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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

SEC could decide on VanEck’s Bitcoin ETF applications this week

Bitcoin closed last week higher by +3.16%, closing right above the top line of the bull-flag formation that we had highlighted last week. So far into this week, we have seen positive continuation to the upside, and a lot of this could be stemming from continued activity in the bitcoin ETF space.

The bitcoin ETF world has been incredibly active since the first-ever application. Last week there were two noticeable events.

First, the SEC issued a notice requesting comments on GBTC’s application to become a spot ETF and list on the NYSE. The request for comments does not mean that the fund will get approved, but it is a step in the right direction. The SEC has started the clock and will now have to make a decision on the Grayscale Bitcoin ETF application. The approval would come, potentially, on December 24th this year. It could be an exciting holiday season!

For further context on the pending spot bitcoin ETF applications, the SEC has also issued requests for comments for the VanEck spot bitcoin ETF application. The request for comments for the VanEck application was issued in June of this year, and the fund could hear a decision this week (November 14th).

An application for a futures-based short bitcoin ETF was also withdrawn by Direxion last week - signalling that the SEC maintains its conservative stance on more exotic bitcoin ETFs for now. It looks as though the next milestone will be the spot bitcoin ETF.

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Bitcoin will flip Silver when it reaches $74,000.

Silver’s market cap is $1.35T which Bitcoin will surpass when it reaches $$74,000 and achieves a market cap of $1.36T. This could happen any day now.

Silver is seen as one of the most legitimate assets by the majority of the world. It has been valuable since the dawn of civilization and Bitcoin could very soon replace it as the #7 most valuable asset in the world by market cap.

I think this will be a very significant event that will bring even more attention to Bitcoin and crypto.

What do you think will happen when Bitcoin flips Silver?

BIDEN 5G MICROWAVE

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Jack removed my entire Twitter body of evidence victim witness statement proof of life in July 2021 in this nightmare evil upon my family. Jack and elon musk are huge in bitcoin funding/owning for sextrade and darkweb evils like phishingscams against US homeowners for buying darkweb fraud home titles and having home violence invasion wars on us to steal our high equity homes for their personal gains. As well these evil wealthy liars are faking diseases with 5G of cancer, fibromialgia, cystic fibrosis, thyroid disease, adhd, ptsd, dyslexia. Sickening to listen to this old croney lying to all for money harms by that greedy bastard! God will see him shamed. 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Staking Capital Gains Tax when moving bitcoin for the first time to staking platform.

Hi, I have quite an interesting tax question, haven't seen it answered anywhere I've been reading up for a whole month!

say I have had bitcoin since the beginning, and have a cost basis of 0 and have never made a CGT event.

I don't want to realize the gain for capital gains, but I still want to make money from it via staking, and use the "miscellaneous" income to live off of, is the original bitcoin collateral taxable under CGT ? Or has a CGT event not been created? And I can just mark whatever I earn from the APY as Misc income/ CGT event when transferring to GBP stable coins?

So a TL;DR

I want to stake bitcoin

I have a cost/acquisition basis of 0, and the current price is 67,000

I want to make money from staking, with the original coins and not trigger a CGT event on the original coins

Thanks!

Monday, November 8, 2021

Busan NFT Conference, Proving Personalized IPFS Content Management and NFT Token Issuance

NFT BUSAN ‘2021:Busan, the NFT Port of Asia’, held from 4th of November to 6th of November, 2021, is an event hosted by Busan Metropolitan City. As this event is hosted by local governments of the country, it is known as an event that shows national interest in blockchain and NFT. This conference is Korea’s first B2B and B2C integration event, which is an event to raise public awareness for mid-sized companies, and start-ups that are conducting NFT-related businesses, conferences, NFT writers, physical exhibitions, 1:1 meetups, and experience zones.

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An official from Busan City said, “It was planned with the Busan Blockchain Industry Association, which was launched last month to specialize in the blockchain industry, and it is korea’s largest blockchain industry event in the NFT (non-fungible token) field held for the first time this year. About 50 related companies will participate in the event and it will be a meaningful event to share the latest technologies and trends in the industry.” In addition, the Mayor of Busan Park Hyung-joon said, “This event will be an opportunity to experience the latest technologies and trends in the industry and solidify the role of Busan as a leading blockchain city through the participation of a large number of related companies.” In addition, he said, “I hope that it will become an opportunity for the popularization of blockchain technology and the nurturing of related industries, and we hope to receive a lot of interest from related industries.”

