ROLLUP: Optimism, Layer 2 Summer, Axie Infinity, ETH Documentary, Space Jam NFT (2nd Week of July)
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🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
2nd Week of July 2021
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
2:50 MARKETS
3:00 BTC Price
Lightning: https://twitter.com/VetleLunde/status/1414935599321124864?s=20
4:15 ETH Price
Settling $8T: https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1415364147622170630?s=20
6:20 ETH/BTC Ratio
7:08 DeFi Action
3M DeFi Users: https://twitter.com/richardchen39/status/1414582943641657344?s=20
11:15 Axie Price Action
12:55 Value / Volume
https://twitter.com/richardchen39/status/1414950857586749449?s=21
14:08 DAO Super-Users
https://deepdao.io/#/people
17:00 RELEASES
18:45 Optimism!
Uniswap: https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1415118864698859524?s=20
Synthetix: https://blog.synthetix.io/optimism-launch-announcement/
25:38 Scaling Frenzy
Hop Protocol: https://twitter.com/HopProtocol/status/1414624873775878148
Gnosis Safe: https://blog.gnosis.pm/gnosis-safe-is-live-on-layer-2-24adf83f0032
Coinbase: https://twitter.com/SetProtocol/status/1415023551120355332
Infura: https://twitter.com/infura_io/status/1414614102618656768
28:18 Dow Jones Crypto Indices
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sp-dow-jones-indices-launches-sp-cryptocurrency-broad-digital-market-index-301332698.html
30:10 Nifty Island
https://twitter.com/Nifty_Island/status/1414982521377411075
31:25 Ultra Sound Money
https://ultrasound.money/
33:15 Ethereum Documentary
https://twitter.com/ethereumfilm/status/1415376113170141184?s=21
34:36 Raises
Superfluid: https://twitter.com/superfluid_hq/status/1414937101745983491?s=21
Connext: https://twitter.com/theblock__/status/1414933542006624256?s=21
Blocknative: https://twitter.com/blocknative/status/1415344313920200706?s=20
Phantom: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/111249/defi-wallet-solana-phantom-9-million-series-a-a16z
39:20 JOBS
https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs
40:15 NEWS
40:25 Uniswap DeFi Education Fund
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/111185/harvard-law-blockchain-initiative-uniswap-dao
Cobie: https://gov.uniswap.org/t/proposal-removal-of-established-cranial-follicles-fund/13314/3
46:23 Brazil ETH ETF
https://twitter.com/Blockworks_/status/1415099592308400128?s=20
47:44 New Aave
https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov/status/1415308052400594953?s=20
48:04 ShapeShift DAO
https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1415325952272437249?s=21
50:45 Amex NFTs
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/american-express-turns-nfts-into-a-credit-card-perk
51:45 Space Jam NFTs
https://twitter.com/JordanLyall/status/1414658019275644931?s=20
52:25 Jack Dorsey Hardware Wallets
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/110916/jack-dorsey-square-bitcoin-hardware-wallet
53:10 Bullish SPAC
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/110950/former-nyse-president-to-take-crypto-exchange-bullish-public-via-spac
55:02 Fidelity Hiring
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/111066/fidelity-digital-assets-hire-70-percent-more-employees-institutional-interest-crypto
55:55 Inflation
https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1414948397233082372?s=20
59:05 Banks vs Fintech
https://thefr.com/fintech-news-in-brief/regulation-and-compliance-fintech-news
1:00:40 Quick News
Alchemix: https://twitter.com/AlchemixFi/status/1414647769470443521
Binance: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/111482/italy-binance-consob-warning
Bitcoin Miners: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/111462/bit-digital-14500-bitcoin-miners-us-china-crackdown
Metamask: https://twitter.com/MetaMask/status/1415390962826850309?s=20
1:04:00 TAKES
1:04:45 Jackson Palmer
https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1415353984617914370?s=20
1:17:30 FTX Acquiring the World
https://twitter.com/ft/status/1415075101205319689?s=21
1:20:15 One Paycheck Away
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1415439010952925186?s=20
1:20:35 What David’s Excited About
1:21:55 What Ryan’s Excited About
1:25:03 Meme of the Week
https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1415476264840744960?s=20
1:26:55 Moment of Zen
https://twitter.com/ben_chain/status/1414360342856011777?s=21
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Bankless Nation, happy second week of July. |
| 0:10.7 | What time is it, David? |
| 0:11.7 | It is Friday, weekly, roll-up time where we take the whole entire week in crypto and condense |
| 0:16.1 | it down into one single episode. |
| 0:18.4 | Ryan, I'm actually particularly stoked for this weekly roll-up episode because so much |
| 0:22.3 | stuff happened in the last week. |
| 0:23.6 | There's so much stuff to talk about, so much stuff to cover, and so we are going to go through |
| 0:26.8 | all of it with the Bankless Nation. |
| 0:29.2 | This is going to be a tricky one to condense because, as you said, there is so much to talk |
| 0:33.4 | about. |
| 0:34.4 | But let's get into it. |
| 0:35.4 | If you're new to the roll-ups, they come out every Friday morning and our job is to |
| 0:38.4 | boil us down into markets, releases, news, take what we're excited about, and we end |
| 0:42.0 | with the meme of the week. |
| 0:43.9 | We hope you enjoy this. |
| 0:45.1 | It comes out on YouTube and also on the podcast, David. |
| 0:49.2 | Before we get into it, we've got to talk about something big that is coming to crypto. |
| 0:52.9 | That is the smart contract summit that is happening August 5th to August 7th. |
| 0:59.0 | This is put on by the folks at Chainlink, but this is almost like a free DeFi conference |
| 1:04.8 | because everybody's going to be there. |
| 1:06.7 | They're having 200 different projects discussing DeFi, NFTs, blockchain. |
| 1:12.0 | They're talking about MEV. |
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