Crypto Weekender 4/12

Curated weekly reads, listens, and views.

Reads

• DeFi Liquidity Models by Alex Evans
• The IEO Phenomenon’s Impact on Markets and Token Models by Derek Hsue
• A few thoughts on the most important company in crypto by Anil Lulla for Analyst Afterthoughts
• Bitcoin is a Weapon by Hector Rosekrans
• A few thoughts on the velocity of money by Peter Ryan for Analyst Afterthoughts
• Alpine and the Bridges of Web 2.5 by Jbeezy
• The Applications Never Came by Regan Bozman
• How do you win a Twitter debate? by Preethi Kasireddy
• 0x Roadmap 2019 (part 4) — Proposal for Stake-based Liquidity Incentives
• Q1 2019 Dapp Market Report from Dapp.com

Tweets

• Katherine Wu and Dovey Wan on the news that China could restrict crypto mining
• Tom Shaughnessy on on-going project funding
• Bitcoin Venezuela’s thread showing meals given out thanks to crypto donations
• Denis Nazarov’s thread on a16z’s investment in Celo

Listens

• Off the Chain: Muneeb Ali, Co-Founder of Blockstack: Publicly Filing for a Reg A+ Token Sale
• What Bitcoin Did: Nic Carter and Pierre Rochard on the Economics of the Lightning Network
• What Grinds My Gears: Fork Yourself
• Unchained: Grin: A More Private, Lighter Bitcoin
• Unconfirmed: How Useful is the SEC’s Guidance on ICOs?
• Chain Reaction Podcast: ConsenSys’ Ajit Tripathi — ICOs, STOs, and Institutional Digital Assets: How Tokens are Digitizing Financial Markets
• Epicenter: Bonding Curves, Curation Markets, Token Curated Registries, and Art
• Blockchain Insider: The richest man in the world
• Into the Ether: Celer Network: Scaling Ethereum via Layer 2 with Mo Dong

Views

• Muneeb Ali Cheddar interview following Blockstack’s SEC filing for $50M token offering under Reg A+

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