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Stephane Gosselin: Frontier Research - Solving Ethereum's MEV Problem
Episode 511
The maximal extractable value (MEV) problem, if left unchecked, could represent an existential threat to Ethereum’s core values. One might argue that it is a natural result of solving market ineffici…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Marko Baricevic: Cosmos SDK - The Internet of Appchains
Episode 510
From the very beginning, Cosmos set out to provide an alternative to the monolithic blockchain architecture proposed by Ethereum. Cosmos SDK was the cornerstone of this vision, as it allowed develope…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Sandeep Nailwal: Polygon 2.0 - The New Value Layer of the Internet?
Episode 509
What started out as Matic Network, in 2017, and later rebranded to Polygon, in 2021, it is now facing another major milestone: Polygon 2.0. Apart from a tokenomics update, their plans include buildin…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Stephen Young & Storm: NFTFi – P2P NFT Lending Protocol: From PFPs & Art to RWA
Episode 508
After a 2021 frothy bull market, NFTs are currently experiencing the depression phase of the market cycle. However, despite the fact that only NFT art has truly found its product-market fit, NFTs in …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Alex Gluchowski: zkSync - A new Era for EVM-compatible zk rollups
Episode 507
Ethereum scaling solutions often resort to tradeoffs, sacrificing security or decentralisation in favour of scalability. However, zk rollups hold the potential of increasing throughput, while also in…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Patrick O'Grady: Avalanche – Building High Performance VMs With HyperSDK
Episode 506
The recent history of L2s has shown that there doesn’t need to be ‘one chain to rule them all’ or an ‘ETH killer’. Instead, a healthier approach would be to find the best solution for a specific need…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum - MEV, Staking Derivatives and Privacy (EthCC 6)
Episode 505
We couldn’t miss EthCC 6 and we got to sit down with Vitalik Buterin to discuss hot topics from the Ethereum ecosystem: MEV, staking derivatives, privacy, decentralisation and future interoperability…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Avril Dutheil: Neutron – Interchain Smart Contracts on Cosmos
Episode 504
Blockchains are secured through the economic incentives offered to their validators/miners. The more robust the network effect among validators, the more difficult it is for that blockchain to be com…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Sveinn Valfells: Monerium – Regulated On-Chain Euro (EURe)
Episode 503
Stablecoins represent the backbone of DeFi, allowing complex financial applications to be protected from external volatility. From fiat-backed to algorithmic, there are multiple approaches to issuing…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Eli Ben-Sasson: Starknet - zk-STARKs and Cairo 1.0 upgrade
Episode 502
Layer 2 zero knowledge roll-ups have initially been used for achieving private transactions on blockchains. However, past simple transfers, interacting with a public smart contract posed a serious ch…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago