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Binance is the biggest crypto exchange in the world, but they've made some enemies. The justice department and the i r s are also investigating them for money laundring and tax evasion. I think it's sort of a watch this space the us. Is sort of up for grabs right now,. If coin base and gemini and some of the big leaders here keep altering, that could be the opportunity for binance to make huge inroads into the west market.

Welcome back, this week Lucas and Anita dive into a conversation around OpenSea’s significant layoffs, how Binance is taking on Coinbase in a stateside battle royale and why the Bored Apes creators are trying to outdo Meta with their own metaverse.

In their interview this week, Lucas and Anita chat with Alexander Taub. Taub is the founder of DAO tooling startup Upstream which lets people spin up their own decentralized governance organizations. DAOs were the space to be this year, but how many of them will stick around through a crypto winter?

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https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/14/nft-marketplace-opensea-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-staff-we-have-entered-crypto-winter/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/14/crypto-us-market-as-coinbase-falters-binance-us-is-waiting-in-the-wings/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/19/bored-apes-founders-on-their-plans-for-otherside-metaverse/

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/18/constitutiondaos-bold-crypto-bid-for-us-constitution-falls-short/

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