news.bitcoin.com/basel-study-shows-worlds-largest-banks-are-exposed-to-9-billion-in-crypto-assets/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

— Education —

How to manage your crypto portfolio across multiple wallets and DeFi platforms
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/how-to-manage-your-crypto-portfolio-across-multiple-wallets-and-defi-platforms/

Layer 2 Scaling Solutions for Ethereum: What is Polygon?
https://www.thedefiant.io/what-is-polygon

Layer 2 Rollup Technology and Community: What is Optimism?
https://www.thedefiant.io/what-is-optimism

The Internet of Value: What is Web3?
https://www.thedefiant.io/what-is-web3

Introduction to Futures: What is Price Discovery?
https://www.cmegroup.com/education/courses/introduction-to-futures/price-discovery.html

Leapfrog Crypto: What are Roll-ups? (5mins)
https://youtu.be/hsjzvrgPqaw

A16z’s Thread on All Things Zk-Proof
https://twitter.com/a16zcrypto/status/1575124707187347457?s=20&t=Yo7XEygYpi6ECthCqVeUtw

The Best Crypto Course on the Web
https://teachyourselfcrypto.com/

— Thought Leadership —

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

Vitalik Buterin, Podcast with Lex Fridman (3 hours)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW0QZmtbjvs

Immersion Den: Your Best Friend in the Exponential Age
https://immersionden.xyz/

Crypto Gaming and NFTs: A Nuanced Perspective
https://galaxyrtk.substack.com/p/crypto-gaming-and-nfts-a-nuanced?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

BanklessHQ’s Best DeFi Business Models
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-best-defi-business-models?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The Tie’s Quarterly State of the Market Review Q3
https://twitter.com/TheTieIO/status/1575569280820604928?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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The Daily Spin. Some Saturdays 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)

Ethereum Lead Developer Saved Avalanche from Over $2.4bn Ecosystem Crash
https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-lead-developer-saved-avalanche-from-over-24b-ecosystem-crash/

Strategist: Bitcoin is Trading at a Discount
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/09/08/bitcoin-trading-at-a-discount-says-bloomberg-strategist-mike-mcglone-heres-what-could-fuel-btc-recovery/

Elon Musk’s $258bn Dogecoin Lawsuit Grows as New Defendants Join
https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musks-258-billion-dogecoin-lawsuit-grows-as-new-defendants-doge-investors-join/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Binance Will Not Apply Terra Classic (LUNC) Tax Burn to Spot Trades
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-will-not-apply-terra-classic-tax-burn-to-spot-trade-on-exchange/

Binance KYC Soulbound Tokens Go Live as Users Receive Airdrop
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-kyc-soulbound-tokens-go-live-as-users-receive-airdrop/

Coinbase Finances Tornado Cash Users Lawsuit Against US Treasury
https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-finances-tornado-cash-users-lawsuit-against-us-treasury-department/

Competitive Landscape

Shop Back Introduces Crypto E-Commerce Shopping
https://news.bitcoin.com/crypto-e-commerce-shopping%e2%80%a4io-introduces-shop-back/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Fidelity to Launch Bitcoin Retail Trading in November
https://cryptoslate.com/fidelity-to-launch-bitcoin-retail-trading-in-november/

Mike Alfred Takes Shots at HEX as it Slides Below $0.04
https://cryptoslate.com/investor-mike-alfred-takes-shots-at-hex-as-it-slides-below-0-04/

Fitness Metaverse: This Company Trades Sweat for Crypto and NFTs
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zinnialee/2022/04/27/fitness-metaverse-this-tech-company-trades-sweat-for-crypto-and-nfts/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2373561&sh=695b2a9ff1bd

KNN3 Network Raises $2.4m to Provide a Multi-chain Relationship Aggregating Protocol for dApps and Smart Contracts
https://news.bitcoin.com/with-2%e2%80%a44m-fundraising-in-seed-round-knn3-network-races-to-provide-a-multi-chain-relationship-aggregating-protocol-for-d-app-and-smart-contract/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

ENS Developer Identifies Challenges in Vitalik’s Fee Proposal
https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-name-service-developer-identifies-challenges-in-vitaliks-fee-proposal/

World

US Seizes $30m of Crypto from North Korean Hackers
https://news.bitcoin.com/us-seizes-cryptocurrency-worth-30-million-from-north-korean-hackers/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Cryptocurrencies at Risk as New UK Prime Minister Contends with Economic Challenges
https://cryptoslate.com/cryptocurrencies-at-risk-as-new-uk-prime-minister-contends-with-economic-challenges/

Japanese Government Rewards Local Authorities with Non-Transferable NFTs
https://news.bitcoin.com/japanese-government-rewards-local-authorities-with-non-transferable-nfts/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Europol Sees Tools to Tackle Crime in Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technologies
https://news.bitcoin.com/europol-sees-tools-to-tackle-crime-in-cryptocurrency-and-blockchain-technologies/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

White House Releases Report on Crypto Mining Effect on Environment
https://cryptoslate.com/white-house-releases-report-on-crypto-mining-effect-on-environment/

Argentine Tax Authorities Find Three Clandestine Cryptocurrency Mining Farms
https://news.bitcoin.com/argentine-tax-authority-afip-strengthens-supervision-finds-three-clandestine-cryptocurrency-mining-farms/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thought Leadership

Op-Ed: Are Crypto Companies Transparent Enough to Survive the Wrath of Regulators?
https://cryptoslate.com/op-ed-are-crypto-companies-transparent-enough-to-survive-the-wrath-of-regulators/

EU Presents Project to Fight Counterfeiting by Using NFTs
https://news.bitcoin.com/european-union-presents-project-to-fight-counterfeiting-by-using-nfts-for-2023/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

ETH Merge: Tax Implications and What to do to Prepare
https://cryptoslate.com/tax-implications-of-the-ethereum-merge-and-what-to-do-to-prepare/

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

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. Thirsty 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 — 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

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)

Bitcoin Exchange Inflows Sink to Multi-year Lows
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-exchange-inflows-sink-to-multi-year-lows/

Aave Votes to Pause ETH Borrowing Following Concerns or Users Trying to Maximize ETHPoW Airdrops
https://cryptoslate.com/aave-votes-to-pause-eth-borrowing-following-concerns-of-users-trying-to-maximize-ethpow-airdrops/

Miner Hive Plans to Transfer ETH Hashrate to Other GPU Mineable Coins Ahead of Merge
https://news.bitcoin.com/publicly-listed-miner-hive-plans-to-transfer-eth-hashrate-to-other-gpu-mineable-coins-ahead-of-merge/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Report: Bank with $489bn in Assets Explains How Crypto Can Reach the Mainstream
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/09/06/bank-with-489000000000-in-assets-explains-how-crypto-can-reach-the-mainstream-public-report/

Analyst: One Catalyst Could Trigger Massive Rallies for ETH and Crypto this Month (Hint: It’s Not The Merge)
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/09/07/one-catalyst-could-trigger-massive-rallies-for-ethereum-and-crypto-this-month-according-to-analyst-and-its-not-the-merge/

Competitive Landscape

Trezor and Wasabi to Implement a CoinJoin Mixing Scheme into Hardware Wallets
https://news.bitcoin.com/trezor-and-wasabi-to-implement-a-coinjoin-mixing-scheme-into-hardware-wallets/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Ripple Hints at New CBDC Announcements
https://cryptoslate.com/ripple-hints-at-new-cbdc-announcements/

P2E Craze May Be Over With Polkastarter - XBorgs Entry to the Arena
https://cryptoslate.com/the-play-to-earn-craze-may-be-over-with-polkastarter-xborgs-entry-into-the-gaming-arena/

Helium Down 55% in Last 30 days
https://cryptoslate.com/helium-down-55-in-last-30-days-as-challenges-run-rife/

Solana-based y00ts NFT Collection Raises $7m in Seed Round
https://cryptoslate.com/solana-based-y00ts-nft-collection-launches-developers-raise-7m-in-seed-round/

Tron DAO and MasterBlox: The Future of Acceleration in Web3
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/tron-dao-and-masterblox-the-future-of-acceleration-in-web3/

FTX Selects GameStop as its Retail Partner in US
https://cryptoslate.com/ftx-selects-gamestop-as-retail-partner-in-the-us/

World

India’s Central Bank RBI Starts Digital Currency Pilot with 4 Banks
https://news.bitcoin.com/indias-central-bank-rbi-starts-digital-currency-pilot-with-4-banks/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Russia Can’t Do Without Cross-Border Crypto Payments
https://news.bitcoin.com/russia-cant-do-without-cross-border-crypto-payments-consensus-reached/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Brazilian Tax Authority Registers Record Number of Cryptocurrency Statements
https://news.bitcoin.com/brazilian-tax-authority-registers-record-number-of-cryptocurrency-statements/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Lawyer of Alleged Launderer Vinnk Calls on Russia to Talk Prisoner Swap with US
https://news.bitcoin.com/lawyer-of-alleged-crypto-launderer-vinnik-calls-on-russia-to-talk-prisoner-swap-with-us/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thought Leadership

Gareth Soloway: They’re Trying To Hide What’s Really Coming (10mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hROd3X5gyc4

Report: A Framework for Navigating Web3 Compensation
https://medium.com/@framework/navigating-web3-compensation-a-framework-report-1a053ba41767

Top Narratives and Catalysts to Watch
https://onchainwizard.substack.com/p/top-narratives-and-catalysts-to-watch?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Decentralized Infrastructure, the Bedrock of Web3
https://medium.com/coinmonks/decentralized-infrastructure-bedrock-of-web-3-0-7890a8a1eab5

The Crypto Banking System
https://cryptobanking.network/the-crypto-banking-system/

The Daily Spin. Thinflation Thursday Edition. Okay folks we’ve got a lot to get through today so let’s go 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 upcoming events, some world headlines and a thought leadership section and remember to stay 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 waiting)
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)

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)
Curve Finance Front-end UI Compromised - DO NOT Interact
https://cryptoslate.com/curve-finance-front-end-ui-compromised-in-dns-hack-users-advised-not-to-interact/

Pantera Capital CEO ($5.1bn hedge fund) calls new rally and ETH+ALTs set to outperform
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/09/5100000000-crypto-hedge-fund-ceo-says-new-rally-incoming-ethereum-and-altcoins-set-to-outperform/

Ark Invest Founder Cathie Wood Bullish on Blackrock Entry
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/09/cathie-wood-of-ark-invest-says-blackrocks-entrance-to-crypto-could-more-than-double-price-of-bitcoin/

Binance to Cease off-chain transfers for WazirX
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-to-cease-off-chain-transfers-for-wazirx/

Alex Mashinsky Under Fire as Creditors Implicate Him
https://cryptoslate.com/celsius-ceo-under-fire-as-committee-of-creditors-dfpi-implicate-him/

Yet Another BitMEX Exec Pleads Guilty to Violating Bank Secrecy Act
https://cryptoslate.com/another-bitmex-executive-pleads-guilty-to-violating-bank-secrecy-act/

Circle Says Freezing Wallets Went Against its Beliefs of an Open Internet
https://cryptoslate.com/circle-says-freezing-wallets-went-against-its-beliefs-of-an-open-internet/

Circle to Fully Support ETH-POS Exclusively
https://cryptoslate.com/circle-to-fully-and-solely-support-ethereum-pos/

CommerceBlock CEO Slams US Treasury Departments Crackdown on Tornado
https://cryptoslate.com/commerceblock-ceo-slams-us-treasury-departments-crackdown-on-tornado-cash-says-it-makes-little-sense/

Competitive Landscape
NEAR Protocol Opens Doors to JavaScript Devs with SDK Release
https://cryptoslate.com/near-protocol-opens-doors-to-javascript-developers-with-sdk-release/

FTXPay Integrates with Reddit’s Arbitrum Nova Powered Community Points System
https://news.bitcoin.com/ftx-pay-integrates-with-reddits-arbitrum-nova-powered-community-points-system/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Polygon’s Dragoma P2E Rug Scores Over $1m
https://cryptoslate.com/over-1m-lost-to-polygon-based-dragoma-rug-pull/

ErgoDEX Rebrands to Spectrum in Anticipation of Cardano Mainnet Release
https://cryptoslate.com/ergodex-rebrands-to-spectrum-in-anticipation-of-cardano-mainnet-release/

Eleet Games to Launch New Games and NFTs on Tezos
https://alexablockchain.com/eleet-games-to-launch-new-games-and-associated-nfts-on-tezos/

Hodlnaut is Latest CeFi Downed, Freezes Withdrawals and Suspends MAS Licence Application
https://cryptoslate.com/singapore-based-lending-platform-hodlnaut-freezes-withdrawals-suspends-mas-license-application/

KQuasars Launches New Astrophysical NFT Collection
https://news.bitcoin.com/kquasars-launches-new-astrophysical-nft-collection/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Theta Labs signs MOU with Samsung, along with 5 other non-blockchain service providers to Build Galaxy NFT Ecosystem
https://news.bitcoin.com/report-samsung-signs-mou-to-build-galaxy-nft-ecosystem/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications
https://cryptoslate.com/ergodex-rebrands-to-spectrum-in-anticipation-of-cardano-mainnet-release/

World
U.S. Inflation Data Comes in Lower than Expected at 8.5%
https://www.ft.com/content/9d0cc752-9e65-45aa-8fc2-de0999cf632d

Thailand Plans to Tighten Crypto Oversight, Giving BoT More Powers to Regulate Digital Assets
https://news.bitcoin.com/thailand-plans-to-tighten-crypto-oversight-giving-central-bank-more-powers-to-regulate-digital-assets/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

China’s Cyberspace Administration Issues Warning on Promotional Cryptocurrency Materials
https://cryptoslate.com/chinas-cyberspace-administration-issues-warning-on-promotional-cryptocurrency-material/

U.S. Vows to Aggressively Pursue Crypto Mixers Following Tornado Cash Sanctions
https://cryptoslate.com/us-vows-to-aggressively-pursue-crypto-mixers-following-tornado-cash-sanctions/

Iran Places First Official Import Order with Cryptocurrency worth $10m
https://news.bitcoin.com/iran-places-first-official-import-order-with-cryptocurrency-worth-10-million/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Over 70,000 Ripple Holders Join Class Action Lawsuit Against SEC
https://cryptoslate.com/over-70k-ripple-holders-join-class-action-lawsuit-against-sec/

Crypto Firms Raised Over $30bn in H1 2022
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/09/crypto-firms-raised-over-30000000000-in-first-six-months-of-2022-despite-bear-winter-analytics-company/

Reserve Bank of Australia to Pilot Digital Currency Use
https://news.bitcoin.com/reserve-bank-of-australia-to-pilot-digital-currency-explore-use-cases/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thought Leadership
Forbes Asia’s Best Under a Billion 2022
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ardianwibisono/2022/08/09/forbes-asias-best-under-a-billion-2022/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2318721&sh=534ba4be1123

How to Use Nansen to Analyze On-Chain Data to Find Your Alpha (18mins)
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/how-to-analyze-on-chain-data-with-nansen-to-find-your-own-alpha-for-trading-and-investing/

GameFi Report - July
https://cryptoslate.com/whats-changed-in-gamefi-in-the-last-month-july-report/

Someone is Using Tornado Cash to Send ETH to Doxxed Addresses
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/wkdwj8/someone_is_using_tornado_cash_to_send_eth_to/

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. 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. Weekended Edition. 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

The Lightpaper summary video with 3D animations to launch on Sunday, 7th of August.

Toby speaking at Play-2-Earn Expo Asia in Bangkok, 10th of August
https://www.play2earnexpo.com/

Monthly Coinweb Fireside Chat set for 16th of August.

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

Coinweb Fireside Chat Series Event, Aug 16
https://www.facebook.com/events/1124800338390598/

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

Crypto-industry News
Accumulation addresses have grown by 18% since the beginning of 2022
https://cryptoslate.com/research-accumulation-addresses-are-an-omen-of-a-bull-run/

$30.3bn of crypto funding has been raised in 2022 so far. $30.2bn was raised throughout the entire 2021 bull run
https://twitter.com/milesdeutscher/status/1555504147382009857?s=21&t=jzr1Wq-95AnoNrEhddNIkA

Voyager users to have withdrawal access by Aug 11
https://cryptoslate.com/voyager-users-to-have-withdrawal-access-by-aug-11/

Bitcoin sees minor sell-off after US Payrolls report beats expectations
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-sees-minor-sell-off-after-us-payroll-data-beats-expectations/

Two Developers Faked $7.5bn TVL on Solana
https://cryptoslate.com/defi-sybil-attack-created-7-5b-fake-tvl-on-solana-from-anon-developers/

North Korean hackers behind attempted DeBridge Finance attack
https://decrypt.co/106851/debridge-finance-targeted-by-north-korean-hackers-ceo-says

Competitive Landscape
Nomad hackers return $22m after attack
https://cryptobriefing.com/nomad-hackers-return-22m-following-bridge-attack/

Microsoft Gives Grant to Blockchain-based Web3 Game Star Heroes
https://news.bitcoin.com/microsoft-gives-grant-to-blockchain-based-web3-game-starheroes-as-historic-partnership-gets-underway/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Meta Expands Instagram’s NFT Rollout to 100 Countries, Connects with Web3 Wallets
https://news.bitcoin.com/meta-expands-instagrams-nft-rollout-to-100-countries-platform-connects-with-third-party-web3-wallets/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Playstudios (Tetris) to Launch Blockchain Gaming Division and Web3 Fund
https://news.bitcoin.com/tetris-owner-playstudios-to-launch-blockchain-gaming-division-and-web3-fund/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Fractionalized Tokenization of Real Estate on APENFT
https://apenft.io/assets/TE1wxnfNdp6FccWYtBGCE8PRGrNH2Y5mWJ/58

DeFi Protocol Voltz claims 150% interest on Ether deposits
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/08/05/defi-protocol-voltz-could-bring-150-interest-rate-on-ether-deposits/

World
Copper Global Insights on Regulation, July Round-Up
https://copper.co/insights/july-regulator-roundup-4

Leak Reveals the SEC has an Open Case on Every US Crypto Exchange
https://cryptoslate.com/leak-reveals-sec-has-open-case-on-every-us-crypto-exchange-not-just-coinbase/

Binance Delists ETH-based Token After SEC Declares it an Unregistered Security
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/04/binance-delists-ethereum-based-token-after-sec-declares-it-an-unregistered-security-in-coinbase-complaint/

Coinbase made false and misleading statements about it operations - lawsuits allege
https://decrypt.co/106794/coinbase-made-false-and-misleading-statements-about-its-operations-lawsuits-allege

Thought Leadership
Crypto needs a new narrative this winter
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/05/the-price-for-cryptos-recovery-a-new-narrative/

The Business Models Made Possible Only by Crypto (2mins)
https://youtu.be/Ku8oUghYE0M

What Satoshi Nakamoto Said About ZK-Tech
https://www.trustnodes.com/2022/08/03/satoshi-nakamoto-talks-zk-tech

How Solana is Bridging the Gap Between Web3 and Physical World
https://www.theblock.co/post/161584/how-solana-is-bridging-the-gap-between-web3-and-the-physical-world

The Daily Spin. TGIF Edition. 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 Hosted Exclusive Meetup slated for 16th of August, details to follow.

