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🗞 #34 – Nomics Hits 10 Billion Trades, Adds Synthetix & FTX US

Newsletter · May 22, 2020

#34 – Nomics Hits 10 Billion Trades + New Currency Metadata

Welcome to this week’s Nomics Update, our way of keeping you in the loop with everything happening at Nomics.

Most weeks, we use this space to highlight releases like our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter and 7-day cryptoasset price predictions, but this time, we’d like to call your attention to our long-running Flippening podcast.

We’ve been publishing since 2017 and now count nearly 80 episodes with crypto’s top investors, makers, and thinkers. Past guests include CZ from Binance, Anthony Pompliano of Morgan Creek Digital and The Pomp Podcast, Camila Russo from The Defiant, and many others.

Interested in security tokens? Check out our most recent episode, the latest in our popular Tokenize The World documentary series.

Tokenizing Traditional Assets in 2020 w/ Hart Lambur & Michael Oved

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And now, your weekly Nomics Update.

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🎧 “Asia, Crypto, and The Coronavirus” w/ Joyce Yang of Global Coin Research (Ep. 0074)

[Podcast] Flippening · April 3, 2020

This post was last updated on April 23rd, 2020 at 07:24 pm

Will Asia Come Out Ahead From The Coronavirus? w/ Joyce Yang of Global Coin Research

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Quotes

"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

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🗞 Popular Crypto #22 – Coinbase Cards Get 👍 From Visa + 1-Click DApp Logins

Newsletter · February 21, 2020

Welcome to Issue 22 of Popular Crypto, a newsletter about the mainstream products and services taking crypto to the masses.

In this issue:

Visa greenlights Coinbase to issue crypto debit cards
Torus enables 1-click DApp logins
Authereum brings usernames & passwords to Web 3.0
Enjin helps non-devs build on blockchain
Unstoppable launches a browser for the decentralized web

We also show you how to stack Handshake (HNS) from home using a Coinmine One.

All that and more in this week’s issue. But first, here’s some…

🚀 Updates From Nomics

#1. Nomics Launches Free CSV Downloads for All Cryptoasset & Exchange Pages: We’ve added free CSV downloads to Nomics.com. You can now take a CSV snapshot of our market cap index (homepage), exchange index, or any individual cryptoasset, exchange, or markets page – any page or tab with a yellow “Free CSV” button. For more, read our in-depth announcement or see the following tweet.

Just launched 🚀🚀🚀…

FREE CSV data downloads on https://t.co/NTPHOUPIVK for *all* index, markets, and history pages.

Others charge for this. We want to make this free forever.🎉

Please watch the video for the full demo. pic.twitter.com/KUXtnPvgX8
— Nomics Crypto (@NomicsFinance) February 18, 2020

#2. We’re Keeping Tabs on the 2020 Election (Markets): Nomics has always listed synthetic trading pairs or artificial markets that aren’t commonly traded. With that infrastructure in place, it was easy to add the new 2020 election markets from crypto derivatives exchange FTX. Here’s a screenshot of the PETE/BERNIE market:

#3. Nomics Adds Seven New Exchanges & Upgrades Namebase to an “A” Transparency Rating: This week, Nomics added exchanges BiKi, BitForex, Coineal, CoinField, Prizmbit, BCEX, and CoinTiger. Meanwhile, exchange and Handshake (HNS) registrar Namebase was upgraded to an “A” Transparency Rating. This means that Namebase has provided us with highly granular (trade-level) data and full history for each trading pair. That data is now available on our website and via our market data API. For more on how we rate crypto exchanges, read the following essay.

And now, let’s see what the cryptocurrency world has brought us this week.

Clay Collins
Nomics Co-Founder

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🗞 Popular Crypto #21 – FTX Bets on Trump & Bernie + How to Build a DIY Bitcoin Arcade

Newsletter · February 14, 2020

This post was last updated on February 21st, 2020 at 12:52 am

Popular Crypto #21 - FTX Bets on Trump & Bernie + How to Build a DIY Bitcoin Arcade

Welcome to Issue 21 of Popular Crypto, a newsletter about the mainstream products and services taking crypto to the masses.

In this issue:

Crypto derivatives exchange FTX takes bets on 2020 candidates
Etherisc and Chainlink bring fairness to flight insurance claims
myNode makes it easy to run Bitcoin & Lightning
Orchid offers on-demand online privacy
Lightning lets e-sports spectators fund live in-game power-ups

We also show you how to build a Bitcoin arcade with a Pandora’s Box, an M5Stack, a pair of Lightning wallets, and hot glue.

