This Week in Blockchain

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 #NFT industry during the past week. 

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Links to items discussed:

• Bored Ape Yacht Club expects to launch its own token in Q1 of 2022 
• Bored Ape Yacht Club creators just signed with a big media manager 
• A Polygon-Ethereum bridge is bringing Aavegotchi NFTs to Rarible 
• Coinbase announces NFT waitlist, following lead of rivals Binance and FTX 
• Coinbase Sees 1.4 Million Signups for New NFT Platform 
• Visa to Help Creators, Small Businesses Learn About NFTs and Crypto 
• ViacomCBS gets into NFTs via a partnership with NFT startup Recur 
• Flow integrates Filecoin storage services to make NFTs more decentralized 
• Sotheby's Dives Deeper Into NFTs With Ethereum 'Metaverse' Marketplace 

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:

• Circle faces investigation from SEC's Division of Enforcement
• Coinbase reports 6,000 accounts exploited
• Hong Kong explores technical aspects of a retail CBDC 
• Bitcoin's market cap is back above $1 trillion 
• MoneyGram looks to Stellar and USDC to enable local currency payouts 
• CoinSwitch Kuber raises $260M in new funding 
• AMC Theatres Launches Payments in Crypto via BitPay 

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 blockchain enterprise and protocols industries during the past week. 

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Links to items discussed:

• Dapper Labs acquires CGI influencer developer Brud 
• Celo hopes to invest stablecoin asset backing in rainforests 
• BNY Mellon using blockchain for trade finance 
• Looking to Work for a New DAO? There's a Discord Bot for That 
• Real estate investment firm taps Bison Trails
• Chainalysis acquires Excygent in fight against ransomware attacks 
• Ethereum-Based Blogging Platform Mirror Opens Up to Everyone 

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:

• Axie Infinity is launching a decentralized exchange 
• MetaMask pushes institutional offering with BitGo integration 
• Yearn Finance integrates with Fantom Network
• Sienna Network Launches Privacy-Centric DeFi Crypto Exchange 

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 NFT industry during the past week. 

• Watch this podcast here

Links to items discussed:

• NFT Trading Volume Hit $10.67 B in Q3, Up 700% From Q2
• Manifold Announces Verified NFT Studio
• Axie Infinity creator nets $152 million in Series B funding
• $25B toy brand to launch LOL Surprise NFT collectibles 
• NFT startup selling 'fantasy equity' shuts down a day into open beta testing 
• Chainalysis announces long term partnership with Dapper Labs 
• Flow Announces Its OpenSea-like Marketplace Called BloctoBay 

Each week, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, provides a rundown of events that took place in the blockchain industry during the past week. 
We cover #crypto​, #enterprise​, #DeFI​ and #NFTs​.

• Watch this podcast here

Links to items discussed:

• Binance + Singapore users
• Huobi + China user accounts 
• CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap now blocked in China 
• Coinbase paycheck deposits
• Facebook Metaverse
• Cardano invests in DeFi, NFT and blockchain education 
• Visa CBDC payments 
• Cardano DeFi stablecoin
• R3 DeFi Token 
• COMP bug
• XDEFI Wallet
• Gelato Network
• Andre Cronje NFT Marketplace
• '007' NFTs
• Atari Founder AR NFTs
• Eternal NFT marketplace
• NFL + Dapper Labs
• NFT Tree Planting Project
• 'The Sims' Creator NFT Game
• Ripple $250M fund
• Twitter NFT profile pictures 
• DC Comics Free NFTs 
• TikTok NFTs

Each week, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, provides a rundown of the  events that took place in the blockchain industry during the past week. 
We cover #crypto​, #enterprise​, #DeFI​ and #NFTs​.

• Watch this podcast here

Links to items discussed:

• China + crypto trading 
• US officials + Binance
• Coinbase crypto lending product
• Coinbase + Crypto Regulations
• FTX - Gibraltar + Bahamas 
• Genesis
• Twitter + BTC tipping
• The IRS + cross-chain tracing software 
• Homeland Security + Coinbase
• Blockdaemon
• Optimism
• DeSo
• Sommelier + Mysten Labs
• Smart contracts + BTC
• Cardano's dAppStore
• Portal
• Panther + Polygon
• 1inch + Arbitrum 
• Sorare
• Fortune NFTs
• Snoop Dogg - NFT Whale
• Dapper Labs
• TIME NFTs

 Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, provides a rundown of events that took place in the blockchain industry during the past week. 
We cover #crypto​, #enterprise​, #DeFI​ and #NFTs​.

• Watch this podcast here

Links to items discussed:

• Litecoin Walmart adoption hoax 
• Coinbase $1.5B private debt offering 
• Drone Racing League + Algorand 
• Colombia uses gamification to teach crypto & stock trading 
• Vitalik Buterin - Time's 100 Most Influential People List 
• AMC Theatres to accept ETH, LTC, BCH + Bitcoin
• EY + Polygon
• Ethereum Foundation + Spruce
• Apple Blocks Gnosis Safe From App Store
• Square + Open Invention Network 
• BlockApps ‘TraceCarbon’ 
• Revuto's $2M Fund R
• Solana blockchain transaction stoppage 
• Google + Dapper Labs
• $230M investment in Avalanche 
• dTrade raises $22.8M
• Tencent world heritage NFTs
• Immutable raises $60M
• Generative artist nets $5.38M
• Koii Network's Dynamic NFT standard 
• OpenSea Parts Ways With Executive

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. We cover #crypto​, #enterprise​, #DeFI​ and #NFTs​.

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Links to items discussed:

• El Salvador Officially Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender
• Panama + Crypto
• Ukraine + Crypto
• SEC + Coinbase
• VISA + Brazilian banks 
• NFL + Crypto
• Blockchain IoT Market
• Mastercard + CipherTrace 
• InterWork Alliance + GBBC 
• $1B in Ethereum L2 Scaling Solutions 
• Polygon + Mina Protocol 
• Eden raises $17.4M
• Cardano Smart Contracts
• Wanchain + Avalanche
• Algorand $300M Fund 
• FTX.US NFT Minting Platform
• Crypto's latest trend: Loot
• Lobby Lobsters NFT
• OpenSea bug
• Sotheby's Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Auction
• PancakeSwap NFT
• Aave founder sells 'Yield' NFT for $1.15M
• Solana's first million-dollar NFT sale 

Each week your host, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, provides a rundown of the major events that took place in the blockchain industry during the past week. 
We cover #crypto​, #enterprise​, #DeFI​ and #NFTs​.

• Watch this podcast here

Links to items discussed:

• Binance.US IPO within 3 Years
• Singapore Central Bank + Binance
• Binance + South Africa Regulator
• Twitter Bitcoin tips
• Solana 7th Largest Cryptocurrency 
• Syndicate Raises $20M
• KT Corp adopts blockchain
• China's new blockchain infrastructure
• Telefónica Tech
• Arbitrum launches mainnet
• Cardano Smart Contracts on Testnet
• SEC + Uniswap Labs 
• Cream Finance $18.8M flash loan attack 
• ​​Cream Finance, Polkadot + Moonbeam 
• Ethereum DeFi Projects Partner with Celo 
• DeFi Education Fund grants
• SushiSwap unveils Shoyu NFT platform 
• Fractionalized 'Doge' NFT worth over $225M
• Simone Biles NFT collection
• 1inch Network animated NFT series 
• Audius + Solana NFT integration