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📺 ROLLUP: 1st Week of February

February 5th, 2021

Market

• BTC Price: $37,000

• ETH Price: Touched $1,700 (New High!)

  • 1 Week After Gamestop Fiasco

  • Extremely Volatile in the $1.6k Range

• ETH/BTC Ratio

• $DPI: $408

• TVL in DeFi: $33B

• DPI/ETH 1-Day Chart!

• AAVE From $300 to $520 in 2 Days

• Settlement Value

• Layer 2 Is Here

• Alpha Finance originating more loans that Aave

• Nexus Mutual All-Time Highs

Releases

• HashMasks! (scroll down for viewing many dope HM’s)

• NFTX enabling liquidity providing for HashMasks

• Balancer V2 Is Coming

• Parsec Launch & Building for the Next 10 Years of DeFi

• Arbitrum Demo!

• Goldfinch Introducing “Crypto Loans Without Collateral”

• Grayscale releases ‘Valuing Ethereum’ paper

  • Triple Point Asset confirmed

News

• Grayscale releases ‘Valuing Ethereum’ paper

• UNI & Aave Now in the Bitwise 10

• 5 Potential New Greyscale Trusts?

• Aave in Greyscale?

• Visa’s Q1 Earning’s Call (Stablecoins, Payment Networks)

• Michael Saylor BTC Webinar indicates massive interest

• India to Ban Bitcoin?

• Logan Paul issues NFTs with Bondly

• Big Names Into Crypto:

  • Ray Dalio on Bitcoin

  • Mark Cuban Likes ETH

Takes

• DeFi tokens wealth: NFT Status

• ETH’s Future is with ETH Holders

• It’s okay to not own BTC Pt. 1

• GME drama a 20B ad for Bitcoin

• Decentralized Robinhood Already Exists

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