ROLLUP: Chaotic Era | Oil, Jobs, Credit | Nasdaq x Kraken | BlackRock Staked ETH | Roman Storm Retrial
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Bankless nation is the March. It's time for the Bankless Weekly Roll Up. We got some jittery markets today. Vitalik We got a jittery world. Yeah. Jittery world. You know, Vitalik calls this the chaotic era. I saw him tweet something about that this week. I think that's we've moved from the stable era to the chaotic era. We're feeling that in the markets. Wars, we got AI, just overall jitters in the market. There's three things, though, we're paying attention to. We're gonna talk about them. Oil, jobs, private credit, and how all those things affect crypto.
Lots of big announcements on the crypto side of things as well. Kraken and the Nasdaq announced a partnership to issue and trade real tokenized stocks, not the fake ones, the real ones on which chains a few chains are going to be the winners here and also breaking news as of today. BlackRock has released its long awaited staked e e t f.
Finally. Wow.
Just in just in the phase of the market where no one cares. We're gonna talk about how to we're gonna pop up in the hood, talk about how that works, what are the fees, what's the stake rate, how all of that is going on the week.
There's also some disappointing news on the week. The DOJ has decided it wants to retry the tornado cache case with Roman Storm. I thought that was done. Can we really say America's the crypto capital of the world if we're going and we're prosecuting our open source privacy developers, David. We gotta talk about that. Also, maybe the Democrats, though, would be worse for crypto in the White House. Bernie Sanders has introduced a moratorium on AI data centers. David, we have to have a discussion about the coming AI tech backlash that I think the two of us both see. So
You know how in 2022 and '3 post FTX, the Democrats came with their ban hammer on crypto and tried to regulate crypto out of existence. And then crypto banded together and made the fair shake, super PAC and a bunch of other super PACs. I think we are AI is in the phase of their political lifespan where the democrats come and try and ban hammer them. And then they're going to need to rally together and find their way more organized in crypto. I think they're already doing this.
There's a lot to unpack there. So let's get to it.
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