✊🏼 Crypto is Hungry for a Political Leader From its Own Ranks

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News

• Crypto is Hungry for a Political Leader From its Own Ranks
• Gensler Vows Action Against DeFi Platforms That Operate ‘Outside the Perimeter’

Video

• NFTx wants to beat OpenSea but how are they going to do that? Deep Dive

Podcast

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Links

• Leaked Slides Show How Chainalysis Flags Crypto Suspects for Cops: CoinDesk
• BitClout creator launches 'Decentralized Social' blockchain with $200 million in funding from a16z and others
• A Possible BTC Future: Gavin Andresen
• Solidity on StarkNet: Terminal Velocity: Medium
• “The Right To Create” #NFT FILM: ZCreativeMedia
• Here's a chat with our Sushi Art Contest winners!!: SushiSwap

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Crypto Politics

✊🏼 Crypto is Hungry for a Political Leader From its Own Ranks

NEWS The blockchain industry is ready for one of its own to join the U.S. Congress, whether it’s Messari founder Ryan Selkis or someone else.

REACTIONS That’s judging by reactions on the floor of Messari’s conference, Mainnet 2021, taking place at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan this week. Yesterday Selkis said he was going to run for Senate in 2024 on Twitter, following a rumored subpoena served by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to an attendee on the event’s first day.

ORGANIZED Mainnet attendees on the floor were broadly supportive of someone from the industry directly joining the political fray. The industry has already started to get organized, with groups like the DeFi Education Fund and the Blockchain Association already operating in the nation’s capital.

FUTURE “I think we need someone who already has one foot in the future,” Darren McElvey from Nodle, an internet-of-things network, told The Defiant.

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SEC Crackdown

⚔️ Gensler Vows Action Against DeFi Platforms That Operate ‘Outside the Perimeter’

MESSAGE All cryptocurrencies will be regulated. Or else. That was the clear and unambiguous message Gary Gensler, the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, delivered Tuesday in a livestream with The Washington Post.

SO WHAT Gensler said there’s no question in his mind that digital tokens fit the definition of securities and are subject to federal registration and disclosure laws. In a nod to regulatory “sandboxes,” he urged DeFi entrepreneurs to collaborate with the commission to comply with tax, anti-money-laundering, and securities rules.

PERIMETER “We have robust authority at the SEC and we will use it,” Gensler said. “It would be better if the platforms that are trading securities, that have lending products or staking products, come in and let’s figure out how to get them within the perimeter.”

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Video

📺 NFTx wants to beat OpenSea but how are they going to do that? Deep Dive

Links

🔗 Leaked Slides Show How Chainalysis Flags Crypto Suspects for Cops: CoinDesk

In the battle to link real-world criminals to their anonymous bitcoin troves, Chainalysis has found a “meaningful” edge: a block explorer website that scrapes visitors’ internet protocol (IP) addresses.

🔗 BitClout creator launches 'Decentralized Social' blockchain with $200 million in funding from a16z and others: The Block

BitClout creator, who goes by the pseudonym Diamondhands, has today revealed his identity with the launch of a blockchain network dubbed "Decentralized Social" (DeSo).

🔗 A Possible BTC Future: Gavin Andresen

Take this as a little piece of science fiction; the chances the future looks like this are small, but of all the possible futures I think this has as good a chance of any of happening: Imagine: it is the year 2061. The BTC price is six million US dollars– equal to about a million 2021 dollars because of inflation.

🔗 Solidity on StarkNet: Terminal Velocity: Medium

A month ago, the Warp team released a demo transpiling an ERC20 Solidity contract to Cairo and deploying it to StarkNet. Although we’d made great progress, we quickly realized that we could hit some insurmountable hurdles if we continued with the approach we were using at the time.

ZCreativeMedia @zcreativemedia“The Right To Create” #NFT FILM Chapter 3: Ava has discovered the freedom to shape her own destiny. With her digital twin by her side, they form the foundation of a decentralized network. Open for bids on @opensea at: opensea.io/assets/0x809c3… #OpenSeaNFT #CryptoArt #NFTfilm 5:32 PM ∙ Sep 21, 202159Likes12Retweets

SushiChef @SushiSwapHope you guys enjoyed all of the birthday activities over the past month. Here's a chat with our Sushi Art Contest winners!! 🥳🎂 sushichef.medium.com/being-a-sushi-…

sushichef.medium.comBeing A Sushi Artist: Interviews with the Birthday NFT Contest WinnersOur first anniversary birthday contest was a roaring success: over 100 artists entered, treating our eyeballs to over 65 pieces of stunning Sushi-related artwork! The winning piece by Mochi will be…2:49 AM ∙ Sep 22, 202150Likes9Retweets

🧑‍💻 ✍️ Stories in this newsletter were written by Brady Dale and Edward Robinson, and edited by Edward Robinson and Camila Russo. Videos were produced by Robin Schmidt and Alp Gasimov. Podcast was led by Camila, edited by Alp.

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