The Intersection of Cryptocurrency and Global Sanctions

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ROLLUP: 4th Week of October

MARKET: What’s the Market saying?

BTC Price - More or less ATH. Less than 5 weeks of time spent above 13k!

ETH Price

- YFI, UNI, DeFi tokens down - Anthony Sassano's Daily Gwei piece on the swinging pendulum https://thedailygwei.substack.com/p/the-sentiment-pendulum-the-daily - $2B BTC on Ethereum https://btconethereum.com/

RELEASES: What got released? Aave Admin Key Handover https://medium.com/aave/aave-admin-key-handover-3e09e603d348

Coinbase Debit cards https://decrypt.co/46507/coinbase-expands-crypto-debit-card-to-us-customers?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=auto

JPM Coin https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/27/jpmorgan-creates-new-unit-for-blockchain-projects-as-it-says-the-technology-is-close-to-making-money.html

JPM on the market for a custody provider https://twitter.com/TheBlock__/status/1321195503367970820

The largest bank in Singapore just launched a crypto exchange DBS! Audius on mainnet; airdrop to 10k most popular artists FTX Launches BTC-Equity trading pairs https://www.coindesk.com/ftx-launches-bitcoin-pairs-against-amazon-apple-tokenized-stocks

Traders in the U.S. and FTX’s other restricted jurisdictions will not be eligible to trade the products. Did he not learn from BitMEX??

NEWS What’s in the news?

Avanti is now a Crypto-Bank https://decrypt.co/46561/avanti-becomes-second-crypto-bank-us Formalization of bank = Crypto integration ‘Crypto-Bank’ was more of a meme, now its a reality

Microstrategy has made more from purchasing Bitcoin than it has in 3.5 years of revenue https://coinfomania.com/microstrategys-bitcoin-gains-exceeds-3yr-earnings/

Iran enabled BTC for import payments https://www.coindesk.com/iran-amends-law-to-allow-imports-to-be-funded-with-cryptocurrency Implication that Iran is stockpiling BTC? Cryptocurrency allows you to go around regulations

Flash Loans making governance decisions https://twitter.com/votewithtally/status/1321509824312455170?s=21

Consensys helps French Bank with CBDC pilot program https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-developer-consensys-to-assist-french-bank-with-cbdc-pilot

Consensys helps Bank of Thailand for CBDC project https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/consensys-selected-as-technology-partner-by-the-bank-of-thailand-for-cbdc-project

TAKES What’s on your mind?

(David) BTC + Ethereum OR BTC or Ethereum https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1321632145673121792?s=20 $2B BTC on Ethereum

(Ryan) Everytime I use a bank I get more bullish ETH https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1321870051859976193?s=20

Infrastructure upgrade!! (Ryan) Dirty secret of ETH killers--the VCs own them! https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1321131634142388228?s=20

If you think the tokens of ETH killers are the same as ETH, you don't understand Ethereum. https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1320714858229321728?s=20

What are you excited about? (

(David) Balancer Smart Pools https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1321622734120525824?s=20) (David) Getting this election over with. Market turmoil ahead! COVID 3rd wave lockdowns

(Ryan) All bank ledgers are Ethereum sidechains https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1321067583983046656?s=20

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