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| U.S. Strategic BTC Reserve - The BITCOIN Act | Senator Cynthia Lummis | 02 Sep 2024 | 00:53:03 | |
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis is a leading Bitcoin advocate in Congress who recently introduced her proposal, "the Bitcoin Act," which seeks to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve for the United States of America. In today's episode, we explore how the bill could address the $35 trillion debt, the conversion of gold certificates to Bitcoin, and its economic implications.
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| Multi-Proposers & The Future Of Ethereum | 01 Sep 2024 | 02:00:52 | |
In this special early access episode we're joined by Paradigm's Georgios Konstantopoulos and Charlie Noyes, along with Max Resnick from Special Mechanisms Group to discuss a possible change in direction for one part of the Ethereum Roadmap. This is a deeply technical episode that covers the history of MEV and new innovations that plan to change it all from the comfort of David's apartment studio, enjoy. ------ 📣 BECOME A CITIZEN | GET 10% OFF WITH CODE: SPOTIFY10 ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT ------ ------ Georgios: https://x.com/gakonst Max: https://x.com/MaxResnick1 Charlie: https://x.com/_charlienoyes ------ | |||
| Bull Market Price Predictions With Ledger | 17 Aug 2024 | 01:00:07 | |
Has the Bull Market even started yet? And if it hasn't, what does that mean for prices looking forward? We're thrilled to be joined by Ledger who walks us through some charts and describes where he thinks we're headed. ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT ----- ------ 00:00 Start ------ Ledger: https://x.com/ledgerstatus ------ | |||
| Tokenizing Real World Assets | Robert Leshner | 12 Mar 2024 | 01:14:29 | |
Can we Tokenize the World? Robert Leshner, creator of Compound and one of the forefathers of DeFi, is on a mission to do so. With his new company Superstate, new product, tokenized t-bills and new location, New York city. Robert is trying to bring $300 trillion in TradFI assets on-chain. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🦄 UNISWAP | SWAP SMARTER ------ 00:00 Intro ------ Robert Leshner Superstate Superstate - USTB Fund ------ Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: | |||
| 213 - Justin Sun: On Tron, Vitalik, and Becoming Humble | 11 Mar 2024 | 01:07:47 | |
✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ This episode is packed with hot takes. Expect to learn why Justin is still in Crypto, why he should’ve copied Ethereum 100% and not just 95%, why he views Vitalik as a goldmine and much more. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🦄 UNISWAP | SWAP SMARTER ------ 00:00 Intro
Justin Sun TRON Stats ------ Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: | |||
| ROLLUP: All Time High Debate | New ETF Record | Wormhole Airdrop | 08 Mar 2024 | 01:07:39 | |
Weekly Rollup
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| The RFK Interview | 07 Mar 2024 | 00:05:35 | |
An in person interview with presidential candidate RFK Jr. who shares his takes and policies on the state of crypto in the United States. To learn more, visit https://www.kennedy24.com/ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP SMARTER 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM | |||
| AI Memecoins & Lessons for Narrative Investing | 06 Mar 2024 | 00:57:40 | |
Ryan and David share another Bankless Takes episode where they discuss their AI memecoin analysis, why AI crypto tokens are a big deal, how to speculate on narratives like AI memecoins (lessons and guidance for “narrative investing”, and what are the next big narratives this cycle. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP SMARTER 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ------ 0:00 Intro 10:40 Decentralized AI & Compute 20:00 Road to AGI 23:00 AI Memecoins 21:12 Crypto Narrative Guidance 46:55 Top Signals 49:50 Predictions & Closing 56:51 Disclaimers ------ | |||
