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🗞 Popular Crypto #20 – Zap Enables USD/Lightning Payments

Newsletter · February 7, 2020

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.

Ethereum's Untold History & Defying Future w/ Camila Russo From The Defiant

#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

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🎧 Ethereum’s Untold History & Defying Future w/ Camila Russo From The Defiant (Ep. 0069)

[Podcast] Flippening · February 5, 2020

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Quotes

“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

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🗞 Popular Crypto #19 – PoolTogether Hits Big & ETH’s 1st Social Trading Platform

Newsletter · February 1, 2020

Popular Crypto #19 - PoolTogether Hits Big & Social Crypto Trading

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.

The State of Crypto M&A and How It’s Shaping the Industry w/ Ricky Tan From Tokendata

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

Clay Collins
Nomics Co-Founder

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🗞 Bitso Exchange Now Handles 2.5% of US-Mexico Remittances – Popular Crypto #16

Newsletter · January 10, 2020

Bitso (Crypto Exchange) Now Handles 2.5% of US-Mexico Remittances – Popular Crypto #16

Welcome to Issue 16 of Popular Crypto, a newsletter about the mainstream products and services taking crypto to the masses.

In this issue:

Crypto exchange Bitso leads the way in US-Mexico remittances
Bitcoin (BTC) turns 11 as its hash rate hits all-time highs
Aragon puts juries on the blockchain
Binance & MyCrypto’s Ambo add fiat on-ramps

We also cover the growing decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, which continues to break new ground in lending, cryptoasset trading, and savings products.

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

🚀 Updates From Nomics

Nomics Update #1: The Market tabs for each exchange on Nomics.com now includes an “Unmapped” section that lists markets for which we have data but haven’t yet mapped. A market can go unmapped for several reasons. The market ID (used by the exchange) could be difficult to parse or there may be an issue with the symbol used for the base or quote currency. For a look at the new section, check out the OKEx Markets tab.

Nomics Update #2: Flippening episode #66, A Cryptoeconomic Designer’s View of Markets, is live on our blog. In the episode, we meet Matt Chwierut, co-founder and Director of Research at Smith + Crown, a blockchain research organization. We discuss cryptoeconomic design, market trends, the evolving case for Bitcoin, and more.

Why cryptoeconomic design is underappreciated – at least for now w/ Matt Chwierut, co-founder and Director of Research at @smithandcrown.

(From episode 66 of the Flippening Podcast… see link below)
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— Nomics Crypto (@NomicsFinance) January 8, 2020

Nomics Update #3: On January 9th, we held a Flippening Podcast [LIVE] webinar with Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant, a daily newsletter focused on the DeFi space. In the webinar, titled Ethereum’s Untold History & Defying Future, we cover the history of Ethereum and the promise of decentralized finance, most of which runs on the Ethereum blockchain. Replay available here.

Ethereum's Untold History & Defying Future

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

Clay Collins
Nomics Co-Founder

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