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WEEKLY ROLLUP: Crypto Is Running Out of Reasons to Go Lower
Inflation cooled, war intensified, and crypto climbed anyway. @TrustlessState and @RyanSAdams ask if the bottom is in, unpack Robinhood Chain’s surge past Base, and debate who benefits from Ethereum’s L2 boom.
WEEKLY ROLLUP: Crypto Is Running Out of Reasons to Go Lower
Inflation cooled, war intensified, and crypto climbed anyway. @TrustlessState and @RyanSAdams ask if the bottom is in, unpack Robinhood Chain’s surge past Base, and debate who benefits from Ethereum’s L2 boom.
Kendall Cole says @near_intents isn't just swaps, it's chain abstraction infrastructure.
One account, custodying assets on any chain, signing transactions on any chain.
"It's this really nice primitive that allows near.com to go and actually integrate with all of
There’s a missing layer in onchain trading: tools built for prosumers, not just memecoin traders.
That’s the gap @buffalu__ wants @jtx_trade to fill.
“ $JTX is a prosumer trading terminal.”
“A lot of the tools that exist today
NEW EPISODE - Jito Is Coming for Coinbase and Binance
@jito_sol founder @buffalu__ joins @TrustlessState to unveil @jtx_trade, a new trading terminal built to make @solana feel like a centralized exchange without giving up onchain execution.
They talk about:
- Why Solana can
NEW REPORT: TDR Pro’s 1st-Year Portfolio Audit: Wins, Learnings & the Current Portfolio
@JustDeauIt opens the books on TDR Pro’s first year: a portfolio up 13% through a crypto bear market, 53% realized gains, and a timely risk-off call before Bitcoin fell 45%. @RyanSAdams and
NEW EPISODE - Jito Is Coming for Coinbase and Binance
@jito_sol founder @buffalu__ joins @TrustlessState to unveil @jtx_trade, a new trading terminal built to make @solana feel like a centralized exchange without giving up onchain execution.
They talk about:
- Why Solana can
I record with @david_seroy about the Frontier of Bitcoin
Topics so far:
- Garbled circuits
- Circle, Morpho, Fluid, on Bitcoin L2's
- PropAMM's on Bitcoin L2's
- SheidedCSV
- Bitcoin-backed repo markets
What do you want to know about what's being built on Bitcoin's margins?
INTERVIEW: Wall Street’s Crypto Golden Era? | Charles Schwab’s Director of Digital Currencies Research & Strategy, Jim Ferraioli
Crypto natives are giving up just as Wall Street is leaning in? @SchwabResearch's Jim Ferraioli joins @TrustlessState to explain why crypto may be
“I don't think we should know who Satoshi is.”
“It's a fun game, but it would be negative if we definitively found who Satoshi was.”
“This basically deity now becomes a cold hard real person.”
“Satoshi's whole purpose of creating the pseudonym was to be, you know, a
NEW EPISODE - Is $BTC Going According to Plan? Gold, @saylor, Satoshi | @danheld@Bitcoin started as cypherpunk rebel money. Today it has ETFs, Wall Street buyers, corporate treasuries, a strategic reserve, and Michael Saylor owning a giant slice of the supply.
So…
The “cash” in $BTC wasn’t about checkout, @danheld argues.
“The cypherpunks don't use the word cash to mean everyday transactions.”
“That's a huge misconception.”
“It means once I make a payment, it can't be reversed.”
“And usually means that it's private. It was
NEW EPISODE - Is $BTC Going According to Plan? Gold, @saylor, Satoshi | @danheld@Bitcoin started as cypherpunk rebel money. Today it has ETFs, Wall Street buyers, corporate treasuries, a strategic reserve, and Michael Saylor owning a giant slice of the supply.
So…
NEW EPISODE - Is $BTC Going According to Plan? Gold, @saylor, Satoshi | @danheld@Bitcoin started as cypherpunk rebel money. Today it has ETFs, Wall Street buyers, corporate treasuries, a strategic reserve, and Michael Saylor owning a giant slice of the supply.
So…
