Friday, July 2, 2021

June 2021 Highlights!

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June was yet another month full of exciting events for Tokenomy. Read on to find out what has been going on!

New Academy Videos

In episode 46, we discussed what cryptocurrency is, and how fintech industries have adopted them. Watch the video here!

In episode 47, we learned about the history of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Watch the video here!

TokenomyX “DEMO” Trading Competition II

This event was held from 25 May – 25 June 2021. We thank all members who have participated in both individual and team categories. Congratulations to all winners! See the winner list here.

Tokenomy Earn Festival II

We are excited to announce that Tokenomy Earn Festival II is finally here! This event will take place from 8 June – 31 August 2021. We will be giving away an iPad Pro 2020 as the Grand Prize and an iPad 8 2020, Apple Watch, and Apple Airpods as our Lucky Draw prizes. Read more on how to join this event here.

More benefits with the TEN Loyalty Program!

With our TEN Loyalty Program, TEN holders can now enjoy special privileges and benefits such as preferential rates on Tokenomy EARN! Read here for more details

TRON is Now Available on EARN!

We are glad to announce that Tron (TRX) is now available along with Ethereum and Tezos, for staking on Tokenomy Earn! Enjoy a 4% annualized interest rate just by staking a minimum of 1 TRX! Click here to start staking your TRX.

For your information, we have updated our daily withdrawal limit to 1000 USD for unverified members, and to 5000 USD for verified members. To increase your daily withdrawal limit, simply go to “Setting” on your profile account.

Thanks for tuning in to Tokenomy’s June 2021 Event Highlights. Do keep a lookout for more exciting events we have upcoming in July! Stay healthy, and stay tuned to our social media for the latest updates.

Thank you,

Tokenomy Team


If the USD crashed, what would happen with the stock market?

Short question is: if my wealth is mostly into index mutual funds, globally diversified, what would happen when/if the fiat currency system crashed?

In theory, our assets are just that, assets. But we track them in currency value. As I understand, we wouldn't lose their value (not accounting for massive market fluctuations that would happen in such event).

However, we wouldn't be able to "sell" either, right? Because our brokers and banks won't give us milk, rice, or bitcoin (any other tradeable currency) for our assets. They will only trade them for fist currency. Effectively leaving our assets locked, so effectively being as if they became 0 value as well.

Maybe I'm over thinking, but I'd like to know people's thoughts on this.


Key features of the Tokoin wallet

Tokoin wallet features include: - Store Token - Send Token - Receive Token - View Transaction History - Add Multiple Wallets - Event - Program Crypto Token includes TOKO, Bitcoin, and Ethereum


FUD in a 3rd World Country...I'm speechless!!

So I'm from a 3rd world country in LATAM and early this year I got into Bitcoin and all cryptocurrency related stuff...I'm a holder by nature as I like long term profits. I also got my family into Bitcoin and taught them how to buy/sell/hodl. Today my mom called me all nervous about Bitcoin and how I was going to lose money (our currency is peanuts, has no real aquisitive power), because a co-worker of her went to a seminar in one of the countries biggest and most expensive private University. That seminar was about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and was giving by a Venezuelan and an Argentinian, from what I got from my mom it was basically a FUD circlejerk on how evil is Bitcoin and how the US, China and major companies banned Bitcoin, AND HOW IT WILL GO DOWN TO ZERO SOON!!

I'm speechless since I didn't FUD could reach my country and in an event dedicated to it, I told my mom don't worry since it's my money. And they also talked about Popescu's death and how all those Bitcoin are forever lost. But Venezuelans and Argentineans are those who should be buying crypto right now because their socialism is bringing those countries to african levels of poverty. What do you guys think? I will keep holding no matter what...


⚠️ Bitcoin Live MASSIVE Event in 10h! ⚠️

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wCUWmku3xD0&feature=share

Positions: 7/6-7/9

*Monday, 7/6/21

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⚠️ Bitcoin Live MASSIVE Event in 10 Hours!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wCUWmku3xD0&feature=share

A bitcoin/nicehash rant+ a poll

look American regulators can just go F**K themselves American citizens are so overly taxed its not even funny i would know. OH, USA ........bitcoin was originally invented to keep big brother out .......as i sit with only $3.25 to my name thanks to COVID-19 and a series of unfortunate events, which happens to sit in nicehash account wouldn't it be crazy if i could somehow utilize that tiny bit of value and trade to dig myself out of the hole that basically was dug for me by regulators .......but wouldn't it be neat if we just pretended EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US DIDNT GIVE A CRAP WHAT THE REGULATORS THINK? can they arrest us all?? NICEHASH PLEASE LET US USE YOUR TRADING PLATFORM! ..............will bitcoin ever give people financial freedom from being robbed thru red tape??? (vote fore pride in freedom is basically a petition to nicehash.....they would make so much $$$) ~Very AWESOME platform by the way!

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Sirius Labs Launches Global Chia Hackathon, in Partnership with Chia Network

Hackathons became largely widespread and start to be increasingly admired by blockchain companies and investment institutions as a way to quickly build new applications and to locate new areas for innovation. Lots of outstanding projects were born from these hackathons, which bring together excellent talents to shape the future of blockchain industry.

https://preview.redd.it/u4hotrgjat871.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=c03ffc44f7a2a70d62606a25746d8db71bbf8c81

Sirius Labs, together with Chia Network and lots of strategic partners, hosts Global Chia Hackathon, which will be taking place entirely online from 17th July to 30th August 2021. We want to attract strong technical teams/developers to see what can be built on Chia network.

Sirius Labs offers $500,000 as prize pool and a final prize of up to $100,000 will be delivered to the winners, and the first 100 successfully submitted projects will receive a limited edition NFT!

Hackathon Timeline:

  • 17-19 July – Chialisp Training Camp: connect and engage live with senior Chialisp experts and official Chia technical officer to learn about Chialisp programming before diving into hacking.
  • 18 July-15 August – Project Submission: developers submit their projects on the official website SRS.vc.
  • 15-30 August – Workshop: which encompasses a series of events, including Live online, AMA, Meetup,etc. Developers will be required to present their final products to a panel of judges.

Chia Network COO Mr. Hoffman excitedly stated that the hackathon participants will have technical experts from Chia Network available throughout the event to provide technical support. Chia Network hopes to make Chialisp known and used by more developers at the end of the hackathon.

About Chia

Chia Network was founded by the creator of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It also includes executive leadership from the former founder and CEO of eMusic.com and Vindicia, Gene Hoffman and also Misha Graboi as Chief Financial Officer, who was formerly an internet equities analyst for Europe at Goldman Sachs and held various roles at PAAMCO Prisma, most recently as the CEO of PAAMCO Asia.

Chia, referred to as the green Bitcoin alternative, is based on Proof of Space and Time consensus algorithm. Chialisp is new programming language and “a fundamentally better way of building smart transactions than what’s been build in the past”. It is powerful, easy to audit, and secure.

Chia raised funding from various investment firms, including Naval Ravikant, A16Z, Greylock, TrueVentures, MetaStable, GreylockPartners, Dcm,SlowVentures, Stillmark, Galaxy investment group, etc. Chia has landed a valuation of $500 million and plans to complete a fully compliant SEC registered equity IPO on an accelerated schedule.

About Sirius Labs

Sirius Labs, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is a venture capital firm, which focuses on early-stage investment and incubation in the arena of science and technology. Our team comes from the United States, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Singapore and other regions.

Sirius Labs launched Sirius Hackathon in 2021, aimed to build a thriving community of blockchain developers worldwide and connect great ideas with investment institutions. We appreciate every original idea and help bring it to a highly developed state before introduction to the whole world.

Know more about the Hackathon: Website, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, GitHub, Facebook.


Sirius Labs Launches Global Chia Hackathon, in Partnership with Chia Network

Hackathons became largely widespread and start to be increasingly admired by blockchain companies and investment institutions as a way to quickly build new applications and to locate new areas for innovation. Lots of outstanding projects were born from these hackathons, which bring together excellent talents to shape the future of blockchain industry.

https://preview.redd.it/ukbi8i4met871.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c2b55a81974934be383b67681214a19857a2bc0

Sirius Labs, together with Chia Network and lots of strategic partners, hosts Global Chia Hackathon, which will be taking place entirely online from 17th July to 30th August 2021. We want to attract strong technical teams/developers to see what can be built on Chia network.

