3rd Week of August 2021

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0:00 Intro

1:26 MARKETS 1:36 BTC Price 2:05 ETH Price 2:40 ETH/BTC Ratio 3:38 DeFi Action 7:28 Layer 2 Action https://l2beat.com/ 9:55 EIP 1559 is Burning ETH https://ultrasound.money/ 12:53 Gas Price Volatility https://twitter.com/takenstheorem/status/1427130936940851201?s=21 16:55 NFT Monthy Volumes https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1427432022109216775?s=21 Opensea vs. Etsy https://twitter.com/xanderatallah/status/1427453596858294272?s=20

21:00 RELEASES 22:00 1inch on Optimism https://www.coindesk.com/defis-1inch-network-launches-on-ethereum-scaling-platform-optimism 24:26 Balancer Metastable Pools & Lido Partnership https://medium.com/balancer-protocol/balancer-launches-metastable-pools-to-further-pool-liquidity-9eade44d73d8 26:54 Bloomberg Galaxy Index https://www.coindesk.com/galaxy-digital-launches-defi-index-tracker-fund Frank’s Take https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1428348530888871945?s=20 30:18 Metamask EIP1559 Support https://twitter.com/MetaMask/status/1428148268031102976?s=20 30:55 Fintech Collective https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/115077/fintech-collective-250-million-fund-defi-strategy 33:57 Jobs https://jobs.banklesshq.com/

1:18:00 TAKES 1:19:00 Why We Love the Industry https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1427805148248608777?s=20 1:20:41 Community Innovation https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov/status/1427256596611088387?s=20 1:22:25 Every Object Is Scarce https://twitter.com/naval/status/1428232383703044096?s=20 1:23:49 Single Issue Voter https://twitter.com/twobitidiot

1:25:55 What David’s Excited About 1:28:53 What Ryan’s Excited About

1:32:55 MEME of the Week https://www.instagram.com/p/CSwc8pjihdL/?utm_medium=copy_link

1:33:39 Closing & Disclaimers

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