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Bankless

The Ultimate Guide to Crypto Finance. DeFi, NFTs, and cryptocurrencies. Level up. Go bankless.
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DeSci: How Blockchains are Powering Science 3.0 | Zuzalu #7

In this episode, we delve into the world of DeSci, or Decentralized Science, which serves as a bridge between technologies like Synthetic Biology, Longevity, and Ethereum. DeSci aims to revolutionize the current scientific system, highlighting its flaws such as friction, corruption, and outdated practices. By utilizing blockchain technology, DeSci seeks to improve scientific institutions and processes. The conversation with pioneers Boris Dyakov and Mikey Fischer sheds light on the vast potentia...

Aug 16, 20231 hr 20 min

Tim Beiko & Justin Drake: The Sci-fi Roadmap to Ethereum

In today’s podcast, Justin Drake and Tim Beiko help us explore Ethereum's uncharted roadmap. You know about EIP-4844. You know about Proposer-Builder Separation. But the Ethereum roadmap does not stop there. It continues! Each component of the Ethereum roadmap has deeper frontiers than what you may be familiar with. 4844, PBS, these are just the first stops on a longer track of Ethereum’s Sci-Fi roadmap. Other areas Justin, Tim, and David explore statelessness, how VCs are subsidizing Ethereum L...

Aug 15, 202352 min

183 - Why VCs Suck | 1confirmation's Nick Tomaino & Richard Chen

Today on the Pod, we're discussing Why VCs Suck. And who better to answer that question than VCs themselves? We're joined by Nick Tomaino and Richard Chen of 1Confirmation to discuss the role of VCs in crypto, the outlook on the markets, and how retail should prepare for the next cycle. ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-1conf ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is launching TOMORROW https://bankless.cc/HuntersGonnaHunt ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-T...

Aug 14, 20231 hr 21 min

Would You Live Forever? The Science and Ethics of Longevity

In this video, we delve into the frontier of longevity and the pursuit of living forever. The discussion of longevity sparks different reactions among people, with some rejecting the idea outright, deeming it unnatural or immoral. At Zuzalu, two distinct groups emerged—the Health and Wellness tribe, focused on healthy lifestyles, and the longevity tribe, resembling crypto enthusiasts, passionately researching the silver bullet for eternal life. We explore the two conversations of slowing down ag...

Aug 12, 20232 hr 8 min

ROLLUP: Base Kicks-Off Onchain Summer

Bankless Weekly Rollup Second Week of August, 2023 ------ 🚀Join Ryan & David at Permissionless II in September. https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ------ 📣 STADER LABS | ETHX LIQUID STAKING https://bankless.cc/Stader ------ 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 N...

Aug 11, 20231 hr 28 min

Austin Federa: Is SOL Money?

Bankless hasn’t had the most coverage of Solana, the network, and SOL, the asset, but in this episode that changes. Our guest, Austin Federa is Head of Strategy at the Solana Foundation and is the host of the Validated podcast. David was recently a guest on Austin’s podcast where they went back and forth on some of the cultural and philosophical differences between the Solana and Ethereum projects. Today is a continuation of that episode. Despite some differences in community perspectives, Austi...

Aug 10, 20231 hr 2 min

Arbitrum's BOLD New Bet with Ed Felten & Raul Jordan

What did the Arbitrum L2 just unlock with its BOLD release? What stage of L2 is Arbitrum in? What is next for decentralizing the Arbitrum stack? We brought on Ed Felten and Raul Jordan to help answer these questions and much more. Ed Felten is a Co-Founder of OffChain Labs, the organization that created Arbiturm. Raul Jordan is one of the Co-Founders of Prysmatic Labs, the Ethereum consensus client which not too long ago got acquired by Offchain Labs. ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is coming soon! Beco...

Aug 09, 20231 hr 7 min

182 - In Defense of Lido, w/ Hasu

Lido has over 30% ETH staked. Should we be alarmed? Joining us is Hasu to shed some light on this question. In this wide ranging interview we discuss the State of Staking, the state of Lido, Idealist vs Pragmatics and asking the question - is Lido's reputation unfair? ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-hasu ----- 🚀Join Ryan & David at Permissionless II in September. https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ------ 📣 STADER LABS | ETHX LIQUID STAKING htt...

Aug 07, 20231 hr 28 min

ROLLUP: Curve Exploit | BASE Memecoins | Richard Heart vs SEC

Bankless Weekly Rollup First Week of August, 2023 ------ 🚀Join Ryan & David at Permissionless II in September. https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ------ 📣 STADER LABS | ETHX LIQUID STAKING https://bankless.cc/Stader ------ 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 NET...

Aug 04, 20231 hr 30 min

The New DeFi Meta with Paradigm’s Head of Research, Dan Robinson

Dan Robinson is GP and Head of Research at Paradigm. He, over the years, has done a lot of deep thinking about markets, auctions, and liquidity in DeFi, with a particular focus on Uniswap and Uniswap V3. Recently, Uniswap Labs released UniswapX, a new dutch auction mechanism, that Dan thinks changes the meta for swapping assets in DeFi, MEV, chain interoperability, and much more. The last time Dan was on Bankless was September 2020…almost 3 years ago! If you have ever heard Ryan or I say the phr...