Sirius Labs offers $500,000 as prize pool and a final prize of up to $100,000 will be delivered to the winners, and the first 100 successfully submitted projects will receive a limited edition NFT!

Hackathon Timeline:

  • 17-19 July – Chialisp Training Camp: connect and engage live with senior Chialisp experts and official Chia technical officer to learn about Chialisp programming before diving into hacking.
  • 18 July-15 August – Project Submission: developers submit their projects on the official website SRS.vc.
  • 15-30 August – Workshop: which encompasses a series of events, including Live online, AMA, Meetup,etc. Developers will be required to present their final products to a panel of judges.

Chia Network COO Mr. Hoffman excitedly stated that the hackathon participants will have technical experts from Chia Network available throughout the event to provide technical support. Chia Network hopes to make Chialisp known and used by more developers at the end of the hackathon.

About Chia

Chia Network was founded by the creator of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It also includes executive leadership from the former founder and CEO of eMusic.com and Vindicia, Gene Hoffman and also Misha Graboi as Chief Financial Officer, who was formerly an internet equities analyst for Europe at Goldman Sachs and held various roles at PAAMCO Prisma, most recently as the CEO of PAAMCO Asia.

Chia, referred to as the green Bitcoin alternative, is based on Proof of Space and Time consensus algorithm. Chialisp is new programming language and “a fundamentally better way of building smart transactions than what’s been build in the past”. It is powerful, easy to audit, and secure.

Chia raised funding from various investment firms, including Naval Ravikant, A16Z, Greylock, TrueVentures, MetaStable, GreylockPartners, Dcm,SlowVentures, Stillmark, Galaxy investment group, etc. Chia has landed a valuation of $500 million and plans to complete a fully compliant SEC registered equity IPO on an accelerated schedule.

About Sirius Labs

Sirius Labs, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is a venture capital firm, which focuses on early-stage investment and incubation in the arena of science and technology. Our team comes from the United States, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Singapore and other regions.

Sirius Labs launched Sirius Hackathon in 2021, aimed to build a thriving community of blockchain developers worldwide and connect great ideas with investment institutions. We appreciate every original idea and help bring it to a highly developed state before introduction to the whole world.

Know more about the Hackathon: Website, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, GitHub, Facebook.


В 19.00 Мск начинаем итоговый стрим. Присоединяйтесь!

МЕЧТЫ ВЫЖИВАЛЬЩИКОВ (Итоги с А. Сотником)

https://vimeo.com/event/1119078 (Vimeo)

https://youtu.be/C2fXGk-fx0o (Sasha Sotnik)

https://youtu.be/uMiqdjl5TRY (Sotnik-TV Live)

Донаты и вопросы: http://www.donationalerts.ru/r/sotnik_tv

На фоне разгула пандемии диктатура чувствует прилив свежих сил. Теперь можно нагнетать ужас и закручивать гаечки с утроенной скоростью, мотивируя это борьбой с вирусом и разными врагами. Тень СССР наползает на пещеру. Но ведь россияне так хотели вернуться в страну вечного выживания!..

Автор и ведущий – Александр Сотник

Эксперты – Константин Боровой (США), Алина Витухновская (Россия), Виктор Майстренко (Украина).

Подписывайтесь на резервные каналы:

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Патреон: https://www.patreon.com/sotnikTV

Поддержать Sotnik-TV:

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Карта: 5475153400734788 (Aleksandr Sotnik) перевод можно сделать даже из Сбербанка через мобильное приложение (в нижнем меню «Платежи» → «За рубеж» → «По номеру карты»)

PayPal – [sotniktvinfo@gmail.com](mailto:sotniktvinfo@gmail.com)

Bitcoin - 3PdyHqZ7hiywP7u8FBDX2NyyLmmdRVp5dn

Eth - 0x42c5046b70ac4401df3361440510ed896c8f6d24

Подписывайтесь на аккаунт Sotnik-TV на Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/SashaSotnik/

Telegram-канал: t.me/sashasotniktv

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Sirius Labs Launches Global Chia Hackathon, in Partnership with Chia Network

Hackathons became largely widespread and start to be increasingly admired by blockchain companies and investment institutions as a way to quickly build new applications and to locate new areas for innovation. Lots of outstanding projects were born from these hackathons, which bring together excellent talents to shape the future of blockchain industry.

https://preview.redd.it/dm72l37oft871.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=7d4dd813d9fbe841945da25ff01ebf4581c102e6

Sirius Labs, together with Chia Network and lots of strategic partners, hosts Global Chia Hackathon, which will be taking place entirely online from 17th July to 30th August 2021. We want to attract strong technical teams/developers to see what can be built on Chia network.

Sirius Labs offers $500,000 as prize pool and a final prize of up to $100,000 will be delivered to the winners, and the first 100 successfully submitted projects will receive a limited edition NFT!

Hackathon Timeline:

  • 17-19 July – Chialisp Training Camp: connect and engage live with senior Chialisp experts and official Chia technical officer to learn about Chialisp programming before diving into hacking.
  • 18 July-15 August – Project Submission: developers submit their projects on the official website SRS.vc.
  • 15-30 August – Workshop: which encompasses a series of events, including Live online, AMA, Meetup,etc. Developers will be required to present their final products to a panel of judges.

Chia Network COO Mr. Hoffman excitedly stated that the hackathon participants will have technical experts from Chia Network available throughout the event to provide technical support. Chia Network hopes to make Chialisp known and used by more developers at the end of the hackathon.

About Chia

Chia Network was founded by the creator of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It also includes executive leadership from the former founder and CEO of eMusic.com and Vindicia, Gene Hoffman and also Misha Graboi as Chief Financial Officer, who was formerly an internet equities analyst for Europe at Goldman Sachs and held various roles at PAAMCO Prisma, most recently as the CEO of PAAMCO Asia.

Chia, referred to as the green Bitcoin alternative, is based on Proof of Space and Time consensus algorithm. Chialisp is new programming language and “a fundamentally better way of building smart transactions than what’s been build in the past”. It is powerful, easy to audit, and secure.

Chia raised funding from various investment firms, including Naval Ravikant, A16Z, Greylock, TrueVentures, MetaStable, GreylockPartners, Dcm,SlowVentures, Stillmark, Galaxy investment group, etc. Chia has landed a valuation of $500 million and plans to complete a fully compliant SEC registered equity IPO on an accelerated schedule.

About Sirius Labs

Sirius Labs, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is a venture capital firm, which focuses on early-stage investment and incubation in the arena of science and technology. Our team comes from the United States, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Singapore and other regions.

Sirius Labs launched Sirius Hackathon in 2021, aimed to build a thriving community of blockchain developers worldwide and connect great ideas with investment institutions. We appreciate every original idea and help bring it to a highly developed state before introduction to the whole world.

Know more about the Hackathon: Website, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, GitHub, Facebook.


(ChiaLisp)Sirius Labs Launches Global Chia Hackathon, in Partnership with Chia Network

Hackathons became largely widespread and start to be increasingly admired by blockchain companies and investment institutions as a way to quickly build new applications and to locate new areas for innovation. Lots of outstanding projects were born from these hackathons, which bring together excellent talents to shape the future of blockchain industry.

https://preview.redd.it/d5ow41b5it871.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=462dc69e469e0734374c2bc4bfd3fe001b83be60

Sirius Labs, together with Chia Network and lots of strategic partners, hosts Global Chia Hackathon, which will be taking place entirely online from 17th July to 30th August 2021. We want to attract strong technical teams/developers to see what can be built on Chia network.

Sirius Labs offers $500,000 as prize pool and a final prize of up to $100,000 will be delivered to the winners, and the first 100 successfully submitted projects will receive a limited edition NFT!

