Episode Details

15th Jan: Blockchain DXB Podcast
🟠Trump’s First-Day Executive Orders (Crypto) ⚫ BlackRock market insights publication ⚫BlackRock Canadian BTC spot ETF ❗ Sony's Platform for 'Creators'
🟠 Make Bitcoin Great Again
The Washington Post reports that Trump is expected to sign executive orders addressing crypto de-banking and repealing a policy forcing banks to list crypto as liabilities.
- Joe Biden’s administration has been accused of using financial regulators to pressure banks to cut off the industry from financial services under “Operation ChokePoint 2.0.”
- David Sack hosted a luncheon on December 20, during which it was revealed that Trump plans to revoke Biden’s 2023 AI executive order. Conservatives criticized the order for its focus on "equity."
⚫ BlackRock market insights publication stresses that Bitcoins' pace of adoption has been even faster than that of other breakthrough technologies like the internet and mobile phones. They have identified Several factors have accelerated this adoption, including:
- Demographic patterns
- Global shifts
- Future of finance
📊 Full report here https://shorturl.at/0suxl Check out the Blockchain DXB episode we have a different take on this as we slightly disagree with the point regarding the Adoption of crypto assets has outpaced growth for mobile phones and the internet⁴ If we compare Bitcoin adoption to user adoption with threads (30million in 24hrs), chatGPT by open AI (1M in 5 days), Pokemon GO (50m downloads) TikTok (500 million in 2 years) it gives a different picture
❗ Also, the main purpose of the report is to highlight the iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) simplifies Bitcoin exposure by allowing investors to trade it through traditional brokerage accounts, avoiding the complexities of direct investment.
⚫ BlackRock launches IBIT spot bitcoin ETF in Canada
- The iShares Bitcoin ETF, which launched Monday on the TriAct Canada Marketplace LP (now Cboe Global Markets) Exchange, trades under the ticker symbol IBIT, and simply invests in its U.S. counterpart but is priced in Canadian dollars and trades on a Canadian exchange. Robert Mitchnick BlackRock’s Head of Digital Assets interview can be found here BNN here https://shorturl.at/HT98Z
🟣 Sony launched Soneium, an Ethereum Layer 2 platform by Sony BSL, to simplify blockchain for creators with NFT tools and an incubator program. After four months of testing, it gained 14 million users. Built on Optimism's tech, Soneium aims to bridge Web2 and Web3, focusing on creativity, with plans to expand across Sony's subsidiaries in entertainment. Via Decrypt here https://shorturl.at/Rf2Dc
🟠 Two UAE news
⚡ DCAI opens global registrations for ‘One Million Prompters’ initiative
⚡ Tokinvest becomes the first DMCC company to receive a full market licence for its real-world asset marketplace