The DeFi Daily

Amy and Pat talk about PayPal’s foray into crypto and the rumor that they’re eying BitGo for acquisition, they talk about the impending rug pull from Harvest, and Pat gets all philosophical about KYC, AML, and rent seeking from financial institutions in the US. Happy Friday!

OKEx is holding onto people’s money, and Pat and Amy are here to cover it! Plus, Bitcoin crosses $13k (before retreating a bit), Tether is somehow still the leading stable coin, and the US Currency Comptroller says DeFi is inevitable…we could have told you that!

Pat and Amy talk about Bitcoin hitting nearly 13k, correlation across the crypto markets, PayPal getting into crypto, and better come up with a plan b if you want to get a smart contract audited this year.

Bitcoin hit that big 12 (for the second time now), amid a sea of red from other cryptos. Plus, Pat and Amy chat about a new Cronje project, Dash coming to the Ethereum network, and the big story of the day, Uniswap’s first governance proposal failed to pass.

Amy and Pat talk about the OKEx withdrawal halt debacle, the Filecoin launch and drama, and they’re making a movie about OneCoin with Kate Winslet – is crypto the next Titanic?

Pat lays on the schadenfreude thick as discussing recent moves by the G7 against Libra (and the cyberpunk dystopian future Facebook is attempting to bring to us), plus he and Amy discuss voluntary registrations with the SEC and a new DeFi volatility index.

Pat and Amy chat about a new report from Kraken that Bitcoin has taken a hard turn toward decoupling, chat about a new rating service from DeFi Pulse, get pumped about new institutional money, and Pat talks shop about on an Ethereum Classic 51% attack mitigation effort.

Welcome back from the long weekend! Amy and Pat tackle the 1,000 bitcoin from 2010 that woke up and moved, talk about YFI, give a run down for the first UNI proposal, and why is Blue Kirby so blue?

DeFi is having a tough week, with both a price crash and the exit (or not…) of Andre Cronje. Pat and Amy also talk about the 60 Coinbase engineers that have opted into the exit package, and Square’s continued big bet on crypto.

Pat gets way too worked up over a relatively innocuous statement about CBDC’s by a Deputy US Treasury Secretary, Tron copies Ethereum, and Amy gets into the weeds on Kyrgyzstan and crypto friendly / unfriendly regimes.