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Altcoin AVAX Surges on Funding News: Markets Wrap

By Morgan Chittum / September 16, 2021

AVAX, the token behind Avalanche, was up 18% on Thursday following the company’s funding news.

DeFi

DAS 2021: Could DeFi Make Savings Accounts Obsolete?

By Morgan Chittum / September 16, 2021

With offerings such as yield farming, Vesper’s Matthew Roszak said DeFi could usher in a new era of financial optimization where many people will no longer only use third party intermediaries like retail banks to store their savings

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Macro

Evergrande Is Suspending Trades Friday, Here’s What That Means

By Casey Wagner / September 16, 2021

Evergrande, which has been cash-strapped for months, is sitting on about $300 billion in debt, making it the most indebted developer in the world.

Key Metrics

Bitcoin 1 Month Implied Volatility

93.6%

Vision Hill Fundamental Index Performance

453.5

Federal Reserve Balance Sheet

$7.71 Trillion

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Markets

Franklin Templeton Prepping Blockchain Fund

By Ben Strack / September 16, 2021

Filing from the $1.5 trillion asset manager follows crypto-focused investments, job postings

Markets

DAS 2021: Crypto Market Could Hit $40T in Five Years

By Ben Strack / September 16, 2021

Founders of Morgan Creek Capital Management, 10T criticize hedge fund manager Ray Dalio’s remarks on crypto

Markets

LayerZero Adds $6.3M in Series A Funding Led by Binance Labs and Multicoin Capital

By Jacquelyn Melinek / September 16, 2021

The project previously raised $2 million in a seed round bringing its total fundraising to $8.3 million to date.

DeFi
Markets

Avalanche Closes $230M Token Sale Backed by Three Arrows Capital, Polychain

By Sam Reynolds / September 16, 2021

Proceeds from $230 million token sale to be used by the foundation to accelerate DeFi activity on the platform.

Binance CEO Signals Exchange is Looking for Permanent Home

By Sam Reynolds / September 16, 2021

In an interview with SCMP, Zhao said that Binance is working hard to become more regulatory friendly and that includes creating what regulators flag the most — a centralized headquarters.

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Monday & Tuesday, November 15 & 16, 2021

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Podcasts

The Meb Faber Show

The Meb Faber Show focuses on helping you grow and preserve your wealth.

Empire

Empire features interviews with top crypto founders to get their stories about building companies.

Generational Arbitrage

Host Tyler Neville digs into the institutions whose promises are left unfulfilled.

On the Margin

On the Margin focuses on the emerging phenomenon of bitcoin from the perspective of Wall Street veterans.

The Delphi Podcast

The Delphi Podcast features top thought leaders, investors and founders in crypto

More Articles

Podcast: Cleaning up the energy grid with Bitcoin mining

By Brianna Beckford / September 16, 2021

Marty Bent and Harry Sudock discuss Bitcoin mining, the energy grid, and the Lightning Network.

Solana Makes Gains Following Multi-hour Outage: Markets Wrap

By Morgan Chittum / September 15, 2021

“We’re seeing a lot of Layer-1 chains out there and they’re all choosing different tradeoffs. These things are not just better than the other,” Tushar Jain, Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, said. “We’re very interested in exploring different parts of these tradeoffs. One of our big bets in this space is an alternative layer-1 called Solana.”

Asset Management

Oasis Pro Markets Taps Anchorage for ATS Custody and Settlement

By Sam Reynolds / September 15, 2021

Oasis Pro Markets is one of the few crypto trading institutions that has an Alternative Trading System License

Markets

DAS 2021: Owning an NFT is Like Owning a ‘Piece of Innovation’

By Morgan Chittum / September 15, 2021

Skeptics question why someone would pay a large sum of money for what appears to be a cartoon, but Ikigai Founder Travis Kling described holding the asset similar to “owning a layer of innovation.”

Regulation

Gensler: Investors are Not Protected When It Comes to Crypto

By Sam Reynolds / September 14, 2021

In prepared remarks during his testimony before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday, Gensler said that emerging technologies pose risks to investors, and regulators cannot continue to look the other way.