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GMGM and welcome to the w3.catch-of-the-week, the newsletter that tells you what is in high demand despite falling prices in the so-called “Uptober” 🥴.
Neverthelesse, there is one community celebrating Uptober already: The degens, who use Farcaster.
Coinbase announced this week that it would be listing the token $DEGEN. As a result, the price rose by 160%.
🤓 Quick Recap: Farcaster is a decentralized, crypto-native social network founded by former Coinbase developers that aims to create a censorship-free environment where users have full control over their data and audience
👀 XRP ETF?
🇦🇷 Argentina is interested in Bitcoin
💿 Leading Software Company is exploring Web3
🇬🇧 More Bonds onchain?
🤔 What is Trump up to?
🏆 Berlin Demo Day
🇦🇪 Cosmoverse 2024
The asset manager Bitwise has made a first S1 filing to the SEC for a Ripple ($XRP) ETF.
Today we filed an initial registration statement on Form S-1 for a new Bitwise XRP ETP.
“We believe blockchains will usher in new apolitical monetary assets and permissionless applications for the 21st century,” said Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley. “We aim to help investors access… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Bitwise (@BitwiseInvest)
1:05 PM • Oct 2, 2024
Argentina Might Follow El Salvador
The Argentinian Vice President has shown her interest in Bitcoin on television. She asked the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukulele, about Bitcoin and volcano bonds.
NEW: 🇦🇷Argentina VP asked El Salvador’s President Bukele about #Bitcoin
Argentina is ~19x bigger than El Salvador and is a G20 nation. 😱
— Bitcoin Archive (@BTC_Archive)
12:15 PM • Oct 2, 2024
El Salvador is known to be the first country to make Bitcoin an official means of payment. By the way, the average purchase price of their Bitcoin holdings is around $44k.
SAP Helps Brands to Get Access to Web3
Leading provider of business software SAP is dipping their toes into Web3. They’re cooking an NFT Management tool, that gives brands exposure to digital assets.
What is it about?
It's a cloud platform that lets brands easily create and distribute NFT collections. The tool integrates with SAP Emarsys, their multi-channel marketing solution.
This means brands can use familiar channels like email to engage customers with NFTs:
Email-based claim process
Automation capabilities
Analytics to track NFT interactions
"Journeys" feature for loyalty programs
Why it matters:
The tool collects email addresses, enabling brands to communicate with customers about their NFTs and related events. This bridges Web3 technology with Web2 communication channels.
What's next? SAP is working on account abstraction. This will allow brands to create and distribute NFTs without directly handling cryptocurrency.
The bigger Picture: SAP's NFT Management tool is lowering barriers to entry for brands interested in Web3. It's making NFTs more accessible to a broader audience.
We interviewed Sven and Lucas from SAP in episode 103 of the Onchain Culture Podcast.
UK About to Put Bonds Onchain
Tulip Siddiq, UK Minister of State for Finance, urges issuance of “digital gilts” on the blockchain.
🎯 Goal: modernization of UK financial markets for international competitiveness
But there is resistance from the government's Debt Management Office (DMO)...
The key benefits of issuing on a blockchain are:
Increased efficiency
reduced costs,
elimination of intermediaries.
Siddiq was determined to position the UK as a digital assets frontrunner with the project. In order not to lag behind global competitors.
💅 While we're on the subject of digital assets, our w3.vision has a lot in store for you in the near future.
🤝 Become part of the largest cross-channel brand activation in the European digital asset industry.
Trumps New Crypto Project
How long has it been since you signed up to a whitelist? I can't remember myself.
Well, Donald Trump has announced that the whitelist for his new DeFi project is now open:
I promised to Make America Great Again, this time with crypto. @worldlibertyfi is planning to help make America the crypto capital of the world! The whitelist for eligible persons is officially open – this is your chance to be part of this historic moment. Join:… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
3:15 PM • Sep 30, 2024
What part of the cycle is that? Discuss in Telegram…
Solana Demo Day
The Berlin Demo Day of the Solana Radar Hackathon is next Wednesday. Your chance to be the first to see the latest innovations from the Solana ecosystem.
📅 Wednesday, October 9th—Pitches start at 14:00
Live Pitches: Teams showcase the projects that they've built for the Solana Radar Hackathon.
Prizes: Over $20,000 in prizes only for local teams
Judges: A panel of VC's, Web3 experts, founders & hackathon winners will be present to evaluate the best projects.
Mixer: Food, good music and (new & old) friends!
Cosmoverse is Coming Back
Cosmoverse, the largest interchain conference, returns to Dubai for its fourth edition.
With over 3000 attendees expected, the event will feature talks, panels and workshops on current interchain developments, covering emerging topics such as AI, DePINs and tokenization.
The conference aims to showcase the Cosmos SDK ecosystem and demonstrate its potential for a multi-chain future.
Our co-founder André during CV Summit
best trader i know just sent me this
— JD🎱 (@jtradestar)
1:14 PM • Oct 2, 2024
RaspiBlitz Hackday! Berlin (btc++ side event)
🗓️ October 10, 2024 10:00 AM
Cardano Summit 2024 Community Event
🗓️ October 10, 2024 5:00 PM
bitcoin++ Conference
🗓️ October 11, 2024 11:00 AM
my portfolio so far during "Uptober"
— Mando (@rektmando)
3:09 PM • Oct 1, 2024
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