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Guy Itzhaki & Guy Zyskind: Fhenix – FHE-powered End-to-End Encrypted Ethereum L2

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fully homomorphic encryption, also known as the Holy Grail of cryptography, allows for computation to be performed on encrypted data, without the need...

Illia Polosukhin: Near Protocol – From AI to High-Throughput Blockchain

06 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What began as an AI company trying to seek solutions in order to pay remote (unbanked) workers, Near AI became, in 2018, Near Protocol. Its sharded de...

Isidoros Passadis: Lido DAO – Staking Decentralisation for Ethereum and LSTs in DeFi

30 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As Ethereum ‘merged’ to its current proof-of-stake consensus model, the steep (for retail) minimum stake of 32 ETH created a serious risk of centr...

Epicenter - 10-Year Anniversary Livestream

23 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

10 years ago, Adam B Levine, the host of ‘Let’s Talk Bitcoin!’, decided that it was time to encourage other voices to step onto the crypto podca...

Aki Balogh: DLC Link – Self-Wrapped Bitcoin (dlcBTC)

16 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

gnosis.ioUnlike Ethereum ‘programmable money’, Bitcoin lacks native smart contracts by design. In an attempt to expand Bitcoin past its store of v...

Yat Siu: Animoca Brands – From NFTs & Blockchain Gaming to the Open Metaverse

09 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to NFTs and blockchain gaming, very few companies can rival with Animoca Brands’ early conviction, investment thesis and time horizon....

Marek Olszewski & Rene Reinsberg: Celo – The Mobile-First High-Throughput Blockchain

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With an average block time of 5 seconds and sub-cent transaction gas fees, Celo focuses on scalability and ease of access in order to bring DeFi to th...

Rand Hindi: Zama - Fully Homomorphic Encryption in Blockchain Applications & Privacy

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Homo- (Greek prefix meaning ‘same’); -morphic (Greek suffix meaning ‘having a specific shape/form’)Intuitively, one could deduct that homomorp...

Ye Zhang: Scroll - EVM-compatible ZK rollup

18 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The advancements of zero knowledge proving technology, hardware acceleration and proof recursion have significantly increased the efficiency of EVM-c...

Charles d'Haussy: dYdX V4 - Decentralised Perpetual Exchange on a Cosmos Appchain

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Leading decentralised perpetual exchange, dYdX V4 recently migrated to Cosmos to build its own sovereign appchain, in order to provide its users a muc...

Nick Johnson: ENS - Multichain ENS Domains and Decentralised Identities

04 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The very nature of Ethereum addresses, expressed as random hexadecimal character strings, represents a big hurdle for mass adoption, as they are not h...

Simon Harman: Chainflip - Native cross-chain AMM

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

While competition fosters innovation, the proliferation of different blockchains has resulted in the fragmentation and isolation of liquidity within e...

Guy Young: Ethena - USDe Synthetic Dollar via Delta-Neutral Staked Ethereum Hedging

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stablecoins represent a safe haven against crypto’s volatility, allowing participants to remain in the market, without off-ramping to fiat. While th...

Evgeny Yurtaev: Zerion - Web3 Wallet UX 2.0

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the best known memes in crypto is: 'Not your keys, not your coins'. This usually resurfaces whenever a (custodial) centralised exchange is hack...

Niklas Kunkel: Chronicle – Ethereum's First-Ever Oracle

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Back in 2017, there was no DeFi as we know it today, yet MakerDAO were already envisioning and building towards what they thought to be a certainty. T...

Elias Simos: Rated Network - Reputation for Machines = Transparent Blockchain Infrastructure

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Data immutability and transparency are key features that define a blockchain’s public ledger. However, while transactions are indeed transparent, in...

Misha Komarov: =nil; Foundation – The Marketplace for ZK Proof Generation

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Zero knowledge proof systems have found tremendous cryptographic utility in scaling blockchains, due to their ability to prove computational integrity...

Robbie Ferguson: Immutable - The Web3 Gaming one-stop-shop

16 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Apart from its numerous financial applications, blockchain technology could also disrupt the gaming industry, causing a paradigm shift towards true di...

