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Luka Müller: Sygnum Bank & MME Legal – Crypto Regulations & Institutional Investors
Episode 501
As institutional money set their eyes on crypto, some degree of centralisation and regulation was inevitable. However, the key aspect is to limit it to access gateways and not affect protocols’ decen…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Epicenter – Looking Back on 10 Years of Crypto. AI Doom & Gloom? SPECIAL
Episode 500
As Epicenter hits the 500 episode milestone, our hosts look back on almost 10 years of crypto developments, analysing the good, the bad and the ugly. What projects & narratives have surprised our hos…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Zac Williamson & Joe Andrews: Aztec - Privacy-preserving, hybrid ZK rollup
Episode 499
In order to achieve true transaction privacy, it is not enough to encrypt or build ZK proofs for transaction bundles, as long as the underlying blockchain uses an account-based model. Aztec is buildi…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Fig: Squid Router – Sub-20 Second Cross-Chain Swaps. Axelar-Powered Interoperability
Episode 498
As crypto evolves, it becomes clearer that the future will be multi-chain. Presently, moving funds between different blockchains is frustrating...to say the least. The current bridging solutions are …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Collin Myers & Oisín Kyne: Obol Network - Distributed Validator Technology (DVT)
Episode 497
Ethereum's merge and transition to a proof-of-stake consensus implied switching from proof-of-work mining to transactions being validated by entities that have an economic stake in the network. Proof…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Ben DiFrancesco: Umbra – Privacy Preserving Token Transfers
Episode 496
Public transaction history in blockchains represents one of their key features which, alongside immutability, aim to provide an alternative to CeFi. However, this transparency comes at a price: priva…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Emin Gün Sirer: Avalanche – The Future of Crypto: From Gaming to LLM-Powered Smart Contracts
Episode 495
As the second Avalanche summit drew to a close, Sebastien Couture and Sunny Aggarwal sat down with Emin Gün Sirer for a fascinating conversation exploring future innovation narratives in crypto. Long…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Ali Yahya: Andreessen Horowitz – A16z Crypto Investment Thesis
Episode 494
When it comes to top-tier VCs, very few equal Andreessen Horowitz' (a16z) impressive portfolio, which stretches over both Web2 and Web3. Their crypto venture arm includes investments in most industry…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Jose Macedo: Mars Protocol – Red Bank' Credit on Cosmos via Osmosis
Episode 493
The end of 2022 and beginning of 2023 were marked by centralised institutions failing: from CEXes to CeFi itself, contagion spread quickly in over-leveraged and opaque entities. Amidst this chaos, (c…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
John Letey: KYVE – Decentralised and Accessible Data Storage
Episode 492
We often take data storage for granted, but the rise of centralised storing facilities (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) hangs over like Damocles’ sword. When it comes to blockchains, full nodes store tha…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago