Bankless Nation, welcome to the weekly roll-up where we cover the weekly news, drama, and developments in the crypto space.

This week is the fourth week of January.

And today on the show, I have the pleasure of being joined by Eric Conner, former ETHMAXE and now Crypto AI Bull to help me go through the weekly news with me.

Eric, really happy to have you, my man.

How are you doing?

Hey, David. Good. It's been a minute since we've recorded anything. But yeah, I've been well.

Thanks for having me on. I know that people were a little bit of drama this past week, but just

wanted to be clear. David and I had, David had reached out to me well before that to help kind of fill in on one of these roll-ups. And I said, yeah, of course, it's been a little bit.

So I don't think I've recorded anything podcast-wise for a few months now. So excited to be back at it and

chat with you. Yeah, well, podcasting is like riding a bicycle. You know, you never really get off

the bicycle. You always know how to do it. So let's go ahead and get right into it. We'll talk about, we'll address some of that drama later in the show. But first, before we get to that drama, we're going to talk about Trump. Trump bursting through the doors of the Oble Office with a bang, drops a $50 billion meme coin that sends Solana soaring. He also kept his promise with pardoning Ross Oldbrick, and really just kind of has the crypto industry edging for what he does next.

Then the Trump's second order effects are also underway. Gary Gensler is out.

Hester Purse has launched an SEC crypto task force to write all the wrongs that the SEC has done over the last four years.

A U.S. court lifted OFAC tornado cash sanctions and Bank of America has signaled their readiness to accept

crypto into their bank. And lastly, drama in the Ethereum ecosystem. There's been some tension

over the role and direction of the Ethereum Foundation. It's kind of reached a boiling point

on Twitter in the last week. Vitalik is pretty fired up. He put on a Malady PFP and is going

toe to toe with some long

Ethereum community members. And then a second Ethereum Foundation was launched. I'm confused

about the details. So I'm going to ask Eric all about that. Before we get into all of that and more,

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