🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ✊ STARTING GUIDE BANKLESS: https://bit.ly/37Q17uI ❤️ JOIN PRIVATE DISCORD: https://bit.ly/2UVI10O 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ 👕 BUY BANKLESS TEE: https://merch.banklesshq.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS https://bankless.cc/aave 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP https://bankless.cc/go-gemini 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📈 KWENTA | DEVIRATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY https://bankless.cc/kwenta ----- BTC Price In the last 7 days: - Touched $42,000 - Fell down to $31,000 - Regained $40,000. - Currently at $39,500 ETH Price - Touched $1,350 - Fell to $900 - Currently above $1,200 TVL in DeFi - From $22.8 to $23.3B $DPI - From $185 to $208 $MKR particularly interesting price action Retail entering; judging by exchange twitter followers https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1348220777498353665?s=20 Market Dumps because of overleverage: https://twitter.com/kaiynne/status/1348486588045668353?s=20 Numbers are bigger now Price swings, volume https://twitter.com/MessariCrypto/status/1348769821220069382?s=20 Coinbase volume https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1348895884315156481?s=20 Reminder: ETH futures on the horizon https://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2020/12/16/cme_group_to_launchetherfuturesonfebruary82021.html RELEASES Tether on a ZK Rollup https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/90738/tether-usdt-hermez-ethereum-layer-2-scaling-solution-zk-rollups Nexus mutual offering insurance on exchanges https://www.coindesk.com/nexus-mutual-decentralized-insurance-cover-coinbase-binance-kraken-gemini Bitcoin hashrate tokenized on Ethereum https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/90847/poolin-bitcoin-hashrate-token-pow-defi Connecting all the rollups with Vector? https://medium.com/connext/vector-0-1-0-mainnet-release-9496ae52c422 Cloudflare and IPFS - Your ethereum address is now accessible by any browser without an extension https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-distributed-web-resolver/ ETH staking inside Argent https://www.argent.xyz/blog/liquid-eth-staking-in-argent/ Synthetix announces Optimistic Rollup transition plan https://blog.synthetix.io/the-optimistic-ethereum-transition/ Coinbase Asset Hub https://blog.coinbase.com/introducing-coinbase-asset-hub-our-open-invitation-to-asset-issuers-f9d5f0be609d NEWS Gemini going public?? https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/91251/winklevoss-twins-weighing-taking-gemini-public Gemini BTC credit card https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/14/gemini-is-launching-a-credit-card-with-bitcoin-rewards/ Gary Gensler is new SEC chair. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-sec-exclusive/exclusive-biden-to-name-gary-gensler-as-u-s-sec-chair-sources-say-idUSKBN29H2PQ We did it. https://twitter.com/valkenburgh/status/1349717095425183747?s=20 Anchorage Becomes First OCC-Approved National Crypto Bank - CoinDesk https://www.coindesk.com/anchorage-becomes-first-occ-approved-national-crypto-bank Morgan Stanly owns 10% of Microstrategy https://www.coindesk.com/morgan-stanley-boosts-stake-in-bitcoin-laden-microstrategy-to-10-9 70,470 BTC, 10.9% is MS’s, 7681 BTC claimed to morgan stanly Pakistan using funds to mine BTC https://decrypt.co/53918/pakistan-is-now-using-government-funds-to-mine-bitcoin 2.5% of ETH supply in Gnosis safe https://twitter.com/gnosisSafe/status/1349685149408112646?s=20 TAKESSushi on the rise https://twitter.com/ashwath_22/status/1349090698788626432?s=20 Erik Voorhees on protocol competition https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1349548038822502400?s=20 Brian Brooks “Get Ready for Self-Driving Banks” https://www.ft.com/content/c1caca5b-01f7-41be-85a4-3ecb883f2417 Bitcoin is less risky as NGU https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-bill-miller-cnbc-volatility-risk Ryan on ICOs - were ICOs net good or net bad? https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1347599685356314626?s=20Starting pistol for Web3 decentralization https://twitter.com/FEhrsam/status/1348316470258794496?s=20 Mark Cuban on internet tech stocks https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1348698853072130057?s=20 Bitcoin in race for adoption ahead of CBDCs https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-race-for-adoption-central-bank-digital-currencies ----- Don't stop at the video! 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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ✊ STARTING GUIDE BANKLESS: https://bit.ly/37Q17uI ❤️ JOIN PRIVATE DISCORD: https://bit.ly/2UVI10O 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ 👕 BUY BANKLESS TEE: https://merch.banklesshq.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS https://bankless.cc/aave 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP https://bankless.cc/go-gemini 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📈 KWENTA | DEVIRATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY https://bankless.cc/kwent ------ State of the Nation #29 Erik Voorhees & ShapeShift (DEX Aggregator, Regulation, Deplatforming, and the Bull Market) Erik Voorhees is the CEO of ShapeShift, a company offering exchange and trading infrastructure, but doesn't act like a typical exchange! ShapeShift ( https://shapeshift.com/) used to be a place where one could atomically trade asset-for-asset. You would set up a trade between two different assets like BTC and ETH. ShapeShift would give you a BTC address to receive BTC, and you would give ShapeShift an Ethereum address for them to return ETH to you. ShapeShift never required you to 'deposit' your money, and never held onto users' funds! It was a very popular product during the 2017 Bull Market, yet the company decided to implement KYC requirements, in a move to protect the company from legal liability. It looks like ShapeShift has found a way to remove those KYC requirements without legal risk, and that is by becoming a DEX aggregator! We discuss this pivot with Erik, as well as a few other topics as well: - Crypto regulations in 2021 - "deplatforming" - The new crypto bull cycle. Tune in to this week's State of the Nation! ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case