DDI Blockchain Weekly (October 8th – 14th)

Most projects saw red during the last week as crypto markets shed around $20 million, and total market capitalization returned to $200 million. The drop was particularly pronounced on Thursday, when $6 billion was wiped out, and led by drops in Ripple and Ethereum. Although no single issue seems to have triggered the drop, markets are unlikely to have been buoyed by Nouriel “Dr.Doom” Roubini taking to the Senate floor to decry crypto as “the mother or father of all scams and bubbles.” Nonetheless, markets held firm until the end of the week. Blockstream’s Liquid network for Bitcoin payments goes…...