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Bankless Weekly Rollup
3rd Week of February 2023

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Topics Covered

0:00 Intro
4:00 Markets
7:35 Inflation
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/14/consumer-price-index-january-2023-.html 
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2023/02/14/cpi-january-inflation-data-today-live-updates/11247836002/ 
11:45 ETH Supply
https://ultrasound.money/ 
15:54 BTC Halving Timelines
https://twitter.com/DU09BTC/status/1626118062360469505 

23:40 U.S. Ban Hammer 
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-25 
https://twitter.com/GaryGensler/status/1623777842000539648 
https://blog.kraken.com/post/17619/settlement/ 
28:15 Commissioner Hester M. Peirce Dissent
https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/peirce-statement-kraken-020923 
31:55 Coinbase Reactions
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1623860170404286464  
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1624829368915890176  
33:00 Reactions & Takes
https://twitter.com/ohaiom/status/1624534998069006337  
https://twitter.com/milesjennings/status/1623850932860784641 
38:30 SEC & NYDFS Hammering on Paxos
https://paxos.com/2023/02/13/paxos-issues-statement/  
40:10 PayPal Pauses Stablecoin Work
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-10/paypal-pauses-stablecoin-work-amid-regulatory-scrutiny-of-crypto  
42:10 New SEC Rule restricts Which U.S. Companies Can Custody Crypto 
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/15/sec-proposal-could-bar-investment-advisers-from-keeping-assets-at-crypto-firms/  
48:22 Hester Take
https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/peirce-statement-custody-021523  

49:45 Blur Drop
https://twitter.com/blur_io/status/1625566146241114112 
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/blur  
https://twitter.com/MannionNFT/status/1625602378106908673  
https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1625620810902675457  

53:45 ETH
https://twitter.com/ultrasoundmoney/status/1625209951944642581 
https://nerolation.github.io/mevflow.html  
55:38 Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Launched on March 27th!
https://twitter.com/MihailoBjelic/status/1625532387235971076 
56:50 zkSync Era Mainnet
https://twitter.com/zksync/status/1626235292268240902 
https://forms.gle/KBreznP3g8aJYTJS7 

1:01:30 NFTs
https://twitter.com/cozomomedici/status/1625206526800703488 
1:01:52 BTC NFTS
https://dune.com/dataalways/ordinals 
https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/02/09/bitcoin-punks-ordinal-nft-collection-soars-in-value/ 

1:06:40 SBF
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/sam-bankman-frieds-two-bond-guarantors-revealed-after-unsealing-.html 
https://twitter.com/AutismCapital/status/1625930741367595008  

1:07:57 Celsius
https://twitter.com/CelsiusUcc/status/1625854272561889281 
https://twitter.com/CelsiansNetwork/status/1625600427696717825 

1:10:30 Releases
Sign-In with Ethereum on Shopify 
https://twitter.com/sadaf_eth/status/1624086599486283776  
1:11:55 Token Terminal Financial statements for DAOs
https://twitter.com/tokenterminal/status/1625838112218677250 

1:16:25 Questions from the Nation

Takes of the Week
1:23:40 Balaji
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1625720725645692928  
1:25:40 6529
https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1625619140705656847 
1:26:15 Ryan Question
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1625832853056417792 

1:30:00 What David’s Bullish On
1:32:45 What Ryan’s Bullish On
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1626249830191321089 

1:37:22 MEME of the Week
https://twitter.com/ColinLieb/status/1623815237425106948  

Risks & Disclaimers

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