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Bankless

The Ultimate Guide to Crypto Finance. DeFi, NFTs, and cryptocurrencies. Level up. Go bankless.

Episodes

The Bull Case for $LINK (Chainlink) | ChainLinkGod & Fishy Catfish

Chainlink’s community is anything but weak. Today we brought on two of Chainlink’s most prominent community members, ChainLinkGod, a Chainlink Community Ambassador and FishyCatfish, a miner, investor, and all around crypto enthusiast. The two of them are here to give us the bull case for $LINK. ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, join your first HUNT today https://bankless.cc/JoinYourFirstHUNT ----- 🔐 Get a Free Trial of Doppel https://bankless.cc/doppel ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | M...

Oct 25, 20231 hr 34 min

Is the Crypto Bull Market Back? with Up Only's Ledger

On the show today is Ledger! Ledger is no stranger to market cycles and is here to answer the question... Are we back? Join us as we walk through charts, discuss market catalysts and get a full break down on how ledger is navigating these market conditions. ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, join your first HUNT today https://bankless.cc/JoinYourFirstHUNT ----- 🔐 Get a Free Trial of Doppel https://bankless.cc/doppel ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k...

Oct 24, 20231 hr 10 min

The US Government is Trying to Kill Crypto | Miller Whitehouse-Levine and Jason Schwartz

🚨LEAVE A COMMENT🚨 https://treasuryraid.lexpunk.army/ We need to stop the US from killing crypto. The new IRS proposals could effectively destroy DeFi and other crypto use cases. The good news? We can change this. 5 minutes is all it takes to leave a comment and get the interpretation delayed. In this episode, we bring on Miller Whitehouse-Levine of the DeFi Education Fund and tax lawyer Jason Schwartz to discuss the proposed rules and their catastrophic implications. ----- 🔐 Get a Free Trial ...

Oct 24, 202359 min

193 - Lyn Alden's Masterclass On Money

When we think of people to walk us through the history of money and where it's all headed, it's hard to think of a guest more qualified than Lyn Alden. This episode is a masterclass where we answer seemingly simple questions like "What is Money?" to the future of money and how Lyn thinks the next great transfer of wealth will play out. ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-lyn-alden-and-the-history-of-money ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, jo...

Oct 23, 20231 hr 42 min

ROLLUP: BTC ETF Rumors | Uniswap Fee Switch | SBF Trial Continued

Bankless Weekly Rollup 3rd Week of October ----- 🧥 Take the Survey and Win the Bankless Jacket! https://bankless.cc/survey ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING ⁠https://bankless.cc/MetaMask ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ⁠ 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION https://bankless.cc/Toku 🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE ⁠https://bankless.cc/uniswap 🔗 CEL...

Oct 20, 20231 hr 28 min

Crypto in Hong Kong with Sandy Peng

Joining us today from Hong Kong is Sandy Peng. Sandy is here to tell us what crypto is like on the other side of the world, walking us through regulations, adoptions and bringing us fully up to speed on the landscape in Hong Kong. For many of us this episode is a 0 to 1 moment in understanding around crypto in Hong Kong and more broadly China. ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, join your first HUNT today https://bankless.cc/JoinYourFirstHUNT ------ 📣 Bankless Podcast Survey: https://forms.gle/Ai5...

Oct 18, 202352 min

Scroll zkEVM Mainnet Launch with Sandy & Toghrul

The rollup wars are alive well! Scroll just launched their zkEVM to Ethereum mainnet. We invited Scroll's Co-Founder, Sandy Peng and Scroll's Senior Researcher, Toghrul Toghrul Maharramov on the show. In today's episode, we discuss why Sroll is exciting, how it is different than other rollups. what’s next, and of course, wen token. ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, join your first HUNT today https://bankless.cc/JoinYourFirstHUNT ------ 📣 Bankless Podcast Survey: https://forms.gle/Ai5qpCJjQPhAErP...