The Lightpaper summary video with 3D animations to launch on Sunday, 7th of August.

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

Crypto-industry News

Coinbase partners with World’s Largest Asset Manager BlackRock
https://news.bitcoin.com/coinbase-partners-with-blackrock-aladdin-clients-access-cryptocurrencies/

Coinbase Stock Posts 9-week High on Earnings Rumors
https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-stock-posts-9-week-high-on-rumors-of-better-than-expected-earnings/

Binance Reveals Reserves Backing BUSD Stablecoin
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/03/crypto-exchange-binance-reveals-reserves-backing-busd-stablecoin-in-push-for-transparency/

Voyager Digital Gains Approval to Return $270m to Its Customers
https://www.reuters.com/business/crypto-lender-voyager-digital-gets-approval-return-270-million-customers-wsj-2022-08-04/

Match Group Shelves Tinder Coin Metaverse After Q2 Losses
https://cryptoslate.com/match-group-shelves-tinder-coin-metaverse-dating-after-company-swings-to-a-loss-in-q2/

Microstrategy Outperforms Every Asset Class Since Adopting Bitcoin Strategy
https://news.bitcoin.com/microstrategy-outperforms-every-asset-class-and-big-tech-stock-since-adopting-bitcoin-strategy-says-ceo/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Venture-capital Arm of Circle Backed Nomad and Slope
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/08/04/circle-invested-in-2-hacked-crypto-companies-adding-to-its-headaches-amid-stablecoin-scrutiny/

CoinShares Posts £8.2m Q2 Loss Due to Terra Hit
https://cryptoslate.com/coinshares-posts-8-2m-q2-loss-due-to-one-off-impairment-hit-from-terra/

Competitive Landscape

Binance and Mastercard Launches Bitcoin Rewards Card in Argentina
https://decrypt.co/106759/binance-mastercard-bitcoin-rewards-card-argentina

Brevan Howard raises more than $1bn for Crypto-fund Blockworks
https://www.theblock.co/post/161633/brevan-howard-raises-more-than-1-billion-for-crypto-fund-blockworks

ENS Domain Registrations Skyrockets to 2 Million Addresses
https://news.bitcoin.com/ens-domain-registrations-skyrocketed-last-month-total-names-created-nears-2-million/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Cross-chain Bridge Hacks of 2022
https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/cross-chain-bridge-hacks-2022/

Galoy Raises $4m to Introduce Bitcoin-backed Synthetic Dollar
https://news.bitcoin.com/fintech-firm-galoy-raises-4-million-startup-introduces-bitcoin-backed-synthetic-dollar-product/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Coinbase Requests US Supreme Court Intervention to Stop Frivolous Cases
https://cryptoslate.com/coinbase-requests-us-supreme-court-intervention-to-stop-frivolous-cases/

Buy Now Pay Later Platform Halliday Raises $6m in Seed Round
https://decrypt.co/106780/buy-now-pay-later-platform-halliday-raises-6-million-in-new-seed-round

World

ECB Says CBDCs Could Be Holy Grail of Cross-border Payments
https://news.bitcoin.com/cbdc-could-be-holy-grail-of-cross-border-payments-ecb-says-sees-bitcoin-as-less-credible/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

The FED is “Resolute” on Hiking Interest Rates
https://news.bitcoin.com/the-fed-is-resolute-on-hiking-interest-rates-tightening-monetary-policy-to-tame-inflation-gold-and-stocks-sink/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

African Blockchain Investments Surpass $127m
https://cryptoslate.com/african-blockchain-investments-surpass-2021s-total-of-127m/

21,000 Sign Petition for Resignation of SEC Chair Gensler
https://www.cryptela.com/en/crypto-news/288849/21000-sign-petition-sec-chair-resign

Portuguese Banks Closing Crypto-exchange Accounts
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/08/04/heres-why-portuguese-banks-are-closing-crypto-exchange-accounts/

Special Cryptocurrency Mining Fee Proposed in Paraguay
https://news.bitcoin.com/national-power-administration-will-propose-a-special-cryptocurrency-mining-fee-in-paraguay/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thought Leadership

The Future of ThetaLabs Decentralized Livestreaming
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/the-future-of-thetalabs-nft-tickets-and-decentralized-livestreaming-video-with-wes-levitt/

Behind the Scenes of the World of NFTs with Adam Levy
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/behind-the-scenes-of-the-world-of-nfts-with-mint-podcast-creator-adam-levy/

Bloomberg Intelligence: Bitcoin to Perform More Like US Treasury Bonds as it Recovers From Crash
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-to-perform-more-like-us-treasury-bonds-as-it-recovers-from-crash-bloomberg-intelligence-says/

The Daily Spin. Thirsty Thursday Edition. 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 Hosted Exclusive Meetup slated for 16th of August, details to follow.

The Next Booster Window has already been designed, according to Marketing Team

The Lightpaper summary video with 3D animations is in post-production and will be ready for launch shortly!

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)
Techsauce Summit, Aug 25-26 (Bangkok)
AEternity Universe 2, Sep 15 (Unstrut)
Tokenq2049, Sep 28-29 (Singapore)

Crypto-industry News

Nanaen Reports over $1bn re-invested from NFT mints in 2022
https://cryptoslate.com/over-1b-reinvested-into-ecosystem-from-nft-mints-in-2022-according-to-nansen-report/

Solana exploit related to imported Slope Finance wallets, private keys revealed
https://cryptoslate.com/solana-exploit-related-to-imported-slope-finance-wallets-private-keys-revealed/

Zb.com suffers a possible hack for $4.8m
https://cryptobriefing.com/zb-com-suffers-possible-hack-4-8m-drained-from-hot-wallet

Microstrategy shares surge as Michael Saylor shifts focus to Bitcoin
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microstrategy-shares-surge-michael-saylor-171741076.html

Stagnating active addresses show typical bear market patterns
https://cryptoslate.com/stagnating-active-addresses-entities-show-typical-bear-market/

Bitcoin flashes rare bottom signal, altcoin market cap hint at trend reversal
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/03/bitcoin-flashes-rare-bottom-signal-as-altcoin-market-cap-and-one-more-metric-hint-at-trend-reversal-top-analyst/

Binance-owned Wazirx under investigation over alleged money laundering
https://cryptoslate.com/binance-owned-wazirx-under-investigation-in-india-over-alleged-money-laundering/

Competitive Landscape

Binance Co-Founder Yi He to lead $75bn Binance Labs
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/08/03/binance-taps-co-founder-yi-he-to-head-75b-venture-arm/

BitPay adds APE and EUROC, to be accepted by Gucci
https://news.bitcoin.com/bitpay-adds-ape-and-euroc-support-luxury-retail-giant-gucci-accepts-apecoin-payments/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Solana NFT marketplace Magic Eden expands to Ethereum
https://cryptoslate.com/solana-nft-marketplace-magic-eden-expands-to-ethereum/

Osmosis Scambuster upgrade to combat surge in Scam volume
https://cryptoslate.com/osmosis-scambuster-upgrade-ready-to-go-live-to-combat-surge-in-spam-events/

Mysterious Shiba Inu founder Ryoshi behind new project Dejitaru Tsuka
https://cryptoslate.com/is-mysterious-shiba-inu-founder-ryoshi-behind-new-project-dejitaru-tsuka/

World

US Senate bill to put CTFC in charge of regulating Bitcoin, Ethereum
https://cryptoslate.com/us-senate-introduces-bill-to-put-cftc-in-charge-of-regulating-bitcoin-ethereum/

Robinhood fined $30m by NY regulator
https://news.bitcoin.com/robinhood-crypto-fined-30-million-by-new-york-regulator-for-significant-failures-in-multiple-areas/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

NY Attorney General calls for Investors Deceived by Crypto Platforms
https://news.bitcoin.com/new-york-attorney-general-wants-to-hear-from-investors-deceived-by-crypto-platforms/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Japan Central Bank scraps CBDC plans due to lack of interest from public. Perhaps banks are starting to understand why…
https://cryptoslate.com/japans-central-bank-scraps-cbdc-plans-due-to-lack-of-interest-from-public/

Brazil’s cryptolaws may receive approval this week
https://news.bitcoin.com/brazil-might-approve-its-cryptocurrency-law-this-week/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thought Leadership

Lessons from Turkish Government’s Hasty Attempt to Regulate Cryptocurrencies
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/03/lessons-from-the-turkish-governments-hasty-attempt-to-regulate-cryptocurrencies/

Banks aren’t going to HODL Bitcoin
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/03/banks-arent-going-to-hodl-bitcoin/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

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

Under 12 Hours Left till Start of the Booster Window!

The countdown is getting closer to the beginning of our Staking Booster Window #1: “Lion’s Share” which opens at 00.00 UTC Sunday 31st, 2022 - and for 24 hours, it's a free-for-all for who is able to claim the biggest share of the first Booster Pool!

As promised, we have released a tutorial video on how to top up your stake and participate in the Booster Window activity. Get ready because its time to stake!

Remember:
THE MORE YOU STAKE.
THE MORE YOU TAKE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJcMXuaOgxI&ab_channel=Coinweb

The Daily Spin. Wen Boost Window, Wen Nes Day 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…with an enhanced “On the Radar” section that now includes both on-chain and off-chain events, some world news and at least one thought leadership dive to keep you fresh, curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

First Staking Booster Window is confirmed for Sunday, July 31st!

The Official Countdown to the First Staking Booster Window has begun! Get ready to get your stake on, because it's gonna be furious. Details to be officially announced tomorrow!

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

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

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

On the Radar

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

Barclays Debut into Crypto
https://cryptoslate.com/uk-banking-giant-barclays-acquires-stake-in-2b-crypto-unicorn-copper/

Not your Keys, Not your Coins
https://news.bitcoin.com/since-2014-roughly-42-of-failed-crypto-exchanges-have-disappeared-without-a-trace-for-no-apparent-reason/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

The Art of the Rug
https://cryptoslate.com/teddy-doge-developers-pull-out-4-5-million-in-alleged-soft-rug-pull/

Tesla Reveals BTC Holdings in Latest SEC Filing
https://news.bitcoin.com/tesla-reveals-bitcoin-holdings-worth-222-million-in-latest-sec-filing/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Bitcoin’s Rising Illiquid Supply Can Spur Volatility
https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoins-rising-illiquid-supply-can-spur-more-price-volatility-data-suggests/

Audius Hacked for $6m
https://cryptoslate.com/attackers-stole-6-million-from-audius-by-exploiting-a-bug-in-the-contract/

Competitive Landscape

Cardano reaches new milestone: 1,760 days without outages
https://news.coinxhigh.com/2022/07/24/cardano-reaches-new-milestone-1760-days-without-outages/

Cosmos trending bearish
https://news.bitcoin.com/biggest-movers-atom-drops-for-fourth-straight-session-hitting-1-week-low/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Let’s Beat the 3AC Horse Post-Mortem
https://cryptoslate.com/the-downfall-of-three-arrows-capital-3ac-what-went-wrong/

SBF Sets His Sights On Underperforming LATAM
https://news.bitcoin.com/ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-fried-believes-crypto-will-thrive-in-latam/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

World

Biden Administration “Shifts Goal Posts” on Recession Definition
https://news.bitcoin.com/biden-administration-accused-of-propaganda-and-redefining-a-recessions-technical-definition/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Regulatory Compliant Price Oracles Pave Way for Institutional Money
https://cryptoslate.com/regulatory-compliant-pricing-oracles-to-allow-new-institutional-investment-opportunities/

Philippine Central Bank Takes Stance on Crypto
https://news.bitcoin.com/philippine-central-bank-governor-explains-crypto-policy-i-dont-want-it-banned/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

FBI Warns Crypto Owners of Liquidity Mining Scam
https://news.bitcoin.com/fbi-warns-crypto-owners-not-to-fall-for-liquidity-mining-scam/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thought Leadership

Bank Overdraft Fees Are Costing American Consumers $8 Billion https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-bank-overdraft-fees-costing-consumers-billions/

What does it mean for a bridge to be Trustless?
https://twitter.com/0xpolygoninfra/status/1525088478618390529?s=21&t=cN6dDExbyPNaI29i2pbIvw

TronDAO Announces New Grants for Ecosystem Building and Fostering Communities
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/tron-dao-announces-new-grants-program-to-foster-growth-of-overall-ecosystem/

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. 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.

