Thursday, August 4, 2022

Friday, 5th August 2022

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/

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