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Solving The AI Black Box: ZK-Proofs in Defence Tech

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host Sebastian Couture is joined by Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh, CEO of Lagrange, to explore the intersection of frontier cryptography a...

Aztec's Rebirth, The $61M Token Sale & Programmable Privacy on Ethereum

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh off the launch of the Ignition Chain and a successful community-led $61M token sale, Aztec Network co-founder Zac Williamson joins Friederike Er...

Will stablecoins end the US debt Crisis?

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin joins Friederike Ernst to discuss why we are at the "end of a supercycle," a chaotic transition period where l...

What will Quantum Computing Change?

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Quantum computing is often dismissed as a distant sci-fi future, but Ethereum OG John Lilic and Oxford physicist Stefano Gogioso argue the timeline is...

DevConnect 2025: Inside The Biggest Ethereum Event in History

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“DevConnect 2025 was about touching and feeling Ethereum IRL”Nathan Sexer, lead of the DevConnect 2025 and Events team at the Ethereum Foundation,...

Why is the SEC Concerned about Privacy now?

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At DevConnect 2025, Sebastian and Friederike speak with Peter Van Valkenburgh about the rapidly evolving battle for digital rights. Peter challenges t...

Cosmos: The Linux of Blockchains?

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Captured live at Cosmoverse 2025, this episode brings host Sebastian in conversation with Michael (better known as Cryptocito, Cosmos investor via Cit...

Yield Basis: Disrupting Defi & Bitcoin Yield

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Fabian Crain and Michael Egorov, Curve Finance founder, discuss Curve's origins: solving inefficient DAI/USDC swaps after MakerDAO borrows by cr...

Lamina1: Building The Future of The Creator Economy

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sci-fi titan Neal Stephenson, whose Snow Crash coined the term 'metaverse' and Cryptonomicon, which foreshadowed crypto in 1999, joins Frieder...

Is Blockchain Still a Revolution or Becoming Another Upgrade? Ep.621

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As blockchain tech gets co-opted by legacy players for efficiency gains, has the revolution lost its edge? Crypto philosopher Paul Dylan-Ennis and Jit...

Brave: Building the Private User-Friendly Internet - Kyle Den Hartog

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brave has spent a decade building a privacy-first browser that empowers users with tools like ad-blocking and fingerprinting protection, now serving 1...

Noble: Solving Crypto's Liquidity Problem, One Chain at a Time - Jelena Djuric

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Sebastien is joined by Jelena Djuric, co-founder of Noble, a generic asset issuance chain built for the Cosmos ecosystem. Jelena shar...

Benjamin Sarquis Peillard: Cap Labs – Insured Yield & the Future of Stablecoins

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Sebastien Couture is joined by Benjamin, the founder of CAP, a stablecoin protocol designed to provide insured yield. The protocol fe...

Mento: Onchain FX Markets - Decentralising World Currencies - Markus Franke

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TradFi FX markets are slow, expensive and often lack liquidity for direct swaps between different world currencies, having to route through USD pairs....

f(x) Protocol: Decentralized Yield-Bearing Stablecoin & 0-Liquidation Perp - Cyrille Brière

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Without a doubt, the introduction of stablecoins has vastly increased overall crypto liquidity, adoption and real-world use cases as they offered a sa...

Euler: The DeFi Super App - Michael Bentley

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Euler is a DeFi lending protocol built around the idea of permissionless modularity, enabling users to lend and borrow almost any crypto asset with fl...

Zama: FHE and The Holy Grail of Blockchain Privacy

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Blockchains operate as a public ledger, ‘disclosing’ the entire transaction history and associated data to everyone. While verifiability and trace...

Pareto: Customizable On-Chain Private Credit Marketplace - Matteo Pandolfi

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Built primarily for institutional-grade clients,  Pareto delivers customizable on-chain credit markets designed to expand DeFi liquidity and TradFi t...

Lagrange: ZK-Proving AI Alignment - Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In an age when AI models are becoming exponentially more sophisticated and powerful, how does one ensure that proper results are being generated and t...

Zorp: Nockchain's ZK Proof-of-Useful-Work Consensus - Logan Allen

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by Urbit’s minimal assembly language, Nockchain fuses Urbit’s vision of sovereign computing with a novel proof-of-useful-work consensus m...

UMA & Across: Optimistic Oracles & Intent-Based Bridges for Unifying Ethereum - Hart Lambur

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Universal Market Access (UMA) was founded by 2 ex Goldman Sachs traders that wanted to make global markets universally accessible through financial sm...

