ROLLUP: 3rd Week of January

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MARKET 

• BTC Price
• • $31,500
• ETH Price 
  • $1440
  • https://twitter.com/defipulse/status/1351520589039738880
•  $DPI
  • Peaked at $240
  • Now at $195
• • NEW ATH!!
• TVL in DeFi
• • Peaked at $25B locked!
• BTC secret to success = HODL for at least 3.5 years
• • https://blockworks.co/pantera-follow-up-this-rally-looks-different-than-2017/

• Just HODL
  • Just self custody. 
• • https://thedefiant.io/btc-eth-massively-outperform-crypto-hedge-funds-in-2020/
  • 2 and 20% fees for holding BTC up 425% and ETH up 360%

• ETH Fundamentals thread from spencer
• • https://twitter.com/spencernoon/status/1351559233699983366?s=20

• Fundstrat says 10k ETH
• • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-20/fundstrat-sees-digital-coin-ether-surging-sevenfold-to-10-500

RELEASES

• mStable mUSD Save v2
• • https://medium.com/mstable/mstable-launches-new-composable-version-of-musd-save-982a814e17d0
  • High-yield savings
    
• Saddle Finance
• • https://www.coindesk.com/saddle-raises-4-3m-for-slippage-free-defi-trading
  • Curve clone?
    
    
• Loopring on Google Play
• • https://twitter.com/loopringorg/status/1351971724842184704?s=21
    
• State of ETH 2, Danny Ryan
• • https://twitter.com/dannyryan/status/1351930308770185217
    
• Optimism soft launch!
• • https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/mainnet-soft-launch-7cacc0143cd5
    
    
• Coinbase compartmentalizing infrastructure to help reduce outages
• • https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-redoing-infrastructure-to-prevent-outages-during-peak-times

• Yearn proposes 22% YFI mint
  • https://www.coindesk.com/lets-not-be-bitcoin-yearn-considers-minting-200m-in-new-yfi-tokens
    

• https://gov.yearn.finance/t/proposal-funding-yearns-future/9319

• Bankless Reply to Lyn Alden
  • https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/open-reply-to-lyn-alden-and-ethereum

NEWS

• Goldman Sachs entering crypto with a custody play
  • • https://www.coindesk.com/goldman-sachs-to-enter-crypto-market-soon-with-custody-play-source
      
      
• Blackrock positioning to buy BTC via futures?
  • https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/91867/blackrock-sec-filings-bitcoin-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
  
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/18/yellen-says-us-must-act-big-on-next-coronavirus-relief-package.html
  • MMT is officially in
  • https://www.coindesk.com/janet-yellen-says-cryptocurrencies-are-a-concern-in-terrorist-financing
  • Also Yellen Crypto is for terrorist financing

• Mike Dudas response to Yellen
  • https://twitter.com/mdudas/status/1351596351897874432?s=20

• Coinbase acquires Bison Trails
  • https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-to-acquire-leading-blockchain-infrastructure-platform-bison-trails-f879654421d6
    

• Soulja Boy looking into NFTs
  • https://twitter.com/souljaboy/status/1351690439905013760?s=20

• PAX Gold - first Gold token over $100M MC
  • https://www.paxos.com/pax-gold-the-first-gold-token-with-more-than-100-million-in-market-cap/

• Pornhub payments via some random crypto tokens and USDC
  • https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/91817/pornhub-adds-xrp-bnb-usdc-doge-crypto-payment-options

TAKES

• Ethereum is a bet that the future is going to be different
• • https://twitter.com/trustlessstate/status/1351726365620355076?s=21

• DeFi developers are now called Money Mechanics
• • https://twitter.com/ETHGlobal/status/1349053987874615303?s=20

• Valuing ETH is impossible
• • https://twitter.com/spencernoon/status/1351635677847445505?s=20

• Year in Ethereum 2020 from Josh Stark and Evan Van Ness
• • https://twitter.com/0xstark/status/1351922041599873026?s=20

• Uniswap is doing 2% of NYSE as the new normal
• • https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1351646322173091840?s=20

• Have we earned it?
• • https://twitter.com/n2ckchong/status/1350328538646212608?s=20

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