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“IOSG Annual Review: The most valuable thinking in 2020 and the most noteworthy directions in 2021”
IOSG shared its growth and thinking on the industry, investment logic, and post-investment value creation, and pointed out the firm optimistic direction for 2021.
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“Simetri Selected Report: Interpretation of the Ethereum Ecological Decentralized Collaboration Platform EthereumOS”
The paid membership service “Simetri” launched by Crypto Briefing, a crypto-asset research organization, released a report stating that EthereansOS has changed the way decentralized governance and decentralized applications work on Ethereum, and has the potential to lead new applications.
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“Hash Global: In-depth analysis of Binance platform ecology and BNB value”
Hash Global released the BNB valuation report that Binance is the only “organization” that can resist or blend in with the thriving DeFi world on Ethereum, and BNB, as the only carrier for value capture in Binance ecology, has great long-term value .
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Cool stuff
“A Brief Analysis of the Working Mechanism of the DeFi Anchor Protocol”
Terra’s stock synthetic asset project Mirror Protocol is one of the most popular projects on the market recently. Another product Anchor Protocol developed by this team is also worthy of attention.
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“Pantera Partner: Understanding the Cryptocurrency Market Maker Wintermute”
Pantera Capital recently invested in Wintermute, a digital asset algorithm market maker. Pantera partner Paul Veradittakit believes that the combination of Wintermute and DeFi aggregators can provide end users of encryption protocols with efficient and consistent access to funds.
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“To tokenize the asset “rights”, what value can APWine provide for DeFi Lego? 》
APWine’s agreement on separation of income rights provides a richer DeFi financial derivative, which has transaction value itself, and can also be used as the building blocks of DeFi Lego to be combined into other more complex financial products.
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Industry Insight
“Jesse Walden’s Three Suggestions for Builders of the Crypto World”
Make a departure plan based on the average cost and try some thought experiments at the same time.
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“First Class Depth Report: A Comprehensive Interpretation of Stacks Features, Ecological Status and Token Economy”
Bitcoin, as the cryptocurrency with the largest market value and the most secure public chain, has good development space for ecological applications on top of it.
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A few things not to miss
Important project progress
- 1inch airdropped over 15 million 1INCH tokens to the crypto community, with a total value of over 80 million USD
- The deployment of the ZKSwap mainnet based on Ethereum Layer2 is completed and will be officially released at 8 pm on February 14
- Avalanche released a new client , and urged the verifier sure to update nodes; Avalanche because DEX Pangolin load is too high to trigger cross-functional error chain, will publish client patch ; Avalanche official on-line “Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge”
- DuckDAO officially launched DuckSTARTER, a token sale platform . The first custodial projects include VortexDeFi and Shadows Network
- Web3 privacy product Mask Network launches governance token MASK
- Decentralized trading platform DODO releases economic model V2 and introduces membership certificate vDODO
- Matic Network changed its name to Polygon to fully support the second-tier expansion solution
- Opera browser for iOS can directly access IPFS address
- Ethereum privacy platform Tornado Cash will enable token transfer function
Investment and Financing
- Source: BlockFi is conducting Series D financing at a pre-trade valuation of US$2.85 billion
- Source: Dapper Labs is expected to complete a US$250 million financing led by Coatue Management, with a post-investment valuation of over US$2 billion
- Decentralized transaction agreement 0x development team completed $15 million in Series A financing , Pantera led the investment
- Crypto mining company Compute North completes $25 million in financing
- Open source payment network Celo completes US$20 million in financing , a16z participates in the investment
- Decentralized storage protocol Swarm completes $6 million private equity financing , plans to release version 1.0 in Q2
- Cross-border remittance startup Valiu completes USD 5.25 million seed round financing
- Balancer Labs completes USD 5 million financing , led by Three Arrows Capital and DeFiance Capital
- DeFi project Reflexer Labs completes US$4.14 million in Series A financing
- Loan provider Ledn completed the second round of seed financing, raising US$2.7 million
- Vesper, a DeFi platform focused on ease of use, completed $2.5 million in financing and has started public testing
