Messari's Weekend Reads đ - Unqualified Opinions
reading, sleep, and self-care (and not confusing staking rewards with interest)
Your daily snapshot from our OnChainFX markets dashboard.
We covered a lot of ground this week in our mission to drive transparency and smarter decision making in crypto. Cleaning up trading volume data, market cap information, and uncovering a major inflation bug that affected a top 10 crypto asset.
It looks like weâll have our hands full again next week correcting more misleading jargon. Namely, staking yields are not âinterest.â Usually more like: ârunning in place.â
One of these columns below is about to get fully filled out next week. Want to venture a guess which one, and what weâll be covering in our Tuesday research brief? :)
Itâs gonna be another big month for the good guys in April. :)
Until thenâŚ
Weâre keeping things light with some weekend reads and new data!
đ Messariâs weekend reads:
Block Reward Halving and Venture Fund III Closing :: Pantera Blockchain Letter, March 2019 - Pantera Capital
Crypto Castle Was Once the Face of Bitcoin Mania. Now Things Are Different - Jeff Wilser
Is it time for a 21st-century version of 'The Day After'? - Marsha Gordon
Bitcoin is a hedge against the cashless society - Su Zhu and Hasu
The Time Value of Bitcoin - Nik Bhatia
The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012âpresent - Laura Hazard Owen
Crypto funds: Donât let accounting drive economics - XBTO
Real 10 Volume
In case you missed it, earlier this week we rolled out âReal 10â volume and âLiquid Market Capâ on the OnChainFX dashboard.
Real 10 volume uses exchanges mentioned in the recent Bitwise Investments markets data research report to show legitimate trading volumes from global exchanges. There are of course other exchanges out there that have legitimate volumes, 10 was just a starting place. If you work for an exchange and would like to see your volume listed on Messari send us an email and we will get in touch.
Liquid Market Cap
Liquid Market Cap is the product of our asset prices (methodology here), and our research teamâs âLiquid Supplyâ estimates for the Top 50 assets plus Messari token registry participants. Our team has spent countless hours building robust supply curves (h/t Florent Moulin) and measures like liquid market cap are the fruits of that labor.
See these new metrics and more on the OnChainFX dashboard now.
Have a good weekend, yâall.
- The Messari Team
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Content and thoughts from around the web as summarized by the Messari team.
đĽ [Analysis] Why Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are warming to blockchain - Michael Casey
As backlash against âsurveillance capitalismâ intensifies, user rebellion is forcing a design rethink at these companies, explains Michael Casey. Because of the underlying principles of blockchain technology, these companies are taking a serious look at integrating this technology. Facebook is experimenting with its highly hyped (and private) blockchain team. Twitter and Squareâs Jack Dorsey seems to "have gotten religion" when it comes to Bitcoin and and the Lightning Network. Perhaps these corporations will adopt new business models in which users are no longer the product but the consumer. (share or read more)
đ [Analysis] The role digital currencies are playing in geopolitics - Andrew Gillick
Bitcoin ($BTC) and other digital currencies are supported by a strong desire for them to overtake (or at least severely compete with) sovereign monies. Brave New Coin's Andrew Gillick notes that cryptocurrencies are already playing a significant role in geopolitics as less-powerful nation-states realize their new ability to circumvent the political pressure routinely applied to them by world leaders who issue dominant reserve currencies. Experiments like Venezuela's El Petro are unlikely to experience lasting success, but as fiat reserve currencies inch closer to another crisis and countries like Russia and Iran prove Bitcoin's use case to evade international political pressure, other governments are likely to follow suit. (share or read more)
Quick Bits (Don't read that, I read it for you)
Choke Points (Exchange News)
𼊠Coinbase announced an expansion of its custody business to allow institutional clients tap into rewards offered by certain types of digital assets running on proof-of-stake networks via âstakingâ services (a.k.a., "staking as a service") starting with Tezos ($XTZ). (share or read more)
đ Ledger and Legacy Trust, a Hong Kong-licensed and public trust company, announced their partnership to launch institutional-grade custody solutions for OTC firms, exchanges, and high net-worth individuals. (share or read more)
Startup Signals (ICOs, Cryptos, and Startups)
đł The VeriBlock blockchain went live on Tuesday on the Bitcoin ($BTC) mainnet after a year on testnet, allowing exchanges, wallet providers, merchants and other crypto businesses to leverage Bitcoinâs robust blockchain security, Bitcoin Magazine reports. (share or read more)
đŽ The TRON Foundation has acquired the blockchain app store CoinPlay, according to CEO Justin Sun's Twitter. CoinPlay reportedly offers a variety of blockchain software and games, as well as practical guides, browser navigation, ratings, and indices of major currencies. (share or read more)
The Powers That Be (Legal/Reg/Policy)
đŚ Japanese prosecutors have reportedly dropped their appeal to the acquittal of former MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles. Karpeles was reportedly accused of taking 341 million yen ($3 million) of customersâ money in Mt. Gox accounts and spending it on a software developer and personal extravagances. (share or read more)
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