How ETH Wins | Ryan & David

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Ryan and David reunite on Bankless Takes with a big question: What must Ethereum do to win? Ryan champions a memetic and cultural shift, calling for ETH maximalism and nationalism to reignite belief in ETH as a monetary asset. David brings a product-driven roadmap, urging Ethereum to strengthen its L1 as the economic hub of the internet. Together, they explore a vision for a unified Ethereum that can scale, coordinate, and ultimately win. This isn’t just a talk—it’s a strategy session for Ethereum’s future. ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELF https://bankless.cc/Self 🟠HEMI | BTC & ETH, ONE NETWORK https://bankless.cc/hemi ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 3:21 Job’s Not Finished 10:11 A Call for Maximalism 13:10 Blue-Money Gospel https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1915874994514452763 25:23 Restoring ETH’s Product-Money Feedback Loop https://www.bankless.com/read/restoring-eths-product-money-feedback-loop 46:58 Towards a United Chains of Ethereum https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1917298612540739931 https://x.com/Spire_Labs/status/1915430799618564394 https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary 1:05:43 ETH—Commodity Money Backed by an Economy https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1918065179725570536 1:08:59 Rethinking Our Messaging 1:14:49 Can Ethereum Still Win? 1:19:22 Closing & Disclaimers ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

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0:00.0	Bankless Nation, welcome to a bankless takes, David.
0:05.0	We haven't done one of these in a while.
0:07.0	And we've got-
0:08.0	In four months.
0:10.0	No, it's, thank you.
0:11.0	Thank you.
0:12.0	While I was away, I was thinking a lot about Ethereum.
0:15.0	And this episode, I think...
0:16.0	Where you?
0:17.0	Well, I was thinking about other things first.
0:20.0	And then toward the end, I started thinking about
0:22.4	Ethereum again. I don't think you'll ever not be thinking about Ethereum. It seems that way.
0:27.6	I mean, it's embedded pretty deep at this point. And I had a few thoughts, some things to say as
0:32.7	we're coming back. I think that's the subject of today's episode, really what Ethereum needs to do. And I've got
0:39.0	some takes. And I think, I feel like you and I have different lenses on some of the problem slash
0:44.3	solutions for Ethereum. I think my lens, if I were to like throw something out there, my lens is
0:51.7	more memetic. It's like my focus and aperture is like, hey, what memes and what
0:56.6	social layer changes around those memes does the Ethereum community need to adopt moving forward?
1:02.3	Your take, if I understand your article, is a bit more product lens focused. So you're like
1:09.4	a bit more roadmap and the things to prioritize if Ethereum is to reorient
1:15.0	and start thinking about a product led roadmap versus whatever it has been doing previously.
1:21.9	So I think we're bringing two different lenses into this conversation.
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