CenterPrime, a company participating in NFT BUSAN, presented the development direction and technology of the NFT market under the theme of ‘Proving Personalized IPFS content management and NFT token issuance’.

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The full text of the presentation is as follows:

“Good day. I am Hendrik Park from CenterPrime.

Today I am here to talk about the direction of the NFT industries.

Starting with the difference between FT and NFT, I would like to point about the direction in which the marketplaces’ technologies and where the NFT industry should aim and develop.

Currently, most of the tokens traded on the exchange are in the form of FT (Fungible tokens).In the case of FT, each token has the same intrinsic value.Therefore, the total final value of FT tokens is determined by the sum of the quantities.For instance, 5 Bitcoins are worth 5 times more than 1 Bitcoin.

However, NFT is different from the coin or token forms we know in the past.Since NFTs have different characteristics for each token, there is no difference in value by the amount of tokens.

However, NFTs are evaluated according to the value of the content to which they are connected to. The value of the NFT associated with the content increases depending on the value of content such as the process of creating an NFT, creator, environment, potential, et cetra.

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Therefore, it is important to prove and store the ownership of the content, and it is connected to the smart contract to prove the ownership of the account, thereby determining the actual ownership of the NFT.

Current reality is that most NFT marketplaces are only focusing on the commission incomes generated by trading NFTs. In addition, artists and creators can create NFTs through smart contracts provided by the NFT marketplace for their art works. Once NFTs are created, they can be stored by artists and creators. In this case, who owns the actual contents? It’s the NFT Marketplace.

As I mentioned earlier, ownership is proven through archiving and attesting content. The NFT Marketplace has a smart contract that can prove this ownership. In other words, most of the current NFT marketplaces are focusing on fees from transactions, rather than providing actual smart contracts that artists and creators can own individually.

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I would like to state three categories in order to improve the problems mentioned earlier and to set the direction for the development of the industry, regarding NFT technology.

First, is the NFT marketplace interlocked with personalized NFTs?

OpenSea, the global №1 NFT trading platform, is a platform that allows private NFT issuance and sales. However, in the case of other existing trading platforms, the issuance and sale of NFTs is possible only within the relevant platform.In order to solve the problems that can hinder the growth of the NFT industry described above, it is necessary to trade NFTs issued through individual smart contracts on the NFT trading platform.

In addition, individual smart contracts must be connected to IPFS to contain contents.

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Like OpenSea, The Aniverse NFT Marketplace, jointly developed by CenterPrime and Aniverse, allows individuals to register and sell NFTs through their own smart contracts.

Also it’s possible to import smart contracts from other NFT trading platforms.

All of these processes can be checked through a single smart contract NFT work jointly uploaded to OpenSea and Aniverse NFT.

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Second is the importance of personalised IPFS settings.

Linking personal contents to metadata in the NFT, and uploading that contents to IPFS.

IPFS is a system that can verify, prove, and locate an individual’s content based on CID information.

Like a wallet that can be searched and transacted through each unique address, the CID associated with IPFS provides strong evidence of the original content, even for smart contracts created by individuals.

However, so far, there are many barriers for individuals to directly create smart contracts that are connected with IPFS.

VIW, a domestic project that can solve this problem, provides a simple user interface that allows individuals to directly create smart contracts connected to IPFS.

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The third is the verified content NFT.

Let me tell you one situation.

What if you have NFTs based on the same content that are traded within one marketplace or across multiple marketplaces, and those NFTs have different prices?

In this case, the reliability of the content and copyright issues will break out.

In addition, this affects the creation desires of artists and creators negatively, which will hinder growth of the NFT industry in the long term.

To solve these problems and develop a healthy NFT market, verified NFTs and verified contents are required.

The original content should be uploaded and stored in IPFS, and the NFT issued by IPFS connected smart contract must be combined with the validator NFT to be commercialized.

Currently, CenterPrime is researching a derivative NFT technology that comes out when a specific NFT meets a verification NFT among the functions of the ERC1155 smart contract.

Which means derived NFTs are traded on the marketplace.

Since it is an NFT that has been verified for copyright and reliability, P2P and individual-to-individual transactions are also possible without going through the marketplace.

It is expected that this will be a system that reflects the free trade intention of buyers and sellers, buyers and artists, which is the principle of the free market economy.

We are striving to become a leader in the development of cross-chain bridges that support network selection, issuance of FT and NFT, support accessibility and sharing of blockchain networks for users, developers, companies, and institutions.

