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0/ Can you believe we're already 10% through the year!? When you consider all that's transpired in the #crypto/#blockchain so far in 2019, that fact becomes less surprising.

Below, a 17-part thread based on what went down over the past day or so. Helping you stay informed!
1/ 🤝 @AirSwap's [ $AST ] @Crypto_Bobby announced the team's newfound "ability to support fiat on-ramp directly on AirSwap through [their] integration with" @SendWyre.

Fiat<-->#Crypto within users' self-custodied wallet, all whilst using #AirSwap's trading interface!
2/ 🐟 @Ethereum Foundation grantee @LeapDAO - a decentralized adaptive organization delivering layer-two Ethereum scalability as a global public utility - revealed its first public deployment of a Plasma Network! leapdao.org/blog/Plasma-Te…
3/ 🇨🇦 #Cryptocurrency brokerage startup Voyager announced it's going public on Canada's @TSX_TSXV.

Will begin trading on February 11th via a reverse merger with an inactive mineral exploration firm (i.e., UC Resources Ltd.), valued at $60M.
4/ 📣 With its v2 upgrade approaching, @Dether_io - #Ethereum-powered protocol for dApps and projects that share #crypto cash-in and cash-out issues - published a detailed blog post sharing more insights re its protocol. medium.com/dether/the-det…
5/ 🙋‍♂️ #Crypto spot exchange @ErisX_Digital announced the hiring of 3 veterans from @Barclays (Robert Thrash), @YouTube (Arnold Connell) and the @CBOE (John Denza) to fill executive roles.

Respectively, the 3 were hired as COO, Head of Infrastructure, and B.D. Executive.
6/ 🎭 @BeamPrivacy revealed “the Litecoin Foundation has approached [them] about possible cooperation to implement Mimblewimble via Extension Blocks on Litecoin.”

Exploration has already commenced vis-à-vis adding #privacy and fungibility to #Litecoin.
7/ 🎓 @Coinbase announced Coinbase Earn users can now earn up to $10 worth of @BasicAttentionToken [ $BAT ] for completing as much as four educational lessons focusing on the @Brave #web browser and the #ERC20-compliant BAT.
8/ 📊 @MakerDAO – in collaboration with #blockchain #data analytics service Beneath – published an insightful blog post, 'Dai in Numbers'.

#Dai usage growing 20% (MoM) in a bear market. Growing strong 💪 medium.com/makerdao/dai-i…
9/ 🦄 On @MakerDAO-related stats, @UniSwap revealed a "massive increase" in the $MKR liquidity and volume over the past few days.

Their liquidity pool now has ~$300,000 worth of MKR (i.e., "tripled in the last 3 days"). Displaced $DAI as its top-ranked token!
10/ 🗳️ One more on @MakerDAO, the Maker Foundation Risk Team announced it'll place a proposal into the voting structure to raise the Dai Stability Fee by 0.5%, for a new rate of 1%.

Will be placed into the voting structure for an Executive Vote by 12 Feb. medium.com/makerdao/incre…
11/ 📚 @JasonSomensatto (Strategic Legal Counsel, @0xProject) put together a highly useful list of open-source legal resources (i.e., the 0x Legal Wiki and the 0x Legal Library) for devs looking to integrate with the 0x protocol. AMA to come, also! blog.0xproject.com/new-legal-reso…
12/ 🗞️ The @8x_Protocol team issued the 27th edition of their 'Protocol Weekly' newsletter.

Updates from heaps of L1- and L2-specific projects incl. @LiquidityNet, @ParityTech, @KyberNetwork [ $KNC ], @OriginProtocol, @GraphProtocol and @AirSwap [ $AST ]. medium.com/8xprotocol/pro…
13/ 🕸️ @SidShekhar24 (Co-Founder, @TheTokenAnalyst) published a super interesting blog post looking at interactions between #smartcontracts on the #Ethereum network. medium.com/tokenanalyst/u…
14/ 🗣️ @CZ_Binance (Co-Founder & CEO, @Binance) held his first @PeriscopeCo with the community from 1:00pm (PST) on Wednesday.

The 46-minute-long stream saw CZ share many insights re #BinanceChain, @Binance_DEX, #crypto token listing policy, @Binance_Launchpad and more.
15/ 🎧 A new 'Base Layer' ep. is out!

In it, host @DavidJN79 chats to @Andy_Bromberg (Co-Founder, @CoinList) about various topics such as the state of token sales, regulatory progress made in pro-#crypto #Wyoming, his taxonomy matrix, #STOs and more! itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bas…
16/🎙️ @Snyke (Core Engineer, @Blockstream) appeared on the latest ep. of @EpicenterBTC's podcast!

Heavy focus on the #LightningNetwork (LN) and #Bitcoin scalability. Covers LN's origin story and recent developments. epicenter.tv/episode/273/
17/ 🔙 Hope you liked my daily wrap-up of the #crypto/#blockchain space! This thread was shared earlier on @Cent, an #Ethereum-powered, income-generating social network. Check it out.

While you're there, be sure to give me a follow (mattw) 😉

{fin} beta.cent.co/+8vn07l
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