| 212 - Tether CEO on Their $100B Stablecoin ($USDT) | 04 Mar 2024 | 01:20:37 | |
Paolo Ardoino is the CEO of Tether, the $100 Billion stablecoin company that owns more U.S. Treasuries than most countries. We explore why Tether is winning, how it’s helping people in emerging markets and what really backs a $USDT. We also cover the state of the stablecoin regulation and even market competitors. Tether has been and it’s still a target of Fud in the Crypto industry. Paolo is here to refute that Fud and much more. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🦄 UNISWAP | SWAP SMARTER ------ 00:00 Intro
Paolo Ardoino Tether Transparency Reports Circle’s Caroline Hill on Congress JPMorgan negative on Tether ------ Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: | |||
| ROLLUP: Bitcoin ATH's In Sight | Coinbase Crashes | Blast Mainnet Live | 01 Mar 2024 | 01:16:07 | |
Bankless Weekly Rollup 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP SMARTER 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ------ 00:12:09 Markets 00:20:27 L2 Update 00:24:39 Coinbase Down 00:25:52 Reddit Buys BTC and ETH 00:31:07 Kraken vs The SEC 00:35:43 Gemini Earn Customers Bailed Out 00:39:22 Uniswap Fee Switch
00:52:46 Blast Mainnet Launch 00:53:52 Coinbase Validator Report 00:55:41 Lens Protocol is Permissionless 00:58:38 Uncovering Satoshi 01:02:06 Avalanche Goes Down 01:02:35 Donald Trump Crypto Take 01:06:52 Bankless Meetup 01:08:33 Raises Meme of The Week 01:14:24 Moment of Zen ------ | |||
| Ethereum and The Trillion Dollar Internet Bond | Chris Perkins | 29 Feb 2024 | 01:35:16 | |
Chris Perkins has a fascinating background as a marine who was shot at in Iraq, was at Lehman bros when it all came crashing down, was a Citigroup trying to pick up the piece of the financial crisis where he first ran across Gary Gensler, and now he’s in crypto. We talk about all that, but that’s not even the main event. The Main Event is Ether the asset and a new reference rate he’s building on top of it. This sounds in the weeds but it’s actually actually key to unlocking trillions in new financial products. You might call this new rate the Libor for ETH. ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🦄 UNISWAP | Swap Smarter ------ ------ CESR home page: https://www.coindesk.com/indices/ether/cesr More Reading: ------ | |||
| Justin Drake & Ben Fisch: The United Rollups of Ethereum | 28 Feb 2024 | 01:40:57 | |
In today’s episode, we do a shared sequencing deep dive with repeat guest, Mr. Moonmath himself, the Blockchain Brainiac, and the Ethereum Evangelist– Justin "The Juggernaut" Drake. Justin is joined by The Sultan of Sequencing, the Espresso Emperor, the Cross-Rollup Connoisseur himself, Ben, the Blockchain Barista Fisch. Where the fragments of Ethereum threaten to turn the digital ecosystem into a maze of confusion, these two men stand tall, illuminating the way, to come and save us from the labyrinth of Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP SMARTER 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 💸CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ------ 0:00 Intro ------ Justin Drake Ben Fisch ------ | |||
| Nic Carter: The Second Bitcoin Civil War | 27 Feb 2024 | 01:10:15 | |
Nic Carter rejoins the podcast to discuss Bitcoin’s second civil war. When did it begin? Where are the party lines drawn? How will it end? Possible solutions? David and Nic dig into all of these questions and much more. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ------ 0:00 Intro ------ Nic Carter ------ | |||
| ROLLUP: Kamala Crypto Pivot? | USDC iPhone Tap-to-Pay | WBTC Drama? | Superchain Soon? | 16 Aug 2024 | 01:17:03 | |
