Chain Reaction - 11th November 2024
The Trump era for crypto, upcoming events and more
Welcome back to another week of web3/blockchain news and events.
What the election means for crypto has certainly been positive (as seen by the price action of late). Here, we see more in this article from AP (thanks to a share from the crew at Independent Reserve on LinkedIn) https://apnews.com/article/bitcoin-crypto-donald-trump-election-c2e2a1a895288c5e9c0df2721012a5bb
One of the new things in the Trump 2.0 era seems like we'll get a new SEC chair instead of Gary Gensler https://watcher.guru/news/donald-trump-considers-richard-farley-as-sec-chair-candidate
Founder and president Mark Monfort appeared on the Per Capita podcast taking election politics and technology https://www.linkedin.com/posts/per-capita-australia_the-upcoming-us-presidential-elections-will-activity-7259055514645405696-mews?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Congrats to Sigma Prime founders Mehdi and Adrian for winning young entrepreneurs of the year https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sigmaprime_were-thrilled-to-announce-that-our-founders-activity-7259043984059072512-rnw5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Interested in Fund Tokenisation and what that looks like for TradFi organisations looking to get into blockchain? Check out this share of how Guardian sees it - thanks to John Ho of Standard Chartered https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7259256775978156032-vA8p?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Congrats to Bridget Nichols of Monochrome for her new role as a regular contributor to the traditional markets news site Livewire Markets. Well done https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bridget-nichols-06b8a34_3-strategies-to-manage-bitcoins-volatility-activity-7260081204102668288-GmsY?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Insights from our friends at Digital Finance CRC and wholesale tokenised assets markets here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/talisputnins_consultation-paper-activity-7260465808256966656-PZgd?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Great note of optimism for crypto and it not being a dirty word anymore by Caroline Bowler of BTC Markets https://www.linkedin.com/posts/carolinebowler_i-dropped-this-note-to-clients-at-btc-markets-activity-7260484018872164352-s2eE?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Tether does a deal to fund a crude oil deal as we see more nad more of crypto coming into traditional markets https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brandonturp_tetherio-just-funded-a-45m-crude-oil-deal-activity-7261040743413174272-K7XW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
That’s it for this week folks, check out below for an announcement from one of our sponsors. A reminder of the things we have upcoming including
ACS (Australian Computer Society) event on blockchain regulation, industry insights and more where we're represented by President 📈 Mark Monfort along with Dolly Brtan Karen Cohen Rachael Jones Danielle Marie - see https://www.acs.org.au/cpd-education/event-detail.html?eventId=701Om00000FKGUc
The Blockies awards night by Digital Economy Council of Australia (DECA) -
A bunch of pre and post party events for Australian Crypto Convention - Nov 23-24, 2024 - ICC, Sydney and the events themselves. Shoot us a message if you need tickets and we'll see how we can help - side events are also on the main website here https://auscryptocon.com/
During ACC we will be there in person with Arturo Rodriguez and 🤖 Chris Sinclair joining Mark in doing interviews with folks in the community and also check out our other awesome members and leaders like Simon Amery and Jason Findlay also doing talks/running events during the weekend festivities.
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That’s it for this week folks, see you soon.
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