Ethereum's Turning Point and DeFi's Impact

3rd Week of September, 2021

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro

1:50 MARKETS 2:10 BTC Price 100W SMA: https://twitter.com/intocryptoverse/status/1437156801850527753?s=21  Golden Cross: https://twitter.com/intocryptoverse/status/1437940127603494917?s=21  WBTC Minting: https://twitter.com/WBTCBot/status/1437581280904876040?s=20 

5:15 ETH Price 5:46 ETH/BTC Ratio 5:59 DeFi Action BED Index: https://www.indexcoop.com/bed  8:18 Layer 2 L2Beat: https://l2beat.com/  Arbitrum: https://twitter.com/Arbitrum2day/status/1437339427806715911  11:35 EIP 1559 Burn: https://ultrasound.money/  Layer 2s: https://twitter.com/dividend_fire/status/1437086130327928836?s=21  14:38 Bridges Connext https://twitter.com/dividend_fire/status/1437086130327928836?s=21  Dashboard https://dune.xyz/eliasimos/Bridge-Away-(from-Ethereum)  17:10 Gitcoin Round 11 https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1435991454392930308 

19:30 RELEASES 20:00 TracerDAO https://bankless.cc/Tracer  22:19 Into the Bytecode https://twitter.com/sinahab/status/1437380863797473280?s=20  23:08 Optimism Limit Increase https://twitter.com/optimismPBC/status/1437437368303329289  23:54 Zapper https://twitter.com/zapper_fi/status/1437884287756509193?s=20  25:26 Raises Coinbase: https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1437387327505108992? s=20Steve Cohen: https://decrypt.co/80825/billionaire-steve-cohen-nft-startup-recur-50-million-series-a  Immutable: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/117620/nft-scaling-startup-immutable-raises-60-million-in-series-b-funding  29:56 Jobs https://jobs.banklesshq.com/ 

29:59 NEWS 31:09 Solana Outage https://twitter.com/SolanaStatus/status/1437856638279487493?s=20  33:48 Arbitrum Went Down https://medium.com/offchainlabs/arbitrum-one-outage-report-d365b24d49c  34:45 A Tale of Two Outages Arbitrum: https://twitter.com/krzKaczor/status/1437862946948980741?s=20  Was it Down? https://twitter.com/dzack23/status/1437923828391424005?s=21  41:10 Takes Hudson: https://twitter.com/hudsonjameson/status/1438038974946283530?s=21  Kyle Samani: https://twitter.com/KyleSamani/status/1437882572801970177?s=20  Gavin Wood: https://twitter.com/gavofyork/status/1437880885676855297?s=21  54:26 Ethereum Failed Attack https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/117637/unsuccessful-attack-on-ethereum-managed-to-trick-a-few-nodes  56:25 EY & Polygon https://twitter.com/0xPolygon/status/1437881362887946251  58:46 Vitalik top 100 https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6095980/vitalik-buterin/  59:50 Opensea Drama https://twitter.com/ZuwuTV/status/1437921263394115584?s=19  1:03:50 Arbitrum NFT Market https://twitter.com/Agusx1211/status/1437823065564631045  1:04:55 Bored Apes in Sothebys https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/116715/collection-of-bored-ape-nfts-break-sothebys-estimates-with-3-days-to-go  1:05:45 Fidelity BTC ETF https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-14/fidelity-pushed-for-bitcoin-etf-approval-in-private-sec-meeting  1:07:00 Microstrategy Buys https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1437395735180419077?s=20  1:07:40 Elizabeth Warren & Gary Gensler https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/117651/elizabeth-warren-and-gary-gensler-place-coinbase-in-oversight-crosshairs 

1:14:00 TAKES 1:15:00 David’s Punk https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1437898773171032064?s=20  1:18:25 Scale and Build https://twitter.com/scott_lew_is/status/1435951889183612933  1:19:44 Hollowing Out Banks https://twitter.com/0x_tigerswami/status/1437951680163758081?s=20  1:22:27 Toxic Maxi https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1437975866160476164?s=20 

1:24:35 What David’s Excited About 1:25:30 What Ryan’s Excited About

1:26:24 Meme of the Week https://twitter.com/josephdelong/status/1437253108296474625?s=20 

1:27:42 Closing & Disclaimers

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