Download the crypto meta to your brain in this weekly show. ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/  🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/  🎖 CLAIM YOUR BADGE: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-2-using-the-bankless-badge  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/go-gemini  🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT https://bankless.cc/metamask  🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED FUNDING http://bankless.cc/uniswap 🔀 BALANCER | EXCHANGE & POOL ASSETS https://bankless.cc/balancer   ------ 📣 DHARMA | From Dollars to DeFi in a Tap! https://bankless.cc/dharma  ------ Topics Covered: Compound TVL https://twitter.com/defipulse/status/1380889501283799042  $COIN Price https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-COIN/  Who’s Buying COIN? https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/101760/cathie-wood-ark-246-million-coinbase-stocks  RELEASES Maker / AAVE Proposal https://forum.makerdao.com/t/discussion-direct-deposit-dai-module-d3m/7357  Gas Fees Down? https://twitter.com/0xEther/status/1381513763661176834?s=20  Binance Tokenized Stonks https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/101335/binance-launches-tokenized-stock-trading-tesla  Raid Guild Smart Invoice https://medium.com/raid-guild/introducing-smart-invoice-211776245a0b  NEWS Coinbase Public Listing https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000162828021003168/coinbaseglobalincs-1.htm  Coinbase Giving Shares to Employees https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1382163782315704322?s=20  Ethereum Berlin https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/03/08/ethereum-berlin-upgrade-announcement/  JPM & Mastercard invest in Consensys https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-hub-consensys-raises-65m-from-big-banks-and-blockchain-builders  Gitcoin Raise https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1382411085161099265  dYdX L2 Volume https://imgur.com/a/nFdygKj  MakerDAO Real World Assets https://twitter.com/nomos_paradox/status/1381684052969721856?s=20  Epic Games Raises $1B for NFTs https://venturebeat.com/2021/04/13/epic-games-raises-1-billlion-to-fund-long-term-metaverse-plans/amp/  41:20 Immutable Integrations https://twitter.com/Immutable/status/1382548807083204610  Regulation https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/101595/us-senate-confirms-gary-gensler-as-joe-bidens-sec-commissioner  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/101553/sec-peirce-token-safe-harbor-update  HSBC Bans Crypto https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1380526047188369409?s=21  TAKES WSB Allows Crypto https://twitter.com/cyounessi1/status/1382519260392591361  Hard to Use ETH? https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1381618315513200643?s=20  NYSE vs. Uniswap https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1381677367358283783  “Thereum” https://twitter.com/ryansadams/status/1382701166757347350?s=21  How Long Bull Market? https://twitter.com/ryansadams/status/1382503698442678273?s=21  ETH Killers vs. Infrastructure https://twitter.com/JimmyRagosa/status/1381613502276775946?s=20  Vitalik on Maximalism https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1381468493317505028?s=20  ------ This Week on Bankless: 🏴 SotN w/ Cryptex & Element (4/13: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/sotn-42-ethereum-devs-building-defi  ⚒️ How to Use dYdX (4/13): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-trade-on-the-dydx-rollup  📈 Market Monday (4/12): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/coinbase-week-market-monday  🎙️Podcast w/ Hester Peirce (4/12): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-the-sec-and-defi-hester-peirce  ----- 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 I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures 

Both Preston Van Loon of Cryptex and Will Willanueva of Element Finance have helped build the Ethereum Protocol, but are now both working on DeFi apps. In this State of the Nation, we dive into what it's like for Ethereum Devs building DeFi. State of the Nations are Livestreamed on Tuesdays at 11am PST. ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/  🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/  🎖 CLAIM YOUR BADGE: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-2-using-the-bankless-badge  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/go-gemini  🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT https://bankless.cc/metamask  🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE http://bankless.cc/uniswap  🔀 KWENTA | SYNTHETIC ASSET EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/kwenta  ------ State of the Nation #42: Ethereum Devs Building DeFi Guests: Preston Van Loon & Will Villanueva Tremendous work has been (and is still being) done to develop Ethereum 2, and just as much innovation is happening in Ethereum's app layer, DeFi. In this week's State of the Nation, we bring on guys who have done both: Preston Van Loon and Will Villanueva. Preston Van Loon is a former Google software engineer who switched to crypto full-time after Vitalik put 1000 ETH into Prysmatic Labs, which Preston founded. Prysmatic labs is now the most popular ETH 2 client. Preston is also the co-founder of a brand new DeFi app ‘Cryptex’, which is a collateralized synthetic asset that tracks the total market cap of all crypto-assets. Will Villanueva is a former team member of the Quilt team at Consensys and contributed to a mountain of R&D on Ethereum sharding. Will is now the CEO of Element, which offers high yield fixed income for DeFi assets. Element works by breaking a single token into two different ones; a yield-bearing token, and a principle token. We brought both Will and Preston because their unique work histories of first helping build the Ethereum Protocol and now building DeFi apps. We discuss how their experiences have shaped their current projects, the trajectory of Ethereum and its app layer, and the timing of it all. "The Hardest Problems Draw the Smartest People." - Preston Van Loon ------ Resources: Cryptex: https://cryptex.finance/  Element Finance: https://element.fi/  Preston on Twitter: https://twitter.com/preston_vanloon?s=20  Will on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wjvill?s=20  ------ This Week on Bankless: ⚒️ How to Use dYdX (4/13: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-trade-on-the-dydx-rollup  📈 Market Monday (4/12): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/coinbase-week-market-monday  🎙️Podcast w/ Hester Peirce (4/12): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-the-sec-and-defi-hester-peirce  🧢 Weekly Action Recap (4/10): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-coinbase-tsunami-weekly-recap  🗞️ Weekly Rollup (4/9): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-rollup-coinbase-ipo-fei-protocol 🏴 dYdX & StarkWare (4/6): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/sotn-41-scaling-defi-with-dydx-and  ⚒️ How to Crypto Tax (4/6): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-do-crypto-taxes-for-the-lazy  ----- 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 I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures