LIVE NOW -- Markets Turn Bullish? $ETH's Pectra Boost, Apple's Crypto Shift & White House’s Stablecoin Plan
This week, @RyanSAdams and @TrustlessState 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.
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0:00 Intro
0:32 Markets
13:44 Big win for Crypto against Apple App Store Monopoly! (h/t @hlopez_ @0xCygaar)
21:36 Ethereum upgrade live on mainnet! (h/t @adietrichs @drakefjustin @tkstanczak)
40:04 Coinbase Acquires Options Platform @DeribitOfficial
41:55 Treasury Secretary is ALL in on Stablecoins
(h/t @SecScottBessent @intangiblecoins @SenatorHagerty @BrendanPedersen)
47:26 Dems introduced legislation that would ban sitting presidents from issuing tokens
54:04 @coinbase announced a new open source payments protocol - x402 (h/t @CoinbaseDev)
57:44 Bitcoin community is splitting over limit removal plan (h/t @ColeTU @MartyBent)
1:01:55 @unichain becomes the first L2 building blocks with TEE!
1:04:26 @CharlesSchwab wants to launch spot Bitcoin trading by April 2026
1:05:15 Bankless’s New Podcast! @LimitlessFT - go subscribe & follow
1:06:55 Closing & Disclaimers