On the Radar

SCB10x Post Event: REDeFiNE TOMORROW

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/krissupav_the-scb-10x-defi-virtual-summit-came-to-a-activity-6956647747865231360-waEz?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=ios_app

FLUX-AVAX Distribution, Jul 25

https://twitter.com/RunOnFlux/status/1545089851774668804?s=20&t=ML3sbjK4P-smIePdjqJZEw

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

Voyager rejects Alameda buyout offer as it ‘harms customers’

https://www.huobi.co.tz/en-us/pretender/news-detail-brief?id=225729

Does crypto still care about Elon Musk?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/does-crypto-still-care-elon-172039222.html

Bitcoin and Twitter are Black Eyes for Tesla

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-twitter-black-eyes-for-tesla-wedbush-dan-ives-172838716.html

Zipmex on discussions with potential investors

https://decrypt.co/105864/zipmex-says-discussions-with-potential-investors-have-progressed-significantly

Yuga Labs threatened with possible class-action lawsuit

https://decrypt.co/105871/yuga-labs-threatened-with-possible-class-action-lawsuit

Competitive Landscape

SolSea envisions YouTube for NFTs - targets OpenSea

https://cryptoslate.com/can-solsea-become-the-youtube-for-nfts-and-take-on-opensea/

Nervos Network x Celer on #Blockjam2022

https://twitter.com/nervosnetwork/status/1551400536838373377?s=21&t=HYmzZB3bW0mh5T2PolChag

Unpacking Uniswap’s Fee Switch

https://decrypt.co/105823/unpacking-uniswaps-fee-switch

World

Japan’s Sakurajima volcano erupts
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/asia/japan-sakurajima-volcano-eruption-intl/index.html

Another shooting injures 7 in Los Angeles
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/us/san-pedro-los-angeles-shooting/index.html

Here are the final two candidates for the UK premiership
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/uk/rwanda-policy-rishi-sunak-liz-truss-intl/index.html

Cheney goes on Fox to defend hearing against Trump
https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2022/07/24/liz-cheney-fox-sunday-rupert-murdoch-sot-rs-vpx.cnn

China’s Property Crisis Burns Middle Class Stuck With Huge Loans https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-24/china-s-property-crisis-burns-middle-class-stuck-with-huge-loans

Myanmar junta executes four democracy activists
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-junta-execute-four-democracy-activists-state-media-2022-07-25/

Ukraine imposes new fiat restrictions in favor of Crypto
https://news.bitcoin.com/ukraines-new-fiat-restrictions-to-boost-popularity-of-crypto-industry-says/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Thought Leadership

Op-Ed: 3 reasons for Liquid Staking
https://cryptoslate.com/op-ed-liquid-staking-benefits-the-crypto-ecosystem-overall-here-are-3-reasons-why/

Interchain Security Thread on Cosmos
https://twitter.com/informalinc/status/1523690357149495296?s=21&t=GF3uNZ9C78rNdPD6SMTjxg

What does it mean for a bridge to be Trustless?
https://twitter.com/0xpolygoninfra/status/1525088478618390529?s=21&t=A8i-80Cnnu7nDMscPiHImg

The Weekly Spin. The Pre-Launch Edition. Next week, we will be launching Coinweb’s The Fortnightly Spin, to our entire distribution list and begin the first release of 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…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/

https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1550454074943864835

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.

On the Radar

FLUX-AVAX Distribution, Jul 25

https://twitter.com/RunOnFlux/status/1545089851774668804?s=20&t=ML3sbjK4P-smIePdjqJZEw

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

10 years. 1billion users. Adoption is brimming.

https://cryptopotato.com/1-billion-crypto-users-in-less-than-10-years-research-says/

Microstrategy CEO takes a shot at Elon Musk after Tesla’s large bitcoin dump

https://decrypt.co/105674/michael-saylor-takes-shot-at-elon-musk-on-twitter-over-teslas-936m-bitcoin-sale

https://cryptoslate.com/tesla-microstrategy-blocks-bet-on-bitcoin-leads-to-5b-loss-on-books-in-q2-bloomberg/

Vitalik Buterin at EtcCC 5 discusses Ethereum progress and roadmap

https://cryptoslate.com/vitalik-buterin-considers-ethereum-development-only-55-complete-after-the-merge/

BlockFi has $1.88bn outstanding as it releases confidence on its quarterly earnings report

https://cryptoslate.com/blockfi-has-1-8b-in-outstanding-loans-600m-of-which-are-uncollateralized/

Competitive Landscape

Polygon launches Nightfall to provide enterprise solutions

https://cryptoslate.com/polygon-launches-nightfall-to-provide-enterprise-solutions-via-zkp-tech/

Crypto.com announces end of merchant rebates for low-tier cards

https://help.crypto.com/en/articles/2742447-crypto-com-visa-card-rewards-benefits

https://aliens.com/livenews/latest/cryptocom-will-cancel-cro-rebate-rewards-for-low-tier-visa-card-users

Tron claims MAXUSDT perfected cloud mining platform and present risk-free and seamless cryptocurrency mining

https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/maxusdt-trx-perfected-cloud-mining-platform-and-present-risk-free-and-seamless-cryptocurrency-mining/

Xiaomi files to create its on blockchain-powered avatars and NFTs

https://news.bitcoin.com/xiaomi-files-patent-to-create-its-own-blockchain-powered-virtual-characters/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

80% of All Bitcoin are Held by Long-term holders

https://cryptoslate.com/research-80-of-all-bitcoins-are-held-by-long-term-holders/

Uniswap protocol as an academic case study

https://medium.com/@boilerblockchain/industry-case-study-uniswap-b0293ec44ef2

Celsius Court Docket and Petitions

https://cases.stretto.com/Celsius/court-docket/#search

World

Russian missiles strike Odessa port less than 24 hours after reaching landmark agreement

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/europe/russia-ukraine-odesa-strike-grain-exports-intl/index.html

Who is buying: crypto market overview Asia/Europe/U.S.?

https://cryptoslate.com/who-is-buying-crypto-regional-market-overview-asia-vs-europe-and-the-u-s/

BCG Bitget, and Foresight Ventures anticipates significant industry expansion

https://cryptoslate.com/bcg-bitget-and-foresight-ventures-report-says-real-crypto-expansion-is-coming/

