Optimism and Ethereum Upgrades

Bankless Weekly Rollup 2nd Week of June 2023 

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------ Topics Covered

1:09 MARKETS

6:29 Are we at a Local High?

9:25 Ethereum Validator Queue

12:52 CEX Volume Stats https://www.theblock.co/data/crypto-markets/spot/usd-support-exchange-volume-market-share  

17:23 Gary Gensler on CNBC https://youtu.be/VKxXdUvMqAc?t=277 

19:28 SEC Sues Binance US https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-101  https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-103  https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/07/binance-lawyers-say-sec-chair-gensler-offered-to-be-advisor-in-2019.html 

26:13 SEC Sues Coinbase https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-102  https://twitter.com/MikeSeligEsq/status/1666063676145819648?s=20 

31:34 Can Gary Get Away With This?

33:51 Cypherpunks Take https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer/status/1666077587792166914?s=20  https://twitter.com/jack/status/1666078896327122946?s=20 

38:39 Optimism Bedrock! https://twitter.com/optimismFND/status/1666155844776361985?s=20  https://twitter.com/jessepollak/status/1664349169073414147 

41:47 Arbitrum Ran Out Of Gas https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/arbitrum-came-to-a-halt-as-its-sequencer-ran-out-of-gas/ 

43:42 ETH Validator Proposal https://ethresear.ch/t/increase-the-max-effective-balance-a-modest-proposal/15801 

49:22 ENS Upgrades https://twitter.com/nicksdjohnson/status/1666368619876327424  https://www.my.box/

51:29 Rocketpool on zkSync Era https://twitter.com/Rocket_Pool/status/1664276628468547587 

52:58 Pooltogether Case Dismissed https://twitter.com/lay2000lbs/status/1666532463428943875?s=20 

56:12 Questions From The Nation https://discord.com/channels/615592155481767941/1058053004705669211/1114707321000562738  https://discord.com/channels/615592155481767941/1058053004705669211/1115619057593495552 

1:03:12 Takes Of The Week https://twitter.com/zmanian/status/1658152508571697152?s=46  https://twitter.com/dankrad/status/1664958413829185536?s=46  https://twitter.com/FEhrsam/status/1665796974346420224?s=20  https://twitter.com/qaatani9/status/1664292528655413250?s=20 

1:10:28 What Are We Bullish On?

1:14:05 Get More Of Anthony

1:15:29 Meme Of The Week https://twitter.com/pseudotheos/status/1665730241845944331?s=46 

1:16:15 Risks And Disclaimers

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