ROLLUP: 2nd Week of January

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BTC Price

In the last 7 days: - Touched $42,000 - Fell down to $31,000 - Regained $40,000. - Currently at $39,500

ETH Price - Touched $1,350 - Fell to $900 - Currently above $1,200 TVL in DeFi - From $22.8 to $23.3B

$DPI - From $185 to $208

$MKR particularly interesting price action

Retail entering; judging by exchange twitter followers https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1348220777498353665?s=20

Market Dumps because of overleverage: https://twitter.com/kaiynne/status/1348486588045668353?s=20

Numbers are bigger now Price swings, volume https://twitter.com/MessariCrypto/status/1348769821220069382?s=20

Coinbase volume https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1348895884315156481?s=20

Reminder: ETH futures on the horizon https://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2020/12/16/cme_group_to_launchetherfuturesonfebruary82021.html

RELEASES

Tether on a ZK Rollup https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/90738/tether-usdt-hermez-ethereum-layer-2-scaling-solution-zk-rollups

Nexus mutual offering insurance on exchanges https://www.coindesk.com/nexus-mutual-decentralized-insurance-cover-coinbase-binance-kraken-gemini

Bitcoin hashrate tokenized on Ethereum https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/90847/poolin-bitcoin-hashrate-token-pow-defi

Connecting all the rollups with Vector? https://medium.com/connext/vector-0-1-0-mainnet-release-9496ae52c422

Cloudflare and IPFS - Your ethereum address is now accessible by any browser without an extension https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-distributed-web-resolver/

ETH staking inside Argent https://www.argent.xyz/blog/liquid-eth-staking-in-argent/

Synthetix announces Optimistic Rollup transition plan https://blog.synthetix.io/the-optimistic-ethereum-transition/ Coinbase Asset Hub https://blog.coinbase.com/introducing-coinbase-asset-hub-our-open-invitation-to-asset-issuers-f9d5f0be609d

NEWS

Gemini going public?? https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/91251/winklevoss-twins-weighing-taking-gemini-public Gemini BTC credit card https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/14/gemini-is-launching-a-credit-card-with-bitcoin-rewards/ Gary Gensler is new SEC chair. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-sec-exclusive/exclusive-biden-to-name-gary-gensler-as-u-s-sec-chair-sources-say-idUSKBN29H2PQ We did it. https://twitter.com/valkenburgh/status/1349717095425183747?s=20 Anchorage Becomes First OCC-Approved National Crypto Bank - CoinDesk https://www.coindesk.com/anchorage-becomes-first-occ-approved-national-crypto-bank Morgan Stanly owns 10% of Microstrategy https://www.coindesk.com/morgan-stanley-boosts-stake-in-bitcoin-laden-microstrategy-to-10-9 70,470 BTC, 10.9% is MS’s, 7681 BTC claimed to morgan stanly Pakistan using funds to mine BTC https://decrypt.co/53918/pakistan-is-now-using-government-funds-to-mine-bitcoin

2.5% of ETH supply in Gnosis safe https://twitter.com/gnosisSafe/status/1349685149408112646?s=20

TAKESSushi on the rise https://twitter.com/ashwath_22/status/1349090698788626432?s=20 Erik Voorhees on protocol competition https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1349548038822502400?s=20

Brian Brooks “Get Ready for Self-Driving Banks” https://www.ft.com/content/c1caca5b-01f7-41be-85a4-3ecb883f2417

Bitcoin is less risky as NGU https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-bill-miller-cnbc-volatility-risk

Ryan on ICOs - were ICOs net good or net bad? https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1347599685356314626?s=20Starting pistol for Web3 decentralization https://twitter.com/FEhrsam/status/1348316470258794496?s=20 Mark Cuban on internet tech stocks https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1348698853072130057?s=20 Bitcoin in race for adoption ahead of CBDCs https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-race-for-adoption-central-bank-digital-currencies -----

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