NFTs and Regulation: Market Dynamics Unpacked

Bankless Weekly Rollup Last Week of February 2023

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0:00 Intro 4:33 Markets 6:18 Total Crypto Market Cap 6:28 FOMC minutes https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20230222a.htm  7:43 ETH Burn take https://ultrasound.money/  https://twitter.com/data_always/status/1626397473559261186  

12:10 Arbitrum Hot https://twitter.com/purplepill3m/status/1628205181836963841   https://twitter.com/BFreshHB/status/1628211402174345219   13:55 Coinbase Q4 earnings  https://twitter.com/moosecryptos/status/1628191828569735168  

17:57 Base https://twitter.com/BuildOnBase/status/1628759581353549825   33:45 Apps on the move https://twitter.com/MacroMate8/status/1628762951435051008   34:20 Jesse Tweet https://twitter.com/jessepollak/status/1628765413289996288  

35:55 SEC Sues Terraform Labs and Do Kwon  https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-sues-do-kwon-and-terraform-labs-for-fraud  https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/02/17/4-huge-revelations-in-the-secs-charges-against-do-kwon-and-terraform-labs/   https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1627662054722097157   https://twitter.com/cyounessi1/status/1627881740290097153   https://twitter.com/MikeSeligEsq/status/1626976949766684675  

49:05 Spotify rolling out token gating https://twitter.com/apoorvlathey/status/1628496224818184192   51:51 The Shapella network upgrade scheduled https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1628145316271894528  52:32 Flashbots announced MEV Shares  https://twitter.com/bertcmiller/status/1625878260025380865  54:30 Layoffs https://www.theblock.co/post/213586/polygon-labs-cuts-staff-by-20-in-consolidation  https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1628316333015179264  

55:44 NBA Top Shot Moments  NFTs May Be Securities https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/22/nbas-top-shot-nfts-may-be-securities-judge-rules-in-dapper-labs-case/  57:15 OpenSea pushing back to Blur  https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1626682043655507969  

59:35 BTC https://twitter.com/paddi_hansen/status/1628002503932657664  

1:01:53 Regulation Caitlin Long’s shame on Washington https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1626661344316473346   1:03:35 Jesse Powell https://twitter.com/jespow/status/1626744111498940417   https://twitter.com/jespow/status/1627415364111040513  

1:06:20 Collab.land launching COLLAB token  https://twitter.com/Collab_Land_/status/1626253185210884101   1:07:08 Superfluid Vesting just went live  https://www.superfluid.finance/post/Superfluid-Vesting-Liquid-Composable-Vesting-Solution  1:08:10 Phi raised a $2M seed round https://twitter.com/phi_xyz/status/1626642707597910016 

1:10:17 Jobs https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs

1:13:00 Questions from the Nation

1:1:21:50 Elon Musk https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1628086895686168613    1:25:08 Frank DeGods https://twitter.com/frankdegods/status/1626132578020528128   1:25:45 When shilling tokens is justified https://twitter.com/trustlessstate/status/1626359069547065347   1:27:45 “Can you stop people from being dumb?” https://twitter.com/0xEdgar/status/1626363432743190530   1:30:12 Web2 vs Web3 me https://twitter.com/pacmanblur/status/1628223367487848451  

1:31:04 What David’s Bullish On 1:32:08 What Ryan’s Bullish On

1:35:55 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/autismcapital/status/1626708728019046400  

1:37:08 Risks & Disclaimers

1:37:23 Moment of Zen The Ballad of Alexey by El-Coco-No https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/81421613810573034294030626655533735961574085130976774099250220325335449207784  

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