ROLLUP: Chaotic Era | Oil, Jobs, Credit | Nasdaq x Kraken | BlackRock Staked ETH | Roman Storm Retrial
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bankless Nation is the second week of March. It's time for the bankless weekly roll-up. We got some jittery markets today. You know, Vitalik... |
| 0:11.3 | We got a jittery world. Yeah, jittery world. You know, Vitalik calls this the chaotic era. I saw him tweet something about that this week. I think that's, we've moved from the stable era to the chaotic era. |
| 0:21.4 | We're feeling that in the markets. Wars, we got AI, just overall jitters in the market. There's three things, though, we're paying attention to. We're going to talk about them. Oil, jobs, private credit, and how all those things affect crypto. Lots of big announcements on the crypto side of things as well. Crackin and the NASDAQ announced a partnership to issue and trade real tokenized stocks, not the fake ones, the real ones, on which chains, a few chains are going to be the winners here. And also, breaking news, as of today, BlackRock has released its long-awaited, staked E-E-T-F. |
| 0:55.7 | Finally, wow. |
| 0:57.7 | Just in the phase of the market where no one cares. |
| 1:00.9 | So we're going to talk about how to, we're going to pop up in the hood, talk about how that works, what of the fees, what's the stake rate, how all of that is going on the week. |
| 1:07.9 | There's also some disappointing news on the week. |
| 1:10.2 | The DOJ has decided it wants to retry the tornado cash case with Roman Storm. |
| 1:15.1 | I thought that was done. |
| 1:16.9 | Can we really say America is the crypto capital of the world if we're going and we're |
| 1:20.2 | prosecuting our open source privacy developers, David? |
| 1:22.9 | We've got to talk about that. |
| 1:24.1 | Also, maybe the Democrats, though, would be worse for crypto in the White House. |
| 1:28.8 | Bernie Sanders has introduced a moratorium on AI data centers. David, we have to have a discussion |
| 1:34.7 | about the coming AI tech backlash that I think the two of us both see. So you know how in |
| 1:41.4 | 2022 and 3 post-FTX the Democrats came with their banhammer on crypto and tried to regulate crypto out of existence? |
| 1:49.0 | And then crypto banded together and made the Fair Shake super PAC and a bunch of other super PACs. |
| 1:55.1 | I think we are, AI is in the phase of their political lifespan where the Democrats come and try and banhammer |
| 2:04.2 | them and they're going to need to rally together and fund and they're way more organized |
| 2:09.4 | than crypto. I think they're already doing this. There's a lot to unpack there. So let's get to it. |
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