4th Week of March 2022 ------ 📣 ZERION | Trade Across 7 Networks and 500+ protocols https://bankless.cc/Zerion ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 👀 POLYGON | LAYER 2 DEFI https://bankless.cc/Polygon ❎ ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across 🦊 METAMASK | THE CRYPTO WALLET https://bankless.cc/metamask 💳 LEDGER | THE CRYPTO LIFE CARD https://bankless.cc/Ledger...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 46 min
In this special episode, we bring on Alex Bornyakov, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation to discuss the current state of the war, crypto’s impact, and so much more. Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the world—and in particular—the crypto world has rallied to donate as much as possible to the courageous people of Ukraine. Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the people of Ukraine. To further support, please consider donating: https://war.ukraine.ua/dona...
Mar 25, 2022•57 min
Nick White is the COO of Celestia Labs. Celestia is the first modular blockchain network. If you have no idea what that is, you’re in luck! Celestia wants it to be as easy to deploy blockchains as it is smart contracts. Nick and David cover all things modular blockchains, the network effect that happens as a result of this multi-chain universe, what the far away distant future might look like, and so much more! ------ 📣 ZERION | Trade Across 7 Networks and 500+ protocols https://bankless.cc/Zer...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr
In a massive week for Bored Ape Yacht Club studio Yuga Labs, they acquired CryptoPunks & Meebits from Larva Labs, as well as releasing their community token $APE. With ApeCoin and a massive inflow of intellectual property, the NFT space is spinning with buzz and speculation about what this all means. Today, we have Zeneca_33, Andy8052, and Scott Lewis joining State of the Nation to get to the bottom of this monumental event. What does this mean for Punks and Apes? What about intellectual pro...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 11 min
First, Haseeb Qureshi was a Texas Hold’em poker player. Then Haseeb learned how to code and worked as a software engineer for Airbnb. He went down the crypto rabbithole and is now the managing partner at Dragonfly Capital, as well as an accomplished writer and coder. When Haseeb has come on the podcast previously, we covered theses and mental models. Today on Layer Zero, we explore the dynamics of being a venture capitalist in Web3. How does one find a path to becoming a VC? We dive into what to...
Mar 22, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Alexis Ohanian is the Co-Founder of Reddit, as well as the Founder of venture capital firm SevenSevenSix. As a builder-turned-technology entrepreneur, Alexis is focused on making the world a better place through novel projects and initiatives like Coinbase, Axie Infinity, Opensea, and Riverside (which we used to record this episode!) We explore how Alexis would rebuild Reddit for Web3, and how many emergent behaviors in the early days of Reddit and the internet are surfacing again—this time, on ...
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 7 min
3rd Week of March 2022 ------ 📣 ZERION | Trade Across 7 Networks and 500+ protocols https://bankless.cc/Zerion ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 👀 POLYGON | LAYER 2 DEFI https://bankless.cc/Polygon ❎ ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across 🦊 METAMASK | THE CRYPTO WALLET https://bankless.cc/metamask 💳 LEDGER | THE CRYPTO LIFE CARD https://bankless.cc/Ledger...
Mar 18, 2022•2 hr 1 min
FOR FULL EPISODE: ✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd?si=5fdadfbcd8d34bd4 ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial...
Mar 17, 2022•3 min
What is most important in crypto? What wins out in the end? Today, we find out if user experience is more important than decentralization. As we progress through crypto's cambrian explosion, we often observe the tradeoff between immediate product viability and a 'no cutting corners' approach. Taking the side of UX & a product-first mentality is Cooper Turley, a champion of the creator economy. Kevin Owocki—himself a schelling point for public goods—is defending decentralization and the merit...
