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ROLLUP: 5th Week of December Dec 31, 2020

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ROLLUP: 5th Week of December

MARKET

BTC Price- Almost 29k!

ETH Price- Just hit 750!- 50% away from ATH price

Blow off tops coming??We are very far away from the 20 week MA!

TVL in DeFi- Up from 14B to 14.4B

DPI - Up from $108 to $117

2.2M ETH in ETH 2, $1.65B

Futures value Coinbase at $50Bhttps://ftx.com/trade/CBSE/USD

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RELEASES

1INCH token releasedhttps://1inch-exchange.medium.com/1inch-token-is-released-e69ad69cf3ee

Haseeb’s take on Stablecoins

https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/fighting-to-be-stable-the-evolution-of-stablecoins-aca81fb432f9

DeFi events of the year graphic

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/89271/here-are-some-of-the-biggest-defi-events-in-2020

Opyn V2https://medium.com/opyn/opyn-v2-is-live-11347240b46e

YAM rebasing DISABLED

https://twitter.com/YamFinance/status/1343966274095902720

YAM released Degenerative Finance on UMA

https://medium.com/yam-finance/degenerative-finance-ugas-explained-458bedbc2f17

- YAM acting as a good DAO!

Primitive is Live on Mainnethttps://primitivefinance.medium.com/primitive-is-live-on-mainnet-2261c5b098c5

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NEWS

New SEC Chairman appointed: Elad Roisman https://u.today/breaking-new-pro-crypto-sec-chairman-appointed “Known as one of the most crypto-friendly SEC commissioners. A vocal supporter!

The fact that Roisman is at the helm of the SEC also significantly boosts the chances of a Bitcoin-tied exchange-traded fund (ETF) being approved in the coming years.

Mnuchin wants onchain KYC for all ETH wallets that have stablecoins in themhttps://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1341864829171228676?s=20

Comment window period open on the FinCEN proposal to extend KYC to non-custodial walletshttps://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1341847200209530883?s=20

Etoro IPO rumorshttps://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-friendly-trading-firm-etoro-rumored-to-be-prepping-for-2021-ipo

Coinbase Delists XRPhttps://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1343685626001039360?s=20

Also Binance UShttps://twitter.com/binanceus/status/1344372892205608961?s=21

Also Bittrexhttps://twitter.com/BittrexExchange/status/1344056304617177089

Also trading deskshttps://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/89083/jump-trading-galaxy-xrp-market-making

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Cover Protocol Exploit

https://coverprotocol.medium.com/12-28-post-mortem-34c5f9f718d4

https://twitter.com/CoverProtocol/status/1343581331448586245

https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc2fd5094c1e108f83222a86bd46b35fc0da35616385d681964b22003643f982e ____

TAKES

Uniswap means you can't be delisted (sorry XRP)https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1343740028766347265?s=20

DChttps://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1344138701757153281?s=20

Can’t delist on Uniswaphttps://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1343740028766347265?s=20

Ethereum is the TAMhttps://twitter.com/panekkkk/status/1343269535919562753?s=20

Ethereum doesn’t marginalizehttps://twitter.com/evabeylin/status/1341793825962958848?s=20

Degens are funding Open Sourcehttps://www.coindesk.com/defi-degens-funding-next-wave-open-source

Ethereum is the last bastion for Yieldhttps://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1344378165414617088?s=20 ------Don't stop at the video!

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45 - Taking Ethereum Public | Ether Capital's CEO Brian Mosoff & CFO Stefan Coolican Dec 28, 2020

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45 - Taking Ethereum Public | Ether Capital's CEO Brian Mosoff & CFO Stefan Coolican

Ether Capital is a publically traded company out of Canada, and Ether Capital's job is to get ETH on the balance sheet.

The company is centered around ETH the asset and Ethereum the ecosystem, and offers a bridge for investors to be able to access exposure to the Ethereum ecosystem via public markets.

We dive into the background and context of the company, as well as how the company structure gives them a competitive advantage.

