Episodes
We were joined by Audrey Tang and Glen Weyl, co-authors of Plurality, to discuss the social dynamics they studied and how technology can be used to unite rather than divide.
Published 06/21/24
We were joined by Sandeep Nailwal & Brendan Farmer, to discuss Polygon’s aggregation layer and how it aims to solve the current fragmentation of Ethereum L2 scaling solutions.
Published 06/14/24
We were joined by Superphiz & Nixorokish, to discuss the current Ethereum staking landscape and what challenges need to be addressed to ensure the network’s decentralisation and security.
Published 06/07/24
We were joined by Dima Buterin & Paul Kohlhaas, to discuss psychedelics (especially in relationship to trauma), how research has progressed and how decentralisation pushes the field forward (DeSci).
Published 05/30/24
We were joined at DappCon 2024 by Austin Griffith, Mona El Isa and Peter Van Valkenburgh, to discuss the recent regulatory shift from US policymakers and its effect on Web3's mission and values.
Published 05/24/24
We were joined by Mara Schmiedt, CEO of Alluvial, to discuss how institutional players regard liquid staking and how infrastructure evolved since the early days of ETH POS.
Published 05/17/24
We were joined by Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin, to discuss their quadratic funding model which raised over $60M for public goods funding, and how Gitcoin 2.0 further decentralises crowd-funding
Published 05/10/24
We were joined by Illia Polosukhin & Alex Skidanov, co-founders of Near Protocol, to discuss why rollups are inefficient at scaling blockchains and how Near’s sharding fixes this bottleneck.
Published 05/04/24
We were joined by Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, to discuss how crypto evolved over the past 10 years, and what role Tether played in shaping both crypto, as well as emerging markets and developing economies.
Published 04/25/24
We were joined by Lukas Schor, co-founder of Safe, to discuss Gnosis’ role in building early Ethereum infrastructure and tooling, and how Safe branched out to help secure >$100Bn worth of assets.
Published 04/18/24
We were joined by Rebecca Liao, co-founder & CEO of Saga, to discuss blockchain scalability, its effects on dApp development and how Saga chainlets could provide 'infinite' horizontal scaling.
Published 04/11/24
We were joined by Rushi Manche, co-founder of Movement Labs, to discuss the rise of modern VMs and how Move-VM aims to offset Ethereum’s shortcomings through parallelisation.
Published 04/06/24
We were joined by Yoann Turpin, co-founder of Wintermute, to discuss the ever-changing trading landscape, the skills needed to succeed, and how a top-level market making firm operates.
Published 03/30/24
We were joined by Mikael Lazarev and Ivan from Gearbox Protocol, to discuss how they aim to create a universal and composable on-chain credit layer, through credit account abstraction.
Published 03/23/24
We were joined by Humayun Sheikh, co-founder & CEO of Fetch.ai, to discuss AI economic models and how LLMs can be integrated by agentic systems as a foundation for autonomous AI apps.
Published 03/16/24
We were joined by Jasper De Goojier, co-founder of SEDA Protocol, to discuss the oracle landscape and how SEDA aims to decentralise it and make data access permissionless.
Published 03/09/24
We were joined by Anish Mohammed, co-founder & CTO of Panther Protocol, to discuss the importance of compliant privacy for on-chain transactions, powered by zero knowledge technology.
Published 03/02/24
We were joined by Gil and Yair to discuss Lava Network’s decentralised marketplace for RPC and node providers in the modular, multi-chain landscape.
Published 02/23/24
We were joined by Zhiming Yang, co-founder of Orbit Markets, to discuss crypto derivatives and how TradFi expertise applies to customising structured products for crypto markets.
Published 02/17/24
We were joined by David Goldberg, founder of Founders Pledge, to discuss the landscape of charitable non-profit organisations and how data can streamline donations and maximise their social impact.
Published 02/10/24
We were joined by Lefteris Karapetsas, true Ethereum OG, to discuss his 10-year long journey through the Ethereum ecosystem, from joining EthDev (pre-Devcon 0) to founding Rotki.
Published 02/03/24
We were joined by David Minarsch, co-founder of Valory & Autonolas, to discuss the ever-changing landscape of AI agents and how they can be used to automate crypto applications.
Published 01/27/24
We were joined by Andreas Tsamados & Vijay Krishnavanshi, co-founders of Fileverse, to discuss their decentralised file sharing solution and how they plan to disrupt the Web2 quasi-monopoly.
Published 01/19/24
We were joined by Guy Itzhaki & Guy Zyskind, to discuss fully homomorphic encryption and how Fhenix plans to leverage it to build an end-to-end encrypted Ethereum L2 with compliant privacy.
Published 01/12/24