Current Trends in Crypto and DeFi

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Weekly Rollups - 2ND WEEK OF OCTOBER

Welcome to Weekly Rollups, where David and Ryan package up a whole weeks worth of news into a bite-sized bit of data, for easy inclusion into your brain!

Weekly Rollups: 5 TOPICS, 5 MINUTES EACH

PRICES AND MARKETS

- BTC, ETH Price

- TVL in DeFi

- BTC hashrate ATH

- Tornado cash is picking up speed (https://twitter.com/BotTornado/status/1315364063547994117?s=20)

- Bitcoin when moon? (https://bankless.substack.com/p/when-bitcoin-moon) WHAT GOT RELEASED?

- Uniswap on TradingView

- YFI, BAL governance vote for collateral into Maker

- ETH 2 Bounty Program https://twitter.com/dannyryan/status/1314563680588238853

- MetaMask Swaps, 1M monthly actives https://medium.com/metamask/metamask-exceeds-1-million-monthly-active-users-9da72a1e915d

- Zinken Testnet is up and running https://zinken.launchpad.ethereum.org/

- The Block sexy new data dashboard! https://www.theblockcrypto.com/data/on-chain-metrics/bitcoin

WHAT'S IN THE NEWS?

- Grayscale took in $1B in Q3 https://grayscale.co/insights/grayscale-q3-2020-digital-asset-investment-report/)

- DOJ 83-page crypto framework https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-announces-publication-cryptocurrency-enforcement-framework

- China Airdopping their Central Bank Digital Currency https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1315830279676686336?s=20 WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND?

- Hayden's Tweet Heard Around the World https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1313959574244859905?s=20

- CFTC Chairman is impressed about Ethereum FULL STOP https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1316506694839685125?s=20

- Scaling approaching from ALL FRONTS: ---The Graph Adds State Channels https://thegraph.com/blog/the-graph-brings-state-channels-to-ethereum ---Curve Implements zkSync https://medium.com/matter-labs/curve-zksync-l2-ethereums-first-user-defined-zk-rollup-smart-contract-5a72c496b350 ---Aztec Unveils Ethereum Layer 2 Network https://medium.com/aztec-protocol/aztec-zkrollup-layer-2-privacy-1978e90ee3b6

WHAT ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT?

David: - ETHOnline DeFi Summit is TODAY (Friday, Oct 16th) https://live.ethonline.org/ - ETH price is going to start reflected the reduced execution risk of ETH 2.0 Ryan - Token Revenue did 26x growth in Q3 https://bankless.substack.com/p/bankless-q3-token-report

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