This Week in Blockchain

Each week your host, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, provides a rundown of the major events from the blockchain industry.  We cover #crypto​, #enterprise​,#DeFi and #NFTs​.

• Watch this podcast here
• Discuss this podcast on Clubhouse weekly at 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT

Links to items discussed:

• Crypto price highs
• Crypto Climate Accord
• Ethereum researchers
• Japan's central bank
• Sacramento Kings
• Grayscale  
• MicroStrategy
• Meitu
• Coinbase
• Revolut
• Crypto Council for Innovation
• Miami
• Signal 
• NEAR Protocol 
• Tether 
• ForceDAO attacks
• Shopify
• Compound
• Balancer
• Gucci
• NFT ‘Shark Tank’
• Sotheby's
• Christie's
• KIWIE NFTs
• Crypto Market Cap

Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, provides a rundown of the major events in the blockchain industry from the past week.  #crypto​, #enterprise​, #DeFI​, #NFTs​.

• Watch this podcast here
• Discuss this podcast on Clubhouse weekly at 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT

Links:

• Visa allows USDC payments on Ethereum
• PayPal's crypto checkout service
• Ether's ATH
• UK tax new crypto guidance
• Crypto M&A doubled in 2020
• CME expands Bitcoin offering
• Goldman Sachs close to offering Bitcoin
• Block production on Cardano now fully decentralized
• Cosmos investors vote to approve IBC
• DeFi wallet links straight to bank account
• $11B in ‘fake’ Uniswap volume
• ConsenSys launches NFT art protocol
• Mark Cuban sees NFT ticketing as mass-market disruptor
• Charles Hoskinson’s plans for Cardano
• Dapper Labs raises $305M funding
• SuperRare raises $9M in Series A funding
• Enjin raises $19M to build Polkadot-based blockchain for NFTs
• OpenSea to add Ethereum layer 2 protocol 
• Crypto Market Cap ​
• Assets Locked in DeFi 
• NFT volumes

Each week, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, provides a rundown of the major events from the blockchain industry during the past week. 

• Watch this podcast here
• Discuss this podcast on Clubhouse weekly at 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT

Links to items discussed:

• Uniswap details for v3
• Coinbase delays direct stock listing 
• Elon Musk says Tesla now accepts bitcoin
• Microsoft polling Xbox users
• Indian companies to disclose crypto holdings
• BitClout launch 
• Eth2 team Lighthouse produce Eth1 & Eth2 merge transaction
• Optimism network delays launch 
• Ethereum developer sues CasperLabs
• EY launches cryptocurrency tax calculator
• Danish Red Cross launches volcano disaster relief bond
• Microsoft announces completion of ION V1
• BSC hit by TurtleDex exit scam
• Brave to integrate BSC DeFi wallet
• TIME magazine NFTs and CFO hunt
• Jack Dorsey’s first NFT tweet sold 
• Justin Sun paid $6m for Beeple NFT
• Crypto.com launch a NFT platform
• John Cleese creates NFT
• Third Millennia & Mattereum launch crypto-tech anti-counterfeit venture
• Crypto Market Cap ​
• Assets Locked in DeFi 
• NFT volumes

 Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs,  provides a rundown of the major events from the blockchain industry during the past week. 

• Watch this podcast here
• Discuss this podcast on Clubhouse weekly at 13:00 EST / 17:00 GMT

Links:

• Visa to add Bitcoin payment 
• Volumes of crypto trading in South Korea have overtaken regular trading
• Grayscale Investments launches 5 new investment trusts
• Morgan Stanley to offer access to Bitcoin funds
• J.P. Morgan is exploring Bitcoin & crypto clearinghouse options
• Coinbase files revised S1 form 
• Kraken exchange to go public next year 
• Fiat New 500 car owners earn KiriCoins
• Meitu buys more Bitcoin and Ether
• Signal is now accepting crypto donations
• Cardano added to Bloomberg Terminal & Coinbase Pro
• Miners protest against EIP 1559
• PancakeSwap & Cream Finance hit with domain attacks
• SushiSwap launches on Avalanche
• OpenSea raised series A of $23m
• NFTs may not be as decentralised as thought 
• 8 carbon negative NFTs being released
• DC Comics interested in NFT market
• Tony Hawk’s “final” 540-degree ollie NFT to be sold
• Charmin releases NFT(P)
• Crypto Market Cap ​
• Assets Locked in DeFi 
• NFT volumes

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

• Watch this podcast here
• Discuss this podcast on Clubhouse weekly at 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT

Links to items discussed:

• NFT by the artist Beeple has sold for over $69m USD
• https://youtu.be/rT13eQOf6ho?t=1764 
• JP Morgan to launch a Crypto Exposure Basket
• Microsoft makes progress towards decentralized digital ID
• Meitu announces purchase of $40 million of BTC and ETH
• Ethereum miners bypass NVIDIA's hash limits
• MakerDAO announces Optimism Dai Bridge with Fast Withdrawals
• Vitalik Buterin discusses a 100x scaling solution for Ethereum
• Keep Protocol and NuCypher propose an on-chain merger on Ethereum
• https://twitter.com/NuCypher/status/1368948125277118471
• UNI becomes first DeFi DApp token in crypto’s top 10
• SushiSwap overtakes Uniswap in assets locked in DeFi
• Degenerative launches a token to track WallStreetBets
•  Big Data Protocol has launched
• Actor Lindsay Lohan is getting involved in NFTs 
• Taco Bell NFTs sell out in minutes
• https://rarible.com/tacobell
• Jack Dorsey to donate proceeds from NFT sale to the charity Give Directly
• ArtStation rethinks NFT crypto art push
• Crypto Market Cap ​
• Assets Locked in DeFi 
• NFT volumes

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.

• Watch this podcast here
• Discuss this podcast on Clubhouse weekly at 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT

Links:

• 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

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.

• Watch this podcast here
• Discuss this podcast on Clubhouse weekly at 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT

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 

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.

• Watch this podcast here
• Discuss this podcast on Clubhouse weekly at 12:00 EST / 17:00 GM

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 

Welcome to the first episode of This Week in Blockchain! 

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

• Watch this podcast here
• Discuss this podcast on Clubhouse weekly at 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT

Links to items discussed:

• Tesla’s submission to the SEC notifying them of their Bitcoin purchase
• Ethereum Futures on CME
• R3's Conclave
• Microsoft’s enclave framework
• Oasis Labs data privacy network
• Mastercard's crypto announcement
• Metamask Wallet
• NBA Topshot
• Crypto Market Cap
• Assets Locked in DeFi