ROLLUP: ETH Pumps 50% | Tariff Deal Boosts Markets | Coinbase Data Leak | Robinhood Buys L2

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

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📣 BANKESS x FRAX MEETUP | Permissionless 2025 https://lu.ma/uf9mmcoa ------ This week, Ryan and David break down Ethereum’s explosive 50% surge and the surprising macro catalyst behind it: a U.S.–China tariff deal that has markets ripping. They cover Coinbase’s massive customer data leak (and Brian Armstrong’s $20M bounty response), Robinhood’s stealthy Layer 2 acquisition, and the rise of meme coins funding real apps. Plus, why Arthur Hayes thinks the bull market is just beginning. ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELF https://bankless.cc/Self 🟠HEMI | BTC & ETH, ONE NETWORK https://bankless.cc/hemi ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 0:06 “Who is laughing now?” statement from NYC Mayor https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1922036267685908761 3:47 Prices, Uniswap, & Aave https://x.com/jbrukh/status/1922315929578299580 https://dune.com/mud2monarch/countdown-to-three-trillion-united-states-dollars https://x.com/StaniKulechov/status/1921478583337312339 https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1921925615923388864 https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary 14:10 Tariff Truce - US and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days - We’re Saved!!! https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/us-and-china-agree-to-slash-tariffs-for-90-days.html https://x.com/biancoresearch/status/1921927955573264802 https://polymarket.com/event/us-recession-in-2025 https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/fatty-fatty-boom-boom 28:40 Bad Coinbase news first - Coinbase MAJOR customer data leak Coinbase $20m award leading to the arrest of hackers https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1922967787309256807 https://x.com/coinbase/status/1922967576209998133 https://x.com/0xBreadguy/status/1923006791031587248 https://x.com/adamscochran/status/1923018728800686532 https://x.com/lemiscate/status/1922984240318193934 35:48 Coinbase becomes the first crypto company in S&P500 https://x.com/iamdcinvestor/status/1922068706084970750 https://x.com/cbfutures/status/1920850444093448225 https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-COIN/ 37:28 Internet Capital Markets Meta https://www.jellyjelly.com/ https://dexscreener.com/solana/3bc2e2rxcfvf9op22lvbansvwos2t98q6ercroayqydq https://x.com/gabrielhaines/status/1922293923420000346 https://www.believescreener.com/ https://x.com/believeapp/status/1922780481684148519 https://x.com/alex_leiman/status/1922075531966550488 https://x.com/msg/status/1922708357686743551 https://x.com/pasternak/status/1922493500504867290 https://dune.com/adam_tehc/memecoin-wars https://x.com/WazzCrypto/status/1922826087467204636 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1922635525992644770 https://x.com/pumpdotfun/status/1921941742854512924? https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1922006135520764094 50:29 Robinhood will acquire Kevin O’Leary-Backed WonderFi - Leads to ETH L2. https://x.com/RobinhoodApp/status/1922245928691421671 https://www.wonder.fi 52:12 CryptoPunks have a new owner! https://x.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/1922291088431448396 https://x.com/econoar/status/1922339944774664660 https://www.coingecko.com/en/nft 53:46 Is the SEC becoming awesome now? pro-capital, pro-crypto SEC Paul Atkins said that his priority is to develop new rules for crypto tokens https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1921977322871140360 https://x.com/SECGov/status/1922001045087027349 https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1920585655039529220 https://www.sec.gov/files/ctf-memo-blackrock-05092025.pdf 58:42 Superstate is launching Opening Bell platform with their first client! https://x.com/superstatefunds/status/1920479311728869826 1:00:01 JD Vance will speak at Bitcoin 2025 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/politics/u-s-vice-president-jd-vance-to-speak-at-bitcoin-2025-confer 1:00:32 Meta is exploring stabecoins again! https://x.com/degeneratenews/status/1920557131201122806 1:01:59 Closing & Disclaimers ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

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0:00.0	This is New York Mayor Eric Adams.
0:05.7	I was the first American mayor to have my initial three paychecks converted into crypto
0:12.3	way back in 2022. Many people laughed at me and the only I can say is who's laughing now.
0:21.1	Wait, Ryan, didn't we already hear this? Didn't we already do this bit?
0:25.8	Yeah, yeah. There was like, I feel like it was like three or four months ago, and it was
0:29.3	Eric Adams basically saying those exact words. I was the first mayor to get my paycheck in
0:34.2	Bitcoin, who's laughing now? And it's funny to me because he keeps saying it,
0:38.6	David. This is the second time we have heard this. Yeah. Yeah. And he's such a crypto person now,
0:45.6	right? Just like reminding people that he got in early, reminding him that it was like,
0:49.5	it's such a contrary that everyone thought he was stupid and like, who's laughing now?
0:54.5	Eric Adams is one of us.
0:56.6	I think he's actually hosting a New York City sort of crypto conference, something like that.
1:02.7	That's also why he was like talking about crypto.
1:04.9	So a complete crypto person.
1:08.3	Right, right.
1:08.7	So that's the news that this is being packaged up in is the New York City Crypto Summit
1:14.6	is what Eric Adams is announcing.
1:16.6	I think kind of doing like a Trump alignment thing.
1:20.1	Yeah, probably.
1:20.7	It would be great if New York was more crypto aligned.
1:22.9	We need to get rid of the bit license as a state.
1:25.0	That needs to go away.
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