Crypto's Resilience and Controversial Voices

4th Week of May, 2022

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0:00 Intro

4:55 MARKETS 5:00 BTC Price 5:16 ETH Price 5:38 BTC Ratio 8:05 Total Crypto Market Cap https://www.coingecko.com/en/global_charts 

8:23 BEAR 8:35 Rekt ARK https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/1524384920184963072  11:20 OpenSea Volumes December 2021 Levels https://imgur.com/Nw0b10k 

11:33 BULL 11:37 Uniswap Hits $1T Lifetime Trading Volume https://twitter.com/uniswap/status/1529102980296867842  12:32 The ENS Boom https://twitter.com/ensdomains/status/1520920301583822848  13:24 May https://twitter.com/nicksdjohnson/status/1528516461668380672  14:08 New and Returning Users https://twitter.com/nicksdjohnson/status/1528516666643976192  14:25 Read Metaversal https://metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/the-ens-boom-  14:30 Reports from Goldman Sachs & Federal Reserve https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/05/20/goldman-sees-little-us-economic-impact-from-lower-cryptocurrency-prices/  15:25 12% Adults Held Crypto Last Year https://thedefiant.io/fed-survey-crypto/  17:03 Stablecoins as Portion of ERC20s vs. ETH https://imgur.com/ZUSP1wZ 

21:43 NEWS 22:09 Gamestop Wallet https://twitter.com/GameStop/status/1528693604364976129  https://wallet.gamestop.com/wallets  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gamestop-wallet/pkkjjapmlcncipeecdmlhaipahfdphkd  24:50 Terra Relaunching Without Algo-Stablecoin https://twitter.com/terra_money/thread/1529451631263174656  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/148253/korean-police-seek-freeze-on-luna-foundation-guard-assets-kbs  28:20 DeFi Defending Itself 28:35 Story of Frivolous PoolTogether Lawsuit https://twitter.com/lay2000lbs/status/1529827211401842694  30:05 Mint a Pooly https://mint.pooltogether.com/  33:46 Optimism Cracks Down on Airdrop Farmers https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/148417/optimism-cracks-down-on-airdrop-farmers  35:45 Loyalty Coin Season 33:57 Coindesk Launches $DESK https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1528756858307100672  37:39 Revolut’s $Revcoin https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/147768/revoluts-planned-native-token-will-reward-customer-loyalty-storonosky-says  39:05 Tl;dr: https://c.tenor.com/CMsesV7bO7kAAAAC/iasip-its-always-sunny.gif 

40:10 NFTs 40:15 OpenSea Launches Seaport https://beincrypto.com/opensea-launches-web3-nft-seaport-marketplace/  41:38 Seth Green is Down Bad https://twitter.com/morebuttertv/status/1529151981792727040 

43:50 MISC 43:52 Cami Gives Her Book to the Pope https://twitter.com/CamiRusso/status/1527371285835067394  44:23 SBF Could Spend $1B in 2024 Elections https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1529185967705292801 

46:47 JOBS https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs 

49:34 RELEASES 49:40 Tracer DAO Perpetual Pools V2 https://twitter.com/TracerDAO/status/1527289735500247040  51:45 Sense Finance Web3 Yield Curve https://twitter.com/senseprotocol/status/1527334388232466432  https://app.sense.finance/eth-mainnet/pool  https://www.statista.com/statistics/1058454/yield-curve-usa/ 

55:57 RAISES 56:00 a16z Crypto Fund 4 $4.5B https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/25/andreessen-horowitz-raises-4point5-billion-crypto-fund-in-down-market.html  https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/  56:54 Adam Neumann-Backed Flowcarbon $70M a16z https://twitter.com/TheBlock__/status/1529190581133619205  59:12 StarkWare Series D $8B https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd/status/1529454921451458560  59:34 Standard Crypto $500M Fund https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/148537/standard-crypto-raises-new-500-million-fund-axios 

1:02:55 Community Questions https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1529561952648716289  https://twitter.com/MateyNikolov/status/1529569116994080771 

1:13:35 TAKES 1:13:40 Step Aside Disney https://twitter.com/sobylife/status/1527400472251752448  1:14:32 DeFi’s Benefits https://twitter.com/econoar/status/1527873338600611840  1:16:33 UNIchain is Inevitable https://twitter.com/delitzer/status/1528497663607328768  1:21:38 13 Years of Web3 and NFTs Converted https://twitter.com/w3b_eth/status/1528782828481171456 

1:23:25 What David’s Excited About Alfalfa Podcast https://imgur.com/EtRtCpD  https://imgur.com/9XWu0VT  1:24:49 What Ryan’s Excited About https://twitter.com/pythianism/status/1528501361452584960 

1:29:46 Meme of the Week https://twitter.com/cryptoreumd/status/1527706078624063489 

1:30:57 Moment of Zen https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1529899137713549312 

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