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Weekly Roundup 10/22/21 (Proshares ETF launches, CBOE acquires ErisX, FB's Metaverse ambitions, Tungsten takes over) (EP.253)

Oct 22, 2021

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GBD D C

02:27

Are More Regulators Looking at Tether?

02:33

Stable Coins - The Battle Line That Will Define the Decade

02:49

Introduction

2min

Cryptophon Launch - What's Next?

2min

The Forjessi Team

2min

Is Tokenized Securities Coming Back?

2min

E T F Ticker, B I T Zero.

1min

Is This a Spot Product for Long Term Investments?

5min

The Futures Based D T F Isn't Exactly the Spot.

2min

GBD D C

2min

The Best Speech Ever From a Financial Regulator About the Industry

2min

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Circle Dot Com Slash Yield

2min

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Regulatory News a Tetherd Fo Nex

2min

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Are More Regulators Looking at Tether?

3min

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Is the Nba Sponsoring a Miami Socratem?

2min

14.

Stable Coins - The Battle Line That Will Define the Decade

3min

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Is Face Bookes Changing Their Name Like That?

2min

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In Other Interesting Corporate News, Tre Analysis Has Added Bit Coin to Its Balance Sheet

2min

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Is This a Satire of Anfts?

2min

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Is Midwest Tunkston a Start Up?

2min

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Tongan Cubes - The Gift That Keeps on Giving

2min

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The Future of Tongs and Cubes

3min

Matt and Nic are back for a monster week of deals and news. In this episode:

CBOE acquires ErisX
FTX raises a monster round
Worldcoin launches with their eyeball scanner
The Proshares futures-based ETF goes live and sets a record
Why are futures-based ETFs expensive?
the Proshares ETF starts to max out its futures exposure
What will be the fate of GBTC?
Grayscale announces a $1b buyback of GBTC
Hester Peirce delivers another great talk
Tether settles with the CFTC
The academia-press complex
Diem launches a Novi stablecoin based on USDP
Why stablecoins are a frontier in the battle over financial privacy
Facebook leans hard into the metaverse
Tungsten takes over
Square makes ASICs
Why you shouldn't eat your tungsten cube
Will CMS intern be able to lift the 7 inch cube?

Content mentioned in this episode

Bloomberg, First Bitcoin ETF Is Already in Danger of Breaching a Limit on Futures Contracts
Hester Peirce speech at the Texas Blockchain Summit, Lawless in Austin

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