Thank you.”

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Through this event, CenterPrime is being evaluated for suggesting solutions to the obstacles of development for the NFT industry and technologies.

In addition, it was expected that the cross-chain bridge technology which builds a free and reliable ecosystem that CenterPrime has been developing will become one of the major technologies in the NFT industry market.

CenterPrime will provide a reliable and free blockchain environment for free ecosystem participants such as between individuals and individuals, between companies and companies, companies between institutions.

In addition, it will provide individual IPFS and smart contracts that can support the reliability of FT and NFT.

About ANIVERSE

ANIVERSE is a ‘content theme park platform’ that combines real IP business and blockchain technology to lower the high entry barrier of current IP business. The ANIVERSE Foundation has started its own IP contents business with Larva’s exclusive partnership.With 150global IP business partners in 25 countries and potential customers in 196 countries, ANIVERSE wants to build a global service platform that allows corporations and individuals to conduct their global IP business safely and without restrictions.ANIVERSE NFT is one of the global platform services that achieve the goal of ANIVERSE.We are aiming to grow as a trading platform for revitalizing content within Aniverse and content that contributes to the growth of the industry, and will provide an easy user interface for the NFT trading environment.

About CenterPrime

The CenterPrime project uses a hyperledger private chain to share an open banking API to apps, connecting centralized finance to decentralized finance. Also making smart pairing data for loan, remittance, exchange, payment, and exchange rate information possible to be included in fintech oracle networks.

Cardano Rumor Rundown November 9, 2021

Hey Everyone!

Let's go...

Newly covered today:

World Mobile just dropped a great video documenting the IOHK/World Mobile/Zanzibar visit. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1457800436501467136
It looks like Zimbabwe is looking into crypto adoption! https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1457703228192301058
Apparently, there’s a new partnership between COTI and the Cardano Foundation. Sounds like we’ll hear details on November 10. https://twitter.com/shahafbg/status/1457665945963532294
Spacebudz.io has announced that it has an ad running on the Nasdaq screen in Times Square right now (November 8-14). https://twitter.com/budzdegen/status/1457706024778014720
The IOHK Haskell course in Ghana will include 80 students! https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/05/empowering-a-new-generation-of-innovators-in-ghana/
A new Cardano NFT store has sprung up mentioning smart contract support and royalties for creators. https://twitter.com/jpgstoreNFT/status/1457548567032184832
Terra Virtua is saying we’ll have our Cardano Summit 2021 NFTs by November 10th. https://twitter.com/TerraVirtuaHQ/status/1457800095101976578

Previously Covered but still interesting:

