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EthStaker: Ethereum Staking Wars - Nixorokish & Superphiz
Episode 551
In a world where a handful of (centralised) entities hold the majority of staked Ethereum (either directly or via delegation), the network’s decentralisation and security might be in peril. While the…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
PsyDAO: Decentralising Psychedelic Research - Dima Buterin & Paul Kohlhaas
Episode 550
One could argue that psychedelic research has experienced a similar journey as crypto, in the sense that decentralised communities bound together to fund research where centralised entities refuse to…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Crypto ETFs: Trojan Horse or Big Win? - Austin Griffith, Mona El Isa, Peter Van Valkenburgh
Episode 549
The approval of Ethereum spot ETFs sent shockwaves through the industry as policymakers pivoted abruptly from threatening to veto FIT21 bill, to a pro-crypto discourse. One could say their hand was f…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Alluvial: Institutional Liquid Staking and Spot Ethereum ETF - Mara Schmiedt
Episode 548
The massive success of the recently approved spot Bitcoin ETF showed tremendous interest from large institutional players. Even despite negative takes in public appearances, behind the curtain, more …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Quadratic Funding and How Gitcoin Raised $60M for Public Goods - Kevin Owocki
Episode 547
5 years, 20 Grants, 3715 projects crowd-funded and over $60M raised towards public goods funding, from 4.2M unique donations. Gitcoin’s headline numbers are indicative of the massive success their qu…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Near Protocol: 'Blockchains Cannot Scale Without Sharding!' - Illia Polosukhin & Alex Skidanov
Episode 546
The initial scaling roadmap for Ethereum featured execution layer sharding. However, the rapid advancements of layer 2 scaling solutions in general, and zero knowledge proofs in particular, caused a …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
'Is Tether's USDT Safe?' - Paolo Ardoino
Episode 545
Long regarded as an impending black swan, Tether has successfully weathered out the contagion and bank runs caused by Luna’s collapse in the depths of the 2022-2023 bearmarket. Since then, a large po…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Safe: Securing $100 Billion of Crypto Assets - Lukas Schor
Episode 544
What started out as a plan to build prediction markets, Gnosis ended up building crucial Ethereum infrastructure and tooling. Safe is one of its many successes, which originated during the 2017 ICO m…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Saga: 'Ethereum and Solana CAN NOT Scale. Our Chainlets Fix This!' - Rebecca Liao
Episode 543
One of the most important hurdles to mass adoption is represented by blockchain scalability, which also hinders the real-life utility of its numerous applications. While there are different solutions…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Movement Labs: 'Facebook's MOVE Will Bring Billions of Users to Crypto' - Rushi Manche
Episode 542
Classical, monolithic blockchains are inherently limited in their throughput due to their single-thread execution architecture. Modern VMs attempt to solve this issue through parallelisation being im…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago