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📺 ROLLUP: 2nd Week of January

January 15th, 2020

Market

• BTC Price: $31,500

• ETH Price: $1440

• $DPI: NEW ATH!!

  • Now at $195

  • Peaked at $240

• TVL in DeFi: Peaked at $25B locked!

• BTC secret to success = HODL for at least 3.5 years

• Just HODL

  • Just self custody. 

  • 2 and 20% fees for holding BTC up 425% and ETH up 360%

• ETH Fundamentals thread from Spencer

• Fundstrat says 10k ETH

Releases

• mStable releases mUSD Save v2—new high-yield savings

• Saddle Finance

• Loopring on Google Play

• State of ETH 2, Danny Ryan

• Optimism soft launch!

• Coinbase compartmentalizing infrastructure to help reduce outages

• Yearn proposes 22% YFI mint (proposal discussions)

• Bankless Reply to Lyn Alden

News

• Goldman Sachs entering crypto with a custody play

• Blackrock positioning to buy BTC via futures?

  • Massive news. BlackRock—the multi-trillion dollar asset manager—opens door to possible bitcoin futures allocation for certain funds it manages, according to recent filing.

• Money Printer go BRRR

  • MMT is officially in

  • Also Yellen Crypto is for terrorist financing

• Mike Dudas response to Yellen

• Coinbase acquires Bison Trails

• Soulja Boy looking into NFTs

• PAX Gold - first Gold token over $100M MC

• Pornhub payments via some random crypto tokens and USDC

Takes

• Ethereum is a bet that the future is going to be different

• DeFi developers are now called Money Mechanics

• Valuing ETH is impossible

• Year in Ethereum 2020 from Josh Stark and Evan Van Ness

• Uniswap is doing 2% of NYSE as the new normal

• Have we earned it?

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