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📺 ROLLUP: 2nd Week of January

January 15th, 2020

Market

• BTC price in the last 7 days:

  • Touched $42,000

  • Fell down to $31,000

  • Regained $40,000.

  • Currently at $39,500

• ETH Price

  • Touched $1,350

  • Fell to $900

  • Currently above $1,200

• TVL in DeFi

  • From $22.8 to $23.3B

• DPI

  • From $185 to $208

• MKR particularly interesting price action

• Retail entering; judging by exchange twitter followers

• Market Dumps because of overleverage

• Numbers are bigger now

• Coinbase volume

• Reminder: ETH futures on the horizon

Releases

• Tether on a ZK Rollup

• Nexus mutual offering insurance on exchanges

• Bitcoin hashrate tokenized on Ethereum

• Connecting all the rollups with Vector?

• Cloudflare and IPFS: Your ethereum address is now accessible by any browser without an extension 

• ETH staking inside Argent

• Synthetix announces Optimistic Rollup transition plan

• Coinbase Asset Hub

News

• Gemini going public??

• Gemini BTC credit card

• Gary Gensler is new SEC chair

• We did it.

• Anchorage Becomes First OCC-Approved National Crypto Bank – CoinDesk

• Morgan Stanly owns 10% of Microstrategy

• Pakistan using funds to mine BTC

• 2.5% of ETH supply in Gnosis safe

Takes

• Sushi on the rise

• Erik Voorhees on protocol competition

• Brian Brooks “Get Ready for Self-Driving Banks

• Bitcoin is less risky as NGU

• Ryan on ICOs: Were ICOs net good or net bad? 

• Starting pistol for Web3 decentralization

• Mark Cuban on internet tech stocks

• Bitcoin in race for adoption ahead of CBDCs

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