Mar 17, 2022•56 min
Co-Founder, CMO of Flip, and Co-Host of Up Only, Brian Krogsgard—aka—Ledger joins David and Ryan to discuss WTF is happening. Are we in a Bull or Bear market? What are the charts telling us? With the Ukraine & Russian War—ripple effects from said war—inflation at an all-time high, stocks down, commodities, and crypto being all over the place...there's a lot to unpack. Where do experts go to find answers? The charts. ------ 📣 OPOLIS | Sign Up to Get 1000 $WORK and 1000 $BANK https://bankless...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Tarun Chitra, in addition to being Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, is a gigabrain, polymath type in the Ethereum space. His fluency in mathematics results in a creative, almost artistic approach to a traditionally rigorous and analytical field. Perhaps related to his search for beauty, Tarun observes the structural changing of massive systems happening in the broader geopolitical ecosystem today. We explore the relationship between regulation and finance in a unique light. Finance itself is fundame...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Sam Bankman-Fried—or simply SBF—is the founder and CEO of FTX, one of crypto’s biggest exchanges. In this episode, we dive into how Sam built a company worth $30 billion… in less than three years! And before the age of 30! As a centralized exchange unicorn, FTX has exploded into the mainstream, sponsoring massive sports arenas and partnerships with celebrities like Tom Brady. The mainstream-ification of FTX culminated with its Super Bowl ad with Larry David, which had a significant cultural impa...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 22 min
🟢 PARTICIPATE IN GITCOIN GRANTS ROUND 13 🟢 https://bankless.cc/Gitcoin ----- ✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill ----- Gitcoin Grants Round 13—or GR13—is live from March 9-24, 2022! To explore what this means for Gitcoin and the broader crypto space, we’re bringing on a medley of contributors from GitcoinDAO to talk about the public goods funding round, the decentralization of Gitcoin, and future upgrades with Grants 2.0. Take the Green Pill, anon. ----- P...
Mar 10, 2022•32 min
2nd Week of March 2022 ------ 📣 OPOLIS | Sign Up to Get 1000 $WORK and 1000 $BANK https://bankless.cc/Opolis ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum 🍵 MATCHA | SMART ORDER ROUTING https://bankless.cc/Matcha 🚀 SLINGSHOT | LAYER 2 SOCIAL TRADING https://bankless.cc/Slingshot 🏦 GEMINI | TURN FIAT INTO CRYPTO https://ban...
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr 38 min
A lot has changed since we had Kyla on Bankless almost a month ago. Russia invaded Ukraine and the ripple effects are being felt worldwide. Kyla's written a few posts on what's been unfolding thus far. Most recently she wrote, "Financial Warfare: Russia-Ukraine," breaking down Fortress Russia, sanctions, energy, agriculture, and the strength of Ukrainians. For those unfamiliar with Kyla, she's an independent, Gen Z friendly, new age content creator with a fantastic newsletter and youtube channel...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Marguerite deCourcelle, known by her persona Coin Artist, has been in the crypto space since 2014. Marguerite pushes the boundaries at the intersection of art, games, and crypto, carving out a career for herself as an artist and creator. Although her focus is certainly in crypto gaming, it might not be what you’d expect. Her endeavors have a cypherpunk feel at the protocol level, innovating creative ways for NFTs to interact in our wallets. Alongside discussions of her work at Blockade Games, we...
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr 26 min
David Heinemeir Hansson is the Co-Founder of Basecamp & HEY. DHH is a best-selling author, technologist—responsible for creating Ruby on Rails—and a recent crypto skeptic, turned crypto-curious experimenter. DHH recently wrote a viral blog post titled, “I Was Wrong, We Need Crypto” in which he explains why he’s skeptical of crypto, what ultimately changed his mind, and how he’s thinking about the future of the space going forward. It’s not every day Bankless brings on a crypto skeptic, but D...
Mar 07, 2022•1 hr 32 min
Web3 social media? Decentralized identity? Digital society in the metaverse? On this episode, we unpack the future social world in the metaverse and the protocols that will help shape it. To discuss exactly that, we brought on: Evin McMullen, who's building the world of digital identity, off-chain assets, and metaverse reputation at Disco.xyz, Christina Beltramini from Lens Protocol at Aave, a brand new primitive for Web3 social media platforms, and Isabel Gonzalez, COO at POAP, the Proof of Att...
Mar 05, 2022•1 hr 7 min
4th Week of February 2022 ------ 📣 OPOLIS | Sign Up to Get 1000 $WORK and 1000 $BANK https://bankless.cc/Opolis ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum 🍵 MATCHA | SMART ORDER ROUTING https://bankless.cc/Matcha 🚀 SLINGSHOT | LAYER 2 SOCIAL TRADING https://bankless.cc/Slingshot 🏦 GEMINI | TURN FIAT INTO CRYPTO https://...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 36 min
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd?si=5fdadfbcd8d34bd4 ----- Santi Siri - GreenPill #2 Santiago Siri—or santi.eth on Twitter—is building UBI on Ethereum through Proof of Humanity, the "sybil resistant protocol for formalizing human identity on the blockch...
