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🗓️ 15 April 2022
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2nd Week of April, 2022
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
5:00 MARKETS
5:05 BTC Price
5:47 ETH Price
6:35 Ratios, BED, Gas
https://www.indexcoop.com/bed
10:55 Total Crypto Market Cap
https://www.coingecko.com/en/global_charts
12:00 ETH Min Gas Price Post-Merge
https://twitter.com/domothy/status/1512817907130114059
16:00 ICHI Token
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/141788/ichi-token-price-collapses-by-99-in-latest-defi-debacle
20:42 White House: Extraordinarily Elevated Inflation
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1513574076383645699
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u1xynt/the_annual_inflation_rate_in_the_us_accelerated
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1514569232306118659
26:00 Bloomberg Merge Estimates
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1513892957371437074
34:10 RELEASES
34:40 Robinhood Crypto Wallet Transfers
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/141008/robinhood-widens-user-access-for-crypto-wallet-transfers-unveils-plan-to-support-lightning-payments-for-bitcoin
36:53 Polygon KPI Liquidity Mining
https://twitter.com/0xPolygon/status/1511373161623089152
38:50 Umbra Now Available on Optimism & Arbitrum
https://www.scopelift.co/blog/umbra-launches-on-optimism-and-polygon
39:35 Uniswap Swap Widget
https://twitter.com/Uniswap/status/1514603576093335553
41:00 AVAX Mempool Opening Up
https://twitter.com/trustlessstate/status/1514013436878983173
44:50 RAISES
44:55 Epic Games $2B to build an Avatar Filled Metaverse
https://twitter.com/FT/status/1513575145805336577
45:45 Uniswap Labs Ventures
https://twitter.com/Uniswap/status/1513564875037061122
50:00 Circle $400M
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/circle-announces-400m-funding-round-301523647.html
50:20 AVAX Labs
https://twitter.com/TheBlock__/status/1514615631877836814
52:45 Ignite (formerly Tendermint) Launches $150M Accelerator
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/141302/ignite-formerly-tendermint-launches-150-million-accelerator-for-web-3-projects?ref=coingecko
53:35 Goldman Sachs Invests $88M in Certik
54:13 Nomad $22M
https://blog.nomad.xyz/nomad-raises-22m-seed-round-for-security-first-interoperability-5d6b15c96007?gi=1dbc2b9da21d
54:33 JOBS
https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs
55:34 NEWS
55:40 Merge Won’t Be in June
https://twitter.com/timbeiko/status/1514010098145759232
57:50 Maple x Maker
https://maplefinance.medium.com/maker-x-maple-a-partnership-to-scale-the-digital-economy-38f6ce0fce1b
58:35 Meta 50% Commission on NFTs
https://twitter.com/banklesshq/status/1514333528292536328
1:00:05 The BAYC Brand/Restaurant
https://twitter.com/BoredNHngry/status/1513599188243652610
1:02:30 Coinbase Interactive 3-Part Film - BAYC the Movie
https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1513589848048689152
1:03:52 Jack Dorsey NFTs Not Rare?
1:06:23 ETH NFT-Backed Loan Market
https://decrypt.co/97190/ethereum-nft-backed-loan-market-heats-up-as-cryptopunks-owner-borrows-8-3m
1:07:13 Elon
1:07:30 Not Joining Twitter Board?
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/141437/elon-musk-reverses-decision-to-join-twitters-board
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514564966564651008
1:09:38 Axie Infinity
1:09:45 Hacker Launders 7.5% of Stolen ETH
https://twitter.com/watcherguru/status/1512819830927376384
1:15:36 $NEAR Launches April 20th
https://twitter.com/Route2FI/status/1512166993671168003
1:15:48 REGULATION
1:15: 50 USDC Stablecoin Issuer Hires Execus to Oversee Regulation
1:16:11 Celsius No More Deposits
1:17:00 Uniswap Labs Being Sued
1:23:11 TAKES
1:23:46 U.S. Taxes
https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1513552893688827907
1:24:22 Local or Global DeFi Winners
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1513865713739608076
https://twitter.com/hildobby_/status/1513874645371559936
1:27:20 Who Could’ve Foreseen This?
https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1513681327354171403
1:29:30 This is Why We Fight
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1514356560516030464
1:36:52 What David’s Excited About
1:39:00 What Ryan’s Excited About
1:41:35 MEME of the Week
https://twitter.com/Pollo2x/status/1514335011461218307
https://twitter.com/TheRugNews/status/1514615385806426117
1:42:55 Closing & Disclaimers
1:43:08 Moment of Zen
https://twitter.com/songadaymann/status/1512141935959494656
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Look, touch your throat Ryan, just like, just gut take. |
| 0:02.4 | How do you feel about the market? |
| 0:04.2 | Just general sentiment. |
| 0:06.3 | No charts, no numbers. |
| 0:08.4 | General sentiment. |
| 0:09.2 | Can I be honest for a minute? |
| 0:10.3 | Sure. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm feeling real good about the market. |
| 0:13.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.2 | Hey, Banclist Nation. |
| 0:17.9 | Happy second week of April. |
| 0:19.6 | We got a hot week for you. |
| 0:21.1 | Really excited about what we're doing today. |
| 0:22.6 | And David, what is this episode called? |
| 0:24.4 | Tell them, oh, Ryan, it's the Friday. |
| 0:26.7 | Banclist weekly roll-up. |
| 0:28.0 | Where we recap the entire week in crypto, which, like I say, |
| 0:32.2 | Ryan, is always an ambitious endeavor, |
| 0:33.9 | yet we persevere nonetheless. |
| 0:36.4 | Through the gamut of the news, we pack it apart, |
| 0:38.7 | we pull it apart, we distill it for you, |
| 0:40.3 | digest it for you, and download the entire week of crypto |
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