It seems like everyone is wanting a piece of the crypto pie lately!
Amazon is posting jobs looking for a digital currency and blockchain lead, George Soros’s
investment fund is investing in Bitcoin, and even the Rothschilds and Rockefflers are dabbling
in cryptocurrencies and crypto based assets.
Well we have more, another major entity is looking to dabble in the crypto pie.
So do you want a slice of our warm apple pie?
Just don’t Jim it please...because it’s time for Chico Crypto!
So who is this entity?
Getting themselves their slice of pie!?
Well it’s not anybody new.
This year has been filled with headlines about them getting involved with Bitcoin and crypto!
So who is it?
Well it’s the sock bois.
Goldman socks...Ok, Goldman sachs...I’ll say it right just this one time, but for the
rest of the episode it’s Goldman socks!
So what have they done throughout the year?
Well actually a lot!
They have been putting out research reports on crypto.
In May of this year, they were saying it’s on the top of mind...and a new asset class?
Then the next month in June they started ramping up their Bitcoin trading, specifically with
futures in partnership with Galaxy Digital and Mike Novogratz
But that isn’t all...Goldman started getting wiley this month in July!
Last Friday it was announced that Goldman was helping settle Crypto ETPs in Europe!
The Coindesk article states “Goldman Sachs’ prime brokerage unit is clearing and settling
cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs) for some hedge fund clients in Europe, according
to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
The services are currently being offered to a limited number of clients, and the bank
has been reviewing the matter internally as it eyes rolling out these services to a wider
number of customers”
Well the sock bois, didn’t stop with European ETPs this month.
They are coming for America too.
3 days ago it was announced they were filing with SEC for a “DeFi” based ETF here in
the states.
Although Coindesk the very next day, posted this article “Goldman’s ‘DeFi’ ETF
Is a Nothingburger” with the subheading “Goldman Sachs filed for a "DeFi" ETF that
would track stocks mostly associated with enterprise blockchain.”
So their ETF doesn’t include any cryptocurrencies.
It’s for stonks involved with enterprise blockchain!
What a bummer in the summer right!?
Such a nothingburger...well not so fast & this is why Coindesk is always going to be a step
behind Chico Crypto and my coming competition to them, my own media website.
Blockchain Leaks
So, yes at your first glance, you would think stonky stocks...this is a nothingburger.
But if you dive down the rabbit hole and see what others don’t.
You realize that this does tie back to actual cryptocurrencies!
So the Block also covered this ETF and they said “Per the filing, the fund "seeks to
provide investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the performance
of the Solactive Decentralized Finance and Blockchain Index” So from checking out this
index, Solactive we can see what stonks or companies are likely to be included in the
Goldman DeFi ETF!
Checking out the Solactive factsheet from the 27th, we can see the companies that are
included within it.
A list of over 20 companies, from all over the world, who are somehow involved in blockchain
and digital currency.
But something sticks out to me….many of the companies listed are also a part of a
consortium.
Called the Confidential Computing Consortium.
Listed on both...Google Alphabet, Accenture, Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, and Alibaba
aka AntGroup!
Soooo is this just a quinkiedinkie that 7 companies most likely going into the Goldman
DeFi index are also a part of this Consortium?
No it’s not...there are always more coincidences than meets the eye...So the next question
is what crypto companies could be doing some serious things for these companies within
the consortium?
Well scrolling down into the members.
There is one that stick out to us and the Chico Army.
I project I have been a long supporter of.
That is, iexec RLC!!
So if you go to the projects of the Confidential Computing Consortium, all 3 of the projects
that have been built, are all involved with TEE (Trusted Execution Environments).
If you didn’t know, iexec in collaboration with one of the members, Intel, wrote the
EEA trusted compute specification, which as we can see Trusted execution environment are
one of the trusted computes supported by this specification!
And then, just last week, on the 20th.
Iexec released version 6 of their platform and as we can see from the medium post about
the release iexec says “ Public Worker Pools with TEE: iExec V6 makes this possible!
Enclaves in production mode is a particularly exciting milestone as it allows for TEE Public
Worker Pools! iExec has always had the goal of rewarding individual workers for executing
confidential computing tasks.
This means that machines are enabled with ‘Trusted Execution Environments’ (TEE),
specifically Intel® SGX.”
Hmmm is all Chico has to say!!
But there may be a crypto project, a new one I haven’t covered who could have even bigger
connections!!
But before we get into that, it’s time for a sponsored segment of this video supported
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So now back to the members of the Confidential Computing Consortium!
And I gotta thank a Crypto Swim on twitter for this research as they were looking into
Goldman’s ETF too!
ANd if you wanna give swim a follow, his profile is linked in the description!
But Mr. Swim tweeted “It might be a good idea to look into crypto projects connected
to the consortium and to the companies with in Goldman's new DeFi ETF.
OasisProtocol $ROSE is one of those projects.
Check out this tweet for how OasisLabs is connected to the consortium”
Yeah Oasis is actually one of the founding members!
Now let’s go dive into some more of Crypto Swim’s research!
Swim tweeted “Also we can see that TEEs are an important focus for the Consortium
as well as a fundamental focus for Oasis In fact the CEO of Oasis, Dawn Song, is working
to develop a new TEE called Keystone...which is one of 4 projects the Confidential Computing
Consortium is working on!
Which he posts picture confirmation of...
That is BIG!
That is hot!
But CryptoSwim doesn’t stop there!
With his recent tweet thread he continued “We can also see the connections are more
than just superficial.
In this presentation on Privacy Preserving Computation, Accenture specifically gives
OasisLabs a shoutout.
They also discuss the importance of various technologies Oasis is integrating.
Which if we click into the accenture document and search by Oasis...yes it is true!!
Accenture seems to be bullish on Oasis
That isn’t all folks, Swim tweeted just under this “We can also see that OasisLabs
is listed under partners for Google's Confidential VMs.
He posts the picture proof but we can confirm as well.
Going to Google’s Confidential Computing and clicking on partners.
Yes there is Oasis Labs!!
Big connections for Oasis, and that makes me bullish!
But remember, iexec and oasis, are both big players in the confidential computing space!
Many of the Goldman ETF companies are apart of the confidential computing consortium.
If Goldman is ever going to list actual cryptocurrencies within an ETF...I would think these two would
be high on their list.
Cheers I’ll see you next time!