The Daily Spin. Rate-Hike Wednesday Edition. On-chain amount of stablecoins being converted into Bitcoins reaches a 4-year high. Options open-contracts hit ATH at 468k BTC, Coinbase’s Bitcoin premium index also hits record highs. And the bears are still waiting for $10k…
DefiLlama resolves its internal conflict between founders, easing concerns of a ‘hostile takeover’ forking of its code. MakerDAO’s emergency proposal causes MKR to shed 26%. SushiSwap’s Head Chef receives a subpoena from our regulator of the year, Gary the Salamander – Garrymander. DeFi insurance grew by 22 providers in 2022. And one of the most anticipated airdrops in the crypto community – $ARB – happens tomorrow. Magic Eden launches Ordinal NFT marketplace, Sony files for an NFT patent. Cardano’s DJED stablecoin expands into Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. Biden’s administration reports that cryptocurrencies are “mostly speculative investment vehicles.”
Mastercard announces collaboration with Australian payment gateway, Stables, to issue a stablecoin-only physical payment card for daily use in the APAC region. Stables will work with a third party to convert USDC to currency and settle transactions on the Mastercard network. Stables’ digital app will enable instant USDC transactions by providing digital asset custody technology that are ISO and SOC2 certified.
Cryptowallet.com makes a press release about their successful renewal of their Estonian license. Circle goes for regulatory approval in France. India’s new crypto laws are making it difficult to just HODL. Binance launches its Verifiable Random Functions (VRF) Oracle, providing Random Number Generator (RNG) capabilities to blockchain networks. Its utility will see use cases in blockchain gaming, consensus sampling, and any scenario where true randomness is valuable and verifiable. Lastly, don’t forget to catch last week’s episode of the All-in Podcast, covering the banking crisis and the great VC reset… here is our round-up of curated news and opinions (surely biased) from the world of Blockchain, keeping you informed into the market news with the most trending, in-the-know, and controversial topics. In the name of transparent, dissemination of information to keep you curious, inspired, and clinically sane…
Ongoings at Coinweb
Coinweb’s Layer 2 marks 4 million transactions milestone https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1638125472814092291?s=20
Coinweb Partners With Ceffu for Institutional Crypto Custody https://www.ceffu.com/blog/coinweb-partners-with-ceffu-for-institutional-crypto-custody?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=cweb0321
Coinweb’s Fireside Chat Series, digitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1636676933361745920?s=20
“A Thread on Refereed Delegation of Computation” by Kawin on Twitter https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1635952081302589441?s=20
Coinweb to bring cross-chain tokenisation to Layer 2 https://cryptoslate.com/coinweb-to-bring-cross-chain-tokenisation-to-layer-2/
“A Thread on L2 Scalability, Network Efficiency and Throughput/TPS” by Anton on Twitter https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1633424957693915137
The Coinweb Monthly Spin - Coinweb Project's Monthly Round-Up and Curated News & Events From The Bleeding Edge of All Things Web3 https://coinweb.beehiiv.com/p/coinweb-monthly-spin-fifth-edition
A Leading Layer 2 Platform Looking To Tackle Crypto's Interoperability Issue https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/23/02/31067514/a-leading-layer-2-platform-looking-to-tackle-cryptos-interoperability-issue
Toby Gilbert takes the stage at the Thai Technology Investment Summit 2023, “On the future of Web3” and Ain Mohd represents Coinweb on a panel discussing “The Role of Women in Web3”
“The Reality of Large-scale Enterprises Adopting Blockchain Technology” an article by Toby Gilbert for CityAM Magazine https://www.cityam.com/the-reality-of-large-scale-enterprises-adopting-blockchain-technology/
Coinweb Labs is proud to unveil LinkMint ⛓️🍃, our groundbreaking Cross-Chain Tokenisation Platform and DeconX, our integrated native DEX! Live Walkthrough Demonstration for the Community by Toby, Knut, and Alexander. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKA3cAB15U
“A Thread on Guaranteed Liveness and the Coinweb Routing System” by Anton on Twitter https://twitter.com/CoinwebOfficial/status/1630052477579169793?s=20
“A Thread on Rollups, Monolithic, and Modular Blockchains” by Kawin on Twitter https://twitter.com/rukawin/status/1616342851507613696?s=46&t=BjBOK3soH3kOMbsWEa_jlg
