In this week's analyst round table, Dan is joined by Matt, Ren, and Brick of the Blockworks Research team to dive into the latest developments in DeFi and Crypto. They start of by discussing Avalanche Foundation's controversial support for memecoins, Dymension's airdrop and unique tokenomics, and Celestia's continued adoption. They also unpack MakerDAO's narrative return and recent strong revenue and token price performance. To close out the team discuss the lack of quality user based metrics fo...
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr 8 min
In this week's analyst table Dan is joined by Matt, Westie, and Effort Capital of the Blockworks Research team to dive into the 2024 outlook for Ethereum, Solana, and Bitcoin. They debate whether 2024 holds better adoption of Ethereum L2s, continued growth of optimizations like data availability, evolution of fees market adjustments, and whether Solana is seeing a renaissance of onchain activity. Additionally, the team examines the ascent of Bitcoin miners profitability. They also debate the imm...
Dec 28, 2023•57 min
In this week's interview Dan and Sam are joined by Scott Sunarto, founder and CEO of Argus Labs, to discuss the infrastructure they're building to make blockchain games more accessible. He talks about overcoming previous limitations with fully on-chain games, designing sharding architectures inspired by MMOs, building developer tools tailored for gaming, and enabling emergent economic behaviors through crypto integrations. Scott also discusses their recently launched game, Dark Frontier, and how...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 6 min
In this week's analyst table Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks research analysts Ren and Brick to dive into the latest governance and onchain news. They dive into Rollbit's proposal to switch to a revenue share model for its token holders. They also discuss Lyra V2's imminent launch, Orca and CowSwap's new fee structures, Synthetix's move away from inflation funding, and the debate around what's driving Solana's recent growth surge. They debate whether if Solana is experiencing a DeFi summer ...
Dec 15, 2023•56 min
In this week's interview Dan and Sam are joined by Lucas Bruder, co-founder and CEO of Jito Labs. Lucas dives into the intricacies of Solana including the validator client, Solana LST providers, and the upcoming launch of Jito's Stakenet. He discusses the function of streaming transactions and how networks use algorithms and waivers to arbitrate these. Lucas explains the role of keepers, the limitations of current Solana systems, and how Stakenet aims to revolutionize the process by decentralizi...
Dec 13, 2023•53 min
In this week's interview Dan and Sam are joined by Alluvial co-founder and CEO, Mara Schmiedt. They explore Alluvial's role in Liquid Collective's innovative offerings in the staking market. They dive into the trends of staking in crypto markets and the overall growth of liquid staking. Mara provides insights on the introduction of service level agreements (SLAs) in liquid staking, contributing to superior staking performance. We touch upon the and much more in the world of decentralized finance...
Dec 07, 2023•57 min
In this week's analyst table Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks research analysts Matt and Pibblez to dive into the latest crypto market trends. They analyze the strong performance of NFTs Pudgy Penguins and Mad Lads, Bitcoin, and onchain perps platforms. The group also debates the valuation of Celestia, the profitability of data availability layers, and the longevity of app chains vs layer 2 solutions. Additional topics include the surge in airdrops and the craze around ordinals like Node Mon...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 1 min
In this week's analyst table Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks research analysts Ren and Pibblez breakdown the hype around new L2 BLAST and its controversial pre-launch deposit contract and MakerDAO's record revenue. The team then moves on to crypto gaming viability with games like illuvium, and recent governance updates such as reduced inflation for Cosmos Hub's ATOM & Arbitrum STIPs back funding. Enjoy! As always remember this podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views ex...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 5 min
In this week's analyst table Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks research analysts Ren and Brick to dive into this week's biggest news. Dan covers Avalanche's recent surge in transactions stemming from ASC20 minting spam. Key governance updates include MakerDAO's current peg stability module and Aave and Curve's USD integration. Discussion then moves the dYdX market manipulation event that damaged the protocols insurance fund and subsequent debate between Kain and Antonio. To close out the team...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 13 min
In this week's analyst table Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks research analyst Matt Fiebach and Lightspeed podcast co-host Garret Harper. Today's conversation is a Solana debate diving into Solana's developer traction and documentation quality, the sustainability of low fees, comparisons to Ethereum L2s, and upcoming major ecosystem upgrades and catalysts like Firedancer. To close out the team touches on governance updates on inflation and incentive programs from Synthetix, Arbitrum, and dYd...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 9 min
In this episode, Blockworks Research analysts dive into Coinbase's Q3 earnings, Solana’s Breakpoint conference and strength, issues with Prisma points airdrop, Osmosis network struggles, and the state of Near and Jupiter protocols. The team also covers governance updates for Arbitrum, Ribbon, and Uniswap. To close out they analyze the upcoming Celestia airdrop and the current state of Cosmos As always remember this podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on ...
Nov 08, 2023•50 min
In this week's interview, EigenLayer CEO and Founder Sreeram Kannan and Principal Researcher Soubhik join us to unpack how EigenLayer aims to become the coordination infrastructure of Web3. They discuss the vision for EigenLayer as a platform that allows developers to build and integrate specialized protocols through a shared security model backed by Ethereum staking. Kannan outlines the roles of stakers, node operators, and developers building actively validated services (AVS) within the EigenL...
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 2 min
This week's analyst table has Blockworks Research Analysts Dan, Sam, Ren, and Brick diving into Pepe's recent 6.9 trillion token burn and Thorchain's RUNE token burning through its new lending protocol. They also cover governance proposals for Arbitrum staking rewards and Curve DAO's potential distribution of protocol revenue in CRV USD. They also dissect LidoDAO's reaction to LayerZero's "unilateral" wstETH deployment and the hype around Solana's upcoming Breakpoint conference. Enjoy! As always...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 8 min
This week Dan and Sam are interviewing Akash Network CEO and Founder Greg Osuri to dive into how Akash is building an open, decentralized marketplace for cloud compute resources to serve web3 developers. They discuss the high utilization and demand on Akash, innovations like training AI models on the blockchain, and why the future of cloud computing infrastructure needs to be permissionless and decentralized. Greg provides an inside look at the mission behind Akash, the economics of their cloud ...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr
In this week's analyst table, Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks Research Analysts Ren and Pibblez to discuss Bitcoin's recent dominance and price gains, upcoming Polkadot token unlocks, Scroll's mainnet launch, and Circle's Gas Station product launch. They also cover governance changes like Atom's inflation rate proposal, Polygon's migration to POL, and debates around Uniswap's controversial interface fee. The group also analyzes Celestia's token airdrop, the L1 vs L2 landscape, and the need ...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 9 min
In this week's bonus interview, we are joined by Blocknative CEO and Co-founder Matt Cutler to dive into the world of MEV and order flow on Ethereum. They explore how the proof-of-stake transition has impacted block building, the economics and incentives faced by builders and relays, and the prevalence of private order flow. Matt shares his thoughts on protocol changes like MEV-Geth and burning and how to make order flow more equitable for users. Looking ahead, he discusses how L2 scaling could ...
Oct 21, 2023•51 min
In this week's interview Frax Finance Founder Sam Kazemian joins us to dissect Frax and how he sees Frax becoming the future of onchain money. They dive into the shift to being fully collateralized, Frax's singular real world asset strategy of accessing Fed rates, and new products like sFRAX yielding near the IORB and FXB for creating an on-chain yield curve. Sam explains the mechanics ensuring the peg in different markets, integrating with partners like Paxos, and FraxEth v2 transitioning to pe...
Oct 19, 2023•1 hr 5 min
In this week's analyst table, Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks research analysts Matt and Brick to discuss the fake Bitcoin ETF news that briefly pumped BTC price 7% before plunging back down. They also analyze Lido's proposal to sunset Staked Sol, the Arbitrum incentive program results, and debate whether real world assets coming on-chain will be a long-term value proposition. The group also weighs in on the controversy around Uniswap V4's optional KYC compliance hooks, arguing that crypto ...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 4 min
In this week's interview Dan and Sam are joined by Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan and research analyst Ryan Rasmussen to discuss the exciting launch of a 2 Ethereum futures ETFs. They also discuss the prospects for Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETF approval, Coinbase's low valuation and promising outlook, and promising use-cases for real-world adoption. - - Follow Ryan Rasmussen: https://twitter.com/RasterlyRock Follow Matt Hougan: https://twitter.com/Matt_Hougan Follow Sam: https://twitter.com/swmartin19 ...
Oct 13, 2023•58 min
In this week's analyst round table Dan and Sam are joined by analysts EffortCapital and Ren. To kick-off the team discusses Cosmos events, including Cosmoverse takeaways and potential mergers between Stride and the Cosmos Hub and potential AXL token inflation adjustments. They also dissect alleged illicit transactions moved through Thorswap and its operational shutdown. They then discuss Lido's growing share of staked Ether and the on-going community debate. EffortCapital closes us out with key ...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 12 min
In this week's interview Dan and Sam are joined by James Huntsaker, co-founder of Monad, a rising L1 project focused on optimizing and scaling the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The conversation delves deep into Monad's technical architecture, its challenges, and how it differentiates itself in an increasingly competitive L2 and L1 landscape. Find out how Monad utilizes hardware to its full potential, its roadmap, and how it aims to enable truly scalable, secure EVM based applications. - - Foll...
