MakerDAO’s Transition and DeFi Challenges

3rd Week of July

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0:00 Intro

2:20 MARKETS 2:32 BTC Price 3:20 ETH Price 5:25 Google Search Trends https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-7e2  8:18 Market Cycles https://twitter.com/LilMoonLambo/status/1417483927132987403?s=20  11:00 ETH/BTC Ratio 12:20 DeFi Action 13:22 Institutional Demand Bad: https://cointelegraph.com/news/institutional-demand-for-bitcoin-evaporates-as-btc-struggles-below-31k  Good: https://blockworks.co/fidelity-71-of-institutional-investors-plan-to-buy-crypto/?oly_enc_id=9918E2523689A0T  17:00 UNI Token https://twitter.com/tokenterminal/status/1404045729560150017?s=20 

21:00 RELEASES 22:00 BED Index https://www.tokensets.com/v2/set/ethereum/0x2aF1dF3AB0ab157e1E2Ad8F88A7D04fbea0c7dc6  25:07 SushiSwap Trident https://twitter.com/Blockanalia/status/1417460991940571136?s=20  Rivalry: https://twitter.com/josephdelong/status/1391083986181525508?s=20  28:48 ETH Issuance Model https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1416022071914729473?s=20  31:35 Yearn Risk Dashboard https://twitter.com/bantg/status/1416103246670749698?s=21  34:15 Grayscale DeFi https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/07/19/2264846/0/en/Grayscale-Investments-and-CoinDesk-Indexes-Launch-Decentralized-Finance-DeFi-Fund-and-Index.html  37:12 OKEx Polygon https://twitter.com/JayHao8/status/1415214114654224385?s=20  38:45 Axe DogeSpray https://twitter.com/AXE/status/1417175117440995328  40:26 Immutable - IMX https://twitter.com/Immutable/status/1418032781343428613  42:11 Visor Finance Raise https://twitter.com/VisorFinance/status/1417093827295334400?s=20  43:56 OpenSea Raise https://twitter.com/theblock__/status/1417462989888835584?s=21  45:03 FTX Valued at $18B https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-exchange-ftx-valued-at-18-billion-in-funding-round-11626800455  46:13 Jobs https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs 

47:00 NEWS 47:20 The B Word Conference https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/112158/elon-musk-says-spacex-owns-bitcoin-and-he-owns-ethereum-in-jack-dorsey-talk  49:30 ETH Settling $8T https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1415737374194249729?s=20  52:22 Decentralizing Maker https://blog.makerdao.com/makerdao-has-come-full-circle/  Legacy: https://twitter.com/RyanWatkins_/status/1417626182875586563?s=20  57:29 Infinite Garden Doc https://twitter.com/ljxie/status/1416202730687717377  58:38 Masterpiece https://masterpiece.so/  59:18 Jack, BTC, Square https://cointelegraph.com/news/defi-on-bitcoin-jack-dorsey-launches-new-square-division-to-make-it-easy  1:01:20 USDC & Mastercard https://www.circle.com/blog/mastercard-taps-circle-for-usdc-settlement-pilot  What’s in USDC: https://cointelegraph.com/news/auditors-reveal-usdc-backing-as-jim-cramer-sounds-alarm-over-tether-s-mad-money  1:04:34 Tether https://www.coindesk.com/tether-executives-cnbc-tech-check  1:07:30 New Jersey & BlockFi https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1417499622319210508?s=20  1:09:15 Binance Ditching Stock Tokens https://www.reuters.com/world/china/binance-stops-selling-stock-tokens-after-regulatory-scrutiny-2021-07-16/ 

1:11:00 TAKES 1:12:00 2018 Bear Feels? https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi/status/1415988858039062528?s=20  1:17:45 First New Asset Class https://twitter.com/QwQiao/status/1417081872467771397?s=20  1:18:20 Jake’s Concerned https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1417928217550376960?s=20  1:20:58 100k Blocks Left https://twitter.com/preston_vanloon/status/1417551852577624077?s=20  1:21:47 Deflationary? https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1415758024321372161  1:23:53 Vitalik Take https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E60ss3QWQAAZ3GY?format=jpg&name=large  1:27:45 David Take https://twitter.com/trustlessstate/status/1417886459907002376?s=21 

1:29:00 What David’s Excited About 1:31:58 What Ryan’s Excited About

1:34:30 Meme of the Week

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