Welcome to This Week in Blockchain! 

Each week, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, provides 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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• Goldman Sachs to reopen crypto trading desk
• Jack Dorsey is selling a blockchain version of his first ever tweet
• Paypal have bold plans for their crypto
• Ripple chairman writes to US court requesting the SEC dismiss their lawsuit
• John McAfee charged with crypto fraud
• Argo have started paying their CEO in Bitcoin
• Ethereum on track to settle $1.6 trillion this quarter 
• General availability of Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain announced
• ING have published a paper on considerations for managing DLT nodes
• JP Morgan releases results of poll at Macro Quantitative Conference
• JP Morgan tested blockchain payments between satellites orbiting the earth
• Volkswagen announces partnership with Energy Web
• Meerkat DeFi project had $31 million drained on binance smart chain
• 3LAU NFT auction recorded of $11.6M in sales
• Kings of Leon to release a special NFT version of latest album
• DeFi/NFT hybrid Aavegotchi sell out in under one minute 
• Beeple’s EVERYDAYS currently at $3.5m with less then one week to go