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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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“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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🗞 The Biggest Events From 2019 (For Mainstream Crypto Adoption) – Popular Crypto #15

Newsletter · January 5, 2020

Welcome to Issue 15 of Popular Crypto, a newsletter about the mainstream products and services taking crypto to the masses.

In this issue, we look back at the year that was. 2019 was rough for many cryptocurrencies, but not all. Bitcoin (BTC) finished the year up 85% and more secure than ever with its hash rate surpassing all-time highs. The Litecoin price climbed about 30%. Of course, our focus here is not the market but the products and services bringing crypto to the masses. The market’s ups and downs are merely the backdrop as we review the year’s biggest events for mainstream crypto adoption.

Along the way, we’ll preview our new format.

Going forward, each issue of Popular Crypto will be a Top Ten list of the most important developments for crypto mainstreaming. We’re switching formats to bring more focus to our coverage.

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

🥂 Message From Nomics

2019 was a great year for Nomics.com. We accomplished a lot as a company, beat our revenue goal by 100%, and our traffic goal by much more.

But we’re just as proud of our contributions to transparent data initiatives. As a provider of crypto market data, we see ticker stuffing, exchange spam, and other forms of fake volume on a daily basis. And we started the year on a mission to clean things up.

In April, we introduced our new crypto exchange rating system, which grades exchanges according to their willingness to provide auditable histories. See Nomics’ Exchange Transparency Ratings (And The Correlation Between Transparency & Fake Volume, and Toxic Activity).

In August, we followed up with the release of our transparent volume indicator. Indeed, for each cryptoasset on Nomics.com, we now provide the amount of trading volume occurring on transparent exchanges.

Finally, in September we also released the Nomics Manifesto (entitled Transparency Must Be Trustless) to affirm our commitment to transparency. By shining a light on shady exchange practices and proposing innovative solutions, we hope to push the space towards the day when average consumers can save and spend crypto as comfortably as they use fiat.

And now, 2019’s biggest events for mainstream crypto adoption.

Clay Collins
Nomics Co-Founder

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🗞 Sablier Makes Streaming Money a Reality – Popular Crypto #14

Newsletter · December 20, 2019

Popular Crypto Issue 14 – Sablier Makes Streaming Money a Reality

Welcome to Issue 14 of Popular Crypto, a newsletter about the mainstream products and services taking crypto to the masses.

In this issue:

Sablier releases v1 of its protocol for continuous, trustless payments
BTCPayServer lets users spend from their favorite hardware devices
ACINQ launches Phoenix, a user-friendly Lightning wallet
Coinbase Pro enables sub-accounts for different trading strategies

We also cover Tradeshift’s FlowTokens, tokenized IOUs that slash the cost of cross-border settlements.

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

🚀 Updates From Nomics

Nomics Update #1: We’ve improved the layout for our cryptoasset pages with a fresh design and user experience. We consolidated content and placed price charts, market cap, volume and other indicators at the top of the new Overview tab. See the screenshot (below) or check out the Litecoin price page for a live example.

Nomics Update #2: Last week, we debuted the Type column, which identifies whether a market is trading on a Derivative or Spot exchange. Since then, we’ve added more features to the Markets tab. If a market is excluded from our aggregate price calculation, it is now marked with an asterisk. If it is excluded from our aggregate volume calculation, it gets a double asterisk. In both cases, the notation (* or **) is matched with a footnote. We also identify when a market is excluded from aggregate price calculations for failing to update within the past 24 hours. These markets are grayed out and accompanied by an info tooltip. The screenshot (below) is from the Deribit Markets tab.

Nomics Update #3: On December 9th, we held a webinar with Ricky Tan, founder of TokenData, a cryptocurrency research organization. The webinar, entitled How Mergers & Acquisitions Are Shaping the Cryptocurrency Industry, covered a range of topics including an overview of crypto M&A trends and a look at the future of the practice. Catch the replay here.

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

Clay Collins
Nomics Co-Founder

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