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Nothing tests your conviction like a bear market. This is an opportunity to test what you think you know, refine your thesis, and make your bets for the next leg up.

Avichal and Sanjay are long time crypto investors and at VC fund electric capital. What are they betting on during the bear market?

We discuss 5 of the most pressing questions facing crypto investors during the bear market including…

1) L2 tokens - Are L2 tokens they worth something or they just worthless governance tokens?

2) AltL1s…Will the ETH killers make a comeback?

3) Multichain world - Millions of L2 chains or a few big winners?

4) Restaking - big deal or overhyped?

5) What Avichal things are this cycle’s alt-coins.

Episodes like this are an opportunity to sharpen your insights as a crypto investor. Don’t take these ideas as gospel. Wrestle with them. Test them. Make them your own. We’ll have other Bear Market Bets episodes with other perspectives, so this isn’t the last.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

8:00 L2 Value Capture

15:12 How Rollups Make Money

20:20 Harmful vs. Good MEV

25:00 Transactions Fees & L2s

38:05 Are L2s Valueable?

40:00 Multichain L2s or Few Winners?

43:05 Multichain Applications

49:09 Multichain Friction

59:02 Are NFTs Dead?

1:06:45 Investing in NFTs

1:10:00 RSA’s Worst Fear

1:15:10 Ethereum Killers & Modular/Monolithic Chains

1:19:22 L1s Playing the Monetary Premium Game

1:22:00 RSA vs. Avichal Moneyness Debate

1:24:30 Is Restaking Overhyped? Risky?

1:29:35 Crypto’s Antifragileness & Are We Lost?

1:33:40 Closing & Disclosures

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Resources

Avichal Garg

https://twitter.com/avichal 

Sanjay Shah

https://twitter.com/sanjaypshah 

Read

https://mirror.xyz/electriccap.eth/SD0wT7qSSfis9gLT_Ki1gY6_oTYEqgwcGE0hDw7kMDY

https://www.developerreport.com/developer-report 

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A U.S court has ruled that XRP is not a security, and if XRP is a security then what implications does this have for other tokens?

Joining us today is Paul Grewal and Mike Selig, both experts in their respective fields who are here to help walk us through the implications of this court decision and what it means for our industry as a whole. ------ 🚀 Join Ryan & David at Permissionless in September. Bankless Citizens get 30% off. 🚀 https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless 

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----- TIMESTAMPS: 

0:00 Intro 4:18 Great Day to Be a Lawyer 7:47 Was This a Surprise? 9:27 TLDR on the Ripple Case 16:08 What is a Security? 20:18 How Binding is This Decision? 27:05 Establishing a Precedent 31:47 SEC's Argument Falling Apart? 38:28 Opening The Door to More Tokens 42:37 What Does This Mean for Token Holders? 47:57 How Does This Impact US Regulation? 53:29 The Fight Ahead

----- RESOURCES:

Mike Selig https://twitter.com/MikeSeligEsq 

Paul Grewal https://twitter.com/iampaulgrewal 

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2nd Week of July 2023

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0:00 RIPPLE VS SEC  Breaking News - https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1679512873498816519?s=20  Explained - https://twitter.com/BillHughesDC/status/1679525517068759040?s=20  A Huge Win - https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/1679515814272155648  Tom Emmer - https://twitter.com/GOPMajorityWhip/status/1679525171479150592?s=20  Richie Torres - https://twitter.com/RepRitchie/status/1679534903661301761?s=20  Coinbase Relisting - https://twitter.com/coinbaseassets/status/1679575239657758721  RSA Take - https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1679534121100476417?s=20 

5:20 Waking Up Bullish 7:15 Permissionless https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless 

7:55 MARKETS 9:10 Bond Markets Trad - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-largest-bond-markets-in-the-world/  New - https://coinmarketcap.com/view/staking/  Fed Funds Rate - https://panteracapital.com/blockchain-letter/bonds-down-crypto-up/  16:30 The Internet Bond https://ultrasound.money/  23:22 Liquid Staking https://www.bankless.com/whats-next-for-liquid-staking-2  31:25 Tokenized Treasuries https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/07/11/tokenized-us-treasurys-surpass-600m-as-crypto-investors-capture-tradfi-yield  34:30 Bank of America Bullish https://rsch.baml.com/access?q=s-i517792VNkDKydHLEioQ  35:20 Correlation with Stocks https://panteracapital.com/blockchain-letter/bonds-down-crypto-up/ 

NEWS 41:00 Arkham Intelligence https://twitter.com/ArkhamIntel/status/1678339355314900992  46:55 Technofascism https://twitter.com/scott_lew_is/status/1678772359648641028?s=20 

51:15 Are the Devs Leaving? https://www.developerreport.com/blog/newsletter-20230706 

53:12 Google Play NFT Policy https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/07/new-blockchain-based-content-opportunities-google-play.html  55:45 Solana Phone  https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko/status/1679278533800235009?s=20 

58:30 Linnea L2 to Mainnet https://twitter.com/LineaBuild/status/1678738006646177793?s=20  1:00:13 Mantle Network https://www.mantle.xyz/  1:01:20 Gitcoin Public Goods L2 https://twitter.com/pgn_eth/status/1676972199423668228 

1:06:30 GHO Stablecoin Mainnet https://app.aave.com/governance/proposal/?proposalId=268  1:10:25 EigenLayer Reopening https://app.eigenlayer.xyz/  1:12:30 Vitalik Bitcoin Takes https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-ordinals-revived-developers-on-bitcoin  1:16:45 Gemini Suing DCG https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1677327395869581316?s=20  1:17:22 Jay Clayton BTC ETF https://twitter.com/DefiantNews/status/1678434627768446977  1:19:15 Rishi Likes Crypto https://www.wired.co.uk/article/london-wants-american-crypto-refugees  1:21:1 Brazil Ethereum CBDC https://twitter.com/vinibarbosabr/status/1678511772775374850?s=20 

1:27:00 Questions from the Nation

1:30:00 TAKES 1:34:30 The Fink Effect https://twitter.com/mskvsk/status/1677937403733106688  1:36:00 Still Using Venmo https://twitter.com/ryansadams/status/1679236595105382402  1:42:00 Crypto is a Scam https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1679077948463144961?s=20 

1:45:50 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/spreekaway/status/1677316680588967937 

1:46:45 The Daily Gwei https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvCp6vKY5jDr87htKH6hgDA 

1:47:30 Where’s David? https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1678473614818156544?s=20 

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Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. In this 8-episode series, we are exploring some new frontiers. New frontiers in new technologies, all of which are poised to completely revolutionize the world and change everything about the operating system that society is currently running.

Synthetic biology is a fascinating field that combines biology, engineering, and computer science to design and construct new biological systems. By manipulating and reprogramming the DNA of living organisms, scientists can create new functions and traits that do not occur naturally. It's like rewriting the instruction manual of life itself, similar to how we write computer code.

In this video, you'll hear from three leaders in the synthetic biology industry—Drew Endy, John Cumbers, and Jennifer Holmgren—who will expand our understanding and imagination of this exciting field.

Keep an eye out as we roll out the rest of these boundary-pushing episodes!

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0:00 Intro 0:50 What is Synthetic Biology? 3:35 The Guests

7:45 DREW ENDY 11:00 Biological Building Blocks 14:15 Understanding the Cell 18:30 The Power of Wetware 22:30 Code and DNA 28:00 The Business Model 30:30 The Biological Revolution 37:00 Longevity 39:20 The Landscape of Possibility

51:00 JOHN CUMBERS 54:30 The Synthetic Biology Rabbit Hole 58:30 Fermentation 1:03:15 Scaling the Revolution 1:07:00 Programming Nature 1:11:45 SciFi Infrastructure 1:19:15 A Grand Vision 1:23:00 Hijacking Biology 1:26:30 A Beautiful Future

1:33:45 JENNIFER HOLMGREN 1:36:00 Building a Circular Economy 1:40:00 Lanzatech 1:44:30 The Renewable Ethylene Business 1:48:30 The Fermentation Revolution 1:51:40 Biological Utopia

----- Resources

Drew Endy https://twitter.com/DrewEndy?s=20 

John Cumbers  https://twitter.com/johncumbers?s=20 

Jennifer Holmgren https://twitter.com/TodaDogs?s=20 

Lanzatech https://lanzatech.com/ 

Checkerspot https://checkerspot.com/ 

Biomason https://biomason.com/ 

Adidas Jacket https://www.tennispro.eu/adidas-melbourne-reversible-jacket-582214.html#description 

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Today we're joined by James Seyffart, a research analyst at Bloomberg who's the perfect person to answer our questions regarding the convergence of crypto and ETFs.

We dive into: - The probabilities of a Blackrock Bitcoin ETF and why - Important dates in which the SEC will need to give us answers - Neutrality, or lack thereof around the ETF approval process

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0:00 Intro 7:44 What is an ETF? 13:00 ETF History Lesson 17:40 ETF Market Size and Holders 22:46 Types of ETFs 27:02 Where Are These Assets Stores 34:04 Who Approves ETFs? 40:08 Neutrality Of Regulators 44:16 Types of Bitcoin ETFs 49:17 Reasons For Rejection 55:12 Does Gary Just Hate Crypto? 58:13 Does Blackrock Change Things? 1:04:46 Will Blackrock Get Approved? 1:15:20 Possible Approval Dates 1:19:09 Lack of ETFs to Blame For Crypto Fallout? 1:28:38 Why Should we Care? 1:34:14 Risks and Disclaimers

------ RESOURCES

James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JSeyff 

Trillions Podcast: https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/series/trillions 

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The tables are turned as Raoul Pal interviews David and Ryan on all things Bankless.  They share respective origin stories of how they got into crypto, meeting each other for the first time, how Bankless got started and where the future frontiers of Bankless are headed. ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-raoul-pal 

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------ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro 5:50 David's Crypto Journey 11:04 Ryan's Crypto Journey 19:12 David's 2017 Story 22:11 Conviction Through The Bear Market 28:00 Bankless Origin Story 32:53 Vision For Bankless 39:23 From DeFi to Web3 48:44 Tribalism 54:56 A Helpful Mental Model 1:01:39 Dealing With Hate 1:08:38 Bankless Ventures

------ RESOURCES

Raoul Pal https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI 

Real Vision https://www.realvision.com/  

Real Vision Newsletter https://www.realvision.com/dailybriefing  

------ RELATED EPISODES:

118 - Raoul Pal | Should We Be Scared Right Now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzGMSKbqjco  

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Bankless Weekly Rollup 1st Week of July 2023

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------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES

0:00 Intro 

4:20 Markets  

22:50 NFT winter has come  https://twitter.com/hosseeb/status/1675925861030334465  https://twitter.com/asvanevik/status/1675745010191601664  https://twitter.com/waleswoosh/status/1673781004031361025  https://nftpricefloor.com/  https://twitter.com/loopifyyy/status/1675517840542056448  https://twitter.com/avichal/status/1676090350291816448 

37:50 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Bitcoin Could ‘Revolutionize Finance’ https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1676685754922151941  https://twitter.com/thekriskay/status/1676686395862024195  https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-says-spot-bitcoin-etf-filings-are-inadequate-390336e8  Eric Balchunas https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1674777296438165505 

47:35 Is Gary resigning?  https://www.thecryptoalert.com/post/sec-sources-confirm-gary-gensler-resignation  Should Gary be actually resigning?  https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1674464911714398229 

58:12 Cameron Winklevoss sent a final offer to Barry Silbert  https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1676024844641550337 

Base 1:05:30 https://twitter.com/BuildOnBase/status/1674543151388966912 

1:10:00 L2s keep improving - Impact of Bedrock update  https://twitter.com/OPLabsPBC/status/1674823794949603350 

1:15:00 Polygon 2.0 architecture -  ZK-Based protocol architecture https://twitter.com/0xPolygonLabs/status/1674538238835343361 

1:17:30 Can Solana become an L2? https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko/status/1675146337174843392 

1:21:00 Vitalik’s AMA on Tau Day   https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1674017688300011520 

1:23:15 RFK wants to make holding Bitcoin an inviolable right as a President  https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1673812201457479681 

