08-14-2018

In today’s segment, I want to highlight 3 pieces of writing and analysis that we have seen this week:

+ Decentralized crypto exchanges can solve fake volumes and malpractices by Joseph Young

+ Reducing the risk of catastrophic cryptocurrency bugs by Neha Narula

+ Not all governance is voting by Tony Sheng

All of the links to the full analysis above are at messari.io - head over to full these in full!

Messari- Crypto News- 08 - 14 - 2018

HOT TAKES ONLY. In our first longer form audio segment, Messari's Katherine Wu delves into two topics: 

1. The ongoing Ripple lawsuit and 
2. The SEC Order re: Tomahawk Coin and what that means for bounty programs & airdrops.

Head over to messari.io to read our summaries in full, as well as to access the source links. Let us know what you thought of the episode today, and what else you want to hear in these by tweeting or DMing us @messaricrypto.

Messari Podcast #1: The Ripple lawsuit + The SEC order on Tomahawkcoins

In this episode, Katherine explains what a Token Curated Registry is at a very high level-- what it is and how it works. Plus some news for this week: FOMO3D, China's Crypto Wechat ban, and the U.S. SEC's ETF ban.

Can't get enough of TCRs? Do a deep dive here!

"Token-Curated Registries 1.0" by Michael Goldin (https://medium.com/@ilovebagels/token-curated-registries-1-0-61a232f8dac7)

"Token-Curated Registries: Value Proposition and Challenges"  by Qiao Wang (https://medium.com/@QwQiao/token-curated-registries-value-proposition-and-challenges-5911466ed862)

Let me know what you thought of the podcast today, and what else you want to hear in these episodes by tweeting or DMing us @messaricrypto.

Messari Podcast #2: Token Curated Registries 101

This week, we go over a high-level overview of token supply—breaking it down to circulating and maximum supply-- and why it should be an important consideration when valuing token projects. We also cover market cap, and why transparency in a token’s supply schedule is important.For more insights and curated news summaries, visit messari.io. 

Have suggestions, feedback, or want me to cover something for next week? DM us @MessariCrypto on Twitter!

Messari Podcast #3: Understanding token supply, market cap, and why supply schedule is important

In this episode, Nic Carter speaks to the negligence of the coin rankings sites and why the data quality on a lot of these ranking sites cannot be trusted. Also: how the industry can do better on the data front, what metrics we should be considering, the lessons we can extrapolate to most crypto data sites, and the importance of definition standards.

The article that is referred to in this podcast is titled "A glimpse into the dark underbelly of cryptocurrency markets". 

Read it here: https://medium.com/@nic__carter/a-glimpse-into-the-dark-underbelly-of-cryptocurrency-markets-d1690b761eaf

Messari Podcast #4: Conversation with Nic Carter on data quality in the crypto space

In this week's episode, Ryan Seklis (CEO of Messari) and Qiao Wang (Head of Product, Messari) share their experiences from the previous week at EthBerlin. We talk about what the week consisted of, what they found interesting, what they found surprising, and what advice they have for the future attendees of EthGlobal events.

Messari Podcast #5: Thoughts and Takeaways from EthBerlin with Ryan Selkis and Qiao Wang

We have seen such an onslaught of regulatory action in the crypto space lately— and reading the discussions and reactions online made me realize that we really just need a better & easier primer to understand some of the confusing sounding regulatory agencies out there.

In this week’s episode, we have with us Jake Chervinsky, who is a securities litigation attorney with Kobre & Kim LLP to help with the agency definitions. (https://twitter.com/jchervinsky) In a Q&A format, we go over the following for each agency: what the acronym stands for, what the agency does / have jurisdiction over, how that relates to crypto.

The U.S. agencies we will be covering in this episode (with timestamps!):

Federal agencies

SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) 02:04
CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) 03:11
FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) 04:45
FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) 05:59
OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) 07:15
CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) 08:30
OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) 09:30

State agencies-

NYDFS (New York State Department of Financial Services) 11:30
NYAG (New York State Attorney General) 13:20

Messari Podcast #6: Primer on Federal & State Regulators for Crypto w/ Jake Chervinsky

Never a dull moment in crypto. In this week's Messari podcast, we delve into two topics: 1) a look at the disclosure documents that Bitmain filed in an IPO application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and 2) a conversation with Eric Meltzer on the latest bitcoin bug, what it means, and its implications.

Some helpful timestamps:

0:35 Bitmain's IPO
3:38 Bitcoin bug with Eric Meltzer

Also plugging Messari's weekly newsletter, "Unqualified Opinion", available for subscription at: https://messari.substack.com/

Messari Podcast #7: Bitmain's IPO Application Proof + Bitcoin bug w/ Eric Meltzer

This week's podcast was recorded in Palm Springs, California for Crypto Springs, a ~250 attendee crypto conference. Messari's Katherine Wu was on the ground and interviewed some of the speakers and attendees (listed below) about their quick impressions of the conference and the discussions that they found interesting.

Interviewees (in order):

 - Will Warren, co-Founder of 0X
 - Arianna Simpson, Founder & MD at Autonomous Partners
 - Nick Grossman, GM at Union Square Ventures
 - Soona Ahmaz, co-Founder & CEO at Token Daily
 - Connie Yang, Design Director at Coinbase 
 - Dan Held, Co-Founder of Picks & Shovels

Messari Podcast #8: Conversations on the ground at Cryptosprings ☀️🌴

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