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Chain Reaction - 3rd April 2023

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Chain Reaction - 3rd April 2023

OKX launch, Binance in the news and more

Mark Monfort
Apr 2, 2023
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Chain Reaction - 3rd April 2023

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This week in events, some of us were able to attend a KordaMentha meetup on Tuesday where they went through their findings of the FTX Australia and Digital Surge collapses. A great night full of insights with an awesome panel you can read about here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7046654467345186818/ 

We also ran an event for Aus DeFi up in Brisbane - it was all online to just get things kickstarted but we’ll do thing IRL soon too.

We also saw the OKX launch on Wednesday 29th with Daniel Ricciardo in the house 

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Greg (🥃,🦉) @GregOakford
Great night with @okx on the eve of F1. @danielricciardo in the house. @okxAustralia launching 🫡 @ausgrandprix https://t.co/nF1AyFTdgO
11:09 AM ∙ Mar 29, 2023
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Yours truly (aka CaptDeFi, aka Mark) was part of a release of new education materials from our friends at Binance on DeFi where I got to speak about DeFi use cases in the real world and more. Whilst they may be going through a few things over there, it doesn’t change the facts about DeFi and blockchain tech and the rails we’re building to improve how things work in our existing systems. Check out the full video series (along with Liam and Charis) here:

News

In local regulation news we saw that the Australian Senate is considering Digital Asset Licensing Law - more on this from Bits of Blocks here https://www.bitsofblocks.io/post/australian-senate-to-consider-digital-asset-licensing-law 

We also saw Paul Hewson from KordaMentha provide commentary here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hewsonpaul_liberal-senator-andrew-bragg-has-introduced-activity-7046723738632925184-oHVk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop 

And we also saw NotCentralised provided some colour and opinion to this too https://medium.com/notcentralised/digital-asset-licensing-law-the-good-and-the-bad-2aa46958bb6b 

Binance was in the news this week with lawsuits being the issue. The Chainsaw folks do a great job at breaking it down here https://thechainsaw.com/business/industry/bitcoin-price-cz-binance-cftc/ 

CZ had a response on the Binance blog here. He basically said that they dispute many of the issues alleged in the complaint and said they have best-in-class technology to ensure compliance, block US users, and cooperate with regulators and law enforcement and aim to work with investigators in this matter. More here

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CZ 🔶 Binance @cz_binance
My Response to the CFTC Complaint | Binance Blog
binance.comCZ’s Response to the CFTC Complaint | Binance BlogBinance’s CEO responds to the complaint filed by the CFTC
10:40 PM ∙ Mar 27, 2023
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 The comments were a bit of fun (but mostly supportive of Binance)

We also saw local coverage of this here too https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/barely-buys-an-ak-47-crypto-cops-pounce-on-world-s-biggest-exchange-20230330-p5cwk1.html

Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Also in the week we got news that SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) was sold, to First Citizens. More news on that announcement here from Bloomberg

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Bloomberg @business
First Citizens Bank buys Silicon Valley Bank, taking on all its deposits and loans SVB abruptly became the biggest US lender to fail in more than a decade earlier this month bloom.bg/3z5EaSR
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10:16 AM ∙ Mar 27, 2023
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And more details in this article

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/first-citizens-said-be-near-deal-silicon-valley-bank-bloomberg-news-2023-03-26/ 

If you’re in Ethereum, the Shapella upgrade should be of interet to you, withdrawals are coming (and that’s a good thing) https://blog.ethereum.org/2023/03/28/shapella-mainnet-announcement 

Hong Kong appears to be expanding on being a crypto hub and its getting a lot of interest from firms banned in mainland China and also others keen to flock to APAC. This is similar to what we’re seeing in Dubai with the VARA (virtual assets regulatory authority) https://www.ft.com/content/84454295-0273-45fe-8199-bb520bfc81c4 

We also saw Novatti, and its AUDD stablecoin, announced as the 15th project in the RBA CBDC pilot. They’re looking at using the CBDC as  proof of reserve (in a similar way to how NotCentralised are but in this use case it will power NFT purchases). More details available here https://dfcrc.com.au/2023/03/23/stablecoin-proof-of-reserve/ 

An unlikely ally in the fight against the SEC for Coinbase…

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/03/27/crypto-unlikely-champion-sec-coinbase-insider-trading/ 

NFT ticketing gets a boos here with this Ticketmaster + NFTs get together https://blockworks.co/news/ticketmaster-goes-live-with-nft-gated-features 

Over to the videos and here's the weekly roll up from Bankless

 

Also, for a TradFi take on Binance, check out the 36:55 mark of The Compound here 

https://www.youtube.com/live/CZXa-JdNNU8

That’s it for now folks, have a great week and see you next Monday!

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Kayne Sheenan
Writes Future. Forward
Apr 4

Never dull in this industry, is it!? 😅

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