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Vicktoria Klich & Quinn Wilhelm
September 27, 2024

GMGM & welcome to the 🎣 w3.catch-of-the-week, the newsletter with the quickest weekly recap and yet a diverse range Alpha. We value your time-insights balance 🤓.

Let's start with the news that is currently causing risk asset prices to rise 🚀:

The Chinese central bank has unveiled the most comprehensive stimulus package since the pandemic to boost the struggling economy.

We remain curious to see whether the trend will continue in Q4.

👀 TradFi is bullish on RWAs
🔥 Big News: The next … season
💡 Top 5 News from Breakpoint
📈 Adoption is growing in Africa
🌱 ReFi made in Germany

Wisdom Tree has launched its own tokenized asset plattform.

Following the continued success of Blackrock's Buidl, the next asset manager from the USA is now following suit.

But they are not the only ones to have made an announcement:

👀 w3.vision Season One is in full swing! You can already apply for Season Two:

We successfully launched w3.vision Season One, positioning ourselves as a community-owned media network. But what does that really mean?

👋🏽 For Our Partners

Positioning in and exploring the Web3 market

We’re traveling the world together, bringing expertise to the stage and even to your inbox through newsletters.

We achieve this by combining knowledge across different digital and in-person formats, such as:

  • Podcasts (Our new podcast with the first guests - Sven & Lucas from SAP - is launching soon)

  • Newsletter Deep Dives

  • LinkedIn Posts 👇🏽

and so much more…

Connecting with key industry players and the Web3 community

A highlight was DMEXCO & TechFusion, where we brought different industries together at one table, including Bitpanda, Circle, Celestia, Chain4Travel, Mastercard, and Fraunhofer.

Community Building as a Service

Let’s bring the community together! We do this through gatherings like our popular w3.pizza events. Recently, we hosted one together with SAP, KPMG, Aeternity Foundation, Tokenize.it, and Jägermeister.

But it’s not just exciting for our partners – it’s equally important for the community and media.

At the last w3.pizza event, Marvin announced w3.vision Season Two, which will focus entirely on Digital Assets.

We’re planning the biggest cross-channel brand activation in the European Digital Asset industry, with a roadshow spanning Zurich, London, Frankfurt, and Berlin, featuring key industry leaders across eight channels and topics.

Who’s prioritizing Digital Assets on their agenda?

TradFi (Traditional Finance)!

This includes asset managers, family offices, investment funds, banks, and regulators – they’re all diving into business cases, go-to-market strategies, and of course, regulation.

But there’s more: crypto foundations, startups, and blockchain infrastructure providers are also in the mix, working on innovative use cases and compliance.

To close the loop and foster greater exchange, we’re inviting Web3 enthusiasts, universities, business angels, early adopters, and developers to join the conversation.

For this season, we’ve teamed up with Max from Blockstories, who has already explored the topic through TOKENFUTURE in Frankfurt and has a deep understanding of the challenges and needs of the space.

As marketing in this industry shifts, many institutions grasp blockchain basics but still struggle to find real business cases and implement lasting strategies.

At w3.vision, we move beyond one-off campaigns, focusing on real case studies and long-term partnerships that drive meaningful, multi-channel engagement over eight weeks.

Want to learn more?

Once you like what you see - schedule a call with Marvin to get started.

Breakpoint Top 5 News - What did you miss?

Firedancer is now live on the Mainnet, but without being active in block building. The full Firedancer client is currently running on the Testnet.

What is the Firedancer client? 🔥💃

It is a new, independent validator client for the Solana blockchain, developed by Jump Crypto to improve the performance, scalability and reliability of the network.

Initial demos have shown that it can increase TPS (transactions per second) up to 1 million. The current TPS is around 3000.

Magic Eden announced new Swap Feature

It gives you more payment options: You can pay for anything with anything (across blockchains).

🤓 For example, you can buy a Solana NFT with $DOG (Memecoin on Bitcoin).

Coinbase has announced to bring wrapped bitcoin (cbBTC) to Solana. This will allow Bitcoin to be used for more DeFi applications.

Our w3-OG and good friend zCase has been to countless crypto events, but he has never experienced a party like the one from Bonkbot:

Anyone who got FOMO and wants to be there next time can do so in Abu Dhabi in December 2025.

Stablecoin Adoption is Growing in Africa

Celo has recently managed to become the number one network for daily active addresses using stablecoins.

Our portfolio company Mento is a platform that enables the creation and management of stablecoins on the Celo Blockchain.

The Mento team visited stablecoin users in Nairobi. Let’s dive into some highlights.

They learned about local lending groups called "chamas". These groups help small businesses get loans. Blockchain technology can make these loans easier and safer.

🤔 Quick Recap: What is Mento?

Mento is a platform that allows the creation and management of stablecoins. It aims to make digital currencies more accessible and usable for people around the world, especially in areas where traditional banking services may be limited.

Back to Africa: They attended Celo Gather Africa Conference

There were workshops about Mento, Minipay and the Celo Kenya Shilling (cKES) stablecoin. The aim was to explain the potential of stablecoins.

In a keynote, three Mento partners spoke about “Bridging financial inclusion to expand access to Finance in Africa.”

Next stop was: ETHSafari

People from all over Africa and the world came to learn about blockchain technology. Mento Labs was there and gave talks about Stablecoins.

Visitors could buy coffee using cKES. DJs accepted cKES tips for their music.

We are happy to observe the success and to support those who actively promote adoption. Stablecoins are the number one driver for the adoption of Web3 technologies in Africa:

ReFi made in Germany

Senken is transforming the carbon credit market and has launched a new product.

What was Senken again? 👀

Senken is a trusted carbon marketplace that provides high-quality carbon certificates and strategic advice for effective emission offsetting.

They offer only the top 5% of rated carbon certificates. Senken helps companies develop solid climate protection strategies, set clear goals, and align with industry standards.

The Germany Portfolio is a new, exclusive collection of carbon offsetting projects from within Germany. It offers premium CO2 certificates from local projects that support communities and net-zero goals.

Check out the projects:

👨🏻‍🌾 Regenerative agriculture: Klim 

🌿 Restoration of peatlands: aeco 

🔥 Biochar: Novocarbo 

🪨 Accelerated weathering: ZeroEx

Smile :)

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