DIGI tweets out a great infographic explaining how Hydra layer two solution works. https://twitter.com/DIGI_StakePool/status/1440322046869737482
Senators Lummis & Sinema are planning to introduce a bill for responsible innovation in crypto. Caitlin Long says it will focus on (1) definitions to clarify regulatory jurisdiction, (2) consumer protection, (3) digital asset custody requirements https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1440327869293465600
The Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics has been established at Carnegie Mellon. Given the blockchain activity at the university it seems like the Cardano founder having ties there can’t really hurt us. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1440443081183019017
dcSpark is launching a new wallet called Flint that will be able to interact with Cardano dApps. https://youtu.be/dDwuwVR75HU https://twitter.com/SebastienGllmt/status/1440659191731945482
There’s a fresh blog and video on the Cardano Smart Contract Certification standards and new Plutus dApp Store. https://twitter.com/timbharrison/status/1440799199684022283
Apparently RuntimeVerification is now in the Cardano audit business! This is awesome to see! We’’ll take some NASA mission-critical level auditing for our ecosystem’s projects. https://twitter.com/SundaeSwap/status/1441077920215310343
dcSpark’s new open source project Fracada will allow you to fractionalize NFTs. https://twitter.com/dcspark_io/status/1441043274911866880
dcSpark has released Fracada which is an open source Plutus dApp for fractionalizing NFTs. https://twitter.com/SebastienGllmt/status/1443011920349462533
The Wall Street Journal runs a Cardano 101 type video on their main youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBKnEZYCkTo
Senator Toomey and SEC Chair Powell have an interesting exchange about how a US CBDC should be formulated and how it should be sharing the space with private cryptos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-46kqEn6JLc
As promised at the Cardano Summit, Emurgo has already made seed investments into Milkomeda from dcSpark, Adanian Labs, & ADAverse. https://twitter.com/emurgo_io/status/1442210147405684745
The ecosystem map continues getting bigger and bigger (Sept 29). https://twitter.com/seal_kiman/status/1441418051237425153/photo/1
dcSpark has dropped a new video explaining Fracada and the future of NFTs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FvKUlh7Fs8&t=4s
The CFTC hits Kraken with a $1.25 Million fine for it’s margin products. Cardano DeFi projects planning to offer some kind of margin trading take note. https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8433-21
In late 2008/early 2009 it turns out Hal Finney was learning Haskell and trying to figure out how to reduce C02 emissions from a (future) widely used Bitcoin. That sounds a lot like Cardano. https://twitter.com/seal_kiman/status/1443593563846193155
Adam Dean gives us a great post-mortem on the network load created yesterday by the NFT drop(s). https://twitter.com/adamKDean/status/1443599818845081600
Wow! It’s looking like Meld has landed a partnership with a mobile provider in Nigeria with nine million customers. Not many details out at this point (Sept 30). But, that certainly sounds like it could be gigantic. https://twitter.com/MELD_labs/status/1443548879966949382
Two factor authentication via SMS once again turns out to be a bad bet. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/hackers-rob-thousands-coinbase-customers-sms-mfa-flaw
Grayscale releases a report on Cardano which shocks many due to its (actually) fair reporting. https://twitter.com/Grayscale/status/1443625454146097152 https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1443786596721967104
The Wall Street Journal has dropped a video on stablecoins. A lot of the video surrounds the Tether dollar reserve controversy. It’s notable that Cardano’s Djed solves this. https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-seeks-to-regulate-stablecoin-issuers-as-banks-11633103156
The Biden Administration has announced they are investigating the prospect of regulating stablecoin providers like banks. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/stablecoin-regulation-cryptocurrency-banks-biden-treasury-bitcoin-circle-tether-binance-2021-10
Cardano users on twitter piece together that Charles was talking about visiting u/Pezesha_Africa (in regard to microfinance) in Kenya. This is big because Pezesha operates in countries with a combined population of over $300MM. https://twitter.com/thr33strikes/status/1444898320070086659
Crypto twitter users try to depict US Whitehouse comments out of context to fuel an economic doom narrative. However, if you listen to the whole press briefing, you will understand that these comments were based on a “what if” scenario involving the US debt ceiling somehow not being raised. https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1445059673401528328
The so-called “Pandora Papers” reveal globally widespread cases of wealth concealment by public officials and bring up the question of whether blockchains like Cardano should take this into account when dealing with nation-state regimes as partners. https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/
Remember! There is no mobile Daedalus wallet. There is no browser extension version of Daedalus. These are fakes! They will steal your ADA. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1445380773096398853
The “Zombie Lobster” collaboration between Charles Hoskinson and Paul Oakenfold is actually getting coverage by the EDM media outlets! https://edm.com/news/paul-oakenfold-album-cardano-blockchain
dcSpark releases some mockups from the experimental version of its upcoming Flint Wallet. The mockups seem to indicate that the wallet will allow for dApp interaction from hardware wallets. https://twitter.com/FlintWallet/status/1444902727956508674
