ROLLUP: 2nd Week of January
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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of January

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BTC Price

In the last 7 days:
- Touched $42,000
- Fell down to $31,000
- Regained $40,000.
- Currently at $39,500

ETH Price
- Touched $1,350
- Fell to $900
- Currently above $1,200
TVL in DeFi
- From $22.8 to $23.3B

$DPI
- From $185 to $208

$MKR particularly interesting price action


Retail entering; judging by exchange twitter followers
https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1348220777498353665?s=20

Market Dumps because of overleverage:
https://twitter.com/kaiynne/status/1348486588045668353?s=20

Numbers are bigger now
Price swings, volume
https://twitter.com/MessariCrypto/status/1348769821220069382?s=20


Coinbase volume
https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1348895884315156481?s=20

Reminder: ETH futures on the horizon
https://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2020/12/16/cme_group_to_launchetherfuturesonfebruary82021.html


RELEASES

Tether on a ZK Rollup
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/90738/tether-usdt-hermez-ethereum-layer-2-scaling-solution-zk-rollups

Nexus mutual offering insurance on exchanges
https://www.coindesk.com/nexus-mutual-decentralized-insurance-cover-coinbase-binance-kraken-gemini

Bitcoin hashrate tokenized on Ethereum
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/90847/poolin-bitcoin-hashrate-token-pow-defi

Connecting all the rollups with Vector?
https://medium.com/connext/vector-0-1-0-mainnet-release-9496ae52c422

Cloudflare and IPFS
- Your ethereum address is now accessible by any browser without an extension https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-distributed-web-resolver/

ETH staking inside Argent
https://www.argent.xyz/blog/liquid-eth-staking-in-argent/

Synthetix announces Optimistic Rollup transition plan
https://blog.synthetix.io/the-optimistic-ethereum-transition/

Coinbase Asset Hub
https://blog.coinbase.com/introducing-coinbase-asset-hub-our-open-invitation-to-asset-issuers-f9d5f0be609d

NEWS

Gemini going public??
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/91251/winklevoss-twins-weighing-taking-gemini-public

Gemini BTC credit card
https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/14/gemini-is-launching-a-credit-card-with-bitcoin-rewards/

Gary Gensler is new SEC chair.
https://ww

Community discussion