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  • A New Chapter for Ethereum | EFs Co-EDs Tomasz & Hsiao-Wei

    A New Chapter for Ethereum | EFs Co-EDs Tomasz & Hsiao-Wei
    May 5 2025

    Ethereum Foundation's new Co-Executive Directors, Tomasz Stanczak and Hsiao-Wei Wang, join Bankless to outline their vision for the future of Ethereum.

    We explore their backgrounds, the changing leadership at EF, and the roadmap ahead—from accelerating L1 scaling and improving UX to making Ethereum more dynamic and product-focused. This episode offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at how Ethereum plans to stay resilient, decentralized, and mission-aligned in a fast-changing world.

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    0:00 Intro
    8:19 Career Journey
    16:22 What Value Are They Providing
    23:39 Continuing the Ethereum Legacy
    31:11 Ethereum Foundation: Strengths, Gaps & Calls for Leadership
    43:41 The Pectra Disaster
    1:00:51 Scaling and Improving the Layer 2
    1:06:55 The Concept of "Product Centric Ethereum"
    1:11:49 Metrics, Accountability & Operational Leadership at Ethereum
    1:14:41 What the Ethereum Foundation Isn't Responsible For
    1:18:35 Clearing Up EF Misconceptions
    1:26:25 Inside Ethereum’s Upgrade Cycle
    1:31:17 Closing and Disclosure

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    RESOURCES

    Hsiao-Wei Wang
    https://x.com/hwwonx

    Tomasz K. Stańczak
    https://x.com/tkstanczak

    Ethereum Foundation
    https://ethereum.foundation/

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    1 h y 18 m
  • ROLLUP: ETH's Big Pivot | Tariff Recession? | Bitcoin's Political Win | Worldcoin US Launch!

    ROLLUP: ETH's Big Pivot | Tariff Recession? | Bitcoin's Political Win | Worldcoin US Launch!
    May 2 2025
    This week, Ryan and David dive into crypto’s dramatic new re-prioritization (pivot?) as Ethereum is shifting rapidly, prioritizing Layer 1 scaling in a move that has sparked intense community debate. Meanwhile, macro turmoil hits crypto with a looming tariff-driven recession and signs of American capital flight shaking global markets. Bitcoin tightens its grip on Washington, cementing itself as digital gold in the eyes of the Trump administration, and Worldcoin launches a U.S. rollout amid rising fears of an AI-driven dystopia. Plus, Sui surges on wild Pokémon rumors, Ripple’s bold move to buy Circle gets rejected, and Monero rockets after a massive Bitcoin hack. Is crypto entering a new golden age, or are these the early tremors of deeper uncertainty? Find out on this week's must-watch Weekly Rollup. ------ 📣BUILDBEAR | EASY EVM SANDBOX https://bankless.cc/buildbear ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELF https://bankless.cc/Self 🟠HEMI | BTC & ETH, ONE NETWORK https://bankless.cc/hemi ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 1:58 Markets 3:06 Movers of the Week https://www.bankless.com/read/whats-next-for-sui-in-2025 https://x.com/davewardonline/status/1877073873499197832? https://x.com/SuiNetwork/status/1914689214803009837 https://blog.sui.io/canary-capital-sui-etf/ 5:11 Macro https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1917575854961439151 https://www.apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/042625-ConsumerandFirms_v2.pdf https://x.com/watcherguru/status/1917601209906520370 Meme: https://x.com/alifarhat79/status/1917585508818980906 https://x.com/RaoulGMI/status/1912554771644325905/photo/1 19:18 Ethereum Pivot? Or Reprioritization? https://x.com/ethereumfndn/status/1916883771280040264 https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1917541325072916590 https://x.com/ethereumfndn/status/1916883782025482729 https://x.com/dankrad/status/1917678690852311333 https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1917689036744835390 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1917564803909918856 https://x.com/hasufl/status/1917880676000411796 https://x.com/0xoxus/status/1917824751151600084 28:05 Base and Scroll Reach Stage 1 Decentralization Milestone https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1917253415966798164 29:33 Worldcoins “At Last” Event in San Francisco https://www.ft.com/content/0c5c2b8d-b185-40b6-9221-b80ee130b92e?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://x.com/TheStalwart/status/1916277891299475462 38:45 Bitcoin Space Race https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1917271814356754459 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/politics/u-s-secretary-of-commerce-howard-lutnick-has-a-bitcoin-vision-for-america 42:20 What’s going on in Movement labs?! https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/04/30/inside-movement-s-token-dump-scandal-secret-contracts-shadow-advisors-and-hidden-middlemen https://x.com/hasufl/status/1917572935339888776 44:02 Monero likely pumped 50% due to suspected $330M Bitcoin theft https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1916756932763046273 45:51 Tether Now Holds 7.7 Tons of Gold to Back XAUT https://thedefiant.io/news/markets/tether-now-owns-7-7-tons-of-gold-to-back-its-xaut-token 47:09 US bank regulators pull back guardrails on bank crypto activities https://x.com/federalreserve/status/1915519104435224895 https://x.com/asvanevik/status/1915581219133415597 48:15 Senate Moves to Ban Congressional Stock Trading—Again https://x.com/HarrisonKrank/status/1916921283658252621 51:18 US DOJ seeks 20-year prison sentence for Alex Mashinsky https://x.com/cointelegraph/status/1917166974091534743 53:13 Circle rejected ripple takeover bid of $4-5B https://x.com/matthew_sigel/status/1917647009994993944 56:29 Closing & Disclaimers ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
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    1 h y 3 m
  • AI ROLLUP: The AI Experiment That's Been Secretly Manipulating You

