Tuesday, 9th August 2022

The Daily Spin. Soon to launch “Coinweb’s Fortnight Spin” to our entire distribution list and begin the first release of monthly updates with our round-up of curated news and opinions (likely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed of the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics…don’t miss our “On The Radar” section that includes both on-chain and off-chain events, some world news and a thought leadership section to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…

Ongoings at Coinweb

Monthly Coinweb Fireside Chat Meetup will be on the 16th of August.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1124800338390598/

The Lightpaper summary video with 3D animations has been released! Check it out and don’t forget to watch it all in one go (8mins), smash that like and subscribe bell! Drop a comment and say hi!!
https://youtu.be/Vj5itrRAgQA

​

On the Radar

Cardano Vasil Hard Fork (still delayed)
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/07/31/cardanos-vasil-hard-fork-delayed-for-several-more-weeks-as-ada-sees-green-week/

Korea Blockchain Week, Aug 7 (Seoul)
Blockchain Futurist Conference, Aug 9 (Toronto)

Toby Gilbert on-stage Aug 12 @
Play-2-Earn Expo Asia, Aug 10-13 (Bangkok)
https://coinweb.io/events/play-2-earn-expo-asia-10-13th-august-2022/

Ethereum Goerli Merge, Aug 11
https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/BkxQTpqpi9

Coinweb Fireside Chat: The Bear Has Awoken, Aug 16 (Bangkok)

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

​

On the Block (chain)

65% of BTC’s circulating supply has not moved in the past year
https://cryptoslate.com/65-of-bitcoins-circulating-supply-didnt-move-in-the-past-year/

38 days of the lowest gas fees on ETH since 2020
https://news.bitcoin.com/for-38-consecutive-days-ethereum-gas-fees-record-the-lowest-rates-since-2020/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Cryptocurrency ATMs Worldwide Passes 39,000
https://news.bitcoin.com/the-number-of-cryptocurrency-atms-installed-worldwide-surpasses-39000/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Blackrock and Coinbase deal could trigger massive Bitcoin pump
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/08/blackrock-and-coinbase-deal-could-trigger-bitcoin-burst-to-773000-according-to-investanswers/

​

Competitive Landscape

Chainlink Confirms They Will Only Support the Main ETH Chain After Merge
https://newscryptocoins.com/2022/08/08/chainlink-confirms-that-they-will-only-support-the-main-ethereum-chain-after-the-merge-this-means-most-defi-apps-will-be-completely-broken-on-any-fork-chains-ethereum/

Biggest Threats to "The Merge"
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-biggest-threat-to-the-merge-lite?r=1ivajd&utm_medium=ios

Celsius backs out on hiring former CFO
https://cryptoslate.com/celsius-backtracks-on-rehiring-former-cfo/

​

World

Turkey’s Inflation Rate at 79.6% Highest in 24 Years
https://news.bitcoin.com/latest-turkey-inflation-rate-of-79-6-the-highest-in-24-years-weakening-lira-and-russia-ukraine-war-blamed/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

3 Bills introduced in the US to make CTFC the primary regulator of crypto spot markets
https://news.bitcoin.com/3-bills-introduced-in-us-to-make-cftc-primary-regulator-of-crypto-spot-markets/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Nayib Bukele attributes tourism recovery in El Salvador to BTC, Surf, and Crime Reduction
https://news.bitcoin.com/nayib-bukele-attributes-tourism-recovery-in-el-salvador-to-bitcoin-surf-and-crime-reduction/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Nepal prepares to issue digital currency, drafts necessary amendments
https://news.bitcoin.com/nepal-prepares-to-issue-digital-currency-drafts-necessary-amendments/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Kazakhstan gang arrested for forcing IT specialists to run crypto farms
https://news.bitcoin.com/police-in-kazakhstan-arrest-gang-forcing-it-specialists-to-run-crypto-farms/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

Inflation Reduction Act Passes Senate, $430bn Climate and Healthcare Bill Does Too
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/08/07/inflation-reduction-act-passes-senate-approves-430-billion-climate-and-healthcare-bill/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2314553&sh=724870d44a59

​

Thought Leadership

Mark Cuban says, “Cardano Not There Yet”
https://cryptoslate.com/mark-cuban-says-cardano-not-there-yet/

Jim Rogers warns that governments want to control crypto and regulate everything
https://news.bitcoin.com/renowned-investor-jim-rogers-warns-governments-want-to-control-crypto-they-want-to-regulate-everything/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications

​

https://preview.redd.it/4l59w6whdmg91.png?width=742&format=png&auto=webp&s=f31aec89869023901bbbd97a66fbf69218846168

The Master Plan - A New World Order - Part 2

Maybe its because of my recent near death experience and any subsequent brain damage I may have incurred but I now see a world manifesting where we have an opportunity to right a great many wrongs, I see a world where renewable energy is the norm and utilities, at least for personal use, are free, I see a borderless world, I see a mostly if not completely demilitarised world, I see a world where individuals are free to pursue their passions without fear of going hungry or without shelter. I know you're probably saying these things seem absurdly out of reach, and you know what, under the current power structures, they are. This is exactly why we need a singular world order, a singular global government, built around OUR greatest weapon, the mighty internet. Where resources and ideas are much more freely shared. If the aim is carbon reduction then a global carbon tax IS the answer, tax loopholes must be closed entirely, because frankly, they’re bullshit, despite what any of the politicians of today say. With a bit of luck (more likely a good kick) they will skulk back to whence they came (assuming WE don't arrest them for their crimes against humanity) and they may soon be considered nothing more than relics of the past and mistakes made.

I believe looping to be an important stepping stone in this process. It doesn't suffer from the same issue as Bitcoin and Ethereum where new supply is constantly being created, as this constant new supply allows them to be manipulated easier, particularly if an entity controls the miners and in turn the incoming supply. On the contrary loopring has a fixed quantity and a burn feature that reduces the total in circulation, only adding to its scarcity over time, combine all of this with the fact that Gamestop might as well be Midas himself in this story then you have a recipe for price explosion to the likes of which you have never seen, and as it is both blockchain and decentralised, it lies beyond the reach of those that seek to maintain the status quo as it is simply not their system to control, but OURS! I remember reading somewhere about not trying to change something from within as ultimately it is futile and will be in vain but instead to create a new system that makes the old system obsolete, they have already done this for us, we need only realise it and abandon the system of old entirely. Rest assured this is nothing less than our eras battle for democracy and truth itself.

We really do have an opportunity here to transcend the ways of times past and forge a substantially better world than the one we are to inherit. I'm generally a pretty hardy man but since my... 'incident' lets call it, I've had this unwavering clarity that this possible future is not just possible, but inevitable. The thought of it has reduced me to tears on more than one occasion, even now as I write this I shed a tear, not of sorrow, but of joy. The world demands this change, and it shall be delivered…

If you think about it, loopring is nothing more than the natural conclusion of the 'FrEe MaRkEt'. Take a moment and ask yourself, why does anyone buy anything on the stock market? There are more elaborate answers but the short one is that they believe the price will go up relative to the currency/commodity they are spending, if they thought otherwise they would sell, it really is as simple as that.

So what do you think happens when we the people actually seize control of the price? Well it has been said there will be fireworks, this only goes one way, up. Each man or woman or anything in-between hopping off or on respectively, creating maybe only momentary pauses in its ascension, simultaneously delivering much needed money to those jumping off and allowing others to do the same with those left at the end owning an asset that is either insanely priced or simply unattainable, and that my illusive internet friends, is power itself. Fuck you its mine, like food food in an apocolypse, it simply cannot be bartered for. We could well be about to witness the first ever non-violent handover of power that we as a species have ever known. Who knows, maybe this is us passing through one of our great filtration events, the universe judging our worthiness. Time will tell.

The risk? Everything we have. The reward? Everything.

At this point my faith is so shattered in the soon to be legacy system I actually have my doubts as to whether our favourite stock will ever blow like it is due. Think about it, the DTCC basically has a digitized book entry system, essentially nothing more than a glorified excel spreadsheet that THEY all agree on, and centralised exchanges are but an extension of this. They showed their true colours at the beginning of last year where they let the stock run but when they realised they couldn't shake the frenzy without bankrupting them all they called it off and proceeded to spend the last year and a half crying market manipulation against US! The God damn gall! This is where I believe our favourite token comes in, I see this as a way of unequivocally morally bankrupting them, proving beyond shadow of a doubt that those in power are no longer worthy of wielding it. Such a moral bankruptcy as this may only be carried out by us as individuals, no group or collective, with no instructions or commands, for that would defeat the ultimate purpose of decentralising power. We did the work, we followed the breadcrumbs, they led us here.

