Bankless Nation, welcome to the yearly roll-up, where we recap the entire year of crypto into the five biggest events that defined the 20-24 year in crypto, which was a very good year, I will say. That was an incredible year for crypto. I think one of the biggest years that we've had so far, and we're going to go through all the events that made it such. First, though, however,

we are going to speed run through the five biggest news items of the week, because, of course,

this is also the weekly roll-up and recap the week in crypto like we always do. But since it's

Christmas week, of course, it's a slow week, not too much to talk about

here. So once we do the five biggest things of the last week, we're going to do the five

biggest things of the whole year to help us reflect on 2024 as we all prepare to enter

2025. Just remind us, what happened this year? Why was this year such a good year? Before we get into all of that, first, a message from our friends and sponsors over at Rodman Law Group. We usually in the sponsored segment have a protocol, a wallet, or a layer two as a sponsor here. This one is a little different. Today, our friends and our lawyers, our lawyers at Bankless,list the rodman law group wants to say that

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