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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
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr...

7:13 Markets
https://x.com/pumatheuma/status/19737... - ZK Szn??
https://x.com/CoinDesk/status/1971565...
https://www.strategicethreserve.xyz/
https://www.bankless.com/read/news/an...
https://x.com/Jrag0x/status/197264335...
https://x.com/smyyguy/status/19715859...
https://x.com/fundstrat/status/197294...
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabilit...

24:57 Plasma nailed its go-to-market
https://x.com/Plasma/status/197266046...
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/pl...
https://defillama.com/chains
https://blockworks-research.beehiiv.c...
https://x.com/lemiscate/status/197233...
https://x.com/ajwarner90/status/19728...
https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/19734...

32:35 Everyone gets a Stablecoin! The duopoloy is dead!
Phantom announced Cash stablecoin
https://x.com/phantom/status/19730352...
https://x.com/useCash/status/19730353...
https://stripe.com/blog/introducing-o...
https://x.com/zcabrams/status/1973052...
https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1973...

38:43 Cloudflare launched their own stablecoin on Base
https://x.com/CoinbaseDev/status/1970...
https://x.com/eastdakota/status/19712...
https://x.com/Kira_sama/status/197123...
https://x.com/Rewkang/status/19707827...
https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/19737...

44:18 Lighter - Ethereum Zk Perps
https://x.com/Lighter_xyz/status/1973...
https://defillama.com/protocol/lighter

50:06 More crypto TradFi mainstream!
https://x.com/MorphoLabs/status/19729...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/swift-...
https://www.theblock.co/post/372706/s...
https://x.com/Louis_Tellier/status/19...
https://cointelegraph.com/news/circle...

57:36 With new Sora, the need for zk proving reality 100x-ed
   • OpenAI's New Video Platform is Mind-Blowin...  
https://x.com/pumatheuma/status/19732...

1:01:52 CEO of Polymarket gets flipped off
https://x.com/shayne_coplan/status/19...
https://x.com/nickpreszler/status/197...

1:04:44 Closing, Disclaimers, & Moment of Zen
https://x.com/coinbase/status/1972731...

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