Layer 2 Innovations and Retail's Shift to Meme Coins

Bankless Weekly Rollup 2nd Week of March, 2024

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TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES

0:00 Intro

7:48 Markets 9:00 Bitcoin’s market cap surpassed Silver this week https://companiesmarketcap.com/assets-by-market-cap/  https://twitter.com/robustus/status/1767164377969340419  https://l2beat.com/scaling/data-availability 

18:09 Movers of the Week - Memecoins? https://twitter.com/econoar/status/1767170724446552159  https://twitter.com/blknoiz06/status/1766680047547494658  https://twitter.com/FTI_DA/status/1767969299350610040  https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1766827037149343951 

26:40 U.S. CPI rose faster than expected last month https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/cpi-inflation-report-february-2024-.html  26:58 Why are DeFi rates so high? https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1766326070545162321  https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1766669255100055866      https://twitter.com/ethena_labs/status/1768023077932380257 

29:33 ETF Watch! https://dune.com/hildobby/btc-etfs  https://dune.com/queries/3382000/5674971      https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1768022702294470855  https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1767206535879389332  https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1767175990285857006  https://x.com/jchervinsky/status/1767187618876305628  https://x.com/orb_land/status/1767278815791722629 

38:28 Blobs arrived to Mainnet, L2 Fees plummet!  https://x.com/parithosh_j/status/1767973626987606190  https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1767913396777767361  https://twitter.com/sproule_/status/1767960271853686879  https://twitter.com/zksync/status/1767983026443579448  https://twitter.com/argenthq/status/1767917028013224370  https://x.com/Optimism/status/1768090982862803203  https://twitter.com/liamihorne/status/1768068293787615288  https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1768091017021116562  https://twitter.com/jessepollak/status/1768071129854562698  https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1768074308482400556  https://x.com/js_horne/status/1768075186824163698  https://fees-growthepie.streamlit.app/  https://x.com/arbitrum/status/1767912321618505954  https://dune.com/0xRob/blobs  https://twitter.com/liamihorne/status/1767962414312521844  https://x.com/lightclients/status/1767957828969349148  https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1768243873430552801  https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1762589707756548566 

1:01:59 Swell announced their Restaked Rollup  https://twitter.com/swellnetworkio/status/1767889656451047505 

1:03:00 Tensor introduced the TNSR token https://twitter.com/TensorFdn/status/1767616700609171508 

1:03:25 Jito is getting rid of Mempool?!  https://twitter.com/jito_labs/status/1766228889888514501  https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/03/08/solana-client-developer-jito-announces-end-of-mempool-function/  https://twitter.com/smyyguy/status/1766234020076011865  https://twitter.com/jon_charb/status/1765923336138211353 

1:08:59 Saylor has no chill https://x.com/MEMECOETH/status/1767690213877252485 

1:10:18 Raises and BVC Investments  https://twitter.com/EclipseFND/status/1767212277285969979  https://twitter.com/clique2046/status/1768277734113907127 

1:12:27 David demo signing up for it while RSA highlights https://open.spotify.com/show/1y0zqrWsFxmCYcTnV7ExUn  We recently celebrated 4 years https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1768269073354231826 

1:14:22 MEME of the Week Name kids after what you love https://x.com/abbeyjazzy/status/1767890031824216551 

1:15:27 Moment of Zen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5if2hthPCs  

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