In this week's interview we are joined by Luca, CEO & Co-Founder of M^0 Labs to discuss their new crypto dollar product called M. Luca shares insights into the M minting and redemption process, the unique two-token governance system employed by M0, and his long-term vision for the protocol. He also delves into the importance of governance in ensuring the longevity and stability of the M token, and how M0 aims to incentivize active participation in the decision-making process. Luca emphasizes...
May 02, 2024•1 hr 7 min
In this episode, the analyst team discusses the venture capital backed tokens and low float token models. They unpack the challenges posed by low float token models and the potential risks they present to investors. The team examines the drama surrounding Io.net's GPU count and the importance of transparent communication in the crypto space. Additionally, they explore the upcoming end of Hyperliquid's points program and its significance for the platform's future. The episode also touches on Stri...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 10 min
In this week's interview we have an in-depth discussion with Guy, the founder of Ethena Protocol. Guy discusses the challenges of scaling Ethena to billions in USD supply, the important role of Bitcoin and Ethereum derivatives as collateral, and how Ethena is able to generate the highest yielding USD-denominated asset in crypto. Additionally, we touch on risk management, governance, and the critical role centralized exchanges could play in Ethena's future. Hope you enjoy! - - Follow Guy: https:/...
Apr 25, 2024•54 min
In this episode the analysts kick things off by examining the Runes phenomenon on Bitcoin, debating whether it represents real innovation or just another trend. The conversation then shifts to the DePIN space, with a focus on Ionet's partnership to onboard 3000 high-performance GPUs. The hosts then turn their attention to Avalanche's rapid progress, including the Vryx breakthrough enabling 100K TPS. Stick around for all of this and much more! As always remember this podcast is for informational ...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 14 min
In this interview, TN, the Co-founder and CEO of Pendle, discusses the protocol's journey from inception to its current state. He explains how Pendle enables users to tokenize and trade yield, focusing on the use cases of obtaining fixed rates and speculating on yield. TN shares insights on the protocol's growth, partnerships, and the impact of various narratives such as LRT and points trading. He also touches on user behavior changes, the decision to deploy on Arbitrum, and the roadmap for the ...
Apr 18, 2024•50 min
In this episode Dan, Ren, and Boccaccio dive deep into this week's biggest news. They discuss the launch of spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in Hong Kong, the upcoming tradability of the Parcel token, and the partnership between Aptos and Ionet. The team also discusses Monad's $225 million raise, Sui's gaming device, and the SEC's Wells notice to Uniswap Labs. To close out they cover the Tensor airdrop woes and the launch of EigenDA. As always remember this podcast is for informational purposes on...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 27 min
In this interview, Saneel Sreeni, the founding member of Ritual, dives deep into the intersection of AI and crypto. He explains the concept of AI co-processors and how Ritual aims to be a sovereign execution layer for AI, enabling applications to access AI models in a decentralized manner through stateful precompiles. Saneel unveils the benefits of on-chain AI and addresses the current landscape of crypto AI projects. The conversation touches on Ritual's partnership with Celestia for data availa...
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 1 min
In this episode, the Blockworks research team examines Solana's transaction failures and the network's ongoing struggles to handle high transaction volumes. The conversation then turns to the MakerDAO and Aave debacle, debating the risks and merits of MakerDAO's decision to collateralize DAI with Ethena's stablecoin. They also touch on the recent default on Goldfinch and the broader challenges facing on-chain private credit markets. Finally, they explore the rise of Pump.Fun and the resurgence o...
Apr 10, 2024•59 min
In today's interview, Orkun, the Co-founder of Citrea, dives deep into the world of Bitcoin L2s and Citrea. He explains the differences between L2s, sidechains, and sovereign rollups, and discusses the trust assumptions and bridging mechanisms in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Orkun also shares insights on the design tradeoffs in the Bitcoin L2 space, the Citra VM, proof generation, and the bottlenecks and challenges faced by Bitcoin L2s. The conversation touches on the potential for Bitcoin to enable a...
Apr 05, 2024•55 min
In this week's analyst round table, the Blockworks research team dives into Arbitrum's phase 3 grant program. They also examine the centralization risks emerging in MEV with vertically integrated relays like Titan, and debate the true impact of ETH staking yields on validating costs for rollups. The discussion also covers the huge upcoming token airdrops from Wormhole and Ethena, and whether they could provide a major stimulus to ecosystems. Finally, the team scrutinizes the recent Munchables ex...
Apr 04, 2024•58 min
In today's interview, Philip, the founder of Elixir, discusses how his project aims to democratize access to liquidity provisioning on order book exchanges. He explains Elixir's unique architecture as a modular DPOS blockchain that uses a market making algorithm to allow anyone to supply liquidity to order books in a trustless fashion. Philip dives into the technical details of how Elixir pulls order book data from exchanges, comes to consensus, and posts orders back to the exchanges. The conver...
Mar 28, 2024•1 hr 2 min
In this week's analyst round table, we dive into the latest market happenings, including Polygon's recent downtime due to L1 reorgs, the increasing trend of protocols offering larger second-round airdrops to retain users, and the potential staying power of meme coins. The discussion also covers the current state of private market valuations, the challenges faced by debt markets in crypto, and the regulatory landscape surrounding tokenized equities. Looking to the future, the analysts explore the...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 8 min
In this week's analyst round table, the team discusses the latest news and governance updates in the crypto space, including Zerion Wallet launching an L2, Starbucks shuttering their NFT Odyssey platform, and Polyhedra closing a $20 million fund. They also dive into the dYdX segment with Skip Protocol, the launch of Swell's restaked rollup, and the completion of Shuffle's LBP. The conversation then turns to the legitimacy of memecoins, with the team exploring the increasing market activity aroun...
Mar 20, 2024•53 min
In today's interview we are joined by Head Chef of Pancakeswap, Mochi to dive deep into the upcoming PancakeSwap V4 upgrade. They discuss V4's modular three-layer architecture, which includes the accounting layer, AMM layer, and custom layer, enabling developers to create highly customizable liquidity pools and execute complex trading strategies through hooks. Chef Mochi shares insights on PancakeSwap's multi-chain expansion strategy, deflationary tokenomics designed to solve LP profitability is...
Mar 15, 2024•59 min
In this week's analyst round table the crew dives into the latest market happenings, discussing Eclipse's $50 million raise, MakerDAO's adjustment of the DSR to 15%, Michael Saylor's massive 12,000 BTC purchase, and the odds of an ETH ETF approval. The group then explores the implications of Jito Labs suspending their alternate mempool offering and the dynamics of MEV on Solana. Finally, they discuss the controversy surrounding Unibot's Solana deployment and the future of Telegram trading bots t...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 4 min
In today's interview Sam and Brick are joined by Vance, Mark, and Hasu. Together they dive into MakerDAO's endgame. They discuss the current state of MakerDAO, including the DAI stablecoin and RWA adoption. The conversation then shifts to the bull case for Maker, with a focus on the new subDAO structure and how it aims to drive demand for the Maker token through a flywheel effect involving token farming incentives. The guests also debate the challenges MakerDAO faces in igniting organic demand f...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 6 min
In today's interview Sam and Ren are joined by Antonio Juliano, the founder of dYdX. They kick-off by discussing the migration from V3 to V4, the platform's focus on permissionless market listings, and the importance of isolated margin. He shares insights on the competitive landscape of decentralized derivatives exchanges, the challenges and solutions related to MEV, and the role of USDC issued by Noble in dYdX's growth. Antonio also touches on the platform's validator set distribution, the pote...
Mar 07, 2024•47 min
In this week's analyst round table the crew discusses the latest news and trends in the crypto space. They kick things off by analyzing Eigen Layer's impressive growth to $10 billion in TVL and debating how high that number could go. The conversation then turns to hot topics like Arbitrum's proposed $400 million gaming fund, Coinbase's dominance and future prospects, Magic Eden's resurgence in the NFT market thanks to Bitcoin Ordinals, and the novel AI agent staking model introduced by Autonolas...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 13 min
In this week's interview Sam and Ren are joined by Prabal Banerjee, CEO and Co-founder of Avail, to discuss Avail's robust base layer designed to meet the needs of next generation, trust minimized applications and sovereign rollups. They kick off by unpacking what Avail is and how it enables validity proofs and erasure coding instead of fraud proofs, aiming to provide stronger guarantees especially for ZK rollups. Prabal also contrasts this with other DA solutions and committee-based approaches....
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min
In today's analyst round table the analyst cry unpacks the latest crypto market news including Eigenlayer's massive $100m raise, growing ordinal NFT volumes, and Uniswap's protocol fee switch proposal. They then covered the surging hype and volumes around ordinal NFTs on Bitcoin, the Uniswap fee switch proposal, and the success of Blast's growth tactics including token locking programs and gaming dynamics to drive adoption. To close out the team debates on whether excitement around AI and crypto...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 8 min
In this week's interview Sam and Ren are joined by Mysten Labs co-founders Evan Cheng and Adeniyi Abiodun to dive into what makes Sui the Asset-centric blockchain. Sui delivers the benefits of Web3 with the ease of Web2, offering an asset-centric approach, offline transactions, and unparalleled performance. They dig into Sui's integration of Move programming, Sui's architectural differences from existing blockchains, and the potential applications of a truly scalable, user-friendly blockchain. -...