Ether Capital is the first public company to stake ETH, and has big plans for the world of ETH staking.

These guys are on the frontlines of getting investor awareness about the opportunity that ETH and Ethereum offers, and has been sharpening their ability to explain why the opportunity is so compelling.

Resources:

Ether Capital Newsletter and Ether Capital Podcast - https://www.ethcap.co/blog-media
- Their podcast is great 101-202 level content!
- Perfect to share with your financially minded, crypto-novice friends!
Ether--the birth of the digital bond, written by Stefan https://bankless.substack.com/p/ether-the-birth-of-the-digital-bond
Ether Capital Staking on ETH 2
- https://www.ethcap.co/pr20201201
Ether Capitals presentation on ETH
- https://ethcap-co.s3.amazonaws.com/Docs/2020.11.30+-+ETHC+Presentation.pdf

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ROLLUP: 4th Week of December Dec 25, 2020

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Bankless Citizen Spotlight!

This guy: https://twitter.com/Acrobat_Crypto/status/1339964187007721474?s=20

MARKET What’s the Market saying?

BTC Price - Up 21% in the last 7 days - High consolidation between $23k and $24K - Bitcoin dominance doing really well: 70% MicroStrategy finished their $650M purchase of 29,646 BTC https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1341013230534225920?s=21

ETH Price - Up just 3% in the last 7 days

TVL in DeFi From $16.5B to $14B

DPI down from $115 to $108 2+M ETH in ETH2 Staking

DeFi Pulse has a new page “Bitcoin at Work” Announcement: https://defipulse.com/blog/introducing-bitcoin-at-work/ Page: https://defipulse.com/btc

A chart not often seen, Grayscale Revenue: https://twitter.com/mhonkasalo/status/1339486866236686336?s=20

XRP getting DUMPED after SEC report Bitwise dumped $9.3M. Will Grayscale have to do something? https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/status/1341764298763350017?s=20

RELEASES

The Graph Network now live https://thegraph.com/

Tornado.Cash Governance Token has been retroactively airdropped https://tornado-cash.medium.com/tornado-cash-governance-proposal-a55c5c7d0703

Compound Chain announced CASH new stablecoin? https://twitter.com/compoundfinance/status/1339660221359124481

$3M Raised by Union to bring Credit to DeFi Announcement: https://medium.com/union-finance/union-has-raised-3m-to-bring-credit-to-ethereum-6cc1b5f40776

Perpetual Protocol Live on Mainnet https://twitter.com/perpprotocol/status/1339206204107571200 You can now trade ETH and BTC perpetual contracts with up to 12x leverage on-chain at perp.exchange

Gitcoin Round 8 Closed https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1341743360684552198?s=21

NEWS

SEC files lawsuit against Ripple for $1.3B in unregistered securities sale. https://www.wsj.com/articles/ripple-to-face-sec-suit-over-xrp-cryptocurrency-11608598800?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/UjThCEyjar Vitalik: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1341219519545556992?s=20

Ledger Breach https://gizmodo.com/hackers-steal-thousands-of-customer-emails-from-popular-1845928749 272K Customers Check Ledger Leak - https://www.argent.xyz/ledgerhack/#

FinCEN Proposed Rule https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/88511/fincen-proposes-new-kyc-for-crypto-wallets

$600 vs $2,000 Stimulus? https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/22/trump-demands-congress-raise-second-stimulus-check-from-600-to-2000-under-new-covid-relief-bill.html

Switerzland CBDC https://www.theblockcrypto.com/daily/88885/switzerland-central-bank-digital-currency-trials

Hudson stepping down as the All Core Dev Call facilitator https://twitter.com/hudsonjameson/status/134108187901396992 Being replaced by Tim Beiko https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1341086181597974530?s=2

TAKES

Hayden Adams on Uniswaps registered country address https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1340143545085276160?s=21

Ryan on Boomer fiscal management. https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1341438238330925059?s=20

David on Ripple as a heist https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1341501233090072576?s=20 David on Ethereum solving its own problems https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1339820135008256000?s=20 ------ Don't stop at the video!