Oct 17, 202352 min

192 - Cryptodollars Are the New Eurodollars with Nic Carter

Cryptodollars are the new Eurodollars. What are Eurodollars, though? Well, we get into that in today’s episode with 8-time repeat Bankless guest, Nic Carter. Nic is a partner at Castle Island Ventures, Fidelity alumni, co-founder and board member of Coin Metrics, and a prolific writer of editorials and academic articles alike, Nic is also a believer that the halvening is always priced in, he’s a stablecoin connoisseur, an onchain wizard, and an unlicensed vespa driver. ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan &a...

Oct 16, 20231 hr 27 min

ROLLUP: SBF vs Caroline Ellison | Sam Altman on Joe Rogan | ETH Predictions

Bankless Weekly Rollup 2nd Week of October ----- 🎁 Check your wallet with our brand new tool: Claimables https://bankless.cc/GetClaimables ------ 📚 a16z Startup School | Applications are now open! https://a16zcrypto.com/crypto-startup-school/?utm_source=bankless&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=css_london&utm_id=css ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING ⁠https://bankles...

Oct 12, 20231 hr 22 min

Introducing Rainbow Wallet Browser Extension With Mike Demarais

Today we welcome to the show today Mike (Rainbow) Demarais. The co-founder of Rainbow Wallet who is here to walk us through Rainbow's newest creation, the browser extension. ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, join your first HUNT today https://bankless.cc/JoinYourFirstHUNT ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING ⁠https://bankless.cc/MetaMask ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://ban...

Oct 11, 202342 min

What the ETH Futures Approvals Mean for Crypto with Eric Balchunas

Last week was unprecedented, to say the least. Several, yes that’s right, not 1, not 2, but several ETH Futures ETFs launched last week for the first time in the U.S.! What does this mean for crypto? Volumes have been surprisingly low. Is it a surprise? Will volumes pick up? Regardless, of whether they do or don't, what do all of these ETH ETFs mean for crypto? Are Bitcoin ETFs next? We brought on Eric Balchunas to help us answer the above and much more. is an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence f...

Oct 10, 202358 min

191 - Danny Ryan's Case Against Lido

Danny Ryan is a coordinator at the Ethereum Foundation. He’s been on Bankless many times before. Usually, we’re talking about the Ethereum roadmap and what’s coming next. This time we’re talking about something different…a risk to Ethereum that Danny sees. A little over a year ago, Danny wrote a blog post titled “The Risk of LSDs”... discussing the various risk vectors that a dominant LSD presents to Ethereum…even naming Lido specifically in the process. ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpac...

Oct 09, 20231 hr 22 min

ROLLUP: SBF Trial Underway | ETH ETFs Are Here | Ripple Wins Again

WRU 1st Week of October ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, join your first HUNT todayhttps://bankless.cc/JoinYourFirstHUNT ------ 📚 a16z Startup School | Applications are now open! https://a16zcrypto.com/crypto-startup-school/?utm_source=bankless&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=css_london&utm_id=css ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠ https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING ⁠https://bankless.cc/MetaMask ⚖️...

Oct 06, 20231 hr 12 min

The 2023 Recession with Coinbase's David Duong

Joining us today is the Head of Research at Coinbase, David Duong, and macro is on the menu. We’re talking yield curves, election fears, US equities, and if macro economics is even real. And finally, David walks us through the recession. Is it delayed, is it cancelled, is it already here? ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, join your first HUNT today https://bankless.cc/JoinYourFirstHUNT ------ 📣 LayerZero | Accelerating Web3 Interoperability via GoogleCloud https://bankless.cc/layer-zero ------ B...

Oct 03, 20231 hr 9 min

190 - Sergey Nazarov on Chainlink’s CCIP

Sergey Nazarov is the co-founder of Chainlink. Chainlink, you might know as the price oracles for DeFi… providing DeFi with the data it needs to know prices. More ambitious than just prices, Chainlink is aiming to become the interoperability layer between all of TradFi and all of DeFi, acting as a gateway between onchain and offchain data. We’re going to explore that vision today on Bankless. ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-sergey-nazar...

