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David Hoffmann

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595 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

This is a dashboard, DunaList dashboard from Hildabi of average blob count per block.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

And you could see we were just about reaching the ceiling of demand starting to exceed supply.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

And then we just got another boost upgrade, another blob stimulus upgrade.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

upgrade, and we're going to get another one.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

It's going to be a while before L2s probably hit those things.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

Well, it depends on how fast they grow.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

At a very frequent cadence.

Bankless
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This is kind of a Javon's paradox type thing of like, you know, the more, the cheaper the cost, the cheaper the resource, the more that will be consumed.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

And I think that's exactly what's happening here.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

David, I want to tell you about the different world we are in from a regulatory perspective.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

And I know we've covered this so much, but every time I look at it and zoom out, I'm just like...

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

Yeah, okay, so Regulator's doing a complete 180 on crypto this year, and it really feels to me like, do you know like in the Disney movies when the spell is broken and the villain gets, or like take Lord of the Rings, you know, Sauron, the ring gets cast in the fire and Sauron's tower collapses and all of the darkness fades away.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

That's what's happening right now is all of the darkness is receding from... Is Gary Gensler Sauron in this example?

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

Yes, pretty much.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

Anyway, let's talk about three agencies here and what they're doing.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

So the first is the SEC.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

The SEC is ending a two-year investigation into Ondo Finance tokenization platform.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

I want to zoom out and remind you that the SEC had enforcement actions in close to 20 different crypto companies, many of these notable organizations.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

A dozen inquiries and lawsuits have now ended with no enforcement, Ando being the latest.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

So, and we had Corey Frayer on, who was actually Gary Gensler's lieutenant, and he didn't like this at all.