Hackathon Timeline:

  • 17-19 July – Chialisp Training Camp: connect and engage live with senior Chialisp experts and official Chia technical officer to learn about Chialisp programming before diving into hacking.
  • 18 July-15 August – Project Submission: developers submit their projects on the official website SRS.vc.
  • 15-30 August – Workshop: which encompasses a series of events, including Live online, AMA, Meetup,etc. Developers will be required to present their final products to a panel of judges.

Chia Network COO Mr. Hoffman excitedly stated that the hackathon participants will have technical experts from Chia Network available throughout the event to provide technical support. Chia Network hopes to make Chialisp known and used by more developers at the end of the hackathon.

About Chia

Chia Network was founded by the creator of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It also includes executive leadership from the former founder and CEO of eMusic.com and Vindicia, Gene Hoffman and also Misha Graboi as Chief Financial Officer, who was formerly an internet equities analyst for Europe at Goldman Sachs and held various roles at PAAMCO Prisma, most recently as the CEO of PAAMCO Asia.

Chia, referred to as the green Bitcoin alternative, is based on Proof of Space and Time consensus algorithm. Chialisp is new programming language and “a fundamentally better way of building smart transactions than what’s been build in the past”. It is powerful, easy to audit, and secure.

Chia raised funding from various investment firms, including Naval Ravikant, A16Z, Greylock, TrueVentures, MetaStable, GreylockPartners, Dcm,SlowVentures, Stillmark, Galaxy investment group, etc. Chia has landed a valuation of $500 million and plans to complete a fully compliant SEC registered equity IPO on an accelerated schedule.

About Sirius Labs

Sirius Labs, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is a venture capital firm, which focuses on early-stage investment and incubation in the arena of science and technology. Our team comes from the United States, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Singapore and other regions.

Sirius Labs launched Sirius Hackathon in 2021, aimed to build a thriving community of blockchain developers worldwide and connect great ideas with investment institutions. We appreciate every original idea and help bring it to a highly developed state before introduction to the whole world.

Know more about the Hackathon: Website, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, GitHub, Facebook.


Sirius Labs Launches Global Chia Hackathon, in Partnership with Chia Network

Hackathons became largely widespread and start to be increasingly admired by blockchain companies and investment institutions as a way to quickly build new applications and to locate new areas for innovation. Lots of outstanding projects were born from these hackathons, which bring together excellent talents to shape the future of blockchain industry.

https://preview.redd.it/i96si3sy9t871.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=99f132ea2a314506f05c180d13be0791e16229ee

Sirius Labs, together with Chia Network and lots of strategic partners, hosts Global Chia Hackathon, which will be taking place entirely online from 17th July to 30th August 2021. We want to attract strong technical teams/developers to see what can be built on Chia network.

Sirius Labs offers $500,000 as prize pool and a final prize of up to $100,000 will be delivered to the winners, and the first 100 successfully submitted projects will receive a limited edition NFT!

Hackathon Timeline:

  • 17-19 July – Chialisp Training Camp: connect and engage live with senior Chialisp experts and official Chia technical officer to learn about Chialisp programming before diving into hacking.
  • 18 July-15 August – Project Submission: developers submit their projects on the official website SRS.vc.
  • 15-30 August – Workshop: which encompasses a series of events, including Live online, AMA, Meetup,etc. Developers will be required to present their final products to a panel of judges.

Chia Network COO Mr. Hoffman excitedly stated that the hackathon participants will have technical experts from Chia Network available throughout the event to provide technical support. Chia Network hopes to make Chialisp known and used by more developers at the end of the hackathon.

About Chia

Chia Network was founded by the creator of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It also includes executive leadership from the former founder and CEO of eMusic.com and Vindicia, Gene Hoffman and also Misha Graboi as Chief Financial Officer, who was formerly an internet equities analyst for Europe at Goldman Sachs and held various roles at PAAMCO Prisma, most recently as the CEO of PAAMCO Asia.

Chia, referred to as the green Bitcoin alternative, is based on Proof of Space and Time consensus algorithm. Chialisp is new programming language and “a fundamentally better way of building smart transactions than what’s been build in the past”. It is powerful, easy to audit, and secure.

Chia raised funding from various investment firms, including Naval Ravikant, A16Z, Greylock, TrueVentures, MetaStable, GreylockPartners, Dcm,SlowVentures, Stillmark, Galaxy investment group, etc. Chia has landed a valuation of $500 million and plans to complete a fully compliant SEC registered equity IPO on an accelerated schedule.

About Sirius Labs

Sirius Labs, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is a venture capital firm, which focuses on early-stage investment and incubation in the arena of science and technology. Our team comes from the United States, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Singapore and other regions.

Sirius Labs launched Sirius Hackathon in 2021, aimed to build a thriving community of blockchain developers worldwide and connect great ideas with investment institutions. We appreciate every original idea and help bring it to a highly developed state before introduction to the whole world.

Know more about the Hackathon: Website, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, GitHub, Facebook.


Sirius Labs Launches Global Chia Hackathon, in Partnership with Chia Network

Hackathons became largely widespread and start to be increasingly admired by blockchain companies and investment institutions as a way to quickly build new applications and to locate new areas for innovation. Lots of outstanding projects were born from these hackathons, which bring together excellent talents to shape the future of blockchain industry.

https://preview.redd.it/u4hotrgjat871.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=c03ffc44f7a2a70d62606a25746d8db71bbf8c81

Sirius Labs, together with Chia Network and lots of strategic partners, hosts Global Chia Hackathon, which will be taking place entirely online from 17th July to 30th August 2021. We want to attract strong technical teams/developers to see what can be built on Chia network.

Sirius Labs offers $500,000 as prize pool and a final prize of up to $100,000 will be delivered to the winners, and the first 100 successfully submitted projects will receive a limited edition NFT!

Hackathon Timeline:

  • 17-19 July – Chialisp Training Camp: connect and engage live with senior Chialisp experts and official Chia technical officer to learn about Chialisp programming before diving into hacking.
  • 18 July-15 August – Project Submission: developers submit their projects on the official website SRS.vc.
  • 15-30 August – Workshop: which encompasses a series of events, including Live online, AMA, Meetup,etc. Developers will be required to present their final products to a panel of judges.

Chia Network COO Mr. Hoffman excitedly stated that the hackathon participants will have technical experts from Chia Network available throughout the event to provide technical support. Chia Network hopes to make Chialisp known and used by more developers at the end of the hackathon.

About Chia

Chia Network was founded by the creator of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It also includes executive leadership from the former founder and CEO of eMusic.com and Vindicia, Gene Hoffman and also Misha Graboi as Chief Financial Officer, who was formerly an internet equities analyst for Europe at Goldman Sachs and held various roles at PAAMCO Prisma, most recently as the CEO of PAAMCO Asia.

Chia, referred to as the green Bitcoin alternative, is based on Proof of Space and Time consensus algorithm. Chialisp is new programming language and “a fundamentally better way of building smart transactions than what’s been build in the past”. It is powerful, easy to audit, and secure.

Chia raised funding from various investment firms, including Naval Ravikant, A16Z, Greylock, TrueVentures, MetaStable, GreylockPartners, Dcm,SlowVentures, Stillmark, Galaxy investment group, etc. Chia has landed a valuation of $500 million and plans to complete a fully compliant SEC registered equity IPO on an accelerated schedule.

About Sirius Labs

Sirius Labs, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is a venture capital firm, which focuses on early-stage investment and incubation in the arena of science and technology. Our team comes from the United States, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Singapore and other regions.

Sirius Labs launched Sirius Hackathon in 2021, aimed to build a thriving community of blockchain developers worldwide and connect great ideas with investment institutions. We appreciate every original idea and help bring it to a highly developed state before introduction to the whole world.

Know more about the Hackathon: Website, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, GitHub, Facebook.


Sirius Labs Launches Global Chia Hackathon, in Partnership with Chia Network

Hackathons became largely widespread and start to be increasingly admired by blockchain companies and investment institutions as a way to quickly build new applications and to locate new areas for innovation. Lots of outstanding projects were born from these hackathons, which bring together excellent talents to shape the future of blockchain industry.

https://preview.redd.it/u4hotrgjat871.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=c03ffc44f7a2a70d62606a25746d8db71bbf8c81

Sirius Labs, together with Chia Network and lots of strategic partners, hosts Global Chia Hackathon, which will be taking place entirely online from 17th July to 30th August 2021. We want to attract strong technical teams/developers to see what can be built on Chia network.

