Podcast Episodes

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum - Can It Go Beyond DeFi?

Episode 402

Vitalik Buterin joins us for an in-depth conversation at EthCC 4 in Paris. During his keynote presentation, he expressed his hope for Ethereum to go beyond DeFi as he wishes to see more non-financial…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Ambre Soubiran, Jerome de Tychey & Mounir Benchemled: EthCC 4 – Liberté, Égalité, Décentralisé

Episode 401

EthCC is back and stronger than ever! Despite the pandemic, ongoing travel restrictions and sanitary passes, the Ethereum France team hosted the fourth edition of the Ethereum Community Conference in…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Sunny Aggarwal: Osmosis – The AMM Protocol Built for Liquidity Providers

Episode 400

Recently launched Osmosis is a Cosmos based and IBC enabled AMM protocol that allows for a high level of customization by liquidity providers. As the main dex on the Cosmos network, Osmosis provides …

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Felix Leupold: CowSwap – Tackling the Shortcomings of AMMs

Episode 399

Originally started with a focus on prediction markets, Gnosis has done innovative work around automated market makers (AMMs) and decentralized exchanges for years. The latest protocol launched by the…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Cassidy Daly & Lucas Vogelsang: Centrifuge – Introducing Real-World DeFi

Episode 398

Centrifuge is an open and permissionless protocol built on Polkadot and Ethereum that unlocks collateral for DeFi. Centrifuge allows for the tokenization of real world assets such as invoices, real e…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Dankrad Feist: Ethereum Foundation – An Eth2 Progress Update #2

Episode 397

Ethereum 2.0 is an upgrade to the Ethereum network that aims to improve the network's security and scalability. Recently, we chatted to Danny Ryan about the Merge and switch to Proof of Stake. As a f…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Alex Gluchowski: zkSync – The First EVM-Compatible zkRollup Protocol

Episode 396

zkSync is a trustless protocol for scalable low-cost transactions on Ethereum. It's also the only zkRollup protocol which supports EVM smart contracts.

Alex Gluchowski is co-founder of Matter Labs, an…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Roman Semenov: Tornado Cash – Keeping Your Ethereum Transactions Private

Episode 395

By default, all transactions made on Ethereum are public. Tornado Cash is a decentralized privacy preserving solution built on Ethereum which adds privacy through obfuscation. Users can place Ether a…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Alex Masmej: Showtime – Building the Open Social Graph With NFTs

Episode 394

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are tokens that we can use to represent ownership of unique items. They let us tokenize things like art, collectibles, even real estate. They can only have one official own…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Danny Ryan: Ethereum Foundation – An Eth2 Progress Update

Episode 393

Ethereum will switch from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS) likely already later this year in a much anticipated upgrade to Ethereum 2. The switch to PoS aims to make Ethereum both more sec…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago