Bankless Nation, welcome to the weekly roll-up where we cover the weekly news, drama, and

developments in the crypto space. This is the second week of February. And today on the show,

I have the pleasure of being joined by Mike Ippolito, co-founder of Blockworks and another relentless

podcaster. Mike, how are you doing, my man? Doing very well. Thanks for having me, David.

Yeah, yeah.

This is going to be exciting.

Before we get into the details of the week, maybe just give me your vibe of the week.

Give us a vibe check in.

How did this week feel for you?

I feel like right now the vibe last couple months has been dispersion,

and people are describing this is a very dispersed cycle in terms of returns.

There are more coins than there have ever been.

And for the first time, really, outside of these in sort of the history of crypto cycles,

there are big winners and big losers for this last cycle.

And people are pretty split in general if this is the top, if we're down only from here, if this is the beginning of a golden bull and, you know, a new era of defy and crypto in the United States.

So I think there's a vibe of general uncertainty if I had to try to put my finger on it.

Yeah, maybe to say that another way, there's so much more noise.

And maybe each, like, you can parse apart that noise into many

different bits of signals, but the signals are conflicting with each other. And I think this is

probably just a sign of the fact that there's a lot of market participants and there's a lot of

different sectors of crypto to focus on. And I feel like this is what you would expect if crypto were to keep on

growing. It would grow just so large that the market itself of crypto becomes, like you say,

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