Welcome to this week’s episode of This Week in Blockchain!
Each week your host, Conor Svensson (https://twitter.com/conors10), founder and CEO of Web3 Labs (https://www.web3labs.com), will provide a rundown of the major events that took place in the blockchain industry that are relevant to business during the past week. We cover #crypto, #enterprise, #DeFI and #NFTs.
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Links to items discussed:
– Visa to add Bitcoin payment support to 70 million merchants
https://www.btctimes.com/news/visa-plans-to-enable-bitcoin-purchases
– Volumes of crypto trading in South Korea have overtaken regular trading
https://twitter.com/thecryptolark/status/1371301146929688583?s=28
– Grayscale Investments launches five new investment trusts
http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/03/17/2194615/0/en/Grayscale-Investments-Launches-Five-New-Investment-Trusts.html
– Morgan Stanley becomes the first big U.S. bank to offer clients access to bitcoin funds
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/bitcoin-morgan-stanley-is-the-first-big-us-bank-to-offer-wealthy-clients-access-to-bitcoin-funds.html
– J.P. Morgan is exploring bitcoin and cryptocurrency clearinghouse options
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2021/03/15/jpmorgan-is-eyeing-bitcoin-and-crypto-clearinghouse-options-amid-huge-price-rally/?sh=35b601266004
– Coinbase files revised S1 form to float about 115 million shares in the market
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/98593/coinbase-files-revised-s-1-float-about-115-million-shares
– Kraken crypto exchange plans to go public next year via a direct listing
https://twitter.com/CGasparino/status/1371865045571940357
– Crypto friendly trading platform eToro to go public via SPAC merger
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trading-platform-etoro-public-via-191415609.html
– Owners of the Fiat New 500 car will earn KiriCoins for “sustainable” driving
https://www.fiat.com/electric-car/kiri
– Meitu buys more Bitcoin and Ether, bringing total holdings to $90M
https://www.coindesk.com/meitu-buys-more-bitcoin-ether-bringing-total-holdings-to-90m
– Messaging platform Signal is now accepting crypto donations
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/98372/signal-encrypted-message-app-crypto-donations
– Cardano added to Bloomberg Terminal and Coinbase Pro
https://decrypt.co/61413/report-cardano-added-to-bloomberg-terminal
https://blog.coinbase.com/cardano-ada-is-launching-on-coinbase-pro-694b1cb8c778
– Several miners are protesting against EIP 1559
https://twitter.com/RedPandaMining/status/1368625214674796550
– PancakeSwap and Cream Finance hit with simultaneous domain attacks
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/98353/defi-pancakeswap-cream-dns-hijackings
– SushiSwap launches on Avalanche
https://medium.com/avalancheavax/sushiswap-launches-on-avalanche-bringing-another-leading-dex-to-avalanches-growing-defi-ecosystem-8b84e966251f
– OpenSea has raised a series A of $23m
https://opensea.io/blog/announcements/opensea-raises-23m-to-scale-the-largest-marketplace-for-nfts/
– ‘NFT’ search volume on Google hits all-time high
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/98358/nft-search-volume-on-google-hits-all-time-high-as-platform-user-count-nears-400k
– NFTs may not be as decentralised as thought
https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1372170724459343874
– Elon Musk releases an NFT song about NFTs then decides not to sell
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1371969967176957956
– 8 unique carbon negative NFTs being released on Nifty Gateway
https://www.carbondrop.art/
– DC Comics is interested in the NFT market
https://twitter.com/Bloqbot/status/1371152169626390536
– Sophia the Robot joins NFT craze
https://decrypt.co/61208/sophia-the-robot-joins-nft-craze-with-ai-driven-crypto-artwork
– Auction house Sotheby’s plans to hold its first NFT sale next month
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/98448/high-end-auction-house-sothebys-nft-pak
– Tony Hawk’s “final” 540-degree ollie NFT to be sold via Ethernity Chain
https://twitter.com/tonyhawk/status/1372425655913123840
– Charmin (Toilet Paper) releases NFT(P)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210317005594/en/Charmin%C2%AE-Rolls-Out-First-Ever-NFT-P
– Crypto Market Cap
https://www.coingecko.com/en/global_charts
– Assets Locked in DeFi
https://defipulse.com/
– NFT Volumes
https://nonfungible.com/market/history