Sirius Labs offers $500,000 as prize pool and a final prize of up to $100,000 will be delivered to the winners, and the first 100 successfully submitted projects will receive a limited edition NFT!

Hackathon Timeline:

  • 17-19 July – Chialisp Training Camp: connect and engage live with senior Chialisp experts and official Chia technical officer to learn about Chialisp programming before diving into hacking.
  • 18 July-15 August – Project Submission: developers submit their projects on the official website SRS.vc.
  • 15-30 August – Workshop: which encompasses a series of events, including Live online, AMA, Meetup,etc. Developers will be required to present their final products to a panel of judges.

Chia Network COO Mr. Hoffman excitedly stated that the hackathon participants will have technical experts from Chia Network available throughout the event to provide technical support. Chia Network hopes to make Chialisp known and used by more developers at the end of the hackathon.

About Chia

Chia Network was founded by the creator of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It also includes executive leadership from the former founder and CEO of eMusic.com and Vindicia, Gene Hoffman and also Misha Graboi as Chief Financial Officer, who was formerly an internet equities analyst for Europe at Goldman Sachs and held various roles at PAAMCO Prisma, most recently as the CEO of PAAMCO Asia.

Chia, referred to as the green Bitcoin alternative, is based on Proof of Space and Time consensus algorithm. Chialisp is new programming language and “a fundamentally better way of building smart transactions than what’s been build in the past”. It is powerful, easy to audit, and secure.

Chia raised funding from various investment firms, including Naval Ravikant, A16Z, Greylock, TrueVentures, MetaStable, GreylockPartners, Dcm,SlowVentures, Stillmark, Galaxy investment group, etc. Chia has landed a valuation of $500 million and plans to complete a fully compliant SEC registered equity IPO on an accelerated schedule.

About Sirius Labs

Sirius Labs, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is a venture capital firm, which focuses on early-stage investment and incubation in the arena of science and technology. Our team comes from the United States, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Singapore and other regions.

Sirius Labs launched Sirius Hackathon in 2021, aimed to build a thriving community of blockchain developers worldwide and connect great ideas with investment institutions. We appreciate every original idea and help bring it to a highly developed state before introduction to the whole world.

Know more about the Hackathon: Website, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, GitHub, Facebook.


Cobra (bitcoin.org) vs Craig Wright - Sequence of Events So Far

https://powping.com/posts/4162628e21c3034ca96018dd5a93f42baf33a072fd18370cd6c5a551edcfbe0e

Sirius Labs Launches Global Chia Hackathon, in Partnership with Chia Network

Hackathons became largely widespread and start to be increasingly admired by blockchain companies and investment institutions as a way to quickly build new applications and to locate new areas for innovation. Lots of outstanding projects were born from these hackathons, which bring together excellent talents to shape the future of blockchain industry.

https://preview.redd.it/u4hotrgjat871.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=c03ffc44f7a2a70d62606a25746d8db71bbf8c81

Sirius Labs, together with Chia Network and lots of strategic partners, hosts Global Chia Hackathon, which will be taking place entirely online from 17th July to 30th August 2021. We want to attract strong technical teams/developers to see what can be built on Chia network.

Sirius Labs offers $500,000 as prize pool and a final prize of up to $100,000 will be delivered to the winners, and the first 100 successfully submitted projects will receive a limited edition NFT!

Hackathon Timeline:

  • 17-19 July – Chialisp Training Camp: connect and engage live with senior Chialisp experts and official Chia technical officer to learn about Chialisp programming before diving into hacking.
  • 18 July-15 August – Project Submission: developers submit their projects on the official website SRS.vc.
  • 15-30 August – Workshop: which encompasses a series of events, including Live online, AMA, Meetup,etc. Developers will be required to present their final products to a panel of judges.

Chia Network COO Mr. Hoffman excitedly stated that the hackathon participants will have technical experts from Chia Network available throughout the event to provide technical support. Chia Network hopes to make Chialisp known and used by more developers at the end of the hackathon.

About Chia

Chia Network was founded by the creator of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It also includes executive leadership from the former founder and CEO of eMusic.com and Vindicia, Gene Hoffman and also Misha Graboi as Chief Financial Officer, who was formerly an internet equities analyst for Europe at Goldman Sachs and held various roles at PAAMCO Prisma, most recently as the CEO of PAAMCO Asia.

Chia, referred to as the green Bitcoin alternative, is based on Proof of Space and Time consensus algorithm. Chialisp is new programming language and “a fundamentally better way of building smart transactions than what’s been build in the past”. It is powerful, easy to audit, and secure.

Chia raised funding from various investment firms, including Naval Ravikant, A16Z, Greylock, TrueVentures, MetaStable, GreylockPartners, Dcm,SlowVentures, Stillmark, Galaxy investment group, etc. Chia has landed a valuation of $500 million and plans to complete a fully compliant SEC registered equity IPO on an accelerated schedule.

About Sirius Labs

Sirius Labs, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is a venture capital firm, which focuses on early-stage investment and incubation in the arena of science and technology. Our team comes from the United States, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Singapore and other regions.

Sirius Labs launched Sirius Hackathon in 2021, aimed to build a thriving community of blockchain developers worldwide and connect great ideas with investment institutions. We appreciate every original idea and help bring it to a highly developed state before introduction to the whole world.

Know more about the Hackathon: Website, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, GitHub, Facebook.


Sirius Labs Launches Global Chia Hackathon, in Partnership with Chia Network

Hackathons became largely widespread and start to be increasingly admired by blockchain companies and investment institutions as a way to quickly build new applications and to locate new areas for innovation. Lots of outstanding projects were born from these hackathons, which bring together excellent talents to shape the future of blockchain industry.

https://preview.redd.it/u4hotrgjat871.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=c03ffc44f7a2a70d62606a25746d8db71bbf8c81

Sirius Labs, together with Chia Network and lots of strategic partners, hosts Global Chia Hackathon, which will be taking place entirely online from 17th July to 30th August 2021. We want to attract strong technical teams/developers to see what can be built on Chia network.

Sirius Labs offers $500,000 as prize pool and a final prize of up to $100,000 will be delivered to the winners, and the first 100 successfully submitted projects will receive a limited edition NFT!

Hackathon Timeline:

  • 17-19 July – Chialisp Training Camp: connect and engage live with senior Chialisp experts and official Chia technical officer to learn about Chialisp programming before diving into hacking.
  • 18 July-15 August – Project Submission: developers submit their projects on the official website SRS.vc.
  • 15-30 August – Workshop: which encompasses a series of events, including Live online, AMA, Meetup,etc. Developers will be required to present their final products to a panel of judges.

Chia Network COO Mr. Hoffman excitedly stated that the hackathon participants will have technical experts from Chia Network available throughout the event to provide technical support. Chia Network hopes to make Chialisp known and used by more developers at the end of the hackathon.

About Chia

Chia Network was founded by the creator of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It also includes executive leadership from the former founder and CEO of eMusic.com and Vindicia, Gene Hoffman and also Misha Graboi as Chief Financial Officer, who was formerly an internet equities analyst for Europe at Goldman Sachs and held various roles at PAAMCO Prisma, most recently as the CEO of PAAMCO Asia.

Chia, referred to as the green Bitcoin alternative, is based on Proof of Space and Time consensus algorithm. Chialisp is new programming language and “a fundamentally better way of building smart transactions than what’s been build in the past”. It is powerful, easy to audit, and secure.

Chia raised funding from various investment firms, including Naval Ravikant, A16Z, Greylock, TrueVentures, MetaStable, GreylockPartners, Dcm,SlowVentures, Stillmark, Galaxy investment group, etc. Chia has landed a valuation of $500 million and plans to complete a fully compliant SEC registered equity IPO on an accelerated schedule.

