Hello and welcome back to Equity, the Tech Runch Podcast, where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.

This is Alex. It is June 21st, 2021, and this is Equity Tuesday because TC was mostly off yesterday, but we are never going to let you start a week without some help. So here we are. Let's talk about the markets. Let's talk about the news. Let's talk about startups. Let's have some fun.

Let's kick off for the look at markets as always turning our eyes over to Asia.

Shares are broadly higher today, China aside.

Over in Europe stocks are also up and they are set to rip higher at the open here in the United States.

So after a couple of tough weeks, we are at least starting this one off on the right foot.

Now turning to the world of crypto there has been limited movement in

the price of major coins in the last 24 hours and actually in the last week the

majors are somewhat flat as well as their declines are not kind of being

digested if you will.

NFT volume does look somewhat weak and TVL or total value locked on chain according to

Defy Lama peaked around 250 billion dollars now down to about 75 billion

so while price movement might have kind of

settled out a little bit we are seeing declines in other elements of the broader

crypto world and there is lots of reporting out that South Korea is banning

former employees of Terra Form labs

from leaving the country over the Terra Luna Stable Coin Shatstoor.

Now we're coming to the end of the second quarter, this is of course the end of June, so get ready

for a new crop of VC data, and then we're going to have earnings season again.

It's always good to get a better feel for where the startup market really is, but also, didn't we just get through earnings season?

How is it always earnings season?

But we will get new pricing information and of course a look at where VZs put money to work.

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