ROUNDTABLE: Crypto's IPO Era | HYPE vs. SOL vs. PUMP | Jon & Bread

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Crypto markets are buzzing and institutional appetite is peaking. With Circle’s IPO wildly oversubscribed and a new wave of companies racing to go public, we unpack what this means for the industry. Jon and Bread join us to break down the hype around crypto IPOs, why TradFi wants stablecoin exposure, and what it signals for projects like Solana, Ethereum, and Hyperliquid. We also debate value accrual, ETH vs BTC narratives, and whether apps or platforms will dominate the next phase of crypto. This is the IPO Era of crypto—let's dissect the winners and the delusions. ------ 📣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 🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELF https://bankless.cc/Self 🟠BINANCE | THE WORLDS #1 CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/binance ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 0:32 Vibe Check https://x.com/intern/status/1932238240880222270 https://x.com/blknoiz06/status/1932072994731647435 10:13 Crypto’s IPO Era https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=NYSE%3ACRCL https://x.com/HadickM/status/1931323504525279522 18:11 Ethereum Valuation Debate https://x.com/DeeZe/status/1932475461348835800 29:29 Hype vs SOL vs PUMP https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=KUCOIN%3AHYPEUSDT 40:44 Hyperliquid vs Centralized Exchanges https://dune.com/uwusanauwu/perps 50:35 PumpFun’s Token Sale 58:16 Closing & Disclaimers ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

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0:00.0	Welcome, Bankless Nation, back to the roundtable.
0:05.6	We're back in session.
0:07.1	Today, the man with glutinous glutes, zero X bread guy, good as you.
0:11.3	Hey, guys.
0:12.5	And today at the top of Ethereum's most wanted list to John Charbonneau.
0:16.4	Joe.
0:18.5	And then, of course, the world's most Zen D-in, Andy 805, 2, he is out golfing.
0:23.0	So it's just us two today.
0:24.6	Bread.
0:25.6	John, good to see you guys.
0:27.1	We ripped it with Ryan Chen Adams last week, but it's good to have two of the boys back in session this week.
0:32.3	I want to get this week started off with kind of just an overall vibe check.
0:36.6	There's like a lot of activity. There's a lot
0:39.1	of buzz. Animal spirits. Going around in crypto. Animal spirit. Yeah, animal spirits feel
0:44.1	present right now in the crypto industry. There's two tweets that are kind of echoing around,
0:48.6	one from intern. State of the crypto markets. They say ICOs are back. Apps are generating
0:53.3	revenue. Crypto IPO going parabolic. Bitcoin all-time highs. Stable coin growth with no end in sight.
0:59.5	And then Bitcoin accumulation vehicles popping off left and right. And then another tweet from
1:03.2	Anthem saying, appetite for crypto exposure has never been higher. Various entities alongside
1:08.0	Taylor buying multi-billions of Bitcoin. Circle is a lot of the same thing. Circle IPO, 25 over-subscribed, 5X and open, plasma, $500 million ICO filled in two minutes,
1:18.1	ply market and X integration, and then also the United States government actively pursuing regulatory clarity.
1:23.1	A lot of reasons to be bullish, I feel pretty bullish about the second half of this year. I feel
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