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ROLLUP: ETH’s Pectra Upgrade | $2T Stablecoin Push | Apple’s Crypto Breakthrough | Coinbase Buys Deribit!

09 May 2025

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This week, Ryan and David unpack Ethereum’s game-changing "Pectra" upgrade, doubling Layer 2 blob space and sparking fresh debates on L1 scaling. Meanwhile, Washington sets its sights on a $2 trillion stablecoin market, Apple’s App Store monopoly cracks open to crypto, and Coinbase makes a historic acquisition of Deribit. Plus, Bitcoin breaks $100K and ETH $2k, are we officially back in bull territory? Find out on this week’s Weekly Rollup.------💫 LIMITLESS | SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOWhttps://www.youtube.com/@Limitless-FT https://x.com/LimitlessFT ------BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFihttps://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAINhttps://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORKhttps://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELFhttps://bankless.cc/Self 🟠HEMI | BTC & ETH, ONE NETWORKhttps://bankless.cc/hemi ------TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES0:00 Intro0:32 Marketshttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/07/fed-meeting-live-updates-traders-await-insight-from-powell-on-next-rate-cut-tariff-impact.html https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?id=EFFR%2CDFEDTARU%2CDFEDTARL%2C&utm_source=chatgpt.com https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114471750357100883 https://x.com/ForexLive/status/1919864600339558405 13:44 Big win for Crypto against Apple App Store Monopoly! https://x.com/hlopez_/status/1918113804938056100 https://x.com/0xCygaar/status/1918335966538068300 https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1920486709831033039 21:36 Ethereum upgrade live on mainnet! https://x.com/TimBeiko/status/1920145795430727686 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1919746313760969136 https://www.bankless.com/read/eip-7702-ethereum-onchain-culture https://x.com/adietrichs/status/1920083962472300928 https://x.com/drakefjustin/status/1920343548047569165 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1920488999296078131 https://x.com/tkstanczak/status/1920157389568737478 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1920498941583348014 40:04 Coinbase Acquires Options Platform Deribithttps://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/coinbase-strikes-2-9-billion-deal-for-major-crypto-options-platform-a87ca4b3?utm_source=chatgpt.com 41:55 Treasury Secretary is ALL in on Stablecoins https://x.com/SecScottBessent/status/1920140049254854778 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/crypto-tether-eyes-us-expansion-with-new-stablecoin-as-ceo-courts-washington.html https://x.com/intangiblecoins/status/1918802270310777128 https://x.com/SenatorHagerty/status/1918827160954909111 https://x.com/BrendanPedersen/status/1920193925081338114 47:26 Dems introduced legislation that would ban sitting presidents from issuing tokenshttps://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-and-schumer-lead-the-charge-to-end-crypto-corruption-by-trump-other-elected-officials/ https://x.com/Cointelegraph/status/1919405803112472797 https://x.com/StevenTDennis/status/1920088287747711380 https://x.com/DegenerateNews/status/1919109508120371209 https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1919120401604477095 https://cointelegraph.com/news/eu-crypto-ban-anonymous-privacy-tokens-2027 54:04 Coinbase announced a new open source payments protocol - x402.https://x.com/CoinbaseDev/status/1919784224170889696 https://chatgpt.com/share/681ba731-5244-8008-b801-37e128e240b8 https://stripe.com/en-cz/newsroom/news/sessions-2025 57:44 Bitcoin community is splitting over limit removal planhttps://x.com/ColeTU/thread/1919769012998647880 https://x.com/MartyBent/status/1919226199529677042 1:01:55 Unichain becomes the first L2 building blocks with TEE! https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1918450159274319876 1:04:26 Charles Schwab wants to launch spot Bitcoin trading by April 2026https://cointelegraph.com/news/charles-schwab-eyes-spot-bitcoin-trading-2026 1:05:15 Bankless’s New Podcast! Limitless - go subscribe & follow https://www.youtube.com/@Limitless-FT https://x.com/LimitlessFT 1:06:55 Closing & Disclaimers ------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

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