Dragonfly: The Secrets of a Top-Tier Crypto VC - Haseeb Qureshi

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Founded in 2018, Dragonfly has quickly become one of the most prestigious crypto VCs. Dragonfly was one of the first to adopt a global approach to bac...

Near One: Scaling the Agentic Internet. AI X Crypto - Bowen Wang

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

‘Attention Is All You Need’, co-wrote by Illia Polosukhin in 2017, laid the foundation for arguably one of the most consequential tech breakthroug...

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, The [LAST] Steward of Decentralisation

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The tradition of Epicenter x Vitalik Buterin continued this year as well at EthCC[8], where we got the chance of picking his brain about recent resear...

Stripe: The Stablecoin (R)Evolution - John Egan

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stripe has established itself as a leading payment solution for both enterprises as well as startups and individual sellers. By abstracting away all t...

t1 Protocol: Unifying Ethereum's L2 Liquidity Through Real-Time Proving - Can Kisagun

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While L2 rollups did help scale Ethereum, they also created siloed ecosystems, all fighting over the same liquidity, users and devs. t1 Protocol is bu...

DappCon 25: The Ticker Is $ETH - Jerome de Tychey, Joshua Dávila & Nixorokish

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the summer tour of European crypto conferences landed in Berlin, one of crypto’s cradles, we couldn’t miss DappCon 25, where we got to sit with...

Lombard: Unlocking Bitcoin DeFi Through Liquid, Yield-Bearing LBTC - Jacob Phillips

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin remains an untapped source of net-new liquidity that could be injected into DeFi. This would completely reshape Bitcoin’s utilization from a...

Staking Rewards: Is Crypto Staking Killing Decentralisation? - Mirko Schmiedl & Tobias Jung

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apart from incentivising market participants to secure the network through inflationary rewards, many consider staking as an equivalent of stock divid...

ETHPrague: ETH Renaissance - Austin Griffith, Brenda Loya, Joseph Schweitzer, Marek Olszewski

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After a decade of existence, Ethereum has gone a long way from its initial whitepaper, yet many efforts in scaling and finding product-market-fit have...

The Multi-Chain Avalanche - Emin Gün Sirer

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We couldn’t miss the Avalanche Summit where we sat down with Emin Gün Sirer, co-founder & CEO of Ava Labs, to discuss the evolution of Avalanch...

Initia: Incentively Aligned Appchains - Ezaan Mangalji, Anil Lulla & Jose Maria Macedo

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Blockchain architecture is constantly being forced to adapt to new technologies, as well as to meet new demands from users and builders. While the ide...

Ethereum Foundation: Humanity’s Shared World Computer - Hsiao-Wei Wang & Tomasz Stańczak

11 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As society evolves, so do its values and principles, but is that desirable for technology that seeks to build the most reliable, trustless and censors...

Taiko: Scaling Ethereum in a Decentralised Manner - Joaquin Mendes

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Taiko is a decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent (type I) rollup scaling solution which uses ZK technology. Taiko's goal is to scale Ethereum efficiently...

Mysten Labs: How Sui Leverages Move to Build the Composable Web3nternet - Adeniyi Abiodun

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Founded by former Meta Diem team members, Sui is a high-performance, layer-1 blockchain designed for horizontal scaling and low-latency transactions. ...

Maple Finance: On-Chain Institutional Yield & Lending Markets - Sidney Powell

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With an extensive experience in traditional money markets, Maple Finance was envisioned as an institutional capital marketplace which combines the tra...

Tally: The Software Layer for Tokenized Organizations - Dennison Bertram

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tally is a software platform designed to support tokenized organizations, particularly Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and crypto commun...

ENS V2 Cross-Chain Domains & Namechain - Nick Johnson

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Namechain is an L2 developed by ENS Labs, to enhance the scalability and efficiency of managing decentralized identities on Ethereum. It is designed t...

Lido V3: Ushering in Institutional Staking Through stVaults - Hasu

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake created a unique set of conditions (i.e. lack of protocol-level delegation, 32 ETH requir...

Ronin: How Axie Infinity Kickstarted the Blockchain Gaming Revolution - Jeff Zirlin

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While DeFi’s ultimate goal is to provide an alternative for TradFi, blockchain gaming caters to retail masses, onboarding millions of users to crypt...

