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📺 ROLLUP: 1st Week of August

August 5, 2021

Market

• BTC Price

• ETH Price

• ETH/BTC

• ETH’s 2nd Quarter

• Volume Flippening

• Institutional Demand

• TVL in DeFi

• $DPI

• DPI/ETH Daily Chart

• Layer 2 Beat

• Watching EIP 1559

  • Watch the Burn

  • Bankless-Inspired Dashboard

• Axie $1B Volume

• Coinbase’s Impressive Quarter

Releases

• Arbitrum in August

• Rarible Protocol

• Gearbox Leverage

• Raises

  • Helium

  • Dune Analytics

  • Liquality Wallet

  • TaxBit

• Bankless Jobs

News

• Poly Network Hack

  • Returned

• Multichain Aave

• Uniswap Passes $1B in Fees

• Gemini Acquires Guesser

• Penguins in NY Times

• FTX Sponsoring Axie Players

• DraftKings NFT with Tom Brady

• North American BTC Miners

• Infrastructure Bill

  • Passing the Senate

  • Alabama Senator

  • Treasury Involvement

  • Jake Chervinsky’s Take

• Brian Brooks Leaves Binance

• Circle Becoming a Bank

• Happy Yamiversary

Takes

• Coordinate, Don’t Overreact

eric.eth @econoar

We all need to realize this is going to be commonplace for crypto and defi the next 20 years when it comes to regulation. It’s the new “hot” thing to regulate like banks in 2009. We need to coordinate properly but also not over react every time. It’s not the end of crypto!

3:17 AM ∙ Aug 6, 2021

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• Su Zhu on jpegs

Zhu Su @zhusu

We bought punks and other NFTs bc they're undeniably part of the broader story of digital scarcity, meme economy, collective capitalism, metaverse, and mind-body dissociation.

2:28 AM ∙ Aug 7, 2021

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• David on jpegs

DavidHoffman.eth Ξ🦇🔊💰 @TrustlessState

Imagine thinking trading JPEGs isn’t product market fit

9:24 PM ∙ Aug 7, 2021

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• Eric on jpegs

eric.eth @econoar

NOOOO YOU CANT BUY JPEGS. <proceeds to trade rocks>

CL @CL207

people wash trading trillions of dollars between themselves finally realize they're literally just buying a piece of rock lmao https://t.co/9itTjo9Ep9

11:03 PM ∙ Aug 8, 2021

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• Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang🧢🗽🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Cryptocurrency is one path to universal basic income.

8:31 PM ∙ Aug 10, 2021

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MEME(s) OF THE WEEK

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4:35 AM ∙ Aug 6, 2021

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DavidHoffman.eth Ξ🦇🔊💰 @TrustlessState

Don't bet against #Ethereum $ETH ⟠ #EIP1559

8:52 PM ∙ Aug 5, 2021

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