TikTok's NFT Revolution and DeFi Insights

1st Week of October, 2021

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 6:10 Markets 6:20 BTC Price 6:53 ETH Price 7:55 ETH/BTC Ratio 9:54 DeFi Action 12:35 Layer 2 https://l2beat.com/ 13:58 EIP 1559 https://twitter.com/yugacohler/status/1445465542882594820?s=20 17:30 Settling Value https://twitter.com/RyanWatkins_/status/1445020156984537092?s=20 19:49 Zapper Monthly Active Users https://twitter.com/sebaudet26/status/1445222731058974721?s=20 20:29 Q3 Breakdown https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-846

27:00 RELEASES 28:00 Axie DEX https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/119283/axie-infinity-is-launching-a-decentralized-exchange 30:01 Context https://twitter.com/context/status/1444038168739602435 https://context.app/feed/cryptopunks

31:51 Lido Dashboard ​​https://twitter.com/LidoFinance/status/1445712382827716612?s=20 33:04 Clean DAI https://twitter.com/RuneKek/status/1445072416598859781?s=20 36:01 State of the DAOs https://banklessdao.substack.com/p/state-of-the-daos-0-oct-6th-2021 36:57 Raises Axie: https://www.techinasia.com/axie-infinity-developer-raise-150m-andreessen-horowitzled Ramp: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/119386/warsaw-based-crypto-startup-ramp-hits-300-million-valuation-in-series-a-raise-sources 39:21 Jobs https://jobs.banklesshq.com/

41:26 NEWS 41:36 TikTok NFTs

https://twitter.com/Immutable/status/1443621824651149312?s=20

https://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/54381/1/lil-nas-x-is-fronting-tiktok-s-debut-nft-collection

43:48 Société Générale & Maker https://twitter.com/runekek/status/1443703869414989824?s=21 45:30 Facebook Down https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1445130867073032195?s=21 50:31 ETH Merge Updates https://twitter.com/dannyryan/status/1445384777989869570 https://twitter.com/sajidazouarhi/status/1445773328334016519?s=20 https://twitter.com/ajsutton/status/1445264669283733506?s=20 53:24 RocketPool Close Call https://twitter.com/stakewise_io/status/1445475001696620550?s=20 54:48 Connext https://twitter.com/ConnextNetwork/status/1445429803637776397?s=20 56:47 Modular Blockchains https://twitter.com/epolynya/status/1445627660156030978?s=20 https://twitter.com/epolynya/status/1445862981204537347?s=20 1:03:08 SolRazr IDO https://medium.com/@SolRazr_App/update-on-solrazrs-ido-5903ea4f81c4 1:06:58 Bank of America Report https://twitter.com/DocumentEther/status/14452964149767413781:07:41 CryptoToadz https://decrypt.co/82564/ethereum-nft-market-opensea-record-cryptoadz-sales-surge 1:08:58 Soros & BTC https://twitter.com/TheBlock__/status/1445709388056915968?s=20

1:09:35 Tax Loophole https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/wash-sale-rules-could-apply-to-bitcoin-and-ethereum-in-spending-bill.html 1:11:20 Regulating Stablecoins https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-seeks-to-regulate-stablecoin-issuers-as-banks-11633103156?page=1 1:12:13 SEC Investigating Circle https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1445194700441391105?s=21 1:15:39 Quick News Powell: https://twitter.com/Blockworks_/status/1443612299584024582?s=20 BitGo: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/119751/bitgo-exec-corporates-are-asking-weekly-to-add-bitcoin-to-their-balance-sheet Utopia Labs: https://twitter.com/utopialabs_/status/1443974562467631105?s=20 RICKS: https://twitter.com/_Dave__White_/status/1445787515848253455?s=20

1:18:30 TAKES 1:19:30 5-10 Year Thesis https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1445195117627797506?s=20 1:23:18 After Hours https://twitter.com/joelallouz/status/1445547333182103555?s=21 1:23:58 Source of Truth https://twitter.com/trustlessstate/status/1445602552205099009?s=21

1:24:55 The Stapler https://twitter.com/nanexcool/status/1445950706561830913?s=20 1:25:42 Blockchain Trends https://twitter.com/awrigh01/status/1445495850730278912?s=20 1:26:44 Modular Blockchains https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1445897530517049351?s=20 1:27:44 Vortex of Value https://twitter.com/AminCad/status/1444612109430505473?s=20

1:29:45 What David’s Excited About 1:31:03 What Ryan’s Excited About

1:37:54 MEME(s) OF THE WEEK https://twitter.com/nansen_ai/status/1446016393174917127?s=20

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/q1t5qk/the_merge_is_coming/

https://twitter.com/benjaminion_xyz/status/1445778153809453059?s=20

Moment of Zen

https://twitter.com/poltrackrr/status/1445099550071480320?s=20

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