- Boca intelligent platform Plasm contract completed $ 2.4 million financing, Binance Labs lead investor
- Intelligent transportation capacity supply chain service provider Manipulative Vehicle completes 15 million RMB Pre-STO financing
- Polkadot ecological DeFi project Stone completes 1.5 million USD financing
- SuperFarm, a cross-chain DeFi agreement, completes a $1.2 million strategic round of financing
- APYSwap completes $1 million early stage financing , led by NGC and Asymm Ventures
- DeFi Credit Cooperative Xend Finance will integrate products with African SaaS provider TechFusion Africa and obtain a new financing of USD 500,000
- Blockchain storage protocol Arweave receives investment from Version One Ventures
Data and research report
- Dai’s circulation exceeded 2 billion, a record high
- St. Louis Fed Report : DeFi may help establish a sound and transparent financial infrastructure
- Data: The average website traffic of crypto exchanges surged by 60% month-on-month in January
Transaction and market
- Grayscale newly registered six trust fund products including YFI, SNX, SUSHI, STX, COMP and MKR
- The Ethereum futures launched by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange began trading ; CME Group’s Ethereum futures launched the trading volume within a day of over 30 million US dollars
- Linkin Park band members launch their first NFT auction on Zora
- Bill Miller’s fund Miller Opportunity Trust seeks to buy Grayscale Bitcoin Trust with up to 15% of its position
Big company progress
- World Economic Forum report : Deutsche Bank plans to launch crypto asset custody services
- Grayscale plans to double the number of employees in 2021, preferring talents with traditional financial backgrounds
- US listed company MicroStrategy is forming a blockchain data analysis team
- Ark Investment Management Company holds a grayscale Bitcoin trust fund worth over US$350 million
- BitPay MasterCard prepaid card for Apple Pay increase of support
- Bank of New York Mellon establishes a new digital asset department, intends to provide digital asset custody and other services
- Mastercard plans to provide merchants with cryptocurrency payment options within this year
- Twitter is considering adding Bitcoin to its balance sheet
- Amazon announces new payment product job recruitment in Mexico, or will start digital currency project
- BlockFi launches Bitcoin trust fund , initial users are institutional investors
- Blockchain venture capital firm IDEO CoLab plans to sell $100 million in new crypto funds
- Tesla has purchased $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and will accept Bitcoin as payment
- Bitfinex has repaid Tether’s remaining $550 million loan
Market voice
- Billionaire Mark Cuban : ETH has a greater value storage advantage than BTC
- Twitter CEO and well-known singer Jay-Z will donate 500 Bitcoins to the Bitcoin Development Foundation “₿trust”
- US SEC Commissioner : The market is ready for Bitcoin ETP
- “Doctor Doom” Nouriel Roubini calls on the US SEC to investigate Musk: the latter is suspected of manipulating Bitcoin
Supervision, macro dynamics
- Consob, the Italian securities market regulator, discusses the supervision of STO
- Bloomberg: The proposed Indian encryption ban will provide a transition period of 3 to 6 months
- Canadian securities regulator approves North America’s first Bitcoin ETF
- The State Council’s “Regulations on Prevention and Treatment of Illegal Fund Raising” mentions virtual currency
- Shenzhen Longhua’s ” Digital RMB Spring Festival Red Envelope” campaign ended, using nearly 95% of funds
- Central Bank of Nigeria : The cryptocurrency ban is not a new move and will not hinder the development of the country’s technology, finance and payment ecology
Security Question
- Edo, an upgraded version of Tezos, has discovered serious vulnerabilities and has released a fix for v8.2
- The crypto asset management tool Blockfolio is suspected of being hacked , and the official response to transactions and other behaviors has no risk
- DeFi revenue aggregator BT.Finance was hacked and affected funds amounted to 1.5 million US dollars
- Curve and Year have closed the new fund pool after discovering risks, and the funds will be returned to the user
- Alpha Homora V2 was attacked and stolen funds are being investigated
- Cream.Finance vulnerability incident progress: V1 and V2 markets have been re-enabled
Preview next week
February 14 (Sunday)
- QiSwap will airdrop QIAD tokens to QTUM holders
- Layer2 Ethernet-based Square of ZKSwap main network will be officially released 20:00
February 15 (Monday)
- Colony, a decentralized community collaboration platform, will soft launch the V2 version on Ethereum and xDai
- DeFi project Yam will end the migration function from YAM V2 to YAM V3
- Umbrella Network, a decentralized oracle project, will start token pledge rewards
February 18 (Thursday)
- DeFi smart investment platform DAOVentures will launch DVG token IDO on Polkastarter
- Cross-chain project Cosmos will be upgraded with Stargate
- HARD Protocol V2 will release a test network
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