ROLLUP: ETH Beats SEC! | Trump Coin? | LayerZero Token | ETH ETF Trading Soon
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Bankless Friday Weekly Rollup 3rd Week of June 2024 The SEC drops all charges against Ethereum 2.0—could it now be recognized as a commodity? Plus, hints surface about the launch date of the ETH ETF! Airdrop season is still alive and well! LayerZero and zkSync tokens launched recently. Find out if you’re eligible and the market’s reaction. And, did Baron Trump really launch a DJT memecoin on Solana? We unpack the latest buzz and drama. Tune in for all the details and so much more! ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 📣STAKEWISE | LIQUID SOLO STAKING ...
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Diaries of an ETH Maxi on Wall Street | Sam Jernigan
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Sam Jernigan, the “Unofficial ETH Maxi of Wall Street”, has been evangelizing Ethereum to institutional funds and billionaires from inside the house for the past five years. Having the perfect blend of deep Ethereum knowledge and the full Wall Street experience, Sam guides us through how he became an ETH Maxi, why the lack of understanding of ETH in TradFi is the most bullish case for the asset and what the future holds for ETH institutional adoption. ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 📣STAKEWISE | LIQUID SOLO STAKING ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN |...
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ETH to $22k by 2030? | VanEck's Matthew Sigel
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In this episode, David Hoffman is joined by Matthew Sigel, Head of Digital Assets Research at VanEck, to unpack VanEck's groundbreaking ETH 2030 report. They discuss the $154,000 bull case, $22,000 base case, and $340 bear case for Ethereum, and the factors behind these predictions. Matthew dives deep into the role of ETH ETFs and shares insights into ETH's evolving narrative in institutional portfolios. He also provides interesting analogies and comparisons between ETH and Web 2.0, explaining how VanEck will help traditional investors understand and invest in ETH using these narratives...
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CZ, Bull Market Predictions & The Future of Binance | New CEO Richard Teng
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Now that CZ is gone, who’s going to fill his shoes? His name is Richard Teng, the new Binance CEO. He’s joining the podcast today to not only share the story of how he got here, but also to define his vision for the future of Binance. We ask him: Who is Richard Teng? What was it like to work with CZ? Why Crypto? What is going on in Nigeria? Bull Market Predictions? If you want to know who’s taking charge in the next era of Binance, this episode is for you. ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------...
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ROLLUP: ZkSync Airdrop | Optimism Fault Proofs | Pectra Ethereum Upgrade
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Bankless Friday Weekly Rollup 2nd Week of June 2024 ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 📣STAKEWISE | LIQUID SOLO STAKING ------ 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 3:31 Markets 8:20 Gary G Says ETH ETF Approval...
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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 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.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
5:03 Who is Robin Linus?
10:20 Why Bitcoin?
16:19 Bitcoin Needs to Scale
22:15 BitVM Eureka Moment
24:31 The State of BitVM
27:19 BitVM vs Ethereum Rollups
33:45 How Does BitVM Work?
46:07 BitVM Critiques
55:07 The Bitcoin L2 Space
59:33 The BitVM Endgame
1:03:07 The Future of Bitcoin
1:07:09 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
Robin Linus
https://x.com/robin_linus
Robin Linus Website
https://robinlinus.com/
BitVM
https://bitvm.org/
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