ROLLUP: Prediction Market Bill | Solana DEX ATH | ETH Stablecoins ATH | Zcash Implodes | Vitalik “Trilemma Solved”
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bankless Nation is the second week of January. The first week I've been back. It's time for the |
| 0:07.9 | bankless weekly roll-up. We've got a lot going on. A prediction market trader placing a large bet on |
| 0:13.8 | Maduro's capture four hours ahead of his actual capture and a bill from Congressman Richie Torres |
| 0:20.7 | saying, I don't like this. |
| 0:23.0 | This looks like insider trading inside the government. What is going on? We'll talk about that. |
| 0:27.6 | I think that's going to be a reoccurring theme for this year as we figure out what to do, |
| 0:32.3 | what we think about, and we being society, what we think about people using special information |
| 0:37.0 | on perdition markets. David, I don't even know what I think about people using special information on prediction markets. |
| 0:38.5 | David, I don't even know what I think about it, though. |
| 0:40.9 | I don't know. I'm fascinated by it. I think it's an interesting topic to pay attention to in |
| 0:46.7 | 2026. Expect more news like this as this happens more and more and more. Meanwhile, on the |
| 0:51.2 | crypto-native side of things, Solana Dex volume hits an all- of things, Salonah Dex volume hits an all-time |
| 0:54.6 | high. Ethereum's stable-coin transfer volume hits an all-time high and trouble in Z-cash. |
| 1:00.9 | Why is it down something like 20% on the day? Something happened, and we're going to talk about it. |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah, we also cover the lighter token drop. David, you don't have to fill me in on that. |
| 1:10.0 | And Vitalik Buteran, he's coming back in in 2026 with a full Malady arc, I would say. He's got a lot of tweets out there, one of which is claiming that Ethereum has solved the notorious blockchain trilema. David, you remember the trilemma? Couldn't be solved? I remember the trilemma. It's solved now, okay? We solved it. Mission accomplished. Yes. Before we get there, got to thank our friends and sponsors over at Zama. I'm truly excited about what Zama is providing because it's a missing piece of the crypto stack and in particular the Ethereum stack. As we get more and more into mainstream and people are looking at the on-chain world as to |
| 1:44.6 | where to build a finance. I think we need a little bit more privacy. That is exactly what Zama |
| 1:49.0 | is doing. Think of it as HTTPS for crypto. You know how the HTTPS made the internet |
| 1:54.8 | secure? First, before we just had HTT, which is like the internet in clear text, no privacy, everything's readable. |
| 2:03.1 | HTTPS allows us to have the internet, but also with data and encrypted form in transit and communication, |
| 2:09.5 | so we can communicate things like credit card information. |
| 2:12.5 | Now incoming is HTPZ-Z for cryptography. |
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