Welcome to this week's episode of This Week in Blockchain! 

Each week your host, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, will provide a rundown of the major events that took place in the blockchain industry that are relevant to business during the past week.

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Links to items discussed:

• Coinbase has done its S1 filing in preparation for its IPO
• Square bought $170m more Bitcoin
• MicroStrategy bought another $1bn of Bitcoin​
• Tether and Bitfinex have had to pay a fine of $18.5m to the New York Attorney General​
• Bosch announces work with Fetch.ai​
• HSBC has started running their R3 infrastructure on Google Cloud​
• Baseledger being launched by Provide and Unibright​
• EIP-1559
• EIP-1559 - Sparkpool​
• Optimism network's funding by VC Andreessen Horowitz of $25m last November becoming public
• Ethereum Optimism
• The Defiant's report comparing BSC and Ethereum
• ​1inch protocol expanded their platform to support BSC​
• Cardano announces its Bable Fees​​
• Christie's to auction NFT token by artist Beeple
• Beeple 's Crossroads on Nifty Gateway
• NBA Top Shots "Moments" have generated over $205 million
• Damien Hirst is accepting Bitcoin and Ether for a set of cherry blossom prints​
• Crypto Market Cap ​
• Assets Locked in DeFi