Mar 03, 2022•43 min
zkEVM is here! Alex Gluchowski, CEO & Co-Founder of Matter Labs and of zkSync is here to talk about the huge accomplishment he and his team brought to market this past week. This is the first EVM-compatible ZK Rollup on Ethereum’s testnet! Is this the endgame of blockchain scalability? How were Alex and his team able to bring this to market way sooner than expected? Why is this important and a monumental leap forward for the space? Find out the answers to these questions and much more on thi...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Free markets are an incredible force. They allow humans to come together and produce a global price on something. But today's 'free markets' aren't really free. Access to markets is gatekept, and the ability for something of value to become instantiated into an asset is permissioned. Read along with David’s most recent thought piece on why 'Crypto is Here to Set Us Free.' Read the Article: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/crypto-is-here-to-set-us-free?utm_source=url ------ 📣 NOTIONAL FINANCE...
Mar 01, 2022•36 min
Ryan Wyatt is the CEO of Polygon Studios and former Head of Gaming at Youtube. Ryan is always on the frontier of gaming, having stewarded a new generation of content creators. He's now shifting his focus to Web3, where the next wave of innovation is set to happen. Ryan presents a number of fascinating takes, including his feelings on Anti-NFT sentiment, the future of games, and the growing influence of gaming content. By building out the Polygon Metaverse, Ryan is colliding games and economies. ...
Feb 28, 2022•1 hr 24 min
4th Week of February 2022 ------ 📣 NOTIONAL FINANCE | DeFi's Leading Fixed Rate Yield https://bankless.cc/Notional ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 👀 POLYGON | LAYER 2 DEFI https://bankless.cc/Polygon ❎ ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across 🦊 METAMASK | THE CRYPTO WALLET https://bankless.cc/metamask 💳 LEDGER | THE CRYPTO LIFE CARD https://bankless.cc/Le...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 38 min
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd?si=5fdadfbcd8d34bd4 ----- Karl Floersch is the co-founder of Optimism, the Ethereum rollup scaling solution, as well as one of the primary advocates in the space for public goods funding. Karl is inspiring on many levels...
Feb 24, 2022•39 min
Few things compare to ETH Denver. It is impossible to fully capture the experience of the crypto community at a massive gathering like this, but these two choice talks provide a snapshot of the vibes and ethos of the 2022 conference. Kevin Owocki and Erik Voorhees join to synthesize the respective merits of individualism and collectivism, and Andrew Yang stepped up to give an impromptu call to action for the community to rally around productive goals. We are scaling out the crypto vibes, and tha...
Feb 22, 2022•1 hr 34 min
From gaming guppy to Orca whale, this week we’re talking to Tetranode. Who is this whale man? Well, he’s an anonymous DeFi billionaire who has been a part of and has shaped the crypto world since the early days of the space. Not everyone is a whale, but everyone is definitely trying to become one. If you dream of becoming a whale one day, this episode is your blueprint. We uncover all of Tetranode’s whale secrets, such as why farmers are the best alpha, why he’s team Ethereum vs. team Alt Layer ...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 30 min
3rd Week of February 2022 ------ 📣 NOTIONAL FINANCE | DeFi's Leading Fixed Rate Yield https://bankless.cc/Notional ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 👀 POLYGON | LAYER 2 DEFI https://bankless.cc/Polygon ❎ ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across 🦊 METAMASK | THE CRYPTO WALLET https://bankless.cc/metamask 💳 LEDGER | THE CRYPTO LIFE CARD https://bankless.cc/Le...
Feb 18, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Vitalik Buterin is the founder of Ethereum and a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. As the visionary behind the network, Vitalik's values are embodied within the ethos of Ethereum's community-centric nature. Exploring quadratic funding, pluralism, and sybil resistance, we dive into why Vitalik cares about public goods and how we can utilize novel mechanisms to fund them elegantly. Take the Green Pill, anon. ----- ✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Ge...
Feb 17, 2022•44 min
Kevin Owocki returns to Bankless with a very special announcement—the GreenPill Podcast! The Gitcoin OG is the embodiment of the best parts of the crypto ethos, and his commitment to public goods is making the world a better place. GreenPill is launching through the Bankless network, and we’re extremely excited to meme ‘public goods’ and ‘regenerative cryptoeconomics’ into existence. Take the Green Pill, anon. ✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the G...
Feb 16, 2022•23 min
