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Is Tether's $USDT Safe?
@crainbf
&
@tw_tter
chat with
@paoloardoino
about how crypto evolved over the past 10 years, and what role
@Tether_to
played in shaping both the industry, as well as emerging markets and developing economies.
One could say that Paolo…
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Join
@tw_tter
as she chats to
@VitalikButerin
at
@EFDevcon
6 in 🇨🇴 about:
➡️the state of the network
➡️if the looming centralization is a threat
➡️
#Ethereum
's danksharding plus third party layer 2s
➡️How much of an issue MEV is
In the dawn of a new tech era, one has two options: fight it or embrace it.
@el33th4xor
is proposing a new
@avax
subnet that replaces code with
#AI
(
#GPT
) neutrality: no-code blockchain.
'It's either a great idea, or a terrible one!'
Entire discussion👇
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It's been 5 (!) years since we last had
@el33th4xor
on the show. This week
@crainbf
and
@MeherRoy
caught up with him for a chat about his journey since then and how it led him to creating
@avalancheavax
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@sunnya97
and
@tw_tter
chatted to
@GuyZys
about
@SecretNetwork
- the blockchain-based, open-source protocol built using the Cosmos SDK. Hear how they're using Trusted Execution Environments and SGX technology on the network.
In light of the recently announced Artificial Superintelligence Alliance, comprised of:
💥
@Fetch_ai
💥
@oceanprotocol
💥
@SingularityNET
@HMsheikh4
offers a high level overview of Fetch's multi-agent systems and how he envisioned crypto x AI...5 years ago🧠
In order to achieve sub-second finality,
@avax
employs a unique consensus protocol, which relies on info dissemination (gossip-like) 🗣️🗣️
@el33th4xor
&
@_patrickogrady
explain how combining decentralisation and performance is possible!
Entire discussion:
New episode is up! ✔️
We're joined by Stefan Thomas
@justmoon
and Ben Sharifian
@sharafian_
, founders of
@Coil
, who aim to change the content monetization play, leveraging
#blockchain
and
@Interledger
to build a new business model for the web.
An
@avax
subnet shares the same set of validators for all of its chains => cheap and fast cross-chain messaging⚡️
@_patrickogrady
explains the basics of
@avalabsofficial
Warp Messaging and how subnet communication works!
Entire discussion👇
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This week
@seb3point0
&
@tw_tter
chat with
@sandeepnailwal
about
@0xPolygonLabs
2.0 and their plan to build an interoperability layer for scaling blockchains.
Hear about:
➡️zk rollups vs. validiums
➡️$POL token
➡️Web3 adoption & use cases
HyperSDK offers out of the box primitives to ensure maximum performance for any VM built on
@avax
.
@_patrickogrady
talks about the bottlenecks
@avalabsofficial
's HyperSDK had to overcome, and what technical solutions were implemented.
Entire discussion👇
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The
@reserveprotocol
is on a mission to provide every person in the world access to stable currency.
@crainbf
and
@seb2point0
chatted to
@nnevvinn
about the protocol that's taking on hyperinflation and currency devaluation
As
@0xPolygonZK
's mainnet is fast approaching, let's take a look at how
#zkevm
will scale
#ethereum
.
Here are
@jbaylina
&
@davidsrz
offering a high level view of zkEVM & its trust model.
You can find the entire discussion👇
While fungible tokens can be bridged to a plethora of blockchains, issuing
@ensdomains
across different networks is more challenging.
@nicksdjohnson
discusses how ENS resolution works cross-chain via CCIP read.
Entire discussion👇
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@tw_tter
chats to
@danfinlay
, Founder & Group Manager at
@MetaMask
, about the motivation behind building it, the security of the platform,
#decentralization
, the future of seed phrases, and much more!
The
#AMPL
token has been causing quite a stir in recent weeks, everyone has an opinion on its legitimacy.
@evankuo
, CEO of
@AmpleforthOrg
, wants to straighten out misconceptions surrounding the project. Please share your thoughts!
With all that the world is facing, we think it's the perfect time to
#RESETEVERYTHING
. Join the virtual conference that explores the positive effects of this crisis on companies, communities, families, and our economy.