Coinweb to Deliver Cross-Chain Smart Contract Architecture and Blockchain Loyalty Programme to BMW https://cryptoslate.com/bmw-to-bring-blockchain-loyalty-program-through-coinweb-and-bnb-chain/
KuCoin Labs launches incubation program to accelerate builders (Coinweb, DoraHacks, Ava Labs) https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/kucoin-labs-launches-incubation-program-to-accelerate-builders
Toby’s full presentation at Token2049-London https://youtu.be/pdtKx3vAs9c
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On the Radar
Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade, Delayed (On-chain)
FOMC Meeting, Mar 21-22 (Washington D.C.) Arbitrum Airdrop, Mar 23 Polygon zkEVM Launch, Mar 27 (On-chain) WOW Summit, Mar 29-30 (Hong Kong) ASEAN Web3 Summit, Mar 30-31 (Singapore)
Hong Kong Web3 Festival, Apr 12-15 (Wan Chai, Hong Kong) Consensus 2023, Apr 26-28 (Austin, Texas)
Web3 Weekend, May 8-13 (Jakarta)
AIBC Asia, Jul 19-22 (Manila)
TOKEN2049, Sep 13-14 (Singapore)
Blockchain Events curated by CryptoNomad https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KtyFTb_W282bQ1xoVA5rlTwTDz3QfhswWIVpXhpbQIc/edit
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On the Block(chain)
Stablecoins being converted into Bitcoin approach a four-year high https://cryptoslate.com/insights/stablecoins-being-converted-into-bitcoin-approach-a-four-year-high/
Options open contracts hit new ATH – 468K Bitcoin https://cryptoslate.com/insights/options-open-contracts-hit-new-ath-468k-bitcoin/
Bitcoin Coinbase premium index hits record levels https://cryptoslate.com/insights/bitcoin-coinbase-premium-index-hits-record-levels/
DefiLlama resolves internal conflict, quelling ‘hostile takeover’ accusations https://crypto.news/defillama-resolves-internal-conflict-quelling-hostile-takeover-accusations/
MakerDAO’s emergency proposal triggers 26% MKR price plunge https://crypto.news/makerdaos-emergency-proposal-triggers-26-mkr-price-plunge/
Sushi and its ‘head chef’ receive SEC subpoena https://cryptoslate.com/sushi-and-its-head-chef-receive-sec-subpoena/
DeFi insurance grew in 2022 to include nearly two dozen providers https://cryptoslate.com/defi-insurance-grew-in-2022-to-include-nearly-two-dozen-providers/
Arbitrum to airdrop 112.8M ARB tokens to DAOs on its ecosystem https://cryptoslate.com/arbitrum-to-airdrop-112-8m-arb-tokens-to-daos-on-its-ecosystem/
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Competitive Landscape
Mastercard and Stables introduce first APAC stablecoin-only wallet https://crypto.news/mastercard-and-stables-introduce-first-apac-stablecoin-only-wallet/
Magic Eden Launches Ordinals Marketplace for Bitcoin NFTs https://decrypt.co/124078/magic-eden-ordinals-bitcoin-nft-marketplace-launch
Introducing Binance Oracle VRF: The Next Generation of Verifiable Randomness https://news.bitcoin.com/introducing-binance-oracle-vrf-the-next-generation-of-verifiable-randomness/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications
GamesOnChain: The Decentralized Platform for Fun and Fair Gaming https://dappradar.com/blog/gamesonchain-the-decentralized-platform-for-fun-and-fair-gaming
Coinbase offered Circle $3b credit line to repeg USDC https://crypto.news/coinbase-offered-circle-3b-credit-line-to-repeg-usdc/
Amid stablecoin turbulence, Djed to expand to Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain https://cryptoslate.com/amid-stablecoin-turbulence-djed-to-expand-to-ethereum-binance-smart-chain/
Sony Interactive Entertainment files for NFT patent https://cryptoslate.com/sony-interactive-entertainment-files-for-nft-patent/
Binance CEO highlights USDT growth amidst rival issues https://cryptoslate.com/binance-ceo-highlights-usdt-growth-amidst-rival-issues/
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World
Yellen Says US Could Back All Deposits at Smaller Banks if Needed to Prevent Contagion https://news.bitcoin.com/yellen-says-us-could-back-all-deposits-at-smaller-banks-if-needed-to-prevent-contagion/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications
SC justices hear Coinbase’s first arguments in favor of class action arbitration https://cryptoslate.com/sc-justices-hear-coinbases-first-arguments-in-favor-of-class-action-arbitration/
USDC issuer Circle seeks regulatory approval in France amid US banking troubles https://cryptoslate.com/usdc-issuer-circle-seeks-regulatory-approval-in-france-amid-us-banking-troubles/
India’s new crypto rules are making life hard for hodlers https://thenextweb.com/news/india-cryptocurrency-tax-banking-regulation-investment-analysis
Head of Venezuelan Crypto Watchdog Sunacrip Arrested on Alleged Corruption Charges; Institution to Face Restructuring https://news.bitcoin.com/head-of-venezuelan-crypto-watchdog-sunacrip-arrested-on-alleged-corruption-charges-institution-to-face-restructuring/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications
Argentine Tax Authority AFIP Detects Irregularities in 184 Digital Wallet Tax Statements https://news.bitcoin.com/argentine-tax-authority-afip-detects-irregularities-in-184-digital-wallet-tax-statements/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications
Crypto Ads in Belgium to Feature ‘Punchy Warning’ of Risks, New Rules Imply https://news.bitcoin.com/crypto-ads-in-belgium-to-feature-punchy-warning-of-risks-new-rules-imply/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications
OneCoin associate Irina Dilkinska charged following US extradition https://cryptoslate.com/onecoin-associate-irina-dilkinska-charged-following-us-extradition/
CryptoWallet.com Among Minority of Successful Companies to Renew Coveted Estonian License https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/cryptowallet-com-among-minority-of-successful-companies-to-renew-coveted-estonian-license/
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Thought Leadership
Playing Mind Games With The Economy: The Federal Reserve’s Reverse Psychology Gambit https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonkochkodin/2023/03/21/playing-mind-games-with-the-economy-the-federal-reserves-reverse-psychology-gambit/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=2800634&sh=31dcb2097829
All-in Podcast E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset (90mins) https://youtu.be/yYwfiqYocc0
A reimagined vision of the future of digital banking https://crypto.news/a-reimagined-vision-of-the-future-of-digital-banking/
Biden Administration's Economic Report Deems Crypto Assets ‘Mostly Speculative Investment Vehicles’ https://news.bitcoin.com/biden-administrations-economic-report-deems-crypto-assets-mostly-speculative-investment-vehicles/?utm_source=OneSignalPush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=PushNotifications
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SOURCE: https:// t . me/rospartizan/1602
Rospartizan
ENGLISH:
The cop telegram channel Shot writes (https:// t . me/shot_shot/49389?single) about the arrest by the FSBshniks of the eighteen-year-old Lipetsk Vsevolod Kulikov, to whom the Legion of Freedom of Russia, allegedly, sent instructions for a diversion in the Russian Federation.
Goebnya and their media service staff claim that Kulikov wanted to join the Legion, but the legionnaires entrusted him with sabotage at the airfield as a “casting”.
However, the Legion itself in his official statement (https:// t . me/legionoffreedom/732) denies that they gave Kulikov any tasks in the Russian Federation. According to the legion, the application for joining the unit on behalf of Kulikov was really submitted, but this candidacy did not pass “even the preliminary stage of verification” and no work with this person was conducted.
The Putin gendarmerie for the sake of quota reporting continues to falsify the affairs of "sabotage", forces the beaten youths to self incrimination. At the same time, the repressive machine of the Russian Federation is not able to withstand these partisan operations (https:// t . me/rospartizan/1601) such as the other day in Rostov.
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RUSSIAN:
Мусорской телеграм-канал SHOT пишет (https:// t . me/shot_shot/49389?single) об аресте эфесбешниками восемнадцатилетнего жителя Липецка Всеволода Куликова, которому Легион «Свобода России», якобы, поручил проведение в РФ «диверсий».
Гебня и их медийная обслуга утверждают, что Куликов хотел вступить в Легион, но легионеры в качестве «кастинга» поручили ему диверсии на аэродроме.
Однако сам Легион в своем официальном заявлении (https:// t . me/legionoffreedom/732) отрицает, что давал Куликову какие-либо задания на территории РФ. Согласно Легиону, заявка на вступление в подразделение от имени Куликова действительно подавалась, но эта кандидатура не прошла «даже предварительный этап проверки» и никакая работа с этим человеком не велась.
Путинская жандармерия ради палочной отчетности продолжает фальсифицировать дела о «диверсиях», принуждает к самооговору избитых юнцов. При этом репрессивная машина РФ не в состоянии противостоять настоящим партизанским операциям, (https:// t . me/rospartizan/1601) типа той, что прошла на днях в Ростове.

🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

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Dovzhenko's "Earth"

From the opening frames of \"Earth\" - Ukraine as a paradise.
Oleksandr Dovzhenko's Earth (Земля / Zemlya) was banned 9 days after it premiered in 1930. The director's complex history of interactions with the soviet regime, including stalin himself, have been assessed and reassessed continuously ever since, but one thing remains certain - his magnus opus Earth is a masterpiece of world cinema. Watching it today, it is remarkable how impactful the film's dreamy and nightmarish visions truly are, despite its limitations as a silent film.
Earth is a depiction of the soviet policy of collectivization - something the regime was eager to portray in the most wonderful light possible. And at first glance, this is precisely what the film shows us. There is a young guy who organizes the community, they mechanize, and so on.
But while watching the film you might realize that there's something deeper going on. The film opens with a luxurious portrait of Ukraine as a kind of bucolic Eden in the midst of a bountiful traditional harvest.
Wind whips through the steppe.
The fields of wheat ripple, the sunflowers sway, an old man lays in an orchard with his newborn grandson. What political purpose could a scene like this possibly serve, if we're meant to despise these so-called "Kulaks"? In a land where such a paradise is already possible, is the only possible next step for humanity really the tractor, the conveyor belt, the coal car?
Machines connected to machines.
Soon after this idyllic introduction to the ebb and flow of the land, we are introduced to the world of politics, murder, and collectivization... and ultimately, everything feels very negative and futile despite ostensibly being a feel-good story. This wasn't super great as far as impressing the soviet censors.
Is this the new look for Spring 2023?
Workers look up at what they are told is a \"bolshevik airplane\", unimpressed.
In fact, Earth was condemned within the soviet union for its insufficient ideology and for its hypnotic naturalism that expressed the deep connection to nature inherent in Ukrainian culture - a connection that doesn't need saving. The film was released on April 8th, 1930 but by April 17th had been banned from all cinemas due to its subversive content. Dovzhenko was repeatedly denounced in secret reports to the KGB, who were surveilling him.
A funeral scene from \"Earth\"
Later, he tried to save his career and his life by working even more closely with the regime - with stalin himself - but this was of course folly. In his concealed diaries, he decried the deliberate destruction of the Ukrainian people by the russian regime, their enslavement and russification, the humiliation of the nation. He described the regime as "wretched fools... cold cowards with locks on their mental windows and doors."
A scene from \"Earth\"
Dovzhenko expert Serhiy Trymbach wrote that the director "believed that it was possible to combine the strength of the bolshevik idea and the Ukrainian essence. He, like many of his peers, diminished by the defeat of the Ukrainians during the struggle for independence, bet on strength and that this bolshevik strength would help resurrect Ukraine and Ukrainian culture. He was wrong."
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Playing with Light, Plagued by Darkness

Dovzhenko and crew during filming.
Danylo Demutskyi was the Ukrainian photographer and cinematographer who filmed Earth. He was also a victim of soviet terror (three arrests by the NKVD). Many believe that it was Danylo's touch that made the film truly great; as one Ukrainian critic said: "In the film Earth there was a rare harmony of a great director and a great cinematographer.”
He created extremely plastic and psychologically-saturated portraits with the help of subtle lighting. With the help of a monocle and various attachments on the lens, he painted landscapes in haze and actors in soft muted tones.
In 1932, Danylo was arrested for his connections with a Ukrainian movie director named Favst Lopatynskyi, who was later executed in 1937 as part of the Executed Renaissance. In 1934, Danylo was arrested again for his family's connection to “aristocratic reactive elements”. He was released from prison after 4 months, but was sent on forced exile to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 1938, he was arrested again but not really charged with anything. He was released after another 17 months in prison. He was allowed to return to Ukraine in 1939 but his career, health and life was destroyed.
One of the film's main actors, Semen Svashenko, was also a victim of soviet terror. His brother was another who was killed during the purge of Ukrainian intelligentsia in 1937. Semen was in trouble with the soviet regime as well, and moved to moscow in 1933, giving up on his acting career in Ukrainian movies in order to avoid the fate of his brother.
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Legacy of "Earth"

A scene from \"Earth\"
Earth may have been banned in its country of origin, but abroad it was a smash. After the premiere in Berlin, 48 news articles were published about this hot new director Dovzhenko. In Venice, after its showing at the Venice film festival, Italian cinematographers called Dovzhenko the "Homer of cinema". Historians believe that this international attention is what ultimately saved Dovzhenko from incurring stalin's wrath and being murdered.
Earth has been repeatedly named one of the top films in the history of cinema - in lists going as far back as 1939! The film has been praised by Fellini, Coppola, Scorsese and more.
Scene from \"Earth\"
Since 1994, one of the most important cultural organizations in Ukraine is the Dovzhenko Center; we posted a documentary produced by Suspilne, the public television of Ukraine, that includes commentary by staff from the Center in this post. They specialize in film archival and restoration, and the Dovzhenko Center restored Earth in 2012. A custom-written soundtrack was supplied by the band Dakhabrakha, along with refreshed Ukrainian language intertitles.
I will put a link to a streaming site, Takflix (Ukrainian Netflix), in the comments so you can watch the film for yourself!
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The 392nd day of a nine year invasion that has been going on for centuries.

One day closer to victory.

🇺🇦 HEROYAM SLAVA! 🇺🇦

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Verified Charities

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