Solana: From On-Chain Nasdaq to the Pump Fun Craze - Anatoly Yakovenko

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Solana needs no introduction. Ever since its inception, it pushed throughput scaling on a single chain, without the need of sharding or rollups. Despi...

Build on Bitcoin: Combining Bitcoin's Security With Ethereum's Versatility - Alexei Zamyatin

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin’s security and reliability as a store of value are undeniable. However, its liquidity remained untapped for too long due to a lack of trustl...

Puja Ohlhaver: Why Community Currencies Are Crucial for Governance in DeSoc

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the digital networked age, people’s attention often overlooks local problems in favour of global ones, which don’t necessarily impact them in t...

Nevermined: Payment System for the AI Agentic Economy - Don Gossen

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even though current LLM providers usually charge flat rates regardless if the subscriber is a ‘power user’ or not, as AI agents become the workhor...

Turtle Club: Helping Web3 Users Monetize Their On-Chain Activity - Esfandiar Lagevardi

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As more and more protocols compete for marketshare, user acquisition represents one of the most important elements of the GTM strategy. Web3 projects,...

Story Protocol: Tokenizing Intelligence Into Programmable IP Assets - Jason Zhao

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As online content becomes predominantly AI-driven, intellectual property (IP) rights should not be neglected as (human) creators will heavily rely on ...

Balancer: Custom AMMs and Liquidity Solutions - Fernando Martinelli

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While AMMs (automated market makers) represent a DeFi innovation in themselves, research and experimentation have pushed the possibilities well beyond...

Kiln: Democratising Value Creation in Digital Assets - Laszlo Szabo

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kiln operates as a staking-as-a-service platform, primarily focused on Ethereum, enabling users to stake assets programmatically, managing validators,...

Babylon: Self-Custodial Bitcoin Native Staking & Bitcoin-Secured Networks - David Tse

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout the years, there were many attempts of tapping into Bitcoin’s liquidity and security, but almost all of them came with different caveats....

RedStone: The Oracle Pioneering the Future of DeFi - Marcin Kaźmierczak

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The DeFi landscape has significantly evolved since 2018 when Chainlink was launched. Recent developments such as L2 rollups, liquid staking, restaking...

Privado ID & Quark ID: On-Chain ZK-Powered Unified ID - Diego Fernandez & Evin McMullen

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Traditional KYC and AML regulations have often forced companies to comply, without having the right tools to do so. Simply storing users’ personal i...

Abundance: The First 1 Gigagas/second Stack for Sovereign Rollups - Hilmar Orth

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most limited blockchain resources is blockspace. From Bitcoin’s Blocksize Wars to Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, a common denominator seem...

Monad: The EVM-Compatible 10,000 TPS L1 Blockchain - Keone Hon

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The status quo for developers choosing an ecosystem for their blockchain usually revolves around trade-offs: do they go for Ethereum’s network effec...

Succinct: Every Rollup Will Be a ZK Rollup! - Uma Roy

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Polynomials are quintessential in machine learning for establishing relationships between outputs and inputs. However, there is also a field in crypto...

Bitcoin OS: Bitcoin Block 853626 Changed Everything For BTC Smart Contracts - Edan Yago

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin’s Taproot update paved the way for a new & exciting era for Bitcoin, as it expanded its use case far beyond that of an immutable ledger. How...

Symbiotic: Scaling Shared Security Through Restaking - Misha Putiatin

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bootstrapping and maintaining a validator set can be a challenging endeavour, especially for projects that are in search of a product market fit. Howe...

Ari Juels: Can AI Weaponize Blockchain Smart Contracts? - Chainlink

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A smart contract’s rigid rule system represents a double-edged sword. ‘The Code is Law’, but what happens when rogue large language models or AI...

Citrea: Modular Rollup Framework on Bitcoin - Orkun Mahir Kilic

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin’s lack of native programmability, coupled with advancements in zero knowledge cryptography, has led to rollups being explored as a substitut...

Anoma: Solving Cross-Chain Interoperability Through Intents - Adrian Brink

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by Cosmos’ IBC ethos, Anoma takes interoperability a step further, from VM (virtual machine) to IM (intent machine). While traditional dApp...

Dappnode: Plug-n-Play Decentralization - Eduardo Antuña, Pol Lanski

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a world where everyone chases every basis point of marginal return, core values are often overlooked. The emergence of liquid staking protocols mad...

Dan Held: Bitcoin DeFi Will Change Everything! - Asymmetric

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the best known educators in the space and OG Bitcoin maxi, Dan Held joined us to discuss his crypto journey from entrepreneur to marketing & gr...