Charles is interviewed in the Harvard International Review. https://hir.harvard.edu/charles-hoskinson-1/
The Biden Administration has revealed that it is considering an executive order to establish a government wide approach to crypto regulation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-08/white-house-weighs-wide-ranging-push-for-crypto-oversight
The New York Times is now talking about the difficult balancing act the Fed has before it with high inflation and less than promising jobs data creating conflicting priorities. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/business/economy/fed-jobs-full-employment-inflation.html
Representative Tom Emmer clashes with SEC Head Gensler over the direction of crypto regulation. However, it’s unclear how much Rep. Emmer’s solution (his Securities Clarity Act bill) would solve the problem given that it only relieves issuers of securities regulation burdens after they have already complied with the “registration or exemption” hurdle. https://twitter.com/RepTomEmmer/status/1445465912375590913 https://emmer.house.gov/2021/7/emmer-introduces-legislation-to-provide-certainty-for-digital-assets-under-securities-law
Caitlin Long revisits the articles she wrote years ago about fears of circulation credit in crypto markets. Spoiler: it came and crypto did it to itself. https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1446874905241210880
COTI is a licensed payment institution in Singapore. This could get very interesting given their status as the issuer of Djed and the ongoing Monetary Authority of Singapore Blockchain Challenge in which Cardano is a finalist. https://cotinetwork.medium.com/coti-lists-as-a-payment-institution-in-singapore-666c6fcaaab4
Goldman says Evergrande is nothing compared to the potential $8.2 Trillion problem with local government financing vehicles in China. https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampesek/2021/09/30/goldman-flags-82-trillion-threat-worse-than-china-evergrande/?sh=3296c9d515cc https://www.wsj.com/articles/beyond-evergrande-chinas-property-market-faces-a-5-trillion-reckoning-11633882048
Cardano isn’t wrong about Africa. It’s just first. Google is investing $1 Billion in African internet access over the next five years. https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/06/google-confirms-1b-investment-into-africa-including-subsea-cable-for-faster-internet/ https://twitter.com/ghostchainer/status/1445964578257395714
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce (cryptomom) delivers an opinion piece that investors should be allowed to make their own decisions without SEC paternalism. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/11/perspectives/sec-commissioner-investors-regulators/index.html
COTI has another AMA that reveals there may be more news soon for Djed. https://twitter.com/theCOTIinvestor/status/1447546724868935684
Heads up: scammers are posing as Yoroi support staff! https://twitter.com/YoroiWallet/status/1446554949782016009
Catalyst Fund 6 has 711 projects on the ballot! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1448015757216976903
Coinbase is launching an NFT market. How will this impact the CNFT scene? Coinbase tells us: “...initial launch will support Ethereum based ERC-721 and ERC-1155 standards with multi-chain support planned soon after.” https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-nft-is-coming-soon-join-the-waitlist-today-for-early-access-cc7bac29fd72 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/12/coinbase-is-launching-a-marketplace-for-nfts.html
Eric Rosengren (who recently left the Boston Fed) let’s us know that the Fed/MIT CBDC project is pretty far along and will release a working paper soon. This would obviously be impactful for all of crypto and for Cardano. https://youtu.be/ivqFo9C2Jdo?t=409
The first project that actually looks like it may one day be a virtual world launches on Cardano and it already has a community built parcel explorer. https://pavia.luiscarlos.pt/
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce (cryptomom) gave a polite but scathing speech at the Texas Blockchain Summit where she laid bare all the problems with the SEC’s current approach to crypto. After her recent opinion piece and this speech, it’s fair to say that she and SEC Chairman Gensler are in open war over crypto. How this gets resolved will determine the regulatory landscape for Cardano and all of crypto going forward. Sadly, Gensler is in charge and not vice versa. https://twitter.com/HesterPeirce/status/1448011388841037830 https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/peirce-2021-10-08
The Fed may begin tapering it’s Treasury and mortgage backed securities purchases in mid November. This is relevant for the whole economy including crypto. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/13/federal-reserve-releases-minutes-from-its-september-policy-meeting.html
Sounds like the Milkomeda sidechain is making good progress. https://twitter.com/NicoArqueros/status/1448447729689059332
Apparently, Putin kind of accepts that crypto might choose to exist. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-14/putin-defends-cryptocurrencies-amid-global-regulation-push
Don’t forget: today (Oct 15) is the October Mid-Month Development Update! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1448715241961963520
Sounds like Binance was not allowing ADA withdrawals for some period of time. https://twitter.com/Katsumoto87/status/1449723293632634882
The Cardano Africa Tour has commenced with Charles popping up in South Africa. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1449304264849993731