I see the creation of the Gamestop coin as both a security and a security measure, I would wager it is to be allocated to those that bought Gamestop shares but didn't direct register and Gamestop believe that the current system will leave them high and dry so they made provisions for those that will be affected, allowing them to decide their own value, naturally, on the blockchain market come its introduction, powered by none other than loopring…

Part 3 incoming.

"Year-to-date through July 31, 2022, produced 2,038 bitcoin"

"Year-to-date through July 31, 2022, produced 2,038 bitcoin"

As of June 30, Mara had mined 1,965 BTC. Does that mean that in July it only mine 73 BTC?!?!?!?

https://ir.marathondh.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1292/marathon-digital-holdings-reports-second-quarter-2022

Thunderpick Bitcoin Series - Final Stages Schedule

Take a peek at the final stages that will be played out for Thunderpick Bitcoin Series. I remind you that the event has a 2 BTC prize pool, and we are after the Main Stage! We still have 2 teams that will be invited to the tournament! The schedule for the final stages is as you can see below, and as always you can watch on twitch.tv/beyondthesummit

And remember to check our coverage of the event on Thunderpick.com

​

FINAL STAGE 

G1 - August 16th 14:00 EDT (11:00 PDT) – Hokori vs Wildcard Gaming
G2 - August 16th 17:00 EDT (14:00 PDT) – nouns vs Wolf Team
G3 - August 16th 20:00 EDT (17:00 PDT) – Alpha vs Team DogChamp

G4 - August 17th 14:00 EDT (11:00 PDT) – Mad Kings vs The Cut
G5 - August 17th 17:00 EDT (14:00 PDT) – Winner G1 vs Winner G2
G6 - August 17th 20:00 EDT (17:00 PDT) – Winner G3 vs Winner G4

G7 - August 18th 17:00 EDT (14:00 PDT) – Winner G5 vs Invited Team
G8 - August 18th 20:00 EDT (17:00 PDT) – Winner G6 vs Invited Team

UPPER BRACKET FINAL

G10 - August 19th 20:00 EDT (17:00 PDT) – TBA vs TBA

LOWER BRACKET FINAL

G11 - August 20th 16:00 EDT (13:00 PDT) – TBA vs TBA

GRAND FINAL

G12 - August 20th 19:30 EDT (16:30 PDT) – TBA vs TBA

​

Follow us on Social Media:

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thunderpickco

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thunderpickco/

Twitter https://twitter.com/thunderpickco

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/Thunderpick

Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/thunderpicktv

Cardano Rumor Rundown Aug 8, 2022

Hey Everyone!

Let's go...

Newly covered today:

1. Pavia has announced the details of the ReadyPlayerMe Pavia merch drop that will be going down August 11. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1555544548302065664?s=20&t=E-okJGjy9zmToCXopZJSdA
2. Apparently the team behind MuesliSwap is called OpenSwap Technologies and they are planning to pursue atomic swaps on Cardano instead of bridges. https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/422081
3. SobizR sums up the difference between Cardano & ETH decentralization very succinctly. https://twitter.com/sobizR/status/1514407359585550338
4. In the continuing timeline of things I never thought could happen a few years ago, here’s Champ Medici (an NFT enthusiast & Snoop’s Son) posting about hanging with Charles on the ranch. https://twitter.com/champmedici/status/1556361872231866374
5. If you think that large ETH maximalist accounts understand the advantages to Cardano’s liquid staking, read this thread and you will change your mind. This 67k follower Twitter account holder literally can’t comprehend that there is no slashing in Cardano. https://twitter.com/hosseeb/status/1555789509148688385 https://twitter.com/Hou0uinKy0uma/status/1556377627048529923
6. Meanwhile, ETH slashing events are happening frequently. https://twitter.com/StakeWithPride/status/1556427023894994944 https://twitter.com/StakeWithPride/status/1555307962511478784 https://twitter.com/TheBlock__/status/1357299464797646849

Previously Covered but still interesting:

