Coinbase L2, Starbucks Polygon NFTs, Spotify Token Enabled Playlists +more

Here's the thing, we're still early in the game of crypto, blockchain, and future web developments. The hindsight of looking in the rearview mirror on how innovation has historically been greeted with the same ambiguity as crypto and AI is happening today.

It would be much smoother if incumbents would just realize they could be the disruptors by cannibalizing their own models to secure their future success.

This and more in this week's recap of news.

Week 08, Year 2023, Episode 46.

News Mentioned In Episode

• Coinbase Launches Layer 2 on Ethereum. Link to Base
  
• Base aims to be decentralized, permissionless, and open to anyone with the vision of creating a standard, modular, rollup agnostic Superchain powered by Optimism. We’re joining Optimism as a Core Dev on the open source OP Stack, and working to create a thriving community of other developers.
  
• Coinbase Launches Layer 2 Blockchain Base to Provide On-Ramp for Ethereum, Solana and Others
  
• Cathie Wood's ARK Buys Over $13M of Coinbase Shares
  
• Starbucks Polygon NFTs Are Already Selling for Thousands
  
• Polygon Blockchain Nodes Briefly Went Out of Sync, Affecting Explorer, Sowing Confusion
  
• Google Cloud to Become Validator on Tezos Network
  
• YouTube Has a New CEO Who Actually Gets NFTs
  
• Spotify Is Testing Token-Enabled Music Playlists
  
• SEC Objects to Binance.US’ $1B Voyager Deal, Alleging Sale of Unregistered Securities
  
• Bitcoin NFTs: What Are Ordinal NFTs and How Do You Mint One?
  
• Federal Judge Denies Dapper Labs’ Plea To Dismiss Top Shot Class Action
  
• Banks Should Back Deposits From Crypto Customers With Cash: US Agencies
  
• Why Banks Don't Need Your Money to Make Loans
  
• What Is a Bank's Legal Lending Limit, How Does It Work?
  
• Web3 Music Streaming Platform Audius Integrates TikTok
  
• Reddit Co-founder Wishes He Bought More Ether in 2014 Presale
  

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