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Google Trend Data, Bakkt Goes Public, Optimism Layer 2 Soft Launch

Bitcoin Google Trend Data

Ethereum Google Trend Data

Market Update (Monday 9:30 AM ET)

Percent Change (Rounded) Based on Last Monday Open (9:30 AM ET)

Bitcoin- $36,810 (+10%)

Ether- $1,248 (+20%)

Gold- $1,835 (-1%)

DJI Average- 30,814 (-1%)

NYSE Composite Index- 14,894 (UNCH)

NASDAQ Composite Index- 12,998 (-1%)

S&P500 Index- 3,768 (-1%)

New Developments

1. Grayscale Raised Largest Daily Asset Raise in History… $700M+, CoinDesk

2. Bakkt To Go Public VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings Merger, Business Wire

3. Grayscale Reopens Investment For Bitcoin Trust, Marie Huillet

4. Acting OCC Head Brooks To Step Down This Week, CoinDesk

5. Grayscale’s $GBTC May Have Cheaper Competitor, James Seyffart

6. Gary Gensler (Biden’s U.S. SEC Chair) Thoughts on Ripple and ICO Craze

7. DCG’s Foundry Colocates 14,000 Bitcoin Mining Machines In US, The Block

8. Introducing Coinbase Asset Hub, Coinbase Blog

9. ProtonSign and ProtonSwap Applications Live On Proton Chain, Proton Devs

10. Kentucky Proposes To Exempt Bitcoin Miners From Taxes, Samson

11. Coinbase Record Volume of $9.56 Billion On January 11, 2021, Larry Cermak

    Larry Cermak 🟨 @lawmaster

    Coinbase recorded record daily volume yesterday of $9.56 billion. Just to illustrate how crazy that amount is, that's more than the total volume for Q1 2019. Also larger than the total volume for January last year.

    

Industry Insights

• Grayscale Q4 2020 Report, Grayscale

• This Week On-Chain (Week 2, 2021), Glassnode Insights

• Our Network: Deep Dive #1 (1inch Token), Spencer Noon

• Why Bitcoin Is Not A Ponzi Scheme, Swan Bitcoin

• Smart Contracts On Bitcoin, Fred Wilson

• DeFi and the Future of Finance, Campbell R. Harvey Duke University

• Beyond Beacon Chain: What’s Next For Eth2?, The Block Crypto

• Building In DeFi Sucks (Part 2), Andre Cronje

• How To Value DeFi Assets, Aleks Larsen

  Aleks Larsen @_alekslarsen

  1/ If you're trying to value DeFi assets with traditional valuation ratios, use Price to Book Value (not Price to Earnings) Why?

Dev Talk

1. MakerDAO Dockerized Auction Keeper, Github

2. MakerDAO: How Does The PSM Work?

3. Porting Solidity Contracts To Optimism, HackMD

4. Vac, Waku v2 Ethereum Messaging, Vac Dev

5. Opening The Stargate, Ethan Frey

6. Programmer Has Two Guesses Left At 7,002 Bitcoin Fortune, The Guardian

7. Ethereum 2021 EIP Schedule

8. Tiny Time Restriction Compliance Lego, Ross Campbell

9. Sheety DApp Demo, Pelith

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Watching the cryptos trade, it’s EXACTLY like the internet stock bubble. EXACTLY. I think btc, eth , a few others will be analogous to those that were built during the dot-com era, survived the bubble bursting and thrived, like AMZN, EBay, and Priceline. Many won’t

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