This Week in Blockchain

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

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 #NFT industry during the past week. 

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Links to items discussed:

• NBA Top Shot Sales Up 128% After New Drop
• Rarible introduces zero-cost NFT minting feature 
• Animoca Brands Raises $65M 
• Crowned Bored Ape with trippy fur sells for record $2.7 million 
• 17% of addresses snapped up 80% of all Ethereum NFTs since April 
• NFT startup Candy Digital raises $100 million in Series A round 
• Tech Platform Behind Sotheby's NFT Metaverse Raises $20 Million 
• NFT Volumes

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

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 #DeFi industry during the past week. 

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Links to items discussed:

• USDC Added to Hedera Hashgraph as Enterprise-Minded Network Eyes DeFi 
• Arbitrum extends lead over Optimism as Uniswap posts record volume on L2 
• Polychain Capital Joins $32M Investment in DeFi Lending Protocol Element Finance 
• Zaki Manian's DeFi project Sommelier raises $23 million in new funding 
• Terra Blockchain is Set to Connect to the Cosmos Ecosystem 
• MDT announces data oracle for bridging capital market and DeFi
• Assets locked in DeFi

Welcome to this week's episode of This Week in Blockchain - Enterprise and Protocols!

Each week your host, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, will provide a rundown of the major events that took place in enterprise blockchain and protocols industries during the past week. 

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Links to items discussed:

• Fashion group OTB joins LVMH-led AURA Blockchain Consortium 
• Mexican medical firm embraces blockchain for COVID-19 test certificates 
• Cosmos is building a new blockchain called Sagan for experimentation 
• H&M Mitte Garden launches blockchain powered fashion rentals 
• Iota launches beta smart contracts to foster interoperability 
• Polkadot unveils $770M development fund ahead of parachain auctions 
• Jaguar Land Rover uses blockchain to track leather carbon footprint 
• Associated Press collabs with Chainlink to put its information on blockchain 
• Internxt pushes decentralized cloud as privacy concerns grow 

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

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 #crypto industry during the past week. 

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Links to items discussed:

• Crypto Market Cap Surges to Record $2.7T 
• Binance.US blames bitcoin flash crash to $8,200 on client algorithm
• Strike Expands Service to Allow US Users Receive Income Payment in Bitcoin 
• Coinbase announces multiyear sponsorship deal with NBA, WNBA 
• Facebook Turns to Coinbase, Paxos for Novi Crypto Wallet 
• Senate Democrats call on Facebook to halt Diem and Novi 
• Diem tells senators on the warpath over Novi: We're not actually Facebook 
• FTX raises $420 million in funding round backed by 69 investors 
• Sam Altman's Worldcoin wants to scan eyeballs in exchange for crypto 
• Crypto Market Cap

Welcome to this week's episode of This Week in Blockchain - Enterprise and Protocols!

Each week your host, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, will provide a rundown of the major events that took place in enterprise blockchain and protocols industries during the past week. 

• Watch this podcast here

Links to items discussed:

• Trafigura to use Circulor blockchain to track CO2 emissions 
• Indian TikTok competitor Chingari raises $19 million to develop a 'social token' 
• ConsenSys plans funding round at $3 billion valuation 
• Stacks Blows Up 57% After Bitcoin NFTs Take Off 
• Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic raises $60 million in Series C funding 
• R3 acquires tech for stablecoins, blockchain-based bank coins 
• Wanchain Launches First Crosschain Bridge with Link to Polkadot, Brings EVM Smart Contracts to DOT 
• Binance to launch $1B fund to develop BSC ecosystem 
• Polkadot to debut parachain auctions after governance vote 

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

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 #DeFi industry during the past week. 

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Links to items discussed:

• Rari Capital launches permissionless lending pools
• Crypto lending firm Celsius Network raises $400M 
• XDEFI Wallet, the Browser Wallet Built for DeFi, Announces its Public Release 
• Regulated Swiss bank SEBA to provide access to permissioned DeFi 
• Shell Protocol Jumps into 'Concentrated Liquidity' Just Like Uniswap and Curve 
• Decentralized finance is now a $200 billion industry 

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

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 #crypto industry during the past week. 

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Links to items discussed:

• Bitcoin hits $60K for the first time since April after reports of imminent ETF approval 
• Vitalik Buterin: El Salvador's Bitcoin Approach Is 'Contrary to the Ideals' of Crypto 
• Official: Google Pay adds support for Bakkt's virtual Visa crypto card 
• Coinbase unveils its Digital Asset Policy Proposal
• Charting platform TradingView raises $298 million at $3 billion valuation