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ROLLUP: Elon Buys Twitter | Free Speech | Optimism Airdrop | Moonbirds NFTs | OpenSea Gem

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Bankless

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Last Week of April, 2022

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro

3:00 MARKETS
3:25 BTC Price
4:15 ETH Price
5:10 USD ATH
https://imgur.com/GTS2ugz 
6:38 Huge Gains in 2021
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/142795/crypto-investors-made-163-billion-in-gains-in-2021-chainalysis 
7:59 ENS Bull Market
https://twitter.com/ENSbrokerage/status/1518939316671725569 
13:12 ApeCoin Mooning
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/apecoin 

15:00 RELEASES
17:20 Stripe Crypto Payments
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/22/stripe-launches-crypto-payments-feature-with-twitter-as-first-client.html 
18:38 Volt Protocol
https://twitter.com/VoltProtocol/status/1517578992278249472?s=20&t=6WCwIscpmBkQhvfILpTomw 
19:49 Fidelity 401k
https://t.co/f9rRRHIG3h 
21:34 AngelList USDC Payments
https://twitter.com/CharleyMa/status/1519322237815472128?s=20&t=zGG6hpeB0kWP_Z6eCUDtxw 
22:35 CryptoKicks
https://decrypt.co/98488/nike-rtfkt-reveal-cryptokicks-ethereum-nft-metaverse-sneakers 
24:05 JPEG’d Protocol
https://medium.com/@jpegd/jpegd-protocol-launch-e255f32546bb 
RAISES27:44 Joe McCann $1B Fund
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/143448/founders-from-a16z-solana-and-more-back-new-billion-dollar-crypto-fund 
30:48 Dragonfly’s Fund 3
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/27/crypto-focused-dragonfly-capital-launches-650m-third-fund/?tpcc=tcplustwitter 
31:35 Other Releases
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/liquifi-is-building-carta-web3-for-crypto-companies-tokens-blockchain/ 
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/142800/scroll-raises-ethereum-scaling-project-funding 
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/26/dex-protocol-0x-labs-raises-70m-from-greylock-opensea-and-jared-leto-report/ 

32:55 Jobs
https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs 

34:00 NEWS
34:25 Elon Buys Twitter
https://twitter.com/bnonews/status/1518632272395657218?s=21&t=9jRlT-9PdCasZsm27QH9uw 
35:50 Stani Kulechov Twitter Ban
https://youtu.be/1af9OSCZlXA 

OPTIMISM
40:01 Optimism Collective
https://twitter.com/optimismPBC/status/1519001562345005057?s=20&t=THP1M38B0NcxGVsTKDuAAQ 
43:48 Airdrop
https://community.optimism.io/docs/governance/allocations/ 
44:50 Data & Takes
https://twitter.com/princecrypto9/status/1519289833616777217?s=20&t=z4CB0TolqtCvB3HLwAUTOg 
50:40 Ridley Scott Producing
https://decrypt.co/98421/alien-director-ridley-scott-produce-film-ethereums-rise 
52:04 Infura Down
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1517515771441778689?s=20&t=16kdQ3GmdiPJi3O1vU-u3w 

NFTs
52:49 Moonbirds Mooning
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/143249/moonbirds-nft-record-sale-1m-kevin-rose-project 
58:00 Solana NFTs
https://decrypt.co/98848/solana-okay-bears-top-ethereum-nft-projects-18m-sales 
59:12 OpenSea Acquires Gem
https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1518590087285678081?s=20&t=VKBLpz9v5eYYDCuRW7p7ow 

1:00:04 Bitcoin News
https://www.businesstoday.in/crypto/story/central-african-republic-accepts-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-331077-2022-04-25 
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/04/22/panamanian-legislative-assemblys-committee-approves-bill-regulating-cryptocurrencies 

REGULATION
1:00:42  Snowden Zcash
https://twitter.com/documentingzec/status/1519427037752004609?s=21&t=QS3Yfpgqv2cfreFjRnZLVA 
1:02:42 Tron Terra Copycat
https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/status/1517124429737648129?s=20&t=0KayrDtwHK_0FnyqiNSSDw 
1:03:20 ECB Speech
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2022/html/ecb.sp220425~6436006db0.en.html 

1:06:00 TAKES
1:07:30 Toxic Insecurity
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1517540916210319361?s=20&t=6Epyd6KM2V4Ns1W22w2AKA 
1:09:30 Jon Stewart Authoritarianism
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jon-stewart-mark-twain-prize-2022-1235134621/ 
1:10:08 CT vs NFT Twitter
https://twitter.com/0xwave/status/1518027212951150594?s=21&t=8RZbDznkwbg4jwp2Cs-IIA 
1:11:20 EVM Equivalence
https://twitter.com/0xSianLiu/status/1519462941657276416?s=20&t=HzjZQwpeTY9PO4WkV7BRNw 
1:13:24 How to Get a Job
https://twitter.com/bkiepuszewski/status/1518528435253043201?s=20&t=YxMWdERkVla3kEsDscIcqw 

1:14:24 What Ryan’s Excited About
1:16:39 What David’s Excited About

1:17:45 Meme of the Week
https://twitter.com/nir_III/status/1519143079206428682?s=20&t=EPBZLVJB890e2GZ1PdZVAg 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So that's pretty cool. So I guess flat on the week. My numbers are already I put see I will these numbers in 30 minutes ago, dude

0:06.2

What by the time people hear this it'll be inaccurate anyway guys these numbers are all always inaccurate

0:16.2

Bankless nation it is the fourth week of April's Friday morning. So what time is it David?

0:20.9

It's the Friday, Bankless weekly roll-up time Ryan where we roll up the entire news in crypto

0:27.5

That happened in the last week, which is always an ambitious endeavor yet we persist nonetheless ready to get into it

0:34.4

Ryan what happened this way ready man, it's good look first of all though

0:37.4

It's good to see you back in your place

0:39.4

I've been doing a lot of these road tour roll-ups and look you've been doing from a hotel rooms air being bees like everywhere

0:45.8

And now you're back your back in San Diego at least for now. Yeah, but we have two more roll-ups here before this place goes away forever

0:53.4

Wow, and I knew

0:55.6

Apartment and Williamsburg will be the background. It's great. David's background is constantly changing mine is always staying the same

1:01.7

It's the immutability of my background David. I'm not going anywhere

1:06.6

Your background for whenever I move

1:10.0

All right, man, so topics of the week first. We got to discuss Elon Musk

1:13.7

He just bought Twitter Wow, okay in an effort maybe to preserve free speech

1:17.8

I don't know that's what he's saying, but also the same day something else happened what happened?

1:21.7

Stony Kulchov of Ave and also lens protocol gets banned from Twitter because it's so ironic because Elon must buy

1:29.4

Twitter to preserve free speech in the same day

1:32.2

Stony gets banned from Twitter for tweeting out a joke about how he is the

1:36.6

Interim CEO to Twitter

1:38.4

I mean, you can see why Twitter would ban him is like that's well that's failed false news

1:42.0

So like ban hammer, but the irony of that

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