This is Charles Brett’s start-of-the-week Enterprise Times ‘blockchain catch-up’ 2022-Week 45. Necessarily it is idiosyncratic and selective.
The intention is not to be comprehensive but to seek to highlight ‘Quick Takes’ on specific developments as well interesting pieces to read, a listing of some (not all) announcements/press releases and pointers to upcoming events.
Quick Take(s) – Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up 2022-Week 45
FTX collapse timeline: Six days that rocked the crypto industry
This week’s major ‘happening was undoubtedly the collapse of FTX. To understand the sequence The Block describes the timeline.
Quick Take: If this puts into perspective the additional references (below), it has merit. What the broader impact will be on blockchain – positive, negative or even negligible – remains for the future. What a week…
7 pieces to read – Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up 2022-Week 45
- How blockchain-based CBDC and crypto are different?
- Why is crypto crashing? The FTX saga explained
- The FTX collapse explained
- The new internet and blockchain
- 4 ways blockchain technology will change leadership
- Iberpay, BBVA, Santander, Spanish banks launch digital euro proof of concept
- What is Humanode human-powered blockchain?
Selected announcements/press releases/opinions – Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up 2022-Week 45
- Crypto’s future may be divided, not dead (opinion, behind FT paywall)
- Bernstein Says Polygon Blockchain Is the Web3 King (opinion)
- Blockchain protects our data, but who protects the blockchain? (opinion)
- Online Blockchain plc: Transactions on Umbria Network’s Narni Bridge rise by 1000% (announcement)
- JP Morgan opens innovation lab in Greece focusing on blockchain, AI (announcement)
- The state of cross-chain crime (report).
Selected upcoming events
- Crypto and Digital Assets Summit – Winter Edition (28th November, 2022)
- Bitcoin Conference (18th-20th May, 2023).
