ROLLUP: BTC Shatters $100K, What's Next? | The Debanking Debacle | New SEC Chairman | Biggest Airdrop... Ever?
Bitcoin hit $100K! To kick off the show we dive into the wild ride that brought us here—from Satoshi’s first block to retail mania today. NYC Mayor Eric Adams says, “I told you so,” after his Bitcoin paycheck gamble pays off. We unpack Marc Andreessen’s revelations on Joe Rogan about political debanking and welcome a new SEC chairman with a pro-crypto agenda, BYE GARY. Plus, Hyperliquid’s massive airdrop, XRP flipping Solana, and Alex Mashinsky pleading guilty—it’s a packed week for crypto! ------ 📣 AMBIRE | SIGN UP! https://www.ambire.com/legends ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 🦄UNISWAP | BUG BOUNTY PROGRAM https://bankless.cc/Uniswap-Bug-Bounty 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🐧 CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiSimple 📈 iYield: YOUR FINANCIAL PICTURE, SIMPLIFIED https://bankless.cc/iYield 🔒 SAFE | INTRODUCING SAFENET https://bankless.cc/SAFE ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/108?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 00:00:00 Lets Set The Tone 00:05:27 BTC $100K! https://x.com/ETHbyDre/status/1864550741287030979 https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1864655677467042013 00:08:40 A Trip Down Memory Lane 00:15:02 Powell - BTC Is Digital Gold https://x.com/BanklessHQ/status/1864392544018166186 00:19:23 ETH Price Analysis 00:22:50 Total Mkt Cap https://x.com/crypto_condom/status/1862658827163758660 00:24:19 The Rise Of Ripple (XRP) https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1863702614304518363 https://x.com/WazzCrypto/status/1863306452481253555 00:28:07 Solana ETF? https://x.com/jseyff/status/1864060463916462244?s=46&t=2ZINVXJQKx6xO_6Wiiu_2g 00:32:52 Mainstream Debanking https://x.com/pmarca/status/1862635456204341739?s=46&t=2ZINVXJQKx6xO_6Wiiu_2g https://x.com/davidmarcus/status/1862654506774810641 https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1861890800268775923?s=46&t=drckgcJoSMSnm7TfPCH-dw 00:42:23 New SEC Chairman https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113595807734621827 https://x.com/HesterPeirce/status/1864428440893735331 00:45:42 Crypto Czar https://www.theblock.co/post/328594/ex-cftc-chair-chris-giancarlo-in-running-to-become-first-crypto-czar-says-crypto-considerable-priority-for-trump 00:48:54 Hyperliquid Airdrop Was Huge https://hyperfnd.medium.com/hype-genesis-1830a4dc2e3f 00:50:36 Hawk Tua Coin https://x.com/WazzCrypto/status/1864433268319293811 00:55:06 Fluid Launch https://gov.instadapp.io/t/rebranding-and-growth-plan-for-fluid-protocol/985 00:56:56 RTFKT Shut Down https://x.com/RTFKT/status/1863621178532773928 00:58:26 Alex Mashinsky Pleads Guilty https://www.reuters.com/technology/celsius-founder-alex-mashinsky-intends-plead-guilty-two-fraud-counts-2024-12-03/ 01:00:12 Releases https://x.com/colton_art/status/1864705965016129740 https://x.com/crecimientoar/status/1862557162427310102 01:03:47 Meme Of The Week https://x.com/scrypto_/status/1864603976282591549?s=46 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
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AI ROLLUP #2: Virtuals $1B | Zerebro LLM | Ai16z Comeback? | Bittensor Tao | Freya $50K Game
Ejaaz is back to go through the latest news over the past week in the wild world of AI Agents. This week, Ejaaz and David dive into why and how Virtuals hit a $1B market cap, and also Zerebro is launching a decentralized LLM, Ai16z is making a comeback with Eliza V2, and so much more. Will AI agents continue to dominate the mindshare of crypto Crypto Twitter and beyond? ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 🦄UNISWAP | BUG BOUNTY PROGRAM https://bankless.cc/Uniswap-Bug-Bounty 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🐧CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiSimple 📈iYield: YOUR FINANCIAL PICTURE, SIMPLIFIED https://bankless.cc/iYield 🔒SAFE | INTRODUCING SAFENET https://bankless.cc/SAFE ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/107?