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🎧 “Asia, Crypto, and The Coronavirus” w/ Joyce Yang of Global Coin Research (Ep. 0074)
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"If I ask you to identify the global hub for #crypto, you may say Silicon Valley, but the concentration of companies is nowhere near the Bay Area. The most valuable crypto companies are in Asia." ~@JoyceInNYC, CEO @Globalcoinrsrch Click To Tweet "Founders want to get into Asia. They see how active these markets are versus what's in the US, which isn't going poorly… @coinbase is a billion-dollar company. There are just very few Coinbases." ~@JoyceInNYC, CEO @Globalcoinrsrch Click To Tweet "I see India, Singapore, the trading market & the lending market being driving forces in Asia and pushing the industry along. Asia has one of the most robust hubs for #crypto & #blockchain." ~@JoyceInNYC, CEO @Globalcoinrsrch Click To Tweet [Read more…] about 🎧 “Asia, Crypto, and The Coronavirus” w/ Joyce Yang of Global Coin Research (Ep. 0074)đź—ž Popular Crypto #20 – Zap Enables USD/Lightning Payments
Welcome to Issue 20 of Popular Crypto, a newsletter about the mainstream products and services taking crypto to the masses.
In this issue:
- Zap lets merchants take USD over the Lightning Network
- Handshake goes live allowing top-level decentralized domain ownership (and enabling decentralized income)
- How to stream social money using Roll & Sablier
- PoolTogether announces a daily no-loss USDC prize
We also cover Maple Loans, a protocol taking a community-based approach to undercollateralized crypto loans.
All that and more in this week’s issue. But first, here’s some…
🚀 Updates From Nomics
- #1 Upgrades for Bit-Z, EXX, KKCoin, BKex, Digifinex & CoinAll: This week, crypto exchange Bit-Z was upgraded to include derivatives markets, and EXX, KKCoin, BKex, Digifinex, and CoinAll were all upgraded to “C” Transparency Ratings. This means that each now provides us with recent candle data, which we’ve made available on Nomics.com and via our market data API. To learn more about our crypto exchange rating system, check out the following essay.
- #2 Ethereum’s Untold History & Defying Future: Flippening episode #69, Ethereum’s Untold History & Defying Future, is live on our blog. This time, we’re joined by Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant, a daily newsletter focused on decentralized finance or DeFi. We discuss her upcoming book on the history of Ethereum (ETH) and how DeFi has become the network’s most promising use case.
- #3 HitBTC IOU Markets Removed From Tezos Trade History at the Request of Reddit Community: In response to user feedback that HitBTC IOUs were skewing historical price data for Tezos (XTZ), Nomics decided to exclude HitBTC markets from XTZ pricing. For more on the decision – and why excluding these markets was the “clearest and cleanest approach” – read the Reddit post by Nomics CTO Nick Gauthier.
Meanwhile, if you have feedback for Nomics, visit any page on our site and click the Feedback tab, located on the right-hand side.
- #4 Nomics CEO Clay Collins Moderates the Traditional Asset Tokenization Panel at 0xpo: At 2:05pm PST today (February 7th) Nomics CEO Clay Collins will be moderating the Tokenizing Traditional Assets panel at 0xpo, a San Francisco conference hosted by the 0x (ZRX) Core team. The panel will feature Hart Lambur (UMA), Josh Stein (Harbor), and Michael Oved (Airswap). To learn more about security tokens, check out our 3-part documentary, Tokenize the World.
And now, let’s see what the cryptocurrency world has brought us this week.
Clay Collins
Nomics Co-Founder
🎧 Ethereum’s Untold History & Defying Future w/ Camila Russo From The Defiant (Ep. 0069)
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“The amount of progress, measured with actual value being created, that we're seeing in #DeFi signals that lessons from the ICO era were really taken to heart in the #ethereum community.” ~@CamiRusso, founder of The Defiant Click To Tweet “The world needs an Internet of value. We can share any type of content, but the same hasn't happened with value… #bitcoin was the first step. I think #ethereum can take it further with programmable money.” ~@CamiRusso of The Defiant Click To Tweet “We're tweeting, watching YouTube videos & doing all this stuff online, but we still need to go to an executive to open a savings account. #DeFi is so much more aligned with our digital world.” ~@CamiRusso, founder of The Defiant Click To Tweet [Read more…] about 🎧 Ethereum’s Untold History & Defying Future w/ Camila Russo From The Defiant (Ep. 0069)đź—ž Popular Crypto #19 – PoolTogether Hits Big & ETH’s 1st Social Trading Platform
Welcome to Issue 19 of Popular Crypto, a newsletter about the mainstream products and services taking crypto to the masses.
In this issue:
- PoolTogether sets records for participants & prize money
- Set Labs launches social crypto trading on Ethereum
- TokenSoft simplifies security token investing
- Sablier adds real-time invoicing
- P2P exchanges support Ethereum Name Service
We also cover Opendime, a disposable hardware wallet that lets you spend Bitcoin like cash.
All that and more in this week’s issue. But first, here’s some…
🚀 Updates From Nomics
- #1 Nomics data reveals surprising truths about exchange tokens: In a report entitled Exchange Tokens: Neither a Great Investment Nor a Great Market Indicator, CoinDesk cites data from Nomics to show that exchange tokens like Binance Coin (BNB), Huobi Token (HT), UNUS SED LEO (LEO) and OKEx Utility Token (OKB) have not only underperformed as investments but fail to indicate much about their parent exchanges. They’re also a weak signal of speculative demand. They tell us no more than the price of Bitcoin (BTC), with which 3 of the 4 have become increasingly correlated.
- #2 Transparency upgrades for Binance JEX, Dcoin, TOKOK & Bibox: This week, crypto exchanges Binance JEX, Dcoin, TOKOK, and Bibox were all upgraded to “C” Transparency Ratings. This means that each now provides us with recent candle data, which we’ve made available on Nomics.com and via our market data API. To learn more about our crypto exchange rating system, check out the following essay.
- #3 State of Crypto M&A: How It’s Shaping the Industry: Flippening episode #68, State of Crypto M&A: How It’s Shaping the Industry, is live on our blog. In the episode, we’re joined by Ricky Tan, founder of TokenData, a research organization focused on token sales and crypto mergers and acquisitions. We discuss the state of crypto M&A and consider the future of crypto M&A markets.
And now, let’s see what the cryptocurrency world has brought us this week.
Clay Collins
Nomics Co-Founder