LensLinks: Issue 129

Canada: Firms to Launch Regulated Crypto Trading Platform, brought to you by Regiment LLC

Author

Len Pacek
April 05, 2023

Today in LensLinks:

  • Cryptoverse: Bitcoin traders like their options

  • Apple's Tim Cook still believes in the metaverse

  • Saudi Arabia's $620B Wealth Fund Has Backed Crypto-friendly VCs

  • Canada: Coinsquare, CoinSmart, WonderFi To Combine To Launch Regulated Crypto Trading Platform

  • 5 reasons why Adopt Me! is the most loved game on Roblox

  • Are Twitter NFTs being pushed by Elon Musk?

  • Former Gemini Execs Launch OpenEden, a Tokenized T-Bill Platform

  • Crypto trading platform Bitget gets $10 million funding round from Dragonfly

  • Insane Trading Volumes, Massive Gains: South Korean Crypto Traders Go Wild Over Solar And Icon Tokens

  • The Singularity: What's the Next Big Thing in Technology? From Robotics to Online DNA Testing to Digital Trust.

  • And Much, Much More…

QUOTABLE

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"We've never seen this much activity before. We have reached the same levels of open interest as 2021 at half the prices, which means we have doubled."

- Luuk Strijers, chief commercial officer at Deribit

NOTABLE

Cryptoverse: Bitcoin traders like their options

Even as bitcoin flies high, investors are keeping their options open, judging by a record race to derivatives.

www.reuters.com/technology/cryptoverse-bitcoin-traders-like-their-options-2023-04-04

Metaverse & Gaming

Apple's Tim Cook still believes in the metaverse - Innovation Origins

As industries adopt VR for gaming, manufacturing, field service, medical, and industrial simulations, AR adoption mainly targets vertical markets like field service, surveying, and field analysis

innovationorigins.com/en/apples-tim-cook-still-believes-in-the-metaverse

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi

Saudi Arabia's $620B Wealth Fund Has Backed Crypto-friendly VCs

Saudi Arabian wealth fund Sanabil now discloses its investments across the venture capital space, and many of them are into crypto

blockworks.co/news/saudi-arabia-fund-crypto-blockchain-vcs

Crypto Trading

Canada: Coinsquare, CoinSmart, WonderFi To Combine To Launch Regulated Crypto Trading Platform | Crowdfund Insider

WonderFi Technologies. Coinsquare Ltd. and CoinSmart Financial Inc. announced that they have entered into a business combination agreement.

www.crowdfundinsider.com/2023/04/204663-canada-coinsquare-coinsmart-wonderfi-to-combine-to-launch-regulated-crypto-trading-platform

Metaverse & Gaming - a little more…

5 reasons why Adopt Me! is the most loved game on Roblox

Only a few Roblox games have crossed a billion visits in the metaverse.

www.sportskeeda.com/roblox-news/5-reasons-adopt-me-loved-game-roblox

MR Headsets: XR Today Expert Round Table - XR Today

XR Today reports on the latest extended reality news from around the globe, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.

www.xrtoday.com/mixed-reality/mr-headsets-xr-today-expert-round-table

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi - a little more…

Are Twitter NFTs being pushed by Elon Musk?

Elon Musk posted an NFT from Punk 6529 after replacing Twitter's logo with the one of Dogecoin. Speculations about Twitter NFTs soared.

nftevening.com/are-twitter-nfts-being-pushed-by-elon-musk

Former Gemini Execs Launch OpenEden, a Tokenized T-Bill Platform - Tokenist

OpenEden's new platform for tokenized US T-Bills represents an exciting opportunity for investors looking for lower-risk options in DeFi.

tokenist.com/former-gemini-execs-launch-openeden-a-tokenized-t-bill-platform

Crypto Trading - a little more…

Crypto trading platform Bitget gets $10 million funding round from Dragonfly

The Seychelles-based company is continuing to build out its flagship "copy trade" feature.

fortune.com/crypto/2023/04/04/crypto-trading-platform-bitget-gets-10-million-funding-round-from-dragonfly

Insane Trading Volumes, Massive Gains: South Korean Crypto Traders Go Wild Over Solar And Icon Tokens

South Korean traders have set their sights on Solar (SXP) and Icon (ICX) tokens, which have both rallied by as much as 40% in the past 24 hours, with hundreds of millions of dollars in trading volumes on

www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/23/04/31657100/insane-trading-volumes-massive-gains-south-korean-crypto-traders-go-wild-over-solar-and-ic

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

What's the Next Big Thing in Technology? - Grit Daily News

From Robotics to Online DNA Testing to Digital Trust, here are 15 answers to the question, "What's the next big thing in technology?

gritdaily.com/whats-the-next-big-thing-in-technology

Coders And Developers Beware: ChatGPT4 Can Make New Fully-Coded Applications

Early reviews of ChatGPT-4, released by OpenAI on March 14, outline its astonishing ability to produce a wide range of intelligent and contextually relevant responses. These impressive capabilities and other new inputs open a new realm of use cases for the chatbot. One of the most exciting and impactful is ChatGPT-4’s ability to create new applications with functioning code. Don’t Miss: Elon Musk & Sam Altman Say Scary Good AI Is On The Way – Here's How Retail Is Investing Millions Building Work

finance.yahoo.com/news/coders-developers-beware-chatgpt4-fully-182240958.html

ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance)

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