Base Launch and the Future of Layer 2 Solutions

Bankless Weekly Rollup 1st Week of July 2023

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------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES

0:00 Intro 

4:20 Markets  

22:50 NFT winter has come  https://twitter.com/hosseeb/status/1675925861030334465  https://twitter.com/asvanevik/status/1675745010191601664  https://twitter.com/waleswoosh/status/1673781004031361025  https://nftpricefloor.com/  https://twitter.com/loopifyyy/status/1675517840542056448  https://twitter.com/avichal/status/1676090350291816448 

37:50 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Bitcoin Could ‘Revolutionize Finance’ https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1676685754922151941  https://twitter.com/thekriskay/status/1676686395862024195  https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-says-spot-bitcoin-etf-filings-are-inadequate-390336e8  Eric Balchunas https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1674777296438165505 

47:35 Is Gary resigning?  https://www.thecryptoalert.com/post/sec-sources-confirm-gary-gensler-resignation  Should Gary be actually resigning?  https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1674464911714398229 

58:12 Cameron Winklevoss sent a final offer to Barry Silbert  https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1676024844641550337 

Base 1:05:30 https://twitter.com/BuildOnBase/status/1674543151388966912 

1:10:00 L2s keep improving - Impact of Bedrock update  https://twitter.com/OPLabsPBC/status/1674823794949603350 

1:15:00 Polygon 2.0 architecture -  ZK-Based protocol architecture https://twitter.com/0xPolygonLabs/status/1674538238835343361 

1:17:30 Can Solana become an L2? https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko/status/1675146337174843392 

1:21:00 Vitalik’s AMA on Tau Day   https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1674017688300011520 

1:23:15 RFK wants to make holding Bitcoin an inviolable right as a President  https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1673812201457479681 

1:25:55 Belarus banning peer-to-peer crypto transactions https://www.theblock.co/post/237523/belarus-wants-to-ban-peer-to-peer-crypto-transactions  https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1676606907233054721 

1:33:34 Questions from the Nation

1:37:45 Takes https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1676920622415245312  https://twitter.com/rss_d4/status/1675220831461335042  https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1675955239466196992 

1:50:50 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/zengjiajun_eth/status/1675677672566030336 

1:52:00 Daily Gwei  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvCp6vKY5jDr87htKH6hgDA 

1:54:30 Closing & Disclaimers 

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