All that and more in this week’s issue. But first, here’s some…

🚀 Updates From Nomics

#1. Nomics Is First to List Handshake (HNS): This week, we completed an integration with Namebase, an exchange and registrar for Handshake domains. The integration made us the first crypto data aggregator to list live pricing information for Handshake’s native token, HNS. For more on Handshake and why it’s important, see our coverage in last week’s Popular Crypto.

@NamebaseHQ and @HNS are now live on @NomicsFinance! https://t.co/r2tWJ9Nzor #HandshakeDNS #cryptoexchange #metrics
— Namebase (@NamebaseHQ) February 11, 2020

#2. Nomics Adds Exchanges CoinFLEX & Bilaxy, Upgrades 4 More: Along with Namebase, Nomics added crypto exchanges CoinFLEX and Bilaxy. The former earned an “A” Transparency Rating, indicating full transparency with regard to trade data granularity and history. The latter earned a “D” for providing low-granularity non-historical ticker data. Exchanges ZBG, LBank, BigONE, and DragonEx 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 through our market data API. To learn more about our crypto exchange rating system, check out the following essay.

#3. New Capital Names Nomics One of Crypto’s Good Guys: In a post titled Crypto exchanges and data aggregators— the good (rare), the bad and the ugly, crypto exchange New Capital recognized Nomics as one of the few good actors in the space. They cited our Verified Exchange Program, which “serves to validate and rank the source exchanges in order to produce professional-grade market data” and our well-documented listing and integration process.

#4. Economics of Proof-of-Work Mining: We’ve recorded another episode of our live webinar series, Flippening Podcast [LIVE]. This time, we welcomed Hasu, an independent cryptocurrency researcher who writes for Uncommon Core and Deribit. We discussed why Bitcoin needs miners, what miners do, and how the economic incentives work. Catch the replay here.

To join us for future episodes, sign up for invites.

Economics of Proof-of-Work Mining webinar

And now, let’s see what the cryptocurrency world has brought us this week.

Clay Collins
Nomics Co-Founder

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🗞 Blockchain Gets Drafted by the NBA – Popular Crypto #17

Newsletter · January 17, 2020

Welcome to Issue 17 of Popular Crypto, a newsletter about the mainstream products and services taking crypto to the masses.

In this issue:

NBA player Spencer Dinwiddie tokenizes his contract
FTX and the CME debut Bitcoin options products
DeFi lending protocol Aave launches flash loans
The first-ever direct IRA investment into an STO

We also cover Almonit’s mission to index the decentralized web (dWeb), a more robust, censorship-resistant Internet built on Ethereum Name Service and IPFS.

All that and more in this week’s issue. But first, here’s some…

🚀 Updates From Nomics

#1 Nomics Mobile App Is Live (Beta): We’re pleased to announce the beta launch of the Nomics mobile app for Android and iOS. Now, you can get real-time crypto market cap rankings, historical prices, charts and more for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and 4,000 other cryptoassets. The app is available for download from Google Play and the App Store.

#2 Binance Futures Added: We’ve added Binance Futures data to our API and Nomics.com. Binance has an “A” Transparency Rating, indicating full transparency. To earn an A-level rating, an exchange must provide trade-level data and full histories.

Thanks to the addition of Binance Futures, Binance flipped BitMEX to become the top crypto exchange on Nomics – in terms of trade volume.

We also completed a deep data integration with FarhadMarket, which earned an A+ Transparency Rating.

#3 Supply Data Added for 2,800 Additional Assets: This week, we added supply and market cap data for more than 2,800 additional currencies. The data is available on Nomics.com and via the API through the Currencies Ticker endpoint.

#4 How To Get Hired (or Hire) In The Crypto Industry: Flippening episode #67, How to Recruit (or Get Hired in Crypto) in 2020, is live on our blog. In the episode, we’re joined by Rob Paone, founder of Proof of Talent, a boutique recruiting firm specializing in the blockchain and crypto industries. We discuss the state of hiring and recruiting in the blockchain/crypto space, how to get hired by a crypto company, and more.

Why some candidates are wary of applying for jobs in the #blockchain and #crypto industries w/ @crypto_bobby, founder of @ProofOfTalent.

(From episode 67 of the Flippening Podcast… see link below)https://t.co/YSfnT4wRvU pic.twitter.com/6yuHzOu39s
— Nomics Crypto (@NomicsFinance) January 15, 2020

And now, let’s see what the cryptocurrency world has brought us this week.

Clay Collins
Nomics Co-Founder

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