This week in crypto, speculation swirled around a potential Kamala Harris pivot to crypto—could it be too late? Polymarket gives her a 10% chance against Trump. Jeremy Allaire hinted at Tap to Pay with USDC on iPhones—coming soon? BitGo’s wrapped Bitcoin drama might open doors for Coinbase. Optimism revealed plans to address fragmentation, while Eric Trump dives into digital real estate. Plus, the list of crypto's political prisoners grows—how can we support them? ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT ------ ------ 0:00 Intro 1:26 Argentina 6:55 Markets 14:25 Memecoin Metrics 23:12 Can Crypto Get Kamala to Pivot? 35:19 Is it too late for Dem to win crypto votes? 46:27 Does crypto votes even matter to Dems? 55:37 Ethereum L2 Updates 59:48 Wrapped Bitcoin Drama 1:03:47 Superchain will become one chain! 1:06:41 Eric Trump reveals "Trump Project" focuses on digital real estate 1:08:22 USDC is integrating with Tap-to-pay on iPhones! 1:10:53 MEME of the Week 1:12:18 Moment of Burden (Anti-Zen): 1:14:30 Closing & Disclaimers ------ | |||
| 211 - Is DA a Good Business Model? - Neel Somani & Jon Charbonneau | 26 Feb 2024 | 01:32:51 | |
What’s Data Availability (DA) and what’s its Business Model? In this episode we’re welcomed by Jon Charbonneau, researcher-investor at DBA and Neel Somani, CEO of Eclipse. We unpack everything Data Availability from what it unlocks to its economics. We also get into the DA Market covering participants like Celestia and EigenDA. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ------ 00:00 Intro
Jon Charbonneau Neel Somani Celestia EigenDA ------ Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: | |||
| ROLLUP: $ETH 3k! | TradFi Stonks ATHs | $STRK Now Live | Yuga Acquires PROOF | 23 Feb 2024 | 01:10:22 | |
Last Week of February 2024 ------ ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ------ 0:00 Intro 3:01 Markets 6:30 Bitcoin observations by Nic Carter 10:18 L2 Update 11:30 Movers of the Week 15:22 BTC ETF FIRST BTC ETFs gained $8.5B on gold ETFs in organic growth since Jan 11 launch! 19:54 Coinbase earnings beat the expectations! 21:38 NVDA Earnings 27:10 Starknet token is now live! Was this the Largest airdrop in history? 33:33 Pudgy Penguins & Luca Netz 40:30 Big investment - A16z Invests 100m into Eigenlayer 43:30 KelpDAO issues synthetic Eigen Points token 44:50 Ethena Mainnet 48:00 Yuga Labs acquired Proof! 50:23 The announcement of a large $OP airdrop to builders on February 21. 51:40 THE PEOPLE VS THE SEC 55:28 Do Kwon is heading to the US! 59:29 Stablecoin wars are heating up! 1:04:35 Raises and BVC Investments 1:05:40 Reddit “Airdrop” 1:09:10 MEME of the Week 1:09:44 Closing & Disclaimers ------ | |||
| The LRT Episode | 22 Feb 2024 | 01:35:24 | |
Welcome to the LRT episode, covering the entire playing field of liquid restaking projects and what makes each one unique and special. On the show we have representatives from Ion, Ether.fi, Puffer, Kelp, Swell and Renzo making this your one stop to go from zero to expert on the restaking landscape. ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ------ 00:00:00 Intro ------ Ion: Ether.fi: Puffer: Kelp: Swell: Renzo: ------ | |||
| Are Bitcoin L2s Real? with David Seroy (Bitcoin Dave) | 21 Feb 2024 | 01:04:39 | |
On today’s episode we have Bitcoin wizard, David Seroy on the show! He’s an armchair researcher in the Bitcoin rollup ecosystem. He really likes Bitcoin, and he really likes projects that are building on Bitcoin. We’ve got a lot of questions on Bitcoin today, especially those that revolve around Bitcoin L2s. Are they real? David’s got answers. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ------ 0:00 Intro ------ David Seroy (Bitcoin Dave) BitVM whitepaper ------ | |||
| 210 - Endgame 2.0: A Guide to Vitalik’s Ethereum Roadmap with Mike & Dom | 19 Feb 2024 | 02:25:32 | |
✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ This roadmap is composed of 6 urges: - The Merge: Proof of Stake We dive into all this and more as we wonder what’s next for Ethereum. ---- ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 —— TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro ------ RESOURCES
Domothy Endgame with Vitalik Buterin Vitalik’s Endgame Article Blobspace 101 with Dom MEV Burn with Dom & Justin Drake
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| The Culture of Starknet with Abdel Bakhta | 18 Feb 2024 | 01:03:13 | |