Hit the reset button on April 29.
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This week we are joined by Stephane
@thegostep
and Phil
@phildaian
, two of the brains behind
#flashbots
!, the research and development company focused on MEV ⬇️
The advancements in zero knowledge tech caused a shift in Ethereum's scaling roadmap from sharding to rollups.
@sandeepnailwal
discusses key differences between the main L2 scaling solutions, and why
@0xPolygonLabs
chose the ZK path.
Entire discussion👇
A staple of liquid staking,
@LidoFinance
V2 introduces a new, hub-and-spoke architecture, aimed at ensuring permisionless and decentralised staking.
@IsdrsP
discusses Lido's design choices and how the protocol adapted over time.
Full discussion👇
There is no denying that a conviction of
#JulianAssange
for exposing truths on
#WikiLeaks
will jeopardize
#freepress
and
#freespeech
. The values of censorship resistance and permissionless innovation are at risk, and the crypto community is not immune.
They started out as the Plasma Group, designed Optimistic Rollups for layer-2 scaling on Ethereum, and came out the other side as
@optimismPBC
.
@jinglanW
&
@karl_dot_tech
discuss 100x scaling on Eth 1.x and solving the data availability problem.
🎙
@JacobArluck
is our guide to the decentralized ecosystem of teams building Tezos, as well as the tools and languages which power the platform. His company
@TQTezos
is working to grow
@Tezos
and make it more accessible to developers.
Listen here:
Learn about Scilla – a formal verification oriented contract language, the smart contract language of the upcoming Zilliqa blockchain.
📺:
#smartcontracts
#smartcontractdevelopment
New episode is up! ⚡️We're joined by Guy Zyskind
@GuyZys
, CEO of Enigma
@EnigmaMPC
, a platform for scalable dApps which preserves privacy. Enigma network treats
#Ethereum
smart contracts as secret contracts & performs computations on encrypted data.
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@seb3point0
chats to
@fekunze
of
@EvmosOrg
, the scalable, high-throughput PoS blockchain that is fully compatible and interoperable with
#Ethereum
. Hear about the innovation that it's bringing to the
#EVM
and the recent launch setback
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You have either seen or at least heard about the documentary The Social Dilemma, which unveils the dark side of privacy. As a solution to this problem,
@trentmc0
, built
@oceanprotocol
with an aim to turn the data industry on its head.
HyperSDK encompasses the minimum requirements for a high-throughput
@avax
VM, while also allowing developers to customise it.
@_patrickogrady
talks about
@avalabsofficial
's HyperSDK and the demand for scaling in modern blockchains.
Entire discussion👇
We had
@twobitidiot
join us to discuss his birth as a Bitcoin blogger, journey through
@DCGco
&
@coindesk
and now launching
@MessariCrypto
to bring more transparency and accountability to the crypto space!
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'DeFi Is Boring, Let's Reinvent Credit': Composable Leverage
@MeherRoy
chats with
@0xmikko_eth
&
@ivangbi_
about
@GearboxProtocol
and how they aim to create a universal, composable, on-chain ‘credit layer’, through credit account abstraction.
By creating…
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This week
@crainbf
&
@FelixLts
chat with
@AntonioMJuliano
about the upcoming
@dYdX
V4, the need for decentralized exchanges and what challenges they face.
Hear about:
➡️Development philosophy and risks
➡️Scaling throughput
➡️DeFi vs. CeFi
Onboarding billions of users = blockchains need to scale
@ilblackdragon
discusses
@NEARProtocol
's Nightshade sharding design and how their stateless validation leverages
@0xPolygon
's zkWasm prover to further lower bandwidth requirements.
Full discussion:
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This week
@tw_tter
&
@MeherRoy
chat with
@jbaylina
&
@davidsrz
about
@0xPolygonZK
's zkEVM, from circuits to mainnet.
Hear about:
➡️design philosophies behind zk rollups
➡️challenges encountered throughout development
➡️zk validity proofs
New episode is up! We’re joined by Anthony Lusardi
@pyskell
, Director of the Ethereum Classic Cooperative, an organization whose goal is to promote the development and growth of the Ethereum Classic Network.
