All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. So Jack grows a preachers beard, buys magic internet money and decides Bitcoin will be the native currency of the internet. If Jack is Bitcoin’s Dark Knight then Twitter is his joker and, like the purple one himself, things just got Serious. We’ve all been so preoccupied with ripping up and replacing legacy centralized mechanisms we never stopped to think what would happen if they decided to join the party. Well wonder no more, because this monday’s quick take is all about Twitter’s massive blockchain flex.
Hello and happy Monday. This will come as no surprise to anyone who’s followed industry news this year, but the SEC’s war on crypto shows no signs of letting up. This morning, the United States’ top financial regulator sued crypto exchange Bittrex, just two weeks after the company said it would leave the country due to the “current … regulatory and economic environment.”
The SEC alleges Bittrex sold unregistered securities such as Algorand’s ALGO token, OMG, DASH, TKN, NGC and IHT. Those tokens should be considered securities because the people who bought them “invested in a common enterprise” and had a “reasonable expectation of profit based on the efforts of others, according to the SEC.
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In this week’s episode we speak with Dan Robinson, a research partner at Paradigm, one of the most active VC funds in DeFi and crypto. One of the fund’s investments is Unsiwap, where Dan also had a central role in the design of v3, the latest version of DeFi’s most popular decentralized exchange. Dan talks about why Uniswap was so exciting as an investment. He said at the time, many blockchain applications still involved some centralized parties and custodied funds. But Uniswap was really hands-off; A self-contained system with no admin keys.
But the issue was that it wasn’t very capital efficient, meaning funds in liquidity pools for any given trading pair would go mostly unused. And that’s what they set out to solve with V3. The solution Dan helped find was concentrated liquidity, or the idea of concentrating funds at the price range where an asset is traded the most.
Dan talks about his big ambitions for Unisiwap -- he believes that most liquidity will move to Uniswap v3 and that the new concentrated liquidity design will have an influence on the whole DEX space as more projects start to optimize for capital efficiency. It will also roll back the revolution Uniswap itself prompted, and move AMM (automated market maker) design into an order-book hybrid.
We also talk about miner extractable value and how he sees projects are evolving from those trying to democratize MEV, to those trying to stop it from ever happening. We talk about his views on governance and how he believes protocols should try their best to minimize decision-making. His main area of focus continues to be on AMMs. In the long term, he believes they will have an impact on investment similar to what exchange-traded funds did to stocks, allowing anyone, from big institutions to small individual investors, to earn a passive income by providing liquidity, something that only large market makers could do before.
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The official Twitter account of the Ukraine has announced an airdrop. What for and what it will be hasn't been announced but it has triggered a massive increase in donations to the official crypto accounts. It's not the only fundraising going on but when we look at the Twitter account of Mykhailo Fedorov and there's some weird things going on. We cover it all in this latest quicktake.
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Fabian Schär is Professor for Distributed Ledger Technology and Fintech at the University of Basel. He has a PhD in crypto, co-authored the bestselling book “Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptoassets”, published by MIT Press, and has published many academic papers, including one on DeFi on the St Louis Federal Reserve Review.
He is an encyclopedia of blockchain based information and a forward thinking voice amid academics and regulatos. So what's Fabian's journey been like?
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This week on The Defiant podcast we speak to Zooko, the Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Zcash and Founder and CEO at Electric Coin. He has made a massive impact on the space especially relating to privacy (though he doesn’t call it that) and with unprecedented regulations that have come in relating to Tornado Cash, Zooko has an extremely nuanced take. But first, Zooko is a crypto OG, so let's get his and Zcash’s story.
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In a historic move this week, the Feds announced the seizure of over 50,000 bitcoin that had been stolen about a decade ago when a single bitcoin was worth around just $10 USD. It’s the second-largest bitcoin recovery on record and the biggest completed by the recently-created Virtual Assets Unit.
So where were the coins hidden and how were they recovered by the Feds?
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