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Ethereum vs The STABLE Act | Rohan Grey Dec 23, 2020

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Ethereum vs The STABLE Act | Rohan Grey

Rohan Grey is an assistant professor of Law at Willamette University, an Advisor to politicians including Rashida Tlaib, and one of the authors of the STABLE Act, which wants to impose Federal Bank Chartering upon any stablecoin issuer.

Interesting, this proposed legislation includes entities like Square's Cash App or PayPal! Anything that offers a claim on 1 Dollar is cited by this law.

Rohan and the STABLE Act appear to be an outgrowth of the rise of MMT and the power and ability of the state to solve economic problems like poverty and joblessness. Rohan wants to protect 'money', which he believes is a public institution that needs protecting!

Also interestingly, the goals of the STABLE Act and DeFi are highly similar, yet are opposing in their strategies for achieving these goals.

Tune into the conversation to learn about a diversity of perspectives regarding how to protect money!

The STABLE Act:https://tlaib.house.gov/media/press-releases/tlaib-garcia-and-lynch-stableact

Coin Center's comment on the STABLE Act:https://www.coincenter.org/the-unintended-consequences-of-the-stable-act/

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Does the FinCEN's Rule Break DeFi? | Jake Chervinsky Dec 22, 2020

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🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn------ Jake Chervinsky on the recent FinCEN Proposed Rulemaking

FinCEN has finally released a long-rumored proposed rule on how crypto-asset custodians like Coinbase, Gemini, or Cash app can compliantly enable their users to take control over their cryptocurrency funds into 'self-hosted' or 'unhosted wallets'.

This new rule would impose new obligations on virtual asset service providers (VASPs) like exchanges & custodians and increase the reporting requirements on outbound transactions to their customers' wallets.

The actual release:https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1216

We bring on Jake Chervinsky to help us go through some of this news and help us digest what was released!

Read Jake's tweet thread!https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1340135040399904770?s=20

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44 - The Bull Case for Ethereum | Eric Conner, Anthony Sassano, DC Investor Dec 21, 2020

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Guests: Eric Conner, Anthony Sassano, DC Investor

These three gentlemen are close to the beating heart of the Ethereum universe. They all pay attention to undercurrents of what is transpiring in Ethereum.

What are the factors that contribute to bullishness on the Ethereum economy and ETH the asset?

We ask our guests how they characterize the relationship between Ethereum and ETH, the interaction between scaling Ethereum and EIP1559, as well as the potential for NFTs. All, of course, underpinned by DeFi applications making the magic happen.

Tune in to hear the bull case for Ethereum from good representatives from the Ethereum community------Don't stop at the video!

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ROLLUP: 3rd Week of December Dec 17, 2020

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🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn------ ROLLUP: 3RD WEEK OF DECEMBER

MARKET:

BTC Price- On the three year anniversary of the 2017 ATH, BTC breaks 20k and skyrockets to $23,800. - BTC on Ethereum: Down from 145k TO 141.5k

ETH Price- $ETH is up $100 during the last two days, highs not seen since May of 2018

TVL in DeFi- $16.4B, up from $14B- DPI up from $101 to $115,

Grayscale Insane premiumshttps://twitter.com/grayscaletrust/status/1339356060948312064?s=21

ETH now vs ETH Thenhttps://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1339192917735292928?s=20

$1B of ETH in the deposit contracthttps://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1339522266237784065?s=20

Ethereum addresses with ETH in them passes 50Mhttps://twitter.com/intotheblock/status/1339433477305876480?s=27

From CeFi to DeFi https://twitter.com/glassnode/status/1337410802396127233?s=20

The amount of fees on #Ethereum spent on $ETH deposits to centralized exchanges has fallen from ~25% in 2017 to less than 1% today.

