Cardano Rumor Rundown October 4, 2022

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Newly Covered Today:

1. Charles drops the most detailed and comprehensive look at Basho Cardano’s ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhVo-2QUjLM
2. World Mobile has partnered with Immunify Life. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1576953985973592065
3. The Eternl fiat on-ramp is now live with a “Buy ADA” button directly in the wallet. https://twitter.com/eternlwallet/status/1576939519290769409
4. The SEC has charged Kim Kardashian with failing to disclose that she was paid to promote a crypto project. She is settling the charges by paying a $1.26 million fine. https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-183
5. Here’s one transaction that moved 77 assets in a few seconds for about 12 cents. Cardano is an amazing network! https://twitter.com/OfficialNID0/status/157672148878665318
6. The court has ruled that the CFTC can serve the Ooki DAO members via forum post and help chat box. https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/10/03/court-rules-cftc-legally-served-ooki-dao-through-help-bot/

Previously covered, but still interesting:

1. If you want a solid rundown of metrics on other L1s for comparison to Cardano, check out “Just the Metrics” by Sooraj & Laura. https://just-the-metrics-newsletter.beehiiv.com/ https://twitter.com/Soorajksaju2/status/1566768702909022208
2. Alessandro of SpaceBudz has unveiled some details on Lucid, his easy to use Javascript library for building dApps on Cardano. https://twitter.com/berry_ales/status/1566870570024706057
3. It looks like Reach Metaverse is going to be live on September 30th? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/reach-announces-largest-live-cardano-224600908.html
4. Pavia dropped a video showing portals and is talking about token gated portals. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1567146448403193857
5. Joshua Miller is transitioning from IOG to become the VP of Partnerships at CWorld which is a joint venture between IOG and Wave Financial that will focus on Cardano Web3. https://twitter.com/CWorld_Josh/status/1566896063750889472
6. The reductions in transaction fees and transaction size under Vasil appear to be huge! https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1567192925871939584
7. Binance is apparently forcing “auto-conversion” of some user stablecoins to their own stablecoin? https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/e62f703604a94538a1f1bc803b2d579f?ref=AZTKZ9XS&utm_source=BinanceTwitter&utm_medium=GlobalSocial&utm_campaign=GlobalSocial https://gizmodo.com/binance-stablecoin-usdc-crypto-1849499652 https://twitter.com/PaxosGlobal/status/1567196183084531712
8. You can now short Cardano NFTs! https://www.guchi.io/ https://twitter.com/guchi_io/status/1567251808430555136
9. Virtua just dropped their first Dev update. Jawad gave a nice rundown of what’s happening with Cardano Island. It sounds like there will be a few weeks of testing and then the land claim will go down. https://youtu.be/6ztvEmv9AoQ
10. Indigo says it has completed Vasil integration. https://twitter.com/Indigo_protocol/status/1567498585775738882
11. Pavia is hinting a leak. From the hashtags it possibly involves lore related to Pavs. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1567550847701090305
12. There is now a Cardano wallet-to-wallet chat system called Mercury Chat. https://twitter.com/TheAvatarNick/status/1567234721016414215 https://twitter.com/MercuryChatio
13. Voteaire is now available for projects to accomplish governance. https://medium.com/@voteaire/voteaire-is-here-79adf0d514f7
14. Army of Spies has been included in the ten SPO finalists for the MuesliSwap governance vote starting today (Sept. 9). https://twitter.com/MuesliSwapTeam/status/1567929613036277765
15. Virtua is having a Kevin Hart metaverse event tomorrow. https://twitter.com/virtua_official/status/1567944755065098240
16. Charles has released a video on the energy and climate implications of crypto in the U.S. https://youtu.be/TEpC2PN2IGY
17. Reach is currently making the transition from Reach Metaverse 1.0 to Reach Explorer 2.0. https://twitter.com/ReachMetaverse/status/1568019464238628866
18. ADA Whale makes a very good point regarding VC money in Cardano. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1567872786504511488
19. The Carda Station Community Hub is now open. https://twitter.com/Carda_station/status/1567596291324010497
20. Reach metaverse has a new website. https://app.reachcloud.org/
