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In Nov '19, the Open Foundation sold 12,000,000 AION from its treasury to a strategic venture fund. OAN also upgraded to a new consensus algorithm that combines elements of PoW & PoS and increased the Aion block reward from 1.5 to 4.5 to compensate stakers and minerspic.twitter.com/2Brq7scZy5

The Aion Foundation holds over $18 million, about $6.8 million of which is in AION. Most of the remaining treasury is held in fiat, which the Open Foundation says it uses to fund “the majority of its operations.”pic.twitter.com/TxZ3RGCFrc

Native treasury spending totaled just under ~$149,000; an increase of 1,200% q/q Increase came from a 2,006,900 AION payout ($107K at the time) as part of OAN's employee incentive program Q3 spending was notably low due to a drop in AION's price Yearly expenses totaled $8.7Mpic.twitter.com/145tl5ofh6

Takeaways from the @Aion_OAN 2019 transparency report: + Open Foundation spent $2.3M from its fiat, BTC, ETH treasury, up 24% q/q + Increase came primarily from a jump in marketing expenses, as well as ecosystem & technical costspic.twitter.com/OT1KVLY9oB

According to Daniel, @Bitso did $18M in remittance volume in the last week of December, with volumes growing 15-20% each week Daniel set a stretch goal of 20% of weekly US-Mexico remittances by the end of 2020pic.twitter.com/lh3CD4eMSL

ICYMI: @Bitso CEO @vogelbit on the Unqualified Opinions podcast detailing how $XRP is being used for cross-border remittances between Mexico & the US @MoneyGram USD -> XRP -> Pesopic.twitter.com/95bSovRH3E

The staking wars between exchanges is worth watching, as it was a possible catalyst for the @tezos price run towards the end of 2019 Look for @coinbase and @krakenfx to explore the listing of more PoS assets to keep pacepic.twitter.com/lQ8JF2Ecg8

hmmm you may be on to somethingpic.twitter.com/bl5zB9HIBj

More about fully diluted Y2050 MarketCap pic.twitter.com/gBPia8Xkfm

Update: Y2050 Total Crypto Marketcap just cracked $300B Still have a ways to go to get back the $1T mark from Jan 2018 https://twitter.com/onchainfx/status/948571136492736513 …pic.twitter.com/IEIQeiElf9

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Do you think we'll see standards around fiat stablecoins develop similarly to Visa/Mastercard & Swift? Circle CEO @jerallaire on how he sees the stablecoin landscape developing alongside banks and governments Links to the full episode below pic.twitter.com/tmpSVA6CTo

News follows @Ripple's $200 million series C round in December that valued the company at $10 billionpic.twitter.com/XYvMYXQoXf

Circle CEO @jerallaire on the next phase for stablecoins amidst increasing interest from governments & central banks Listen/Watch in Full Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/7nk3iz  Spotify: http://tiny.cc/vmu3iz  YouTube: https://youtu.be/a2XdzxxMBts pic.twitter.com/xcKn2Lh7qc

.@Ripple sales of XRP hit lowest levels since Q1 '17 + $XRP sold by Ripple on exchanges dropped to zero and OTC sales dropped to just $13M + Drop coincides with $200M fundraise, possibly indicating prior sales have been for funding purposes https://messari.io/article/q4-2019-xrp-markets-report …pic.twitter.com/3xn2xUu2c8

"You really run into a problem when you want to go to market in North America" @zmanian discussing how lack of regulatory clarity in the US has projects looking to Asia Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRNcFsb6Ehk …pic.twitter.com/qMwtfp9T9G

On tomorrow's Unqualified Opinions, @zmanian & @twobitidiot discuss all things @cosmos Zaki and TBI cover a lot of ground, including @Binance_DEX, its use of the Cosmos SDK & Tendermint consensus and what it could mean for the future Subscribe here: https://blockworksgroup.io/unqualified-opinions …pic.twitter.com/2KOYLSYo1z

Binance burns $38M in Q4 nearing prior high from 2017 + 2.2M $BNB burn implies a Q4 profit of $194M + $2M increase over Q3 marks 4th consecutive quarter of growth per @jpurd17pic.twitter.com/IXqypKNOLp