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Welcome back to the breakdown.

It's Saturday, February 1st, and as every Saturday, today we are wrapping up the week

and basically putting together all of the week's content for one big super episode.

For those of you who are doing errands or long runs or what have you over the weekend,

who just want to hear

one big extended piece of content all together.

And as usual, I'm going to just give a few thoughts on the week to kick it off.

This week was interesting.

In some ways, it was all about the price, right?

We had a real settling into this 9,000 to 9,500 price for Bitcoin, which is obviously

very exciting to see.

We also saw some interesting announcements that maybe suggest part of where the industry

is.

In the defy world, we had ChainLink publishing a set of 25 of its decentralized price

oracles and pool together hitting

the milestone of a million die.

In the world of staking, we had Binance on the show on Tuesday.

We had Catherine Coley, the CEO of Binance U.S., on to talk about Binance U.S. offering staking

on Algo and Adams and potentially incorporating staking

into their review process for future assets. We also saw some interesting culminations

of questions around how to fund public goods, how to fund public protocols, particularly

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