LensLinks: Issue 104

IMF Directors Issue Crypto Warning, brought to you by Regiment LLC

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Len Pacek
March 01, 2023

Today in LensLinks:

  • IMF Directors Issue Crypto Warning, Call for Coordinated Policy Response To Protect Global Monetary System

  • Maximizing Profits Will ‘Kill’ Web3: Animoca Brands Chairman

  • Building the Ultimate Metaverse: How Blockchain is Changing the Game for Virtual Reality

  • Bottom Signal? Bitcoin, Ethereum Profitability Hit Three-Month Lows

  • Avalon raises $13M to build an interoperable digital universe

  • How Regulation Will Apply To The Metaverse

  • The evolution of DeFi: is a fully on-chain order book DEX a possibility?

  • Tel Aviv Progresses Towards Allowing Crypto Trading

  • Singularity: The idea that ChatGPT is simply “predicting” the next word is, at best, misleading

  • And Much, Much, More…

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“In particular, the widespread adoption of crypto assets could undermine the effectiveness of monetary policy, circumvent capital flow management measures, and exacerbate fiscal risks. Widespread adoption could also have significant implications for the international monetary system in the longer term.”

- The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

NOTABLE

IMF Directors Issue Crypto Warning, Call for Coordinated Policy Response To Protect Global Monetary System - The Daily Hodl

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) considers the rising adoption of crypto assets a threat to the global monetary system.

dailyhodl-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/dailyhodl.com/2023/02/24/imf-directors-issue-crypto-warning-call-for-coordinated-policy-response-to-protect-global-monetary-system/amp

Metaverse & Gaming

Maximizing Profits Will ‘Kill’ Web3: Animoca Brands Chairman - Decrypt

“If you kill the royalties, you kill the very industry that fed you, so it has to be protected,“ says Animoca Brands chairman Yat Siu.

decrypt.co/122236/maximizing-profits-will-kill-web3-animoca-brands-chairman

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi

Building the Ultimate Metaverse: How Blockchain is Changing the Game for Virtual Reality | Technology

In this blog, we explored the concept of the metaverse and how blockchain technology can change the game for virtual reality.

www.devdiscourse.com/article/technology/2364859-building-the-ultimate-metaverse-how-blockchain-is-changing-the-game-for-virtual-reality

Crypto Trading

Bottom Signal? Bitcoin, Ethereum Profitability Hit Three-Month Lows | Bitcoinist.com

With the prices of digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum falling in the last week, investors are now moving their coins at a loss for the first time

bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-ethereum-profitability-hit-three-month-lows/amp

Metaverse & Gaming - a little more…

Avalon raises $13M to build an interoperable digital universe

Avalon Corp. has raised $13 million in funding to build a new interoperable digital universe. Or maybe a chunk of the metaverse.

venturebeat.com/metaverse/avalon-raises-13m-to-build-an-interoperable-digital-universe

How Regulation Will Apply To The Metaverse

How existing laws will apply in the metaverse

www.forbes.com/sites/nisaamoils/2023/03/01/how-regulation-will-apply-to-the-metaverse/?sh=436a9b873dc1

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi - a little more…

Crypto Industry Expert Insight: Could 2023 Be the Year of DeFi Tokenisation?

Industry Players Lennix Lai (OKX), Prashant Malik (HSBC - Digital Assets), and Securities Attorney Jonathan Dunsmoor discuss DeFi Tokenization in 2023. Find out what they said here.

cryptonews.com/news/could-2023-year-of-defi-tokenisation.htm

The evolution of DeFi: is a fully on-chain order book DEX a possibility?

Proving their supremacy when it comes to investor security and prioritizing investor interests is where decentralized finance has the ability to shine

cointelegraph.com/news/fully-on-chain-order-book-dexs-as-the-future-of-defi

Crypto Trading - a little more…

Experts See No Regulatory Clarity in Crypto

Other countries are far ahead in terms of creating clarity, the panel revealed.

www.tradersmagazine.com/departments/regulation/experts-see-no-regulatory-clarity-in-crypto

Tel Aviv Progresses Towards Allowing Crypto Trading

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is planning to expand its activities in order to offer customers from the non-banking sector the ability to trade crypto.

bitcoinist.com/tel-aviv-stock-exchange-progresses-crypto-trading

The Singularity:
AI, Quantum Computing, Robotics, Bio-engineering & Other Stuff on the way

The idea that ChatGPT is simply “predicting” the next word is, at best, misleading

But it may also be flat-out wrong. We’ll see when we get a better idea of how inference works in the underlying language model. * * * ...

new-savanna.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-idea-that-chatgpt-is-simply.html

ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance)

Dubai introduces new virtual asset regulatory framework | JD Supra

On 7 February 2023, the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) released its much anticipated rulebooks for the regulation of virtual assets in...

www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/dubai-introduces-new-virtual-asset-6725923

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