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ROLLUP: Bitcoin ETF Rumors | IRS Tax Rules | Ethereum Dencun Jan 05, 2024

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Bankless Weekly Rollup First Week of 2024

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro 8:00 MARKETS https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin/ars 10:25 Bitcoin https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-birthday-15-years-satoshi-nakamoto-genesis-block-mine https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1738547873967435907?s=46 13:00 ETH 15:10 MatrixPort Liquidations https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1742541738940510645 https://www.theblock.co/post/270125/sec-will-reject-all-bitcoin-spot-etfs-in-january-says-matrixport-analyst https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1742597650791162271?s=20 19:20 SEI , ARB , OP https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/sei https://defillama.com/chains 21:50 Narrative Investing https://dune.com/cryptokoryo/narratives

27:00 Bitcoin ETFs https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1742216237017342041 https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1742580887022125209?s=20 https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1742543503375106139?s=20 https://x.com/MetaLawMan/status/1742532353535180988?s=20

31:00 Insane IRS Crypto Rules https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1742246479593382207 https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1742257989195636978?s=20 https://x.com/NeerajKA/status/1742362328937746793?s=20 https://twitter.com/CryptoTaxGuyETH/status/1742366293649465782?s=20 https://x.com/jerrybrito/status/1742662203784744971?s=20

39:00 Ethereum Duncan https://x.com/christine_dkim/status/1737889041981575320?s=20 https://www.eip4844.com/ 42:30 Devcon 7 https://devcon.org/en/ 43:00 Avalanche Culture https://x.com/avax/status/1740538202346381605?s=20 45:00 Michael Saylor https://warpcast.com/rsa/0xd1b6a261 https://x.com/BitDeez/status/1742313181697945878?s=20 https://x.com/ecoinometrics/status/1740034802508796186?s=20 46:50 LUNA is a Security https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/12/28/terraform-labs-luna-and-mir-tokens-are-securities-judge-rules/ https://twitter.com/metalawman/status/1740785789234028840 49:50 No More SBF Trials https://www.reuters.com/legal/sam-bankman-fried-will-not-face-second-trial-us-prosecutors-say-2023-12-29/ https://www.theblock.co/post/268450/ftx-bankruptcy-could-go-on-for-years-legal-expert-says 51:35 Barry Dilbert Steps Down https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/12/26/barry-silbert-resigns-as-grayscale-chairman-to-be-replaced-by-mark-shifke/ https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001588489/000095017023072820/gbtc-20231226.htm 52:40 Dymension Airdrop https://x.com/dymension/status/1742185621299265738?s=20 https://x.com/dymension/status/1742185624696680823?s=20 55:00 Manta https://twitter.com/MantaNetwork/status/1678807287761195008?s=20 https://twitter.com/MantaNetwork/status/1735268753984864349

57:00 MEME of the Week https://x.com/BanklessHQ/status/1742662299087929472?s=20

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2024 Crypto Investment Themes Jan 04, 2024

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Welcome to Bankless Takes! This week, the first week of 2024… we have 6 Predictions for the major investment themes ahead for this year.

What are going to be the trends that define 2024? What do you need to know to stay ahead of the game? At least, for what we can see today.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro 04:45 Restaking and Liquid Restaking Tokens 12:34 What is Liquid Restaking? 20:26 Solana 28:18 Parallelized EVM's 37:16 Games 43:56 Data Availability 50:07 Airdrops

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203 - ETH in 2024 Jan 01, 2024

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✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-eth-2024

----- 2023 wasn’t great for Ethereum… from a price perspective. But it was fantastic from a building perspective.

Where does Ethereum go from here? What does 2024 have in store for ETH the asset and Ethereum the network?

Anthony Sassano, Mike Ippolito, and Jordi Alexander join to give a high level overview of the Ethereum ecosystem. The problems, the solutions, and the future.

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0:00 Intro 6:13 Ethereum in 2023 17:40 ETH as Money 24:30 The Internet Bond 30:00 From Execution to Settlement 37:40 Inside vs Outside Crypto 43:20 Restaking and Data Availability 1:10:00 Layer 2s and Modularity 1:23:00 Fragmentation 1:33:15 Decentralization 1:46:50 Wrapping Up 1:51:00 ETH Price Predictions

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Anthony Sassano https://x.com/sassal0x?s=20

Mike Ippolito https://x.com/MikeIppolito_?s=20

Jordi Alexander https://x.com/gametheorizing?s=20

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ROLLUP: Top 10 Biggest Crypto Events of 2023 Dec 29, 2023

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Bankless Weekly Rollup Last Week of 2023

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0:00 Intro 6:00 Markets 1 Year Ago 8:00 Base https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/other-topics/other/base 10:00 SVB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_Silicon_Valley_Bank 12:30 Balaji’s Bitcoin Bet 13:40 Scammers Arrested 15:00 Arbitrum Airdrop 17:00 Bitcoin Ordinals 22:40 Friend.tech 26:20 Pudgy Penguins IP 30:00 SEC Losing in Court 35:20 SEC Suing Exchanges 36:30 Michael Saylor Buying Bitcoin 39:35 CZ Steps Down 43:25 Solana Boom 47:00 Celestia and Jito Airdrop Season 49:45 Where We Are Now 52:30 Looking to 2024

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Coin Bureau’s Guy Turner Interviews Ryan & David Dec 28, 2023

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Coin Bureau’s Guy Turner interviewed Ryan and David on November 15, 2023. We’re re-releasing this episode on our channels thanks to Coin Bureau. We hope you enjoy this meta-conversation of Ryan, David, and the Bankless brand. Happy Holidays!

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0:00 Intro 1:55 Crypto YouTube vs. Podcast 7:10 Creating Crypto Content 16:55 SBF vs. Erik Voorhees 32:50 Crypto Industry Mistakes 41:05 Ethereum & Crypto Cycles 55:43 Crypto, Social Media, Madness 1:03:00 Podcast Guests 1:09:00 Final Thoughts

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Full Coin Bureau Interview https://youtu.be/HVpQroG434E?si=Yl0IR-LUd8dRQZ3l

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Eigenlayer In 2024 With CEO Sreeram Kannan Dec 27, 2023

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Ethereum validators are earning yield for nearly a million wallets but what happens if you can restake that ETH for even more yields? Eigen Layer is one of the most ambitious projects in crypto and crossed a billion dollars in deposits while recording this episode.

Joining us today is special technical co-host Mike Neuder to discuss all things Eigen Layer with Sreeram and Teddy from the team.

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🌐 Layer Zero V2 Launch https://bankless.cc/LayerZeroLabs

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Timestamps

00:00:00 Intro 00:00:26 Episode Overview 00:09:20 Current State of Eigen Layer 00:12:01 Cap Limits and Accepted Tokens 00:19:42 Economic Security 00:25:51 Eigen Incentive Structures 00:34:12 What Is Eigen DA? 00:40:29 Benefits From Eigen DA 00:45:28 Why Eigen DA? 00:55:31 Throughput and Slashing 01:05:58 Finality Layer 01:10:51 ABS Aggregation 01:16:53 The Veto Committee 01:21:04 Neutrality 01:24:40 Networks in 2024 01:28:27 When Mainnet

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Resources

Mike https://twitter.com/mikeneuder

Sreeram https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan

Teddy https://twitter.com/TedBreyer

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Anatoly Reflects on Solana In 2023 & 2024 Dec 26, 2023

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In today’s episode, we have the creator of Solana and the Co-founder of Solana Labs, Anatoly Yakovenko. We brought on Anatoly to reflect on Solana in 2023 and its future in the New Year and beyond.

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🌐 Layer Zero V2 Launch https://bankless.cc/LayerZeroLabs

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro 5:49 FTX’s Effect on Solana 8:03 Solana Lindy? 9:55 Local Fee Markets 17:51 Solana’s Governance 24:58 Important Solana Questions 28:44 Firedancer vs. Jump 37:36 Latency Games 40:20 Are More Users Scary? 43:50 Hyper-Optimism 48:52 What Scares Anatoly 54:59 $BONK & Solana Phone 1:07:58 Breakout Consumer Apps 1:12:37 Solana Economics 1:18:30 ETH vs. SOL 1:34:50 Solana Alignment 1:36:49 Solana Misrepresentation 1:37:53 Closing & Disclaimers

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Anatoly https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko

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202 - The Year of the Crypto ETF with Cathie Wood Dec 25, 2023

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Cathie wood and Ophelia Snyder join us today, their two companies are at the top of the list for ETF approvals slated for early next year.

Is trad-fi excited? Are we underestimating the scale of this? Will Ethereum ever get an ETF? All these answered and more.

