The positive news in the cryptocurrency market continued to prevail during the first part of the past week. On Tuesday, April 13th, ConsenSys, one of the leading software development companies in the blockchain space, founded by Ethereum\u2019s co-founder Joseph Lubin, announced it had been able to raise $65 million to accelerate the development of DeFi and decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain. Interestingly, many of the seed investors are well-known companies from the traditional centralized financial world, such as J.P.Morgan, Mastercard, UBS, etc.On Wednesday, April 14th, Coinbase, the biggest crypto exchange in the United States, went public via a direct listing on NASDAQ. The stock price jumped from its reference price of $250 to over $400 initially, making the Coinbase listing one of the biggest in the Internet industry and comparable to Facebook\u2019s IPO from 2012. Despite not being a supporter of centralized stock exchanges, the crypto community welcomed the Coinbase debut because this event marks the beginning of building the first significant bridge between the centralized financial world and decentralized blockchain-based space.On the same day, Gary Gensler was confirmed as a new chairman of the Security and Exchange Commission. He is a former government official well-known for understanding the potentials of blockchain technology and being crypto-friendly. According to the crypto community, this is a signal that the USA, the biggest economy in the world, is going to become even more crypto-friendly and embrace the new technology.On Thursday, April 15th, the Berlin Upgrade went live on the Ethereum mainnet relatively smoothly, even though there had been many skeptics who had been expecting Ethereum to collapse and to push the crypto market into a deep correction.On Friday, April 16th, Robert Kaplan, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, stated: \u201cRight now it\u2019s clear it\u2019s [Bitcoin is] a store of\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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