We got a nice Triple H update from Harrison/Hemsley/Hammond joined by Jan Müller in the October mid-Month Dev Update. We learned that we’ll have a maintenance upgrade toward the end of October and then PAB a few weeks later. This is extremely important since it will finally allow for the last bits of dApp buildout. The PAB is already available on the tesnet. The test dApp the team is using is an NFT marketplace. The team is watching as we see high loads around events like NFT drops. But, the network is reacting as expected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzdTyV5Jejc
Here’s video of the Fireside chat with Charles, Dynal Patel, and John O’Connor at the Cape Innovation & Technology Initiative in South Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmuJFc5Qrr4&t
A brief update dropped from Charles this morning in Africa. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1450124410095030280
Duncan & Sebastien have an interesting discussion on Github that fuels Cardanophobia on the part of ETH maximalists about three weeks later. https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/issues/3247
The Cardano Foundation is changing its delegation strategy. They will go from primarily delegating to promote decentralization to a new framework focused on delegating to promote ecosystem buildout. https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-foundations-new-delegation-methodology-supporting-the-architects-of-the-future/79594
Shahaf Bar-Geffen gives us some more details about the Djed launch. He says IOHK is doing the coding and COTI is doing the business side. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlPmIgJ0tE0
In the Cap Innovation & Technology Initiative Fireside Q&A, Charles mentioned he is talking to Colossol Labs about the possibility of having the Mammoth DeExtinction Project take place on his bison ranch. There are probably some obvious NFT or tokenization use cases there. https://colossal.com/mammoth/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmuJFc5Qrr4
Three U.S. Senators ask Facebook to discontinue its Novi crypto wallet which just launched. https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735171/facebook-novi-diem-libra-calibra-cryptocurrency-digital-wallet-zuckerberg-senate https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/19/facebook-scales-back-its-crypto-ambitions-once-again/
There’s a new Frederik Gregaard interview out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJdRAclhL0Q
People are buying luxury real estate in Portugal with Cardano. https://twitter.com/danny_cryptofay/status/1451113239669092356
Over 292,000 votes were cast in Catalyst Fund 6. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1451269575140589577
IOHK announces a partnership with Bondly to create an NFT bridge so that users can move their non-fungible tokens back and forth between Cardano and Ethereum. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1451251954496180229
Interesting small thread on how further stumbles by the Chinese economy could affect the global economy which in turn might impact crypto and Cardano. https://twitter.com/i/events/1452290004433125378
Here’s a very nice overview of the Maladex Whitepaper by ADA Whale that breaks down the hidden strengths of eUTxO for DeFi including programmable swaps composability. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1451835809913470986
The Cardano ecosystem maps are getting so big and dense that they can’t even display logos for the projects anymore. https://twitter.com/Meapool1/status/1450576470133379072/photo/1
There is a report that unstaked ADA is at an all time low of under 8MM ADA. https://twitter.com/IbanxStaking/status/1451944344294883331
Check out this medium article explaining the validator underlying the Spacebudz Market. It’s very elegantly and concisely explained if you have no Haskell/Plutus understanding. It’s even more interesting if you have a tiny bit of understanding of Haskell. https://spacebudz.medium.com/spacebudz-market-71e79d1bbf34
Atala Prism named a top 50 Most Influential Project by PMI. https://twitter.com/IOHKMedia/status/1452544441005248514
Pavia Game Jam is coming. It sounds like they are looking to hire some Unity (game engine) developers and 3D artists. This produce interesting results in a few years. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1451596816659763213
Charles is releasing some images of meetings with heads of state on his Africa tour. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1452671287977971726 https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1452672734580838409/photo/2
There is currently ongoing discussion about the possibility of unexpected tax liability from participation in even Fair Initial Stake Pool Offerings where there are accompanying Initial Dex Offerings. There is even discussion about the potential of exploits that could amplify this unexpected tax liability for all participants. https://twitter.com/mikerogero/status/1452502065381404675 https://medium.com/@mikerogero/tax-implications-of-the-minswap-ido-on-fiso-delegators-and-the-cardano-community-4db219ea8932
We now have a memorandum of understanding with Burundi! https://twitter.com/jjtoconnor/status/1453087264461017092
Fans of certain other Gen 3 blockchains are still getting hilariously worked up when they are confronted with the Messari chart on massive VC ownership of their blockchains. https://twitter.com/TamaraHaasen/status/1452924338047496193
The new IOG stake pool delegations are out. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1453041459477819398
Cardano Fans is putting out some really good pieces posed as “Conversations with a Junior Blockchain Developer”. Very educational on the technical advantages of Cardano over other Gen 3 blockchains. https://twitter.com/matiwinnetou/status/1452911202913464328
ETH based platforms are still not faring well at NOT losing the money of users. https://twitter.com/Swag_Stakepool/status/1453392923672915968
dcSpark is making progress on the Milkomeda sidechain. ADA transitions from Cardano testnet to Milkomeda testnet now working. https://twitter.com/Milkomeda_com/status/1453421947157716992
