ROLLUP: Strategic Bitcoin Reserve | White House Digital Summit | Saylor's $21B BTC Bid | HyperLiquid

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week, the U.S. establishes its long-awaited Strategic Bitcoin Reserve yet the charts barely move and questions remain about altcoins like ADA, XRP, and SOL. A high-profile White House Digital Summit draws big names but yields few concrete regulatory wins. Meanwhile, HyperLiquid got exploited? Not quite but we'll get into that this week and so much more. Follow Jordi on X: https://x.com/gametheorizing ------ 📣 RONIN WALLET | YOUR WEB3 GAMING ECOSYSTEM https://bankless.cc/Ronin_Wallet ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐CELO | BUILD TOGETHER AND PROSPER https://bankless.cc/Celo ----- ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/coin/base:0x762ccdba41c88dbaf668c346519e09a4a9cfee8e?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 00:00 Market Sentiment And Interpretation https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/cpi-inflation-report-february-2025.html https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/1899147239160693054 06:49 Crypto Markets https://farside.co.uk/?p=1518 https://x.com/BitwiseInvest/status/1899445386038620631 https://x.com/HHorsley/status/1899612285980880907 https://x.com/milesdeutscher/status/1899062184917000214 13:44 Trump’s Impact On Crypto https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/usg 18:32 Bitcoin Strategic Reserve https://x.com/margomartin47/status/1897802829474955415?s=46&t=BK1udaJPJxPwz6RfE-m1iw https://x.com/davidsacks47/status/1897802280738734236 https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1897837943106289967 https://x.com/ercwl/status/1897817161428541691 31:18 White House Digital Asset Summit https://x.com/POTUS/status/1898162648962756970 https://x.com/nicrypto/status/1898180016459944350 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1898200766315209050 https://x.com/RepNickBegich/status/1899494764682363136 https://x.com/jchervinsky/status/1899586234248499450?s=46&t=LIRWzlNRT68jap2P18vctA 37:49 Saylor to Buy $21B More Bitcoin https://x.com/saylor/status/1899068491409260639 48:32 HyperLiquid Exploit? 55:44 Interpol Red Notice For… Libra Creator 58:01 Unichain’s Explosive Growth https://x.com/nansen_ai/status/1899000536487403748 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

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0:00.0	Bankless Nation, welcome to the weekly roll-up each week and bringing on a different guest to help me go through the news.
0:08.3	And this week, I have the pleasure of being joined by Jordy Alexander.
0:11.7	Happy Friday, Jordy. Great to have you here.
0:13.6	Good to have me here.
0:14.3	I'm Friday.
0:15.8	Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a pretty volatile week, I would say.
0:20.0	Let me just run through some macro market fax figures, and then we can kind of react to them once I'm done.
0:28.7	S&P 500 has erased $5 trillion of total wealth since its peak.
0:33.7	The Dow Jones has slid 500 points on Tuesday after Trump announced and then walked back new tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum amid ongoing economic uncertainty after closing down 890 points on Monday.
0:46.9	So over a thousand point drop in the first two days of this week.
0:49.5	On March 6th, President Trump suspended tariffs on USMCA compliant goods from Canada and Mexico until April 2nd,
0:58.2	affecting about 38% of Canadian and 50% of Mexican goods.
1:01.8	However, on March 12th, that's yesterday at the time of recording, he imposed a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports,
1:09.8	which prompted immediate retaliatory measures
1:12.4	from Canada and the European Union. Americans have flipped their sentiment views on President
1:19.5	Donald Trump handling of the economy sense the end of his first term, according to this new polling,
1:24.2	amid a moot-brewing trade war with America's neighbors and the stock market
1:27.5	decline. So American investors not really feeling it anymore, kind of fed up. In addition to all
1:34.1	of that market volatility in the traditional markets and any crypto have really almost never been
1:39.9	higher. The VIX hit a 1.5 million contracts last week. That's the six highest record on
1:46.1	reading. volumes have doubled over the last few weeks with all of this rise in market uncertainty.
1:53.0	So the markets are super volatile. In addition to that, investors market, markets have kind of
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