Stani Kulechov: Lens Protocol – Decentralised Social Media Primitive

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Social media revolves around content creation, and while the content itself could be tokenised through NFTs, SocialFi aims to take it a step further. ...

Stephane Gosselin: Frontier Research - Solving Ethereum's MEV Problem

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The maximal extractable value (MEV) problem, if left unchecked, could represent an existential threat to Ethereum’s core values. One might argue tha...

Marko Baricevic: Cosmos SDK - The Internet of Appchains

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the very beginning, Cosmos set out to provide an alternative to the monolithic blockchain architecture proposed by Ethereum. Cosmos SDK was the c...

Sandeep Nailwal: Polygon 2.0 - The New Value Layer of the Internet?

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What started out as Matic Network, in 2017, and later rebranded to Polygon, in 2021, it is now facing another major milestone: Polygon 2.0. Apart from...

Stephen Young & Storm: NFTFi – P2P NFT Lending Protocol: From PFPs & Art to RWA

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After a 2021 frothy bull market, NFTs are currently experiencing the depression phase of the market cycle. However, despite the fact that only NFT art...

Alex Gluchowski: zkSync - A new Era for EVM-compatible zk rollups

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ethereum scaling solutions often resort to tradeoffs, sacrificing security or decentralisation in favour of scalability. However, zk rollups hold the ...

Patrick O'Grady: Avalanche – Building High Performance VMs With HyperSDK

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The recent history of L2s has shown that there doesn’t need to be ‘one chain to rule them all’ or an ‘ETH killer’. Instead, a healthier appr...

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum - MEV, Staking Derivatives and Privacy (EthCC 6)

22 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We couldn’t miss EthCC 6 and we got to sit down with Vitalik Buterin to discuss hot topics from the Ethereum ecosystem: MEV, staking derivatives, pr...

Avril Dutheil: Neutron – Interchain Smart Contracts on Cosmos

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Blockchains are secured through the economic incentives offered to their validators/miners. The more robust the network effect among validators, the m...

Sveinn Valfells: Monerium – Regulated On-Chain Euro (EURe)

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stablecoins represent the backbone of DeFi, allowing complex financial applications to be protected from external volatility. From fiat-backed to algo...

Eli Ben-Sasson: Starknet - zk-STARKs and Cairo 1.0 upgrade

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Layer 2 zero knowledge roll-ups have initially been used for achieving private transactions on blockchains. However, past simple transfers, interactin...

Luka Müller: Sygnum Bank & MME Legal – Crypto Regulations & Institutional Investors

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As institutional money set their eyes on crypto, some degree of centralisation and regulation was inevitable. However, the key aspect is to limit it t...

Epicenter – Looking Back on 10 Years of Crypto. AI Doom & Gloom? SPECIAL

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As Epicenter hits the 500 episode milestone, our hosts look back on almost 10 years of crypto developments, analysing the good, the bad and the ugly. ...

Zac Williamson & Joe Andrews: Aztec - Privacy-preserving, hybrid ZK rollup

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In order to achieve true transaction privacy, it is not enough to encrypt or build ZK proofs for transaction bundles, as long as the underlying blockc...

Fig: Squid Router – Sub-20 Second Cross-Chain Swaps. Axelar-Powered Interoperability

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As crypto evolves, it becomes clearer that the future will be multi-chain. Presently, moving funds between different blockchains is frustrating...to s...

Collin Myers & Oisín Kyne: Obol Network - Distributed Validator Technology (DVT)

27 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ethereum's merge and transition to a proof-of-stake consensus implied switching from proof-of-work mining to transactions being validated by entities ...

Ben DiFrancesco: Umbra – Privacy Preserving Token Transfers

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Public transaction history in blockchains represents one of their key features which, alongside immutability, aim to provide an alternative to CeFi. H...

Emin Gün Sirer: Avalanche – The Future of Crypto: From Gaming to LLM-Powered Smart Contracts

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the second Avalanche summit drew to a close, Sebastien Couture and Sunny Aggarwal sat down with Emin Gün Sirer for a fascinating conversation expl...

Ali Yahya: Andreessen Horowitz – A16z Crypto Investment Thesis

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to top-tier VCs, very few equal Andreessen Horowitz' (a16z) impressive portfolio, which stretches over both Web2 and Web3. Their crypto ...

