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:

• Bitcoin broke $50,000 making market cap over $1tn & Ether $2000
• Microstrategy bond offering 
• Coinbase valuation of $303/share ​
• Coinbase waitlist for Eth2 staking ​
• 3,125,826 ETH currently staked​
• Kraken Ethereum 2.0 staking​
• Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a plan on Monday for the first hard fork of the new Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain, tentatively named HF1.​
• BNY Mellon launched enterprise Digital Asset ​
• KPMG LLP has launched KPMG Chain Fusion​
• Uniswap has now processed over $100bn in volume​
• Pancakeswap
• ​Pancakeswap DeFi trading volumes​
• Over $100m in NFT sales during last 30 days​
• NFT Yearly Report​
• Christie's to auction NFT token by artist Beeple​
• Crypto Market Cap ​
• Assets Locked in DeFi