Blockworks: The Future of Crypto = AI, Memecoins and DePIN - Jason Yanowitz Live @Permissionless

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From a cross-platform media company, to launching their own conference and, more recently, an advisory branch, Blockworks has seen and done it all. We...

Konstantin Lomashuk: '#bitcoin is like a #memecoin' - cyber·Fund

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Outside of BTC’s cypherpunk movement, the early days of crypto were more or less barren in terms of innovation. However, this presented a huge oppor...

Celestia: 1Gb Blocks, Rollup Interoperability & Lazy Bridging. Ismail Khoffi & Mustafa Al-Bassam

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Ethereum’s roadmap shifted to a rollup-centric approach, a plethora of rollups have been launched, to the point where L3s have been conceptualize...

Numerai & Predictoor: How AI Changed Crypto Prediction Markets - Trent McConaghy & Richard Craib

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Prediction markets were one of the first use cases of smart contracts, yet their popularity only recently spiked, following Polymarket’s social medi...

Skip Protocol: The API for Seamless Cross-Chain Experiences on Cosmos & Beyond - Sam Hart

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Interoperability is the holy grail for a multi-chain future or the ‘internet of blockchains’. However, while IBC (inter-blockchain communication p...

Arcium: Parallelized Confidential Computing Network - Yannik Schrade

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this day and age, privacy and confidentiality are more important than ever. Advancements in the cryptographic research of zero knowledge proofs (ZK...

Polymer: A New Era for Interoperability...on Ethereum! - Bo Du

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The future is multi-chain, scalable and modular. However, while Cosmos’ IBC set the standard for interoperability, Ethereum’s L2 shift revealed a ...

Zeal: The Day-to-Day Crypto Wallet for EVM Chains - Hannes Graah

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Self-custodial wallets often represent the first point of contact for crypto users that venture away from centralised exchanges. As a result, their se...

Alkimiya: Blockspace, the Digital Real Estate - Leo Zhang

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the crypto industry matures, more sophisticated market participants become involved. As a result, risk management and hedging will evolve to levels...

Nansen: AI & Blockchain Analytics - Alex Svanevik

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The saying goes that knowledge is power, and this perfectly applies to blockchains due to their innate transparency and immutability. However, raw dat...

MultiversX: Blockchain Sharding 101 - Lucian Mincu

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2017, Vitalik Buterin defined the ‘Scalability Trilemma’ which consisted of 3 attributes that every blockchain had to balance depending on its ...

Mel Project: Is Web3 Truly Decentralised? - Eric Tung

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Web3’s decentralisation is currently limited to smart contracts as they can be verified on-chain. However, until scalability and UX become on par wi...

How Gnosis 3.0 Paves the Way for Mass Adoption - Friederike Ernst

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the OG flag bearers for decentralisation, Gnosis initially set out to build a prediction market on Ethereum. However, unlike the vibrant ecosys...

Ethereum at a Crossroads - Vitalik Buterin (Live from EthCC 7)

14 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We couldn’t miss EthCC 7, nor the chance to chat with Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum’s status quo as an L1 amidst the plethora of L2s competing fo...

‘Aave v4 Will Unify Cross-Chain Liquidity’ - Stani Kulechov

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the bluechip DeFi projects and backbone of Ethereum liquidity markets, Aave has recently announced their V4 upgrade proposal, which aims (among...

Fabric Ventures' Investment Thesis Since the Dawn of Bitcoin to AI - Richard Muirhead

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is one thing to invest in early stage companies, but to do so in a nascent industry that constantly reinvents and rediscovers itself is a whole dif...

Plurality: How Taiwan Managed to Unite Its People Through Tech - Audrey Tang & Glen Weyl

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a world constantly torn by social division amplified by polarizing scissor statements throughout social media, Taiwan conducted a social experiment...

'Ethereum Needs Polygon's Aggregation Layer to Scale' - Brendan Farmer & Sandeep Nailwal

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As more and more L2s launch promising to scale Ethereum, they end up competing for the same market share, userbase and liquidity. Apart from this hars...

EthStaker: Ethereum Staking Wars - Nixorokish & Superphiz

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a world where a handful of (centralised) entities hold the majority of staked Ethereum (either directly or via delegation), the network’s decentr...

PsyDAO: Decentralising Psychedelic Research - Dima Buterin & Paul Kohlhaas

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One could argue that psychedelic research has experienced a similar journey as crypto, in the sense that decentralised communities bound together to f...

