Web3: Coinbase ❤️ Mastercard; Federal Reserve on CBDC; VeNomics in DeFi; State of Uniswap; a16z $4.5B Crypto Fund
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NFT, Metaverse, and Gaming
⭐ Coinbase Partners with Mastercard to Simplify NFT Purchase Process for Masses - BTC Manager, January 19
Ethereum NFT Badge App POAP Raises $10M to Fund Development - Decrypt, January 19
Microsoft’s Activision Plan Shows Gaming Will Be At Heart Of Metaverse - The Guardian, January 18
Twitter Integrates NFTs With New Profile-Picture Feature - Blockworks, January 20
Cardano (ADA) Metaverse Launches With Thousands Investing in Its Digital Real Estate - The Daily HODL, January 19
Animoca Brands Raises $358.8M at $5B Valuation For NFT Games And Open Metaverse - Games Beat, January 18
DAOs and Token Engineering
⭐ ‘VeNomics’ Taking Over DeFi as New Model for Earning More Rewards - Be In Crypto, January 18
zkDAO Official Soft Proposal - Messari, January 18
MetisDAO TVL Surges By 99,800% As The Layer-2 Race Heats Up - Coin Telegraph, January 21
ZeroShift DAO Set to Simplify Decentralised Finance in Highly Anticipated Launch - Global Newswire, January 21
DeHorizon With Its DAO: A Brand-New Attempt In The Metaverse Field - AMB Crypto, January 19
DeFi and Stablecoins
⭐ State of Uniswap Q4 2021 - Messari, January 20
Terra-Focused Stader Labs Raises $12.5M, Hits $450M Valuation - Blockworks, January 20
Fantom Becomes Third-Largest DeFi Protocol by Value Locked - Coin Desk, January 24
An Ocean of Liquidity: OpenOcean and the Quest to Become the CeDefi Aggregator - Messari, January 24
Terra Ecosystem Announces Luna Foundation Guard to Safeguard Its Stablecoins From Volatility - Gadgets 360, January 22
Public Blockchains
⭐ Ethereum’s EIP-1559 Upgrade Launches On Polygon To Burn MATIC - Coin Telegraph, January 18
Cosmos Exchange Osmosis Expands to Ethereum Assets With Gravity Bridge - Coin Desk, January 19
Hedera Governing Council To Buy Hashgraph IP, And Open-Source Projects Code - Coin Telegraph, January 19
Privacy-Focused Blockchain Secret Network Announces $400M in Funding - Coin Desk, January 19
Crypto AM Shines Its Spotlight On Sundaeswap And The Cardano 2022 Scaling Roadmap - City AM, January 19
Opera Launches A Dedicated Crypto Browser - Tech Crunch, January 19
Crypto, Fintech and Institutional
⭐ Andreessen Horowitz Looks to Raise $4.5B for New Crypto Funds: Report - Coin Desk, January 19
Institutional Crypto Custodian Fireblocks Adds Support For Solana - The Block, January 20
Survey: Financial Advisors Increasingly Allocating to Crypto - Blockworks, January 20
Robinhood Launches Crypto Wallet Beta for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin Transfers - Decrypt, January 20
$140 Billion Asset-Management Firm Considers Launching Crypto Fund - Blockworks, January 19
Enterprise Chains and CBDCs
⭐ Money and Payments: The US Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation - The Federal Reserve, January 21
Blockchain Supply Chain Finance Market To 2028, Size, Share Analysis by Key Players, Growth Rate & Industry Outlook Report - Wall Street 24, January 21
Aleph.im Raises $10M To Develop Censorship-Resistant Data Storage - Coin Telegraph, January 20
Iran To Reportedly Pilot Central Bank Digital Currency Soon - Coin Telegraph, January 19
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