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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 exchan…
4 years, 7 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 tokeniza…
4 years, 8 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 ab…
4 years, 8 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 contract…
4 years, 8 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 pr…
4 years, 8 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, eve…
4 years, 9 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…
4 years, 9 months ago
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 …
4 years, 9 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 fe…
4 years, 9 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 …
4 years, 9 months ago