ROLLUP: Google’s Quantum Warning | Trump’s Iran Speech | Ethereum Economic Zones | Drift Hack

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🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Google just dropped a major quantum warning for crypto, claiming a breakthrough that could accelerate the timeline to breaking Bitcoin and Ethereum’s core security. Ryan and David unpack what changed, how real the threat is, and why the industry may need to act sooner than expected. Plus: Trump signals three more weeks in the Iran conflict and markets shrug it off, a $285M Solana DeFi hack exposes critical flaws, Ethereum’s new plan to unify L2s, and why crypto wallets are rapidly turning into full financial super apps. --- 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium --- BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🔮POLYMARKET | #1 PREDICTION MARKET https://bankless.cc/polymarket-podcast 🪐GALAXYONE | SOLANA STAKING https://bankless.cc/GalaxyOne 🦊 METAMASK | DOWNLOAD NOW https://go.metamask.io/BL-Pod-Download 🏅BITGET TRADFI | TRADE GOLD WITH USDT https://bankless.cc/bitget 🎯THE DEFI REPORT | ONCHAIN INSIGHTS https://thedefireport.io/bankless 🐇MEGAETH | 1ST REAL-TIME BLOCKCHAIN https://bankless.cc/megaeth --- TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 1:46 Worst BTC Q1 Since 2018 https://www.theblock.co/post/395991/bitcoin-worst-q1-since-2018 https://imgur.com/Y8V3LyR 3:15 Trump, Iran & Market Reaction https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2039508709374636457 https://polymarket.com/event/us-forces-enter-iran-by/?via=bankless https://polymarket.com/event/us-x-iran-ceasefire-by/?via=bankless https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2039525222311731260 https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2039516924762096021 https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2039715963730305106 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/2039718732361040022 https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2039691820419235841 https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/2038650848931193203 https://x.com/robinhanson/status/2038778655204122748 https://x.com/natesilver538/status/2038711622043144529 https://polymarket.com/event/which-party-will-win-the-house-in-2026/?via=bankless https://polymarket.com/event/which-party-will-win-the-senate-in-2026/?via=bankless 18:35 Google’s Quantum Warning for Crypto https://quantumai.google/static/site-assets/downloads/cryptocurrency-whitepaper.pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28627 https://x.com/drakefjustin/status/2038847732152996108 https://x.com/nic_carter/status/2038804571791761821 https://x.com/mreiffy/status/2038878566796988776 https://x.com/nic_carter/status/2039065325627396309 https://x.com/_jonasschnelli_/status/2039403067511341368 https://x.com/_jonasschnelli_/status/2039049535822147890 41:39 $285M Drift Hack on Solana https://x.com/DriftProtocol/status/2039564437795836039 https://defillama.com/perps https://x.com/dbcrypt0/status/2039677244734677186 https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/drift-protocol https://x.com/StaniKulechov/status/2039587524075491794 https://x.com/haydenzadams/status/2039560830862164329 47:08 Ethereum Economic Zones & Aave V4 https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/2038625973260722336 https://x.com/etheconomiczone/status/2038271122907578375 https://x.com/jbaylina/status/2038277153641377865 56:09 X Crypto Wallet + Phantom Super App https://x.com/benjitaylor/status/2036882102420201832 https://x.com/Marczeller/status/2038300072367017988 https://x.com/phantom/status/2039027553940480448 57:43 Apyx, OpenAI, SpaceX & April Fools https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/2037607121676603530 https://x.com/hyperbridge/status/2039318963486625880 1:03:37 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, welcome to the first week of April.
0:07.0	It's time for the Bankless Weekly Rollup.
0:09.6	Google released a major quantum warning directed squarely at us, David.
0:15.5	Not you and me, but at crypto, let's say.
0:17.4	They have an algorithmic breakthrough that just 20xed progress towards cracking
0:23.9	ECDSA and some of the crypto signatures that underlie Bitcoin, Ethereum, and basically
0:29.1	everything we do here. How bad is it for crypto? I think it's pretty concerning. Some might call
0:34.4	me a panicking, though. We'll get into the paper and see what
0:37.9	bagless listeners decide. It's certainly worse for crypto when we can't seemingly come to consensus
0:43.6	about how big of a deal it is, which makes it an even bigger deal. It's like a little bit of a
0:49.0	coordination problem, if you will. Meanwhile, back into the Trump side of things, he addressed the nation
0:54.9	last night about the state of the Iran War, the state of Operation Epic Fury.
1:01.5	In my take was that it was a 19-minute speech, basically to deliver the bad news to the markets
1:05.7	that we are in this for three more weeks. He said, we're going to talk about that, all that and more. He said the straight-in-hor moves will just open up naturally. Gas prices will come down and stock prices will go back up, but not before three weeks from now at the very least. We'll see if the market is reassured by that when we get into it. Also, did Ethereum just come up with a plan to finally unite all of the layer tws? They're called Ethereum Economic Zones. We'll spell out what that means. Ave v4 just released. What's new in that? Also, the biggest hack, I think, in Solana history, a $300 million hack, the drift exchange. This is a purpose exchange was hacked. What happened happened and what can we learn? It's all about
1:44.9	the lessons we learn along the way, isn't it? Before we get started, Ryan, can I tell you a fun fact?
1:50.4	Yeah, if it's, it genuinely needs to be fun though. I don't want any of your like not fun facts,
1:55.3	okay? This needs to be fun one. It's fun because it implies good buying prices.
2:01.3	Okay.
2:02.0	Yeah.
2:02.6	Okay.
2:03.9	It's a bearish fun fact.
2:04.3	Yeah.
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