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📺 ROLLUP: 1st Week of January

January 8th, 2020

Market

• BTC: It’s over $40k!

  • BTC closes 2020 as the best performing asset of the decade

  • JP Morgan analyst BTC price target of $146,000

• ETH: Breaks market cap high

  • ETH debt ceiling in MakerDAO increased

• TVL in DeFi: Up from $14.4B to $22.8B

• DPI: $117 to $185

• Total Market Cap over $1T USD

• 2020 Asset Class returns

• Ethereum King of Fees (40% or revenue)

• Security through Number Go Up

Releases

• Shapeshift pivots to a Dex Aggregator

• Bitcoin ETF proposal

• Futureswap V2 is OUT

• YAM Umbrella protocol

• Transaction Builder

• USDC getting an upgrade

News

• OCC - Banks can use Ethereum for payments

  • My take

  • Covered on Forbes

• Grayscale $20B AUM before 2021

• Biden Admin will halt all midnight regulations from the Trump admin that haven’t finalized yet

• Bittrex delisting privacy coins

  • Jake tweet

• Uniswap: $3B in liquidity

  • Year in Review

  • Tweet Thread

• Iran closes down mining operations

• Loopring L2 Growth

Takes

• No viable 2nd place to Ethereum

• ETH same place as BTC in 2017

• ETH MC only worth one bank right now

• Fundamentals out, reflexivity in

• Why are you concerned w/ Product Fit? ETH Killers solving something that's not a problem

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