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Ken Griffin won a copy of the US constitution at a Sotheby's auction against ConstitutionDAO, which raised $47m via Ethereum transactions from 17,437 wallets. These contributions will now be refunded. At current gas prices of $53 in ETH for a simple ETH transaction (and more for erc20s), DAO members will have spen…

Atomic swaps on tokenized USD, tokenized JPY, tokenized EUR is where this is going. (No XRP tokens are necessary to achieve this, thank you very much Ripple). The main innovation with cryptocurrencies is in the perfectly recorded, efficient, cheap and fast settlement system. And paired with atomic swaps, no counter-…

Last Look in spot FX needs to end. #nolook

Ken Griffin won a copy of the US constitution at a Sotheby's auction against ConstitutionDAO, which raised $47m via Ethereum transactions from 17,437 wallets. These contributions will now be refunded. At current gas prices of $53 in ETH for a simple ETH transaction (and more for erc20s), DAO members will have spen…

Last Look in spot FX needs to end. #nolook

I recommend watching today's House Financial Services Committee on Cryptocurrency (link below). Questions and comments specifically from Bill Foster and Sean Casten are excellent and raise difficult issues (e.g. LEIs for wallets, matters of price discovery, and positioning of a CBDC among the wild-cat instruments o…