ROLLUP: RSA Returns! | ETH’s Pivot? | Bitcoin’s Decoupling | Bear or Bull?
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This week, the one, the only, Ryan Sean Adams makes his return to the Weekly Rollup and crypto, after a 90-day crypto detox to find a radically changed landscape. Ryan and David break down crypto’s shifting cycle, what Ryan missed, and Bitcoin’s dramatic decoupling from equities as it earns a strategic reserve in the U.S. Treasury. Meanwhile, Ethereum faces an existential pivot as it tries to reclaim lost ground against Bitcoin and Solana. Plus, Zora sparks heated debate with “content coins” amid new regulatory wins—and new fears of political corruption. Did crypto lose its soul chasing mainstream adoption, or is this the messy price of progress? It’s an essential Weekly Rollup you can’t afford to miss.
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TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES
0:00 Intro
0:47 Are we still in a bull market?
3:01 Ryan’s unplugging
5:35 Ryan’s last 90-days
https://x.com/ryansadams/status/1915115437505049055
24:50 Bankless’s choices moving forward
https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1914312548897219006
32:58 Markets since Ryan’s break
40:35 Trump’s memecoin
48:31 Bitcoin Strategic Reserve
52:34 $LIBRA memecoin
1:03:29 Contentcoins, Zora, & Jesse
1:16:39 Ethereum pivot & Bitcoin decoupling
1:18:18 Closing & Disclaimers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome Bankless Nation to the Bankless Weekly Roll-up where we cover everything that's been going on in the wild west of crypto. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, I'm joined once again by the one and only, Ryan, Sean Adams. |
| 0:17.0 | Ryan, welcome back to Bankless. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh my God, what did I miss? Did I miss anything? |
| 0:21.6 | You miss nothing, dude. |
| 0:22.6 | Nothing happened. |
| 0:23.6 | Don't worry about it. |
| 0:24.6 | Okay, so my big question going to this episode, I was like trying to figure out after coming back. |
| 0:29.6 | So for people who, like, don't know, I've been on hiatus for 90, there's probably |
| 0:33.6 | I don't know how they don't know, but for 90 days. |
| 0:35.6 | I've been out. Okay, so my big question coming back to this episode and just like getting back into |
| 0:41.2 | crypto, because I've been on a complete like disconnect from almost everything. |
| 0:44.9 | Internet detox. |
| 0:45.7 | Yeah, and I can talk more about that. |
| 0:47.3 | But my big question, David, is like, okay, are we still in a bull market? |
| 0:51.9 | Like, what is going on here? |
| 0:53.6 | Because there's some... |
| 0:55.0 | I just don't even know. |
| 0:57.0 | This is broken the cycle in my mind. |
| 0:59.0 | So like, what's the consensus around crypto? |
| 1:03.0 | I don't think that there is consensus, and I think that is actually a very big signal about |
| 1:09.0 | what crypto is now. |
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