This Week in Blockchain on 23rd August 2021

Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, provides a rundown of the major events that took place in the blockchain industry during the past week. 
We cover #crypto​, #enterprise​, #DeFI​ and #NFTs​.

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Links to items discussed:

• Samsung Electronics + Bank of Korea CBDC Platform
• Ethereum 2.0 Staking at $21.3B 
• Top Banks Investing in Crypto and Blockchain
• Dogecoin Foundation
• Binance KYC
• Coinbase + Mitsubishi UFJ
• Crypto Adoption
• Microsoft + Ethereum to fight piracy 
• TikTok + Audius
• IBM + Mitsubishi
• TotalEnergies + Circulor
• SEBI mandates blockchain
• Polygon + Hermez
• Why has the chain capacity increased by ~9% after London?
• 1inch + Optimism 
• Kusama parachain auctions 
• DEX Avoids $350M DeFi Hack
• Vitalik thinks decentralized governance is holding DeFi back 
• Avalanche DeFi incentive scheme
• Polygon DAO
• TIME Magazine + Cool Cats
• Terra Virtua + Polygon
• SuperRare