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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…
1 year, 9 months 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…
1 year, 9 months 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, …
1 year, 9 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…
1 year, 10 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…
1 year, 10 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…
1 year, 10 months ago
Movement Labs: 'Facebook's MOVE Will Bring Billions of Users to Crypto' - Rushi Manche
Episode 542
Classical, monolithic blockchains are inherently limited in their throughput due to their single-thread execution architecture. Modern VMs attempt to…
1 year, 10 months ago
Wintermute: 'Avoid These Trading Mistakes!' Secrets of a Market Maker - Yoann Turpin
Episode 541
Market makers help create more efficient markets and liquid order books, by positioning themselves on the receiving end of a trade that other market …
1 year, 11 months ago
Gearbox Protocol: 'DeFi Is Boring, Let's Reinvent Credit' - Ivan & Mikael Lazarev
Episode 540
Credit is a widely used term, which could essentially be summarised as “more capital so you can do whatever you want”. In DeFi, there are numerous wa…
1 year, 11 months ago
Humayun Sheikh: Fetch AI – Decentralising AI Economies
Episode 539
While large language models (LLMs) are rather passive from an economic perspective on their own, AI agents offer a preview of what truly autonomous A…
1 year, 11 months ago