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- Ethereum and Prividiums: Incorruptible financial infrastructure for institutions
Anthony Rose of ZKsync argues that privacy has been a barrier to institutional adoption of Ethereum, and that ZKsync's Prividiums, private blockchains anchored to Ethereum, can address this. Each batch of transactions is proven with zero knowledge cryptography and verified on Ethereum, giving institutions a verifiable audit trail without exposing proprietary data. The article says Prividiums can move tokenized assets between systems in about one second and that ZKsync's Airbender proof system generates proofs for a Prividium batch in about one second. The first production deployment is Memento, a compliance-focused chain built with Deutsche Bank.
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- Another step toward international war
Ray Dalio argues that the Israel-Hamas war and the Russia-Ukraine war are steps toward a larger international war that could draw in the major powers, the US and China. He estimates the odds of transitioning from contained conflicts to a hot world war involving major powers have risen from about 35% to about 50% over the last two years. He says both wars reflect the four sides crossing from contained conflicts into hot wars that are likely to spread and to continue until one side clearly wins. He suggests the US and China could jointly broker peace in Ukraine as a stretch goal.
- What’s happening with the US economy? - Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio argues that the US economy is running stronger than normal and stronger than expected despite the Fed's rapid tightening, because a large government-engineered transfer of wealth from the public sector and government bondholders to households and businesses left the private sector financially healthy. He says central governments' balance sheets have deteriorated as deficits and debt rose, with US budget deficits reaching 10-14% of GDP in 2020 and 2021 and Fed bond holdings jumping from 18% to 35% of GDP. He calls this pattern Monetary Policy 3, which he described in his 2018 book Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises, and he says the near-term risk appears limited while longer-term debt dynamics are concerning.
- Nike: An epic saga of value destruction
Nike's 2020 shift toward direct-to-consumer sales under CEO John Donahue and President Heidi O'Neill destroyed significant value, a critique argues. After Nike's Q2 FY24 results on June 28, 2024, the company lost $25bn in market value in one day, and its shares were down 32% since the start of 2024. The argument points to the elimination of product categories, the end of wholesale leadership, and heavy performance marketing spending. It states that inventory rose from $6.5bn on May 31, 2021, to $10bn on November 30, 2022, and that gross margin fell from 46% in FY22 to 43.5% in FY23.
- From RetroPGF-1 to RetroPGF-3: An evolving journey with rich learnings
The BanklessDAO article covers the evolution of Optimism Foundation's Retro Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) from Round 1 to Round 3. RetroPGF-2 saw all 195 nominated projects receive funding, with median funding of 22,825 OP, and the Foundation identified problems such as badgeholders being overwhelmed by the number of projects. RetroPGF-3 will allocate 30m OP tokens across four nomination categories and includes a 150,000 OP RFP for a custom voting frontend, with voting scheduled to begin in Fall 2023.
- unsealed criminal indictment against Binance and its founder, with charges
Binance and its founder, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, face an unsealed criminal information, or indictment, with three charges, according to Alex Zerden. The charges are conspiracy to conduct an unlicensed money transmitting business and to fail to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program, conducting an unlicensed money transmitting business, and violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which covers economic sanctions. No court, filing date, or further details are given.