Hello there crypto folks, it has been a while and because of that, I am sending even more newsy stuff
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| July 9 · Issue #1 · View online Curated digest about Coins, Tokens, dApps, Chains, Cryptoeconomics & all things decentralized |
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| Hello there crypto folks, it has been a while and because of that, I am sending even more newsy stuff and resources. I have also recently changed providers switching from Mailchimp to Revue which is much more lightweight and will help me save some time (thus slight change of format again). Lots of exciting news pointing at bulls despite the bear market and very low liquidity! I am still super excited about the whole industry although 80% of people I have talked to in the past year just disappeared. This is completely normal and natural filtering when you are in the market for the wrong reasons instead of having a long-term perspective on the technology itself. It is time to focus on go-to-market, network expansion, creating utility / SoV / network effect for the projects that make sense and let 99% of the useless junk and scam to die in a limbo of unknown and forgotten sea. |
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 Polychain Becomes First $1 Billion Crypto Fund Polychain became the first crypto fund with more than $1 billion in assets under management, according to a regulatory filing. |
 Tokenized Shares, Equity & Debt London's Financial Conducts Authority (FCA) has announced the newest projects to enter the regulatory sandbox. |
 IBM Signs $740 Million Deal With Australian Gov't IBM has signed a five-year $740 million deal with the Australian gov't to bring blockchain to "many, many government agencies." |
 Bittrex and Invest.com Partnership Bittrex, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange platform, and invest.com, a fintech startup based in London, are set to launch a new EU-focused crypto trading platform. |
 A16Z Pours $300 Million into Crypto Fund Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz debuts a $300 million a16z crypto fund and adds Coinbase board member Kathryn Haun to its ranks. |
 Blockchain Firm R3 Is Running Out of Money R3, a startup that raised $107 million to bring blockchain services to the financial sector, is floundering and may run out of money. |
 Cryptos on the Verge of Crossing the Tipping Point Cryptos are on the verge of crossing the tipping point into mainstream adoption with a survey of 15,000 individuals finding 9% of Europeans hold cryptocurrencies. |
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 Inside the Crypto World's Biggest Scandal One couple thought they held the secret to building a new decentralized utopia. On the way, they plunged into a new kind of hell. A crypto-tragedy in three acts. |
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 Blockchain-based Machine Learning Marketplaces Machine learning models trained on data from blockchain-based marketplaces have the potential to create the world's most powerful artificial bits of intelligence. |
 How I Evaluate Crypto Projects One of the most exciting things about being a venture investor in this era of crypto is that you're making new ground constantly. |
 Relative Cryptoasset Valuation Mosaic became one of my favourite resources to go learn more about crypto valuations and different approaches towards researching digital assets. In this article, they propose two ratios and approaches to estimating the potential. |
 Zcash & the founder incentive trilemma The Zcash founder's reward is likely the best founder-alignment mechanism that has been designed in the (brief) history of crypto-networks. |
 Decentralized Blockchain Governance We, the EOS community, have embarked on a grand experiment to see if a global community can govern itself without the well-documented pitfalls of existing world governments. |
 What's Wrong with Cryptoasset Valuation Models Valuation modelling has fascinated crypto asset enthusiasts in recent years. While it's a great thing that people are thinking about this kind of stuff, I have seen some obvious pitfalls. |
 A Token Network Acquisition Blueprint A few months ago, we discussed what a token network hostile takeover could look like. Today, let's tweak the premise and consider how a friendly takeover — an acquisition — could happen. |
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 Why Bitcoin Will Be the Winning Cryptocurrency Jimmy Song recently had an amazing interview with Laura Shin on private, federated and public blockchains, why bitcoin is superior to all assets and the reason he wears a cowboy hat! |
 Chris Dixon on How Trust Is the Best Lego Block Dixon of A16Z new crypto fund is a well known VC from the valley and gives an interesting investor view on many areas of the distributed ledger. |
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 An Overview Of Governance In Blockchains - YouTube |
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 A List of Cryptocurrency Custody Solutions Self-custody is an important (and fundamentally native) feature of cryptocurrency. A blockchain-based digital asset can be stored by its owner without the help of a traditional financial institution. This article summarizes a few options. |
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| | 1/ M&A in token economies is fascinating and under-discussed. Any other space with massive capitalization followed by a bear market would see significant consolidation. No so in crypto. Thread below curates some of the best thinking about what's going on. https://t.co/r73BCTi9za | | 4:11 AM - 6 Jul 2018 | |
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 A Hitchhiker's Guide to Consensus Algorithms Instead of shilling another coin, I decided to include some Spotlight on consensus algorithms which are an integral part of the trustless feature of cryptocurrency and blockchains. This is more of a TL;DR version. |
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No specific jobs this month available in my network, however, I encourage to check CryptoJobsList where there are plenty of opportunities to either find the right role or reach out to great candidates! Few examples: |
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As this issue was a bit valuation heavy, I am including an NVT ratio calculator for various cryptocurrencies made by CoinMetrics. You can play with it here. |
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Special thanks to you, who made it to this paragraph. Feel free to drop me a word in case you want to post a job, feature or contribute with content. Oh, by the way, I wouldn't mind if you gave my digest some love through Twitter or Facebook :-) You can find past issues on Mailchimp here. |
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