Today, we have a classic LayerZero style episode with nonother than Abdel Bakhta. Abdel is the Head of Ecosystem at Starkware and is onboarding new species to We cover the origins of Starkware and how its culture has evolved, there’s also a ton of Starkware Project Alpha on this episode so stay tuned. ---- ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 —— TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro RESOURCES Abdel Bakhta Starkware Starknet ------ Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: | |||
| A Conversation with Michael Ippolito | 17 Feb 2024 | 01:16:04 | |
David livestreams with Blockworks's Mike Ippolito in a freestyle conversation covering all things crypto. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ------ | |||
| ROLLUP: BTC $1T Market Cap | More ETH ETF Filings | $STRK Airdrop Pushback? | 16 Feb 2024 | 01:05:09 | |
3rd Week of February 2024 ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ------ 0:00 Intro 3:45 Markets 30:18 Starknet Token $STRK 47:30 ETH 51:55 Regulation / TradFi / Misc 1:04:14 Closing & Disclaimers 1:04:46 Moment of Zen ------ | |||
| The Pudgy Penguins Comeback Story with Luca Netz | 15 Feb 2024 | 01:17:35 | |
Today on the show we're joined by Luca Netz, the new owner of Pudgy Penguins.
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| Starknet Token Launch Is Here! ($STRK) | 14 Feb 2024 | 00:51:37 | |
The Stark token is here! After waiting for almost 6 years we're thrilled to share that one of the earliest and most promising layer 2's has just released official details on their token, STRK. They are provisioning it to users of Starknet, to stakers in the Ethereum ecosystem, open source developers and so many more. A total of 1.3 Million wallets are eligible to receive the $STRK token, are you one of them? Joining us today is Starkware founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, and Starknet CEO Diego Oliva who are here to walk us through all you need to know about the big launch. ✅ Check Eligibility Here: ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE ------ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro ------ Eli: Diego: Starknet: | |||
| Nate Silver: SBF, The 2024 Election, & Prediction Markets | 13 Aug 2024 | 01:17:33 | |
Nate Silver is a statistician, writer, and political analyst, widely recognized for his accurate predictions of U.S. presidential elections. He's now released an exceptional new book titled, "On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything." The book delves into the world of risk, game theory, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and poker—fields where the stakes are high and the outcomes uncertain. One of the central themes of the book is crypto, which is why we were thrilled to have Nate join us. Nate is not just a respected analyst; he's one of us—a fellow degen who shares our passion for the unpredictable and the frontier. But he's also much more. Nate is an avid poker player, a sharp sports bettor, an interviewer of Sam Bankman-Fried, an NFT enthusiast, and an advisor to Polymarket. In today’s episode, he offers keen insights into the brewing battle between the crypto world and its traditional incumbents. ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT ------ ------ 0:00 Intro ------ Nate Silver On the Edge ------ | |||
| Hasu & Hart on Oval & The Recapturing of Billions in DeFi Liquidations | 13 Feb 2024 | 01:09:51 | |
Today on the show, we’re talking about Oval, a new DeFi primitive that Hart Lambur from UMA is introducing to the world of DeFi’s biggest lending markets. Billions of dollars have been liquidated from protocols like Aave, Compound, and MakerDAO over the years, and these liquidations have been extremely inefficiently priced, due to reasons! Reasons that we will discuss here on the show today. Hasu also joins us on this conversation today to discuss the way that MEV share from Flashbots is a part of this conversation, and he helps illuminate what this means for DeFi going forward as a whole. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE ------ ------ What is SUAVE? FlashBots Phil Daian and Andrew Miller explain Oval Hart Hasu ------ | |||