About Sirius Labs

Sirius Labs, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is a venture capital firm, which focuses on early-stage investment and incubation in the arena of science and technology. Our team comes from the United States, Norway, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Singapore and other regions.

Sirius Labs launched Sirius Hackathon in 2021, aimed to build a thriving community of blockchain developers worldwide and connect great ideas with investment institutions. We appreciate every original idea and help bring it to a highly developed state before introduction to the whole world.

Know more about the Hackathon: Website, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, GitHub, Facebook.


The future issues with Lost Bitcoin?

I see a future issue with lost & unretrievable (same as lost) bitcoin. I bet 99% of bitcoin holders have no plan in place for their bitcoin to be retrieved in the event they die. Currently, the deflationary effects of lost Bitcoin only help the price as we are in a growth stage, but what happens in 10-20 years when half or more of all Bitcoin is lost? I understand it would be more scarce, but you still need a healthy amount of circulating supply to keep it viable. Or I guess you could always extend it to 15 decimal points once the eclair of 1BTC is $5m+ (I’m just using hypothetical numbers, but trying to wrap my head around the future loss of coin and the cause & effect)

Change my mind…


If the USD and hence fist currency crashed, what would happen with our assets?

Typo in title: fist - > fiat

Short question is: if my wealth is mostly into index mutual funds, globally diversified, what would happen when/if the fiat currency system crashed?

In theory, our assets are just that, assets. But we track them in currency value. As I understand, we wouldn't lose their value (not accounting for massive market fluctuations that would happen in such event).

However, we wouldn't be able to "sell" either, right? Because our brokers and banks won't give us milk, rice, or bitcoin (any other tradeable currency) for our assets. They will only trade them for fist currency. Effectively leaving our assets locked, so effectively being as if they became 0 value as well.

Maybe I'm over thinking, but I'd like to know people's thoughts on this.


I analyzed last 15 years of news articles to see how many times Michael Burry predicted a crash and how many times he turned out to be right! Here are the results.

Author: u/nobjos(Karma: 145330, Created: Feb-2020).

I analyzed last 15 years of news articles to see how many times Michael Burry predicted a crash and how many times he turned out to be right! Here are the results. on r/fluentinfinance


PICTURES DETECTED: this DD post is better viewed in it's original post

Preamble: Michael Burry is definitely a controversial figure. He rose to fame betting against the subprime mortgage market and making a 489% return for his investors between Nov’00 and Jun’08 (SP500 returned just 3% in the same period).

But, I recently observed that in every news article/tweet, he always talks about an impending crash. As recently as last week, he issued another warning stating that there would a “mother of all crashes soon due to the meme-stock and crypto rally that will approach the size of countries”. Basically, what I wanted to analyze was

Whether Michael Burry always predicts a crash and gets lucky when there is an actual crash or does his prediction actually turns out to be true most of the time?

Analysis

The various news articles spanning over the last 15 years were obtained from Google News [1]. I flagged the date of each crash prediction and then analyzed the performance of the market/stock over the

a. Next 1 Month

b. Next 1 Quarter

c. Till Date

I will not be including the subprime mortgage crash prediction in this analysis as we all know how that turned out and how that made him famous. Also, there are no news reports covering Burry before that.

The performance figures are calculated based on the prediction. If Burry specifies a stock, then I am using that particular stock as the benchmark. If its broader prediction relating to the overall market, then the benchmark used is S&P 500.

Results

There was a long gap of 9 years after the 2008 crash where Burry stayed out of the public view and did not make any warnings or predictions about the market.

His first verifiable prediction after the 2008 crisis came in May 2017 where he warned that we can expect a global financial meltdown and World War 3. In his exact words

I didn’t go out looking for this, I just did the math. Every bit of my logic is telling me the global financial system is going to collapse

But it’s been 4 years since the prediction and the market is chugging along just fine. S&P500 has returned a respectable 93% to date and there is no imminent threat of a World War happening.

Burry’s next prediction was in Sep 2019 where he said that index funds are the next market bubble and are comparable to subprime CDOs. He said that index fund inflows are now distorting prices for stocks and bonds in the same way that CDO purchases did for subprime mortgages more than a decade ago. He said the flows will reverse at some point, and “it will be ugly” when they do.

This prediction also did not pan out as S&P500 has returned 50% to date over the last two years and the only crash that occurred during this period was the Covid-19 flash crash from which the market made a sudden recovery.

Burry’s next target was on Tesla where he said that Tesla’s stock price is ridiculous and that it would collapse like the housing stock bubble. I have kept both the articles there which had only one month difference as we don’t know exactly when he shorted the stock. The returns would be substantially different if he did it in Dec’20 when compared to Jan’21 as Tesla had a phenomenal run in December.

He reiterated again on Feb’21 that the market is dancing on a knife’s edge and he is being ignored again. He felt the boom in day traders due to the meme stock mania and the increasing cash flow to the index trackers would cause a massive bubble. This prediction also hasn’t turned out to be right as the market has returned 11% to date over the last 4 months.

Burry’s only prediction that we can say confidently was right after the 2008 mortgage crisis is that he called Bitcoin a speculative bubble in March’21. Bitcoin has since dropped 28% in around 3 months. Even in this case, we don’t have enough data to showcase how this prediction would turn out over the next one/two years.

Burry was most active in 2021 making the most number of predictions with the latest in Jun’21 stating that we are currently in the greatest speculative bubble of all time. Only time will tell how this one will turn out!

Conclusion

I have immense respect for Michael Burry and his skills. He was a doctor and worked as a Stanford Hospital neurology resident and then left to start his own hedge fund that became extremely successful. But, as you can see from the above analysis, he is more often wrong than right with his predictions [2].

But, the stock market rewards predictions disproportionately [3]. Out of the 100 predictions you make, even if you get 99 wrong but get one extremely unlikely event right your overall returns will still be extremely high.

The key point here is that if you believe in Michael Burry, you will have to follow all of his recommendations [4] and not pick and choose what you feel comfortable with as most of the returns would be from an extremely unlikely scenario.

Footnotes

[1] Google News has a nifty feature where they allow you to search news in specific time periods. Also, Google News seems to capture almost all the major publications other than the historical archives.

[2] The current analysis is done using all the publicly available records. We are not considering the personal bets he made, conversations he had with his friends/family/investors, etc. This can definitely alter the

[3] Take the classic example of Keith Gill (aka DFV). He at one point had a $50MM return using a 50K call option. Even if he had another 99 50K call options in other stocks which expired worthless, just this one right pick would have made him a net profit of $45MM. This phenomenon is known as black swan farming.

[4] At that point, if you are that confident in his predictions, you can invest in his hedge fund. Please note that you need to have a minimum capital requirement ($1 million minimum investment and some extra regulatory requirements)

Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor.


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List of Today's and Tomorrow's Upcoming Events

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Nano(NANO) Q&A July 2, 2021
Dock(DOCK) Telegram Voice AMA July 2, 2021
IoTeX(IOTX) Reddit AMA July 2, 2021
dForce(DF) Liquidity Mining July 2, 2021
Fetch.ai(FET) Community AMA July 2, 2021
KardiaChain(KAI) Telegram AMA July 2, 2021
Celsius(CEL) AMA July 2, 2021
OctoFi(OCTO) V4.3.0 July 2, 2021
SmartKey(SKEY) AMA July 2, 2021
Kiwigo(KGO) Telegram AMA July 2, 2021
Kylin Network(KYL) AMA July 2, 2021
ToolApe(TAPE) Hepa Finance IDO July 2, 2021
ZenCash(ZEN) China Roadshow: Chengdu July 3, 2021
Raicoin(RAI) Self-repaying Loan Pilot July 3, 2021
StackOS(STACK) Staking Program Launch July 3, 2021
Tenup(TUP) 15% Coin Burn July 3, 2021

 

Partnerships

Celo(CELO) TFB/CELO Partnership July 2, 2021

 

Exchanges

Keep Network(KEEP) LBank Listing July 2, 2021
Tokamak Network(TON) DigiFinex Listing July 2, 2021
Hydra(HYDRA) MEXC Listing July 2, 2021
Mars Token(OMT) Coinsbit Listing July 2, 2021
Atari(ATRI) BitBay Listing July 3, 2021

 

Software/Platforms

Polkadex(PDEX) Testnet: App Interface July 2, 2021

 

Meetups

BitcoinZ(BTCZ) Z-Brain Online Meeting July 3, 2021

 

 


List of Today's and Tomorrow's Upcoming Events

I will be bringing you upcoming events/announcements every day. If you want improvements to this post, please mention /u/houseme in the comments. We will make improvements based on your feedback.

