$5 Trillion Crypto Market Cap Soon? “By Next Week” -Ryan
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$5 Trillion Crypto Market Cap Soon? “By Next Week” -Ryan

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In this week’s Weekly Rollup, Uptober kicks off with Bitcoin and Ethereum surging toward all-time highs as Tom Lee drops another $1B into ETH and Vanguard finally opens its doors to crypto ETFs.

We cover Stripe’s push to break the Tether–Circle duopoly with its new stablecoin platform, Cloudflare’s surprising entry into onchain payments, and Swift teaming up with Consensys on blockchain rails. Plus, Zcash rockets 200%, Ethereum’s Lighter perps exchange goes live, and Circle sparks debate with plans for reversible USDC.

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TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES

0:00 Intro

3:38 U.S. Government Shutdown


7:13 Markets
- ZK Szn??








24:57 Plasma nailed its go-to-market








32:35 Everyone gets a Stablecoin! The duopoloy is dead!
Phantom announced Cash stablecoin






38:43 Cloudflare launched their own stablecoin on Base






44:18 Lighter - Ethereum Zk Perps



50:06 More crypto TradFi mainstream!






57:36 With new Sora, the need for zk proving reality 100x-ed



1:01:52 CEO of Polymarket gets flipped off



1:04:44 Closing, Disclaimers, & Moment of Zen


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