1. Allen Wu makes some great points about the differences between Cardano’s Ouroboros proof-of-stake protocol and Ethereum proof-of-stake. https://twitter.com/AllenWu29331265/status/1543865378816036864
2. One possible solution to the Spacebudz art problem is a token migration. https://twitter.com/CardanoNoodz/status/1544326010266591233
3. The crypto space is slowly realizing that Cardano has a huge and powerful community. https://twitter.com/dunleavy89/status/1544302686736203783
4. Duncan Coutts talks input endorsers, P2P, and Vasil with CityAM. https://www.cityam.com/1895737-2/
5. It turns out that even some crypto veterans appointing themselves as “Bitcoin Experts” don’t actually understand crypto. https://twitter.com/jimmysong/status/1543364278014582787 https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/1006931658338177024 https://twitter.com/adrian_brink/status/1543469963679305729 https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1544064073075023872
6. We now have some Artifct Moon updates in discord. https://discord.com/channels/882364185244237884/920120911414300773
7. We’re seeing (possibly deliberate) misinformation out of maximalists of other chains regarding the Vasil Upgrade. The false claim is that current Cardano smart contracts will not be compatible with Vasil. https://twitter.com/timbharrison/status/1544608886073745408
8. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the first four winners of its contest to find quantum resistant algorithms. This is a great step forward that will benefit the crypto space as we move toward an era of quantum computing. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1544680510781362177
9. Voyager has filed for a Chapter 11 Restructure reportedly due to 3AC exposure. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/06/crypto-firm-voyager-digital-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection.html https://twitter.com/Ehrls15/status/1544550249519357952
10. Pavia now has a youtube tutorial on how to use their builder tool. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1544695990434889728
11. There are reports (could be either true or false) that WingRiders may have actually been paid a bounty to reveal the MinSwap vulnerability. https://twitter.com/xyconst/status/1544730222985183233 https://twitter.com/Dubbleu_43/status/1544735751677661184 https://twitter.com/CardanosInsider/status/1544701097360740360
12. Charles is back! Weekly AMAs to resume shortly starting with an episode from Mongolia. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1544801324205633536
13. John Woods is leaving for Algorand. Apparently, he was just filling in for Duncan Coutts while Duncan was on paternity leave. John’s new position should open up opportunities for Cardano to work with Algorand in the future. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1545104714139705346 https://twitter.com/JohnAlanWoods/status/1545060330467799040
14. The Virtua Cardano Island mint began today. There was some confusion because the NFT policy does not appear to be locked. Virtua is saying that’s only for the land deeds which will be used in a land claim event to claim your actual parcel which will come from a locked policy. https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1545125051955138560
15. Looks like Kevin Hart is partnering with Virtua. https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1546035980964175872?t=fX59ZL2nRxChi80OOf9pfQ&s=19
16. Here’s a dev report of 10x reduction in script size with the script references that will come with Vasil. https://twitter.com/AncientKraken/status/1545864034083225600
17. There is a very cool new blockchain visualizer for Cardano. https://eutxo.org/ https://twitter.com/conraddit/status/1546221160211283969
18. It looks like the Carda Station racing game is actually live inside their metaverse. https://www.cardastation.com/play/?x=60&y=23
19. Wingriders ads take on a decidedly different tone. https://twitter.com/wingriderscom/status/1546162936187703298
20. It looks like Pavia is getting closer and closer to shipping the new website and new map user interface. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1546444771325104128
21. Revuto was covered by Cointelegraph regarding their lifetime subscription model for services like Netflix and Spotify. However, there seems to be no mention of the relevant blockchain in the article (Cardano). https://cointelegraph.com/news/croatian-web3-startup-offers-lifetime-netflix-and-spotify-membership-via-nfts
22. Cardano is destroying the competition in terms of YoY growth in on-chain volume according to a new report from Kraken (see p. 5). https://kraken.docsend.com/view/ta9gkuzsp3kssmf6 https://twitter.com/SubcriticalTV/status/1546608709580750852
23. Virtua dropped a Twitter Space AMA today. https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1545468098337284097
24. It sounds like ADA Realm is inching closer to a fungible coin drop. https://twitter.com/AdaRealm/status/1546859792547069952
25. MuesliSwap v2. https://twitter.com/MuesliSwapTeam/status/1546846207716331526 https://twitter.com/MuesliSwapTeam/status/1546924255241289735
