Thursday, July 28, 2022

Thursday, 28th July 2022

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

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