Welcome back to another Crypto Daily 3 at 3. All right. So today we're going to do one, a quick check-in on the

Binance Venus news from yesterday with a little guest commentary from Dovi-Wan. Second, we're going to

look at the INX exchange offering. It's a $130 million regulated IPO token sale. So something interesting and a little bit

different. Two or three, I guess, we're going to look at Web3 and how much of a kind of

anti-surveillance undercurrent there is from the first day of the event from Berlin this week.

And then three, we're going to look at a couple cool little updates from Bitcoin, including a new hire on Squares part and a new scripting language. So let's

dive in. So yesterday was Monday, which means that I do a thing called Narrative Watch where I look

at one of the trending or emergent narratives that I'm seeing gets sent out through

Masari.

And so yesterday we looked at Binance, Venus, and central bank digital currencies.

So central bank digital currencies are effectively a kind of controlled version of crypto or

digital currency that is effectively like a digital fiat almost. It's controlled

by the central bank in the same way, but it has some of the kind of convenience benefits of

what a cryptocurrency might offer. Alongside, of course, all the surveillance benefits that

makes central banks interested. Well, yesterday,

Binance announced the launch of Venus, which, as TechCrunch said, it calls an independent

regional version of Facebook's Libra. So basically, Binance is playing on the fear of Libra, which

is causing so many governments to really accelerate their development of central bank digital currencies or

at least accelerate the conversations around that area.

Binance is effectively building something that theoretically governments could plug into.

Now a lot of the conversation yesterday was how they certainly weren't alone, but there

were a couple points that I thought were really interesting that I wanted to maybe give you guys a little bit more context on. So the first was the idea that

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