 

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If you like an event to be added, click Submit Event, and we will do the rest.

 

NEXT DAY UPCOMING EVENTS


 

General

Nano(NANO) Q&A July 2, 2021
Dock(DOCK) Telegram Voice AMA July 2, 2021
IoTeX(IOTX) Reddit AMA July 2, 2021
dForce(DF) Liquidity Mining July 2, 2021
Fetch.ai(FET) Community AMA July 2, 2021
KardiaChain(KAI) Telegram AMA July 2, 2021
Celsius(CEL) AMA July 2, 2021
OctoFi(OCTO) V4.3.0 July 2, 2021
SmartKey(SKEY) AMA July 2, 2021
Kiwigo(KGO) Telegram AMA July 2, 2021
Kylin Network(KYL) AMA July 2, 2021
ToolApe(TAPE) Hepa Finance IDO July 2, 2021
ZenCash(ZEN) China Roadshow: Chengdu July 3, 2021
Raicoin(RAI) Self-repaying Loan Pilot July 3, 2021
StackOS(STACK) Staking Program Launch July 3, 2021
Tenup(TUP) 15% Coin Burn July 3, 2021

 

Partnerships

Celo(CELO) TFB/CELO Partnership July 2, 2021

 

Exchanges

Keep Network(KEEP) LBank Listing July 2, 2021
Tokamak Network(TON) DigiFinex Listing July 2, 2021
Hydra(HYDRA) MEXC Listing July 2, 2021
Mars Token(OMT) Coinsbit Listing July 2, 2021
Atari(ATRI) BitBay Listing July 3, 2021

 

Software/Platforms

Polkadex(PDEX) Testnet: App Interface July 2, 2021

 

Meetups

BitcoinZ(BTCZ) Z-Brain Online Meeting July 3, 2021

 

 


Cardano Rumor Rundown July 2, 2021

Hey Everyone!

Let's go...

Newly covered today:

  1. Coti update from Shahaf Bar-Geffen. https://twitter.com/COTInetwork/status/1410644013863124992
  2. The Mithril paper (allows for trustless light wallets) is now available for your reading pleasure. https://iohk.io/en/research/library/papers/mithrilstake-based-threshold-multisignatures/
  3. The Ouroboros Chronos paper (allows for the blockchain to be its own timekeeper) is also now available. https://iohk.io/en/research/library/papers/ouroboros-chronospermissionless-clock-synchronization-via-proof-of-stake/

Previously Covered but still interesting:

