ROLLUP: 3rd Week of October

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ROLLUP: 3rd Week of October Welcome to Weekly Rollups, where David and Ryan package up a whole week's worth of news into a bite-sized bit of data, for easy inclusion into your brain!

Weekly Rollups: 5 TOPICS, 5 MINUTES EACH

PRICES AND MARKETS

- BTC
- ETH Price
- TVL in DeFi
- ETH unique address ATH https://twitter.com/santimentfeed/status/1317165165234835456?s=20
- Ethereum to settle $1T in 2020 https://twitter.com/MessariCrypto/status/1318985292347543552

WHAT GOT RELEASED?

- PayPal adopts crypto
_____ ⚠️ walled garden! Not yet crypto! https://www.reuters.com/article/paypal-cryptocurrency/update-1-paypal-to-open-up-network-to-cryptocurrencies-idUSL1N2HC0PL

Barn Bridge https://defirate.com/barnbridge-seed-round/
- Separates risk into tranches
- Smooths out yields across protocols

Yield Protocol https://medium.com/yield-protocol/yield-protocol-is-live-e6e8ebf2537b
- Fixed-rate, fixed-term borrowing and lending, with market-determined interest rates.

CirclesUBI https://decrypt.co/45419/universal-basic-income-app-launches-gives-users-free-crypto

- Decentralized Identity
- Regular issuance + airdrop token

MetaMask Swaps https://medium.com/metamask/introducing-metamask-swaps-84318c643785

- Swap assets inside MetaMask
- Aggregator of aggregators

WHAT'S IN THE NEWS?

Fincen going after BTC mixing service https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/81667/fincen-mixing-service-helix-fine-bitcoin

Central Bank Digital Currencies are getting hype https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1317836119149580288?s=20

Shielded Zvash Pool hit 600k ZE https://twitter.com/jswihart/status/1317192646062796801?s=20

Coinbase Report on who requests data from Coinbase https://blog.coinbase.com/transparency-at-coinbase-c8edf6dce4d6

Yearn Manifesto https://gov.yearn.finance/t/how-we-think-about-yearn/7137

Watches on the Blockchain! https://www.coindesk.com/breitling-arianee-all-new-watches-ethereum

WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND?

David: The dominoes seems to be falling faster and faster Markets, Charts, news and releases all seem to align/resonate and this is one of those moments I’ve been more bullish BTC than normal, and more publicly bullish BTC than normal (much to Sassals dismay) but that doesn’t change the fact that when BTC moons, ETH usually Moons 2x.

Ryan:

Long-term I think Bitcoin is second place on market cap (preparing the way) - Bitcoin:
-- 2nd place in transaction fees
-- 2nd place in settlement value
-- 2nd place in transaction volume
- There’s not such thing as ALT: if you continue see