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📺 ROLLUP: SECOND WEEK OF APRIL, 2022

April 15th, 2022

MARKET

• BTC Price

• ETH/BTC Ratio

• $BED

• Gas Markets

• Total Crypto Market Cap

• ETH Min Gas Price Post-Merge

• ICHI Token

• White House: Extraordinarily Elevated Inflation

• Bloomberg Merge Estimates

RELEASES

• Robinhood Crypto Wallet Transfers

• Polygon KPI Liquidity Mining

• Umbra Now Available on Optimism & Arbitrum

• Uniswap Swap Widget

• AVAX Mempool Opening Up

RAISES

• Epic Games $2B to build an Avatar Filled Metaverse

• Uniswap Labs Ventures

• Circle $400M

• AVAX Labs

• Ignite (formerly Tendermint) Launches $150M Accelerator

• Goldman Sachs Invests $88M in Certik

• Nomad $22M

NEWS

• Merge Won’t Be in June

• Maple <> Maker

• Meta 50% Commission on NFTs

• The BAYC Brand/Restaurant

• Coinbase Interactive 3-Part Film - BAYC the Movie

• Jack Dorsey NFTs Not Rare?

• ETH NFT-Backed Loan Market

• Elon Not Joining Twitter Board?

• Axie Infinity Hacker Launders 7.5% of Stolen ETH

• $NEAR Launches April 20th

REGULATION / TRADEFI / MISC

• USDC Stablecoin Issuer Hires Execus to Oversee Regulation

• Celsius No More Deposits

• Uniswap Labs Being Sued

TAKES

• U.S. Taxes

Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle

Every other country: here are your taxes. Does this look OK? America: TurboTax and H&R Block lobbied Congress so you have to pay them hundreds of dollars and pull together all the paperwork the government already has to file your taxes manually.

4:21 PM ∙ Apr 11, 2022

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• Local or Global DeFi Winners

RYAN SΞAN ADAMS - rsa.eth 🦇🔊 @RyanSAdams

A question for you DeFi big brains🧠 Local or global winners? Local winners = each chain ends up w/ a unique set of dominant DeFi protocols (power law per chain) Global winners = mega defi protocols outcompete locals & achieve multi chain dominance (power law per DeFi app)

1:04 PM ∙ Apr 12, 2022

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hildobby @ ETHAmsterdam @hildobby_

@RyanSAdams Stats following Uniswap's arrival on Polygon leads me to believe that user stickiness will lead to global winners 🤔 imo the average user sticks to what he is familiar with, but it will be interesting to see how things develop Source 👉 dune.xyz/queries/596198

1:40 PM ∙ Apr 12, 2022

• Who Could’ve Foreseen This?

Eric Wall @ercwl

Obviously, the solution is a new EVM fork

12:52 AM ∙ Apr 12, 2022

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• This is Why We Fight

DavidHoffman.ethᵐᶠᵉʳ 🦇🔊🏴 @TrustlessState

Just published in @BanklessHQ: "The Empire Model for Blockchains" If you're not playing for the #1 spot...then you're not playing. This is why crypto is tribal. This is why we fight. I'll say the quiet part out loud: We all want to be in the #1 spot.

newsletter.banklesshq.comThe Empire Model for BlockchainsIf you’re not playing to be an empire, you’re not playing.

9:35 PM ∙ Apr 13, 2022

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MEME OF THE WEEK

Pollo2x @Pollo2x

8:09 PM ∙ Apr 13, 2022

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The Rug | Crypto News @TheRugNews

IRS — Web3 Community Employs Tax Strategy, “You’ll figure it out.”

2:43 PM ∙ Apr 14, 2022

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MOMENT OF ZEN

Jonathan Mann @songadaymann

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6:55 PM ∙ Apr 7, 2022

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