In today's round-up, Jason and Santi dive into MakerDAO selection of Solana codebase, Visa using Solana for payments, Nima Capital going dark, and recent Spot Ether ETF news. Find out why Solana was selected for Maker's NewChain and how Visa aims to provide merchants transactions at the speed of light. 

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

05:24 MakerDAO Chain on Solana Codebase

27:50 Bumper ad

28:53 Permissionless

30:17 Visa x Solana Crypto Payments

46:59 Nima Capital Goes Dark

55:16 Spot Ether ETF

59:31 Metamask Sell Feature

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