ROLLUP: Crypto Pain Market | Coinbase Super Bowl Rug Pull | IBIT Liquidation Cascade | Prediction Markets Explode | BlackRock x Uniswap

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

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Crypto feels cooked in 2026, and the Super Bowl proves it. Ryan and David unpack Coinbase’s Backstreet Boys rug pull ad and what it reveals about crypto’s collapsed public narrative. Then they dig into the brutal selloff, why IBIT’s record volume hints at forced TradFi liquidation, and what Polymarket is pricing for Bitcoin under $50K. From Robinhood’s prediction markets exploding into a real revenue engine to the political fight over who regulates “gambling vs markets,” the thesis is clear: finance is the only use case still scaling. Plus: LayerZero’s new “world computer” L1, MegaETH and Aztec’s bear market launch playbook, Vitalik finally calling ETH a store of value, ENS staying on L1, BlackRock bringing BUIDL to Uniswap, and the weirdest loose end of all, SBF’s missing tungsten cube. --- 📣ROCKET POOL | PERMISSIONLESS STAKING https://bankless.cc/Rocketpool --- BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🔮POLYMARKET | #1 PREDICTION MARKET https://bankless.cc/polymarket-podcast 🌐BRIX | EMERGING MARKET YIELD https://bankless.cc/brix 🏅BITGET TRADFI | TRADE GOLD WITH USDT https://bankless.cc/bitget 👑BANKLESS PREMIUM | AD-FREE & BONUS EPISODES https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium 🎯THE DEFI REPORT | ONCHAIN INSIGHTS https://bankless.cc/TDR-pro 💰ICO WATCH | UPCOMING PUBLIC TOKEN SALES https://bankless.cc/ico-watch --- TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 0:32 Super Bowl Coinbase Commercial https://x.com/julia_fiedler5/status/2020672759508967576 10:02 Markets https://x.com/cryptorand/status/2021894696268660736 https://x.com/TheDemocrats/status/2019492504614150375 https://polymarket.com/event/what-price-will-bitcoin-hit-before-2027/?via=bankles https://x.com/intocryptoverse/status/2019835733503255006 https://x.com/DegenerateNews/status/2020846896084852796 https://x.com/blckchaindaily/status/2021967204653445163 https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/2020860553732768085 https://www.strategicethreserve.xyz https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/2021325189674357204 25:46 Prediction Markets Growth has been explosive https://x.com/theoneandomsy/status/2021399052366250280 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/2021603112541102400 https://x.com/movietimedev/status/2021278393136808099 https://x.com/mattplatkin/status/2021335653091508323 https://x.com/GovChristie/status/2019515642836054038 https://x.com/michaelselig/status/2019533204068393280 34:51 A tail of Three Chains - LayerZero, Robinhood, MegaETH https://x.com/LayerZero_Core/status/2021338847972663394 https://x.com/a16zcrypto/status/2021348447656476841 https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/layerzero https://x.com/LayerZero_Core/status/2021343796236321036 https://x.com/RobinhoodApp/status/2021585052417630465 https://youtu.be/KcpMRlmrkEw https://x.com/megaeth/status/2020876108342927670 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/2021265395307495795 https://x.com/Zac_Aztec/status/2021707048497602777 https://x.com/sjdedic/status/2021960471704707177 https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/zama https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/trade/MEGA https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/layerzero 44:04 Are non-financial crypto dead? https://x.com/matthuang/status/2020858831065043159 https://x.com/jessepollak/status/2020962065100538091 https://x.com/cdixon/status/2019837259575607401 https://x.com/hosseeb/status/2020451853633511696 50:04 ETH & BlackRock https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2019814868140933287 https://x.com/ensdomains/status/2019789111557808146 https://x.com/BrantlyMillegan/status/2019791852531069313 https://x.com/vitalikbuterin/status/2019818956530274327 https://x.com/haydenzadams/status/2021587358999630034 https://x.com/KalshiTrade/status/2021586037034651819 https://fortune.com/2026/02/11/blackrock-uniswap https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uniswap-token-jumps-following-blackrock-165720913.html https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/uniswap 57:13 MrBeast acquired a Gen Z‑focused banking app https://x.com/MrBeast/status/2020910218360782929 https://x.com/BuckOnTwidder/status/2021005048654987354 59:17 You can now give your agent a self-custodial wallet! https://x.com/programmer/status/2021649037074870627 https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/agentic-wallet/quickstart. https://x.com/base/status/2021413560740721048 1:01:10 Safemoon founder sentenced to 100 months in prison https://x.com/IRS_CI/status/2021340944143196568? 1:02:19 SBF suck up…full on propaganda - pardon by summer? https://x.com/SBF_FTX/status/2021932965047988515 https://themissingbillions.com/ 1:05:42 Closing & Disclaimers --- Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

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0:00.0	Bankless Nation is the second week of February. We got the Super Bowl behind us. David, did watch some of those commercials. I did. I did watch the commercials. Yeah. Oh, I think I know. Are we about to watch a commercial? I think this was the only crypto commercial that was actually at the Super Bowl. Is that right? There's a lot of AI commercials. That's right. Okay. Here was the reaction.
0:22.7	This is from somebody's living room, a reaction to the Coinbase commercial Backstreet Boys.
0:28.9	This is Backstreet's Back is what they went with.
0:31.0	Here it is.
0:32.0	Secure.
0:33.9	Yeah.
0:36.1	Everything you need, you better rock your body now.
0:40.2	Everybody.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:44.4	Rock your body.
0:46.4	This will laugh.
0:48.8	Everybody.
0:51.4	Oh.
0:56.2	The double bird.
1:00.1	Did you watch this live?
1:01.5	Yeah, I watched this live.
1:02.6	I also watched it live.
1:04.5	Okay, so who were you with?
1:05.5	Were you with family, friends? Me and a friend.
1:07.5	Okay.
1:08.0	So what was the reaction around you when? So first of all, the commercial,
1:12.9	obviously, you guys saw that, but it starts with Backstreet Boys. Really reels you in, right? The lyrics are on the screen, very simple. You also don't know what's going on. You're like, oh, we're doing karaoke. We're doing Backstreet Boys karaoke. Don't know who this is. Don't know what's going on, but I'm down for it.
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