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'Ethereum Needs Polygon's Aggregation Layer to Scale' - Brendan Farmer & Sandeep Nailwal
Episode 552
As more and more L2s launch promising to scale Ethereum, they end up competing for the same market share, userbase and liquidity. Apart from this har…
2 years ago
EthStaker: Ethereum Staking Wars - Nixorokish & Superphiz
Episode 551
In a world where a handful of (centralised) entities hold the majority of staked Ethereum (either directly or via delegation), the network’s decentra…
2 years ago
PsyDAO: Decentralising Psychedelic Research - Dima Buterin & Paul Kohlhaas
Episode 550
One could argue that psychedelic research has experienced a similar journey as crypto, in the sense that decentralised communities bound together to …
2 years, 1 month ago
Crypto ETFs: Trojan Horse or Big Win? - Austin Griffith, Mona El Isa, Peter Van Valkenburgh
Episode 549
The approval of Ethereum spot ETFs sent shockwaves through the industry as policymakers pivoted abruptly from threatening to veto FIT21 bill, to a pr…
2 years, 1 month ago
Alluvial: Institutional Liquid Staking and Spot Ethereum ETF - Mara Schmiedt
Episode 548
The massive success of the recently approved spot Bitcoin ETF showed tremendous interest from large institutional players. Even despite negative take…
2 years, 1 month ago
Quadratic Funding and How Gitcoin Raised $60M for Public Goods - Kevin Owocki
Episode 547
5 years, 20 Grants, 3715 projects crowd-funded and over $60M raised towards public goods funding, from 4.2M unique donations. Gitcoin’s headline numb…
2 years, 1 month ago
Near Protocol: 'Blockchains Cannot Scale Without Sharding!' - Illia Polosukhin & Alex Skidanov
Episode 546
The initial scaling roadmap for Ethereum featured execution layer sharding. However, the rapid advancements of layer 2 scaling solutions in general, …
2 years, 2 months ago
'Is Tether's USDT Safe?' - Paolo Ardoino
Episode 545
Long regarded as an impending black swan, Tether has successfully weathered out the contagion and bank runs caused by Luna’s collapse in the depths o…
2 years, 2 months ago
Safe: Securing $100 Billion of Crypto Assets - Lukas Schor
Episode 544
What started out as a plan to build prediction markets, Gnosis ended up building crucial Ethereum infrastructure and tooling. Safe is one of its many…
2 years, 2 months ago
Saga: 'Ethereum and Solana CAN NOT Scale. Our Chainlets Fix This!' - Rebecca Liao
Episode 543
One of the most important hurdles to mass adoption is represented by blockchain scalability, which also hinders the real-life utility of its numerous…
2 years, 2 months ago