ROLLUP: ETH CC Paris | BED Index | Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, Cathie Wood & Bitcoin (3rd Week of July)
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Exploring New Gateways in the Cryptocurrency Landscape
This chapter covers the latest advancements in cryptocurrency exchanges, specifically OKEx's support for Polygon mainnet transactions. It highlights the growing accessibility of the crypto ecosystem and uses a metaphor comparing Ethereum and layer two solutions to illustrate users' expanding options.
3rd Week of July
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
2:20 MARKETS 2:32 BTC Price 3:20 ETH Price 5:25 Google Search Trends https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-7e2 8:18 Market Cycles https://twitter.com/LilMoonLambo/status/1417483927132987403?s=20 11:00 ETH/BTC Ratio 12:20 DeFi Action 13:22 Institutional Demand Bad: https://cointelegraph.com/news/institutional-demand-for-bitcoin-evaporates-as-btc-struggles-below-31k Good: https://blockworks.co/fidelity-71-of-institutional-investors-plan-to-buy-crypto/?oly_enc_id=9918E2523689A0T 17:00 UNI Token https://twitter.com/tokenterminal/status/1404045729560150017?s=20
21:00 RELEASES 22:00 BED Index https://www.tokensets.com/v2/set/ethereum/0x2aF1dF3AB0ab157e1E2Ad8F88A7D04fbea0c7dc6 25:07 SushiSwap Trident https://twitter.com/Blockanalia/status/1417460991940571136?s=20 Rivalry: https://twitter.com/josephdelong/status/1391083986181525508?s=20 28:48 ETH Issuance Model https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1416022071914729473?s=20 31:35 Yearn Risk Dashboard https://twitter.com/bantg/status/1416103246670749698?s=21 34:15 Grayscale DeFi https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/07/19/2264846/0/en/Grayscale-Investments-and-CoinDesk-Indexes-Launch-Decentralized-Finance-DeFi-Fund-and-Index.html 37:12 OKEx Polygon https://twitter.com/JayHao8/status/1415214114654224385?s=20 38:45 Axe DogeSpray https://twitter.com/AXE/status/1417175117440995328 40:26 Immutable - IMX https://twitter.com/Immutable/status/1418032781343428613 42:11 Visor Finance Raise https://twitter.com/VisorFinance/status/1417093827295334400?s=20 43:56 OpenSea Raise https://twitter.com/theblock__/status/1417462989888835584?s=21 45:03 FTX Valued at $18B https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-exchange-ftx-valued-at-18-billion-in-funding-round-11626800455 46:13 Jobs https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs
47:00 NEWS 47:20 The B Word Conference https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/112158/elon-musk-says-spacex-owns-bitcoin-and-he-owns-ethereum-in-jack-dorsey-talk 49:30 ETH Settling $8T https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1415737374194249729?s=20 52:22 Decentralizing Maker https://blog.makerdao.com/makerdao-has-come-full-circle/ Legacy: https://twitter.com/RyanWatkins_/status/1417626182875586563?s=20 57:29 Infinite Garden Doc https://twitter.com/ljxie/status/1416202730687717377 58:38 Masterpiece https://masterpiece.so/ 59:18 Jack, BTC, Square https://cointelegraph.com/news/defi-on-bitcoin-jack-dorsey-launches-new-square-division-to-make-it-easy 1:01:20 USDC & Mastercard https://www.circle.com/blog/mastercard-taps-circle-for-usdc-settlement-pilot What’s in USDC: https://cointelegraph.com/news/auditors-reveal-usdc-backing-as-jim-cramer-sounds-alarm-over-tether-s-mad-money 1:04:34 Tether https://www.coindesk.com/tether-executives-cnbc-tech-check 1:07:30 New Jersey & BlockFi https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1417499622319210508?s=20 1:09:15 Binance Ditching Stock Tokens https://www.reuters.com/world/china/binance-stops-selling-stock-tokens-after-regulatory-scrutiny-2021-07-16/
1:11:00 TAKES 1:12:00 2018 Bear Feels? https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi/status/1415988858039062528?s=20 1:17:45 First New Asset Class https://twitter.com/QwQiao/status/1417081872467771397?s=20 1:18:20 Jake’s Concerned https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1417928217550376960?s=20 1:20:58 100k Blocks Left https://twitter.com/preston_vanloon/status/1417551852577624077?s=20 1:21:47 Deflationary? https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1415758024321372161 1:23:53 Vitalik Take https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E60ss3QWQAAZ3GY?format=jpg&name=large 1:27:45 David Take https://twitter.com/trustlessstate/status/1417886459907002376?s=21
1:29:00 What David’s Excited About 1:31:58 What Ryan’s Excited About
1:34:30 Meme of the Week
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