ROLLUP: OpenSea Arrest | Optimism OP Airdrop | Kanye West NFTs | OpenSea Arrest | Solana Halted | ETH 2.0 Merge | Velodrome

Last Week of May, 2022

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—— Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro

4:45 MARKETS 5:08 BTC Price 5:45 ETH Price 7:15 FTX Surpasses Coinbase https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/149654/ftx-surpassed-coinbase-as-second-biggest-centralized-crypto-exchange-in-may 9:19 Gemini Layoffs https://decrypt.co/101881/gemini-lays-off-10-staff-prepare-crypto-winter

11:00 NEWS

12:00 Optimism ($OP) Drop https://app.optimism.io/airdrop/check 16:11 OP Price https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/optimism 18:04 Recapping the Airdrop https://twitter.com/optimismPBC/thread/1532110295421829123 22:45 Burning https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1531915789103599616 25:10 Fee Revenue https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1531814581932158977 26:58 Coinbase Supports $OP https://twitter.com/coinbaseassets/status/1531754747321262080 27:35 Controversial Governance https://gov.optimism.io/t/users-who-sold-the-initial-op-airdrop-should-become-ineligible-for-all-future-airdrops/2143 30:34 Cobie’s Response https://gov.optimism.io/t/extended-ineligibility-for-future-airdrops/2249

34:14 Velodrome Airdrop https://stakingbits.medium.com/velodrome-finance-velo-airdrop-is-live-heres-how-to-claim-43e65c5c18f2   37:05 L2 Fees https://l2fees.info/l1-fees

39:32 OpenSea Front-Runner Facing Charges https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-employee-nft-marketplace-charged-first-ever-digital-asset-insider-trading-scheme 45:08 Front-Running https://twitter.com/Dogetoshi/status/1532052263375708162

49:20 ETH 2.0 Merge https://blog.ethereum.org/2022/05/30/ropsten-merge-announcement/

52:08 Pooly NFT https://blockworks.co/pooltogether-flocks-to-nfts-to-raise-legal-defense-funds/

53:50 Kanye West Yeezus https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/149745/kanye-wests-yeezus-files-for-nft-trademarks

55:35 Risks of Liquid Staking https://twitter.com/dannyryan/status/1531383030786314240

1:00:00 Battle for the Apes Avalanche: https://forum.apecoin.com/t/aip-idea-otherside-as-an-avalanche-subnet/6369 Immutable X: https://twitter.com/NorthRockLP/status/1530491299727556609 1:03:25 AVAX vs Immutable X https://twitter.com/NorthRockLP/status/1530491299727556609

1:03:51 Solana Down Again https://twitter.com/solanastatus/status/1532043450107015168?s=21&t=OD7ahgCknAnOgQClUhELIQ

1:05:44 Jobs https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs

1:07:30 RELEASES 1:07:45 Bankless DAO Tax Guide https://twitter.com/TaxDroid/status/1532036819189129218 1:09:10 Zerion Mobile Wallet https://zerion.io/blog/announcing-the-zerion-smart-wallet/ 1:10:40 Voltz Protocol https://twitter.com/voltz_xyz/status/1532029218518876161 1:12:52 DeFi Saver L2 https://twitter.com/DeFiSaver/status/1531299975661068288 1:13:50 Immutable IMX Staking https://twitter.com/Immutable/status/1531081329865269248?s=20&t=kCTh4dBgrmptze-ut3gS3Q 1:14:30 Lummis Crypto Bill https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/149186/heres-a-full-draft-of-senator-cynthia-lummis-landmark-crypto-bill 1:16:18 Binance $500m Raise https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/01/binance-labs-closes-500m-fund-to-focus-on-web3-and-blockchain-adoption/ 1:18:00 Blockspace Demand https://twitter.com/frogmonkee/status/1532092154037907457 1:22:50 New Use Cases https://twitter.com/cryptoversidad/status/1532099747783159808?s=20&t=KcDR2bM8-9ajrtWT4AOaWg

1:26:30 TAKES 1:27:08 Understanding the Merge https://twitter.com/0xfoobar/status/1531710201639882756?s=20&t=YP7GlgRatNiU0azz-leO4g 1:28:26 DAO Human Trilemme https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1531728875335524352 1:32:50 EVM https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1532198738927579137

1:33:30 What David’s Bullish On 1:36:00 What Ryan’s Bullish On

1:38:10 MEME of the Week https://imgur.com/4KCMNLA

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