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TLDR CRYPTO 2024-10-29

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01MARKETS & BUSINESS

MARC ANDREESSEN SHOUTOUTS HELP AI-POWERED VC FUND AI16Z TO NEARLY $100 MILLION MARKET CAP

The ai16z fund, an AI-powered venture capital fund on Daos.fun modeled after Marc Andreessen, surged to a market cap of nearly $100 million after an endorsement by Andreessen. It has since dropped to $50 million amid ongoing volatility. The fund operates on community-driven investment suggestions, where the AI weights advice based on members' token holdings and past performance. The project aims to eventually automate trade execution.

links.tldrnewsletter.com3 min read

HONG KONG PLEDGES MORE LICENSES FOR CRYPTO EXCHANGES BY YEAR-END

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) plans to grant more licenses to digital asset exchanges by the end of 2024 following a rigorous inspection period that saw slow approvals due to regulatory concerns. Licensed exchanges will undergo a third-party review before expanding operations. The SFC will establish a consultative panel in early 2025 to enhance collaboration within the crypto sector.

fortune.com2 min read

02INNOVATION & LAUNCHES

INFINEX FINISHES THEIR PATRON SALE, RAISING $67M

Infinex has successfully completed a $67.7 million Patron Sale with backing from major players across the crypto ecosystem, including founders, funds, and foundations. This funding aims to fuel Infinex's vision for a “post-CEX era” that shifts away from centralized exchanges, with supporters now able to access their Patron tokens on Magic Eden, Blur, and OpenSea.

threadreaderapp.com2 min read

LOCAL FEE MARKETS IN ETHEREUM

A new proposal suggests enhancing Ethereum's fee mechanism by implementing local fee markets that apply multipliers to transactions involving frequently accessed addresses consuming more than 1/16th of a block's gas. It would build upon EIP-1559 by introducing dynamic fee multipliers that compound when addresses exceed the threshold. While it aims to improve network fairness and congestion management, potential challenges include implementation complexity and resistance from popular applications.

ethresear.ch4 min read

03GUIDES & TUTORIALS

MAPLE GUIDE FOR 2030

Maple aims to revolutionize the institutional lending landscape by 2030, using blockchain to create transparent, efficient, and accessible credit markets that democratize access to capital for sectors like AI, space exploration, and sustainable infrastructure. With the launch of the SYRUP token, Maple hopes to facilitate $100B in annual loan volume, establish decentralized bond markets, and integrate yield opportunities across fintech applications, positioning itself as a global leader in onchain credit.

maple.finance5 min read

Q4 WATCHLIST: AI X MEME CULTS, SOLANA'S DOMINANCE, DEFI 1.0'S COMEBACK, AND MORE

The crypto market is seeing renewed momentum in Q4 2024 driven by the emergence of AI and crypto integrations and Base's dominance of the L2 space. Notable developments include Solana's expanding DeFi ecosystem led by Jupiter and Kamino, the revival of DeFi 1.0 protocols like Aave and Uniswap, and a notably bullish market sentiment as evidenced by onchain metrics and Stripe's acquisition of Bridge

x.com11 min read

04MISCELLANEOUS

UNICHAIN AND THE MODERN CRYPTO STACK

Unichain is a great example of the modern crypto infrastructure stack. It owns the application and protocol layer, leaving only the L1 as an outsourced resource for settlement. Over time, more apps and protocols will become independent since they have a greater moat than a general-purpose platform. Uniswap resembles a platform where they have control over key components, but leave room for external composability and bases to build things on top.

threadreaderapp.com35 min read

POSSIBLE FUTURES OF THE ETHEREUM PROTOCOL, PART 5: THE PURGE

Ethereum's “Purge” initiative aims to address the challenge of blockchain bloat, with proposals focusing on history expiry, state expiry, and feature cleanup. Full nodes currently require 1.1 terabytes for execution data and several hundred gigabytes for consensus data. Key solutions include EIP-4444, which aims to limit historical data storage to one year, and transitioning to a distributed storage model. More complex expiry proposals require address format changes. There are significant technical challenges around backwards compatibility and maintaining Ethereum's permanence guarantees.

vitalik.eth.limo27 min read