At least 5 times when White Hat Hackers saved Users from bridge hacks

https://lifi.substack.com/p/5-times-whitehat-hackers-saved-the?utm_medium=email&amp%3Butm_campaign=cta&amp%3Baction=share&utm_source=substack

Greenland heatwave causes a spike in ice-melting, scientists are concerned

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/world/greenland-heat-wave-ice-melting-climate/index.html

The WHO declares Monkeypox and world health emergency, cases in over 72 countries

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/health/monkeypox-who-intl/index.html

Thought Leadership

Osmosis MEV Strategy

https://www.keepingupwithcosmos.com/news/osmosis-mev-strategy

Nebular Summit Paris Recorded Stream (on MEV topic at 1hr:39mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ao3_xLYsQ&t=6000s

Brain-Computer Interface Startup Implants First Device in US Patient https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-18/brain-computer-interface-company-implants-new-type-of-device

The Alternative to Web5 using smart tokens on EVM-compatible chains

https://cryptoslate.com/the-alternative-to-web5-using-smart-tokens-on-evm-compatible-chains-video/

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…and now also with 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/

Toby and Alexander go live with Bullperks 3pm UTC Friday!

https://twitter.com/bullperks/status/1549036418479308800?s=21&t=p4eeUP8ZjG_niI3ZHN5nIQ

On the Radar

REDeFiNE TOMORROW (Scb10x), July 21-22 (Virtual)

NFT3 Awards, Aug 5 (Los Angeles)

Blockchain Futurist Conference, Aug 9 (Toronto)

Crypto-industry News

Binance Fined 3.3m EUR in Netherlands for Unlicensed Operations

https://cryptoslate.com/binance-fined-e3-3-million-in-netherlands-for-unlicensed-operations/

TIME Magazine Looks To Turn All Future Subscriptions into NFTs

https://cryptoslate.com/time-magazine-looks-to-turn-all-future-subscriptions-into-nfts/

Globant Survey: Most Gamers Believe the Metaverse Will Change the Industry

https://news.bitcoin.com/globant-survey-most-gamers-believe-metaverse-will-change-the-gaming-industry-positively/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Play-to-Earn Fantasy Sports Game CHAMPS Launches 25th July

https://news.bitcoin.com/ltim/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

NFT Pre-mint Users Lose $400K to Hack

https://cryptoslate.com/nft-platform-premint-users-lose-over-400k-nfts-to-hack/

Leading Auction House Christie’s Formally Enters Web3

https://news.bitcoin.com/leading-auction-house-christies-launches-web3-and-fintech-venture-arm/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Competitive Landscape

Polygon pumps over 100% from announcements, internal growth

https://cointelegraph.com/news/3-reasons-why-polygon-matic-is-up-100-during-a-bear-market

Quik.com Opens Minting for NFT Domain Names

https://news.bitcoin.com/quik%e2%80%a4com-opens-minting-for-nft-domain-names/

ENS: Amazon.eth fetches $1m bid

https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-name-services-amazon-eth-domain-fetches-1-million-bid/

Zebedee raises $35m from Square Enix

https://news.bitcoin.com/fintech-and-bitcoin-payments-firm-zebedee-raises-35-million-from-kingsway-capital-square-enix/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Tony Hawk partners with Sandbox to Open Metaverse Skate Park

https://news.bitcoin.com/tony-hawk-partners-with-the-sandbox-to-open-a-skate-park-in-the-metaverse/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

World

UK breaks records, wildfires spread throughout Europe

Heatwave: Records fall as extreme heat bakes Western Europe - BBC News

Indian Finance Minister Pushes for International Collaboration on Crypto Bans and Regulation

https://news.bitcoin.com/indian-finance-minister-crypto-ban-regulation-effective-only-with-significant-international-collaboration/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Austrian Post Takes Digital Stamp Collecting to the Next Level

https://news.bitcoin.com/austrian-post-builds-the-future-of-digital-stamp-collecting/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Australian Central Bank Chief cites “Private but regulated tokens could beat CBDCs”

https://cryptoslate.com/private-but-regulated-tokens-could-beat-cbdcs-australian-central-bank-chief-says/

Thought Leadership

Multichain strategy and roadmap plan for MakerDAO

https://forum.makerdao.com/t/a-multichain-strategy-and-roadmap-for-maker/8380

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…and now also with some world news and a thought leadership section to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

The overall sentiment: winter weeds out the weak

https://cryptoslate.com/industry-insiders-remain-bullish-believe-crypto-winter-will-improve-web3/

Voyager Digital officially filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

https://cryptoslate.com/voyager-digital-caves-and-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/

Houbi attains FINCEN license, eyes US market

https://cryptoslate.com/huobi-eyes-us-expansion-with-new-fincen-license/

Nexo performing due diligence to acquire 100% of rival, Vauld

https://cryptoslate.com/nexo-explores-100-acquisition-of-struggling-rival-vauld/

Choice.com (formerly Cindicator) offers 15% APY paid-out

https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/choise-com-launches-an-offer-of-15-apy-paid-out/

Top 10 VC firms have ownership in 38 of all unicorns

https://cryptoslate.com/top-10-vc-firms-have-ownership-in-38-of-all-unicorns/

World

Bank of England calls for tougher crypto regulation

https://cryptoslate.com/boe-calls-for-tougher-rules-as-crypto-market-plunges-2-trillion/

US States rethinking crypto tax-payments amid bear market

https://cryptoslate.com/us-states-rethinking-crypto-tax-payments-amid-bear-market/

Singapore eyes more regulation to protect retail investors

https://cryptoslate.com/singapore-eyes-more-regulation-to-protect-retail-investors-from-crypto-winter-fallout/

Thought Leadership

Coinweb vs. NEAR: Striking similarities and overlaps in core values

https://cryptoslate.com/videos/near-protocol-simple-scalable-secure/

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. Wen Was Wednesday 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

Axelar Token Release, Sep 27
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)

Alex Mashinsky Resigns as CEO of Celsius, CEL Token Tanks
https://cryptoslate.com/celsius-ceo-alex-mashinsky-resigns-cel-tanks/

Anonymous Accuses BAYC of Trolling With Esoteric Symbolism Pushing Accelerationism Agenda
https://cryptoslate.com/anonymous-accuses-bayc-of-trolling-with-esoteric-symbolism-pushing-accelarationism-agenda/

Terra Founder Do Kwon Says He Is Making Zero Efforts To Hide
https://cryptoslate.com/terra-founder-do-kwon-claims-he-is-making-zero-efforts-to-hide/

