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·Oct. 14, 2019

The political limits of commerce — Telegram’s $1.7B US offering and NBA’s $1.5B China deal

I look at the boundaries that Telegram and EOS have crashed into in the US with recent SEC actions and lawsuits, and the melting of Facebook Libra. There have been a number of interesting regulatory moves recently, and the positive headlines of 2017 have become the negative headlines of 2019. How does SEC jurisdiction reach foreign institutional investors? We also touch on the $1.5 billion NBA distribution deal now on the fence in China, and how US companies are under the speech jurisdiction of a foreign nation. How does China reach American protected speech? Through pressure, boycott, and economics.

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·Aug. 17, 2022

Request Finance introduces ‘Salaries’ feature to automate cryptocurrency payroll

On Tuesday, Paris-based Web3 payments startup Request Finance launched "Salaries" to help Web3 enterprises automate payroll in crypto.

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·Feb. 22, 2023

Coinbase: Rallying Through a Cycle of Irrational Despair

As may have been expected, Coinbase's earnings report was a shadow of 2021's but the company's Q1 focus is now on "things they can control".

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Fintech

·Jul. 6, 2022

The Mass Adoption of DeFi

Fintech crypto execs joined the Nexus Webinar series to find out how can decentralized finance go mainstream.

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Crypto

·Sep. 19, 2022

Milo’s under-collateralized mortgage and refinancing launches amid winter storm

Despite the ongoing decline in the crypto markets, Milo has released new lending options for digital natives.

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Crypto

·Mar. 15, 2022

Looking at Biden’s Executive Order as a roadmap

If the government does not delay, 2022 is the year that Washington gets serious about crypto.

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·Apr. 26, 2023

CeFi’s transparency problem: how 2022 lifted the curtain

Last year was the year of CeFi collapses. While detrimental, investigations are shedding a light on CeFi's (not DeFi's) lack of transparency.

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Crypto

·Aug. 23, 2021

Facebook Announces New Cryptocurrency Payment Product

Facebook announced last week that their digital payments platform, Novi, is nearly ready to launch across multiple states, having passed regulatory checks. Novi will use a stable cryptocurrency called Diem to launch payments across borders for the 2.7 billion users of the social network.

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Crypto eCommerce paytech

·Mar. 1, 2021

The Federal Reserve Payment Processor, its $100B of revenue, and whether blockchains and L2s can match the value it settles

Let’s do some math homework. It’s good for you:

The Federal Reserve money movement system broke for several hours. We look deeply into its volumes and transactions, and value it like a Fintech unicorn.
The Ethereum ecosystem is throwing around as much volume in settlement as the Fed check processing system. We explore scalability barriers and solutions.
Can eCommerce fit into our emerging infrastructure? We anchor to the market numbers in China and the United States.

Things break.

Sometimes the things that break are the US Federal Reserve ACH service, Check 21, FedCash, Fedwire, and the national settlement service. They were down for a few hours — discovered at 11AM on Feb 24th and still in trouble at 3PM that day. Everything is now up and running again.

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