Weekly Headlines 2023.4 W3
“#Bitcoin is the most interesting intellectual development on the Internet.” – Julian Assange Weekly News Report: News 1. Microsoft Working With Space and Time to Add Real-Time Blockchain Data for Azure Cloud – The agreement comes seven months after the tech giant led a strategic funding round for the...
Weekly Headlines 2023.4 W2
The possibilities that Web3 can offer are vast and only limited by our own imaginations.” – Haider Rafique, global chief marketing officer at OKX Weekly News Report: News 1. Amazon launches new Bedrock AI service to take on Google and OpenAI – AWS is launching Bedrock, an AI service that...
Weekly Headlines 2023.4 W1
“I don’t buy bitcoin today for what might happen tomorrow. I buy bitcoin today for what might happen in 2033.” – Caitlin Long, Custodia bank founder Weekly News Report: News 1. Decentralized exchange dYdX announces ‘winding down’ of services for Canadian users – Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange dYdX has announced it...
Weekly Headlines 2023.3 W5
“Banks went woke and went broke. Buy #Bitcoin” – Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Weekly News Report: News 1. ZeroSync and Blockstream to Broadcast Bitcoin Zero-Knowledge Proofs From Space – The partners say using zero-knowledge proofs will allow Bitcoin nodes to sync quickly from anywhere on earth, “even without...
Weekly Headlines 2023.3 W4
“Chokepoint 2.0 causes BTC to go up 40%. That’s excellent evidence of Bitcoin’s antifragility.” – Jimmy Song Weekly News Report: News 1. zkSync Era launches with Uniswap and Sushi — First zkEVM on mainnet – A new Era has dawned with the launch of the first Ethereum Virtual Machine compatible...
Weekly Headlines 2023.3 W3
“Crypto did not force SVB and Signature into bankruptcy. In my view, Fed policy was the primary culprit. Because of a VC funding drought and higher yields on money market funds, deposits left the US banking system”. – Cathie Wood, the founder, CEO and CIO of Ark Invest Weekly News...
Weekly Headlines 2023.3 W2
“Fiat people are obsessed with zero sum games because fiat money turns positive sum games into zero sum.” – Jimmy Song Weekly News Report: News 1. Coinbase Pauses Conversions Between USDC and U.S. Dollars as Banking Crisis Roils Crypto – Circle earlier confirmed it has $3.3 billion backing its USDC...
Weekly Headlines 2023.3 W1
“General purpose zero knowledge blockchains have been positioned as the next big thing to scale Ethereum.” – Ganesh Swami, co-founder and CEO of Covalent Weekly News Report: News 1. ConsenSys, Developer of Ethereum Software, Says zkEVM Public Testnet to Go Live March 28 – Zero-knowledge, or ZK, a type of...
Weekly Headlines 2023.2 W4
“It will be a humbling reminder that crypto is a global asset class and that the West, really the US, always only ever had two options: embrace it or be left behind. It can’t be stopped. That we know.” – Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of Gemini Weekly News Report: News 1....
Weekly Headlines 2023.2 W3
“What we see is clients are absolutely interested in digital assets, broadly.” – Michael Demissie, head of digital assets at BNY Mellon Weekly News Report: News 1. FTX Japan plans to resume withdrawals as early as February: Report – Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX’s subsidiary in Japan, FTX Japan, reportedly plans...