Crypto Market Liquidity Is Drying Up

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Last week, a theme was liquidity is drying. It's a desert out there because liquidity is drying out in crypto markets. Marketmakers need a way to settle instantly with counterparty. Silver gate and signature had SEM, Senn and Signet, their interbank instant settlement layer between banks that marketmakers would use.

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0:00 Intro

2:55 MARKETS 5:00 ETH Staking Update https://www.theblock.co/data/on-chain-metrics/ethereum/cumulative-eth-deposited-to-beacon-chain-and-validators Monitor: https://validator-queue-monitoring.vercel.app/ 7:00 Macro Market Trends https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/15/paul-tudor-jones-says-the-fed-is-done-raising-rates-stocks-to-finish-the-year-higher-from-here.html 11:20 Liquidity Drying Up https://twitter.com/ramahluwalia/status/1657924211770380290 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbr8965IYfo&t=3830s 13:30 The Bore Market https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1656857007385894912 14:50 The Promise of Crypto https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1659177889428914177 16:30 Layer Two Activity https://l2beat.com/scaling/tvl

21:30 What Happened to Ethereum? https://twitter.com/0x_Osprey/status/1659019122548830209 24:40 Client Diversity https://clientdiversity.org/#why 27:15 Not a Monolith https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1657316158729494528 29:30 Block Reorgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkMjcqVEARc

33:15 Is Ledger Safe? https://www.ledger.com/recover 36:30 Ledger Comms https://twitter.com/Ledger_Support/status/1658892462440456192 40:10 Canceling Ledger https://twitter.com/oklahodl1/status/1658580508320620546 https://twitter.com/0xfoobar/status/1658460603831263232 https://twitter.com/Mudit__Gupta/status/1658368265687556097 https://twitter.com/hosseeb/status/1658740433361702913 43:25 Did They Do Anything Wrong? https://twitter.com/0xfoobar/status/1658965272416452609 49:00 Redundancy https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1658788949165322242

51:00 Coinbase vs the SEC https://twitter.com/MetaLawMan/status/1656737447756038177 53:30 Gary Speaks https://twitter.com/ROCKilroy/status/1658206561125146630?s=20 55:00 Summary https://twitter.com/milesjennings/status/1658515975170555904

58:00 Nike Dot Swoosh https://www.swoosh.nike/location 1:01:10 Optimism Bedrock https://twitter.com/optimismFND/status/1658202279147601921 Polynya: https://twitter.com/apolynya/status/1658312190577836032 1:04:05 Worldcoin OP https://worldcoin.org/blog/announcements/worldcoin-commits-optimism-superchain-vision-ahead-mainnet-launch 1:04:55 Lido v2 https://twitter.com/LidoFinance/status/1658195242149879824 1:05:20 PayPal MetaMask https://metamask.io/news/latest/metamask-and-paypal-all-you-need-to-know-about-buying-eth/ 1:06:30 On-Chain Cease & Desist https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1659078481228058624 1:08:00 DRC-20s on Dogecoin https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-ltc-doge.html#3m Doge Maxis: https://twitter.com/938433911/status/1657961759322562560 1:09:45 EU MiCA Just Passed https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/16/digital-finance-council-adopts-new-rules-on-markets-in-crypto-assets-mica/ 1:11:00 Do Kwon Bail https://www.theblock.co/post/230575/do-kwon-bail 1:12:15 Sam Altman Congress https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1658498249727307776

1:19:00 Questions from the Nation

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