ROLLUP: Wartime Markets | Kraken Gets Fedwire | Trump vs Banks | AI vs Pentagon | NYT Says Crypto Is Dead
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bankless Nation is the first week of March. It's time for the Bankless Weekly Rollup. We've got a war going on. And so what are the wartime markets look like? How did the markets react to the conflict in Iran? We also have to talk about the flight to safety asset. What was it? Was it gold? Was it Bitcoin? Was it something else? |
| 0:23.9 | And then Trump domestically has taken aside on stable coin yields? Choosing crypto over the banks? |
| 0:31.0 | Some very loud tweets, both from Trump and Trump Jr. about the Clarity Act and how the banks need to fall in line. Some just real |
| 0:38.2 | good drama on the timeline this week. More bad news for the banks, too. Cracken is going bankless. |
| 0:42.8 | They get a bank license of some sort, access to FedWire. And I think that's pretty bullish, |
| 0:48.6 | a historic first. Can you go bankless by becoming a bank? Does that work? |
| 0:55.0 | They don't have any banks anymore. They are one. Yes. I mean, this is a long-standing |
| 1:01.4 | bankless prediction, let's say. I mean, we always thought the crypto banks, the exchanges, |
| 1:06.5 | we called them crypto banks from the very beginning would become more bank like over time. |
| 1:10.4 | And now they're |
| 1:11.3 | actually becoming banks at this point. That's pretty bullish though for crypto, I'd say. Also, |
| 1:15.4 | Eric Voorhe's AI Crypto Privacy Project, we're going to talk about that. Is this the AI |
| 1:20.0 | crypto fusion we've been waiting for? Also, Avey loses a key contributor just after it lost |
| 1:25.4 | another one just a couple of weeks ago. Zach XBT catches a criminal who stole $46 million from the government. |
| 1:31.5 | And then, of course, the bottom signal of all bottom signals in New York Times |
| 1:35.0 | writes a crypto is dead article. |
| 1:37.9 | So we're going to read that article to you here on the show. |
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