26. It sounds like people who minted on Day 1 or Day 2 of Cardano Island will be getting free avatars and free cars. https://discord.com/channels/684117774171373705/987286409771622410
27. Dewayne Cameron seems to be hinting that it won’t be long now for Liqwid. https://twitter.com/DCdoso/status/1546863953904631810 https://twitter.com/DCdoso/status/1546868449275674625
28. Seven million merchants can now accept Cardano through ADA Pay. https://watcher.guru/news/over-7-million-merchants-can-accept-cardano-using-ada-pays-new-plug-in
29. Cardano is still at the top of the github commit charts. https://twitter.com/ProofofGitHub/status/1546920508977041408
30. MuesliSwap is launching its own NFTs that will boost yield farming. https://medium.com/@muesliswap/hungry-cows-by-muesliswap-nfts-to-boost-your-farming-apr-3fbe4b7a4eed
31. Jimmy Song is back at it with the confused analysis of proof-of-stake. Now even a pixelated dog can ratio him. https://twitter.com/jimmysong/status/1546969248068673537
32. The US CPI inflation number for June for all items was revealed at 9.1%, it’s highest since 1981. Energy and food are both higher at 41.6% and 10.4%, respectively. https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/asian-shares-bounce-markets-edge-030445470.ht
33. People are claiming to uncover mind-blowing squandering of funds by 3AC including absurd NFT purchases. https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/vy84rw/3ac_borrowed_millions_from_voyagerblockfi_user/ https://etherscan.io/tx/0x6cca8635f02eb5c14fa66722392a49ae45152bc40f39bef6741ea04054b8a857 https://twitter.com/ravanave/status/1547299512040964096
34. Layoffs have hit even the biggest players in the NFT world. OpenSea is apparently releasing 20% of its workforce. https://twitter.com/dfinzer/status/1547648521607659522
35. FutureFest is talking about creating a metaverse convention for Cardano. This might be a great way to include all the people in the ecosystem who can’t travel to the physical events. https://twitter.com/futurefestxr/status/1547656768724951043
36. IOHK Development Update coming this Friday! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1547633660907556871
37. Alessandro Konrad and Thomas Vellekoop are proposing a new metadata standard. https://twitter.com/berry_ales/status/1547592977186312195
38. DripDropz reports they have registered as a money services business with FinCen, will now do AML, and will institute staking. https://twitter.com/DripDropz_io/status/1547694112542822400 https://news.dripdropz.io/drip-staking-rewards-more-3a6b475225ae https://twitter.com/DripDropz_io/status/1547693683721457664
39. I’ll be in a Twitter Space with Yazan of Virtua at 4pm UTC on July 15! https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1547664729845514240
40. Day 1 of the MuesliSwap Hungry Cows mint went down on July 18 with a very smooth whitelist and random selection process. I hope more projects choose to employ a mint process that looks like this whether whitelisted or not. Not having to worry about your keyboarding speed and connection latency during the request phase was very refreshing. https://nft.muesliswap.com/ https://twitter.com/MuesliSwapTeam/status/1549101020239859713 https://twitter.com/JacobNdelaRosa/status/1549046830914478080
41. Ardana is hinting at long awaited announcements this week. https://twitter.com/ArdanaProject/status/1549031244104704000
42. The founder of Compound thinks all NFTs are Veblen goods. It’ll be interesting watching this play out in Cardano and elsewhere. https://twitter.com/rleshner/status/1548776604402421761 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
43. Time magazine is running a cover about how the metaverse will change everything. https://time.com/6197849/metaverse-future-matthew-ball/
44. The Virtua NFT claim for certain early minters will begin on Wednesday, 20 July at 4pm UTC and run for 24 hours. https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1549470446046908417
45. The MuesliSwap public mint will be going down on Wednesday, 20th of July, minting requests can be sent between 12 and 8 PM UTC. Minting starts after 8 PM UTC. Similar to the previous whitelist drop, this will be a fair request mint. https://medium.com/@muesliswap/phase-2-hungry-cows-by-muesliswap-public-mint-882c3c6451fa
46. Apparently, IOHK has joined the American Chamber of Commerce in Mongolia. https://twitter.com/AmChamMongolia/status/1549216741045293056
47. Looks like Dubai is planning to add 40,000 metaverse jobs over the next five years. https://twitter.com/Blockworks_/status/1549335302384353280
48. Virtua gave us a preview of the fancaves for large land plots. https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1549823956504530948
49. Today, Cardano users were discussing the functionality and implications of sending multiple transactions in one Cardano transaction. https://twitter.com/javifs96/status/1549732735828344833
