The Rise of Ethereum Layer Two Solutions and NFT Celebrity Controversies

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0:00 Intro 2:50 MARKETS 9:15 Fed Rate - No change! (5.25-5.5%) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/20/business/fed-meeting-interest-rates  12:10 U.S. Americans Own Crypto? https://www.coinbase.com/blog/a-call-to-action-mobilizing-52-million-crypto-owners-into-an-army-of-1  15:20 Ethereum’s 1st Merge anniversary!  https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1702629393984803041?s=46  16:25  Bye bye ultra-sound money?  https://ultrasound.money/#gas  17:30 L1 is shrinking, but layer-2 networks are maintaining healthy activity  https://l2beat.com/scaling/activity 

20:39 Are all the chains moving to Ethereum? Rollup Migration to Ethereum - 3 New Ethereum Rollups coming from non-Ethereum ecosystems 21:00 1.1 - Astar Network  Sandeep Take  https://twitter.com/sandeepnailwal/status/1701990949319254345  23:00 1.2 - Canto https://twitter.com/CantoPublic/status/1703809950290718871  24:00 1.3 - Eclipse  https://twitter.com/EclipseFND/status/1704178668543824309  27:35 Ryan Take https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1703882356468117703  28:40 Mert Take https://x.com/0xMert_/status/1704229795079365101  30:00 Frankie Take https://twitter.com/frankieislost/status/1704262750405587248 

37:58 SEC is coming after the Stoner Cats - Gary. V. Cats https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-178 https://x.com/MikeSeligEsq/status/1701978172487606665  https://twitter.com/loopifyyy/status/1701966597445874124  44:00 Hester Pierce Dissented! - Chief Disenting Officer https://twitter.com/NFTherder/status/1702057933389836293  46:25 SEC warns more charges coming to exchanges and DeFi  https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/09/19/us-secs-crypto-enforcement-chief-warns-more-charges-coming-to-exchanges-defi/

49:13 New Airdrop! Optimism also announced OP Airdrop #3 https://twitter.com/optimismFND/status/1703837786703335672  50:10 POL Token is coming! MATIC becoming POL. Polygon 2.0 implementation kicked off!  51:00 https://twitter.com/0xPolygonLabs/status/1702280764677578755  1st PIPs: MATIC to POL and launch of Polygon’s new staking layer!  https://polygon.technology/blog/polygon-2-0-implementation-officially-begins-the-first-set-of-pips-polygon-improvement-proposals-released  51:25 Arbitrum is restarting Odyssey  https://twitter.com/arbitrum/status/1704173003825615353  52:10 Conduit opening Support for Arbitrum:  https://x.com/KAndrewHuang/status/1704848429883732256 

53:18 Coinbase earned 570 ETH of MEV as a result of Curve hack. Should they return it? https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/09/15/coinbase-inadvertently-earned-1m-due-to-hack-but-hasnt-reimbursed-victims/? 

57:10 Is Ethereum finally getting a privacy L2? Maybe soon? https://twitter.com/aztecnetwork/status/1704433376525242474 

58:25 Infura in its progressive decentralization era https://blog.infura.io/post/progressive-decentralization-of-the-rpc-layer-centralization-to-federation? 

59:10 FTX sues SBF’s parents - eating their own aims to claw back some of the $26 million in gifts and property https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.2642.0.pdf  https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/19/sbfs-parents-sued-by-ftx-for-millions-of-dollars-in-misappropriated-funds.html 

1:00:30 Mark Cuban lost $870,000 in a wallet hack - everyone’s getting hacked https://twitter.com/WazzCrypto/status/1702820716343624168 

1:03:38 New ETH ETFs  https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1701612412456280467  1:03:45 Grayscale ETH Futures ETF https://cointelegraph.com/news/grayscale-files-for-new-ethereum-futures-etf 

1:06:25 Questions From The Nation

1:15:30 Takes https://x.com/matthuang/status/1704608186723119329  https://www.paradigm.xyz/2023/09/casino-on-mars  Where do you store your wealth?  https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1703986421378245024 

1:19:50 What Are We Bullish On https://www.bankless.com/choose-your-bull-market-character-class 

1:24:55 Meme of the Week   1:26:15 Risks and Disclosures

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