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This week we have a fascinating interview with
@econoar
and
@sassal0x
of
@ethhub_io
!
We dive deep into the Ethereum ecosystem, talked about Eth2.0, and explored the rise of Ether Maximalism.
Q: What does
@0xPolygonZK
's EVM equivalence mean?
TL;DR: frictionless user experience.
@jbaylina
&
@davidsrz
discuss the advantages of using
#zkevm
and what makes the magic 🧙 happen🪄
You can find the entire discussion👇
The saying goes that fortune favours the brave!🔮
Watch
@AntonioMJuliano
as he reiterates how
@dYdX
implemented new technologies before they became mainstream:
→ V3 using L2 solutions powered by
@StarkWareLtd
;
→ upcoming V4 featuring its own sovereign
@cosmos
chain.
🔜 On our next episode,
@AntonioMJuliano
goes over technological bottlenecks encountered by decentralised perpetual exchanges and how
@dYdX
managed to overcome them.
Join
@crainbf
&
@FelixLts
as they address the elephant in the room: CeFi vs. DeFi and its (upcoming) regulations.
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Not all bull runs are created equal. 2017's was driven by the ICO boom, but what’s driving
#crypto
prices in 2021?
@ercwl
has a few ideas and he shares them with you.
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Is crypto helping the world or just shifting power from traditional finance to a new system of governance?
@bneiluj
is on the fence but calling out the power imbalances in
#DeFi
. And his project
@RektHQ
has certainly ruffled some feathers
🎤co-founder of
@SiaTechHQ
,
@DavidVorick
, "Sia today is a fast, efficient, cost-effect solution where you can store your data" 🎧
Full episode:
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This week
@tw_tter
chats with
@HMsheikh4
about LLMs & multi-agent systems and how
@Fetch_ai
aims to redefine AI economic models.
Hear about:
➡️AI x blockchains
➡️integrating ML with AI agent economy
➡️scalability & interoperability of AI models
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This week
@sunnya97
and
@snarkyzk
chatted to
@scupytrooples
, co-founder of
@AlchemixFi
. They took a deep dive into how the self-repaying loan protocol works and chatted about what's coming up in V2
"This oppression and intimidation of journalists in the west means that no other journalist in the west will take upon itself this enormous burden"
The extradition case against
#JulianAssange
: 100 lawyers, $3M, 100,000 active supporters
@couragefound
@DefendAssange
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This week
@seb3point0
chats with
@nicksdjohnson
about multichain
@ensdomains
in the L2 and non-EVM landscape.
Hear about:
➡️CCIP Read
➡️on-chain identities & privacy
➡️account abstraction
➡️ENS wrapper and subdomains
New episode is up! ✨
Former
#Ethereum
CTO and
@ParityTech
Founder Gavin Wood
@gavofyork
joined us to discuss the early days of Ethereum, how Parity came about, their new blockchain framework
#Substrate
and the case for on-chain governance.
The
@Givethio
Dapp creates better incentives for donors and charity workers, in all types of social good projects. DAOs deserve a better use case than making investors rich.
@thegrifft
CCIP Read allows for secure off-chain data retrievals, thus enabling the resolution of L2
@ensdomains
.
As
@nicksdjohnson
alludes, CCIP Read unlocks true ENS scalability, well beyond L1 limitations, paving the way for mass adoption.
Entire discussion👇
While fungible tokens can be bridged to a plethora of blockchains, issuing
@ensdomains
across different networks is more challenging.
@nicksdjohnson
discusses how ENS resolution works cross-chain via CCIP read.
Entire discussion👇
New Episode 🚀
@buchmanster
and
@sunnya97
of
@cosmos
join us to talk about the recent mainnet launch. With the network running smoothly, we address issues relating to governance and centralization of power.
🎙
#DVT
(Distributed Validator Tech) enables modularity at every level of the validator stack
=> increased security & UX
Here are
@StakeETH
&
@OisinKyne
from
@ObolNetwork
explaining the advantages of
#DVT
& what made it possible.
