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1st Week of May, 2021

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro

2:15 MARKETS 2:25 BTC Price 2:50 ETH Price 4:55 The Treasury Reserve Asset https://twitter.com/investindigital/status/1388164681228029952?s=21  10:40 DeFi Action 12:20 Stablecoin Supply https://www.theblockcrypto.com/data/decentralized-finance/stablecoins/total-stablecoin-supply-daily  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/103901/tether-usdt-stablecoin-on-chain-volume-1-trillion-first-time  14:30 DOGE. Much Price. https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/dogecoin 

17:23 RELEASES 19:00 Uniswap V3 Mainnet Launch https://twitter.com/Uniswap/status/1390012757970411520?s=20  23:37 UNI V3 Demo https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap  28:15 V2 vs V3 https://imgur.com/a/FOVFRW4  33:30 Meebits - Larva Labs https://www.larvalabs.com/blog/2021-5-3-1-1/introducing-the-meebits  36:55 OKEx L2 Deposit & Withdraw https://www.okex.com/support/hc/en-us/articles/360060706511-OKEx-to-support-direct-deposits-and-withdrawals-onto-Ethereum-scaling-solution-Arbitrum  38:20 zkDAI https://medium.com/aztec-protocol/introducing-zkdai-into-the-aztec-private-rollup-203bd1b5164c  39:41 Bankless DAO! https://www.bankless.community/ 

49:10 NEWS 49:30 Polygon Making Moves https://www.coindesk.com/polygon-launches-100m-fund-to-support-defi-adoption  50:53 Vitalik the Billionaire https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2021/05/03/ethereums-27-year-old-co-creator-is-now-the-worlds-youngest-crypto-billionaire/?sh=107e47c07c94  51:55 MakerDAO Returns Dev Fund https://twitter.com/MakerDAO/status/1389211791721254913?s=20  53:09 DeFi More Disruptive than BTC https://www.coindesk.com/defi-more-disruptive-to-banks-than-bitcoin-says-ing  54:50 Bankless DAO to Donate 100k to Charity https://twitter.com/banklessDAO/status/1390348781158166528?s=20  57:39 CNBC - ETH to $10K https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1389626877795520514  58:30 BTC in Bank Accounts https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-banks-to-allow-bitcoin-trading-in-2021-says-nydig-execs  1:00:47 Gary Vee - VeeFriends https://www.veefriends.com/  1:03:19 Coinbase, Sotheby’s, & Banksy https://twitter.com/CoinbaseNews/status/1389556297629057024  1:03:47 Upshot 7.5M Raise & Beta Access https://twitter.com/UpshotHQ/status/1390289645259395074?s=20  1:06:00 CryptoPunks 1B Market Cap https://twitter.com/VonMises14/status/1387501834017857537?s=20  1:07:04 Institutions Adopting https://twitter.com/TheBlock__/status/1389970347609534464  https://www.thestreet.com/investing/s-p-dow-jones-launches-bitcoin-ethereum-indices-amid-crypto-surge  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/103617/paypal-has-held-exploratory-talks-about-launching-a-stablecoin-sources  https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/galaxy-digital-to-acquire-bitgo-to-form-pre-eminent-global-provider-of-digital-asset-financial-services-for-institutions-834031710.html  1:09:07 Elon on SNL - The Dogefather https://www.coindesk.com/elon-musk-dogecoin-snl  1:10:45 a16z 1B Crypto Fund https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/103470/a16z-third-crypto-fund-1-billion  1:11:12 Hal Finney would be 65 Today https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/n4uk78/today_is_hal_finneys_65th_birthday_rip_to_the/ 

1:12:00 TAKES 1:13:00 Ethereum is Green https://our.status.im/ethereum-is-green/  1:16:45 Charlie Munger: Peak Cope https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-success-is-disgusting-berkshires-charlie-munger  1:18:58 At $3, ETH was a Joke https://twitter.com/evabeylin/status/1389039259504447488?s=20  1:19:30 Get a Job https://twitter.com/crypto_bobby/status/1390100698344443907?s=20 

1:22:37 What David’s Excited About

1:24:36 What Ryan’s Excited About

1:25:35 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/cburniske/status/1389384758929641484?s=20 

1:26:40 Closing & Disclaimers

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Gary Vaynerchuk (aka GaryVee), serial entrepreneur and Chairman of VaynerX, today released his first NFT collection called VeeFriends.