    AI ROLLUP: The AI Experiment That's Been Secretly Manipulating You
    May 1 2025
    This week on the AI Rollup, David, Ejaaz and Josh ride OpenAI’s latest roller-coaster. The release of o3 is making waves for its native multi-modality while 4o gets a “genius-but-sycophantic” update and a rumored social network is in the works. They unpack the Reddit mind-hack experiment, an open-sourced natural-language coding agent, a 40-point jump in AI IQ, and more before asking: is it ethically okay for AI to cheat? David: https://x.com/TrustlessState Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213 Josh: https://x.com/Josh_Kale ------ 📣 BUILDBEAR | GITHUB FOR WEB3 https://bankless.cc/buildbear ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELF https://bankless.cc/Self 🟠HEMI | BTC & ETH, ONE NETWORK https://bankless.cc/hemi ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 00:00:00 Start 00:02:50 OpenAI's New Frontier Model https://openai.com/index/introducing-o3-and-o4-mini/ https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1912561386208825751 https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1912875957897003354 https://x.com/sama/status/1912558495997784441 https://x.com/TransluceAI/status/1912552046269771985 00:10:07 Is There A Scaling Wall? 00:17:13 The New AI Gold Rush 00:19:21 AI Caught Lying https://x.com/IterIntellectus/status/1916463746454528071 https://x.com/deedydas/status/1916611855067594943 00:31:55 Open AI's Next Big Product https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/1912171286039793932 https://x.com/cryptopunk7213/status/1914493366886174722 https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1917473779069968505?s=46 00:43:19 Optimizing For Addiction 00:50:28 Secret Reddit Agents https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1916916134630117814?s=46 00:58:55 Mega Viral AI Generated Video https://x.com/falchook/status/1914419758520525194 01:01:29 GeoGuesser https://x.com/arithmoquine/status/1912671688874926575?s=46 01:04:13 Is It Ethical For AI To Cheat? https://x.com/im_roy_lee/status/1914061483149001132?s=46 01:17:00 Decentralized AI Training https://x.com/primeintellect/status/1912266266137764307?s=46 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
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    1 h y 28 m
  • Is ETH Back? Memecoins Here to Stay? HYPE's HyperLiquid EVM | Jon, Bread, & Andy8052

    Is ETH Back? Memecoins Here to Stay? HYPE's HyperLiquid EVM | Jon, Bread, & Andy8052
    Apr 30 2025
    Jon Charbonneau, Bread, and Andy8052 join David to break down Ethereum’s bold pivot back to Layer 1 and what it means for the future of crypto. They also dive into the implications of scaling the L1 over rollups, the looming death of longtail L2s, and the shifting meta around value accrual, memecoins, and onchain activity. The crew also debates ETH’s monetary identity, HyperLiquid’s EVM ambitions, and whether Ethereum can reassert itself as crypto’s dominant tech and cultural platform. Jon Charbonneau: https://x.com/jon_charb Bread: https://x.com/0xBreadguy Andy8052: https://x.com/andy8052 ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELF https://bankless.cc/Self 🏦INFINEX | THE CRYPTO-EVERYTHING APP https://bankless.cc/Infinex ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 1:58 Ethereum Pivot Has a Tagline https://x.com/hosseeb/status/1917052715911549399 https://x.com/0xngmi/status/1916910787936797005 18:49 Ethereum Value Accrual 30:29 Fun Chain Premium 34:00 Memecoin Meta These Days 50:17 HyperLiquid EVM 58:01 1 Gorilla vs 100 Men https://x.com/search?q=1%20Gorilla%20v%20100%20Men&src=typed_query 1:04:07 Closing & Disclaimers ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
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    1 h y 5 m
  • Can Story Protocol Tokenize the $70 Trillion IP Market? | Jason Zhao

    Can Story Protocol Tokenize the $70 Trillion IP Market? | Jason Zhao
    Apr 29 2025

    Can Crypto disrupt the IP Market?

    In this episode, we dive deep with Jason Zhao, co-founder of Story Protocol, on how their new token launch could unlock the $70 trillion intellectual property market. We explore the bold vision of making IP liquid, programmable, and globally accessible — and how crypto-native creators, DAOs, and even major studios could reshape how stories are owned and built.

