ROLLUP: 2nd Week of March (Beeple NFTs, EIP1559, Stimulus Checks, GBTC)
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🗓️ 12 March 2021
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MARKETS
BTC Price: $55k
ETH Price: Low-Mid 1800s Mostly
TVL in DeFi: $41.2B
$DPI: ~$450
MEV Dashboard
https://explore.flashbots.net/
DeFi Undervalued? Coinbase vs. DeFi
https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov/status/1369314364944244737?s=20
Global Banking $6.2 Trillion, DeFi $85B
https://twitter.com/0x_Lucas/status/1369808216490602498?s=20
$3B valuation BlockFi:
https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac/status/1370012146503929856?s=20
DAOs With Treasury Reports
https://twitter.com/Matthew_Graham_/status/1367521656927838209?s=20
GBTC Trading 15% Below BTC Spot Prices
https://www.coindesk.com/grayscale-halts-new-investments-in-gbtc-after-trading-at-15-below-bitcoin
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RELEASES
Send From Arbitrum to xDAI (Hop Protocol)
https://twitter.com/HopProtocol/status/1367914160483299332?s=20
Optimism Dai Bridge with Fast Withdrawals
https://forum.makerdao.com/t/announcing-the-optimism-dai-bridge-with-fast-withdrawals/6938
Superfluid
https://twitter.com/superfluid_hq/status/1369676939913486337?s=21
FEI Protocol
https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-naval-framework-ventures-19m-raise-fei-stablecoin
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NEWS
$1.9T Covid Relief Bill and $1400 Stimulus Checks
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-passes-1-9-trillion-covid-relief-bill-including-1-n1259795
Fed Says Reopening Could Cause Inflation
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/04/fed-chairman-powell-says-economic-reopening-could-cause-inflation-to-pick-up-temporarily.html
EIP1559 Approved for London Hard Fork
https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1367858606889037824?s=20
EIP1559 - Front Page of Bloomberg
https://i.redd.it/hdgboaz8xml61.jpg
ETH Miners Protesting EIP-1559
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-miners-plot-hash-power-show-of-force-against-eip-1559
Meitu Buys $22M ETH, $17.9M BTC
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1368639534770966537?s=20
Beeple NFT $69M
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/03/11/digital-artwork-snapped-69m-record-sale
NFT Environmentalism
https://joanielemercier.com/the-problem-of-cryptoart/
SuperRare Response
https://medium.com/superrare/no-cryptoartists-arent-harming-the-planet-43182f72fc61
US Lawmakers Introduce Crypto Bill
https://www.coindesk.com/lawmakers-digital-asset-regulation
Wyoming DAO Bill
https://twitter.com/awrigh01/status/1369328856260354051?s=20
NBA Top Shot Freezes Funds
https://defited.medium.com/my-centralized-experience-dapper-3d3e3a99cbd7
New Grayscale Job Postings - ETF?
https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1369451478428090369?s=21
JPMorgan Crypto Proxy Basket
https://www.coindesk.com/jpmorgan-to-launch-cryptocurrency-exposure-basket-of-bitcoin-proxy-stocks
Logan Paul Sponsored Tweet Paid in SFI
https://twitter.com/Buhlaque/status/1369149498098860041?s=20
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TAKES
Everything is Broken
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mauldin-everything-broken
Reinvesting in Crypto
https://twitter.com/ryansadams/status/1368944228382965765?s=21
Steinworld’s Ethspansion from Genesis
https://twitter.com/takenstheorem/status/1351409209305305090?s=20
Today Show Laughing About NFTs
https://twitter.com/econoar/status/1369344244880527361?s=20
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MEME
L2 vs ETH Killers
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMLVE2YAQQ2/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are rolling up the second week of March. |
| 0:15.6 | It's always an ambitious endeavor in the world of crypto to convince a full week of news |
| 0:20.0 | into a short time period as possible. |
| 0:22.7 | And this is what we try and get done on the weekly rollups. |
| 0:25.1 | We talk about the markets, what has happened in the last week of the markets. |
| 0:28.2 | We go into news, what is in the news cycle in the last week, and then we go into releases, |
| 0:34.0 | what got released in the last week. |
| 0:35.4 | And then we finish up with some ecosystem takes, who had some good opinions in the last |
| 0:39.2 | week of crypto. |
| 0:40.4 | And then we go into what David and Ryan are excited about. |
| 0:43.5 | And last and my personal favorite, the meme of the week to finish things off. |
| 0:48.0 | Yep. |
| 0:49.0 | You come for the rollup. |
| 0:50.0 | You stay for the meme. |
| 0:51.0 | That's how it goes. |
| 0:52.0 | David, you ready to get into the rollup? |
| 0:53.8 | Let's roll it up, Ryan. |
| 0:55.0 | All right, man. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey, before we do one thing we should mention to our listeners is that consensus is |
| 1:00.5 | having a conference. |
| 1:02.5 | This is a bull market conference and there's only like five more days. |
| 1:05.7 | I think by the time you listen to this, it might be four more days to get a ticket at |
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