Chain Reaction - 30th September 2024
Meetups and Summits in Sydney and Perth up next
We were back in Sydney for a great Aus DeFi meetup with various presenters starting with Jamie Kennedy at OKX then to Josephine and Victor at undeclared variable, Gennady from Shping, Jabran from Adiuvo Legal and Tim Lea on stage as well. Check out the replay here
And highlight shots here https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7244828029229621249/
If you’re in Perth on 7th October, we’ll be back at it again for a great meetup over there and I’ll be heading over (Mark here btw) to see our sponsor Alpha Node presenting with their friends from Hela Labs out of Singaproe. Sign up here: https://lu.ma/zxfw8ej4
AFR crypto summit was a mixed bag. Optimism and great to see things progressing but definitely not progressing as much as it could with negative sentiment around ASIC enforcement.
We had this summary from me https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7243882472864694272/
And Michael Bacina and co from Piper Alderman on the shadow ban https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7243820108794503168/
Digital Finance CRC pointing out the gains we could get from digital finance https://www.linkedin.com/posts/digital-finance-crc_cryptosummit-digitalfinance-blockchain-activity-7243901538677489665-xpnp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Summary article in AFR here https://www.afr.com/markets/equity-markets/crypto-dream-is-being-killed-by-policy-paralysis-20240923-p5kcqz
And the AFR highlighted the proverbial/metaphorical/literal fire alarm going on in crypto right now in this piece https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/asic-sets-off-the-crypto-fire-alarm-canberra-will-have-to-respond-20240924-p5kcyc
And Simon from Reinventure here with the great take on it
Great to see the community rallying behind its own with the folks here in NY (including those we know well like Amanda Wick and Gary Weinstein) highlighting the need for help of the Binance Exec trapped in Nigeria simply for doing his job. Read more here
Binance founder CZ is out of jail after serving 4 month (after expecting to be in for 36 months). Let’s see what happens next https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-founder-cz-walks-free-from-us-prison
We also should highlight the news from 2 weeks ago of AUDD and the team at Novatti getting onboard with Hedera. Great news for Aussie stablecoin enthusiasts. We highlighted last week the crew at Caten Digital and Ubiquity with their stablecoin push. More on AUDD here
If you want to see what’s the latest in stablecoin markets you can check that out here https://defillama.com/stablecoins
If you are looking at analysis tools, it’s been a while since we looked at Glassnode and they’ve been adding more ERC-20 tokens so might be worth looking into
DeFi Lending getting interesting with more user control here from Morpho
That's it for this week folks! 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 organisation dedicated to increasing education and awareness of blockchain technology, specifically decentralised finance (DeFi) and web3-based projects. Their goal is to empower the Australian community with the knowledge and tools to participate in the decentralised 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 organisations in Australia, and to provide a platform for community members to learn about and engage with this emerging technology.
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