50. Reports are coming in claiming this video shows tanks protecting a bank in China after the bank declared deposits not subject to withdrawal. Others argue this is just a night rehearsal for a parade. In either case, just another reminder about what the crypto space has always said about keys. https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1549808472618926082 https://twitter.com/CarlBMenger/status/1549790500516990979 https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/07/10/china/china-henan-bank-depositors-protest-mic-intl-hnk/index.html
51. Things are heating up between Congress and the SEC and it looks like certain members of Congress are actually on our side. https://twitter.com/RepTomEmmer/status/1549414157925195779
52. There is a new twitter account called Cardano Heroes tracking the movement of whales from multi-pool stake pool operators to single pool operators. https://twitter.com/ADAHeroes
53. Looks like CFTC Commissioner Caroline D. Pham is publicly opposing the SEC’s take on asset categorization in the Coinbase insider case. https://twitter.com/CarolineDPham/status/1550159347984044033
54. Coti has released a medium article on the Djed fee structure. https://twitter.com/COTInetwork/status/1550088008254251011
55. It looks like the MuesliSwap Hungry Cows mint was phenomenally successful. https://twitter.com/MuesliSwapTeam/status/1550085557732139008
56. Stake with Pride and Emin Gun Sirer remind everyone that staking in a blockchain with slashing is definitionally unsafe. https://twitter.com/StakeWithPride/status/1550152521275953152
57. Polina Vinogradova on babel fees. https://twitter.com/timbharrison/status/1550557249868816384
58. The 3AC Founders were interviewed by Bloomberg. https://twitter.com/PastryEth/status/1550521333691387905
59. Lyn Alden makes an interesting thread about crypto being a separation of “money and state”. https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1550960304472956930
60. Here’s an article from SundaeSwap covering the perspective of a dApp team preparing for the upcoming fork. https://sundaeswap-finance.medium.com/the-vasil-hard-fork-from-a-dapp-builders-perspective-9ee454758c16
61. Elizabeth Warren and five other members of the US Congress have asked the EPA to “require reporting of energy use and emissions from cryptominers.” https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2022.07.15%20Letter%20to%20EPA%20and%20DOE%20Re%20Cryptomining%20Environmental%20Impacts.pdf
62. FutureFest is already working on a plan to have actual humans working in Cardano Metaverses. https://twitter.com/futurefestxr/status/1551607701385318400
63. There is now a “blockchain-in-a-box” project for Java devs to create blockchain solutions that Ergo, IOG, and Hyperledger have been involved in. https://twitter.com/IOHKMedia/status/1551593026568523778 https://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/176881/blockchain-tool-will-allow-java-developers-build-blockchain-solutions
64. Apparently Solana is embracing its “open for business only sometimes” history with actual physical stores. https://twitter.com/Scott_eth/status/1551539635137953793
65. While Cardano’s eras are named after historically significant figures like Voltaire, Basho, Byron, & Shelley; the Ethereum roadmap labels are more like a parody of a reproductive health class. https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1551603545752870912
66. Is security the biggest challenge facing the mass adoption of Web 3? FYEO thinks so. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1551672421769519115
67. Plutus Core programs generated from Typescript are now a thing. https://twitter.com/MicheleHarmonic/status/1551261395295080449 https://www.typescriptlang.org/
68. SpaceBudz has laid out the path to migrate to new art. https://twitter.com/spacebudzNFT/status/1552042478085308418
69. Cardano 360 will be this Thursday (July 28). https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1551968626470690816
70. Kraken apparently forgot that doing business with Iran is a hot button issue for the US government. https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-crypto-exchange-kraken-suspected-violating-sanctions-nyt-2022-07-26/
71. Senators Toomey and Sinema think you shouldn’t have to pay taxes on crypto purchases or trades under $50. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3860821-us-senators-introduce-bill-that-would-end-taxes-on-small-crypto-transactions
72. For the first time in modern history, the Federal Reserve has executed back-to-back 75 basis point hikes. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/economy/fed-meeting-interest-rates-75-basis-points/index.html
73. Indigo reports that they are now feature complete! https://twitter.com/Indigo_protocol/status/1552268277438619648
74. We now have blockchain tracked clothes on Cardano. But, these shirts are expensive. https://twitter.com/OriginThread/status/1552280610923749384
75. You no longer have to dislike just Meta (Facebook) OR crypto VCs. You can now hate them both simultaneously in the form of their bastard children: Aptos & Sui. https://twitter.com/milesdeutscher/status/1552281885438488577
76. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis showed a -0.9% GDP growth print this morning (July 28). That’s two quarters in a row of negative growth which corresponds to a common definition of a recession although the National Bureau of Economic Research is considered the official arbiter of recessions and marks such events based on a wide range of economic factors analyzed over many months. https://www.bea.gov/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/economy/us-economy-second-quarter-gdp/index.html
77. The July Cardano 360 was released today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHHVaxkHFrE
78. The ADA Realm & Actum Games AMA recording is now available in discord. https://discord.com/channels/903957555083087892/913541370436808754
79. CardaStation just onboarded a game developer to their team who spent the last six years at Ubisoft working on games like Riders Republic and Ghost Recon. https://discord.com/channels/908827661504237599/909005782790586379
80. Here’s a mysterious post from Ready Player Me about some news coming from Pavia. https://twitter.com/readyplayerme/status/1552993598022508550
81. The Ledger Nano now supports 100 Cardano native tokens via Ledger Live. https://www.ledger.com/blog/ledger-expands-cardano-support-manage-100-native-tokens-with-ledger-live
82. SundaeSwap now has a monthly video development update. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc8ZCVCMcXM
83. There was a hack of the Nomad bridge for 150 million that affected several different Cardano projects and wrapped assets in Cardano. https://twitter.com/Oraclecharli3/status/1554266219787784192 https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1554252024723546112 https://twitter.com/IagonOfficial/status/1554258785690157056 https://twitter.com/GeroWallet/status/1554264725923381248 https://twitter.com/Milkomeda_com/status/1554302195763269632
84. Charles gave us a very concise summary of what’s going on with Vasil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na09S56FwuY
85. Never forget how many people told us not to worry about the “transitory inflation”. https://twitter.com/patrickbetdavid/status/1554086521468239872
86. As I write over 18k people have signed a petition asking for the removal of Gary Gensler. https://www.change.org/p/retail-investors-fire-gary-gensler-as-sec-chairman-for-obstruction-of-justice
87. Apparently there is a Swiss bank now offering Cardano staking to its customers. https://watcher.guru/news/cardano-staking-available-at-swiss-sygnum-bank-as-ada-moves-to-crush-ethereum https://twitter.com/sygnumofficial/status/1554349276985278464
88. WingRiders posts a thread on the impact of the Nomad bridge hack and how the team responded. The thread will be sure to cause some controversy. https://twitter.com/wingriderscom/status/1554370695919976448
89. As if the Robbery Forest wasn’t busy enough yesterday, there are late breaking reports from today (August 3rd) about some kind of exploit related to the Solana world. https://twitter.com/nftpeasant/status/1554612135992479751 https://twitter.com/SolportTom/status/1554609401369137152 https://twitter.com/magiceden/status/1554620084831674370
90. Charli3 may have some bad news for you if you bought their ERC-20 tokens on the cheap after the hack yesterday. https://oraclecharli3.medium.com/charli3-update-post-nomad-hack-a3cd576237a0
91. The giant gulf between the Cardano approach to smart contract standards and that of our competitors is highlighted amid the Nomad bridge exploit coverage. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1554648163532689408 https://twitter.com/sherlock_hodles/status/1554650723291381761
92. Southrye makes an interesting observation about what I would call one of the bigger differences between Solana and Cardano. https://twitter.com/Southrye/status/1554679752430161922
93. Looks like Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin bet isn’t playing out how MicroStrategy expected. He is no longer CEO. He is now only the Chairman. https://twitter.com/Mayhem4Markets/status/1554560424267366409 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michael-saylor-microstrategy-ceo-bitcoin-204325431.html
94. Here’s John Woods on the possibility of Algorand/Cardano collaboration. https://twitter.com/StakeWithPride/status/1555001121508249601
95. This article contains allegations that may cast a heavy shadow of doubt on the purported total value locked (“TVL”) of the Solana ecosystem. https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/04/master-of-anons-how-a-crypto-developer-faked-a-defi-ecosystem/
96. Pavia has unveiled the first look at one of the eight districts in the Pavia Plaza. This one appears to be Japan themed. https://youtu.be/4YCQPPo_O1U https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1555210549423644674
97. The former President of the New York Fed says a full blown recession is either already here or will be very soon. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/economy/recession-inflation-fed-dudley/index.html
98. BlackRock and Coinbase are now working together to bring crypto exposure to institutional clients. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/economy/recession-inflation-fed-dudley/index.html

~Army of Spies