Aug 03, 20231 hr 11 min

Will DeFi Survive This?

A special mid-week episode is in order as we discus the string of events that led to one of the largest risks DeFi has faced in a long time. What happened to Curve, what's at risk, and what can we learn from all of this? *CORRECTION: The address that exploited the CRV/ETH pool controls .082% of the circulating supply, not the 8% accidentally mentioned in this segment. ------ 🚀Join Ryan & David at Permissionless II in September. https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ------ 📣 STADER LABS | ...

Aug 02, 20231 hr 3 min

Africa's Crypto Revolution: Leapfrogging into the Future | Zuzalu #4

In this episode, we explore the frontier of crypto in Africa and the immense potential for both the continent and the crypto industry. Africa has a unique ability to leapfrog technologies, just as it skipped landlines and embraced cell phones. The dialogue revolves around crypto adoption in Africa and a network state project called Afropolitan, which aims to build an Afro-centric digital nation. Yoseph Ayele discusses the opportunities that Web3 can provide in terms of financial stability, acces...

Aug 01, 20231 hr 35 min

181 - Afropolitan's Grand Plan To Start A Country

What would it look like to create a new country using crypto as a coordination technology? Join us today as Chika and Eche from Afropolitan detail their plan to begin with an NFT PFP project and end up with a country. ------ 🚀Join Ryan & David at Permissionless in September. Bankless Citizens get 30% off https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ------ 📣 STADER LABS | ETHX LIQUID STAKING https://bankless.cc/Stader ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https:/...

Jul 31, 20231 hr 23 min

EthCC 2023: Everything You Missed

FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://www.bankless.com/david-ethcc-2023 Every single year, EthCC gets a bit bigger, a bit more organized, and way more productive. The signal from EthCC this year was particularly strong! EthCC is a unique conference. It’s one of the oldest and most well-run Ethereum conferences that we have. So here we are, post-EthCC 2023. The noise of the bull market is behind us. The tourists are gone and only the settlers remain. So… where are we now, halfway through 2023? With EthCC of...

Jul 30, 202327 min

ROLLUP: Worldcoin Launch | New Crypto Bills | Twitter X | Layer 2 Wars

Bankless Weekly Rollup 4th Week of July 2023 ------ 🔃 STADER LABS | UNLOCK LIQUIDITY AND AMPLIFY REWARDS https://bankless.cc/StaderLabs ------ 🚀Join Ryan & David at Permissionless II in September. https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ------ 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 |...

Jul 28, 20231 hr 34 min

Coinbase's 'Base' Powering Layer 2 Summer

Today on the show we welcome back Jesse Pollak. Jesse is the Head of Protocols at Coinbase and the Creator of Base. Base plays the important role of trailblazing the future of Layer 2's and doesn't let it's centralized parent get in the way of innovation. Can Base be the spark that kicks off "Layer 2 Summer"? ------ 🚀Join Ryan & David at Permissionless in September. Bankless Citizens get 30% off https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CR...

Jul 26, 202342 min

Polygon’s Endgame: Polygon 2.0 with Sandeep Nailwal & Mihailo Bjelic

Today on the show we welcome back Sandeep and Mihalo, the Co-Founders of Polygon. Polygon is one of the most used chains in crypto. That in itself is a massive accomplishment. However, there’s been criticism of Polygon in the past, that it’s “just a sidechain.” That it’s not “Ethereum aligned.” The release of Polygon 2.0 will silence these critics. Tune in to understand why. ------ 🚀Join Ryan & David at Permissionless in September. Bankless Citizens get 30% off https://bankless.cc/GoToPermi...

Jul 25, 20231 hr 14 min

DEBRIEF - Worldcoin

Ryan & David debriefing the Worldcoin episode. Want to listen to all past and future Debriefs for all Monday podcast episodes? Become a Bankless Citizen for access: https://www.bankless.com/join ----- 🎬 WATCH THE FULL EPISODE HERE: https://youtu.be/4HFyXYvMwFc ----- 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 decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant...

Jul 24, 202328 min

180 - Worldcoin’s Sam Altman & Alex Blania on Crypto's Most Ambitious Project

Disclaimer: This episode was recorded on May 14th, 2023 David is joined by Worldcoin Co-Founders, Alex Blania and Sam Altman. Alex is Worldcoin’s CEO and Sam is CEO of OpenAI. Both Co-founded Worldcoin in 2020. Worldcoin is one of the most ambitious crypto projects in the space. It’s Worldcoin’s philosophy that the best way to produce unique verifiable humanness is through human biometrics that map to our unique DNA. This is the most robust way to achieve sybil resistance. That is why Worldcoin ...

Jul 24, 202353 min

ROLLUP: Celsius CEO Arrested & ETH CC Conference Recap

3rd Week of July 2023 ------ 🚀 Join Ryan & David at Permissionless in September. Bankless Citizens get 30% off. 🚀 https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | TRACK & MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING https://bankless.cc/MetaMask ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ⁠ 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle ⁠ 👾POLYGON | VALUE LA...