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 3:10 Why Ejaaz is Bullish 6:42 Ai16z https://x.com/0xwitchy/status/1863862261573632025 9:52 Virtuals https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/virtual-protocol https://www.virtuals.io/ https://fun.virtuals.io/ 16:17 aixbt https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/aixbt-by-virtuals https://x.com/cryptopunk7213/status/1863584774901666038 https://x.com/aixbt_agent https://x.com/PixOnChain/status/1863145856301674938 29:12 Freya agent gifts $50K to clever winner https://x.com/jarrodWattsDev/status/1862299845710757980 https://www.freysa.ai/ 33:09 Zerebo https://x.com/jyu_eth/status/1864004665891013028 https://open.spotify.com/track/0MTF6FSeodBtrhM7Vi6E3b?si=cc45c86757bc44e8 https://x.com/jyu_eth/status/1861190173196730729 https://x.com/jyu_eth/status/1863012741486616742 50:24 Ai16z https://x.com/markus9x/status/1861242414515777767 https://x.com/0xwitchy/status/1863530135313600980 55:47 God https://x.com/god 1:00:47 Bittensor Tao https://x.com/cruciblelabs/status/1861154220021260473 1:04:30 NOUS and Prime Intellect leading decentralized training https://x.com/NousResearch/status/1863622813317464157 https://x.com/PrimeIntellect/status/1862607165669900407 1:08:21 Ejaaz’s predictions & where his attention is going https://x.com/Vader_AI_ https://x.com/0xprismatic/status/1863055816947101845 1:14:25 Solana vs. Base? 1:21:31 Homework for Bankless audience https://x.com/cryptopunk7213 1:22:59 Closing & Disclaimers ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
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The ZK Fast Track | Andrew & Uma of Conduit & Succinct
Last month, Andrew Huang (Conduit) and Uma Roy (Succinct) announced OP Succinct, a groundbreaking collaboration that blends Succinct’s SP1 zkVM with Conduit’s Rollup-as-a-Service platform. This new zkEVM promises 1-hour finality, breaking away from the traditional 7-day delays seen with optimistic rollups. In this episode, we unpack what makes OP Succinct a game-changer and how it challenges the conventional ZK rollup landscape. Why is this Rust-based zkVM approach so different? Is ZK rollup tech finally ready for prime time? And could fast finality and the end of fraud proofs be the key to solving Ethereum’s fragmentation problem? ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION https://bankless.cc/uniswap 🐧CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiSimple 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 📈iYield: YOUR FINANCIAL PICTURE, SIMPLIFIED https://go.iyield.com/bankless ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/106?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 2:52 zk Rollups Past vs. OP Succint 5:48 OP to zk Rollups Tradeoffs & Timeline 12:39 Benefits of 1-Hour Challenge Period 15:34 Scaling the Rollups 18:12 Endgame Vision 20:47 Cost of Proving Must Go Down? 21:55 Conduit’s Distribution Role 25:55 AggLayer vs. zk & Adoption 29:57 zk Rollup on ETH L1 Constraints? 35:53 Ethereum’s Negative Sentiment 51:04 Closing & Disclaimers ------ RESOURCES Uma Roy https://x.com/pumatheuma Succinct https://www.succinct.xyz/ OP Succinct https://github.com/succinctlabs/op-succinct Adrew Huang https://x.com/KAndrewHuang Conduit https://x.com/conduitxyz ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
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Ethereum’s Three Front War | Justin Drake
Is the Beam Chain the endgame for Ethereum? At Devcon, Justin Drake presented what he called his most ambitious proposal to date! Beam Chain, a roadmap which fell very flat in public discourse. In this episode we fill the gaps of this reaction and we discuss the rise of Credible Competition to the three major components of Ethereum Roadmap. Execution, which competes with Solana, Data Availability which competes with Celestia and Consensus, which competes with Bitcoin. So what’s Ethereum’s strategy for winning this Three Front War against three legitimate competitors? Stay tuned! ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION https://bankless.cc/uniswap 🐧 CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS https://bankless.cc/CartesiSimple 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 📈 iYield: YOUR FINANCIAL PICTURE, SIMPLIFIED https://go.iyield.com/bankless ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/105?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 4:29 Beam Chain Reactions 9:43 Is Ethereum Ossifying 18:07 Ethereum’s Three Front War 27:03 Bitcoin Utility Prospects 33:20 The Endgame for Crypto 48:55 Beam Chain 101 54:20 Beam Fork Aftermath 59:51 Pre-Confirmations 1:05:06 L1 Execution Layer 1:12:47 Rollup Design Space 1:26:20 Ethereum’s Midgame 1:32:37 Ethereum 3.0? 1:34:04 Closing & Disclaimers ------ RESOURCES Justin Drake https://x.com/drakefjustin Beam Chain Announcement https://youtu.be/rGE_RDumZGg?t=7001 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