  1. Manuel Chakravarty gave a big update on Hydra (layer 2 scaling). Hydra will not require that the base layer be modified since it will be implemented via Plutus smart contracts. Hydra is actually a collection of protocols including Hydra Head and Hydra Tail. Hydra Head is a symmetric protocol where multiple participants will be online simultaneously for the whole period of the head exchanging messages. Hydra Tail is an asymmetric protocol involving a high performance server and many clients that may be mobile and could be offline for large portions of the tail’s existence. There will also be “inter head & tail networking” which will allow for a network of heads and tails. They have a published research paper on Hydra Head. They are currently writing the Hydra Tail paper.
  2. Hydra is distinguished from other layer 2 protocols by its isomorphic properties. This means you will be able to run any smart contract that works on the base layer in a Hydra Head! This is very special. We won’t need special purpose contracts built out just for layer 2. There are some big implications to this. Since a Hydra Head is essentially just a Plutus smart contract, this means you can run a Hydra Head inside another Hydra Head. It’s turtles all the way down, guys. It sounds like they can do this iteratively as much as they want.
  3. Aggelos also gave a good presentation on the importance of “skin in the game” in resource based consensus protocols (both proof-of-work and proof-of-stake) and its effect on promotion or discouragement of centralization. He explained how Ouroboros has built-in safeguards to prevent centralization including the K parameter (currently at 500) which caps total rewards per pool and the alpha parameter (currently at 0.3) which splits rewards into a 77% piece and a 23% piece. A pool can take its share of the 77% piece based on the pool’s total stake and its share of the 23% piece based on the pledge of the SPO. A higher alpha parameter makes it less attractive for individual SPOs to proliferate multiple pools since they can’t be as leveraged on their available pledge and still get as big a share of the 23% piece. This also discourages Sybil Attacks. As Cardano on-chain governance progresses, these parameters will be controlled by the community.
  4. There will be a Cardano Goguen Summit in September. It will be hybrid digital/in-person.
  5. Charles is helping to bring the cryptographer who broke SHA-1 to the University of Wyoming. The Cardano funded blockchain lab there could be on the road to be a powerhouse. https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1398290866419105802 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiqun_Lisa_Yin
  6. We don’t often get to hear from the engineers behind Yoroi over at Emurgo. But, here’s a podcast with Vicente Almonacid from Emurgo. Check out 12:50 where he mentions the dApp Connector (Cardano’s Metamask Equivalent). https://twitter.com/vacuumlabs/status/1397847633696280576
  7. Check out this great article from Cardanians.io on the work being done at the University of Wyoming on a physical chip for transfer of private keys in day-to-day cashlike transactions. https://cardanians.io/en/cardano-can-give-crypto-a-cash-like-experience-58
  8. Professor Aggelos Kiayias recently dropped a video explaining exactly how Mithril (apparently neckbeard dungeon master talk for elf armor) is going to allow for Perfect Cardano (ADA) wallets that combine the ease of use and convenience of light wallets with the trustlessness of full node wallets. We also learned exactly how Mithril is going to work. https://youtu.be/LhepJFCyWRk
  9. In proof-of-work, bootstrapping can be done with blockheaders. This won’t do in proof-of-stake since we need information about stakeholder distribution to confirm block validity.
  10. Mithril fixes this by being a cryptographic construction that enables a population of stakeholders to issue a signature consistent with certain constraints.
  11. For Mithril to work in proof-of-stake, it needs three crucial properties: 1) it needs to enforce a threshold ratio of stakeholders before the signature is issued; 2) the pre-signature fragments must be independently verified and subject to public aggregation; and 3) it must be efficient in the sense that the final signature is of constant size and is logarithmically dependent on the # of stakeholders.
  12. Stakeholders will issue special Mithril keys along with the normal cryptographic key material. Then at regular intervals, full nodes will test whether they can produce a pre-signature fragment. Only a random subset of stakeholders will be eligible to produce a pre-signature fragment. When a sufficient # of pre-signature fragments have been issued by eligible stakeholders then it will be possible to aggregate the fragments into a final signature.
  13. This will be a checkpoint that will be verifiable with respect to previous check points all the way back to the genesis block. Such checkpoints will be cryptographic commitments of the relevant UTXOs.
  14. Since the checkpoints will be trustless, a light client (i.e. wallet) will only need to verify the sequence of checkpoints up to the current time to trustlessly bootstrap.
  15. The ecosystem is growing so fast, it’s hard to keep up with all the projects without these infographics at this point. https://twitter.com/Dr_shwetaPHD/status/1398783893638103040
  16. The Cardano subreddit is at 487k users. Half a million isn’t far away. https://www.reddit.com/r/cardano/
  17. Epoch 268 is a wrap as of yesterday with 22.83 billion ADA staked. https://adapools.org/epochs
  18. Check out the telegram AMA tomorrow with the CEO of World Mobile! https://twitter.com/ZwijBerg/status/1399377659105320962
  19. A very interesting stat on Cardano user growth. https://twitter.com/cex_io/status/1398959088684445699
  20. Don’t forget, the Marlowe webinar is this Thursday! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1399444331556225027
  21. More and more people in the youtube sphere are jumping on the Cardano train. https://twitter.com/techleadhd/status/1399398373384351744
  22. Reuters reports on an EU digital identity wallet project. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/eu-step-up-digital-push-with-digital-identity-wallet-2021-06-01/?taid=60b6e171efd84f0001b64ae1&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
  23. The U.S. Currently has Issued Sanctions on Ethiopia, but they are not all-encompassing economic sanctions as with rogue nations, they have just barred entry into the U.S. for certain government personnel. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/world/africa/ethiopia-us-sanctions-tigray.html
  24. Vitalik is saying it’s highly unlikely we see ETH 2.0 before late 2022. I’m guessing that means mid 2023 which will be after two years of Cardano slaughtering the entire ETH user base. Things are looking so bad that Vitalik says he doesn’t even like using the ETH 2.0 label anymore since he knows the changes will be more incremental. This is what early capitulation sounds like guys. https://cointelegraph.com/news/even-vitalik-buterin-is-surprised-at-just-how-long-eth2-is-taking
  25. Cardano-Nervos cross-chain bridge to be built. This would be at least the second cross-chain bridge after the Cardano-AGI bridge. https://www.coindesk.com/cardano-nervos-force-bridge-network-first
  26. Sundaeswap ISO delayed due to regulatory concerns. This brings up interesting questions for the whole space about requesting regulatory permission vs. possibly being forced to ask for forgiveness. https://www.sundaeswap.finance/posts/iso-update
  27. Tim Harrison has announced that the transition to Alonzo Blue was successful. https://twitter.com/timbharrison/status/1400481879883649034
  28. Finally, 500k users in the Cardano Subreddit! https://www.reddit.com/r/cardano/
  29. We got a nice update on the first week of Alonzo Blue. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1400876181122174977
  30. And….still! Kings of the github! https://twitter.com/CryptoDiffer/status/1400744567956180993
  31. Epoch 269 is in the bag with active stake of 22.77 Billion. Hope everyone made lots of delicious staking rewards! https://adapools.org/epochs
  32. Binance has 63 stakepools charging 6%. Please stop paying so much for the right to stake your ADA. You don’t have to pay that much. You have a huge number of better options. You are literally giving away your ADA rewards to a large corporation. It’s easy: just download the Yoroi Chrome extension, send your ADA there, and pick from the 2k+ available stakepools right inside Yoroi. https://twitter.com/BraveHeartStak3/status/1401204563189940231 https://adapools.org/groups/binance-20 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emurgo&hl=en_US&gl=US
  33. Nigeria Bans Twitter after Twitter censors Tweet from Nigerian President. This emphasizes the need for decentralized social media. A decentralized solution running on Cardano could fix this. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/04/africa/nigeria-suspends-twitter-operations-intl/index.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JilEb42q-CI
  34. A Really Big Deal: El Salvador is on the verge of making Bitcoin legal tender in the Central American nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uGOfqN2y9k
  35. This could have huge ramifications for bank and accounting treatment of Bitcoin potentially including that banks might suddenly be allowed to handle Bitcoin as a foreign currency. Today it was BTC. But, wait until they find out what Cardano can do. https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1401334421773504517
  36. Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, also clarified that there will be no capital gains taxes on Bitcoin since it is a “legal currency” and crypto entrepreneurs will be given instant permanent residence. https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1401622548396314631
  37. Bitcoin enthusiasm seems to be off to a great start among other Latin American politicians after the fervor around the El Salvador announcement. This will serve as a great gateway drug that only leads to Gen 3 projects and Cardano. https://twitter.com/gilson__marques https://twitter.com/carlitosrejala https://twitter.com/gabrielsilva8_7/status/1401965129051389958 https://twitter.com/FabioOstermann
  38. We are always the Github Kings. It’s amazing. https://twitter.com/CryptoIRELAND1/status/1402011593995603975
  39. Charles basically just laid out what 4th Gen Cryptos are going to be all about in his video yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkr1EKQrVeQ
  40. Here’s a good Emurgo blog article on the use of Emurgo Trace in the Oil and gas industry. https://twitter.com/emurgo_io/status/1402339278097502210
  41. IOHK gives us a closer look at everything being upgraded for Alonzo. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/06/08/a-close-look-at-the-software-running-cardano/
  42. We’re currently at 71.52% of ADA staked. This is a pretty incredible ratio and shows the strength of the Cardano community. https://twitter.com/CardanoPoolPeek/status/1402378400803794950
  43. SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce warns about the regulatory impulse being displayed by her colleagues toward crypto and the impact it could have on the stifling of innovation. https://www.ft.com/content/ae0d40a1-8a4a-4885-a6a7-b157e27b3311
  44. El Salvador passes the statute to make Bitcoin legal tender in the country. https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1402827595339681794
  45. Cardano gets more positive coverage on the Nasdaq website with a second article following the one from April 7 earlier this year. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/be-part-of-a-historic-crypto-moment-with-cardano-2021-06-08
  46. Prof. Aggelos Kiayias releases an article on a tri-coin system called Stablefees that could fix the problem of appreciating transaction fees in crypto. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/06/10/stablefees-and-the-decentralized-reserve-system/
  47. There’s very interesting speculation circulating out there about how El Salvador’s Bitcoin adoption might impact relationships with the U.S. and the IMF. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1403136968456765443
  48. Elizabeth Warren is now talking about the U.S. needs to regulate crypto. https://twitter.com/BloombergTV/status/1402749016845262851
  49. The mid-month Alonzo development update from IOHK is out. Alonzo blue is in full swing and they are working on “hello world round trips” going from the node to the ledger and back. Plutus Partners (third party functional dev firms) are working on different use cases ahead of the Alonzo launch. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1403314932968574981
  50. Miniswap gives us the dev perspective on why Cardano’s Plutus is such an improvement over Ethereum’s Solidity. https://twitter.com/MinswapDEX/status/1403411522110427137