| 209 - Why e/acc Is Right with Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon) | 12 Feb 2024 | 01:47:07 | |
✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan and David unpacking the episode: One guest, two identities. Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon) is a founding father of the e/acc movement, a physicist, a quantum researcher, and the founder of an AI startup called Extropic. Beff thinks AI doomers are not only wrong, but they’re taking humanity in the worst possible direction. Growth. Acceleration. Progress. These are the core pillars of the e/acc movement. Instead of slowing down on AI progress, Beff explains why we should be speeding up. ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE ------ 0:00 Intro ------ Beff Jezos Guillaume Verdon Extropic AI Safety Podcasts - The Decels ------ See our investment disclosures here: | |||
| ROLLUP: Solana Outage | Restaking Wars | Dencun Mainnet Date | 09 Feb 2024 | 01:01:28 | |
Bankless Weekly Rollup ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE ------ 0:00 Intro 2:30 MARKETS 19:45 Solana Outage 26:50 Eigenlayer Deposits 31:30 Restaking Wars 34:25 Finance Delisting Monero 40:30 Dencun Mainnet Date ------ | |||
| Restaking Summer & What it Means For Ethereum | 08 Feb 2024 | 00:54:25 | |
In this episode of Bankless Takes, Ryan and David discuss the incredibly valuable investing wisdom from Chris Burniske, restaking summer…what’s the impact to ETH, and Vitalik’s end of my childhood post. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE ------ 0:00 Intro 18:20 Restaking 41:30 End of My Childhood (Vitalik) 51:17 Closing & Disclaimers ------ | |||
| Farcaster's Big Moment with Founder Dan Romero | 07 Feb 2024 | 01:32:48 | |
Farcaster is a twitter-like crypto social media app that just launched what could prove to be a killer new feature. They’re called frames. We’re calling it now and we’re calling it early - we think Farcaster frames could be a breakout use-case for crypto this year and a way to onboard the masses in the months to come and we're here with founder, Dan Romero, to explain why. 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE ------ 00:00:00 Start ------ Farcaster: Dan Farcaster: Dan X Profile: ------ | |||
| $1.5T Franklin Templeton's Massive Bet on Crypto with SVP Sandy Kaul | 06 Feb 2024 | 01:16:03 | |
✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan and David unpacking the episode: Franklin Templeton Has Entered the Chat. More broadly TradFi has entered the chat. Franklin Templeton is a TradFi company with $1.5 trillion in assets. We brought on their SVP Sandy Kaul, who is a turbo crypto bull. What’s Franklin Templeton? It’s an investment management company (think mutual funds, ETFs) that manages over $1.5 Trillion in assets. This is what we in crypto affectionately refer to as TradFi and they recently came out with a BTC ETF and have big plans for future tokenization. They also seem to be incredibly bullish on crypto and this new intersection between crypto and TradFi. This is exactly what we wanted to explore with Sandy today. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE ------ 0:00 Intro ------ Franklin Templeton’s Twitter Sandy Kaul ------ Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: | |||
| 208 - Fixing Fragmentation with Justin Drake | 05 Feb 2024 | 01:54:56 | |
✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan and David unpacking the episode: ------ We brought on Ethereum researcher Justin Drake to explore this question in detail. We cover deep topics like Universal Synchronous Composability, Shared Sequencing and Based Rollups. Justin explores the solution for which might be Ethereum’s Hardest Challenge and its roadmap. ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ------ 00:00 Intro ------ Justin Drake Justin Drake Episodes ------ Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: | |||
| Eigenlayer Q&A with Founder Sreeram Kannan | 03 Feb 2024 | 01:11:48 | |
What are the biggest questions that people have about Eigenlayer? David sourced these questions from Crypto-Twitter, and will be asking Sreeram LIVE! ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ------
