Banking Regulators Crypto Oversight - The WAGMI Journal #28
I thought they said it's all just a fad?
In today’s issue:
The crypto market continues to chop sideways with the global crypto market cap sitting slightly above $2.7 trillion. P2E gaming and Metaverse-related tokens are continuing to gain traction. In other news, US banking agencies released their crypto oversight road map, Niantic Labs (the people behind Pokemon GO) enter the Metaverse, and India continues to flip flop its crypto regulation.
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📰Market News
⎆US Banking Regulators Crypto Oversight Road Map
The Federal Reserve and other US banking agencies have released an agenda outlining their focus on crypto oversight which includes aspects such as custody, lending, and many more. The agenda doesn’t directly affect any current regulations, but officials want to expand on it throughout 22 to provide greater clarity on what banks can and can’t do with crypto assets.
⎆Pokemon GO Creator Niantic Labs Enter the Metaverse
Partnering with Fold, the Augmented Reality powerhouse will provide the technology for Fold to enable its users to catch Bitcoin rewards. Similar to Pokemon GO, Fold users will be able to get rewards (instead of catching Pokemon) while exploring the world around them. Even though not many details have been announced, Niantic's move to the Metaverse is an exciting one considering the firm’s previous success with a real product, Pokemon GO.
⎆India to Propose Prohibiting All Private Cryptocurrencies
At this point, one might even have to wonder if we should care about crypto news coming from India. A new bill was proposed to help India’s central bank create an official digital currency. The contents of the bill haven’t been finalized, but it also seeks to prohibit all private crypto in India. USDT/Indian Rupee crashed ~20% from its peg before recovering in a few hours.
My take:
It is not surprising for a developing country to do this. Having lived in one myself, the vested interests of multiple political and corporate entities are just too great. Nepotism, corruption, lobbying, “collaboration”, or whatever you want to call it is much more apparent. Simply put, everyone wants a piece of the pie. And if they don’t get their shares, they will continue to poke any piece of legislation, delaying a clean conclusion industry participants are waiting for.
👨🏻💻Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Twitter Fight Between VC and Devs Stirs Angst Over Ethereum Gas Fees
Rising Fees on Avalanche Trigger Scramble for Solutions
Ardana Partners With Near Protocol on Cardano Bridge Infrastructure
$DOG Airdrops for $ANKH Holders
Jupiter Collab With CoinGecko: Get Alpha Page
Rari Capital, Fei Protocol Look to Overcome Bagholder Bias in Ambitious DeFi Merger
OlympusDAO Mistake Lets User Spend $50,000 to Buy $1.43 Million in OHM
🏛Governance - Active Proposals
Gitcoin - FDD Workstream Q4 2021 Budget
Babylon Finance - BIP-4: Uniswap V3 Pool + Harvest Vault
Pool Together - PTIP-44: Continuation of C4 Partnership
Elyfi - NAP6: Request for verification of ABToken
Indexed - Recover assets from and destroy exploited index pools, upgrade remaining pools
🦮NFT & Metaverse
Macy’s Launches Ethereum NFT Collection Based on Thanksgiving Day Parade
Rarible Adds Messenger Feature to Ethereum NFT Marketplace
ConstitutionDAO Irks Donors as Gas Fees Eat Into Refunds
French Luxury Fashion Brand Givenchy Drops 15 NFTs on OpenSea
Canadian Investment Company Buys $2.5 Million Worth of Virtual Real Estate in Decentraland
South Korea Financial Authority Rules That NFTs Are Taxable
Top Sales (Last 24-h); Source: https://dappradar.com/nft
📈Deal Flow & Capital Raise
Staking Rewards - $3.2M Unknown Round
Blockade Games - $5M Unknown Round
ORIGYN - $20M Unknown Round
Gama - $6M Pre-Series A
Swan Bitcoin - $6M Series A
Avocado Guild - $18M Series A
Pantera Capital - $600M New Crypto Fund
⚖️Regulatory Update
Japanese Consortium Plans to Issue Bank Deposit-Like Digital Yen
US Regulators Plan to Define Legal Bank Activities Around Crypto in 2022
Bank of America Sees Stablecoin Regulation as Catalyst to Mass Adoption
Bitcoin Should Not Be Legal Tender in El Salvador: IMF
OCC Wants Banks to Seek Permission Before Offering Crypto Services
Indian Government Submits Bill to Ban Most Cryptocurrencies
eToro to Delist Cardano by 2022 for US Users Due to Regulatory Concerns
South Korea's Financial Regulator Lays Groundwork for ICO Regulations
📚Noteworthy Reads
Flood Capital’s Thread on GMX
Jason Yanowitz’s Thread on Getting a Crypto Job
Othmane Zizi’s Read on The Biggest Backers of The DAO Movement — From a16z to Mark Cuban, Peter Thiel and Chamath
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