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Bankless

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

Episodes

EthCC #8 | "1 Million Devs, 1 Billion Users" - Kevin Owocki & Austin Griffith

🇫🇷 Welcome to the Bankless EthCC 2022 Experience 🇫🇷 With fantastic guests from all corners of the ecosystem, this 8-part series is an exploration of crypto culture and the current state of Ethereum. In the 8th and final episode, we bring on the powerhouse duo of Austin Griffith and Kevin Owocki. This one is a lot of fun, and both of these builders are moving the space towards a more just, robust ecosystem. ------ 📣Rhino.Fi | Massive Mystery Airdrop https://bit.ly/3o9trRE ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE...

Jul 30, 202218 min

ROLLUP: Coinbase Insider Trading | Three Arrows Capital Speaks! | The Merge Approaches

4th Week of July, 2022 ------ 📣Rhino.Fi | Massive Mystery Airdrop https://bit.ly/3o9trRE ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌱 LENS | ACCESS CODE: STAKING https://bankless.cc/Lens 🚀 ROCKET POOL | ETH STAKING https://bankless.cc/RocketPool ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum 🦁 BRAVE | THE BROWSER NATIVE WALLET https://bankless.cc/Brave 🌉 JUNO | BRI...

Jul 29, 20221 hr 49 min

EthCC #1 | Vitalik - "The Merge Isn't Priced In"

🇫🇷 Welcome to the Bankless EthCC 2022 Experience 🇫🇷 With fantastic guests from all corners of the ecosystem, this 8-part series is an exploration of crypto culture and the current state of Ethereum. This first episode is with Vitalik himself, in which we discuss his takes on the Ethereum roadmap, developer morale as we approach the Merge, and his incomparable drip. ------ 📣Rhino.Fi | Massive Mystery Airdrop https://bit.ly/3o9trRE ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.bankles...

Jul 29, 202231 min

EthCC #2 | Kain Warwick - "The Crypto Fees Boom"

🇫🇷 Welcome to the Bankless EthCC 2022 Experience 🇫🇷 With fantastic guests from all corners of the ecosystem, this 8-part series is an exploration of crypto culture and the current state of Ethereum. With Episode 2, Kain Warwick from Synthetix joins us to frame the next bull market. Pockets of DeFi are heating up, the Layer 2 narrative has room to breathe, and electricity (hopefully not COVID) is in the air. ------ 📣Rhino.Fi | Massive Mystery Airdrop https://bit.ly/3o9trRE ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIB...

Jul 29, 202228 min

EthCC #3 | "StarkWare isn't Leaving Ethereum" - Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny

🇫🇷 Welcome to the Bankless EthCC 2022 Experience 🇫🇷 With fantastic guests from all corners of the ecosystem, this 8-part series is an exploration of crypto culture and the current state of Ethereum. In episode 3, we cover the recent announcement of the StarkWare token launch, the exploding zkEVM ecosystem, and the future of StarkWare. ------ 📣Rhino.Fi | Massive Mystery Airdrop https://bit.ly/3o9trRE ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCA...

Jul 29, 202225 min

EthCC #4 | "The Polygon zkEVM Frontier" - Mihailo Bjelic

🇫🇷 Welcome to the Bankless EthCC 2022 Experience 🇫🇷 With fantastic guests from all corners of the ecosystem, this 8-part series is an exploration of crypto culture and the current state of Ethereum. In episode 4, Mihailo Bjelic joins us to discuss the announcement of Polygon’s zkEVM. This explosive headline comes alongside three other zkEVM announcements. Why now? What does this all mean?! ------ 📣Rhino.Fi | Massive Mystery Airdrop https://bit.ly/3o9trRE ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: h...

Jul 29, 202220 min

DeFi Didn't Break with Dan Morehead & Joey Krug

Many things have broken in the last few months during crypto's bear market. However, DeFi didn't break. Dan Morehead and Joey Krug explain why. Dan founded Pantera in 2003, then pivoted into cryptocurrency in 2013 and went all in on crypto, and is the firm's CEO. Joey joined Pantera in 2017 as co-CIO and is a seasoned builder/investor in the crypto space. Both repeat Bankless guests and both know more than a thing or two about crypto and investing. ------ 📣Rhino.Fi | Massive Mystery Airdrop htt...