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| The $JUP Airdrop with Jupiter founder Meow | 02 Feb 2024 | 01:19:12 | |
$JUP has landed, at a shattering $7b valuation. How did it get to $7B? How will the decentralization of Jupiter begin? All these questions, and more, with the founder of Jupiter. ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 ------ ------ Jupiter: | |||
| ROLLUP: 4 Year Cycles | $JUP Airdrop | ETH ETF Rumors | 02 Feb 2024 | 00:53:18 | |
Bankless Weekly Rollup ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ------ 0:00 Intro 3:50 MARKETS 7:20 4 Year Cycles 16:30 Jupiter Airdrop 20:30 Farcaster Frames 28:15 New Onchain Users 33:30 FTX Repaying Funds 50:30 Meme of the Week ------ | |||
| What is Robinhood Doing in Crypto? | Co-Founder Vlad Tenev | 12 Aug 2024 | 01:07:45 | |
Robinhood is the world’s most successful FinTech trading company. They have already conquered TradFi. What are they targeting next? In June, they announced the acquisition of Bitstamp, the oldest crypto exchange. They’re increasingly investing in crypto and we felt it was important to know their plans. We brought the co-founder Vlad Tenev and we had a wide-ranging conversation covering topics like tokenization, Robinhood’s Wallet and L2, payment for orderflow and MEV, the SEC Wells Notice and much more. ------ ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT ------ ------ 0:00 Intro ------ Vlad Tenev Robinhood Crypto Robinhood Credit Card ------ | |||
| What's The Point Of Points? The Next Phase of Airdrops | 31 Jan 2024 | 00:44:42 | |
What's the point of points?? Why are all the projects developing a points program? How did we find ourselves here? Will they actually turn into tokens? What will the regulators say about it?
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| 207 - Read. Write. Own. | Chris Dixon | 29 Jan 2024 | 01:27:23 | |
✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ Read. Write. Own. Chris is one of the most articulate people we know at explaining crypto - particularly from the lens of crypto as an evolution of the internet. ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ------ Resources: Chris Dixon Read Write Own Mental Models for Web3 a16z Episode ------ | |||
| ROLLUP: Bitcoin Top? Ethereum's Existential Risk | Restaking Summer Updates | Tornado Cash Trial | 26 Jan 2024 | 00:53:55 | |
Bankless Weekly Rollup Final Week of January, 2024 ----- ------ ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ------ 03:45 Markets 11:06 Silk Road Selling 11:55 L2 Update 14:32 Stock ATHs 21:24 Restaking Summer 26:33 How To Restake 30:51 Why is Restaking Important? 32:54 Altlayer Airdrop 33:47 ETH Client Bug 40:25 Tornado Cash Trials 45:16 ETH ETF Delayed 46:54 L2 Updates 50:41 AEVO is Migrating Meme of the Week: ------ | |||
| Tensor - Solana's NFT Marketplace | Ilja & Richard Wu | 24 Jan 2024 | 00:53:09 | |
In today’s episode, David is joined by Co-Founder and CEO of Tensor, Ilja Moisejevs and CTO of Tensor, Richard Wu. The three cover: How the different properties and foundation of Solana impact the product decisions that Richard and Ilja have made at Tensor? What are the first things that someone would notice that's different about Tensor, versus the NFT marketplaces on Ethereum? How did the $JITO airdrop impact the Tensor ecosystem? What about the Tensorians, the native PFP NFT of Tensor…who rocks a tensorian, and why? And of course, we had to ask Richard and Ilja whether or not Tensor will be joining in on the Solana airdrop fun…you won’t believe the answer. ----- ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION ------ 0:00 Intro ------ Ilja Moisejevs Richard Wu Tensor ------ | |||
| 206 - Decentralized Science | Brian Armstrong & Patrick Joyce | 22 Jan 2024 | 01:19:26 | |
✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode:
We have Brian Armstrong on today to talk about this. Yes, the Brian Amstrong from Coinbase. He’s joined by his co-founder for Research Hub and scientist Patrick Joyce.
