June 9, 2022 — OccamFi has announced its latest incubated project, Curl: a protocol developed by the Blueshift and OccamX teams. The Curl protocol addresses current shortcomings of liquidity fragmentation caused by bridges and layer-2 (L2) solutions to unleash decentralized finance’s (DeFi’s) deep liquidity. Curl enables the accommodation of synthetic liquid tokens in L2 solutions by combining unique liquidity pooling and issuing a homogenized synthetic asset that represents a weighted exposu...

June 9, 2022 — OccamFi has announced its latest incubated project, Curl: a protocol developed by the Blueshift and OccamX teams. The Curl protocol addresses current shortcomings of liquidity fragmentation caused by bridges and layer-2 (L2) solutions to unleash decentralized finance’s (DeFi’s) deep liquidity. Curl enables the accommodation of synthetic liquid tokens in L2 solutions by combining unique liquidity pooling and issuing a homogenized synthetic asset that represents a weighted exposu...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday rejected Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon’s dispute of a subpoena by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The federal agency was seeking documents and testimony in connection with its investigation of whether Terra used the Mirror Protocol to sell unregistered securities. Kwon was served with the subpoena in September 2021 while he was attending a conference in New York City. Kwon claimed in an October filing that the SE...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday rejected Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon’s dispute of a subpoena by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The federal agency was seeking documents and testimony in connection with its investigation of whether Terra used the Mirror Protocol to sell unregistered securities. Kwon was served with the subpoena in September 2021 while he was attending a conference in New York City. Kwon claimed in an October filing that the SE...

Singapore, Singapore, June 10 – APENFT and Valuart completed the first Vanity Fair NFT Cover Drops on Monday, May 23. The collection, consisting of four 1:1 edition NFTs and a 1000-mint run of the original “H.E. Justin Sun 2022” edition NFT, marks a true crossover collaboration between art, entertainment, and the crypto industry. Four of the NFTs were auctioned on the APENFT marketplace from Monday, May 23, to Monday, May 30 at 7 p.m. GMT. Starting bid was set at 1500 TRX, roughly $120. At th...

Singapore, Singapore, June 10 – APENFT and Valuart completed the first Vanity Fair NFT Cover Drops on Monday, May 23. The collection, consisting of four 1:1 edition NFTs and a 1000-mint run of the original “H.E. Justin Sun 2022” edition NFT, marks a true crossover collaboration between art, entertainment, and the crypto industry. Four of the NFTs were auctioned on the APENFT marketplace from Monday, May 23, to Monday, May 30 at 7 p.m. GMT. Starting bid was set at 1500 TRX, roughly $120. At th...

Litecoin is one of the earliest alternative coins (altcoins) that came to light after Bitcoin (BTC). Created in October 2011, it is now the 20th most valuable cryptocurrency, boasting a market capitalization of over $4 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data. The MimbleWimble upgrade was first conceived more than two years ago as part of the Litecoin Improvement Proposal. That was in November 2019, as the network started planning on enhancing anonymity between senders and receivers of a tran...

Litecoin is one of the earliest alternative coins (altcoins) that came to light after Bitcoin (BTC). Created in October 2011, it is now the 20th most valuable cryptocurrency, boasting a market capitalization of over $4 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data. The MimbleWimble upgrade was first conceived more than two years ago as part of the Litecoin Improvement Proposal. That was in November 2019, as the network started planning on enhancing anonymity between senders and receivers of a tran...

Co-founder and chief evangelist officer for Codex, Alex Gordon-Brander, spoke to Cointelegraph about his Bitcoin story, the real-world use cases for crypto, and the economic downturn during a World Economic Forum interview in Davos, Switzerland. Standing curbside in front of Davos’ “Crypto House” at dusk, where Gordon-Brander had just finished demonstrating Codex’s capabilities during a crypto panel, the co-founder shared an upbeat outlook on crypto. A long-serving crypto enthusiast and trad-...

Co-founder and chief evangelist officer for Codex, Alex Gordon-Brander, spoke to Cointelegraph about his Bitcoin story, the real-world use cases for crypto, and the economic downturn during a World Economic Forum interview in Davos, Switzerland. Standing curbside in front of Davos’ “Crypto House” at dusk, where Gordon-Brander had just finished demonstrating Codex’s capabilities during a crypto panel, the co-founder shared an upbeat outlook on crypto. A long-serving crypto enthusiast and trad-...

The adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) could occur more rapidly than the adoption of past disruptive technologies such as automobiles and electric power, with global take-up likely to hit 10% by 2030 according to a new report. In its Wednesday report, Blockware Intelligence said it arrived at this forecast by examining historical adoption curves for nine past disruptive technologies including automobiles, electric power, smartphones, the internet and social media, along with the growth rate of Bitcoin...

The adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) could occur more rapidly than the adoption of past disruptive technologies such as automobiles and electric power, with global take-up likely to hit 10% by 2030 according to a new report. In its Wednesday report, Blockware Intelligence said it arrived at this forecast by examining historical adoption curves for nine past disruptive technologies including automobiles, electric power, smartphones, the internet and social media, along with the growth rate of Bitcoin...

AUSTIN, Texas – Kimbal Musk, the billionaire philanthropist and brother of fellow entrepreneur Elon Musk who is now an avid creator of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), says most of these trustless structures are controlled by a few founder members. Speaking at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas, Musk, who last year launched the Big Green DAO, a Web 3 charity focused on food justice, said his research had revealed that most DAOs are not in fact designed to prevent an accumulation of...

AUSTIN, Texas – Kimbal Musk, the billionaire philanthropist and brother of fellow entrepreneur Elon Musk who is now an avid creator of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), says most of these trustless structures are controlled by a few founder members. Speaking at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas, Musk, who last year launched the Big Green DAO, a Web 3 charity focused on food justice, said his research had revealed that most DAOs are not in fact designed to prevent an accumulation of...

Crypto traders and investors started out the week with a major shock to the markets. As assets across the blockchain industry went into a collective dive on Monday, users took to Twitter to voice their dismay (or in some cases jubilation) with the current state of crypto. Inflation, potential interest rate hikes, a looming recession, and yet another DeFi fiasco have all contributed to the current onslaught seen in markets on Monday. As a result, Bitcoin's (BTC) price plunged to levels no...

Crypto traders and investors started out the week with a major shock to the markets. As assets across the blockchain industry went into a collective dive on Monday, users took to Twitter to voice their dismay (or in some cases jubilation) with the current state of crypto. Inflation, potential interest rate hikes, a looming recession, and yet another DeFi fiasco have all contributed to the current onslaught seen in markets on Monday. As a result, Bitcoin's (BTC) price plunged to levels no...

Zcash (ZEC), a privacy coin that launched in 2016, unveiled an upgrade to its system on May 31 that will allow users to more easily make private, trustless digital cash payments on mobile phones. Not everyone would view this as a good development. The unfamiliarity, uncertainty and public intrigue surrounding privacy — including its complexity, misuse and speculative activity — presents a number of challenges and reputational issues for innovating crypto projects. While a core tenet and sourc...

Zcash (ZEC), a privacy coin that launched in 2016, unveiled an upgrade to its system on May 31 that will allow users to more easily make private, trustless digital cash payments on mobile phones. Not everyone would view this as a good development. The unfamiliarity, uncertainty and public intrigue surrounding privacy — including its complexity, misuse and speculative activity — presents a number of challenges and reputational issues for innovating crypto projects. While a core tenet and sourc...

I had the pleasure of speaking with the Federal Reserve System’s Sunayna Tuteja at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas, last week about the U.S. central bank’s philosophical approach to innovation at large. You can watch and read the conversation below. Some housekeeping: The next few issues of this newsletter will be selected interviews and snippets of interviews from various panel discussions at Consensus and conversations I’ve had, including a second edition of this newsletter sometime this we...

I had the pleasure of speaking with the Federal Reserve System’s Sunayna Tuteja at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas, last week about the U.S. central bank’s philosophical approach to innovation at large. You can watch and read the conversation below. Some housekeeping: The next few issues of this newsletter will be selected interviews and snippets of interviews from various panel discussions at Consensus and conversations I’ve had, including a second edition of this newsletter sometime this we...

The metaverse is a brave new world waiting to be discovered, populated, built and activated. In many ways it’s like a whole new country being born before our eyes. Throughout history, as new nations rise there is an umbilical link between their potential and their systems of money and finance. China’s pre-eminence in the Song Dynasty came because of its invention of paper money and sophisticated forms of credit. Athens became the most powerful city-state of ancient Greece due to its plentiful...

The metaverse is a brave new world waiting to be discovered, populated, built and activated. In many ways it’s like a whole new country being born before our eyes. Throughout history, as new nations rise there is an umbilical link between their potential and their systems of money and finance. China’s pre-eminence in the Song Dynasty came because of its invention of paper money and sophisticated forms of credit. Athens became the most powerful city-state of ancient Greece due to its plentiful...

June 9, 2022 — Matrixport, one of the world’s largest and most trusted digital asset-financial services platforms, announced today the expansion of its flagship Dual-Currency Product to support Solana’s SOL. Designed to host decentralized, scalable applications on the blockchain, Solana has more than 400 projects in its ecosystem. In the third quarter of 2021, the market capitalization of its native token SOL grew by 400%. With this growth in liquidity, coupled with growing customer interest ...

June 9, 2022 — Matrixport, one of the world’s largest and most trusted digital asset-financial services platforms, announced today the expansion of its flagship Dual-Currency Product to support Solana’s SOL. Designed to host decentralized, scalable applications on the blockchain, Solana has more than 400 projects in its ecosystem. In the third quarter of 2021, the market capitalization of its native token SOL grew by 400%. With this growth in liquidity, coupled with growing customer interest ...