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Jack O'Holleran: SKALE Labs – An Ethereum Scaling Solution Using App Specific Blockchains
Episode 352
SKALE Network's modular protocol is one of the first of its kind to allow developers to build application specific blockchains. These are interoperab…
5 years, 6 months ago
Evan Kuo: AMPL - the Controversial Digital Currency With an Elastic Supply
Episode 351
Ampleforth is a cryptocurrency attempting to become an essential building block to an alternative financial ecosystem. The protocol’s native token, A…
5 years, 7 months ago
Fernando Martinelli: Balancer – The Automated Market Maker Protocol for Programmable Liquidity
Episode 350
Balancer is a generalized automated market maker (AMM) protocol built on Ethereum. It allows anyone to create or add liquidity to customizable pools …
5 years, 7 months ago
Allison Lu: UMA – The Open Financial Platform for Building Synthetic Assets
Episode 349
UMA, or Universal Market Access, is an open source financial contracts protocol for building synthetic assets. It allows any two counterparties to de…
5 years, 7 months ago
Richard Craib: Numerai – The Crowdsourced Predictive Model Hedge Fund
Episode 348
Numerai, the "hardest data science tournament on the planet". It's a hedge fund with its own distributed research platform designed specifically for …
5 years, 7 months ago
Dieter Fishbein & Joe Petrowski: Polkadot – Claiming Digital Sovereignty on Blockchain
Episode 347
Polkadot is a unique protocol connecting multiple purpose-built blockchains into one scalable network. It's using blockchain technology to make way f…
5 years, 7 months ago
Dan Guido: Trail of Bits – The Evolution of Smart Contract Security
Episode 346
Just like all software, smart contracts on the blockchain are subject to serious security vulnerabilities and coding errors. The fact however that sm…
5 years, 8 months ago
Hugh Karp: Nexus Mutual – The Decentralized Insurance for Ethereum
Episode 345
Nexus Mutual provides an alternative decentralized insurance solution for Ethereum. The protocol is built on the public chain and operates under a di…
5 years, 8 months ago
Zubin Koticha: Opyn – The Insurance Platform Which Protects Your DeFi Deposits
Episode 344
Opyn is a smart contract-based insurance platform built on a generalized (supports both put and call) options protocol called Convexity. It is intend…
5 years, 8 months ago
Gabriel Jiménez: Petro – The Crypto Project That Tried to Free Venezuela
Episode 343
In late 2017, Gabriel Jimenez was approached by the Venezuelan presidency and asked to create a national digital currency, the Petro. Although very m…
5 years, 8 months ago