ROLLUP: Prediction Market War | Base Leaves Optimism | Tomasz Exits EF | Clarity Act Lives | Harvard Buys ETH
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It is the third week of February. It is time for the Bankless Weekly Roll-Up. David, there's a fight for prediction markets. It was hot last week, and it just got even hotter on the week.
What is the legal battle surrounding prediction markets?
It got way spicier. A lot of people joined the fight. CFTC Chair Mike Selig put out a one-minute clip on Twitter, basically planting the flag, claiming prediction markets as in the domain of the CFTC, causing a ton of people to join and pick sides. Senators, Representatives... Ryan, what side do you think Elizabeth Warren picked? Because she got into the fight too. Probably not on our side. Let me just say that.
I've never seen her on our side.
Which is bullish for us. Yes, yes.
Also, executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, Tamash, one of the co-executive directors, he's leaving after just one year. Why? Why is he leaving, David? And who's going to replace him? What does this mean for Ethereum?
There's also just some alliance changes going on. Base is leaving the Optimism OP stack. They're going and rolling their own Layer 2 code. And then Zora is also launching on Solana, expanding into Solana instead of just being on Base.
The alliance is shifting around.
Why is Base leaving the Optimism ecosystem?
That's fascinating. Also, Aave Labs has got a proposal to fix the Aave token. We'll weigh in on that. Also, there's some life in the Clarity Act, David. It just might pass. The odds spiked to about 70% at one point this week, and Brian Armstrong has weighed in. And I've got to tell you about this project that I was looking at in the week. I'm not sure if it is...
autonomous life on ethereum or if this is just performance art we'll talk about the conway project all this and more but before we do we got some shout outs from our friends and sponsors over at rocket pool rocket pool basically bringing in v2 with our long-awaited saturn upgrade the largest rocket pool upgrade ever since since launched uh mainly the big the big thing is for eth validators Megapools, which is what Megapools are, are now live.
What expansion is Zora making to Solana?
So if you want to get extra yield on your stake and allow other people who don't want to run their own nodes to stake their ETH too, you can use Rocketpool to do that. For ETH validators means that you just are more capital efficient and you can earn more fees from other people who want to stake on your node. Bankless.cc slash Rocketpool to learn more about the Saturn upgrade.
That's great work to like democratize validation as well, right? Rather than 32 ETH, just 40 ETH and you can spin up and run your own validator.
What changes are happening within the Ethereum Foundation?
David, let's check in on prices really quick. Bitcoin price on the week, we up or we down on the seven day?
It's not great, $0.9,000. But hey, at least we're green.
What signs of life are there for the Clarity Act?
Ethereum, 1940. 1940 is a price 1.7% up on the week, but still anything green,
Anything below $3,000 is bad, actually, and we are below $2,000. 1940 does not sound like an ETH price. It sounds like a year in my history books.
How are institutions engaging with DeFi tokens?
I remember when ETH price was passing my birth year for the first time. But any time that ETH price is a recognizable year, it's too low.
Yeah, it's far too low. We need ETH to be in the future. But maybe Harvard is going to get us there, David, okay? Because this was interesting on the week. You know, Harvard, they have a big endowment.
What is the impact of the Netherlands' unrealized gains tax?
This is some of the institutional capital flowing around in crypto. They just sold some of their Bitcoin and purchased some Ether for the first time. in the form, of course, of an Ethereum ETF. So they sold 21% of their Bitcoin ETF and rotated that back into an Ethereum ETF. This is their first ETH purchase, about $90 million. That's doing a switcheroo, playing this ratio. Is this a quantum trade? Ah, interesting.
I wonder if this is a quantum fud.
Quantum fud for Bitcoin.
Which sounds like an incredible movie out of the Star Wars universe, Quantum Fud. It could be. I mean, it seems like it could be. I bet Nick Carter would say.
would claim as such.
I bet Nick Carter would say, I do kind of have this hot take that like, you know, ETH is going to get walloped alongside of Bitcoin because Bitcoin is going to take so long to figure out its quantum shenanigans.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–0:14
2
What is the legal battle surrounding prediction markets?
0:14–1:12
3
Why is Base leaving the Optimism ecosystem?
1:12–2:00
4
What expansion is Zora making to Solana?
2:00–2:27
5
What changes are happening within the Ethereum Foundation?
2:27–2:37
6
What signs of life are there for the Clarity Act?
2:37–2:56
7
How are institutions engaging with DeFi tokens?
2:56–3:14
8
What is the impact of the Netherlands' unrealized gains tax?
3:14–1:08:48
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