Jul 21, 20231 hr 46 min

Revolutionizing AI: Tackling the Alignment Problem | Zuzalu #3

In this episode, we delve into the frontier of AI and the challenges surrounding AI alignment. The AI / Crypto overlap at Zuzalu sparked discussions on topics like ZKML, MEV bots, and the integration of AI agents into the Ethereum landscape. However, the focal point was the alignment conversation, which showcased both pessimistic and resigned optimistic perspectives. We hear from Nate Sores of MIRI, who offers a downstream view on AI risk, and Deger Turan, who emphasizes the importance of human ...

Jul 20, 20232 hr 8 min

UniswapX Revealed: A Game-Changer for DeFi

It's ETHCC time, the Ethereum Community Conference where groundbreaking announcements are made. And ahead of the conference, Uniswap Labs has already released their latest protocol, Uniswap X, a game-changing addition to the Uniswap ecosystem. Uniswap X is the missing piece that makes Uniswap the ultimate destination for token swappers. In this episode, we have Hayden Adams, the creator of Uniswap, revealing the ins and outs of Uniswap X. This protocol ensures competitive order execution in DeFi...

Jul 18, 20231 hr 16 min

180 - Top 5 Bear Market Bets with Avichal Garg & Sanjay Shah of Electric Capital

Nothing tests your conviction like a bear market. This is an opportunity to test what you think you know, refine your thesis, and make your bets for the next leg up. Avichal and Sanjay are long time crypto investors and at VC fund electric capital. What are they betting on during the bear market? We discuss 5 of the most pressing questions facing crypto investors during the bear market including… 1) L2 tokens - Are L2 tokens they worth something or they just worthless governance tokens? 2) AltL1...

Jul 17, 20231 hr 27 min

How Ripple's Win Reshapes Crypto with Paul Grewal & Mike Selig

A U.S court has ruled that XRP is not a security, and if XRP is a security then what implications does this have for other tokens? Joining us today is Paul Grewal and Mike Selig, both experts in their respective fields who are here to help walk us through the implications of this court decision and what it means for our industry as a whole. ------ 🚀 Join Ryan & David at Permissionless in September. Bankless Citizens get 30% off. 🚀 https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ------ BANKLESS SPON...

Jul 14, 202342 min

ROLLUP: Ripple (XRP) Wins Big in the SEC Lawsuit | Google Play NFTs | Layer 3 Summer

2nd Week of July 2023 ------ 🚀 Join Ryan & David at Permissionless in September. Bankless Citizens get 30% off. 🚀 https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | TRACK & MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING https://bankless.cc/MetaMask ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 👾POLYGON | VALUE LAYER OF...

Jul 14, 20231 hr 57 min

From Lab to Life: Exploring Synthetic Biology with Drew Endy, John Cumbers, and Jennifer Holmgren

Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. In this 8-episode series, we are exploring some new frontiers. New frontiers in new technologies, all of which are poised to completely revolutionize the world and change everything about the operating system that society is currently running. Synthetic biology is a fascinating field that combines biology, engineering, and computer science to design and construct new biological systems. By manipulating and...

Jul 12, 20231 hr 12 min

Expert's Take: Is a Bitcoin ETF Really Possible? with James Seyffart

Today we're joined by James Seyffart, a research analyst at Bloomberg who's the perfect person to answer our questions regarding the convergence of crypto and ETFs. We dive into: - The probabilities of a Blackrock Bitcoin ETF and why - Important dates in which the SEC will need to give us answers - Neutrality, or lack thereof around the ETF approval process ------ 🚀 Join Ryan & David at Permissionless in September. Bankless Citizens get 30% off. 🚀 https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ---...

Jul 11, 20231 hr 32 min

179 - The Bankless Origin Story - Raoul Pal

The tables are turned as Raoul Pal interviews David and Ryan on all things Bankless. They share respective origin stories of how they got into crypto, meeting each other for the first time, how Bankless got started and where the future frontiers of Bankless are headed. ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-raoul-pal ------ 🚀 Unlock $3,000+ in Perks with Bankless Citizenship 🚀 ⁠https://bankless.cc/GetThePerks ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TR...

Jul 10, 20231 hr 24 min

ROLLUP: Why BlackRock CEO is Bullish Bitcoin

Bankless Weekly Rollup 1st Week of July 2023 ------ 🚀 Join Ryan & David at Permissionless in September. Bankless Citizens get 30% off. 🚀 https://bankless.cc/GoToPermissionless ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | TRACK & MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING https://bankless.cc/MetaMask ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum 🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE https://bankless.cc/uniswap 🛞MA...

Jul 07, 20231 hr 20 min

Zero-Knowledge AI: The Frontier of Cryptography | Zuzalu #2

Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. In this 8-episode series, we are exploring some new frontiers. New frontiers in new technologies, all of which are poised to completely revolutionize the world and change everything about the operating system that society is currently running. This video features two conversations with big-brain builders Daniel Shorr of ZKML and Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation. Although cryptography quickly falls d...

Jul 05, 202356 min
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