The Web3 Economy with Ethan Pierse

A quick chat with Binance's David Prinçay at France's big tech conference, Vivatech. Always exciting to hear about Binance's investment in this ecosystem and to see the buzz around web3 and crypto at this year's Vivatech.

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After a fantastic round table discussion at Latitude 59 in Tallinn on the state of the European crypto/web3 regulatory environment and where things need to go from here, Ethan was able to sit down for a few minutes with Binance's EVP Europe, Martin Bruncko, and discuss all of their recent news and activity. 

• The Binance Web3 Accelerator at Station F in Paris (part of Binance's Objective Moon program)
• A recently announced €100m investment to make France the center of European Web3
• Binance's recently acquired Digital Asset Service Provider (DASP) registration granted by the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) 
• and more...

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Estonian Minister for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology, Andres Sutt, sits down with Ethan at Tallinn's Latitude 59 conference to talk about web3, startups/scaleups, ecosystem attractivity, and more.

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Join us for a great conversation with Alex Masmej, Founder of Showtime and creator of the $ALEX coin, where we discuss the state of NFTs, Creator Coins / Social Tokens, Bitclout, and what's coming for Showtime following this month's announcement of $7.8M in funding.

In this episode of The Blockchain Economy, we have the wonderful opportunity to speak with Joris Delanoue, Co-Founder and COO of Fairmint, to discuss its mission of transitioning the world toward a model of stakeholder capitalism. 

Over the next 30 minutes, we will discuss their recent investment from Tim Draper, their NFT celebrating that conversation, an explanation of the CAFÉ (Continuous Agreement for Future Equity), recent changes to US crowdfunding regulations, the Fairmint crowdfunding process, and the democratization of startup investment.

In this episode of The Blockchain Economy, we have the wonderful opportunity to speak with Corbin Page, Head of Product at Codefi, ConsenSys’ blockchain platform for commerce and finance.

Over the next 30 minutes, we will hear about what Codefi is up to in decentralized finance and discuss stablecoins, decentralized exchanges, cross-chain liquidity, blockchain hacks and risk management, the MetaMask wallet and their early adopter program for institutions and professionals traders, Codefi’s Activate service and Filecoin, as well as opportunities to come in DeFi.

The December 1st catch up on what is hot in Blockchain and CryptoAssets brings you the following 5 stories:

• Facebook's Libra rebrands as Diem ahead of an expected 2021 launch.
• LVL crypto exchange now offering free trades.
• Blockchain coalition Universal Protocol launches a tradable carbon credit token.
• European Central Bank outlines 4 work areas for digital euro payments.
• What would a Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Commerce Secretary Andrew Yang mean for CryptoAssets?

The November 26th catch up on what is hot in Blockchain and CryptoAssets brings you the following 5 stories:

• DLA Piper tokenizes fine art with the first project leveraging their in-house tokenized security platform TOKO.
• 3 French Banks announce a  Digital Interbank Currency Project.
• The Australian Border Force will leverage blockchain to simplify cross-border trade with Singapore.
• Sustainable Shrimp Partnership launches a mobile app for blockchain-powered supply chain traceability.
• Turkish football club Galatasaray will be listing its GAL fan token on the leading Turkish cryptocurrency exchange, Paribu.

The November 24th catch up on what is hot in Blockchain and CryptoAssets brings you the following 6 stories:

1. In Decentralized Finance news, Ethereum’s deposit contract has achieved the necessary minimum threshold in order to confirm the December 1st launch of Ethereum's proof of stake blockchain.
   
2. Chainalysis Raises $100 Million at over $1 Billion Valuation To Expand Its Global Regulatory Platform.
   
3. More than 30 major Japanese firms will begin testing a private Digital Yen.
   
4. DAiM launches employer-sponsored 401(k) bitcoin retirement plans in the US.
   
5. Hublot watches is launching a completely digital warranty stored in the AURA blockchain.
   
6. And following on yesterday’s news from Qantas that they will require proof of Covid-19 vaccination to fly, we have the International Air Transport Association's announcement that it is in the final phase of development for its Travel Pass digital health pass.
   

The November 18th catch up on what is hot in Blockchain and CryptoAssets brings you these eight stories:

1. Wyoming elects a bullish on bitcoin Senator.
   
2. Germany’s Etherisc is developing a DeFi solution for African agricultural insurance.
   
3. Spain’s national payments processor, Iberpay, moves towards testing of its bank-backed digital currency solution.
   
4. ConsenSys acquires Truffle, the largest blockchain developer tool suite.
   
5. More olive oil producers join IBM’s Food Trust supply chain platform.
   
6. Cisco and DHL integrate blockchain into Cisco’s hardware supply chain.
   
7. International Container Terminal Services will be connecting its 31 terminals to IBM/Maersk’s TradeLens platform.
   
8. Today’s download: World Trade Organization’s Report on Blockchain and DLT in Trade