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Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.

Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures 

Gary Vaynerchuk (aka GaryVee), serial entrepreneur and Chairman of VaynerX, today released his first NFT collection called VeeFriends.

VeeFriends:
https://www.veefriends.com/ 
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This is the first piece of Bankless content focusing on Chainlink. Who better to tell us about the decentralized oracle solution than ChainLinkGod himself?

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Resources:

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This is the first piece of Bankless content focusing on Chainlink. Who better to tell us about the decentralized oracle solution than ChainLinkGod himself?

State of the Nation is live-streamed on Tuesdays at 11am PT.

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Josh Rosenthal is a former historian and is now a partner at 6ixth Event Cataclysmic Capital. In today's episode, we take a wide lens and examine the similarities between the European Renaissance and what is happening in today's society with both the internet and blockchain technology.

Will future historians call this the Crypto Renaissance?

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------ Bankless Podcast #63 - The Crypto Renaissance Guest: Josh Rosenthal

Josh Rosenthal holds a Ph.D. in Late Medieval / Early Modern European History, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to the Sorbonne’s Institute for Advanced Studies, think tank mixing culture, history, and technology. Josh is no longer a practicing historian and is instead a partner at ‘6ixth Event Cataclysmic Capital’, which supports early-stage founders targeting cataclysmic impact.

Here on Bankless, we do not necessarily view history as repetitive, but certainly as cyclical. If you're haven't already, check out Strauss & Howe's book 'The Fourth Turning' for a sober and salient account of what modern historiography is missing when it comes to interpreting societal ebbs and flows. Historical patterns are difficult to objectively pin down and create uniform laws that apply across the life cycle of a civilization. However, there are key concepts that are sticky and are often found in pivotal moments in history.

In this episode with Josh, we explore the sticky concepts of value and information.What does it mean for society when there are massive infrastructural changes to these things? The progress of civilization, on a macro scale, inevitably boils down to how we view, understand, create, and distribute communication and commerce. The European Renaissance, beginning in the 15th Century, is a fascinating example of a society undergoing fundamental changes in its relationship with value and information.

Two pieces of technology, the Printing Press and Double-Entry Bookkeeping, laid the foundation for a massive societal revolution that launched Europe into modernity. The late Middle Ages were increasingly hierarchical, in which value & information were held by an oligarchic feudal system. The Printing Press was a communication technology that decentralized access to information, such that Martin Luther was able to use it to spark the Protestant Reformation. Double-Entry Bookkeeping was an ancient practice rediscovered in Italy in around 1300, and this financial technology catapulted the Medici family into a flourishing age of art, culture, and redistribution.

The pendulum of history, according to Josh, swings between aggregation and distribution. Are we experiencing a pendulum swing now? Is the Internet the Printing Press of the information age? Will Blockchain Technology be the revolutionary piece of fintech that Double-Entry Bookkeeping was? Are we at the start of the next Renaissance – a Crypto Renaissance?

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 4:40 Josh Rosenthal, PhD 6:43 The Later Middle Ages 11:23 Value and Information 14:35 Physical Power 16:20 A Permissioned Life 22:25 The Disillusionment Bubble 25:15 The Renaissance & Value 32:48 The Renaissance & Information 41:40 Technology, the Catalyst 47:05 Fulfillment of the Internet 53:45 Demons Pooping & Early Memes 1:02:11 Money Printer Go BRR 1:07:30 Satoshi & Martin Luther 1:11:25 A Digital Renaissance 1:20:10 A Genie and a Bottle 1:25:03 Get Involved in Crypto Art 1:29:33 Prep with Crypto 1:31:52 Working for Crypto 1:36:20 Change over Time 1:38:36 Closing & Disclaimers

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6ixth Event https://www.go6ixthevent.com/ 

Josh on Twitter https://twitter.com/JoshuaRosenthal?s=20 

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Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures 

Josh Rosenthal is a former historian and is now a partner at 6ixth Event Cataclysmic Capital. In today's episode, we take a wide lens and examine the similarities between the European Renaissance and what is happening in today's society with both the internet and blockchain technology.

