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Weekly Wrap Up #22

Quote of the week: “Crypto is a wide variety of products, with a wide variety of functions, and the rules of our financial system are clear and long-standing. If you are raising capital for a project, you have to register your capital raising with SEC. If you are trading securities it has to be on a registered venue, but there are many crypto sectors like stablecoins that are not securities and outside of SEC purview.” –  Jay Clayton, Former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/i-m-a-huge-believer-in-crypto-technology-says-former-us-sec-chair

Robinhood Adds Crypto Gifting Feature:  On December 22, Robinhood’s crypto gifting feature is going live. The program will allow one to send as little as $1 of up to 7 different cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin to family and friends. This gifting program will be available in every state of the United States, except Nevada and Hawaii. Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robinhood-launch-crypto-gifting-feature-152130743.html

Coinbase Enters the NFT Space:  Coinbase announced on December 22 that it will soon be able to support NFTs, allowing users to view their NFT collections and access leading NFT marketplaces like OpenSea. Coinbase, though, did not announce a rollout date.  Source:  https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-wallet-rolls-out-support-for-nfts

Elon Musk and Dogecoin: On December 14, Elon Musk announced that Tesla would accept Dogecoin as payment for some of its merchandise. Following this news, Dogecoin gained 25%. Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/m/23b3ad2e-379c-34a9-94f0-26c0dc17ef05/elon-musk-says-tesla-will.html

NFT Mass Adoption on Melania Trump:  Melania Trump announced on December 16 that she is selling her first NFT titled “Melania’s Vision” on her newly launched platform, powered by Parler. Source: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/politics/melania-trump-nft/index.html

More NFT Mass Adoption Featuring Adidas:  Adidas announced that it will be launching its own NFT collection titled “Into the Metaverse.” The NFTs created will serve as access tokens, allowing holders to have exclusive access to future merchandise, physical and digital products and services, rewards within the newly acquired land plot in the Sandbox, among other benefits. Source:  https://cointelegraph.com/news/adidas-originals-to-launch-debut-nft-collection

And, that’s a wrap!

Jordana Cohen,

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Alpha Sigma Capital

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F. Daniel Siciliano is an Independent Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and Chair of the American Immigration Council. He is the former faculty director of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and former Professor of the Practice and Associate Dean at Stanford Law School. His work has included expert testimony in front of both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives and for 2009, 2010, and 2011, alongside leading academics and business leaders such as Ben Bernanke, Paul Krugman, and Carl Icahn, Professor Siciliano was named to the “Directorship 100” – a list of the most influential people in corporate governance.

Siciliano was also co-founder, CEO and ultimately Executive Chairman of LawLogix Group, Inc. – a global software technology company named 9 consecutive times to the Inc. 500/5000, several times ranked as one of the Top 100 fastest-growing private software companies in the US and named to the US Hispanic Business 500 (largest) and Hispanic Business 100 (fastest growing) lists for 2010 and 2011. In 2012 he sold a majority stake of the company to PNC Riverarch Capital, continued as Executive Chairman, and led the sale of the company to Hyland Software/Thoma Bravo in 2015.

Siciliano is a co-founder and board member of the Silicon Valley Directors’ Exchange (SVDX), Chairman of the national non-partisan American Immigration Council, past-President of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council #1057, and an active member of the Latino Corporate Directors’ Association.


Siciliano’s related areas of expertise include executive compensation, corporate compliance, the legal and social impact of autonomous (AI/robotic) systems, and corporate technology strategy and security. He has served as a governance consultant and trainer to the Board of Directors of dozens of Fortune 1000 companies (including Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Disney, Entergy and Applied Materials), is an angel investor and consultant to several firms and companies in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, India, and Latin America, and currently serves as an independent director on the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. He lives in Los Altos, California.