$3B in USDC https://twitter.com/jerallaire/status/1338662314355138565

ETH Option Open Interest at $1B ATH https://twitter.com/skewdotcom/status/1338818750166994944?s=21

RELEASES

Ethereum futures from the CMEhttps://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/88028/cme-group-announces-ethereum-futures

Maple Leaf Capital report on Ethereum and DeFihttps://twitter.com/MapleLeafCap/status/1339346115322376192?s=20

Swivel Finance https://swivel.finance/Interest rate derivative protocol built on Aave and Compound

Circle announced high-yield USDC business accountshttps://www.circle.com/en/features/yield

Kraken announces accepting lightning depositshhttps://blog.kraken.com/post/7225/a-need-for-speed-kraken-to-launch-bitcoin-lightning-%e2%9a%a1%ef%b8%8f-integration-in-2021/

Digital Yuan is herehttps://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/87754/china-digital-yuan-touching-pay

Sybil governance delegation platformhttps://sybil.org/#/delegates/uniswap

NEWS

Coinbase IPOhttps://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-announces-confidential-submission-of-draft-registration-statement-b140a9dfc9f5

One River Asset Management CEO Eric Peters, $600mm in BTC and ETH have been purchased to date, with the total set to exceed $1B in early 2021https://casebitcoin.com/story/new-1b-fund-created-to-buy-btc-with-support-from-one-river-ceo

Hugh Karp of Nexus Mutual has the majority of his NXM stolen from him by a relatively unknown attack vector https://www.coindesk.com/ceo-of-defi-insurer-nexus-mutual-hacked-for-8m-in-nxm-tokens

Office of the Comptroller wants to issue ‘country coins’ to help incentive educationhttps://fortune.com/2020/12/15/crypto-country-coin-brian-brooks-comptroller-of-currency-learning-student-incentives/

Long term incentive streaming for Eth2 public goods - 3,200ETH to starthttps://jamesfickel.ghost.io/towards-long-term-incentives-on-ethereum

Pornhub: Now crypto onlyhttps://decrypt.co/51478/pornhub-now-accepting-crypto-only

Beeple NFT massive successhttps://www.beeple-crap.com/nft https://twitter.com/niftygateway/status/1338268375156482050 $3.5M in sales from NFT auction------Don't stop at the video!

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SotN#27: Is ETH Money? w/ Ryan Selkis (2020 Recap & 2021 Horizon) Dec 16, 2020

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SotN#27: Is ETH Money? w/ Ryan Selkis (2020 Recap & 2021 Horizon)

Every year, Ryan Selkis does a round-up of the themes that powered the industry as well as some predictions of the year to come.

It covers the movers and shakers that steered the industry for the year. Among Ryan's list are people like Hayden Adams of Uniswap and Danny Ryan from the EF.

Yet, Ryan Selkis is still pessimistic on ETH as Money, and believes the tailwinds of the industry point elsewhere.

We bring on his points to the show, and go through them to discuss!

Ryan's Crypto Theses for 2021:https://messari.io/crypto-theses-for-2021

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SotN#27: Is ETH Money? w/ Ryan Selkis (2020 Recap & 2021 Horizon)

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43 - Crypto from the Outside | Demetri Kofinas Dec 14, 2020

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43 - Crypto from the Outside | Demetri Kofinas

Demetri Kofinas is the host of the Hidden Forces podcast, where he gives you an edge by teaching you to think critically about the systems of power that structure our world.

Hidden Forces is about the forces of the world that impact markets, technology, culture, and our lives, which means that Demetri is astutely aware of the cryptocurrency industry and its implications.

However, he is not in the ‘crypto-religion’ as many of us are. He views crypto from the outside in.

We bring Demetri onto the pod this week to get his perspective as to what crypto looks like when viewed from outside the bubble.

We take a moment to discuss a number of 2020 themes:

Distrust in institutions
Monetary policy in the days of COVID
More government, or less government?

...and of course, how significant is the role of Crypto with regards to these things. Is it a revolution? Or destined to be domesticated by the powers of the world?

