Chain Reaction - 18th March 2024
Policy Week in Sydney and more events on the way as BTC pricing cools off
Welcome back to another Great shots here if the Japan fintech fest week from Amy Rose https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amy-rose_fintech-crypto-digitaleconomy-ugcPost-7173186170393223170--KUV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
We have a big week of events coming up for Aus DeFi. The first one in Sydney is during policy week by Blockchain APAC where we'll see a variety of international guests. Joining as at this one we have our new sponsor Bitget along with CloudTech Group and we'll have international friends joining us too from TRM Labs talking crypto policy along with all the price action in crypto thanks to our friends at Magnet Capital . In Perth it's all part of WAWEB3 event and in Brisbane our friends at Coinstash join us. It's looking like another great couple of weeks.
Sydney - March 20th - https://www.meetup.com/australian-defi-association/events/299587686/
Perth - March 21st - https://www.meetup.com/australian-defi-association-perth/events/299705786/
Brisbane - March 26th - https://www.meetup.com/aus-defi-association-brisbane/events/299668142/
Melbourne (coming likely April 18th) - Link coming soon
Here's the recording from our last Sydney meetup too so you get a taste of what we're about
And from the Hedera community meetup on the Gold Coast - some familiar faces here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amy-rose_tokenisation-hedera-dlt-activity-7174224543501225985-d3uN?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
So it turns out Satoshi is Aussie.. or at least that's what the linguistic analysis of emails thinks https://coingeek.com/satoshi-nakamoto-was-australian-linguistic-analysis-shows/
More mainstream news coverage of Bitcoin, this time on mining.
In terms of price action, BTC and all other tokens cooled off this week (thanks to CoinGecko)
Love him or hate him, here's Justin Sun on Bankless
Bloomberg analysts lowered the chances of an ETH ETF to 30% due to a lack of filings https://www.theblock.co/post/281714/bloomberg-analysts-substantially-lower-likelihood-of-spot-ethereum-etf-approval-in-may-to-30
Blockchain Australia released their lite paper on RWAs (real world asset) tokenisation which you can check out here in Simon’s post https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7174109635337932801?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7174109635337932801%29
See you next week folks for another round of highlights
About Aus DeFi Association
The Australian DeFi Association (Aus DeFi) is a non-profit community organization dedicated to increasing education and awareness of blockchain technology, specifically decentralized finance (DeFi) and web3-based projects. Their goal is to empower the Australian community with the knowledge and tools to participate in the decentralized economy, and to promote the adoption and growth of blockchain technology in Australia. They strive to provide a more grassroots approach to promoting blockchain technology compared to other industry-focused organizations in Australia, and to provide a platform for community members to learn about and engage with this emerging technology.
You can watch our recorded meetups and interviews here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ausdefiassociation3956/videos
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