This Week in Blockchain - 25th October 2021 - Podcast + Vlog
Welcome to This Week in Blockchain!
Each week your host, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, will provide a rundown of the major events that took place in the blockchain industry that are relevant to business during the past week.
In order to get a succinct update of the blockchain news you care about, This Week in Blockchain has now been split into 4 updates: -
Make 'This Week in Blockchain' part of your weekly routine, it’s a great opportunity for you to catch up with the latest trending blockchain events.
This Week in Blockchain - Crypto
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Links to items discussed:
- Crypto Market Cap Surges to Record $2.7T
- Binance.US blames bitcoin flash crash to $8,200 on client algorithm
- Strike Expands Service to Allow US Users Receive Income Payment in Bitcoin
- Coinbase announces multiyear sponsorship deal with NBA, WNBA
- Facebook Turns to Coinbase, Paxos for Novi Crypto Wallet
- Senate Democrats call on Facebook to halt Diem and Novi
- Diem tells senators on the warpath over Novi: We're not actually Facebook
- FTX raises $420 million in funding round backed by 69 investors
- Sam Altman's Worldcoin wants to scan eyeballs in exchange for crypto
- Crypto Market Cap
This Week in Blockchain - Protocols & Enterprise blockchain
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Links to items discussed:
- Fashion group OTB joins LVMH-led AURA Blockchain Consortium
- Mexican medical firm embraces blockchain for COVID-19 test certificates
- Cosmos is building a new blockchain called Sagan for experimentation
- H&M Mitte Garden launches blockchain powered fashion rentals
- Iota launches beta smart contracts to foster interoperability
- Polkadot unveils $770M development fund ahead of parachain auctions
- Jaguar Land Rover uses blockchain to track leather carbon footprint
- Associated Press collabs with Chainlink to put its information on blockchain
- Internxt pushes decentralized cloud as privacy concerns grow
This Week in Blockchain - DeFi
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Links to items discussed:
- USDC Added to Hedera Hashgraph as Enterprise-Minded Network Eyes DeFi
- Arbitrum extends lead over Optimism as Uniswap posts record volume on L2
- Polychain Capital Joins $32M Investment in DeFi Lending Protocol Element Finance
- Zaki Manian's DeFi project Sommelier raises $23 million in new funding
- Terra Blockchain is Set to Connect to the Cosmos Ecosystem
- MDT announces data oracle for bridging capital market and DeFi
- Assets locked in DeFi
This Week in Blockchain - NFTs
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Links to items discussed:
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Crowned Bored Ape with trippy fur sells for record $2.7 million
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17% of addresses snapped up 80% of all Ethereum NFTs since April
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NFT startup Candy Digital raises $100 million in Series A round
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Tech Platform Behind Sotheby's NFT Metaverse Raises $20 Million
- NFT Volumes
We'd love you to listen to our new podcast 'Blockchain Innovators' too. It's an informative podcast where Web3 Labs founder and CEO, Conor Svensson, talks to guests who have made significant contributions to the blockchain ecosystem. Find out what inspires these innovators, get their thoughts on the latest industry news and events spanning crypto, blockchain, protocols, DeFi, NFTs, DAOs and IoT.
If you’d like to learn more and understand the opportunities blockchain presents to your business, watch our Principles of Successful Blockchain Deployments Webinar.
