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Organized Chaos

This week saw another round of interest rates hikes by central banks to try and control inflation. With all the talk of a potential pivot in monetary policy, interest rates continued their parabolic rise by 75 basis points in the UK, and the US. Initially the Federal Reserve’s announcement of a 0.75% interest rate increase caused markets to jump because this was the rise they’d been expecting and had already priced in. However, in the subsequent press conference the tone was more hawkish which caused the markets to drop a

A DeFi Drought Crisis

Just when we thought it was safe to breathe a sigh of relief from all the crypto liquidity contagion, another one started to appear last week with BendDAO, an NFT borrowing, and lending platform. Due to structural faults in the way the protocol had been created there came a point when it was perched on the brink of insolvency. What we’ve witnessed over the past few months has been a clash between the overconfidence of some project founders and the realities of the emerging crypto market. It’s an unusual dynamic

Metabook’s Web3 / Metaverse Reserve System

Metabook announced today the launch of a web3 rating system and is launching an influencer program, aimed at returning hope the crypto ecosystem For that purpose, there is the first Ranking of web3 leaders fighting against the wrong statements about “crypto winter”, and an XR program with the tagline “Ikonic. Own the moment”, with fan art contest dedicated to Johnny Depp. Depp was fighting the lies, and web3 leaders do the same. Metabook has created infrastructure, to be used for web3 Reserve system that is the hedging mechanism for partners