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✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-cathie-wood

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🌐 Layer Zero V2 Launch https://bankless.cc/LayerZeroLabs

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Start 07:13 Joint Product Partnership 15:21 ETP vs ETF 20:25 Existing Products 33:13 How Much Interest Is There? 39:01 Portfolio Allocation and Risk 42:55 What Makes an ETF So Special 48:28 The Value Of Custody 53:27 How Many ETFs Can Get Approved? 58:07 Ethereum ETF in 2024 01:02:17 Did We Get A Fed Pivot? 01:04:10 Outlook For 2024

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Cathie Wood https://twitter.com/CathieDWood

Ophelia Snyder https://twitter.com/OpheliaBSnyder

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ROLLUP: The Inscription Infestation | Solana Flips Ethereum Volume | Restaking Heats Up Dec 22, 2023

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Bankless Weekly Rollup

3rd Week of December, 2023

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0:00 Intro

3:10 David in Argentina

https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1737955700415037856

4:40 Markets

https://www.coingecko.com/en/global-charts

https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary

https://www.coingecko.com/

11:45 Bitwise ETF Commercial

https://twitter.com/BitwiseInvest/status/1736755061127020794

13:50 Phishing Scams

https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/approval-phishing-cryptocurrency-scams-2023/

17:30 Solana Flippens

https://twitter.com/DegenerateNews/status/1735842380257869974

https://x.com/SolanaFloor/status/1737414501610479893

21:00 Celsius vs Ethereum

https://twitter.com/JedBreed/status/1737311679795400788

27:00 Inscriptions Invasions

https://twitter.com/0xCygaar/status/1736581628259107314

https://x.com/0xCygaar/status/1736581694826992071

https://twitter.com/Dogetoshi/status/1736813432983130186

https://dune.com/hildobby/inscriptions

https://twitter.com/BFreshHB/status/1735837409336520935

https://twitter.com/hkalodner/status/1735768514433032432

https://mempool.space/

33:20 Gary Gensler and the SEC

https://twitter.com/GaryGensler/status/1735686262625902968

https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-coinbase-petition-121523

35:30 Coinbase Super PAC

https://twitter.com/iampaulgrewal/status/1735716481541996640

https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1736714975152869845

https://www.standwithcrypto.org/

37:20 Elizabeth Warren Strikes Back

https://theblockchainassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Sen.-Warren-Letter-to-CEO-Kristin-Smith.pdf

https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1737119021483557347

https://twitter.com/CampbellJAustin/status/1737132781015114003

44:00 EigenLayer 1 Billion TVL

https://twitter.com/eigenlayer/status/1737516837506851207

https://restaking.nethermind.io/

https://x.com/sreeramkannan/status/1737550720092840385

https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1736903040605794511

45:50 zkSync Hyperchain

https://twitter.com/zksync/status/1735297361251897405

46:20 Celestia on Arbitrum Orbit

https://twitter.com/CelestiaOrg/status/1737156267645546650

https://x.com/jackmelnick_/status/1737540854477173065

47:45 Solana Phone

https://x.com/solanamobile/status/1735835498025832651

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=solana+saga&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1

https://x.com/MKBHD/status/1737501717808185544

50:50 3AC Assets Frozen

https://www.theblock.co/post/268758/bvi-court-freezes-three-arrows-capital-founders-1-billion-in-assets

51:35 Solana Hacker Guilty

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-security-engineer-international-technology-company-pleads-guilty-hacking-two

https://blockworks.co/news/nirvana-hacker-pleads-guilty

52:40 MEME of the Week

https://twitter.com/iiintimus/status/1735630582904721425

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Jito's Impact on Solana with CEO Lucas Bruder Dec 20, 2023

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This is an exploration of Jito, the Solana validator client, the staked Solana token JITOSOL, and MEV optimization engine.

The recent Jito airdrop show the whole industry as millions of dollars in value flooded into the Solana ecosystem.

Joining us today is Lucas Bruder from the Jito team to walk us through the basics and nuances of this multifaceted project.

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0:00 Intro 6:00 Jito Airdrop 8:45 What is Jito 12:00 Staking and Decentralization 17:20 MEV Optimization 25:20 Fees and Failed Transactions 33:20 JITOSOL 37:00 Solana Economics 42:00 Staking vs JITOSOL 45:40 Ethereum vs Solana 53:30 Jito Governance 59:15 Stakenet 1:05:40 Solana Governance 1:09:40 Choosing Solana 1:13:30 A Successful Network

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Lucas Bruder https://x.com/buffalu__?s=20

Jito Labs https://www.jito.wtf/

Explorer https://explorer.jito.wtf/

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