Industry Champions Proof of Reserves to combat further Corruption
PLUS: 📉 SBF badmouths regulators??, 👟 Nike launches NFT Hub w Polygon, 🤝 Learn about the Benefits of DeHR with Twali's HR Guild, and more!
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Headlining…
Most important news of the past week:
🤝 CeFi Giants championing Proof of Reserves to hold Industry accountable.
🎮 Sony files Patent integrating NFTs for Tracking in-Game Assets.
🙊 SBF saying “f*ck regulators,” in interview with Vox.
🧮 Genesis Trading hit in FTX aftermath, delaying Gemini Earn withdrawals.
Social proof…
Key cases of adoption over the past week:
🍎 Apple Pay integrates with Circle.
Why this Matters: Circle’s new on ramp API allows developers to integrate Apply Pay with USDC settlements. That means users have another safe, easy, and private way to buy crypto and make transactions, and also pay crypto-native businesses with non-crypto payments. BTC and ETH settlements are next… 👀
👟 Nike launches .Swoosh — a Web3 creator and learning hub.
Why this Matters: .Swoosh (“dot Swoosh”) is Nike’s new marketplace for virtual creations (footwear, apparel, accessories) and an educational platform for creators to learn about Web3. All purchases will be secured on Polygon, and users will be given a BitGo wallet for Nike virtual creations.
🏦 U.S. Banks and NYS Federal Reserve launch proof of concept (PoC) project for digital tokens.
Why this Matters: Citigroup, HSBC, BNY Mellon, Wells Fargo, Mastercard, plus the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are launching a 12-week-long PoC project to test a regulated liability network (RLN).
The State of DeHR: Twali’s HR Guild on Opolis, a freelancer Benefit Solution for Web3
Quality intel on the best-in-show organizations building the DeHR (decentralized HR) Infra Web3 NEEDs.
The past month, our HR Guild led by Envario, an HR Tech and Benefits firm, looked at the state of Human Resources in Web3 and how it facilitates the “Future of Work.”
What’s the Future of Work, again? The supercharging of freelance work by Web3 thanks to standardizing diversified, passive secondary income streams.
What’s DeHR? (Durr) Decentralized Human Resources.
Over the next five weeks in Wrapped, we’ll profile the projects providing the HR infra (Payroll, Benefits, and Sourcing) to bolster Web3 for freelance Experts.
Today they cover Opolis, a ‘digital employment cooperative’ providing freelancers, gig workers, solopreneurs, and DAOists personalized payroll, W2s and healthcare benefits typically reserved for employees of traditional corporations.
Quick Facts about Opolis
Opolis operates via the “Employment Commons” which provides services to independent workers and freelancers, and Opolis, Inc., which provides administrative, marketing, and technology services to the Employment Commons and its members.
Opolis’s optional U.S. benefits include medical, vision, dental, and enhanced term life insurance. Unemployment Insurance, worker’s compensation, short and long-term disability insurance and term life Insurance are required for all members.
Allow freelancers in the U.S. to purchase benefits that are usually not available except through W2 employment.
Manage payroll and taxation, including access to W2s, for freelancers in 48 U.S. states, in both fiat and whitelisted digital currencies.
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