Today, we have a classic LayerZero style episode with nonother than Abdel Bakhta. Abdel is the Head of Ecosystem at Starkware and is onboarding new species to  the Least Aligned L2, Starknet. We cover the origins of Starkware and how its culture has evolved, there’s also a ton of Starkware Project Alpha on this episode so stay tuned. ---- 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/sui-basecamp  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/Podcast  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠  🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo    🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION https://bankless.cc/toku    🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle    ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum  💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 https://bankless.cc/CTC  —— TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 4:01 Abdel’s Background 11:12 Starkware Beginnings 14:59 Ethereum Alignment Meme 17:53 Starkware Culture Evolution 26:19 Getting to Decentralization 35:32 The Starknet Playbook 39:50 The Stark Dads 47:21 What’s Next 52:38 The Starknet Mafia 57:09 Abdel Focus Areas 1:01:00 Closing Thoughts------ RESOURCES Abdel Bakhta https://twitter.com/dimahledba  Starkware https://starkware.co/   Starknet https://www.starknet.io/en   ------ 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://www.bankless.com/disclosures  

3rd Week of February 2024 ------ 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/sui-basecamp   ------ 🎧Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/Podcast   ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2   ⁠   🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo     🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION https://bankless.cc/toku     🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle     💸 CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | USE CODE BANK30 https://bankless.cc/CTC   ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum    ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 3:45 Markets 4:10 Quiet Bull Market https://twitter.com/trustlessstate/status/1756699544195080551  7:55 ETFs sucking up 10x more BTC than miners can produce https://farside.co.uk/?p=997  11:20 All BTC spot ETF together now hold more than 1% of all BTC that will ever exist  https://x.com/HODL15Capital/status/1757528626252136608  https://www.fidelity.ca/en/investments/solutions-portfolios/all-in-one/  16:02 Anthony Pompliano shilling BTC on wall street again!  https://x.com/APompliano/status/1757030179489157575   17:44 Gary G https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1757818869127737586   https://x.com/robustus/status/1757830024739135994  19:28 The last time BTC was at $50,000: https://twitter.com/MitchellHODL/status/1757093864173609023  21:40 Franklin Templeton spot ETH ETF  https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1757142599016616334  22:40 Franklin and Templeton’s Sandy Kaul https://youtu.be/HuOH7ZBJ2P4?si=4lFtWcoaoHLrnQIW  23:10 L2 Growth https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary 23:58 LRT growth https://warpcast.com/sassal.eth/0x2cca1544  https://defillama.com/protocols/Liquid%20restaking/Ethereum  24:10 Vance FanCam https://x.com/pythianism/status/1757792341837168927  https://x.com/pythianism/status/1757417847301738676  30:18 Starknet Token $STRK https://twitter.com/Starknet/status/1757685565669925215   https://tokeninsight.com/en/coins/starknet/tokenomics   https://provisions.starknet.io.   33:55 Positive: https://x.com/TimBeiko/status/1757788002863255899   https://x.com/DCbuild3r/status/1757757332853756073  https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1757762433781752205  Bankless Nation: d0wnlore  36:00 Negative:  https://x.com/LefterisJP/status/1757900583632032160  Bankless Nation: Dartanian.eth   https://imgur.com/19poxsT  Bankless Nation: Traunstein https://imgur.com/Z3XA9Wg  39:24 Backlash regarding tokens unlock for investors and team  https://x.com/Loopifyyy/status/1757755030055112883  https://docs.starknet.io/documentation/architecture_and_concepts/Economics-of-Starknet/  41:50 Starknet is listening: https://x.com/Dogetoshi/status/1757829203091681667  Check out our episode with Eli and Diego: Starknet Token Launch Is Here! ($STRK) https://youtu.be/-IYxwKFsTE4  47:30 ETH Since this week, anyone can deploy mainnet rollups on Conduit! https://twitter.com/conduitxyz/status/1757812032756224399  48:25 GoFundMe refused processing fundraising for Roman Storm’s legal defense!  https://twitter.com/FreeAlexeyRoman/status/1757873646440186039  51:44 Donate: https://wewantjusticedao.org/donate  51:55 Regulation / TradFi / Misc 3 Observation about being a crypto native in the U.S.  https://x.com/BanklessHQ/status/1757200445762830388  54:20 Here are 5 things you are asked when you file taxes in the US  https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1757816696381809020  56:30 Did you know that the US can yoink funds directly from your bank account without court order? https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1757843329725690296  1:00:36 Sam Altman seeks $7T for a new AI chip project  https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/09/openai-ceo-sam-altman-reportedly-seeking-trillions-of-dollars-for-ai-chip-project.html  https://x.com/sama/status/1755294743565930726  Nvidia also surpassed Amazon’s market cap ( $1.75T) this week https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-market-cap-threatens-alphabet-after-overtaking-amazon-2024-02-13/  1:01:58 Lyn Alden https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1757431098655621474  1:02:55 Lyft Woopsies https://vxtwitter. com/dee_bosa/status/1757526078166306915  1:04:14 Closing & Disclaimers 1:04:46 Moment of Zen New Coinbase Ad - How’s it feel to be a penny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP7IhO5cJ14  ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures