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NEW POD: Behind the Scenes of Restaking
Timestamps 👇
(00:00) Intro
(02:37) Restaking Supply Chain
(10:56) Restaking Today
(18:11) LRTs & AVS Dynamics
(30:54) LRT Selection Process
(41:21) AVS Leverage Advantage
(49:28) AVS Security
(55:09) LRTs vs LSTs
Joined by
@bcmakes
,…
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Polygon's business development team is an absolute machine
Let's take a look at 10 of its latest partnerships 🧵👇
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1/ Is Illuvium the Pokémon of Web3?
@KieranWarwick
from
@illuviumio
explains how Illuvium will be the first AAA game in crypto. 🧵 ↓
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Apple just launched a crypto wallet 👀
Is this game over for every other wallet?!
Hold up, no they didn't.
But what would happen if they did? wrong answers only
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Polygon 2.0 has arrived.
Polygon co-founder
@sandeepnailwal
joins us to cover everything you need to know about 2.0:
- ZK-powered L2 chains
- POL Tokenomics
- 3 Governance Pillars
- BD Chain Narrative
- Polygon Business Model
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1/ You're familiar with Cosmos AppChains, Ethereum L2s and Solana's global state... but what about Subnets?
Avalanche believes Subnets will scale while L2s fracture (liquidity/user experience)
New
@avalancheavax
episode with
@el33th4xor
and
@John1wu
! Links below 👇
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New episode with
@kevinsekniqi
and
@_patrickogrady
breaks down the AVAX vision.
- Core
@avax
thesis
- Economics of subnets vs rollups
- Endgame of 10,000 subnets
- Why enterprises pick Avalanche
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USDC blacklisted several Ethereum accounts last week, freezing their token balances.
But aren't token transfers permissionless? Here's how they did it 🧵 👇
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Today's episode with
@CryptoHayes
&
@leptokurtic_
dives deep into the world of stablecoins & synthetic dollars.
They unpack:
-
@ethena_labs
USDe risks & design
- Navigating the synthetic dollar landscape
- The future of crypto yields
- Sectors to watch this bull market…
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Bitcoin miners are fighting to stay solvent
1. What happened?
2. How are miners responding?
3. Will they survive the bear market?
We explain everything in this thread 🧵
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NEW POD: Inside
@berachain
's Proof of Liquidity
@SmokeyTheBera
reveals how Berachain is aligning incentives & security like never before.
Timestamps👇
(00:00) Intro
(03:06) Berachain Origin Story
(11:08) Proof of Liquidity
(22:46) Journey of Berachain & Roadmap
(29:34) Why…
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Celestia just raised $55M in a bear market 👀
@CelestiaOrg
is building a modular data availability & consensus network.
What's that mean? Here's a breakdown 🧵 👇
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How much money do you think an artist makes for every 1M streams on Spotify?
Only $4K... and that assumes the artist owns 100% of the master, which they rarely do.
Could crypto be a solution to better monetization and innovation in the music industry? 🧵 👇
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Tomorrow we will be LIVE with
@AveryChing
,
@nickwh8te
, and
@rushimanche
diving into:
- Future of data availability
- The role of VMs
- Connecting liquidity across ecosystems
-
@CelestiaOrg
x
@movementlabsxyz
collab
LIVE @ 2:30 PM ET | 7:30 PM UTC
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Starkware, ZK Rollups and L3s will redefine Ethereum scaling.
Time to find out how 🧵 👇
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Here is why
@santiagoroel
is considering selling all of his ETH for SOL.
Hear the full episode by hitting the link in our bio🫡
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In today's ep
@aeyakovenko
and
@bennybitcoins
unpack:
- Validator economics & sustainability
- Local fee markets & incentives
- Scaling & open sourcing roadmap
- Saga phone app store challenge
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He Bought $600M Worth of Bitcoin 🧵
The future of Bitcoin and DeFi by Eric Peters:
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Arbitrum now has a larger TVL than Solana 👀
And they're just getting started... Want to know what's next on Arbitrum's roadmap?
Tune in to today's episode on
@arbitrum
with
@sgoldfed
&
@rauljordaneth
to find out.
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Here's
@santiagoroel
's crypto investing masterclass.
Santi reveals:
- Differentiating errors of process vs. outcome
- Portfolios through bull & bear markets
- Psychological challenges of investing
- Biggest mistakes & lessons learned
Timestamps
(00:00) Learning from Mistakes…
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Two of crypto's top traders step into a room...
@cmsholdings
and
@AviFelman
episode just dropped 🔥
Sneak peek 🧵 ↓
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NEW POD: Unmasking
@ChainLinkGod
In this exclusive interview, Zach dives deep into his journey from anon to public figure and the future of
@chainlink
.
Timestamps 👇
(00:00) Why ChainlinkGod is DOXing
(03:31) The ChainlinkGod Origin Story
(13:42) Importance of Identity in…
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You've heard the term "Ethereum Client" but you have no idea what that means...
Time to learn 🧵 👇
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Why is Cosmos back in the spotlight?
We brought on
@zmanian
&
@jackzampolin
to find out 👀
Spotify:
YouTube:
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On this week's episode of Empire
@joemccann
dropped his $BONK thesis.
Here's why Joe believes $BONK is one of the most deeply integrated startups on
@solana
For the full episode hit the link in our bio!
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1/ Policy and regulation are VITAL to crypto's future
That's why Empire just launched a new Policy Series with
@jchervinsky
and
@RebeccaRettig1
, and the first episode is now live!!
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He Bought $600M Of Bitcoin
Eric Peters, CIO of One River, believes Bitcoin is still the most interesting trade
Hear Why (🔗 👇 )
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Oh my, this roundup slaps...
@santiagoroel
and
@JasonYanowitz
discuss everything you need to know from this INSANE week:
- How did we get here?
- stETH fallout
- Celsius/3AC meltdown
- Contagion
- Is Santi buying?
- Will we go lower? and more
I even took notes for u fam💜
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One of the best explanations for crypto's path to mass adoption
@ErikVoorhees
is always worth the listen 🎧
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New episode with
@PacmanBlur
where we cover:
- what makes Blend unique
- refinancing auctions
- institutional liquidity providers
- what's next for
@blur_io
+ NFT markets
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1/ The most significant catalyst in crypto's history
@Travis_Kling
from
@Ikigai_fund
explains the impact of the ETH 2.0 merge in our latest episode. Warning, you might become an ETH bull 🧵 ↓
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Historic Week in DeFi
@MakerDAO
's integration of real-word assets could set up the next bull run
Understand why:
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New episode with
@caseykcaruso
&
@realDanielShorr
dissects:
- State of AI & productization
- Decentralized compute access
-
@ModulusLabs
at the Crypto & AI intersection
- Future of verifiable AI
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New episode with
@KyleSamani
and
@TusharJain_
from
@multicoincap
where we discuss:
- FTX & SBF
- Solana's future
- why defi isn't ready
- EVM & L2 scalability issues
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What is the secret behind Frax's "DeFi Trinity"?
@samkazemian
joins us to discuss:
- The DeFi Trinity
- Frax's Fed Deposit strategy
- Creating spot demand
- frxETH and sfrxETH
-
@fraxfinance
's new project (alpha) and more!
[links below]
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1/ Policy and regulation are VITAL to crypto's future
@jchervinsky
+
@RebeccaRettig1
are back for another Policy Series episode on:
- The SEC's overstep
- DC's sentiment
- The McHenry-Thompson Bill
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"you have the wealthiest country on the planet primed to understand bitcoin's value in a way that they have never been primed to understand it before"
New 🔥 episode with
@AviFelman
+
@jvb_xyz
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Financial systems are falling apart across the world
And that could be the path for crypto adoption, according to
@ErikVoorhees
🧵 👇
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Here's an easy way to understand blockchains, hard forks (sup $ETH merge) and why decentralization matters.
I present you with a 10 IQ example 🧵 👇
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The Fed will eventually reverse course
and when they do...
"there is nothing on planet earth you want to own more than crypto" -
@Travis_Kling
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When Chris Dixon speaks, I listen 🎧
Amazing panel on The State of Crypto with
@cdixon
from the Permissionless conference 🍿
Tune in & subscribe:
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Talent is flooding into Web3
Tune in to our conversation with
@zorkary
(
@dragonfly_xyz
) and
@aharshner
(prev.
@polychain
) for this masterclass:
- The opportunity
- How to evaluate token compensation
- Top recruiting tactics
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What happened to $UST? Are algo stablecoins dead?
@gametheorizing
and Mika cover everything you need to know in our latest episode. Tune in & subscribe 🤝
📺 YouTube:
🎧 Spotify:
🎧 Apple:
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1/ Kain Warwick is in the house
@kaiynne
covers:
- centralized insanity
- how to value defi projects
- crypto's infrastructure opportunity
- Ethereum,
@synthetix_io
and more!
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New episode with
@musalbas
and
@prestonevans__
on sovereign rollups and the inevitability of modular tech stacks!
Better keep
@sovereign_labs
+
@CelestiaOrg
on your watch list
Spotify:
Apple:
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Imagine if a Web3 company built a brand and ecosystem like Nike...
STEPN is shooting its shot, and the plan includes DeFi, Web2 and IRL events. Can they pull it off?
New 🔥 episode with
@Stepnofficial
co-founder
@yawn_rong
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"The biggest thing that has happened in crypto law"
@santiagoroel
dives into the landmark $XRP | SEC case with Chief Policy Officers
@RebeccaRettig1
and
@jchervinsky
in today's Policy Series Special
🎙️
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How will rollups decentralize their sequencer?
New episode with
@Jskybowen
+
@benafisch
from
@AstriaOrg
and
@EspressoSys
on:
- shared sequencers
- the economic tradeoffs
- cross-domain MEV and more
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New episode with
@_ilmoi
and
@0xrwu
unpacks:
- The
@tensor_hq
origin story
- An NFT marketplace designed for traders
- The Solana developer experience
- A financial stack for NFTs
- 2024 strategy
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NEW EP: The Perfect Crypto Portfolio
Featuring
@AviFelman
&
@roshunpatel
we unpack:
- Avi's "bearish" BTC outlook
- SOL & ETH catalysts
- Productive vs. unproductive assets
- Where are we in the cycle?
Timestamps:
(00:00) Introductiom
(04:28) Avi's Bearish Take
(09:41) Ro's…
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1/ Infrastructure is the base layer of Web3 yet severely overlooked. I feel a new narrative starting...
Don't miss our conversation with
@JoeLallouz
from
@CoinbaseCloud
on:
- Blockchain infrastructure
- Low switching costs
- The staking derivatives market
- MEV and more
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Will All Financial Transactions Move On-Chain?
New episode with
@ErikVoorhees
where we discuss:
- Bitcoin's future
- On-chain maximalism
- The path to crypto adoption
- Regulation and more
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1/ So nothing happened this week, right?
- Markets melting
- CeFi yields > DeFi
- Crypto's worst-case scenario
- SBF saves CeFi
- Solend + Bancor
Tune in to today's roundup for everything you need to know:
CC
@SBF_FTX
thoughts on this cover art?
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The internet made information global, cheap and permissionless.
Crypto leverages the internet and cryptography to provide these same attributes for finance 🧵 👇
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10/ If you enjoyed this thread hit the follow button and RT the first tweet below to spread the word 🤝
Oh, and listen to the latest episode covering high-water marks here:
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1/ DraftKings
The sports betting company created its NFT marketplace via a partnership with Polygon. Draft Kings also runs its own validator node with around 55 million MATIC staked.