    This might just be crypto's most ambitious attempt at disrupting the media yet.

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    0:00 Intro
    5:48 Why Onchain IP?
    16:52 Eliminating Lawyers
    24:41 Step One
    28:56 Code as Law
    38:38 Ownership Protection
    45:35 Onchain IP Nuances
    53:11 Final Words
    56:30 Closing & Disclaimers

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    Jason Zhao
    https://x.com/jasonjzhao

    Story Protocol
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  • Ethereum’s Biggest Mistake (and How to Fix It) | Sam Kazemian

    Ethereum’s Biggest Mistake (and How to Fix It) | Sam Kazemian
    Apr 28 2025

    Ethereum has achieved groundbreaking technological success, but has it failed to properly define ETH the asset?

    In this episode, Frax founder Sam Kazemian joins us to discuss what he believes is Ethereum’s biggest mistake: confusing the ETH asset with Ethereum the technology. Sam argues that post-EIP-1559 and Proof of Stake, ETH unintentionally shifted toward a discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation model, undermining its potential as a commodity-like store of value.

    We explore how the Ethereum community can reclaim a stronger narrative around ETH and why social consensus — not just tech — determines an asset’s destiny.

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    TIMESTAMPS

    0:00 Intro
    4:43 Classifying ETH
    17:50 ETH/BTC Collapse
    33:39 ETH Revenues
    44:35 Blue-Money Gospel
    53:44 What ETH Needs
    1:10:08 ETH Internet Bond Narrative
    1:19:49 Final Thoughts

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    RESOURCES

    Sam Kazemian
    https://x.com/samkazemian

    Blue-Money Gospel
    https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1915874994514452763

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  • ROLLUP: RSA Returns! | ETH’s Pivot? | Bitcoin’s Decoupling | Bear or Bull?

    ROLLUP: RSA Returns! | ETH’s Pivot? | Bitcoin’s Decoupling | Bear or Bull?
    Apr 25 2025

    This week, the one, the only, Ryan Sean Adams makes his return to the Weekly Rollup and crypto, after a 90-day crypto detox to find a radically changed landscape. Ryan and David break down crypto’s shifting cycle, what Ryan missed, and Bitcoin’s dramatic decoupling from equities as it earns a strategic reserve in the U.S. Treasury. Meanwhile, Ethereum faces an existential pivot as it tries to reclaim lost ground against Bitcoin and Solana. Plus, Zora sparks heated debate with “content coins” amid new regulatory wins—and new fears of political corruption. Did crypto lose its soul chasing mainstream adoption, or is this the messy price of progress? It’s an essential Weekly Rollup you can’t afford to miss.

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    TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES

    0:00 Intro

    0:47 Are we still in a bull market?

    3:01 Ryan’s unplugging

    5:35 Ryan’s last 90-days
    https://x.com/ryansadams/status/1915115437505049055

    24:50 Bankless’s choices moving forward
    https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1914312548897219006

    32:58 Markets since Ryan’s break

    40:35 Trump’s memecoin

    48:31 Bitcoin Strategic Reserve

    52:34 $LIBRA memecoin

    1:03:29 Contentcoins, Zora, & Jesse

    1:16:39 Ethereum pivot & Bitcoin decoupling

    1:18:18 Closing & Disclaimers

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    1 h y 19 m
  • 66% of Wall Street is Already in DeFi | Paradigm’s 2025 Survey with Dan Robinson & Justin Slaughter

    66% of Wall Street is Already in DeFi | Paradigm’s 2025 Survey with Dan Robinson & Justin Slaughter
    Apr 24 2025

    In this episode, we unpack Paradigm’s groundbreaking 2025 report, “TradFi Tomorrow: DeFi and the Rise of Extensible Finance,” with Paradigm’s Dan Robinson and Justin Slaughter.

    We explore the stunning stat that 66% of traditional financial institutions are actively engaged with DeFi—and what that really means. From tokenization and stablecoins to regulatory clarity and decentralized exchanges, this conversation dives deep into how Wall Street is already integrating with crypto.

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    TIMESTAMPS

    0:00 Intro
    7:10 What Constitutes a TradFi Firm
    10:13 TradFi Firms with Defi
    12:16 What's Exciting about this Report?
    13:53 Stablecoins, Tokenization & More
    18:54 Public Blockchains & TradFi?
    21:05 “Tokenize The World” Moment?
    27:47 TradFi’s Long-Term Outlook
    33:19 The Formal Rejection of Private Blockchains
    38:31 What’s Left for Regulation &Compliance
    45:04 DeFi vs TradFi
    48:07 User Value
    50:55 Closing & Disclaimers

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    RESOURCES

    Paradigm Report
    https://www.paradigm.xyz/2025/03/tradfi-tomorrow-defi-and-the-rise-of-extensible-finance

    Dan Robinson
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    Justin Slaughter
    https://x.com/JBSDC

    Paradigm
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