# ROLLUP: Mark Cuban on DeFi | Gemini going public?? | Morgan Stanley apes into MSTR

*Author: Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffman*
*Published: Jan 15, 2021*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/fr/rollup-gemini-going-public-mark-cuban*

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## Market
- BTC price in the last 7 days:

Touched $42,000

- Fell down to $31,000

- Regained $40,000.

- Currently at $39,500

- ETH Price

Touched $1,350

- Fell to $900

- Currently above $1,200

- TVL in DeFi

From $22.8 to $23.3B

- DPI 

From $185 to $208

- MKR particularly interesting price action
- [Retail entering; judging by exchange twitter followers](https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1348220777498353665?s=20)
- [Market Dumps because of overleverage](https://twitter.com/kaiynne/status/1348486588045668353?s=20)
- [Numbers are bigger now](https://twitter.com/MessariCrypto/status/1348769821220069382?s=20)
- [Coinbase volume](https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1348895884315156481?s=20)
- [Reminder: ETH futures on the horizon](https://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2020/12/16/cme_group_to_launchetherfuturesonfebruary82021.html)

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## Releases
- [Tether on a ZK Rollup](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/90738/tether-usdt-hermez-ethereum-layer-2-scaling-solution-zk-rollups)
- [Nexus mutual offering insurance on exchanges](https://www.coindesk.com/nexus-mutual-decentralized-insurance-cover-coinbase-binance-kraken-gemini)
- [Bitcoin hashrate tokenized on Ethereum](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/90847/poolin-bitcoin-hashrate-token-pow-defi)
- [Connecting all the rollups with Vector?](https://medium.com/connext/vector-0-1-0-mainnet-release-9496ae52c422)
- [Cloudflare and IPFS: Your ethereum address is now accessible by any browser without an extension](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-distributed-web-resolver/)
- [ETH staking inside Argent](https://www.argent.xyz/blog/liquid-eth-staking-in-argent/)
- [Synthetix announces Optimistic Rollup transition plan](https://blog.synthetix.io/the-optimistic-ethereum-transition/)
- [Coinbase Asset Hub](https://blog.coinbase.com/introducing-coinbase-asset-hub-our-open-invitation-to-asset-issuers-f9d5f0be609d)

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## News
- [Gemini going public??](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/91251/winklevoss-twins-weighing-taking-gemini-public)
- [Gemini BTC credit card](https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/14/gemini-is-launching-a-credit-card-with-bitcoin-rewards/)
- [Gary Gensler is new SEC chair](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-sec-exclusive/exclusive-biden-to-name-gary-gensler-as-u-s-sec-chair-sources-say-idUSKBN29H2PQ)
- [We did it.](https://twitter.com/valkenburgh/status/1349717095425183747?s=20)
- [Anchorage Becomes First OCC-Approved National Crypto Bank - CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/anchorage-becomes-first-occ-approved-national-crypto-bank)
- [Morgan Stanly owns 10% of Microstrategy](https://www.coindesk.com/morgan-stanley-boosts-stake-in-bitcoin-laden-microstrategy-to-10-9)
- [Pakistan using funds to mine BTC](https://decrypt.co/53918/pakistan-is-now-using-government-funds-to-mine-bitcoin)
- [2.5% of ETH supply in Gnosis safe](https://twitter.com/gnosisSafe/status/1349685149408112646?s=20)

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## Takes
- [Sushi on the rise](https://twitter.com/ashwath_22/status/1349090698788626432?s=20)
- [Erik Voorhees on protocol competition](https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1349548038822502400?s=20)
- [Brian Brooks “Get Ready for Self-Driving Banks](https://www.ft.com/content/c1caca5b-01f7-41be-85a4-3ecb883f2417)
- [Bitcoin is less risky as NGU](https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-bill-miller-cnbc-volatility-risk)
- [Ryan on ICOs: Were ICOs net good or net bad?](https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1347599685356314626?s=20)
- [Starting pistol for Web3 decentralization](https://twitter.com/FEhrsam/status/1348316470258794496?s=20)
- [Mark Cuban on internet tech stocks](https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1348698853072130057?s=20)
- [Bitcoin in race for adoption ahead of CBDCs](https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-race-for-adoption-central-bank-digital-currencies)