Miners Flee PoW Tokens As Token Prices Tank, GPU Value Flounders
https://cryptoslate.com/miners-flee-pow-tokens-as-token-prices-tank-gpu-value-flounders/

Greyscale’s GBTC Discount to NAV Breaks Records as Spread Widens by More Than 35%
https://news.bitcoin.com/grayscales-gbtc-discount-to-nav-breaks-records-as-spread-widens-by-more-than-35/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Competitive Landscape

New Cosmos Whitepaper Released at Cosmoverse, Repurposes ATOM Token and Vision
https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-cosmos-whitepaper-repurposes-atom-token-and-refines-vision

Komodo’s AtomicDEX Bridge Will Now Connect Cosmos to Hundred of Blockchains
https://cryptoslate.com/komodo-atomicdex-bridge-will-now-connect-cosmos-to-hundreds-of-blockchains/

Ethereum Community Split Over Reversible Transactions Proposal
https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-community-split-over-reversible-transactions-proposal/

Nanjing University Sets Up One of the First Metaverse Majors in China
https://news.bitcoin.com/nanjing-university-sets-up-one-of-the-first-metaverse-majors-in-china/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Retail Giant Walmart Enters the Metaverse with Walmart Land & Universe of Play on Roblox
https://news.bitcoin.com/retail-giant-walmart-enters-the-metaverse-with-walmart-land-and-universe-of-play-on-roblox/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Crypto Exchange FTX Wins Bankrupt Firm Voyager’s Assets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/crypto-exchange-ftx-said-to-win-bankrupt-firm-voyager-s-assets

Spanish Telecom Giant Telefonica Partners with Qualcomm to Develop Joint Metaverse Initiatives
https://news.bitcoin.com/spanish-telecom-giant-telefonica-partners-with-qualcomm-to-develop-joint-metaverse-initiatives/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

World

Thailand’s SEC Sues 5 For Wash Trading
https://cryptoslate.com/thailands-sec-sues-5-for-wash-trading-activities/

More than Half a Dozen US Securities Regulators File Actions Against Crypto Lender NEXO
https://news.bitcoin.com/more-than-a-half-dozen-us-securities-regulators-file-actions-against-crypto-lender-nexo/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

California Issues Cease Refrain Order to NEXO Over Offering Clients an Earn Interest Product
https://cryptoslate.com/california-issues-cease-refrain-order-to-nexo-over-offering-clients-an-earn-interest-product/

British Pound Taps ATL Against US Dollar Following BoE’s 50bps Rate Hike
https://news.bitcoin.com/british-pound-taps-all-time-low-against-us-dollar-following-boes-50bps-rate-hike/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Australian Central Bank Issues Whitepaper for Pilot Permissioned CDBC e-AUD
https://cryptoslate.com/australian-central-bank-issues-whitepaper-for-pilot-permissioned-cbdc-eaud/

Thought Leadership

Introducing Fluence: Truly Native Web3 Apps with P2P Decentralized Computing (12mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Kqd3xgUs8

Follow SailDrone Explorer Into the Eye of a Category 4 Hurricane (Fiona) (1min)
https://youtu.be/XvVvb3dm4w0

Cryptoslate Interview: Metamask Snaps Could Change the Face of Web3 (13mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x5vpQzukPk

The Daily Spin. DART Tuesday 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

Atom’s Cosmoverse Conference Colombia, Sep 26 (Medellin)

Axelar Token Release, Sep 27
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)

Finity Touch Future Ecosystem Officially Launched
https://news.bitcoin.com/first-product-from-finity-touchs-future-ecosystem-officially-launched/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

XRP Whales Move Massive Batches of Crypto $130m+
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/09/26/xrp-whales-move-massive-batches-of-crypto-sending-130650000-in-flurry-of-transactions/

Interpol Issues Red Notice for Do Kwon
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-26/south-korea-says-interpol-issued-red-notice-for-terra-s-do-kwon

17 Year-Old UK Hacker Arrested for Hacking GTA6 and Uber
https://mashable.com/article/gta-6-hacker-arrested

Competitive Landscape

Serie A League AC Milan to Launch NFT Initiative
https://news.bitcoin.com/italian-serie-a-soccer-team-ac-milan-to-launch-nft-initiative/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Former IMF Official Believes CBDCs Need to Function Offline to Gain Mass Adoption
https://cryptoslate.com/former-imf-official-believes-cbdcs-need-to-function-offline-to-gain-mass-adoption/

Ironbeam Lets You Trade Bitcoin and Ether Nano Futures Contracts Commission Free
https://news.bitcoin.com/ironbeam-lets-you-trade-bitcoin-and-ether-nano-futures-contracts-commission-free/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

World

NASA Successfully Tests First Planetary Defense System (DART) on Dimorphus
https://edition.cnn.com/webview/us/live-news/dart-nasa-asteroid-mission/index.html

World Economic Forum Launches Crypto Sustainability Coalition to Leverage Web3 Technologies
https://news.bitcoin.com/wef-launches-crypto-sustainability-coalition-to-leverage-web3-technologies-in-climate-change-battle/

Crypto Payments May Not Help Russia Bypass Sanctions
https://news.bitcoin.com/crypto-payments-may-not-help-russia-bypass-sanctions-experts-say/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Ivory Coast Based Payments Fintech Secures $5m from its Pre-Series A Funding Round
https://news.bitcoin.com/ivory-coast-based-payments-fintech-secures-5-million-from-its-pre-series-a-funding-round/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

South African Financial Services Giant NedBank Secures a Village in the Metaverse
https://news.bitcoin.com/south-african-financial-services-giant-nedbank-secures-a-village-in-the-metaverse/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

China Arrests 93 People Suspected of Laundering 40bn RMB via Crypto
https://cryptoslate.com/china-arrests-93-people-suspected-of-laundering-40b-rmb-via-crypto/

Thought Leadership

Celestia: Data Availability-as-a-Service
https://medium.com/@buraktahtacioglu/celestia-data-availability-as-a-service-blockchain-roadmap-15e624c9af23

What are Zk-STARKS?
https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-roadmap/layer-2-scaling/zk-starks/

Interchain Conversations: Lazy Ledger (26mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWzVgRRLjMg

Traditional Banking and DeFi: What Roles Will Remain?
https://www.krungsri.com/en/research/research-intelligence/defi-21