Demetri is both knowledgeable AND skeptical, which is a dangerous combination to anyone who believes in the revolution.

Tune in!

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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of December Dec 11, 2020

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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of December

MARKET

BTC Price- 18,297.90

BTC on Ethereum- Down from to 147K to 145K- BTC above 18k for 9 days in a row. - In 2017, BTC wasn’t above 18k for like 9 hours

ETH Price- $560

TVL in DeFi- $14.7B to $14B- $DPI from $116 to $101

Ethereum 2.0 1 week stats https://twitter.com/AlexanderFisher/status/1336280548084477953

- ETH 2 deposit contract adding 40k ETH per day- 3x more ETH than what is being issued per day- Over 1% ETH in the deposit contract

USDC outpacing Tether https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c07bef-9100-4d24-9a57-b8b26801f9bd_1200x726.png (RELEASES) What got released?

Messari 2.0 https://messari.io/

Yearn quarterly report https://github.com/iearn-finance/yearn-pm/blob/master/financials/reports/2020Q3-yearn-quarterly-report.pdf 4 Takeaways from ETH 2 deposits

- Blog from Etherscan https://medium.com/etherscan-blog/4-takeaways-from-deposits-into-eth2-28c64dd2863

Circle launches payments platform for USDC https://www.circle.com/blog/circle-launches-major-platform-upgrade-aimed-at-bringing-digital-dollar-stablecoins-mainstream New Square competitor

Maker Governance vote to add https://twitter.com/MakerDAO/status/1335993149076869123?s=20 - AAVE- DAI-ETH LP token- USDC-ETH LP token

(NEWS) What’s in the news?

8,000 Nodes live outside the US https://twitter.com/PhABCD/status/1335349619467968519 - More than the total number of ETH nodes from just a few months ago

The STABLE Act- Unintended consequences https://www.coincenter.org/the-unintended-consequences-of-the-stable-act/

MicroStrategy issues $400 in convertible debt to buy $BTC https://cointelegraph.com/news/microstrategy-will-issue-400-million-in-securities-to-buy-more-bitcoin

MassMutual buying $100M BTC https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/87378/massmutual-bitcoin-insurance-purchase - More legit than Microstrategy according to Joey Krug"measured yet meaningful exposure to a growing economic aspect of our increasingly digital world."

Ray Dalio warming to BTC in Reddit AMAhttps://twitter.com/RyanWatkins_/status/1336438172142739458?s=20

The Ether Fund- 3iQ Corp IPO closes Dec 10th (today), raising a maximum of $107M, already raised $75M so far

Tyler Winklevoss Tweet: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1336839087093919744

France maybe extending KYC lawshttps://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/87001/france-crypto-rules-mandatory-kyc-crypto-to-crypto

Rumors that Steven Mnuchin is thinking about regulations on Digital Self Hosted Wallet-Warren Davidson getting ahead of the issue with a letter to Mnuchin https://twitter.com/WarrenDavidson/status/1336804544320327683?s=20

Paxos files for a Federal Bank Charter https://www.coindesk.com/paxos-becomes-latest-crypto-firm-to-file-for-federal-bank-charter

Venezuela pays for Imports from Iran/Turkey with Bitcoin https://news.bitcoin.com/venezuela-pays-imports-iran-turkey-bitcoin-evade-sanctions/

JP Morgan says that Gold will suffer because of Bitcoin

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-09/jpmorgan-says-gold-will-suffer-for-years-because-of-bitcoin Yahoo Finance also speaking more positively for Bitcoin

CoinGecko is better than CoinMarketCap https://out.reddit.com/t3_k8jct1?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaxbit.cc%2Fcoingecko-looks-to-overtake-coinmarketcap-with-huge-uptick-in-traffic%2F&token=AQAA_YjSXxU46BXDalbUf4Pv-UkKhy4yT938Vzi-qo7VV6usja4b&app_name=reddit.com