Can PumpFun be Dethroned? ETH's Pectra Upgrade | Future of Bitcoin L2s | Jon, Bread, & Andy8052
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Bankless Roundtable, hosts BreadGuy, John Charbonneau, and Andy8052 tackle pivotal issues in the crypto world. They explore the disconnect between institutional bullishness and community despair, with Bread highlighting the plight of altcoin holders amid Bitcoin's dominance. The conversation turns to a scandal involving a token loan, revealing manipulation that undermines trust in the industry.
Later, they discuss the upcoming Ethereum Pectra upgrade, emphasizing its potential to improve functionality while cautioning about implementation challenges. The hosts also dive into the meme coin phenomenon, navigating the ethical dilemmas of this niche. As they wrap up, the team reflects on the challenges and hope within the crypto community, encouraging thoughtful engagement in this dynamic market.
Jon Charbonneau: https://x.com/jon_charb
Bread: https://x.com/0xBreadguy
Andy8052: https://x.com/andy8052
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
03:40 Current Crypto Sentiment
9:20 Movement Market Making Scandal
26:10 Boop.Fun vs Pump.Fun
1:00:15 Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade
1:16:25 Bitcoin vs Ethereum
1:12:45 Closing Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome Bankless Nation back to the roundtable. |
| 0:06.4 | Here with me today is the man with glutinous glutes, Zero X bread guy. |
| 0:09.4 | Good to see you. |
| 0:10.6 | Hey guys, back for another week. |
| 0:12.5 | And we've also got Crypto's chief, lowercase, our researcher John Sharbon. |
| 0:16.4 | And welcome back. |
| 0:17.4 | Joe, how's good? |
| 0:18.6 | And last but not least, the world's most Zen D-Gen, Andy 805, 2 is good to you. |
| 0:23.8 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:25.0 | All right. |
| 0:25.4 | So we got some drama to pack through this week. |
| 0:27.6 | The movement drama that came out Friday of last week, we're going to talk about that. |
| 0:31.3 | There's some boop. |
| 0:32.0 | Dot fun discourse, which we're going to unpack. Maybe something that's actually pretty big that people are under |
| 0:38.1 | indexing is Apple's new iOS meta in its impact on the commerce economy in the app store, |
| 0:43.7 | which is inclusive of crypto. When this goes, when this podcast goes live tomorrow, Pectra, |
| 0:48.9 | the Ethereum upgrade will be live. And so that's where we're going to talk about that as well. |
| 0:52.7 | But overall, I was kind of just powwowing with bread as we got started here before we hit record about like we started |
| 0:58.1 | doing these episodes and then things on crypto Twitter just started to calm down right as we |
| 1:02.5 | start doing these roundtables. Kind of unfortunate, but I think we're going to make the most of it. |
| 1:07.2 | Bread, what's you thinking about, man? Yeah, so I do a daily show too, right? |
| 1:12.2 | So, like, we have to talk about stuff pretty routinely, daily, and had the same |
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