Crypto && Coffee 049
- 5 minsTechnology Recap:
Bitcoin:
- Bitcoin had it’s 12 year anniversary of the original whitepaper. Check out this awesome post from Nic Carter from Castle Island Ventures on Bitcoin and the excitement we all share.
Litecoin:
- David Burkett releases the October update on Litecoin’s Mimblewimble extension blocks (MWEB).
- Stanford Blockchain Club hosted Charlie Lee and David Burkett to discuss Litecoin’s Mimblewimble extension blocks. View the full stream here.
Ethereum:
- Ethereum releases the first v1.0.0 ETH2.0 Deposit CLI. This will be used to create keys for depositing Ether into 2.0.
- Ben Edgington, from ConsenSys, shares the latest news in ETH2.0 including: the beacon chain, full roadmap, and upcoming events.
- Prysmatic Labs releases v1.0.0-beta.1 of Prysm for the Medalla testnet. This update includes fixes to various bugs and upgrading to BLSv4.
- Ethereum Cat Herders release their latest updates on ETH1.0, EIP-2926, ETH2.0, and more.
Other Chains:
- Lightning Labs announces Lightning Pool, a non-custodial marketplace to buy and sell bitcoin liquidity on Lightning. With Pool, users can trade channels, making it easy to get access to liquidity or earn bitcoin-native yield.
- DeversiFi publishes their product roadmap including liquidity mining, rapid withdrawals, zero knowledge KYC, and layer-2 bridges.
- Zcash celebrated it’s 4th Birthday on October 28th, 2020 with excitement and anticipation of their first halving aiming to occur in November.
- A MakerDAO governance vote last week passed with the use of a flash loan by an outside party. Maker issued a post on flash loans and the security of the Maker Protocol.
- IPFS releases their latest news from IPFS and Filecoin.
- Celsius successfully integrated Chainlink’s decentralized Price Feeds to power its internal system. The integration encompasses the usage of 35 Chainlink Price Feeds.
- Aave Protocol has officially handed over the protocol admin keys to the governance. This is an important step towards decentralization.
- Reflexer Labs unveils their first, full Ether backed asset called Proto RAI. Proto RAI (PRAI) is an unaudited mainnet demo of their upcoming reflex index called RAI.
- Protocol Labs collaborates with ConsenSys to bring Filecoin to Ethereum and more.
- Dharma gives users the ability to buy tokens in Uniswap directly from a bank account.
- Zcash’s work on FROST (Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures) was accepted into the Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) 2020 Conference last week. View the full video of their presentation here.
- B.Protocol, which launched on mainnet last week is now using Chainlink Price Feeds to estimate liquidation profits.
- ENS shares their preliminary work on a general-purpose bridge for Ethereum layer-2 protocols.
- Zapper releases their product updates for October 2020 including dashboard support for: Harvest Finance, Index Coop, PieDAO, Pickle Finance, SushiSwap, SnowSwap, and more.
- Keep3r Network publishes their v1 beta and smart contracts.
Mainstream Recap:
- Full write up and deep dive into Deanonymizing the Kucoin Hacker.
- The Cayman Islands commences a framework for Virtual Asset Service Providers.
- Coinbase opens the waitlist for the Coinbase Card. In the US, users will be able to spend the crypto in their Coinbase account everywhere via this Visa debit card and earn 4% back in crypto rewards.
- PayPal has seen enough interest following the October 21st announcement, that they have increased purchase limits from $10,000 to $15,000 USD.
- Gemini launches support for EUR based deposits and trading on the Gemini platform. Users can now purchase all available cryptos with EUR on mobile and web via a debit card or EUR deposit from one’s bank via SWIFT wire or SEPA transfer.
- Paxful partners with BlockCard to offer a crypto debit card to US customers.
- River Financial announces the River Hardware Wallet Account. This account is an extension of one’s hardware wallet allowing the user to view balances, track investments, and receive bitcoin all on River.
- The Graph Foundation announces a successful public sale of (GRT), The Graph’s native token, selling $12M to the community. This is all in anticipation of The Graph’s mainnet launch in 30-60 days.
- Gemini announces a partnership with TaxBit to utilize TaxBit’s Tax Center Suite to automate and optimize user’s cryptocurrency tax reporting.
- CoinDesk reports that derivatives exchange FTX has launched a novel way to trade the world’s most popular stocks via FTX’s fractional stock offering.
- A new partnership for Fidelity Digital Asset Services (FDAS) aims to facilitate the growing interest in crypto among Asian investors. Stack Funds, who is based in Singapore, will make FDAS’s secure custody services available to its clients in an aim to meet increasing demand. Full report from Bloomberg here.
- Coinfirm shares that it will be integrating with Chainlink to bring AML solutions to the blockchain itself.
- Avanti Financial’s banking charter was approved unanimously by the Wyoming State Banking Board becoming the second newly chartered bank in the state this year following Kraken.
- Figment, the company behind staking, node infrastructure and web3 protocols, has raised $2.5M in a second round of venture funding. The round was led by Bonfire Ventures and joined by FJ Labs, XDL Capital Group, Leminiscap, BKCM, and angel investor Stephan Patnernot.
- MoneyGram has received over $9.3M in just Q3 of 2020 from Ripple. Full report from CoinDesk here.
- European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde announced an ECB survey of public opinion regarding the issuance of a digital euro.
- Ethereum analytics company, Nansen, raises $1.2M in seed funding.
- OpenZeppelin announces OpenZeppelin Defender. This will allow projects to get to market faster and minimize security risks by providing a development platform with built-in security best practices for Ethereum development.
- IDEO CoLab Ventures announces their $21M early-stage crypto fund which is backed by IDEO, Avanta Ventures, GS Group, Hanwha Asset Management, Fineqia, as well as executives from Coinbase, Twitter, and Fortress.
This Week’s Cup of Coffee Cocktail:
Screw a cup of coffee today, as we have all been glued to election results, why not try a new cocktail? This week I am suggesting a Fanciulli, a different take on a Manhattan with a lil extra. The drink calls for: 2oz Whiskey (I prefer Rye), 1oz Sweet Vermouth, 1/4oz Fernet Branca. Mix the ingredients together in a cocktail shaker with ice for 10-20seconds then pour into a Martini or Lowball glass. Enjoy!!
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