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📺 ROLLUP: 1st Week of August

August 5, 2021

Market

• BTC Price

• ETH Price

• ETH/BTC

• TVL in DeFi

• $DPI

• DPI/ETH Daily Chart

• Watching EIP 1559

  • Watch the Burn

  • Etherscan

  • Dune Analytics

• First Ultra Sound Block

• EIP 1559 Compatible Wallets

• EIP 1559 Going Mainstream

• Uniswap Burning ETH

• 221 Million Crypto Users

• OpenSea Volume

• Total DeFi Addresses

Releases

• Starkware & SoRare

• Thales

• DyDx Token

• Bitwise UNI & Aave Funds

• Argent Layer 2 Wallet

• RocketPool Testnet

• ETH Modeler

• Diversifi Polygon Bridge

• Raises

  • Messari

  • Point72

  • Sense Finance

  • Krystal

• Jobs

News

• Trustless ETH Staking

• Zcash Proof of Stake?

• CryptoPunk Pump

• Polygon & Knicks NFTs

• Treeverse

• Infrastructure Bill

  • Amendment

  • Do Your Part

  • Bailout?

• Gary Gensler Speech

  • Nic Carter

  • Positives

  • ETF

• China Pressure

• Wealthfront & Grayscale

• Germany & Institutions

• Monero’s Spagni Arrested

Takes

• Maxi’s Coping

eric.eth @econoar

The Bitcoin community has gotten so pathetic that they actively beg regulators to classify ETH as a security. This has been going on for years. Some examples of many just from today…

August 5th 2021

96 Retweets828 Likes

• Talking Crypto Daily

Jeff Dorman, CFA @jdorman81

Our internal slack @arca is blowing up with tons of positive (FTX raise, JPM, Openseas, etc) & negative (the usual) articles. Takeaway? EVERY news outlet & investor in the world is now talking about digital assets, every day. Betting against growth from here would be insane.

July 22nd 2021

35 Retweets259 Likes

• Binance Squeeze is Bullish for DeFi

Joseph Young @iamjosephyoung

Binance futures trading not allowed in Germany and Italy is one of the biggest advertisement for DeFi this year.

July 30th 2021

58 Retweets569 Likes

• America’s Biggest Export

Tascha @RealNatashaChe

The US is in big trouble with twin deficits & high debt. But few realize that a Fed-issued digital USD token can change the fate of America. How? Grab a coffee ☕️ & read on 👇

August 2nd 2021

1,535 Retweets4,680 Likes

• EIP-1559 Ju-jitsu

RYAN SΞAN ADAMS - rsa.eth 🦇🔊 @RyanSAdams

EIP 1559 is the ultimate jujitsu move for Ethereum. In order to copy it competitors must get the one thing they've never had... Actual Blockspace Demand.

August 4th 2021

121 Retweets790 Likes

• Success is a Muscle

  Hasu @hasufl

  Success is a muscle. Every important upgrade that Ethereum has successfully merged (Beacon Chain, now 1559) increases the chance that future important upgrades (The Merge, sharding, block proposer/builder separation) will be also successful.

  August 5th 2021

  76 Retweets595 Likes

MEME OF THE WEEK

Hayden Adams 🦄 @haydenzadams

How it started How it’s going

August 3rd 2021

62 Retweets992 Likes

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