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Bankless

Technology, News, Tech News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Bankless Weekly Rollup
2nd Week of March, 2024

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TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES

0:00 Intro

7:48 Markets
9:00 Bitcoin’s market cap surpassed Silver this week
https://companiesmarketcap.com/assets-by-market-cap/ 
https://twitter.com/robustus/status/1767164377969340419 
https://l2beat.com/scaling/data-availability 

18:09 Movers of the Week - Memecoins?
https://twitter.com/econoar/status/1767170724446552159 
https://twitter.com/blknoiz06/status/1766680047547494658 
https://twitter.com/FTI_DA/status/1767969299350610040 
https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1766827037149343951 

26:40 U.S. CPI rose faster than expected last month
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/cpi-inflation-report-february-2024-.html 
26:58 Why are DeFi rates so high?
https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1766326070545162321 
https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1766669255100055866     
https://twitter.com/ethena_labs/status/1768023077932380257 

29:33 ETF Watch!
https://dune.com/hildobby/btc-etfs 
https://dune.com/queries/3382000/5674971     
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1768022702294470855 
https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1767206535879389332 
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1767175990285857006 
https://x.com/jchervinsky/status/1767187618876305628 
https://x.com/orb_land/status/1767278815791722629 

38:28 Blobs arrived to Mainnet, L2 Fees plummet! 
https://x.com/parithosh_j/status/1767973626987606190 
https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1767913396777767361 
https://twitter.com/sproule_/status/1767960271853686879 
https://twitter.com/zksync/status/1767983026443579448 
https://twitter.com/argenthq/status/1767917028013224370 
https://x.com/Optimism/status/1768090982862803203 
https://twitter.com/liamihorne/status/1768068293787615288 
https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1768091017021116562 
https://twitter.com/jessepollak/status/1768071129854562698 
https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1768074308482400556 
https://x.com/js_horne/status/1768075186824163698 
https://fees-growthepie.streamlit.app/ 
https://x.com/arbitrum/status/1767912321618505954 
https://dune.com/0xRob/blobs 
https://twitter.com/liamihorne/status/1767962414312521844 
https://x.com/lightclients/status/1767957828969349148 
https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1768243873430552801 
https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1762589707756548566 

1:01:59 Swell announced their Restaked Rollup 
https://twitter.com/swellnetworkio/status/1767889656451047505 

1:03:00 Tensor introduced the TNSR token
https://twitter.com/TensorFdn/status/1767616700609171508 

1:03:25 Jito is getting rid of Mempool?! 
https://twitter.com/jito_labs/status/1766228889888514501 
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/03/08/solana-client-developer-jito-announces-end-of-mempool-function/ 
https://twitter.com/smyyguy/status/1766234020076011865 
https://twitter.com/jon_charb/status/1765923336138211353 

1:08:59 Saylor has no chill
https://x.com/MEMECOETH/status/1767690213877252485 

1:10:18 Raises and BVC Investments 
https://twitter.com/EclipseFND/status/1767212277285969979 
https://twitter.com/clique2046/status/1768277734113907127 

1:12:27 David demo signing up for it while RSA highlights
https://open.spotify.com/show/1y0zqrWsFxmCYcTnV7ExUn 
We recently celebrated 4 years
https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1768269073354231826 

1:14:22 MEME of the Week
Name kids after what you love
https://x.com/abbeyjazzy/status/1767890031824216551 

1:15:27 Moment of Zen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5if2hthPCs  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I want to talk about how optimism is using the blobs. I want to talk

0:04.4

about how darkness using the blobs. Arbitrum is using the blobs in a very

0:08.0

special way, so we're going to talk about that. We're just talk about the

0:10.4

blobs. We're going to talk about blobs space. We're going to talk about the blobs tension. There's a new phrase just

0:14.8

dropped, blob contention. It gets me all like hot and bothered. I'm pretty psyched about

0:19.3

blobs Ryan. I can't talk to you enough about blobs. Well this is going to turn into a blobcast I could tell.

0:24.0

Bankless Nation, it's the third week of March.

0:32.0

Blob Week, it's Blob week, the Blob week of March.

0:34.4

Blobs everywhere.

0:36.1

Yeah, Dave, we gotta talk about the Blobs because this is Ethereum shipping

0:40.3

an absolutely major upgrade.

0:42.4

Would you say this is the biggest upgrade since the

0:45.1

merge? Biggest upgrade ever? The second biggest upgrade ever, the biggest one

0:48.5

being the merge. Yeah, now we have blob space on Ethereum in addition to some other cool stuff that is in the

0:54.4

Ethereum protocol now is really EIP 4844 that is now fully a part of the

0:59.1

Ethereum protocol enshrining a blob space into the protocol itself allowing layer two's to become super fast.

1:05.8

All the layer twos are celebrating and boasting their super speedy, super quick, super cheap transactions.

1:11.4

transactions across the optimistic roll-ups right now, like even some of the more complex stuff

1:16.2

are zero cents. Oh my God, it feels so good. Will it last is the big question. Is this just a short blip in time on blob space or is this

1:25.5

going to be the new meta in ethereal later twos? That's a good question for sure so

1:29.5

we're going to talk about all of that. Also, Bitcoin hit another all-time high this week a legit

1:33.6

David Hoffman all-time high that's right not disputes this all-time high are you

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