ROLLUP: 4th Week of May (Uniswap WSJ | Arbitrum Launch | Gamestop NFT)
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🗓️ 28 May 2021
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Summary
Download the crypto meta to your brain in this weekly show.
3rd Week of May, 2021
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
0:45 MARKETS
1:20 BTC Price
2:13 ETH Price
7:13 ETH/BTC
8:38 ETH Volumes Big
https://twitter.com/RyanWatkins_/status/1397385373580398594?s=20
10:18 DeFi Action
https://defipulse.com/
https://messari.io/asset/defipulse-index
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/DPIWETH/?exchange=UNISWAP
12:39 The System Didn’t Break
https://twitter.com/raoulgmi/status/1397172575810228225?s=21
16:15 Big Week for DeFi
https://twitter.com/jack_clancy93/status/1395399566644682757?s=20
17:18 Tornado Flippen Zcash?
https://twitter.com/ameensol/status/1395534483202269187?s=19
21:52 YFI Price Earnings
https://twitter.com/bantg/status/1396457032996245505?s=20
24:05 Stablecoin Settlements Big
https://twitter.com/dmihal/status/1397124171050668033?s=20
26:00 RELEASES
28:00 Arbitrum Launching
https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-scaler-arbitrum-is-launching-friday-with-developer-support-from-alchemy
31:10 Uniswap on Arbitrum
https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1397675094001045508?s=21
32:42 Optimistic Etherscan
https://optimismpbc.medium.com/integrating-etherscan-24a3811a765c
34:45 ETH’s Value on L2
https://twitter.com/hiljis/status/1397697744370900994?s=21
42:15 Polygon SDK
https://twitter.com/0xPolygon/status/1397558139256377345
44:38 Gitcoin DAO
https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-sotn-47-gitcoin-dao-and-gtc-token
46:11 Coinbase Institutional
https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-institutional-is-proud-to-announce-the-unveiling-of-our-new-prime-offering-9790e068f0a9
47:20 NEWS
47:30 Carl Icahn: ETH is Money
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/crypto-here-stay-carl-icahn-may-take-relatively-big-stake-digital-currency-space-prefers-eth
50:44 Ray Dalio Prefers BTC to Bonds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-24/bridgewater-s-ray-dalio-says-he-prefers-bitcoin-to-bonds
53:19 “China Bans Bitcoin”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/26/major-china-bitcoin-mining-hub-lays-out-harsher-crackdown-measures.html
57:44 Cuban Tracker: Polygon
https://www.coindesk.com/mark-cuban-invests-in-ethereum-layer-2-polygon
59:51 Gamestop NFT
https://nft.gamestop.com/
1:02:24 Bitcoin, Michael Taylor, and Elon
https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/1396915801492439044?s=20
Take: https://twitter.com/nanexcool/status/1397000162459930624?s=20
1:07:15 Businesses Must Report
https://www.coindesk.com/us-treasury-calls-for-businesses-to-report-crypto-transfers-of-10k-to-the-irs
1:10:14 FED Digital Currency
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1395440279004618760?s=20
1:12:08 Coinbase 🤝 Goldman
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/105853/coinbase-former-goldman-sachs-faryar-shirzad-chief-policy-officer
1:13:35 Quick Bites
PayPal: https://www.coindesk.com/paypal-will-let-customers-withdraw-crypto-exec-says
Apple? https://www.coindesk.com/apple-is-looking-for-crypto-experience-in-alternative-payments-job-post?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true&s=09
1confirmation: https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-vc-1confirmation-raises-125m-for-third-fund
COIN: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/24/coinbase-stock-initiation-goldman-sachs.html
1:16:00 TAKES
1:17:00 Anti-Crypto Bag Bias
https://twitter.com/cburniske/status/1395457904027869184?s=21
1:23:25 Volatility is not Unhealthy
https://twitter.com/MichaelIppo/status/1395452094556086285?s=20
1:24:00 DeFi Protocols are Michael Saylor
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1397161855387308032?s=20
1:27:50 Money Game Landscape
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/ethereum-the-money-game-landscape
1:29:40 The Cycle
https://twitter.com/tbr90/status/1397185395603935232?s=21
1:32:23 Rethink Work
https://twitter.com/nateliason/status/1397719837204418561?s=20
1:33:52 There be Monsters
https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer/status/1397738091452981248?s=20
1:35:40 What David’s Excited About
1:38:00 What Ryan’s Excited About
1:41:45 MEME OF THE WEEK
https://twitter.com/EthereumMemes/status/1397268903198400517/photo/1
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday morning, thankless nation, David, what time is it? |
| 0:17.3 | It is Friday morning, weekly roll of time, where we take a whole entire week in the crypto |
| 0:22.3 | cycle and put it right into your brain as fast and densely as possible, which is unambitious |
| 0:28.6 | endeavor in this industry, yet we try to do it every single week. |
| 0:32.0 | And we have fun doing it left and right markets for Lisa's news takes we end with what |
| 0:37.4 | we're excited about. |
| 0:38.2 | No, we don't. |
| 0:39.2 | We end with the meme of the week. |
| 0:40.2 | Of course, every single week. |
| 0:41.8 | So stay tuned for that. |
| 0:43.2 | Wow, a lot going and going on in the bankless nation, as always, a lot going in crypto. |
| 0:48.2 | This is the last week of May. |
| 0:50.6 | We are excited to get you downloaded. |
| 0:52.5 | David, you ready to get started? |
| 0:54.0 | Let's do it, Ryan. |
| 0:55.0 | All right, man, we got to start with the market. |
| 0:57.2 | The markets have been crazy, these days, David, absolutely insane, crazy. |
| 1:03.5 | Last week around this time, ish, did it feel like a bear market to some people have felt |
| 1:08.6 | like a bear market suddenly, are we out of the bear market? |
| 1:11.4 | People got spooked last week. |
| 1:12.7 | People got real spooked, like on Twitter last weekend, David, a lot of anger, I would |
| 1:21.9 | say, even about this market, like the sudden drop. |
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