Will future historians call this the Crypto Renaissance?

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5th Week of April, 2021

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro

3:55 MARKETS 4:05 BTC Price 4:25 ETH Price ETH Market Cap https://decrypt.co/69493/ethereum-flips-paypal-top-25-global-assets-market-cap?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_source=flipboard  ETH/BTC https://ratiogang.com/  12:40 DeFi Action

14:45 RELEASES 16:00 Aave Liquidity Mining https://cointelegraph.com/news/lending-giant-aave-set-to-launch-liquidity-mining-program?  19:40 Stocks Live on Kwenta - FAANGT https://blog.kwenta.io/stocks-are-now-live-on-kwenta/ 22:06 Nexus Protocol Cover  https://medium.com/nexus-mutual/nexus-is-growing-protocol-cover-is-live-56752446ec57  23:25 Yearn Quarterly Report - Analyst’s Dream https://github.com/yearn/yearn-pm/blob/master/financials/reports/2021Q1-yearn-quarterly-report.pdf  26:00 Balancer Labs & Gnosis https://medium.com/balancer-protocol/the-crypto-cinematic-universe-crossover-event-of-the-summer-balancer-gnosis-protocol-bgp-638568aa0385  CowSwap DEX https://twitter.com/MEVprotection/status/1387392829731770375 

28:30 NEWS 28:40 EIP-1559 July 14th https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1385624541586608132?s=20  30:05 EU 2 Year Digital Bond https://www.coindesk.com/european-investment-bank-issues-121m-digital-notes-using-ethereum  31:21 Tether & Coinbase Pro https://twitter.com/coinbasepro/status/1385359434411556868?s=21  33:35 Metamask 5 Million Users https://consensys.net/blog/metamask/metamask-surpasses-5-million-monthly-active-users/  $400k per day in revenue https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt/status/1387680567492104192  36:42 Why Gas is Cheaper https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1386180278817759235  37:47 Ethereum on CNN https://www.reddit.com/gallery/n0fjfd  39:40 Eminem & Nifty Gateway https://niftygateway.com/collections/eminemopens  40:58 Satoshi Disappeared https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterizzo/2021/04/26/10-years-ago-today-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-sent-his-final-message/?sh=66bd26dc10dd  43:05 Tesla Sells 18% BTC https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/102899/q1-earnings-show-tesla-sold-off-272m-of-its-btc-purchase  Tesla Makes Money https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-makes-more-money-trading-bitcoin-than-selling-cars-11619517615  46:09 JP Morgan Bitcoin Fund https://www.coindesk.com/jpmorgan-to-let-clients-invest-in-bitcoin-fund-for-first-time-sources  47:06 Nexon allocates $100M for BTC https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/103058/game-maker-nexon-100-million-bitcoin  49:30 Visa Moving Into Crypto in a ‘Very Big Way’ https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/103048/visa-ceo-crypto-earnings-call-comments  50:30 PayPal CEO Bullish Crypto https://time.com/5957001/paypal-cryptocurrencty-bitcoin-dan-schulman/  51:42 PayPal on Coinbase https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/103311/coinbase-paypal-us-users-buy-crypto 

53:00 TAKES 54:30 Collateralize your ETH and Borrow Against It https://twitter.com/trustlessstate/status/1385710606750162946?s=21  1:01:02 Retail SquishChaos - ETH $30k to $150k https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z1cc7ZnVC_qk8X_veELrsiftOVXcN06P/view  1:03:48 Crypto Fund Two Prime https://twoprime.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Two-Prime-Inst-Ethereum-Investment-sunday-1.pdf  1:04:17 JP Morgan Report https://twitter.com/santiagoroel/status/1387417522777956354  1:05:23 ETH supply has no floor https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1387627204369031170?s=20  1:07:04 $50M Stolen on BSC Uniswap Clone https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1387427596682645508?s=20 

1:10:54 What David is excited about

1:13:13 What Ryan is excited about

1:15:10 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1387526059197976582?s=20  Bonus Meme https://twitter.com/EthereumMemes/status/1386033457894203393?s=20 

1:17:30 Closing & Disclaimers

----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.

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5th Week of April, 2021

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