ROLLUP: ZkSync Airdrop | Optimism Fault Proofs | Pectra Ethereum Upgrade
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BitVM: The Holy Grail for Bitcoin? | Creator Robin Linus
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Today on the show, we’re exploring the frontier of ZK Rollups on Bitcoin! The Bitcoin L2 landscape is standing on the shoulders of this technical implementation called BitVM. We brought Robin Linus, one of the author’s of the BitVM White Paper, to not only dive into how BitVM got started, but more importantly, what it means for the future of Bitcoin. ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN |...
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The Trillion Dollar ETH Pitch | RSA+DH
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The Ethereum ETF is coming. What’s the best narrative for ETH to sell to TradFi/Wall Street? Ryan and David discuss the 7 leading ETH Narratives and then have a pitch-off amongst themselves. Each of them prepared a 1-2 minute pitch and then they each spend some time unpacking each other’s pitch and analyzing each point. Bankless Citizens get to vote - whose was better? Ryan or David’s? The winner gets a bragging rights POAP. ------ 📣BANKLESS CITIZENS VOTE HERE ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO...
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The End of the Petrodollar | Luke Gromen
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“Energy is the base layer of money” - that’s how our guest Luke Gromen puts it in today’s episode. Luke is an Author and Investor who gives us a completely new way to look at money, through the lens of energy costs. The essential learning of today’s show is that you can’t understand money until you understand energy markets. Apart from that Luke explains why the price of oil is about to force a monetary system change, why the 60/40 portfolio is dead and much more. ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the...
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ROLLUP: ETFs Back? | Robinhood Acquires Bitstamp | Biden SAB-121 Veto
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Bankless Friday Weekly Rollup 1st Week of June 2024 ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 📣 TRANSPORTER - SECURED BY CHAINLINK CCIP | TRY IT OUT ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS 🏠 CASA | SECURE YOUR GENERATIONAL WEALTH 🌐 TRANSPORTER | CROSS CHAINS WITH CONFIDENCE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 3:26 Prices 4:30 L2 Update ...
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When Will We Go Parabolic This Cycle? | RSA+DH
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After 3 months of flat crypto prices, people are asking “where are we in the cycle”? What if the real bull hasn't even started yet? How big of the impact can the ETH ETF's really have and can they really take us to the coveted.... Banana Zone? All of that and more on this weeks episode of Bankless Takes. ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 🔐 GridPlus Lattice1 Hardware Wallet (use discount code BANKLESS2024 at checkout for 15% off) ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK...
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The Ethereum vs. Solana Debate | Justin Drake vs. Anatoly Yakovenko
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✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ Ethereum vs. Solana. That’s the debate we’re having today. On Ethereum’s side we have Ethereum Researcher Justin Drake, and on the Solana’s we have Solana’s Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko. They give us the good, the bad and the ugly of each other’s blockchain, settling their endgame towards the end of the episode. This was one, if not the spiciest debate we had on the show. We tried our best to give both guests time with minimal intervention. At times went...
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ROLLUP: ETH Price Target | ETF Launch Date | Celebcoin Drama | Major New L2s
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In This Economy? How Money & Markets Really Work | Kyla Scanlon
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✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ Is it all vibes? Always has been. Kyla Scanlon is a writer, podcaster, analyst, founder of financial education company Bread, and an all around brilliant explainer of things hard to explain. Expect to learn why economies are vibe reflectors, Kyla’s “economic kingdom” model and an overview on the current state of economic affairs. Financial literacy is a superpower and Kyla managed to compress this topic that people have been trying to figure out for ages in an easy to understand economics toolbox. ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS...
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Stablecoins and National Security | Former CFTC Chair Timothy Massad
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✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ Are stablecoins a threat to national security? How should the US government step in? We brought Timothy Massad, the perfect guest to help us answer these hard questions. He was the Obama appointed chair for the CFTC, the guy who helped designate Bitcoin as a commodity over 10 years ago. We touch on: - The importance of stablecoins. - How stablecoins compare to eurodollars. - Weather crypto and sanctions can co-exist. - A sensible policy for...
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TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES
0:00 Intro
0:45 Bloomberg Analyst Update
https://x.com/EricBalchunas/status/1792636523050906102
https://x.com/JSeyff/status/1792636774067413502
4:20 $ETH GOD CANDLE
https://pro.kraken.com/app/trade/eth-usd
7:25 Eleanor
https://x.com/EleanorTerrett/status/1792640682374393894
8:05 .ETH People
https://x.com/JSeyff/status/1792637403682701422
https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1792638235799122269
18:10 Jake Chervisnky
https://x.com/jchervinsky/status/1792645992463978533
20:58 Warren Meme
https://x.com/BillHughesDC/status/1792646322551451718
21:10 Mike Ippolito Sentiment Bottom Call
https://x.com/MikeIppolito_/status/1791829053881602454
https://x.com/MikeIppolito_/status/1792641028844904753
24:51 Institutional Narrative
28:58 $COIN Stock Price
29:20 S-1 Approvals
https://x.com/JSeyff/status/1792650597377757456
33:08 SEC Asks Exchanges to Update Filings
https://x.com/tier10k/status/1792655223103566116
35:16 $ETHE
36:26 Chart TA'ing
40:23 Polymarket
https://polymarket.com/event/ethereum-etf-approved-by-may-31?tid=1716234132508
40:48 Ryan's Bear Case
46:23 Closing & Sassano Victory Lap
https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1792640883042443578
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