Entire discussion👇
On our next episode,
@seb3point0
and
@tw_tter
tackle the subject of modular blockchains⛽️
These offer a scalable alternative to monolithic architectures, so let’s explore their key features🧵
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This week
@tw_tter
chats to
@arjunbhuptani
, founder of
@ConnextNetwork
, about bridge technology, Connext's pivot from state channels to bridges, their recent partnership with
@nomadxyz_
, and what they have coming next
Order book📒 vs. AMM🤖
While a spot DEX generally uses liquidity pools for its AMM (automated market maker), perpetual DEXes have to accommodate different kinds of traders and tools.
@AntonioMJuliano
discusses the advantages of order books for
@dYdX
's product & user experience.
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This week
@crainbf
chats to
@amirhaleem
from
@helium
- the global, distributed network of long-range wireless coverage hotspots for Internet of Things devices. Hear how they have built the largest P2P network with over 600,000 hotspots!🎈
Hyperchains are fully customisable
@zksync
instances that run in parallel & communicate with each other via trustless bridges.
@gluk64
discusses the hyperchain architecture and highlights the importance of sharing the same ZKP circuits.
Entire episode👇
Almost at Ithaca for the fourth annual
@initc3org
bootcamp! My favourite event of the year (closely followed by Financial Crypto). Got several students in tow and a fat deck of project pitches
#ic3bootcamp
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This week
@tw_tter
chats with
@LefterisJP
about his 10-year long journey in the Ethereum ecosystem, dating pre-Devcon 0.
Hear about:
➡️Ethereum's beginnings
➡️The DAO r(a)ise and hack
➡️founding
@rotkiapp
➡️Ethereum's future: hopes & fears
🎤
@vikmeup
of
@TrustWalletApp
talks about making a
#cryptocurrency
noncustodial wallet, and how an acquisition by
@binance
has allowed him to focus on a long-term vision of an open-source and anonymous wallet that is developer friendly.
Listen here:
New episode is out! Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao
@cz_binance
joined us to discuss how
@binance
grew to become the world’s largest crypto exchange in less than a year. We covered its journey, values and plans for the future.
👉
ICYMI Stefan Thomas
@justmoon
and Ben Sharifian
@sharafian_
, from
@Coil
joined us recently to tell us how they're changing the content monetization play, leveraging
#blockchain
and
@Interledger
to build a new business model for the web.
Achieving trustless data storage requires
@KYVENetwork
's validators to vote on the correctness of uploaded data🗳️
Here is
@johnletey
offering a high-level explanation of
#KYVE
's
#data
lakes.
Find the entire discussion here:
New episode is up! Aragon Founder Luis Cuende
@licuende
joined us to discuss their work on building tools for
#decentralized
governance. We covered the origins of his deep drive and why he's fighting this crucial fight. cc
@AragonOneTeam
👉
New episode is up! We are joined by Evan Shapiro & Izaak Meckler
@izmeckler
from
@o1_labs
, a pioneering company using
#zkSNARK
technology to construct a cryptocurrency blockchain Coda, aiming to solve the blockchain size scalability issue.
ICYMI We were recently joined by Anthony Lusardi
@pyskell
, Director of the Ethereum Classic Cooperative, an organization whose goal is to promote the development and growth of the Ethereum Classic Network.
📺:
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It's been 5 years since we last spoke with
@nicksdjohnson
from
@ensdomains
. This week
@tw_tter
chats with him about how the project has evolved and the road ahead, particularly with respect to scaling solutions and
#Ethereum
gas costs.
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This week
@FelixLts
&
@MeherRoy
chat with
@mark0baricevic
about
@cosmos_sdk
's value prop and what changes it undergoes to adapt to user demands.
Hear about:
➡️appchains
➡️Cosmos SDK modules and VMs
➡️
@cosmos
' response to L2 rollups
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This week
@tw_tter
chats with
@trentmc0
about AI &
@oceanprotocol
's V4 data marketplace.
Hear about:
➡️implementing blockchain in (big) data
➡️data NFTs & data tokens
➡️what makes data sets valuable
➡️IP rights
➡️data farming & curation
New episode is up!
We’re joined by Jameson Lopp, a self-proclaimed “Professional Cypherpunk. Jameson has written extensively about
#Bitcoin
development, cryptocurrencies & personal operational security.