AVAX Breakthroughs: Avalanche9000, Off The Grid & Institutional Adoption

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The latest Talking Tokens podcast 🎙️

For this week’s Tuesday episode, we’re sharing a conversation I had with Ava Labs co-founder and CEO Emin Gün Sirer. We recorded this during the Avalanche Summit LATAM in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

We dive into the latest developments on Avalanche in the past quarter, the explosive growth Off The Grid has seen and how it can change the landscape of web3 games, what the Avalanche9000 upgrade really means, Emin’s outlook on Latin America, institutional adoption and more.

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Money and people moves

Top 3 highlights focused on crypto startups that secured funding and industry players who are starting something new.

1. Nomura-Backed Crypto Custodian Komainu Makes First Acquisition (Bloomberg)

2. Stripe in $1.1B Acquisition Deal for Stablecoin Platform Bridge (CoinDesk)

3. African-focused stablecoin exchange Yellow Card raised $33M in a Series C round led by Blockchain Capital

Talking points for the road

Crypto-focused headlines or research that caught my eye…and should catch yours, too.

1. Institutional interest soars as CME bitcoin futures open interest sets new all-time high (The Block)

2. SEC clears Bitcoin ETF options for launch as inflows cross $21bn (DL News)

3. BlackRock's ETF chief says 75% of its bitcoin buyers are crypto fans new to Wall Street (CNBC)

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