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| ROLLUP: Bitcoin ETF Updates | Larry Fink Crypto Pilled | Ethereum Roadmap | Airdrops Incoming | 19 Jan 2024 | 00:56:53 | |
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| Why We're Bullish L2s | 17 Jan 2024 | 00:51:05 | |
Are L2 tokens worthless governance coins? Will they accrue value? Are L2 tokens bullish? Ryan and David dive into the details in this week’s episode of Bankless Takes. ----- ------
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| 205 - The State Of Ethereum L2s | 15 Jan 2024 | 01:15:50 | |
We're thrilled to be joined today by Paradigm CTO, Georgios Konstantopoulos and founder of Conduit, Andrew Huang who are on the show today to deliver a masterclass on the state of Ethereum Layer 2s, how they're going, and where they're headed.
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| ROLLUP: Bitcoin ETF Approved | ETH Moves | EigenLayer Cosmos | 12 Jan 2024 | 01:08:16 | |
Bankless Weekly Rollup ----- ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 20:00 Bitcoin ETF 45:00 Circle IPO 1:05:30 The Daily Gwei ------ | |||
| BTC ETF Approval with Eric Balchunas | 11 Jan 2024 | 00:27:19 | |
The Bitcoin ETF was just approved. What happens next? How does this change everything? Which ETF can crypto expect next? When? Answers to these questions and so much more! ----- ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION ------ 0:00 Intro ------ Eric Balchunas BTC ETF Approved ------ | |||
| ROLLUP: Crazy Markets Week | Prediction Markets Bad? | Zora Release | More Gensler Ls | Trump’s DeFi Sons | 09 Aug 2024 | 00:59:07 | |
This week in crypto we saw markets…stumble? Then recover? Is the 2024 bull run over? Elizabeth Warren is targeting prediction markets and the crypto community is pushing back, obviously. Meanwhile, SEC Chair Gary Gensler also faces setbacks…more L’s? Zora’s latest release promises to shake up the NFT world. And in a surprising twist, Trump's children have reportedly taken a keen interest in…DeFi…? ------ ------ 🐙 KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞 MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 🦄 UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION 🌐 OBOL | STAKE ON DVs, SCALE ETHEREUM 🗣️ TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION ------ ------ 0:00 Intro 2:50 What happened to markets? 11:27 What happened since Monday 14:31 Bankless Episodes - Livestream & Tom Lee 22:24 Jump Capital is selling its crypto positions 25:17 Highest ETH ETF inflows since their launch 27:10 Why is ETH so weak? 33:38 Strong earnings for key crypto companies in Q2…what we can learn? 36:56 Are Prediction Markets bad? Sen. Warren thinks so 48:02 Zora protocol now creates pools on Uniswap! 50:11 Ripple Labs settled with SEC & More Ls 53:25 Were Eric and Donald Trump Jr DeFi-pilled? 55:04 Where did Brian Armstrong’s co-founder go? 58:28 Closing & Disclosures ------ | |||
| 204 - What is Bitcoin? with Robert Breedlove | 08 Jan 2024 | 01:46:21 | |
✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ----- In order to tell the story of the bull case for bitcoin we have to tell the story of money. ----- ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION ------ 0:00 Intro ------ Robert Breedlove Robert’s Podcast ------ | |||
| ROLLUP: Bitcoin ETF Rumors | IRS Tax Rules | Ethereum Dencun | 05 Jan 2024 | 00:58:41 | |
Bankless Weekly Rollup ----- ------ 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 27:00 Bitcoin ETFs 31:00 Insane IRS Crypto Rules 39:00 Ethereum Duncan 57:00 MEME of the Week
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| 2024 Crypto Investment Themes | 04 Jan 2024 | 00:55:11 | |
Welcome to Bankless Takes! This week, the first week of 2024… we have 6 Predictions for the major investment themes ahead for this year. What are going to be the trends that define 2024? What do you need to know to stay ahead of the game? At least, for what we can see today. ----- 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION ------ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro ------ | |||