LensLinks: Issue 273

2015 Vitalik Buterin Corruption Recordings, brought to you by Regiment LLC

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Len Pacek
November 17, 2023

Today in LensLinks:

  • Detailing Ethereum Corruption — What's Going On?

  • Roblox’s growth plan includes more partnerships with brands like Gucci, which sold $3,000 items in its metaverse

  • DeFi Rebounds as Aave v3 Loan Volume Spikes to Record - The Defiant

  • Bitcoin Options Market Explodes! Open Interest Hits Record $17.5 Billion

  • Here's what marketers need to know about Roblox Investor Day 2023

  • Top Trends that Will Rule the Gaming Industry - Media Referee

  • Binance Japan to list 13 tokens new tokens in one of the world's strictest crypto markets

  • DeFi Is Becoming Less Competitive a Year After FTX’s Collapse Battered Crypto

  • Record 70% of Bitcoin supply lies dormant for a year or more

  • The Future Adoption of Cryptocurrencies by Governments across the world

  • Singularity: Cathie Wood Praises Tesla's Robot Army, AI Data: 'Legacy Autos Are Pulling Away'; A Robotic 'A.I. Chemist' Could Make Oxygen on Mars; Less than 2 years after acquiring RE2 Robotics, Sarcos is closing down its Pittsburgh office to focus on AI;

  • ESG: Can Dove boost representation in the gaming world?

  • And Much, Much, More…

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“You have to decide first of all whether or not you’re willing to do what it takes here. You have to decide whether or not the organization is more important than any individual.”

Steven Nerayoff to Buterin

NOTABLE

Ethereum Insider Drops Bombshell: ETH Founders’ Fraud Bigger Than FTX Fraud - Updated | Bitcoinist.com

An Ethereum insider has made allegations against Ethereum’s founders, claiming that their fraudulent activities far surpass those of FTX's founder.

bitcoinist.com/ethereum-insider-founders-fraud

Detailing Ethereum Corruption — What's Going On?

2015 tapes expose Ethereum corruption and an overwhelmed Vitalik Buterin during its beginnings. What does this mean for Ethereum's future?

cryptonews.com/news/nerayoff-follows-through-releases-2015-vitalik-buterin-recordings-detailing-ethereum-corruption-whats-going-on.htm

Metaverse & Gaming

Roblox’s growth plan includes more partnerships with brands like Gucci, which sold $3,000 items in its metaverse

Gaming platform Roblox wants to attract older users and establish more brand partnerships with companies lie Gucci in the metaverse.

finance.yahoo.com/news/roblox-growth-plan-includes-more-200513973.html

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi

DeFi Rebounds as Aave v3 Loan Volume Spikes to Record - The Defiant

Aave v3 hit an all-time high in daily assets borrowed, DEXs had their best week since March and TVL is at the highest since June.

thedefiant.io/defi-rebounds-as-aave-v3-loan-volume-spikes-to-record

Crypto Trading

Bitcoin Options Market Explodes! Open Interest Hits Record $17.5 Billion

Good news! Bitcoin's options market has taken the crypto world by storm, eclipsing its futures counterpart with an astonishing open interest of $17.5

coinpedia.org/price-analysis/bitcoin-breakthrough-options-trading-hits-record-17-5-billion

Metaverse & Gaming - a little more…

Here's what marketers need to know about Roblox Investor Day 2023

Roblox's annual Investor Day presentation was chock-full of updates about every aspect of Roblox as a platform and business — including its plans to grow as a marketing channel.

digiday.com/marketing/heres-what-marketers-need-to-know-about-roblox-investor-day-2023

Top Trends that Will Rule the Gaming Industry - Media Referee

2023 has been a good year in terms of technological developments. Many new trends are introduced to the industry, and many will be influencing the gaming sector in the next year. As a gaming enthusiast, you need to be aware of the latest trends in the market.  Statistics indicate that the video gaming industry market …

https://www.mediareferee.com/top-trends-that-will-rule-the-gaming-industry/

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi - a little more…

Binance Japan to list 13 tokens new tokens in one of the world's strictest crypto markets

The crypto giant's Japanese division, which has long-term plans to offer 100 or more tokens, will add the new listings on Nov. 27.

cryptoslate.com/binance-japan-to-list-13-tokens-new-tokens-in-one-of-the-worlds-strictest-crypto-markets

DeFi Is Becoming Less Competitive a Year After FTX’s Collapse Battered Crypto

(Bloomberg) -- A small number of participants are dominating the world of decentralized finance as the crypto sector, which seeks to replicate financial markets without middlemen, still hasn’t recovered from FTX’s collapse a year ago.

ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/decentralized-finance-becoming-less-competitive-120000098.html

Record 70% of Bitcoin supply lies dormant for a year or more

Unprecedented levels of inactivity observed in Bitcoin markets, with a majority of supply unmoved for extended periods.

cryptoslate.com/insights/record-70-of-bitcoin-supply-lies-dormant-for-a-year-or-more

Crypto Trading - a little more…

The Future Adoption of Cryptocurrencies by Governments across the world - CXOToday.com

By Roshan Aslam Over the last decade, cryptocurrencies have grown from strength to strength. From being a digital novelty that no one really understood to technologies worth trillions of dollars that has the unique potential of disrupting the entire global financial ecosystem as we know it. Today, Bitcoin and hundreds of the any available cryptocurrencies

www.cxotoday.com/story/the-future-adoption-of-cryptocurrencies-by-governments-across-the-world

Binance and Gulf Energy to open crypto exchange in Thailand

Binance is set to publicly launch a crypto exchange in Thailand in early 2024 in partnership with the local energy powerhouse Gulf Energy Development

crypto.news/binance-and-gulf-energy-to-open-crypto-exchange-in-thailand

Turkey mulls addressing licensing and taxation in new crypto rule

Turkey is reportedly crafting crypto regulations, focusing on licensing and taxation, aiming to exit the FATF “gray list.”

cointelegraph.com/news/turkey-mulls-addressing-licensing-taxation-crypto-rule

The Singularity:
AI, Quantum Computing, Robotics, Bio-enginwww.mediareferee.com/top-trends-that-will-rule-the-gaming-industryeering & Other Stuff on the way

Cathie Wood Praises Tesla's Robot Army, AI Data: 'Legacy Autos Are Pulling Away' - Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)

Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood believes Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) is the biggest artificial intelligence (AI) player in the world

www.benzinga.com/news/23/11/35811283/cathie-wood-praises-teslas-robot-army-ai-data-legacy-autos-are-pulling-away

A Robotic 'A.I. Chemist' Could Make Oxygen on Mars

In a lab on Earth, the machine created a catalyst from Martian materials that can extract oxygen from water, for astronauts to breathe or use as fuel

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-robotic-ai-chemist-could-make-oxygen-on-mars-180983268

Less than 2 years after acquiring RE2 Robotics, Sarcos is closing down its Pittsburgh office to focus on AI - Technical.ly

Leadership at Salt Lake City-based Sarcos says the company is laying off 150 employees and shifting away from robotics hardware because there's a more financially stable future in software.

technical.ly/startups/sarcos-closing-pittsburgh-office-re2-robotics-layoffs

ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance)

Can Dove boost representation in the gaming world?

The Unilever-owned brand has teamed up with Open Source Afro Hair Library on over a dozen Black hair textures and styles.

www.voguebusiness.com/story/beauty/can-dove-boost-representation-in-the-gaming-world

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