Episodes
We were joined by Ye Zhang, co-founder of Scroll, to discuss the EVM-compatible zero knowledge landscape and how Scroll aims to stay true to Ethereum’s values and community.
Published 11/18/23
We were joined by Charles d’Haussy, CEO of dYdX Foundation, to discuss dYdX V4 migration to a Cosmos appchain and what challenges it solves: order book decentralisation, validator distribution and UX.
Published 11/10/23
We were joined by Nick Johnson, founder of ENS, to discuss the state of decentralised naming services from a multichain & L2 perspective, and how these ultimately tie into decentralised identities.
Published 11/04/23
We were joined by Simon Harman, founder of Chainflip, to discuss multi-chain liquidity fragmentation and how Chainflip’s JIT AMM (Just in Time) aims to solve it, by providing cross-chain native swaps.
Published 10/27/23
We were joined by Guy Young, co-founder of Ethena, to discuss the stablecoin landscape and their synthetic eUSD, backed by staked ETH and its inverse perpetual swap.
Published 10/20/23
We were joined by Evgeny Yurtaev, co-founder & CEO of Zerion, to discuss the challenges of building a Web3 wallet and how Zerion aims to improve user experience, while still maintaining security.
Published 10/13/23
We were joined by Niklas Kunkel, founder of Chronicle, to discuss the challenges and tradeoffs that oracles regularly face, and how Chronicle is solving them, continuing the ethos of early MakerDAO.
Published 10/06/23
We were joined by Elias Simos, founder of Rated Network, to discuss data interpretation in blockchain infra and what conclusions can be drawn about validator performance, client diversity & much more.
Published 09/28/23
We were joined by Misha Komarov, co-founder of =nil; Foundation, to discuss the use cases and challenges of building the first marketplace for (outsourced) zero knowledge proofs.
Published 09/22/23
We were joined by Robbie Ferguson, co-founder of Immutable, to discuss the state of Web3 gaming and Immutable's contribution to this paradigm shift.
Published 09/16/23
We were joined by Stani Kulechov, founder of Lens Protocol & Aave, to discuss decentralised social graphs and how to leverage smart contracts to build the primitives for Web3's social layer.
Published 09/08/23
We were joined by Stephane Gosselin, co-founder of Flashbots and Frontier Research, to discuss the MEV landscape, what research breakthroughs have been recorded and how they impact DevEx and UX.
Published 09/01/23
We were joined by Marko Baricevic, Cosmos SDK product lead, to discuss the development philosophy behind the Cosmos Hub and how appchains evolved over time.
Published 08/25/23
We were joined by Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon, to discuss their upcoming 2.0 revamp, which will feature an aggregation layer for interoperable scaling solutions.
Published 08/18/23
We were joined by Stephen Young & Storm from NFTFi, to discuss the general state of the NFT market, future prospects for NFTs and how P2P NFT lending unlocks new sources of liquidity in a bear market.
Published 08/11/23
We were joined by Alex Gluchowski, co-founder & CEO of Matter Labs, to discuss the zk rollup landscape, its bottlenecks, and what makes zkSync stand apart as the most popular rollup.
Published 08/04/23
We were joined by Patrick O’Grady, VP of Engineering at Ava Labs, to discuss HyperSDK and how it enables building customisable, high performance VMs on Avalanche subnets.
Published 07/28/23
We couldn’t miss EthCC 6 and we got to sit down with Vitalik Buterin to discuss hot topics from the Ethereum ecosystem: MEV, staking derivatives, privacy, decentralisation and future interoperability.
Published 07/22/23
We were joined by Avril Dutheil, GM at Neutron, to discuss Neutron’s smart contract platform and how it leverages replicated security (ICS) and interchain accounts (ICA).
Published 07/14/23
We were joined by Sveinn Valfells, CEO of Monerium, to discuss the European E-Money Directive and how it set the ground for fully regulated on-chain currencies (EURe) built on top of SEPA.
Published 07/07/23
We were joined by Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder of Starkware, to discuss Starknet's L2 architecture, as well as the upcoming update to Cairo 1.0 and how it will impact scalability performances for STARKs
Published 06/30/23
We were joined by Luka Müller, co-founder of MME Legal Firm & Sygnum Bank, to discuss about crypto regulations, institutional investors, user privacy & CBDCs.
Published 06/23/23
As Epicenter hits the 500 episode milestone, our hosts look back on almost 10 years of crypto, analysing the good, the bad and the ugly. Thank you for your continuous support on this amazing journey!
Published 06/16/23
We were joined by Zac Williamson & Joe Andrews, to discuss the evolution of Aztec, from ZK Money to their upcoming privacy-preserving hybrid ZK rollup.
Published 06/09/23
We were joined by Fig, co-founder of Squid Router, to discuss how they leverage Axelar's infrastructure to achieve one-click, near-instant cross-chain swaps, creating user-friendly interoperability.
Published 06/02/23