Podcast Episodes

Scoopy Trooples: Alchemix – Financial Alchemy Through Self-Repaying Loans

Episode 392

Alchemix is a DeFi protocol that enables users to create self-repaying loans. Users deposit collateral (DAI) to take out a loan in Alchemix's native synthetic stablecoin, alUSD. Alchemix then uses th…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Michael Egorov: Curve Finance – The Stablecoin Exchange Protocol

Episode 391

Curve is an Automated Market Maker (AMM) that lets users and other decentralized protocols exchange stablecoins (DAI to USDC for example) with low fees and low slippage. Unlike exchanges that match a…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Tim Roughgarden: EIP-1559 – Tackling the Gas Fee Problem on Ethereum

Episode 390

Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)-1559 is a proposal to make several tightly coupled additions to Ethereum’s transaction fee mechanism. Central to the design is a base fee, which plays the role of …

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Phil Daian & Stephane Gosselin: Flashbots – The Good, Bad and the Ugly of MEV

Episode 389

Flashbots is a research and development company focussed on Miner Extractable Value (MEV). MEV is the profit a miner can make through their ability to arbitrarily include, exclude, or re-order transa…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Trevor McFedries: Brud – Using AI to Bridge Real and Virtual Worlds

Episode 388

Trevor McFedries joined us for a fascinating chat about his background in the football and music industries, and how this led him into crypto. Trevor is the cofounder of Brud, a technology startup sp…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Adrian Eidelman: RSK – The Bitcoin-Based Smart Contract Platform

Bitcoin just got smarter. This episode is brought to you by RSK, the Bitcoin-based smart contract platform leading the DeFi for Bitcoin revolution. Be part of the future while building your personal …

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Matt Luongo: tBTC – Bringing Trustless Bitcoin to Ethereum

Episode 387

The ability to move Bitcoin on other chains isn't a new idea, and many are trying to overcome the technical limitations which make this a technically challenging feat. The latest representation of Bi…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Sergej Kunz: 1inch – The DEX Aggregator

Episode 386

1inch Exchange is a DEX aggregator routing cryptocurrency purchases through different DEXs to reduce slippage and get a better conversion rate for the user compared with just using a single DEX. The …

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Zubin Koticha: Opyn – The Release of V2

Episode 385

Zubin Koticha, CEO & Co-founder of Opyn, joined us again on the show to give us an update on Opyn v2.

Opyn v1 was focused on insurance. It's successor, Opyn v2, offers a more traditional options infra…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

Kolten Bergeron & Robert Lauko: Liquity – The Decentralized Borrowing Protocol

Episode 384

Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw interest-free loans against Ether used as collateral. In addition to the collateral, the loans are secured by a Stability Pool co…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago