CryptoCurrents [III] | 14.Jun.2018
Weekly pulse of key events in cryptocurrency markets
📰 TLDR | Coinbase to support crypto-securities… Coinrail exchange hacked to the tune of $40M… Bitmain considers $12B IPO… SEC indicates Bitcoin is not a security but ICOs may be
Market Snapshot
🚀 Launches | Inside the EOS mainnet launch(es) / Tezos to fork pre-launch / BlockCollider miner launch shows early promise for interoperability
💼 Regulatory briefing | SEC Chairman says Bitcoin is not a security, most other cryptos likely are
👑 Sovereign snapshot | Korea will regulate crypto exchanges like banks
👻 Hacks | Korean exchange Coinrail loses $40M in hack / Misconfigured ethereum clients lead to $20M loss
🌐 Ecosystem views | Consensys Token Utility Canvas
🌀 Coinbase | CB’s path to securitization / Launches institutional index fund / Resists tokenization of equity shares / Adds ETC support LOL
⚡ Binance | Explores Euro trading pairs / Discloses investment in Republic (CoinList spinoff)
🔧 Cool tools | Crypto dashboard for sentiment, trends, and technicals / Sentiment analysis
⭐️ Market perspective | Top influencers share their outlook on crypto / Research leads to Bitfinex Tether manipulation for 2017 highs
⏳ Adoption + Enterprise | 50 use cases for blockchain
🔑 Custody corner | Fidelity to build crypto custody and exchange services
💡 Learner’s lagoon | All about Airdrops
📈 Word from Wall Street | Thomson Reuters to add sentiment tracking for top cryptocurrencies (Or you can do it for free here and here)
👽 Random | Physical airdrops (from the HK skies)
🦄 M&A | Bitmain eyes $12B IPO in HK after $400M funding from Sequoia China
👓 Technical tally | All about Schnorr Signatures
🎯 Consensus Algorithms | EOS dPoS vs Cosmos Tendermint BFT
🎩 Thought Leaders | Jimmy Song on Smart Contracts
🔨 Minding mining | Valuation of mining operations / Misconceptions of Mining
🌞 Causes | Ripple donates $50M to higher education for blockchain research
📊 Charts & Data | The $30B selloff — supply economics
💎 Research hub | Multicoin Capital — DPoS Features & Tradeoffs
✈️ Conferences around the the corner | June events
☕️ Long Read | Coinshares Whitepaper on Mining
Quote(s) of the week:
“ Replace the dollar, the yen, the euro with Bitcoin. That type of currency is not a security.”
— Jay Clayton, SEC Chair
“ My view: there are basically 5 scaling strategies:
(1) Many separate chains (2) Super-big blocks (3) Incremental improvements that don’t change security model [eg. replacing txs + sigs with compressed delta + STARKs] (4) Layer 2 [channels and plasma] (5) Sharding”
— Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Founder
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