ROLLUP: SEC Announces "Project Crypto." This Changes Everything.

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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We’re joined by Haseeb Qureshi from Dragonfly Capital to discusses the SEC's Project Crypto and its impact on the crypto landscape. We celebrate Ethereum's 10th birthday, reflect on its growth, and analyze the ongoing trial of Roman Storm linked to Tornado Cash. The episode also covers the launch of Ethereum treasury company ETH Zilla and advancements in crypto ETF regulations. Haseeb: https://x.com/hosseeb —- 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium --- 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 —- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Ethereum's 10th Birthday https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/at-10-years-old-ethereums-future-is-brighter-than-ever-despite-recent-setbacks.html?taid=688a2118974852000113ad9a https://x.com/TimBeiko/status/1950578090108993904 https://x.com/ethereumfndn/status/1950179673872510997 7:47 Analyzing SEC's Project Crypto https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025-101-sec-permits-kind-creations-redemptions-crypto-etps https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/atkins-digital-finance-revolution-073125 26:56 Exploring Token Launchpad Wars https://x.com/smyyguy/status/1949657674003431788 https://x.com/smyyguy/status/1949790587877515697 https://x.com/0xMert_/status/1950324576204050752 48:41 The Roman Storm Verdict Discussion https://x.com/innercitypress/status/1950586483955626129 1:03:39 Closing Thoughts and Reflections --- Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

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0:00.0	Bengals Nation, it's the Friday weekly rollup, and I'm tapping in Haseeb Qureshi from Dragonfly.
0:09.3	Ryan is out and about having a vacation this week.
0:11.4	Haseeb, how you doing, my man?
0:13.1	Doing okay. It's been a long week, but happy to spend it with you.
0:16.7	It has been a long week. It was starting decently quiet, but I think today specifically it got pretty loud with this SEC speech. The SEC is introducing Project Crypto.
0:27.2	I thought it was just absolutely incredible, definitely a capstone for everything that's been going on in this administration.
0:33.2	Yeah. Before we get into the Project Crypto, we're going to talk about Ethereum's birthday. We'll talk about some of the ETH treasury companies that are coming online.
0:40.0	The Roman Storm case as well.
0:41.9	We are all waited with baiting breath, but we just learned that the verdict is not going to be heard until at least Monday at the earliest.
0:48.3	There's Pump versus Zora things to talk about.
0:50.8	But let's go ahead and start with Ethereum's birthday.
0:52.6	Happy 10th birthday to
0:54.6	Ethereum. There was just a flurry of activity going around Ethereum Twitter, just all of these
1:00.3	different people talking about their lore with Ethereum. Because now that Ethereum is 10 years old,
1:05.5	all these different Ethereum community members have different walks of life, different stories to tell
1:10.0	as I like how Ethereum has impacted their life. Something I thought was pretty cool was community members have different walks of life, different stories to tell. I said, like, how
1:11.3	Ethereum has impacted their life. Something I thought was pretty cool was this Believe in Something
1:16.5	campaign, which was a marketing campaign, which I thought was organized by the Ethereum
1:20.8	Foundation. I was like, sick. This is the first ever Ethereum Foundation marketing push. Turns out
1:26.7	it was actually just an engaged community member who just thought of,
1:31.1	hey, let's get a few companies to do this, believe in something, but the ETH in something
1:36.5	is replaced by the ETH logo.
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