Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Ryan Sean Adams

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3675 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

A great party trick if you project the app on a TV.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

It'll be like the Mario Party of derivatives.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

To trade on Euphoria, people can deposit stablecoins from any chain or do direct fiat transfers, and everything gets converted into MegaEth's native stablecoin, USDM, in the background.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Check it out at euphoria.finance and download the app or find it in Telegram as a mini-app.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

In 2024, emerging markets generated over $115 billion in annual yield for investors, with yields ranging between 10% to 40%.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

These are some of the highest, most persistent yields on Earth.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

The problem?

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

DeFi can't access them.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Bricks changes this.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Built on MegaEth, Bricks takes emerging market money markets and sovereign carry and turns them into composable primitives you can access straight from your wallet.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

While DeFi investors earn 3-6% on stablecoins and T-bills, institutions have been harvesting 10-50% yields backed by sovereign monetary policy.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Bricks connects these worlds with institutional gray tokenization, local banking rails, compliance across jurisdictions, and real-time stablecoin settlements.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Bricks does the heavy lifting so DeFi can finally access real collateral and structured products on top of real world yield.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Even the best carry trades can be within reach.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Bricks brings DeFi's promise to the emerging world and brings emerging market yield to your wallet.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Let the yield flow with Bricks.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Maybe going back to just like what makes a blockchain a blockchain.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Bitcoin had this fundamental insight of the way that we get rid of a leader in a blockchain is that everyone checks the legitimacy, the authenticity, the correctness of everyone else.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

And so when some Bitcoin miner mines a block, but if it finds the correct hash and it proposes that that block,

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Everyone else in the network doesn't trust that leader.