Oct 02, 20231 hr 38 min

ROLLUP: Coinbase Crashes DC | Gary Grilled By Congress | Vitalik Deepfakes

WRU Last Week of September ----- Check your wallet with our brand new tool: Claimables 🎁 https://bankless.cc/GetClaimables ------ 📣 LayerZero | Accelerating Web3 Interoperability via GoogleCloud https://bankless.cc/layer-zero ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING ⁠https://bankless.cc/MetaMask ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠ https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ⁠ 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYE...

Sep 29, 20231 hr 31 min

Fidelity's Bull Case For Ethereum

Joining us today from Fidelity are Chris Kuiper and Jack Neureuter who recently released their Ethereum Investment Thesis report. On this episode we're asking are the institutions serious about Ether? Has Ether passed through the gauntlet…like BTC? And what does it look like for institutions to actually begin investing in Ether the asset. Fidelity manages $4.5 trillion dollars, that's many multiples higher than the entire crypto market cap. This is worth paying attention to. ----- Check your wal...

Sep 27, 20231 hr 9 min

Synthetix: A New Hope with Kain Warwick

In today’s episode, we’re exploring the frontier of the multi-chain Ethereum roadmap. Synthetix has been leading this charge as it pertains to the application layer of Ethereum. David is joined by Synthetix’s Founder, Kain Warwick in person in David’s Brooklyn studio. “Synthetix, A New Hope,” is a recent blog post Kain wrote and is a main focus for today’s episode. ----- Check your wallet with our brand new tool: Claimables 🎁 https://bankless.cc/GetClaimables ------ 📣 LayerZero | Accelerating ...

Sep 26, 20231 hr 10 min

189 - Taking Treasury Bills Onchain with Martin Carrica

The overnight fed funds rate is 5.3% but how much are you getting from that in your bank account? How much are you getting from your stablecoins? Today on the show Martin Carrica walks us through a world in which we can tokenize treasuries instead of just dollars. ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-onchain-t-bills/ ----- Check your wallet with our brand new tool: Claimables 🎁 https://bankless.cc/GetClaimables ------ 📣 LayerZero | Acceler...

Sep 25, 20231 hr 15 min

ROLLUP: Ethereum Absorbs Alt-L1s | SEC vs. Stoner Cats | Mark Cuban's -$870k Wallet Hack

WRU 4th Week of September ----- Check your wallet with our brand new tool: Claimables 🎁 https://bankless.cc/GetClaimables ------ 📣 LayerZero | Accelerating Web3 Interoperability via GoogleCloud https://bankless.cc/layer-zero ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING ⁠ https://bankless.cc/MetaMask ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ⁠ 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER...

Sep 22, 20231 hr 27 min

SVM L2 on Ethereum: Bullish or Bearish SOL? with Neel Somani, Founder, Eclipse

Solana on Ethereum? Solana has a virtual machine called the SVM. Proponents say it’s much better than the Ethereum EVM…multi-threaded execution…now it’s coming to Ethereum in the form of an L2. Today on the show, we brought on CEO & Co-Founder of Eclipse, Neel Somani. Eclipse is not only a new L2 on the scene, it’s also an L2 framework, kind of like the OP Stack. It’s a superchain contender. This poses some very interesting questions….who wins? Does this kill Solana? ------ 🎁 Check your wal...

Sep 20, 20231 hr 6 min

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum For The Future

Vitalik live from Permissionless! On this Episode we discuss what's next for Ethereum. What type of use cases can we create because of the unique properties of crypto? What would Vitalik's new startup be? And we explore what it will look like to successfully navigate the next bull market. This episode was filmed at permissionless. For the full episode in video form, check out the recording here: https://blockworks.co/event/permissionless-2023/livestreams?room=37736 ------ 🎁 Check your wallet wi...

