Chain Reaction - 7th August 2023
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Chain Reaction - 7th August 2023
Meetup announcements galore this week
Another great week and this time we had Drew Bradford from JellyC on the podcast
First up we’ll be in Melbourne on the 17th August with special guest Anthony Sassano who runs the Daily Gwei podcast along with Erez from Stables and the folks at Cointree joining us at Greythorn Asset Management offices https://twitter.com/AusDeFi/status/1686569266328535040
Sydney sees us back at Stone & Chalk on the 23rd August - https://www.meetup.com/australian-defi-association/events/295206699
Perth on the 31st - https://www.meetup.com/australian-defi-association-perth/events/295148885
We also saw this article out on the similarity of blockchain and hip hop (from the NotCentralised crew) with highlight on our founders Twitter https://twitter.com/CaptDeFi/status/1687614774555881473
Big congratulations to Amy-Rose Goodey for being appointed the Chief Operating Officer of Blockchain Australia - https://wwU ii iii jtu in hhyhhyy up yw.linkedin.com/posts/amy-rose_im-happy-to-share-that-im-starting-a-new-ugcPost-7091563073869676544-66zf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Also great to see some other personnel moves in the community with Charis Campbell heading over to Animoca Brands as Director of Capital Markets https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charis-campbell-83a15124_after-taking-a-few-months-off-to-sleep-travel-activity-7092293181257494528-3Mq0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
And Vicki Chan moving to OKX as the Strategic Markets Operations Manager https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7092262733231882241-GsKT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Also great to see this podcast out from Chapter Lead in Adelaide, Simon Amery, having a great chat with Iakov Levin. Check it out here
News
Congrats to the folks at UpsideDAO for the launch of their membership group - check it out https://twitter.com/0xUpside/status/1686205995868176384
Also, we saw the launch of Caleb & Browns’ flagship fund so congrats to Jackson, Tommy, Daniel and team here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jackson-zeng_a-special-occasion-for-caleb-brown-for-ugcPost-7093042650949300224-hOkt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Great to see Samira Tollo from Elbaite on the Decoding Crypto podcast here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/samira-tollo-b60b8a140_elbaites-samira-tollo-joins-podcast-host-activity-7091602818612002816-jhoK?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
We had friends in the media with Pratik Kala of DigitalX on ausbiz talking bitcoin activity https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pratik-kala_crypto-bitcoin-activity-7093043831264215040-4pwr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
If you missed it, here's a great recap from Laure Dinneen at Westpac on the Digital Asset Conference from the week earlier https://lauradinneen.medium.com/caffeine-for-the-australian-digital-asset-industry-be807748465d
Also saw the Blockchain Australia crew including CEO Simon Callaghan at the latest NSW government taskforce on Data Digital and AI. Hosts this time were the ASX. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simoncallaghan_crypto-digitalassets-regulation-activity-7092353115277967361-2xMo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Last week, Taiwan’s largest financial institution and Shinhan Bank completed an international remittance pilot on Hedera, validating #Hedera’s viability to #EVM-based #stablecoin issuers across the globe. See more here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hbarfoundation_spotlight-how-two-asian-financial-giants-activity-7092139586537037824-pbcJ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Looks like Ripple’s court case isn’t turning out to be the protection many in the industry thought it would be as the judge in the SEC vs Terraform Labs has rejected its findings in allowing the SEC to move forward with that case. More here https://twitter.com/JohnReedStark/status/1686150412317888512
If you ever needed to have your pool drained, then welcome to DeFi, lol. For what happened to Curve, check out this Bankless video https://www.youtube.com/live/I1bVLQdUkMw?feature=share
Great to also see more of crypto being cleaned out with this SEC set of charges against Hex founder Richard Heart https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-143
Finally, we leave you with this post from Michael Nadeau who runs The DeFi Report. He answers the question of when will DeFi come back with the answer that it never left. See more here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-austin-nadeau_thedefireport-activity-7093225145581883393-taDR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Tune in next week for another episode of Chain Reaction
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
Sponsors
We also thank all of our sponsors who help us run and organise and keep this association going. We could not do it without them so check out their details here