Project Fundraising Highlights

Weekly Brief

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1. 7 Decentralized Protocols for Options

• https://twitter.com/Chinchillah_/status/1604074863836233731
• Premia
• Dopex
• Opyn
• Lyra
• Buffer
• Hegic
• Polynomial

2. Vitalik’s Prediction on 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=QXKqIIf6_AE&ab_channel=BanklessShows
• Mass wallet adoption
• Inflation-resistant stablecoins
• Ethereum-powered website logins

3. BitDAO Token Buyback Proposal

• https://discourse.bitdao.io/t/discussion-bit-purchase-program-update-jan-2023/4373
• $2M buyback per day for 50 days
• Starting from Jan. 1, 2023
• $100M in total

4. Voyager Announces Agreement for Binance.US to Acquire Its Assets

• https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/voyager-announces-agreement-for-binance-us-to-acquire-its-assets-891555229.html
• The Binance.US bid is ~$1.022B
• The fair market value of Voyager’s cryptocurrency portfolio at a to-be-determined date in the future, which at current market prices is estimated to be $1.002B
• Additional consideration equal to $20M of incremental value

5. The Public Bitcoin Mining Companies Collectively Owe More Than $4B

• https://hashrateindex.com/blog/which-public-bitcoin-miners-owe-the-most-money/
• Core Scientific filed for chapter 11

6. Visa Automated Payment Based on Account Abstraction

• https://usa.visa.com/solutions/crypto/auto-payments-for-self-custodial-wallets.html

7. 10 Predictions for the Future of Crypto in 2023 by CoinDesk

• https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2022/12/20/10-predictions-for-the-future-of-crypto-in-2023/
• Epic battles over regulation
• Web3 platforms continue to grow
• More bleeding, more losses, more pain
• Truly global bitcoin adoption
• Maybe a focus on life outside of crypto/bitcoin/blockchain
• Web3 gets fashionable
• Don’t count out NFTs
• Gaming and DAOs continue to grow
• The big exchanges become “disaggregated.”
• The space regroups

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