Building Bridges with Bitcoin
Oftentimes, even a revolutionary technological advancement is only the beginning of something bigger. Such was the case in the early 2000s, when the Royal Bank of Scotland released a mobile-banking app that precipitated not only the age of mobile banking, but a proliferation of other apps designed to give people easier access to and control over their money. The same phenomenon has happened since the Bitcoin whitepaper appeared: Beginning with a single game-changer, Bitcoin, the crypto space has blossomed with all manner of innovations: Not just other currencies like Ether, but entirely new ways of building, managing, and investing wealth.We’ll learn about the creation of the very first mobile banking app. Then, along with BlackRock’s Samara Cohen, we’ll dive into the world of new opportunities that crypto has opened up, from ETH and the Ethereum network, to smart contracts, tokenization, and the recent wave of crypto ETPs that have brought even more investors into the crypto space.
A presidential recalibration full of agentic frogs hits crypto
On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle look back at the decade of events that transpired in crypto land over the last week. The first topic the two chatted about was none other than the announcement Makers Place made last week about their decision to end commercial operations. Pour one out for Makers Place. The conversation meanders into areas of crypto that are going in the opposite direction, including digital art, but also areas like metaverses filled with agentic ai frogs that are legitimately interesting and are new, low-barriers-to-entry for folks curious enough and willing to put some sweat equity into kicking tires. Note: Rizzle mentioned a solana ticker called $HOPS whose CA is: HWdZgE9mfbCSNDmEYvToSgymYm4hvujUzTjeTPvE1qGK. NFA. DYOR. All the disclaimers. Shout-outs & Shots-fired: @realDonaldTrump @toxsam @cynnx_crypto @hyperfy_io @dankvr @AshConnell @ai16zdao @dannieb @jeremybooth @eleonorabrizi @superrare @niftygateway @kimasendorf @artblocks_io @buildtree_io @nftstudios_io @belloneleandro @sovrnart @opensea @highlight_xyz @magiceden @trygamma @objktcom @trislit @karenftremblay @henrydfrog @chejazi @rebaserefi @bleuelefant @bleuonbase @uniswap @kobebryant @I____felix____I @CYPHERDUDES
Rehash Live Bangkok Quiz Show w/Keeks, Dylan Abruscato, Nichanan Kesonpat, and Disruption Joe
This special live edition of Rehash was recorded during Devcon7 in Bangkok, Thailand. For the first time in Rehash history, we're playing a Jeopardy-style quiz show with Keeks (Parabl), Dylan Abruscato (CTG), Nichanan Kesonpat (1kx), and Disruption Joe (Arbitrum). Tune in to find out who the winner is (and if you're smarter than our panelists!)
Make Ethereum Great Again
Bing is the co-founder of MegaETH, who are building the first realtime blockchain on Ethereum which seeks to achieve 100,000 transactions per second with <10ms blocktimes. MegaETH announced their seed round in June of last year, where they raised $20M led by Dragonfly Capital with some very prominent angels like Vitalik, Joseph Lubin, Sreeram and Cobie. They also just recently sold out a $10M community round on Echo in seconds. Bing is also an advisor to Consensys + the founder of Hotpot DAO. In this conversation we discussed Bing’s history and journey towards MegaETH; the MegaETH story + product and why its vision is so important for Ethereum.
Trump Issues Order On Digital Assets
President Trump issues an executive order on digital assets. Liquity V2 goes live on mainnet. Morpho Labs introduces Bundler3. And Circle launches a USDC Paymaster. Read more: https://ethdaily.io/632