21. There is a Cardano based social media platform launching. https://twitter.com/chain_lobby/status/1563599278874185734
22. Sooraj makes an interesting point about the number of delegators in Cardano compared to some competitors. https://twitter.com/Soorajksaju2/status/1568686884905447424
23. ADA Handle has released a thread about subHandles. https://twitter.com/adahandle/status/1568683214541299712
24. Joseph Delong has an interesting take on what 80% of crypto twitter is actually doing. https://twitter.com/josephdelong/status/1568626489066668042
25. Liquid has begun its audit of the Agora Governance contracts with Vacuum Labs. https://twitter.com/liqwidfinance/status/1569340260659625987
26. Reach has released info on the distribution of plots (eg. grass, beach, snow, etc.) in their metaverse. https://discord.com/channels/809466032237969460/926198215114625024
27. Virtua released Dev Update #2 which gave us a nice behind-the-scenes look at production in their studio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awRbJKuOkJc
28. A lot of new Vasil upgrade readiness shown here. https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/7981157534105-Ecosystem-readiness-for-Vasil-upgrade
29. Cardano is still crushing the competition in terms of active developers. https://medium.com/contora/new-leader-top-crypto-projects-by-technology-development-ccdc65c29ac9 https://twitter.com/Contora_/status/1569415298155008002
30. Here’s an interesting revelation about how Solana stores the block history (hint: google). https://twitter.com/MicheleHarmonic/status/1569368081507532802
31. Check out this demo of “Edendale” from Reach Metaverse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx8nhChvrIE
32. NMKR is introducing NFT licenses to delineate what you can and cannot do with NFTs. https://twitter.com/nmkr_io/status/1569566543763361793
33. P2P lending and borrowing is now live on AADA. https://twitter.com/AadaFinance/status/1569674268723630080
34. There’s a new video about the IOG Stanford Blockchain Research Hub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi__9JDTPzY
35. The US August CPI inflation report (8.3%) was not loved by the markets. https://www.ft.com/content/96bb6e37-9116-47d9-98f3-5cee3e9c7c09 https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
36. If you are going to Rare Bloom and haven’t booked your room yet, remember the hotel discount ends on September 24th. https://twitter.com/bigpeyYT/status/1569430504054603777
37. Only 8 days until Vasil!!!!
38. The U.S. national average on 30 year mortgages is now over 6%. You know what rising mortgage rates do to the demand side of that market? If you were an adult in 2007, you already know the effects the housing market can have on other markets. https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/30-year-mortgage-rates/
39. The US Treasury is now saying it’s okay to publish the Tornado Cash code. https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/faqs/1076
40. There is an arrest warrant out for Terra Luna founder, Do Kwon. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/14/south-korea-court-issues-arrest-warrant-for-terraform-founder-do-kwon.html
41. Apparently Atala Prism is a part of some kind of “future digital infrastructure development” in Japan. Check out Project #8. https://twitter.com/sakepool_ada/status/1569969212617281536
42. There’s a free NMKR airdrop afoot. https://twitter.com/Padierfind/status/1570134774454554624
43. Cardano has struck a partnership with the Georgian National Wine Agency to provide a traceability solution for the nation’s wine production! https://twitter.com/CardanoStiftung/status/1570489271710289921 https://cardanofoundation.org/en/news/cardano-foundation-partners-with-georgian-national-wine-agency/
44. ADA Realm says it is going to launch its own marketplace in Q4. https://twitter.com/AdaRealm/status/1570480257454714880
45. Less than a day after the Merge, Ethereum users are starting to realize just how centralized ETH POS really is (whether you count Flashbots–who hard coded in the OFAC list–or not). https://twitter.com/santimentfeed/status/1570339602346684416
46. There’s a new Cardano Island AMA with some new details. https://blog.virtua.com/virtua-news/cardano-island-update-september-13-2022/
47. There’s an Eternl update coming out today (Sep 15) and it has a fiat onramp for ADA. https://twitter.com/eternlwallet/status/1570340765179715586
48. Senator Pat Toomey says that Gary Gensler owes the American people an explanation of how and why he intends to apply SEC regs to crypto. https://twitter.com/SenToomey/status/1570412249365319686