  51. Here’s a great ETH vs. Cardano DeFi project comparison infographic. https://twitter.com/Coin98Analytics/status/1403397242707320835
  52. Charles recorded for the Lex Fridman Podcast. It went over five hours. This is a big deal given that Lex has 1.12 million subscribers and it’s closer to mainstream than a crypto audience. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1403498549300584448 https://www.youtube.com/user/lexfridman
  53. The Marlowe Webinar with Shruti is now available on youtube. Very interesting discussion of DeFi in general and also specific topics like “deep interoperability” in DeFi. Cardano is obviously already doing the very involved thinking about the future of DeFi. https://youtu.be/vzsUSG5CSj0
  54. John O’Connor recently tweeted about a day where he “wrote a letter to a president” and “found a million users to bring into Cardano”. Sounds like the Cardano train is rolling along as smoothly as ever in Africa. https://twitter.com/jjtoconnor/status/1402565547716399104
  55. Zach Guzman and Mike Novogratz get an opportunity to prove once again how extremely threatened they are by the fact that they can’t frontrun Cardano at this point. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1404100510525841408
  56. John O’Connor appeared on the Disrupt Network Podcast. bit.ly/3znqyB7
  57. President of Tanzania calls on the central bank to prepare for the adoption of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. I wonder what crypto ecosystem already has experience working with an African government on a big crypto project and has partnered with a mobile company that is already bringing connectivity to rural Tanzania? https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/1404126444863766533
  58. Hedgefund Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones tells the world to buy crypto and certain other assets if the Fed doesn’t address inflation in their policy meeting that concludes on Wednesday. JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon concurs that the current inflation is very likely not transitory. This could be tremendously good timing for Cardano given our top five status and the impending mainnet launch of smart contracts. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/14/paul-tudor-jones-says-bet-heavily-on-every-inflation-trade-if-fed-keeps-ignoring-higher-prices.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/14/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-is-hoarding-cash-because-very-good-chance-inflation-here-to-stay.html
  59. With exploits like this one being all too common in the legacy smart contract networks, we’re not even going to have sell the Cardano use case for DeFi. The competitor networks have already made the case that something better must be on the way. https://twitter.com/zapper_fi/status/1404429179794362369
  60. World Mobile CEO tweets out a tantalizing response to the Tanzanian President’s call for her nation’s central bank to prepare for crypto. https://twitter.com/MrTelecoms/status/1404375153191141377
  61. If you are new to Cardano and you would like to get a handle on the terminology involved in the ecosystem, you may want to check out these Cardano flashcards produced by Coconut Pool. https://twitter.com/coconut_pool/status/1403442954434269185
  62. While renewable energy is certainly a wonderful thing, there may be a problem with your technology when your path to compete on clean energy consumption involves you talking about harnessing the power of a whole series of volcanoes. Maybe just use fewer volcano’s and more proof-of-stake? https://twitter.com/_eLaPs_/status/1404125569093029889 https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1402718041557725184
  63. The Charles/Lex Fridman podcast has dropped. This is a big deal. This is a fairly mainstream podcast with over 1 million subscribers. https://youtu.be/FKh8hjJNhWc
  64. Politicians in the legislative branches of Panama and Paraguay have now announced intentions to introduce crypto-related bills into their respective legislative assemblies. https://twitter.com/gabrielsilva8_7/status/1401965129051389958
  65. New algorithmic stablecoin paper coming in the next few weeks from IOHK. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1405737563030183936
  66. The bank of England is getting very serious about how it “may wish to limit migration” of money from the legacy system to stablecoins. Wow. Just another example of why it’s such an asset (no pun intended) that Cardano is prepared for regulation. https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1405712468823842816
  67. Check out the newly “pimped up” Cardano documentation. https://twitter.com/theSavaSavic/status/1405526615585480730 https://docs.cardano.org/
  68. The Cardano Development Update for this week is out. https://roadmap.cardano.org/en/status-updates/update/2021-06-18/
  69. Runtime Verification (architects of K Framework which powers Cardano’s IELE & KEVM) just raised $5.3MM in a round that included Cardano’s C Fund. https://runtimeverification.com/blog/runtime-verification-raises-5-3-million-to-advance-blockchain-security https://twitter.com/RosuGrigore/status/1405917218035097600
  70. It’s a good sign that the top two crypto communities are spending so much time talking negatively about Cardano. You only focus your hatred on that which is most threatening. I’m glad to see we’re the biggest threat on their radar. https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1405194146063736840
  71. Bloomberg just published a piece called “America Should Become a Nation of Renters”. While this statement is probably extremely polarizing for Americans, it can also be argued that the death of homes as the primary investment vehicle of Americans may open up a new wave of adoption in crypto as an alternative. https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1405609396302979074
  72. Cardano 360 is this coming Thursday the 24th! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1405067848452657153
  73. It’s Project Catalyst voting time. You have until the 25th! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1406213172781060097
  74. We are crushing all the competitors in terms of assets staked! https://twitter.com/CryptoDiffer/status/1405854686209622018
  75. All 345,501 of the people who have watched the Lex Fridman/Charles episode as of writing are realizing that Cardano could be the first project to put voting on the blockchain in a U.S. state. https://www.atalaprism.io/app
  76. Don’t Forget Cardano 360 is this Thursday! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1407035426267877385
  77. Days like today in Cardano and the greater crypto space always reminds me that there have been other great adoption stories that went through periods like this.https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1407077949774442499
  78. It looks like the second biggest ETH stakepool or it's custody provider has lost it’s users private keys to $75MM in ETH. Cardano doesn’t have this problem. We get to keep custody of our crypto because we found a better way than slashing. https://stakehound.com/blog-post/fireblocks-eth-2-key-management-incident/ https://twitter.com/JamesSpediacci/status/1407465311180255236
  79. Draft table of contents for Mastering Cardano has been revealed. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1407165366355124225
  80. Cardano 360 June Edition is Today! Watch it on youtube! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1407629819941109760
  81. COTI (a project with very close ties to Cardano) is coming to Ledger. https://medium.com/cotinetwork/coti-native-is-coming-to-ledger-c56b04df1253
  82. The June Cardano 360 was yesterday. It is currently available on Youtube. https://youtu.be/al5m14299ww
  83. We saw segments on various newer partner entities like Nervos, Orion Protocol, and Revuto. Nervos is a UTXO proof-of-work blockchain which is building a cross-chain bridge with Cardano so that you can use your ADA on Nervos dApps and vice versa. Interoperability is a big theme for Nervos and they plan to have a working testnet within a month. Orion Protocol is building a terminal that will allow for decentralized non-custodial trading across centralized and decentralized exchanges. They say this would not require you to KYC or even have an account with any of these exchanges. Revuto is an online subscription management service that recently completed a $10MM token sale on Cardano.
  84. It was also revealed that Wolfram Labs, COTI, and IOHK have a three-way partnership (a ménage à tech) to build an NFT auction site. The people from Wolfram were talking about very interesting things including live minting during streaming events and automated upload to IPFS. COTI will be building out auction and bidding mechanisms in ADAPay.
  85. Professor Aggelos Kiayias gave us an update on research including that Ouroboros Chronos and Hydra papers have both been accepted into conferences/journals. Chronos will provide Cardano with a global concept of time that doesn’t rely on any outside timekeeper. Prof. Kiayias also pointed out that Hydra is distinguishable from other layer two protocols in that the scripting language is identical to that of the base layer in Cardano such that any dApp that can run on Cardano will run on the Hydra L2. This is a huge plus and superior to many other layer two solutions in other ecosystems where the base layer dApps will not run on layer two. Finally, the Mithril paper has been submitted for peer review. It will provide Cardano light wallets with Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge that will give us the best of both worlds: no delays for syncing as in full node wallets while still preserving trustlessness.
  86. Finally, the Goguen Summit will be in late September. Sign up now at summit.cardano.org.
  87. The Fed is once again STRONGLY signalling to us that they are going to regulate stablecoins. The Fed is also specifically calling out Tether for the first time. You need to be thinking about how stablecoin regulation might affect your favorite Cardano DeFi or other project. https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1408500265397985282 https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1408572624125534212
  88. People are starting to realize that the Stakehound private key loss in ETH may attract unwanted regulatory attention to Ethereum 2.0 while this problem could never have occurred in Cardano. Also, only a few days later another ETH stakepool (this time SharedStake...the sixth biggest ETH Stakepool) allegedly experiences a rugpull that some are valuing at over $30MM. This is another problem that could not happen in Cardano staking. It feels like we stepped into the ring, they rang the bell, and ETH just started punching itself in the head. Eventually it’s going to KO itself. https://twitter.com/Madror7/status/1408505144984051716 https://twitter.com/JamesSpediacci/status/1407761823143645189 https://twitter.com/MeiTrades/status/1408117430656905219 https://sharedstake.medium.com/the-sharedstake-story-by-kairos-44d37aa7837a
  89. Here’s another great Cardano data site. This one is from the Cardano Fans stakepool. https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/3136c55b-635e-4f46-8e4b-b8ab54f2d460/page/r2LQC
  90. John O’Connor of IOHK points out that France still controls the monetary policy of 14 countries in Africa. There is definitely a built in market on the continent for a project that delivers monetary sovereignty to the people. https://twitter.com/jjtoconnor/status/1408978882129272832
  91. Here’s a great new interview with the CEO of World Mobile from Cardano Chats. https://youtu.be/w0Z2RP6a9HE
  92. New article from the Cardano Foundation on Governance. https://forum.cardano.org/t/blockchain-governance-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters/65493
  93. Sebastien explains some Alonzo HFC event changes. https://twitter.com/SebastienGllmt/status/1409485560012414978
  94. IOG Research update from Prof. Aggelos Kiayias. Really interesting bit right at the beginning on the history of cryptography as a field of study. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UAL_6f7PFw
  95. Sebastien of dcSpark submits a Cardano Improvement Proposal to allow wallets to implement collateral. https://twitter.com/SebastienGllmt/status/1409910858117877763
  96. New Plutus Pioneers Class starting July 1! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1409948543268409344
  97. The Mithril paper is out and will be publicly available soon. Fast bootstrapping here we come! https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1410277976730603526
  98. Charles says it looks like we will hit Alonzo white on Monday. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1410279529021648896

~Army of Spies