Hello Reader,
The blood of the dragon is strong indeed.
Even before the second episode of HBO’s new fantasy series House of the Dragon is released, the show has been renewed for a second season! After all, the premiere, which aired on Monday, has already been seen by 20 million people and counting—the highest for any new original show in HBO’s history.
In other news, domestic indices closed higher on Friday—if only by a hair. The BSE Sensex ended the day 0.10% higher at 58,833 while Nifty50 rose by 0.21% to end at 17,558.
Meanwhile, password manager LastPass got hacked. However, it doesn’t believe any passwords were compromised and users shouldn’t have to take action to secure their accounts.
ICYMI: A 17-year-old became the youngest person to fly solo around the world. Mack Rutherford, a Belgian-British dual national, landed in Bulgaria earlier this week, where his journey began five months ago.
In today’s newsletter, we will talk about
- Making cryptocurrency accessible
- Sequoia sells partial stake in Zomato
- Innovation in men’s innerwear segment
Cryptocurrency
Making cryptocurrency accessible
For cryptocurrencies to gain widespread popularity, they also need to be accessible. With this vision, Ray Youssef started Paxful, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange where nearly 10 million users trade on a regular basis across the world.
“This is a business that has to grow from the bottom up and that requires tremendous amounts of education, investment in people and risk and it has to be built up from the ground up,” he says.
Improving accessibility:
- Paxful is used to send money to families for e-commerce, import and export.
- Over six million trades on Paxful originate from Africa.
- While it specialises in Bitcoin, users can make payments for BTC via Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero, and Golem.
Investor
Sequoia sells partial stake in Zomato
After Tiger Global and Uber, Sequoia Capital India has sold its partial stake in foodtech decacorn Zomato after the mandatory…