The stark differences between being a validator on ETH and a Cardano validator are once again put on full display. https://twitter.com/evan_van_ness/status/1453133337334272000
There’s a new Djed explainer video out now from IOHK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Ozaf_aGNM&t=1s
Cardano 360 October Edition is now out and available! https://youtu.be/R0s3lPG8XDw
The crypto time traveler is back after many months of being gone (i.e. purportedly being in the future). His first prediction after returning was about big news and a crown which was later revealed to concern the health of the Queen. His second prediction was about Cardano and gigantic success. https://twitter.com/CryptoTimeTrav2/status/1452827679300849670
Charles was at the Ethiopian Ministry of Education today. He reports that the onboarding of the five million students is on track. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1453697314187534343
The Ministry of Finance of Ethiopia has posted pics of the Cardano team meeting with them! This is an interesting turn of events. The ministry posted about a “readiness to incorporate avant-garde technology in areas of #Agri Tech, logistics, and digitization”. https://twitter.com/MoF_Ethiopia/status/1453717850766540808
There is a new IOHK blog entry on Mithril. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/29/mithril-a-stronger-and-lighter-blockchain-for-better-efficiency/
You might have missed this IOHK blog entry on how dApp certification will be incorporated into the new light wallet (I know I did). https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/25/new-certification-levels-for-smart-contracts-on-cardano/
The Cardano dApp Store is looking like it’s going to be amazing. Curation & certification without gatekeeping is a great solution to preserve decentralization and maintain censorship resistance. https://summit.cardano.org/sessions/redefining-dapp-discovery-bringing-dapps-to-the-mass-market
There’s also a new update on Crypto Bisons! https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/28/buffalo-soldiers-march-to-the-heart-of-the-blockchain/
Charles released a new AMA from Ethiopia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5au7JEPMaM
The U.S. President’s Working Group on Financial markets has published its Stablecoin Report. No surprise: they want to regulate stablecoin issuers as insured depository institutions with federal supervisors and to curtail their affiliation with commercial entities. They also want to curtail such affiliations for custodial wallet providers. https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/StableCoinReport_Nov1_508.pdf
It turns out there are some big chain reorg vulnerabilities in ETH 2.0. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.10086.pdf But, maybe ETH has already got fixes planned? https://twitter.com/casparschwa/status/1450785316865024000
A partnership among World Mobile, IOHK, and Zanzibar has been announced! It’s a five year plan that focuses on education, eGov solutions, the Blue Economy (sustainable fisheries), replicating the Blue Economy model in tourism | agriculture | & telecommunications. https://worldmobile.io/blog/post/partnering-with-zanzibar-blockchain-hub/
Alessandro has a great idea (multi-sig) to improve NFT drops over his original model that is now used by pretty much everybody! This would help mitigate the hassle of refunds and reduce some congestion. https://twitter.com/berry_ales/status/1455473647934742530
It feels crazy that we have over 2 million Cardano wallets out there these days. Our small ecosystem has become a gigantic one. https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/3136c55b-635e-4f46-8e4b-b8ab54f2d460/page/k5r9B
The Plutus Application Backend integration process has begun! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1455905122802864138
Pavia has revealed proposals for parcel size in their metaverse. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1455915006395101188
Mark Stopka takes everyone to school on how “pool extractable value” can still be a thing in Cardano if dApp Developers don’t plan for designs that prevent it. https://youtu.be/0VloKsDjW70
Nami Wallet will soon support hardware wallets! https://twitter.com/NamiWallet/status/1456375916918083588
SundaeSwap has unveiled its own concurrency solution. https://twitter.com/SundaeSwap/status/1456338509870952450
A University of Virginia School of Law lecturer outlines a crypto related “hidden felony” in the Infrastructure Bill. https://www.decential.io/features/defi-and-the-digital-asset-felony-hidden-in-the-infrastructure-bill
IOG drops it’s Sustainability Report. https://static.iohk.io/green-blockchain-paper.pdf
We get a view of what can actually be built on a Pavia single Parcel and news that the Pavia Map v.2 will launch soon with wallet linking and custom images. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1456667167680831491 https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1456523907280822273
The Plutus Application Backend (PAB) Beta has been released! Developers of Cardano dApps can now begin experimenting on the testnet! This is a big milestone! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1456683592726233097
Apparently Cardano’s transaction volume just last month in October was double all of 2020!?! https://twitter.com/CardanoStiftung/status/1456730746861748224
Looks like Cardano (at least the logo) made the cover of the Economist?!?! https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1457327848285376513
We just saw an instance of Yoroi wallet dApp Connector integration! https://twitter.com/SundaeSwap/status/1457396024822075409
We saw an all time high of +61k native assets issued on Cardano in one day recently! https://twitter.com/thinkgrowcrypto/status/1457130708300824576

~Army of Spies