Feb 22, 2024•58 min
In today's analyst roundtable Sam, Ren, Matt, and Brick dive into the latest market happenings including Uniswap's incentives for deploying on new chains, Vertex's new product launch to share liquidity, and GMX's point multiplier alterations. The team then unpacks Coinbase's impressive Q4 earnings and Starkware's controversial token unlock schedule. To close out the analysts asses the viability of low token floats and high fully diluted valuations and examine Ethena's 20%+ yielding synthetic sta...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 10 min
In this week's interview Sam and Ren are joined by Brendan Farmer, the Co-Founder of Polygon. Brendan unpacks why no single blockchain can scale like the internet due to heterogeneous requirements across chains. He then introduces Polygon's solution - an Aggregation Layer that enables low-latency, trustless interoperability between ZK rollups to scale access to shared liquidity and state. They dig into interoperability and liveness, updates on ZK proof innovation, how the Polygon CDK and Aggrega...
Feb 15, 2024•53 min
In today's analyst roundtable Sam, Ren, Matt, and Pibblez dive into a range of topics including Arbitrum's incentives program, issues with Solana's fee markets, Bitcoin L2 solutions, potential for Ethereum ETFs that enable staking, and the the upcoming Shanghai upgrade bringing several EIPs. The conversation opens by analyzing Arbitrum's incentives program, finding the TVL growth did not justify the high customer acquisition costs. They then dive into Solana's fee market issues, including ineffi...
Feb 14, 2024•51 min
In today's analyst roundtable Sam, Ren, Westie, and Brick dive into the biggest news this week including the rise of farcaster, Jupiter's historic airdrop and much more. They unpack Solana mobile's 60k unit sales milestone and whether growing LST protocols are sustainable. Other topics covered include Apecoin DAO's vote on which L2 to launch on, Clusters' partnership with GoDaddy, and an in-depth discussion on Spark Protocol's growth in the MakerDAO ecosystem. Stick around for all of this and mu...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr
In today's analyst roundtable Dan, Sam, and Ren dive into the data and metrics behind the rise of rollups-as-a-service. They analyze recent modular blockchain rollup launches on Celestia from providers like Caldera and Conduit, review adoption in terms of users and transaction data, explore concerns around long-term sustainability of fee revenue, and debate tokenomics incentives and business models. They also touch on competition from other data availability solutions like EigenDA, the strong gr...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 23 min
In today's interview we are joined by Julian, the co-founder of Aevo, formally known as Ribbon Finance. Today's conversation details the evolution of Ribbon into AEVO, an L2 derivatives exchange built using Optimism's OP stack for faster and cheaper trading. We learn about AEVO’s origins providing structured products to DeFi users and the decision to pivot to an L2 system to capture rising institutional interest in crypto options. They also touch on pre-launch futures markets as an effective use...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min
In this week's analyst table we are joined by Ren and Brick of the Blockworks research team to dive into the latest crypto news and governance updates. We analyze Noble's proposal to onboard as a Cosmos Hub consumer chain and share revenue back to the Hub. Spurred by Arbitrum's launch of Orbit, we also debate the long-term sustainability of layer 2 networks and whether competition will drive fees lower. Next, we examine dYdX's expanding validator set and the rise of liquid staking services like ...
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 21 min
In this week's analyst table Sam is joined by EffortCapital, Westie, and Pibblez of the Blockworks Research team to dive into the biggest news this week including Rabby wallet's airdrop plans, EigenLayer's upcoming LST additions and restaking, AEVO's token migration, and Vitalik's thoughts on increasing Ethereum's gas limit. The hot seat focuses on the controversy around the Saga phone's latest drop, the Cosmos Hub facing competition from Ethos's shared security offering, and Arbitrum's new long...
Jan 18, 2024•58 min
In this week's analyst table Dan and Sam are joined Ren and Pibblez of the Blockworks Research team to dive into the risks of liquid restaking tokens and the looming ETF approval. They debate whether these LRTs are ticking time bombs and if stakers understand the slashable exposure they're taking on. The crew also explores the viability of Celestia's data availability and if gaming and rollups will drive the demand needed to justify its towering $15B valuation. Other hot topics include Bitcoin N...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 10 min
