TBD-ul lui Square lucrează la „Descentralizarea schimbului pentru Fiat”

August 30, 2021by Mark Murdock

30 august 2021 / Unchained Daily / Laura Shin

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Jack Dorsey + Bitcoin + DeFi = TBD

Last month, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey left the Bitcoin community with quite a cliffhanger, teasing the launch of a new, BTC-focused company titled “TBD.” 

Well, according to Dorsey and Mike Brock, the CashApp exec leading TBD, the company’s plans are no longer vague. TBD knows the problem it’s trying to solve: the project plans to build a Bitcoin-native decentralized exchange, where users can trade fiat for BTC without relying on a centralized third party. 

In a tweet thread, Brock describes TBD’s purpose as such: “make it easy to fund a non-custodial wallet anywhere in the world through a platform to build on- and off-ramps into Bitcoin. You can think about this as a decentralized exchange for fiat.” 

He thinks TBD is a missing piece for the crypto industry, citing Bitcoin’s reliance on centralized intermediaries and custodians.  

We believe Bitcoin will be the native currency of the internet. While there are many projects to help make the internet more decentralized, our focus is solely on a sound global monetary system for all. But including all requires a few pieces we think are missing,” Brock explains. “Getting bitcoin today typically involves exchanging fiat at a centralized and custodial service like Cash App or Coinbase. These on- and off-ramps to Bitcoin have a number of issues, and aren’t distributed evenly around the world.” 

For now, the exact specifications of TBD are not finalized. The project will be completely open-sourced, without a foundation or governance model. According to Brock, “it’s permissionless or bust.” TBD plans to bring the ethos of decentralization to fiat trades, a feat yet to be accomplished in the crypto industry. 

Pulling this off will require a new tech stack for Bitcoin. Unlike Ethereum, Solana, or Binance Smart Chain, Bitcoin is not natively built to handle smart contracts and DeFi. Brock mentioned Rootstock, a smart-contract Bitcoin sidechain, as a possible option for building out the BTC DEX. However, he noted, “the gaps needed to build this may be too large, which would also have us consider other chains as a bridge.” 

NFT Corner: Everyone in the know, knows… 

1. Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) had quite a weekend. 
   1. Ei a lansat a new set of 10,000 mutant apes over the weekend, aduce înăuntru roughly $100M in 45 minutes. 
   2. NBA superstar Steph Curry cumparate a BAYC NFT for $180K. 
   3. BAYC’s price floor, at publishing time, sits at $48K — up from $12K to start the month. 
2. OpenSea’s August is one for the record books.
   1. OpenSea sales accounted for 97% ($2.23B) of the entire NFT industry’s volume this month (Blocul)
   2. OpenSea customers sold 1.4M NFTs in August, more than 3X the previous ATH (Richard Chen)
3. NFT whales appear to be obsessed with the number 8. Why? Well, Decrypt’s Ekin Denc crede it could have something to do with increasing Chinese interest in NFTs
   1. CryptoPunk # 8888 s-a vândut cu 888.8 ETH
   2. An EtherRock sold for 888 ETH
   3. 64 CryptoPunks are listed for 888 ETH

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Cum o altă tendință NFT, numele .eth, a atras aprecierile Budweiser

Nick Johnson, dezvoltator principal la Ethereum Name Service (ENS), vorbește despre a face Ethereum lizibil de către om, de ce Budweiser a achiziționat un NFT, cum funcționează achiziționarea unui ENS și multe altele. Afișați cele mai importante momente:

• ce face ENS și de ce este important

• de ce Budweiser a cumpărat „beer.eth”

• cum pot fi folosite numele ENS pentru a face Ethereum mai ușor de utilizat

• ce cazuri de utilizare în afaceri fac posibile numele ENS

• ceea ce l-a făcut pe Nick să dorească să creeze un serviciu de denumire pe Ethereum

• modul în care oamenii își folosesc numele ENS

• de ce oamenii cumpără nume ENS

• ce probleme de confidențialitate apar din cauza persoanelor care își atașează numele la o adresă ETH

• ce se întâmplă atunci când adresele Ethereum sunt trimise spam cu jetoane nedorite

• cum să cumpărați un nume ENS și cât costă

• cum se descurcă ENS pe squatters

• ce se întâmplă atunci când pierzi accesul la o adresă care conține un nume ENS

• modul în care ENS integrează domenii normale (ex: „.com”) în Ethereum

• ceea ce ENS a planificat pentru lansările L2

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