Exploring DeFi Innovations and Tools

3rd Week of March 2022

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------ Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

4:00 MARKETS 4:25 BTC Price 5:05 ETH Price 6:55 ETH/BTC Ratio 11:50 $BED https://www.indexcoop.com/bed 

12:15 FED WATCH https://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-powell-sees-the-light-and-turns-far-more-hawkish-than-expected-11647468210  24:05 ETH Gas https://dune.xyz/hildobby/Gas  26:05 VISA vs. ETH Volume https://twitter.com/blockworks_/status/1503343966057545729  27:15 Hold or Sell Airdrops? https://thedefiant.io/messari-airdrops-112-profit-selling/  27:50 A Brief History https://twitter.com/justintrimble/status/1504262012255318018  29:50 Rotatooooooooorrrss - 3ArrowsCapital https://twitter.com/btcinchina/status/1504339901264777218  30:45 Terra Do Kwon 34:45 Terra Bet by Do Kwon https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1503264558160375810 

40:40 RELEASES 41:05 Stripe Now Supports Crypto https://twitter.com/collision/status/1501961880289480704  45:00 Aave v3 is Here https://twitter.com/AaveAave/status/1504137636105043971  47:20 Alchemix v2 https://twitter.com/scupytrooples/status/1503751703019110410  49:55 Coinbase Tests Fee-Free Trading https://blockworks.co/coinbase-rolls-out-test-of-no-fee-trading/ 

57:02 RAISES 57:05 ConsenSys $450M at $7B Valuation https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/15/450m-raise-values-ethereum-builder-consensys-at-7b-as-metamask-tops-30m-users/  https://twitter.com/ConsenSys/status/1503748099885477897  58:28 Optimism x A16z https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/money-long-team-strong-8526c6943fd7  59:55 StarkWare $6B Valuation https://twitter.com/Darrenlautf/status/1501863868502396928  1:00:15 Solana Marketplace, Magic Eden $27M https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/14/solana-based-nft-marketplace-magic-eden-raises-27m-series-a/  1:01:37 Aptos is Expanding https://medium.com/aptoslabs/expanding-the-aptos-community-38c5b18a84b7 

1:05:14 JOBS https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs  1:06:04 Talent Collective https://bankless.pallet.com/talent/welcome 

1:06:50 NEWS / ETH 1:06:55 Don’t Sleep on the Merge https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/dont-sleep-on-the-merge-lite  1:12:50 IT BROKE! https://hackmd.io/@prysmaticlabs/HyZqgTA-c  1:19:10 Rocketpool https://twitter.com/Rocket_Pool/status/1501796795365867524 

1:21:28 L222 1:21:30 How Do Rollups Decentralize? https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/our-pragmatic-path-to-decentralization-cb5805ca43c1  1:25:18 Optimism Cannon https://twitter.com/optimismPBC/status/1501624172581064704 

1:27:20 NFTs 1:27:23 Yuga Labs 1:27:25 Biggest NFT M&A Deal? https://twitter.com/yugalabs/status/1502420714527334406  1:33:30 Great Summary From William Peaster https://metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/bored-apes-cryptopunks-the-big-ideas  1:35:00 $APE Coin https://twitter.com/apecoin/status/1504201556165644298  1:37:23 NFTX Milked: “FlashMint” https://twitter.com/wilburforce_/status/1504437189979119622  1:39:15 NFTs Coming to Instagram https://decrypt.co/95209/nfts-are-coming-to-instagram-says-meta-ceo 

1:40:40 REGULATION / TRADEFI / MACRO 1:40:35 Congress Come Get Ya Boi… https://twitter.com/RepTomEmmer/status/1504117933395619846  1:42:46 EU Votes Down Anti-PoW Clause https://twitter.com/paddi_hansen/status/1503383993391194115  1:43:47 Saudi Arabia Considers Yuan?  https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-considers-accepting-yuan-instead-of-dollars-for-chinese-oil-sales-1164735154  1:44:56 Future Regulation in South Korea? Win! https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/137172/yoon-suk-yeol-who-pledged-to-deregulate-south-koreas-crypto-sector-wins-presidential-election 

1:49:10 TAKES 1:49:39 Some Ponzis Are Scams https://twitter.com/avifelman/status/1502400594245423105  1:51:14 Pay or Go Away https://twitter.com/iamdcinvestor/status/1503014777475502083  1:54:12 Diversification For the Weak https://twitter.com/ryansadams/status/1504081408968601600 

1:56:36 What David’s Excited About 157:58 What Ryan’s Excited About

2:00:12 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/ultrasoundmoney/status/1503684172438773765 

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