1:25:55 Belarus banning peer-to-peer crypto transactions https://www.theblock.co/post/237523/belarus-wants-to-ban-peer-to-peer-crypto-transactions  https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1676606907233054721 

1:33:34 Questions from the Nation

1:37:45 Takes https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1676920622415245312  https://twitter.com/rss_d4/status/1675220831461335042  https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1675955239466196992 

1:50:50 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/zengjiajun_eth/status/1675677672566030336 

1:52:00 Daily Gwei  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvCp6vKY5jDr87htKH6hgDA 

1:54:30 Closing & Disclaimers 

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Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. In this 8-episode series, we are exploring some new frontiers. New frontiers in new technologies, all of which are poised to completely revolutionize the world and change everything about the operating system that society is currently running.

This video features two conversations with big-brain builders Daniel Shorr of ZKML and Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation. Although cryptography quickly falls down a technical rabbit hole, it looks like we're entering a new golden age of cryptography.

Keep an eye out as we roll out the rest of these boundary-pushing episodes!

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----- Timestamps:

4:00 DANIEL SHORR 6:00 Cryptography and AI 9:15 A Computing Explosion 13:10 On-Chain AI Models 15:45 Modulus Labs 19:15 Compute Integrity 24:00 A Verifiable World 26:15 Accountability for Machine Models

31:00 JUSTIN DRAKE 33:30 Nova Cryptography 39:00 Decentralizing zk-Rollups 43:30 The Future of Rollups 47:35 Improving Validity 50:45 This is a Big Deal 54:20 Justin’s Zuzalu Experience

---- Resources:

Daniel Shorr https://twitter.com/realDanielShorr?s=20 

Modulus Labs https://www.moduluslabs.xyz/ 

Justin Drake https://twitter.com/drakefjustin?s=20 

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Today's episode is with Representative Warren Davidson, an outspoken member of the U.S. Congress and an advocate for cryptocurrency.

In today's show, we cover:  1) Why is Rep. Warren Davidson trying to fire Gary Gensler? 2) What is the “SEC Stabilization Act?” 3) Is the U.S. losing ground to Europe, Japan, and Hong Kong? How can it catch up? 4) Does Congress care enough about crypto to do something about it? How can we change that?

As a reminder, Bankless is not a political podcast that divides on red/blue lines. We have no party affinity in the U.S. or any other nation. What we do care about is the values of decentralization, autonomy, and power to the people that underly this crypto technology. To the extent these values are political, so are we. But they don’t divide on party lines. We’ll continue to give voice to these values no matter what political party they come from.

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------ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro 5:25 #FireGaryGensler 10:36 Why Gary Hates Crypto 14:00 How Political Governance Works 23:20 Presidential Jurisdiction  25:45 SEC Stabilization Act 31:55 Does the U.S. Have Hope?  36:09 Closing & Disclaimers

------ RESOURCES https://twitter.com/WarrenDavidson/status/1674519201170485249  https://twitter.com/WarrenDavidson/status/1668305460368121857 

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Are we entering Crypto’s Spring? Raoul Pal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Real Vision, a financial media and education platform focused on Macro, Investing, and Crypto.

In today’s episode, we cover:1) The Aftermath of the 2022 Meltdown.2) How to Invest in the face of the current liquidity and external Indicators. 3) Why Raoul thinks we’re headed toward Deflation, not Inflation. 4) What AI will bring to the table, and how it intersects with Crypto 5) Why the Crypto Winter is probably over.

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------ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro 7:20 The 2022 Meltdown 22:14 The Aftermath 27:26 Liquidity Indicators 34:51 External Indicators 37:54 Raoul’s Deflation Thesis 50:29 The State of AI 56:19 How Crypto & AI Intersect 1:00:43 The Implications of AI 1:08:14 Crypto’s Inflection Moment 1:11:43 Investing in the Current Climate 1:19:00 Raoul’s Portfolio 1:20:39 Crypto’s North Star 1:28:49 The Everything Code 1:35:26 Closing & Disclaimers

------ RESOURCES Raoul Pal⁠https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI⁠ 

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The Everything Code ⁠https://www.realvision.com/issues/the-everything-code-part-1-the-renaissance⁠ 

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