Jul 27, 20221 hr

129 - Why the Crypto Critics Are Wrong | Matthew Green

Matthew Green is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at John Hopkins University, where he teaches courses, cryptography, distributed computing systems, blockchains, and cryptocurrency. He also helped create Zerocash, one of the first privacy cryptocurrency experiments, and ultimately influenced the Zcash protocol. He recently wrote an article titled, “In Defense of Crypto(Currency)”, in response to an open letter to Congress, signed by a large group of technologists, denouncing the entire...

Jul 25, 20221 hr 13 min

ROLLUP: Tesla Sells Bitcoin | Minecraft NFT Ban | Polygon zkRollup | Genesis 3ac | Ethereum Merge

3rd Week of July, 2022 ------ 📣Rhino.Fi | Massive Mystery Airdrop https://bit.ly/3o9trRE ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌱 LENS | ACCESS CODE: STAKING https://bankless.cc/Lens 🚀 ROCKET POOL | ETH STAKING https://bankless.cc/RocketPool ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum 🦁 BRAVE | THE BROWSER NATIVE WALLET https://bankless.cc/Brave 🌉 JUNO | BRI...

Jul 22, 20221 hr 49 min

Merge vs. Macro with Travis Kling

Travis Kling is the founder of Ikigai Asset Management, and on today's State of the Nation, we're tackling the biggest trade of the year. While the global market fundamentals crumble, the Ethereum ecosystem looks primed to make history with a successful transition to Proof-of-Stake. What does this mean for crypto? How is a seasoned investor going to take advantage of a chaotic 2022? ------ 📣Rhino.Fi | Massive Mystery Airdrop https://bit.ly/3o9trRE ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://news...

Jul 20, 20221 hr 11 min

128 - Scariest Macro Setup In 20+ Years | Luke Gromen

✨ DEBRIEF ✨ | Ryan & David's Unfiltered Thoughts on the Episode: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/128-luke-gromen-debrief Luke Gromen is a macro analyst and founder of Forest for the Trees, a research company which helps investors find the signal. Luke is another one of our big macro brained guests in the same vein as Lyn Alden, Raoul Pal, and Jim Bianco. On this episode, Luke unpacks how macro got this bad, what the end game looks like, why this is the scariest macro setup Luke has seen in 20...

Jul 18, 20221 hr 27 min

ROLLUP: Celsius Bankruptcy, Vitalik's Book, GHO Aave Stablecoin, 3ac StarkWare Token

Second Week of July, 2022 ------ 📣JUNO | Crypto Friendly Banking https://juno.finance/bankless ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🚀ROCKET POOL | ETH STAKING https://bankless.cc/RocketPool ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ❎ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across 🦁BRAVE | THE BROWSER NATIVE WALLET https://bankless.cc/Brave 🌴MAKER DAO...

Jul 15, 20221 hr 38 min

Solana is Launching a Phone? | Co-Founders Anatoly & Raj

Solana just released a flagship Android phone for web3 called Saga. And it really begs the question: does a blockchain need to have its own phone? Well, we brought on Co-Founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal to make the case. Let us know what you think about this release in the comments below or on Twitter @BanklessHQ - bullish or bearish Saga and why? ------ 📣JUNO | Crypto Friendly Banking https://juno.finance/bankless ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙...

Jul 13, 20221 hr 11 min

127 - Is this the End? | Lyn Alden

✨ DEBRIEF ✨ | Ryan & David's Unfiltered Thoughts on the Episode https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/127-lyn-alden-debrief Lyn Alden is the Founder of Lyn Alden investment strategy and is a leading expert in macro markets. She focuses on long-term debt cycles and how it’s impacting crypto, fiat, bonds, and equities markets. This is Lyn’s third appearance on Bankless. Each time she’s on, it usually means something is breaking in the macro markets. And something definitely is. Lyn thoroughly explain...

Jul 11, 20221 hr 33 min

ROLLUP: Voyager Bankrupt | Solana Phone | ENS Domains | Facebook NFTs | Reddit NFTs | EU Crypto Regulation

First Week of July, 2022 ------ 📣JUNO | Crypto Friendly Banking https://juno.finance/bankless ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🚀ROCKET POOL | ETH STAKING https://bankless.cc/RocketPool ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ❎ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across 🦁BRAVE | THE BROWSER NATIVE WALLET https://bankless.cc/Brave 🌴MAKER DAO ...

Jul 08, 20221 hr 30 min

Leaving the Bitcoin Religion with Nic Carter

Nic Carter is Partner of Castle Island VC, host of the On the Brink Podcast, repeat Bankless guest, and recent victim of a Bitcoin maximalist (cyber hornets) attack. Why was he swarmed? As a result and for many other reasons, he's distancing himself from these cyber hornets. Will others follow his lead? Many assumed Nic was a Bitcoin maximalist, but really he's just Nic Carter. Who are you and what do you stand for? ------ 📣JUNO | Crypto Friendly Banking https://juno.finance/bankless ------ 🚀 ...

Jul 05, 20221 hr 13 min

126 - The Crypto Revolution | Josh Rosenthal

Josh Rosenthal is our favorite crypto native historian. He has a Ph.D. in history, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to the Sorbonne’s Institute for Advanced Studies. Josh moved beyond traditional academia, sold some Web2 companies, and is now a crypto investor. He’s the historian that helped us craft the Crypto Renaissance podcast episode, which many people credit as the reason why they got into crypto. And he’s here to do it again with the Crypto Revolution on the 4th of July, harkening a n...

Jul 04, 20222 hr 4 min

CZ's Bear Market Plans

Every company is handling the bear market differently. CZ and Binance are no different. What are they up to? Has their overall strategy changed? How have they been affected? Hear answers to all of these questions and much more in the livestream. ------ 📣JUNO | Crypto Friendly Banking https://juno.finance/bankless ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🚀ROCKET POOL | ETH STAKIN...

Jul 02, 202259 min

ROLLUP: 3AC Meltdown Continued | BlockFi Down Bad | Grayscale Sueing the SEC | Contagion Market?!

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Jul 01, 20221 hr 39 min

Bear Market War Stories with DCinvestor & Eric Conner

On this episode of Bankless, we welcome back DCinvestor and Eric Conner to share their multicycle bear market war stories. But that’s not all! They also unpack why they keep on deciding to stay every cycle, what’s different about this cycle vs. previous cycles, the role leverage and macro conditions have played, and their hard-hitting, gigabrain advice for first-time cyclers and multicyclers alike. Survive and advance, anon. We’re going to make it. ------ 📣 NOTIONAL | Real DeFi Yield https://ba...

Jun 29, 20221 hr 21 min

dYdX Abandons Ethereum?! with Founder, Antonio Juliano

Last week, one of Ethereum’s biggest L2-integrated dapps — derivatives giant dYdX — announced plans to depart Ethereum upon its upcoming v4 release. The destination? A fully sovereign blockchain on the Cosmos Tendermint consensus protocol, built using the Cosmos software development kit. We brought on dYdX, Founder, Antonio Juliano to discuss this announcement and so much more. ------ 📣 NOTIONAL | Real DeFi Yield https://bankless.cc/Notional ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter...

Jun 29, 20221 hr 26 min

Resilient DeFi with Kirk Hutchison | Layer Zero

Kirk Hutchison is the Co-Founder of Volt Protocol, an inflation hedged stablecoin built on Ethereum. Kirk is widely known as the gigabrain’s gigabrain when it comes to all things DeFi. As inflation continues to rise, Kirk couldn’t have joined at a better time. However, Kirk and David dive into much more than inflation. On this episode, Kirk explains symmetric money systems, self-referential feedback mechanisms, the problems with DeFi today, what Volt is and its future, and so much more. ------ �...