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New LSD episode with
@Rocket_Pool
and
@coinbase
's cbETH
@JohnZettler
+
@langerstwit
discuss:
- The battle for liquidity
- Shanghai predictions
- Fee markets, multichain plans & more!
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The Best, The Worst and Our Favorites of 2022
@JasonYanowitz
&
@santiagoroel
pull a Michael Scott by hosting this year's Annual Empire Awards
We cover our favorite project, worst investment, wildest predictions, favorite new habit, 2023 goals and more!
[links below]
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6/ Now you can see why crypto funds might want to close shop in this recent market crash.
Stay open and profit $0 for returning 200% OR start a new fund and profit $200M for returning 200%
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What is
@BuildOnBase
doing to decentralize the sequencer?
@jessepollak
talks open neutrality commitments, decentralized sequencer grant, and on-boarding the next billion of users.
Onchain summer.
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Crypto needs real-world use cases
That's why we brought on
@marek_
and
@RegenRene
from Celo to discuss how
@CeloOrg
is building for and already solving real-world use cases!
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Check out the latest
@Blockworks_
@theempirepod
pod with Celo co-founders
@RegenRene
and
@marek_
and co-hosts
@JasonYanowitz
and
@santiagoroel
.
From the origin story to current partnerships, find out about the story of Celo.
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SBF has consumed enough of your attention
Refocus on markets, learning and evaluating the investment landscape. It's time to suit up.
@santiagoroel
&
@JasonYanowitz
provide exactly this in today's roundup. Insight after insight.
[links below]
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On today's pod
@LoganJastremski
unpacks:
- Why parallelization matters
- Quantifying blockchain performance
- Why integrated chains offer better UX
-
@_Frictionless_
investment framework
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Today's Empire features
@joemccann
laying out the Solana thesis:
- Why "only possible on Solana" is real
- Flow analysis for crypto recovery
- Edge cases for Solana
- SOL developer difference
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Crypto will securitize everything 🤯
@wintonARK
, Director of Research at ARK Invest, joined today's Roundup. We discuss:
- The macro landscape
- ARK's investment thesis
- Uniswap's fee debate
- DAO governance and more
Links to the full episode 👇
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1/ Hedge funds and their GPs (general partners) make money in two ways:
Mgmt Fees = a ~2% fee on a fund's AUM (assets under management)
So for a $1B fund, GPs will make $20M in mgmt fees to pay for operating expenses, salaries, etc.
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Scroll's zk-rollup w/ complete EVM compatibility is the bleeding edge of $ETH scaling tech.
Don't miss this convo with
@Scroll_ZKP
co-founders
@SandyPeng1
,
@yezhang1998
and
@shenhaichen
!
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2023 Predictions
- Wallet Wars
- Centralized Exchange Market Share 📉
- Vertical Integration
- MEV is THE business model
- and so much more
Get off the couch, take a walk and catch our new episode with
@JasonYanowitz
@santiagoroel
@MarkYusko
@MikeIppolito_
[links below]
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How do you value crypto tokens?
We debate valuation frameworks, fundamentals vs flows, token buybacks vs distributions, protocol fees and more in today's crossover episode with
@thebellcurvepod
⚡
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NEW POD
How do you value L1s, L2s, and crypto assets?
@KyleSamani
joined us to answer this.
Timestamps 👇
(00:00) Introduction
(02:43) Crypto as Commodities
(08:50) MEV Fee Stream for Networks
(18:53) L1 Token Valuation
(21:31) Updated Solana Thesis
(37:14) Fee Markets &…
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7/ However, there is one huge reason why GPs may not do this... reputation
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2/ NFL
Through a partnership with Ticketmaster, the NFL launched Virtual Commemorative Tickets created on Polygon.