Memecoin mania spiraled out of control this week, with shocking livestream rug pulls and Pump.fun disabling its livestream feature due to disturbing behavior. Meanwhile, Base and Farcaster hit record TPS and inflows as memecoin trading heats up. In Washington, Trump nominated pro-crypto Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary. What does this mean for crypto policy? Plus, a surprising investor joins Trump’s World Liberty Financial raise—we’ll reveal who. And a major court victory for crypto privacy: judges ruled OFAC overstepped in the Tornado Cash case, declaring immutable smart contracts unsanctionable. Does this mean Tornado Cash is back? ------ 📣UNISWAP https://bankless.cc/Uniswap-Bug-Bounty ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 🦄UNISWAP | BROWSER EXTENSION https://bankless.cc/uniswap 🪄MAGIC EDEN | HOME OF WEB3 https://bankless.cc/MagicEden 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🤖dYdX | UNLIMITED LAUNCHING SOON https://bankless.cc/dYdXUnlimited 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT https://bankless.cc/toku ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x0c294913a7596b427add7dcbd6d7bbfc7338d53f/104?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 7:12 Markets https://x.com/DegenerateNews/status/1859978611606102494 https://x.com/JacobKinge/status/1859979524487909769 https://x.com/saylor/status/1861033309934862601 https://www.theblock.co/post/328025/microstrategy-4-per-cent-of-bitcoin-bernstein-price-target-600-usd https://x.com/Galois_Capital/status/1861299857975046261 https://farside.co.uk/?p=1518 https://imgur.com/pUSaAQ2 https://l2beat.com/scaling/tvl https://x.com/HHorsley/status/1860397442547790105 26:00 Pump.fun suspends livestream feature https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-11-26/pump-fun-s-streams-show-the-dark-side-of-memecoin-trading https://x.com/crypto_bitlord7/status/1860989408092258441 https://x.com/_kaitoai/status/1860969504798302691 https://x.com/pumpdotfun/status/1861138234580869128 https://x.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1861091091585409400 https://x.com/moo9000/status/1860980423716659462 34:15 Base And Farcaster AI Agent meta heating up https://x.com/phantom/status/1861108202022318470 https://x.com/qiqileyuan/status/1861650662590947411 https://x.com/cryptotesters/status/1861216310631506364 https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1861434379270308195 https://x.com/dwr/status/1861595910498631928 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1861422824029647241 https://x.com/anoncast_ https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1860806662962954526 https://warpcast.com/superanon/0x5c38e09ce41560f3a469946c8e08bcf463f31469 https://anoncast.org/anonfun https://x.com/ChazSchmidt/status/1861539655620919497 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1861041911542223294 https://warpcast.com/cherdougie/0x2c3ba9646bc37de213953294076b1250acf8635b https://x.com/search?q=%24blonde&src=cashtag_click https://x.com/ayyyeandy/status/1861683577722909062 https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/aixbt-by-virtuals https://app.virtuals.io/ 48:00 Bankless disclosures https://www.bankless.com/disclosures https://x.com/iamdcinvestor/status/1861028893408317863 53:06 Big victory in Tornado Cash case as judge says OFAC exceeded authority https://x.com/BillHughesDC/status/1861545321450336342 https://x.com/valkenburgh/status/1861565828270846048 https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1861566807225532470 https://x.com/rstormsf/status/1861575644796330392 https://juicebox.money/@defend-roman-storm 1:00:01 US court struck down SEC broker-dealer rule https://x.com/BlockchainAssn/status/1859657449856463077 https://x.com/NateGeraci/status/1859678807600529892 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113529294640959784 https://x.com/jchervinsky/status/1861430542668886408 1:05:53 Trump Media files a trademark for “TruthFi” https://x.com/JoshGerben/status/1859689670986408392 1:07:10 Tron became the largest investor into World Liberty Finance https://x.com/justinsuntron/status/1861121947372773545 https://x.com/SplitCapital/status/1861794875668136104 https://x.com/Caitlyn_Jenner/status/1861123142439313714 1:11:37 Bankless has its biggest Black Friday offer ever! https://www.bankless.com/join 1:13:04 Top signals? https://x.com/HalieyWelchX/status/1861470493280206907 https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1861053012573057285 1:17:15 Closing & Disclaimers ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
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