ROLLUP: Base Kicks-Off Onchain Summer
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Bankless Weekly Rollup
Second Week of August, 2023
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
2:37 MARKETS
4:07 Layer 2 TVL
https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary
15:42 DAI Savings Rate
https://twitter.com/RuneKek/status/1688235137178509312?s=20
19:26 Coinbase Q2 Earnings
https://twitter.com/ramahluwalia/status/1687268549797019648?s=20
24:28 Paypal Launches Stablecoin
https://etherscan.io/token/0x6c3ea9036406852006290770bedfcaba0e23a0e8
https://twitter.com/0xCygaar/status/1688592430315036672?s=20
https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1688716600294383616?s=20
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1688586469370216450?s=20
34:32 Base Kicks off Onchain Summer!
https://twitter.com/BuildOnBase/status/1689321221715017728
https://www.geckoterminal.com/dex-rankings
https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/base
https://dune.com/tk-research/base
40:31 Vitalik and Jesse At Permissionless
https://twitter.com/Permissionless/status/1687130264089042945?s=20
42:25 Arbitrum Releases BOLD
https://twitter.com/offchainlabs/status/1687137574052143116?s=46
https://twitter.com/terencechain/status/1689025407499345920?s=20
https://www.youtube.com/live/4yzPYr5HRfU?feature=share
47:31 Polygon Vs zKSync
https://mirror.xyz/0x70DF15b0208eFCeFaA541Da9A0ED6C4A884554Fc/gNi8coqXjd1ybFsQBAG7QARUkPHZECu7ihIRkpiVx2Y
https://twitter.com/gluk64/status/1687263207860166656?s=20
49:31 Is Curve Gonna Make it?
https://etherscan.io/address/0x9e2b6378ee8ad2a4a95fe481d63caba8fb0ebbf9
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x23c4799784c91023204bd68a94ec7a963486f2485dc43c13d8b804d5301b8041
https://twitter.com/CurveFinance/status/1688221472815284224?s=20
https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/1687294816890347520
54:28 Fantom Becoming a Layer 2?
https://www.theblock.co/post/243220/fantom-optimistic-rollups-ethereum
56:11 Hacker Hotline
https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1688613385565528064
58:03 NFT Stuff
https://twitter.com/sandeepnailwal/status/1689187495190069250?s=20
1:00:49 Is Biden a Bitcoin Maxi?
https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1687120734793986048?s=46
1:01:46 Huobi Insolvency
https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/status/1687764670340591618
1:02:45 Gary Pivots to AI
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-03/sec-chairman-gary-gensler-discusses-the-risks-to-finance-in-ai
1:03:59 This is Just Weird...
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/ftx-lobbyist-tried-to-buy-island-nauru-create-superspecies-lawsuit.html
1:05:06 Wallets 2.0
https://twitter.com/goldfinch_fi/status/1688961804515647488
1:08:05 Turnkey
https://twitter.com/turnkeyhq/status/1688910588246933509
1:08:35 RAISES
https://medium.com/@puffer.fi/a-push-for-decentralization-puffer-finance-raises-5-5m-to-redefine-liquid-eth-staking-936a61b750f7
1:12:57 Questions From The Nation
https://discord.com/channels/615592155481767941/1058053004705669211/1138316265962876988
1:15:50 Takes Of The Week
https://twitter.com/davidfbailey/status/1689051629146767360?s=46
https://twitter.com/dankrad/status/1689634128101310464?s=20
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1687448061860003840?s=20
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1687609256269230080?s=20
1:21:43 What Are We Bullish On?
1:25:53 Meme Of The Week
https://twitter.com/divine_economy/status/1689650898975481856?s=20
1:26:39 Disclosures
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| 0:00.0 | I think that we will look back and see the reason for why we had a bull market in 2024 and 2025. |
| 0:05.7 | What's that reason? |
| 0:06.5 | Layer 2's? |
| 0:07.2 | Base. |
| 0:07.7 | Coinbase, specifically putting all of its marketing and weight behind a base layer 2, |
| 0:14.4 | because like I said, printing money on it, but they are going to take Ethereum Layer 2's |
| 0:20.0 | specifically base because they now have the incentive, they are going to take it mainstream. |
| 0:24.2 | Bankless Nation, it is the second Friday of August. |
| 0:30.2 | David, what time is it? |
| 0:31.2 | Right, it's the Bankless Friday weekly roll-up where we covered the entire weekly news in crypto, |
| 0:35.1 | which is always an ambitious endeavor yet to be persevered nonetheless into the frontier. |
| 0:39.9 | How are you doing this week, my man? |
| 0:41.1 | I'm doing great, man. |
| 0:42.4 | I've got my coffee. |
| 0:44.6 | We've got our stablecoins going. |
| 0:47.0 | Some big news this week. |
| 0:48.0 | PayPal launched a stablecoin on Ethereum. |
| 0:51.4 | I think that's a big freaking deal. |
| 0:53.3 | We have to talk about that. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah, what else are we talking about? |
| 0:56.2 | Base gets dropped with already $105 million in total value locked. |
| 1:01.5 | Kicking off on-chain summer, Coinbase just putting all of their weight behind the base launch. |
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