Oct 05, 2023•56 min
In this week's analyst table Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks research analysts EffortCapital and Westie. In this week's news round-up the analysts cover Uniswap foundation's funding request of $62m, Arbitrum grants program "STIPs", and dYdX $20m incentives on V4. The team also covers this week's top mover MakerDAO and biggest loser $OX. To finish out today's show the team takes the gloves off and unpacks whether token issuance is a cost to PoS networks. As always remember this podcast is fo...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 2 min
In this week's interview Dan and Sam are joined by Nick Johnson, technical lead of ENS. The team breaks down ENS past present and future digging into its origins, the continued vision for a credibly neutral naming service, and scaling decisions in an L2 world. They also discuss key new features including the ENS Fairy and V3 name manager. They close out today's interview with a discussion on digital identities and how the ENS ecosystem continues evolving the naming service's use-cases. As always...
Sep 28, 2023•53 min
In this week's analyst table Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks research analysts EffortCapital and 0xPibblez. They dive into the Base TVL growth, Frax V3s recent successful audit, Cosmos hub 36x return on investment, and the rise of Eclipse SVM L2. The team also dives into a round of top governance updates including, Arbitrum DAO incentives program, Maker RWA vault debt ceiling raising, and the blockworks research developed tokenomics proposal for the Atom token. As always remember this podca...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min
In today's episode of 0xResearch, hosts Dan and Sam are joined by analysts Matt and Ren to recap the Permissionless conference. They discuss institutions entering crypto, shared sequencers and account abstraction, uncertainties around gaming, and the need for better data. They also reflect on the big Layer0 and Google Cloud oracle service integration and the implications it may have on decentralization efforts. - - Follow Sam: https://twitter.com/swmartin19 Follow Dan: https://twitter.com/smyygu...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 8 min
In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by Uri Klarman, Co-Founder and CEO of BloXroute Labs. Uri and the guys first take stock of MEV boost transaction life cycles, Searcher/Builder integrations, and builder relays. Uri unpacks blockchain distribution networks and how BloXroute is the first ultra-fast BDN. Uri then shares his MEV end-state thesis, the Base Layer vs L2 conflict as a result, and the impacts of decreased block times across Ethereal vs Solana. Uri, Dan, and Sam then close out on ...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 12 min
In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by Jim, founder of Catalyst AMM. Jim unpacks the Catalyst's unique "Units of Liquidity" system, a novel approach that promises to facilitate genuine cross-chain liquidity in the crypto sphere. Delve deeper as Jim explores the vast MEV opportunities unlocked by this distinctive AMM design and the protocol's agnostic stance on cross-chain messaging. Learn all about Catalyst's comprehensive strategy to address the challenges of cross-chain liquidity. As alw...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 16 min
In today's episode we are joined by Chad Barraford, technical lead of THORChain, to chat about how the protocol works with layer-one assets, disrupting the traditional "island-like" view of blockchains as separate ecosystems. The protocol offers decentralized lending specifically for non-EVM chains like Bitcoin and Litecoin, aiming to always maintain liquidity. Key mechanisms are discussed to safeguard against vulnerabilities like price manipulation, ensuring that the protocol acts more like a '...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 24 min
In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by CowSwap Technical Lead Felix. CoWSwap allows you to buy and sell tokens using gasless while providing MEV protection. They explore the economic concept of "coincidence of wants" and its application in CoWSwap, the unique batch auctions that differentiate it from traditional DEXs like Uniswap, and the protocol's unique approach to optimizing gas fees and combating MEV. As always we have an analyst segment where 2 blockworks research analysts, Westie &a...
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 24 min
In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by Vertex Protocol Co-founders Darius & Alwin. They explore Vertex's journey since the Multicurrency version of Anchor on Terra to now a leading onchain trading platform powered by Arbitrum. They explore Vertex's risk management, visions for decentralization, token airdrop, and endgame strategy. This week's analyst segment is a special 3 blockworks analysts extravaganza. Dan is a joined by blockworks research analysts, 0xpibblez, Ren, and EffortCapit...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 25 min