49. Maladex hints at something coming on the 28th of September. https://twitter.com/CardanoMaladex/status/1571469106569965569
50. Fidelity now has both a “Crypto ETF” and a “Metaverse ETF”. Neither one really seems to match the definition I would attach to that label. https://www.fidelity.com/etfs/different-types-of-etfs
51. The Vasil update proposal has been submitted to the chain! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/157155844597049753
52. Just the Metrics lays out a nice comparison between the proof-of-stake systems of Cardano & Ethereum. https://just-the-metrics-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/special-issue-ethereum-pos-vs-cardano-staking-decentralization-compared
53. 3D Kiwi now has regression based heatmaps to help estimate values. https://pavia.3dkiwi.io/heatmap_pred/pavia
54. EdnStuff posts a few interesting pie charts on holder concentration in Bitcoin, Cardano, Algorand, and Ethereum. https://twitter.com/EdnStuff/status/1570997096496627716
55. Do you want to see what a slap to the face of the SEC looks like? Here’s CFTC Commissioner Caroline D. Pham touring Ripple labs. https://twitter.com/CarolineDPham/status/1571911498619813890
56. Maladex says the surprise coming on the 28th is not the platform launch but something big. https://twitter.com/CardanoMaladex/status/1572002320808030211
57. Carda Station will be conducting a mint of three different types of vehicles that will be usable in their metaverse on Sep 25th. They have also unveiled their new website. https://discord.com/channels/908827661504237599/909005782790586379 https://www.cardastation.com/
58. Apparently there’s a thing called NMKR Games and they’re making a Web 3 MMORPG called Rogue Galaxies. https://www.nmkr.io/blog/rogue-galaxies
59. Colorado decided to let people pay their taxes in crypto via Paypal. Wyoming points out that it’s way more crypto to not even have state personal or business income tax. https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1572237017169403904
60. Virtua’s land plot mint will go live today (Sep 21) for 12 hours at 4pm UTC. https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1572260495377170435
61. Researchers including Dionysis Zindros propose a superlight client operating on proofs of proof-of-stake that will work in Cardano, Algorand, or Ethereum. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.08673.pdf https://twitter.com/dionyziz/status/1572068211465519108
62. Notable Cardano technical commentators have a discussion about the maximum number of outputs that are possible in a single Cardano transaction and the numbers are very impressive indeed. https://twitter.com/eternlwallet/status/1572234973012271105
63. Tim Harrison says we are now at 73% exchange readiness by liquidity for Vasil. https://twitter.com/timbharrison/status/1572286867143524353
64. It looks like we have an update on the Ethiopia project. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1573429932524462082
65. Alessandro reports he now has Lucid running entirely in JavaScript with no dependencies on the Haskell libraries. This is a huge step forward for our attack on the Ocean. Thank you from everyone, Alessandro! https://twitter.com/berry_ales/status/1573984225468059648
66. Here’s another great article from Cardanians on how Cardano protects itself from the equivalent of a 51% attack. https://cexplorer.io/article/how-cardano-protects-itself-from-51-attack
67. The terrible Ethereum proof-of-stake architecture was on full display on Friday as something like 20 validators apparently got slashed. https://twitter.com/terencechain/status/1573314347128201216 https://twitter.com/rom1_pellerin/status/1573729284941815809
68. It looks like rumors are afoot that BMW will announce the use of Cardano for proof-of-registration. Maybe partially confirmed by BMW in a now deleted tweet that was previously saved via screenshot. https://twitter.com/seenwasad/status/1574144652902555652
69. Charles dropped a video on how Cardano evolves into a Members Based Organization that is polyglot in terms of having multiple clients developed by different groups. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1574399808970035200
70. We now have the Virtua land claim schedule. It will happen over five days starting on September 30 5pm UTC. https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1573387976503169025
71. It looks like Pavia is going to give us a roadmap update this week! https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1574457288445906945