Sep 19, 202350 min

188 - The Next Ethereum Upgrade: Blobspace 101 with Domothy

Dom, aka Domothy, is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation who is working on the research and development of some key Ethereum protocol upgrades like EIP4844, danksharding, and MEV Burn. We last had Dom on Bankless about that last one, MEV Burn, and this time we’re bringing him around to fully understand an incoming new property of Ethereum that EIP4844 is going to introduce… a new resource market… called BLOBspace… kind of like Blockspace… but for Blobs! What are blobs? What is Blobspace? How...

Sep 18, 20231 hr 36 min

Why MetaMask Snaps is a Big Deal with Co-Founder, Dan FinIay

MetaMask just released MetaMask Snaps at Permissionless II. Why is this such a big deal? Is this crypto’s “Chrome extension” moment? Is this how we onboard crypto’s next billion users? We welcome creator and Co-Founder of MetaMask, Dan Finlay on the show to help us explore all of these questions and much more. ------ 🎁 Check your wallet with our brand new tool: Claimables https://bankless.cc/GetClaimables ------ 📣 AAVE V3 is Here! http://app.aave.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | ...

Sep 15, 202356 min

ROLLUP: CFTC's Attack On Crypto | FTX Offloading Billions | Live From Permissionless!

WRU 3rd Week of September Live From Permissionless! ----- Check your wallet with our brand new tool Claimables 🎁 https://bankless.cc/GetClaimables ------ 📣 AAVE V3 is Here! http://app.aave.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠ https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING ⁠ https://bankless.cc/MetaMask ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ⁠ 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc...

Sep 14, 20231 hr 13 min

Surveillance Finance 101 with Seth Hertlein and Michael Mosier

Seth Hertlein, VP Global Head of Policy at Ledger, and Michael Mosier, Co-Fouder of legal boutique Arktourous, Build Exante - FinCEN, Treasury, and Chief Technical Counsel at Chainalysis join us on today’s show to explain the modern financial surveillance apparatus. FATF, FinCEN, AML/KYC, OFAC...the blacklists, the greylists. How does it all work? Who makes the rules? ------ 🎁 Check your wallet with our brand new tool: Claimables https://bankless.cc/GetClaimables ------ 📣 AAVE V3 is Here! http...

Sep 12, 20231 hr 23 min

187 - The Ethereum Attestation Service

On today’s episode we welcome Bryce Patrick and Steve Dakh from the Ethereum Attestation Service. EAS is a new public good, open, permissionless, and token free. Is this the key unlock for decentralized identity through crypto? ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-eas/ ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, join your first HUNT today https://bankless.cc/JoinYourFirstHUNT ------ 📣 AAVE V3 is Here! http://app.aave.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS...

Sep 11, 20231 hr 22 min

David's Takes: The Burning Man Network State

FULL ARTICLE: https://www.bankless.com/davids-takes-burning-man David just got back from the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, where, for one week of the year, tens of thousands of people congregate for the annual Burning Man festival. The parellels Crypto and Burning Man are strong, but it's not until participating in both that you can concretely grasped why. So, David went to Burning Man to go see what all of the excitement was about. And Bankless Nation… like Crypto, Burning Man is a rabbit hole. --...

Sep 10, 202339 min

ROLLUP: Solana’s MakerDAO & Visa Win | Base L2 Halted | Uniswap Court W | Justin Bieber NFT Drop

WRU 2nd Week of September ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, join your first HUNT today https://bankless.cc/JoinYourFirstHUNT ------ 📣 AAVE V3 is Here! http://app.aave.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING ⁠https://bankless.cc/MetaMask ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠ https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ⁠ 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle ⁠ 🦄UNISWAP | ON-...

Sep 08, 20231 hr 28 min

186 - The Blockchain Trilemma - ETH Vs SOL Vs ATOM with Mike Ippolito

Today we're joined by Mike Ippolito, co-founder at Blockworks, who's here to breakdown his take on the Blockchain trilemma and how Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos chains all attempt to solve it. This wide ranging interview asks great questions and shines a light on what a multi-chain future might look like. ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-blockchain-trilemma/ ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, join your first HUNT today https://bankless.cc/J...

Sep 04, 20231 hr 43 min
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