Jun 28, 20221 hr 12 min

125 - Ethereum's Hidden Power Structures | Matt Cutler

Matt Cutler is the Co-Founder and CEO of Blocknative and a gigabrain when it comes to Ethereum’s hidden power structures and all things blockchains. As Ethereum approaches the merge, these power structures are going to change. What will this post-merge future look like? Will users get paid to use Ethereum? Matt explains everything from first principles and it helps illustrate the complexities of everything discussed in this insightful episode. By the end of it, you’ll have a better understanding...

Jun 27, 20221 hr 33 min

ROLLUP: 3AC Further Contagion | dYdX Leaves Ethereum | Huge Uniswap Acquisition

4th Friday of June, 2022 ------ 📣 NOTIONAL | Real DeFi Yield https://bankless.cc/Notional ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALED ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ❎ ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across 🏦 ROCKET POOL | STAKE YOUR ETH https://bankless.cc/RocketPool 👻 AAVE V3 | LEND & BORROW CRYPTO https://bankless.cc/aave ⚡️ LIDO | ...

Jun 24, 20221 hr 26 min

124 - Is Mark Cuban Buying the Bear?

Mark Cuban of ABC’s Shark Tank, owner of the Mavs, and seasoned entrepreneur and investor joins us for Round Two of Bankless. Hear what Mark’s been up to since his first Bankless appearance, how he explains crypto to noobs (hint: he doesn’t), what he envisions next for crypto, how long he believes the bear will last and so much more! ------ 📣 NOTIONAL | Real DeFi Yield https://bankless.cc/Notional ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: ht...

Jun 22, 202252 min

Hayden Adams on Uniswap's Announcement?! | State of the Nation

Just in time for NFT NYC, Hayden Adams comes to Bankless to reveal some secret announcement! ------ 📣 NOTIONAL | Real DeFi Yield https://bankless.cc/Notional ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALED ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ❎ ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across 🏦 ROCKET POOL | DECENTRALIZED ETH STAKING https://bankless.cc/Rocke...

Jun 22, 202252 min

Monolithic to Modular DAOs with Julz Rosenberg | Layer Zero

How do DAOs go from monolithic to modular? Julia aka Julz Rosenburg has the answer. Julz is the Co-Founder of Orca Protocol, a project trying to uncomplicate coordination by mirroring human coordination. How? One word: Pods! In their current state, most DAOs have coordination and hierarchical problems. However, with the help of Julz and the Orca Protocol team, this won’t always be the case. Why are pods essential for the future of DAOs and work? What obstacles stand in the way to achieve this fu...

Jun 21, 20221 hr 4 min

123 - Investing in the Chainsmokers | Drew Taggart & Alex Pall

✨ DEBRIEF ✨ | Ryan & David's Unfiltered Thoughts on the Episode https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/123-the-chainsmokers-debrief ------ Drew Taggart and Alex Pall make up The Chainsmokers, one of the most popular electronic music groups in the world. Music isn’t their only passion, though. In their latest album, “So Far So Good,” they experimented with music NFTs via the Royal platform. As some of the most successful creators and also investors, Drew and Alex are reshaping what it means to be a c...

Jun 20, 20221 hr 24 min

ROLLUP: Crypto Crash | Celsius Insolvent? | 3AC Su Zhu | Interest Rate Hike | Jack Dorsey Web5

3rd Week of June, 2022 ------ 📣 NOTIONAL | Real DeFi Yield https://bankless.cc/Notional ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALED ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ❎ ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across 🏦 ROCKET POOL | STAKE YOUR ETH https://bankless.cc/RocketPool 👻 AAVE V3 | LEND & BORROW CRYPTO https://bankless.cc/aave ⚡️ LIDO | LI...

Jun 17, 20221 hr 51 min

How Bad will Inflation Get? | Jim Bianco

Tell us the truth, Jim. Are we doomed? ------ METAMASK | The Easiest Buy in Crypto https://bankless.cc/buy ------ SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ ️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: ️ ARBITRUM | SCALED ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across ROCKET POOL | DECENTRALIZED ETH STAKING https://bankless.cc/RocketPool AAVE V3 | LEND & BORROW CRYPTO https://bankless.cc/aa...

Jun 15, 20221 hr 19 min
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