72. Indigo says it will make five proposals to the Indigo DAO as temperature checks over the next five weeks that will lay the groundwork for their launch. https://twitter.com/Indigo_protocol/status/1574402485703544835 https://indigoprotocol1.medium.com/the-indigo-dao-kickstart-campaign-3060a3c11dd9
73. The new MuesliSwap website is live as part of their move to MuesliSwap 2.0. Soon we will see the v2 liquidity pools and yield farming. https://twitter.com/MuesliSwapTeam/status/1573242054343536640
74. We also have some more detail on the Cardano Island map now. https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1574530159499268112
75. Plutus 2.0 is now live! Plutus 2.0 is now live! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1574879048698044416
76. There’s trouble in Catalyst land with a project getting gigantic funding on a proposal that some find surprising. The “Daedalus Turbo” project seems to be at the eye of the storm with even Charles making a video on it. https://twitter.com/CardanoMaladex/status/1574806140667318272 https://twitter.com/ravanave/status/1574887977284771847
77. The Big Maladex Announcement is going down today (September 28) at 9pm CET! https://twitter.com/CardanoMaladex/status/1574806140667318272
78. Cardano turned five years old today (September 27). https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1574830244044967961
79. FutureFest has an event happening on September 29th opening at 7pm Eastern. https://twitter.com/futurefestxr/status/1574534528193863680
80. Watch Charles straight destroy Ryan Selkis’s weak questions in this on-stage interview at Messari’s Mainnet conference. https://youtu.be/nJXoZhk_xA0
81. Adam Dean is releasing GateKeeper which is an open source tool to prove ownership of Cardano native assets at IRL events. Looks like a great way to manage Cardano event tickets. https://twitter.com/adamKDean/status/1574936617319510016
82. The CTFTC has served process on the entirety of a DAO. If someone doesn’t respond in the next 20 days or so, the CFTC may win default judgment against the DAO. This may affect how people perceive the “DAO as regulatory shield” concept. https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8590-22 https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1574903583132327951 https://github.com/LeXpunK-Army/Crypto-CaseLaw/tree/main/bZx%20DAO%20Case
83. Maladex has arrived and it has been rebranded as AXO. AXO’s programmable swaps are a whole different level in trading platform mechanics. You haven’t seen this before. https://www.axo.trade
84. REACH is giving us a sneak peek at their metaverse lands which go on sale for condo owners on September 30th. https://twitter.com/ReachMetaverse/status/1575303742324445189
85. Virtua drops a video on how to grab a parcel in the land claim event in the coming days. https://youtu.be/vmK9JjbSDJE
86. Virtua has released a more detailed schedule for the land claim event. https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1575545948389879808
87. It looks like MuesliSwap is experiencing a 10x space savings at half the cost on transactions since Vasil. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1575506087390105603
88. The Reach Land Event for Condo Owners starts tomorrow at 10am EST. https://twitter.com/ReachMetaverse/status/1575519744475779072
89. EUTXO.org v2 will show us the crazy “transactions per transactions” capabilities of Cardano. https://twitter.com/oravecpeter/status/1575253289473609741
90. Looks like the Emurgo Cardano Pool Party in Singapore for Token2049 went off well. https://www.instagram.com/stories/emurgo_io/2938040734586369927/
91. Don’t forget that FutureFest’s Yummi Island event will be continuing today (Sept. 30). https://twitter.com/YummiUniverse/status/1574534283213131776
92. Virtua released a new Cardano Island Map Guide. https://youtu.be/YvXrl5-C1b8
93. Looks like Ardana has open sourced all of its repositories. https://twitter.com/astroboysoup/status/1576358599994982400
94. Looks like Spy Village in Virtua’s Cardano Island is shaping up nicely with lots of plots already claimed. https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1576643408822927360
95. Shocker! Solana experienced another outage. Meanwhile, Cardano is running smoothly like usual. https://twitter.com/SolanaStatus/status/1576010340248084481
96. The rest of crypto is noticing the giant reduction in Cardano transaction fees and blockspace used in the post-Vasil era. https://twitter.com/michaelwrub/status/1576587335613157377
97. Summon Platform will enable fee-less voting on Cardano this month. https://twitter.com/Welikethetrees/status/157660277653610905

~Army of Spies