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Oct 2022
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ROLLUP: Is SBF Killing DeFi?? | Aptos La...

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3rd Week of October, 2022

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Topics Covered

0:00 Intro
2:10 Push
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4:12 MARKETS
4:14 BTC Price
4:20 ETH Price
5:21 ETH/BTC
6:25 Total Crypto Market Cap
6:41 30 Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Hit 7.15%
https://twitter.com/GRDecter/status/1582525803849711618 
10:23 US01Y Driving Entire $500T Global Finance System
https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1581691051592454144 
11:41 The Burn Continues
https://ultrasound.money/ 
14:18 Euler ATH
https://twitter.com/DefiLlama/status/1582456499204259841 
14:25 Alpha Leak
https://youtu.be/S18KEgxG60I
14:57 Music NFTs Are Real?
https://twitter.com/tokenterminal/status/1583045759402139648 

20:55 Regulating Crypto…DCCPA & SBF
https://twitter.com/alliancedao/thread/1582800340520312833 
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1582712466001129473 
28:00 SBF’s Thoughts on Crypto Regulation
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1582835426116575235 
https://www.ftxpolicy.com/posts/possible-digital-asset-industry-standards 
29:30 RSA Take
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1582842277948362753 
34:30 SBF vs. Community
https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1582864821241794560 
https://twitter.com/scott_lew_is/status/1582452902500499456 
https://twitter.com/scott_lew_is/status/1583105661159632897 

38:20 Aptos Debut Bomb
https://twitter.com/aptoslabs/status/1582085109016014849 
40:10 ‘Aptos is Broken’ Thread
https://twitter.com/ParadigmEng420/thread/1582121408548651009 
43:25 Community Takes
https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1582671611836387328 
https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1582168143715536896 
https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1582162466867277824 

46:30 Ethereum Censorship
46:45 51% of ETH Blocks OFAC Compliant
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/y413q8/in_the_last_24hrs_51_of_eth_blocks_were_censored/ 
https://www.mevwatch.info/ 
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/10/14/censored-ethereum-blocks-hit-the-51-threshold-over-the-past-24-hours 
https://twitter.com/basileSportif/thread/1581906143538221058 
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1582019760539471878 

58:25 ETH
58:27 Flashbots Reveals New Version of Its Key Ethereum Software
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/10/14/flashbots-reveals-new-version-of-its-key-ethereum-software/? 
https://twitter.com/phildaian/status/1582873972475310081 
1:00:55 zkEVM Proof Merging
https://twitter.com/zksync/thread/1582088277951062016 
1:03:11 Uniswap on 8 Chains
https://twitter.com/Uniswap/status/1580996750180900865 

1:04:27 NFTs
1:04:30 Buy a House On-chain
https://thedefiant.io/house-sold-as-nft 
1:08:28 Reddit Onboarding Explosion
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/18/redditors-have-created-millions-of-crypto-wallets-to-buy-nft-avatars/ 

1:11:05 REGULATION
1:11:10 EU Countries Must Be Ready to Block Crypto Mining - Commission
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/10/18/eu-countries-must-be-ready-to-block-crypto-mining-commission-says/ 

1:12:50 MISC
1:12:55 Cosmos Security Vulnerability Uncovered on IBC
https://cointelegraph.com/news/cosmos-co-founder-says-a-major-security-vulnerability-has-been-uncovered-on-ibc
1:13:42 BNY Mellon Digital Asset Custody Platform
https://www.marketsmedia.com/bny-mellon-launches-digital-asset-custody-platform/ 

1:14:42 RELEASES
1:14:45 dYdX Credit Card Deposit
https://twitter.com/antoniomjuliano/status/1582067580285505538 
1:15:40 OPCraft
https://dev.optimism.io/opcraft-autonomous-world/ 

1:17:27 JOBS
https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs 

1:20:34 TAKES
1:20 35 BTC & ETH Worth Less
https://twitter.com/rleshner/status/1582125611052851200 
1:22:20 Bankless Bigger
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1580578258822713345 
1:22:58 Tom Emmer
https://twitter.com/RepTomEmmer/status/1582915646157131779 
1:23:20 How to Reg Capture
https://twitter.com/DrNickA/thread/1543589492409466881 

1:27:00 What David’s Bullish On
1:29:15 What Ryan’s Bullish On

1:31:28 MEME of the Week
https://twitter.com/nickwh8te/status/1582450228350709760 

1:32:30 Closing & Disclosures

1:32:48 Moment of Zen
https://twitter.com/MasonVersluis/status/1583149433881255940 

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