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New episode with
@hosseeb
&
@tomhschmidt
just dropped! Turn off the price charts and turn up the volume for this one 🎧
- The VC landscape
- DAO debt financing
- The end of airdrops
- Changing meta
- What L1 to build on
- Market outlook
Tune in:
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NEW POD: Why Layer 3s are Inevitable
@sgoldfed
of
@OffchainLabs
joins us to unpack the state of L2s and the future of L3s.
Timestamps 👇
00:00 Introduction
01:52 L2 State of the Union
08:07 L2 vs L3
14:00 User Acquisition Methodology
18:30 Value Accrual of L3s m
24:20 App…
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"I missed DeFi summer because I wasn't a citizen during the winter"
All-star panel from Permissionless with
@draecomino
@hosseeb
@soona
@EvgenyGaevoy
and John Calabrese
Tune in & subscribe:
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Is FTX's implosion the end or a new beginning for Solana?
@aeyakovenko
and
@bennybitcoins
discuss
@solana
's ties with SBF & FTX, the collateral damage, Solana's roadmap and more in today's pod!
Spotify:
YouTube:
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Starbucks Rewards is the most successful loyalty program in history
The architect of this program,
@adambrotman
, is now all-in on Web3...
Adam explains what every crypto OG gets wrong about NFTs + why every company will have an NFT strategy in today's episode 👀 [links below]
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Did you miss our pod with Justin Sun? We ask
@justinsuntron
about:
-
@trondao
's vision
- Tether's falling market share
- his yield farming strategy
- crypto's outlook and more
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New episode with defi OG
@rleshner
We discuss:
- if the defi mullet is dead
- the giant RWA opportunity
- appchains
- overblown defi narratives
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🚨 LIVESTREAM 🚨
Binance just acquired FTX! I never thought I'd type those words...
Join our live stream now to find out what happened and what to expect next!
Live stream:
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Optimism Just Changed The Game
We have the best weekly roundup in crypto, and I'm not biased. Don't miss today's episode on:
-
@optimismPBC
$OP airdrop & governance
- Layer 2 value accrual vs $ETH
- BAYC Insta hack
- equity vs token value
- algo stables, and more
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BIG announcement from our sponsor
@carbondefixyz
🔥
They just launched a spicy trading strategy competition that's live until July 11th - check out the details on their site to play!
Here's the link:
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How will history look back on today? Is it possible we are already in the NEXT Renaissance?
An amazing conversation with historian+entrepreneur+investor
@JoshuaRosenthal
Tune In:
+ notes included below, fam
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3/ Adobe
Adobe partnered with Polygon allowing artists to easily mint their own NFTs.
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9/ Expect to see a few funds take huge risks, collapse due to insolvency or slowly shut down as investors ask for redemptions.
But maybe, just maybe, the worst is over.
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YouTube is live for our new episode with
@musalbas
and
@prestonevans__
on Sovereign Rollups 🔥
Sovereign Rollups + Modular Tech Stacks = Social + Technical Scalability
YouTube:
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ATOM 2.0 - A path from meme coin to value accrual?
I brought on the
@blockworksres
quants to debate
@cosmos
, reversible transactions,
@0xPolygon
& more.
Hosted by
@smyyguy
@MattFiebach
@swmartin19
@G_C_Harp
🫡
Spotify:
YouTube:
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How do you know if a protocol has true product market fit?
New episode just dropped with
@michellebailhe
from legendary VC firm
@sequoia
Spotify -
YouTube -
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New podcast with
@LynAldenContact
and
@gametheorizing
on the Bitcoin blockspace debate
Can Bitcoin find its long-term security solution without losing its core value prop? Tune in to find out!
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1/ Will Ordinals ignite Bitcoin's application era?
@muneeb
explains how Bitcoin has finally captured the attention of the right audience... the builders
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5/ The Walt Disney Company
Polygon became a part of Disney's Accelerator program that focuses on NFTs, AR, and AI development.
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