LensLinks: Issue 222

SBF Intends to Blame Fenwick & West Lawyers, brought to you by Regiment LLC

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Len Pacek
August 28, 2023

Today in LensLinks:

  • FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Intends to Blame Fenwick & West Lawyers in His Defense

  • Apple's Vision Pro labs are drawing audible gasps from developers, says company

  • Ripple Gears Up for SEC Face-Off

  • Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

  • Introducing Is This The Metaverse?, a podcast answering exactly that question

  • Bitcoin Wins While Fed Prints More 'Fiat Toilet Paper', Says Arthur Hayes

  • Crypto Trader Calls One Blue-Chip Altcoin’s Price Action ‘Scary’, Updates Outlook on Bitcoin and THORChain

  • Singularity: Global Generative Artificial Intelligence Market Assessment, By Component, By Technology, By End-user, By Region, Opportunities and Forecast, 2016-2030F

  • And Much, Much, More…

#regimentco #sbf #ripple #sec #artificialintelligence

QUOTABLE

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"Experiencing spatial computing not only validated the designs we'd been thinking about -- it helped us start thinking not just about left to right or up and down but beyond borders at all."

- Michael Simmons, team lead of popular productivity apps Fantastical and Cardhop

NOTABLE

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Intends to Blame Fenwick & West Lawyers in His Defense

Sam Bankman-Fried intends to argue he was acting in "good faith" in loaning funds to FTX and Alameda executives, in setting Signal messages to auto-delete and in setting up a set of North American entities because he was following the advice of lawyers, including law firm Fenwick & West. CoinDesk's global policy and regulation managing editor Nikhilesh De discusses the latest developments and what happened inside the courtroom during Bankman-Fried's Tuesday arraignment.

www.coindesk.com/video/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-intends-to-blame-fenwick-and-west-lawyers-in-his-defense

Metaverse & Gaming

Apple's Vision Pro labs are drawing audible gasps from developers, says company

It's from Apple's own press release, but it's a promising message nonetheless.

www.zdnet.com/article/apples-vision-pro-labs-are-leaving-developers-at-an-audible-gasp-says-company

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi

Ripple Gears Up for SEC Face-Off

Ripple's recent court filing reveals its readiness for a trial in Q2 2024

u.today/ripple-gears-up-for-sec-face-off

Crypto Trading

Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

Cryptocurrency brokers, including exchanges and payment processors, would have to report new information on users' sales and exchanges of digital assets to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) under a proposed U.S. Treasury Department rule published on Friday.

www.reuters.com/markets/us/biden-administration-unveils-new-crypto-tax-reporting-rules-2023-08-25

Metaverse & Gaming - a little more…

Introducing Is This The Metaverse?, a podcast answering exactly that question

In six episodes, Is This The Metaverse? elevates the perspective of both the companies converting physical experiences into virtual entertainment — via fitness, concerts, fashion, advertising and coworking — and the individuals who are actually hanging out inside these virtual spaces.

digiday.com/marketing/introducing-is-this-the-metaverse-a-podcast-answering-exactly-that-question

Warner Music Singapore, PwC ONEChampionship to join Affyn’s upcoming web 3.0 event

Warner Music Singapore, PwC ONEChampionship to join Affyn’s upcoming web 3.0 event

kalkinemedia.com/us/business-news/latest/warner-music-singapore-pwc-onechampionship-to-join-affyns-upcoming-web-30-event

Middle East emerging as hotspot in multi-billion dollar gaming market

The MENA region is emerging as one of the fastest growing gaming markets.

www.consultancy-me.com/news/6622/middle-east-emerging-as-hotspot-in-multi-billion-dollar-gaming-market

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi - a little more…

3 factors to analyze according to Chainalysis when doing on-chain analysis of a token

Chainalysis has published a report explaining the importance of on-chain analysis when you want to study a cryptocurrency in detail.

en.cryptonomist.ch/2023/08/25/chainalysis-3-factors-consider-when-analyzing-token

Bitcoin Wins While Fed Prints More 'Fiat Toilet Paper', Says Arthur Hayes - Decrypt

Bitcoin wins so long as the Federal Reserve supply of "fiat toilet paper grows," wrote BitMex co-founder Arthur Hayes in a new essay.

decrypt.co/153643/bitcoin-wins-while-fed-prints-more-fiat-toilet-paper-says-arthur-hayes

Liquidity Pool Tokens (LP Tokens)

Liquidity pool tokens (LP tokens) are issued to liquidity providers in liquidity pools, and act as a receipt for people who have contributed.

www.techopedia.com/definition/liquidity-pool-tokens-lp-tokens

Crypto Trading - a little more…

Binance Is Contacting Low-Cap Crypto Projects in Bid to Boost Trading

The crypto exchange is conducting a "risk management initiative" targeting some crypto projects with a relatively small market capitalization or whose tokens form lower-liquidity trading pairs.

www.coindesk.com/business/2023/08/25/binance-is-contacting-low-cap-crypto-projects-in-bid-to-boost-trading

Crypto Trader Calls One Blue-Chip Altcoin’s Price Action ‘Scary’, Updates Outlook on Bitcoin and THORChain - The Daily Hodl

A widely followed crypto trader says that Binance Coin (BNB) is dangerously close to losing key support amid a bearish digital assets market.

dailyhodl.com/2023/08/25/crypto-trader-calls-one-blue-chip-altcoins-price-action-scary-updates-outlook-on-bitcoin-and-thorchain

Mastercard ends Binance card partnership in latest blow to crypto giant

Mastercard will no longer offer Binance-branded cards in Latin America and the Middle East, which let customers user their crypto to purchase goods.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/business/money-report/mastercard-ends-binance-card-partnership-in-latest-blow-to-crypto-giant/3632270

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

Global Generative Artificial Intelligence Market Assessment, By Component, By Technology, By End-user, By Region, Opportunities and Forecast, 2016-2030F

Global Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Assessment, By Component [Software-On Premises, Cloud Based; Services-Managed Service, Professional Service], By Technology [Transformers, Diffusion Networks, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Auto-Encoders], By End-user [Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), Educational, ICT and Telecommunications, Healthcare, Media and Entertainment, Automotive, and Transportation, Others], By Region, Opportunities and Forecast

finance.yahoo.com/news/global-generative-artificial-intelligence-market-140100595.html

Battle Lines Form Over Open-Source Artificial Intelligence

Free AI models could speed up new applications. But technology like ChatGPT faces risks.

www.investors.com/news/technology/generative-ai-battle-forms-should-big-tech-control-its-path

ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance)

Singapore’s DBS Bank Launches 'DBS BetterWorld' Metaverse Experience in The Sandbox, Aims To Tackle Food Waste

The largest bank in Singapore, DBS Bank, has developed a novel metaverse experience within The Sandbox that will be made available to the general public by the end of the year.

finance.yahoo.com/news/singapore-dbs-bank-launches-dbs-041539036.html

Can't go to a protest? Send a digital avatar in the metaverse

Julian Assange campaigners plan to connect across time zones on online gaming platform

www.thenationalnews.com/world/2023/08/25/cant-go-to-a-protest-send-a-digital-avatar-in-the-metaverse

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