Crypto ETFs: Trojan Horse or Big Win? - Austin Griffith, Mona El Isa, Peter Van Valkenburgh

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The approval of Ethereum spot ETFs sent shockwaves through the industry as policymakers pivoted abruptly from threatening to veto FIT21 bill, to a pro...

Alluvial: Institutional Liquid Staking and Spot Ethereum ETF - Mara Schmiedt

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The massive success of the recently approved spot Bitcoin ETF showed tremendous interest from large institutional players. Even despite negative takes...

Quadratic Funding and How Gitcoin Raised $60M for Public Goods - Kevin Owocki

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

5 years, 20 Grants, 3715 projects crowd-funded and over $60M raised towards public goods funding, from 4.2M unique donations. Gitcoin’s headline num...

Near Protocol: 'Blockchains Cannot Scale Without Sharding!' - Illia Polosukhin & Alex Skidanov

04 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The initial scaling roadmap for Ethereum featured execution layer sharding. However, the rapid advancements of layer 2 scaling solutions in general, a...

'Is Tether's USDT Safe?' - Paolo Ardoino

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Long regarded as an impending black swan, Tether has successfully weathered out the contagion and bank runs caused by Luna’s collapse in the depths ...

Safe: Securing $100 Billion of Crypto Assets - Lukas Schor

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What started out as a plan to build prediction markets, Gnosis ended up building crucial Ethereum infrastructure and tooling. Safe is one of its many ...

Saga: 'Ethereum and Solana CAN NOT Scale. Our Chainlets Fix This!' - Rebecca Liao

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most important hurdles to mass adoption is represented by blockchain scalability, which also hinders the real-life utility of its numerous ...

Movement Labs: 'Facebook's MOVE Will Bring Billions of Users to Crypto' - Rushi Manche

06 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Classical, monolithic blockchains are inherently limited in their throughput due to their single-thread execution architecture. Modern VMs attempt to ...

Wintermute: 'Avoid These Trading Mistakes!' Secrets of a Market Maker - Yoann Turpin

30 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Market makers help create more efficient markets and liquid order books, by positioning themselves on the receiving end of a trade that other market p...

Gearbox Protocol: 'DeFi Is Boring, Let's Reinvent Credit' - Ivan & Mikael Lazarev

23 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Credit is a widely used term, which could essentially be summarised as “more capital so you can do whatever you want”. In DeFi, there are numerous...

Humayun Sheikh: Fetch AI – Decentralising AI Economies

16 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While large language models (LLMs) are rather passive from an economic perspective on their own, AI agents offer a preview of what truly autonomous AI...

Jasper De Goojier: SEDA – Intent-Based Modular Data Layer

09 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As technology progresses, infrastructure should be commoditised, especially in Web3, in order to avoid the creation of bottlenecks and gatekeepers. Bl...

Anish Mohammed: Panther Protocol – Zero-Knowledge Compliant Privacy in DeFi

02 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Blockchains are, by default, public ledgers containing every transaction recorded by the network. While this ensures transparency, it also violates us...

Gil Binder & Yair Cleper: Lava Network – Decentralising RPC and Node Providers

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The monolithic blockchain era appears to be sunsetting. Among the first to contribute to this paradigm shift was Cosmos, which introduced the idea of ...

Zhiming Yang: Orbit Markets – Crypto Derivatives and Structured Products

17 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Prolonged range bound markets are a hallmark of bearmarkets and they usually end up chopping inexperienced or over leveraged traders. Customised struc...

David Goldberg: Founders Pledge – Maximising Charity Efficiency & Impact

10 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Measuring the social impact of a charitable donation is, oftentimes, an impossible task. Founders Pledge is a non-profit organisation that aims to fun...

Lefteris Karapetsas: Rotki – From Ethereum Devcon 0 to Building Rotki

03 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are, arguably, still early in the crypto industry, but some people were really…really early. One of them is Lefteris Karapetsas, who joined EthDe...

David Minarsch: Autonolas – Autonomous AI Agents

27 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Autonolas stack aims to address the ‘A’ in DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation), through its Open Autonomy framework, which enables the...

Andreas Tsamados & Vijay Krishnavanshi: Fileverse: A Trustless Stack to Decentralize Knowledge and Collaboration

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Web2 file storage relies heavily on centralised entities, which have mostly outgrown their competitors, establishing a quasi-monopoly. The reasons for...