Jose Macedo: Mars Protocol – Red Bank' Credit on Cosmos via Osmosis

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The end of 2022 and beginning of 2023 were marked by centralised institutions failing: from CEXes to CeFi itself, contagion spread quickly in over-lev...

John Letey: KYVE – Decentralised and Accessible Data Storage

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We often take data storage for granted, but the rise of centralised storing facilities (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) hangs over like Damocles’ sword....

Tim Galebach: Uqbar – Smart Contracts on Urbit

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Building a truly decentralised, peer-to-peer network, based on a built-in identity system, limits the ecosystem’s interoperability with the outside ...

Ryan Zurrer: Dialectic AG - A Decade of Crypto Ventures: From BTC mining to P2E gaming

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Considering the abundance of cryto projects launching constantly, making sound investment decisions requires both ample experience in the space, as we...

Barry: Dymension – Modular Blockchains and RollApps

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to scaling blockchains, there are 2 main types of off-chain solutions: sidechains and L2s (i.e. rollups, state channels). These are all ...

Laurence Ion & Vincent Weisser: Vita DAO – From DeSci to Longevity Research

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Scientific research & publishing are gruelling tasks that extend outside the scope of science itself. Centralised publications abound in archaic pract...

David Schwartz & Jordi Baylina: Polygon zkEVM – From Mainnet to Mass Adoption - Part 2

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

While Part 1 (#486) focused on the technological advancements that allowed proofs to be generated in a practical manner, lowering both the time and th...

David Schwartz & Jordi Baylina: Polygon zkEVM – From Circuits to Mainnet - Part 1

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With the upcoming launch of Polygon's zkEVM mainnet, L2s are undoubtedly a huge narrative that is unfolding in 2023. It is time to take a step back an...

Jesse Pollak: Base – The Optimistic Gateway to Crypto Adoption

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Layer 2 scaling solutions are widely regarded as the next step forward in the mainstream adoption of crypto as they enable higher throughput and lower...

Rebecca Liao: Saga – Bootstrapping Chainlets in the Multiverse

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Building a blockchain from the ground-up is a daunting task in itself, one that should not be a concern when designing an end-user application. Moreov...

Luis Schliesske & Hilmar Orth: Gelato Network - Web3 Backend Automation & Relay

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Web3 has always been criticised for its not so friendly user experience. While one might argue that it requires a mere learning curve, similar to that...

Joel Thorstensson: Ceramic – Building the Dataverse

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Metaverse has taken the world by storm in 2021 and even though many have and are still opposing it, the fact that we are spending the majority of ...

Trent McConaghy: Ocean Protocol – AI & the Data NFT Marketplace (V4)

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From technological breakthrough to philosophical defiance, the topic of AI has always sparked intense debates ever since Alan Turing & John McCarthy a...

Paul Frambot: Morpho Labs – Peer-to-Peer DeFi Lending Protocol

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

DeFi lending protocols operate accordingly to their smart contracts and are perfect examples of ‘Code is law’, even if some recent exploits have n...

Antonio Juliano: dYdX – Decentralized Perpetual Exchanges

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

2022 has proven time after time that centralised entities are prone to multiple points of failure, intentional or not. Decentralised finance (DeFi) ad...

Carl Beekhuizen & Trent van Epps: Ethereum Foundation – EIP-4844 & KZG Ceremony

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The recent advancements of layer 2 scaling solutions, especially zero-knowledge rollups, led to a complete redesign of Ethereum’s scalability roadma...

Anna Rose & Kobi Gurkan: Zero Knowledge Proofs – State of the ZK Ecosystem - Part 2

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

While Part 1 (#476) focused more on the general landscape of the ZK ecosystem, covering team updates and developments, in this episode, we take a clos...

Anna Rose & Kobi Gurkan: Zero Knowledge Proofs – State of the ZK Ecosystem - Part 1

30 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Blockchains are immutable record keepers, storing information about every transaction ever recorded. However, this attribute comes at a cost: as more ...

Ted Blackman & Gary Lieberman: Urbit - Decentralized Computing Platforms

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When discussing the widespread adoption of true, peer-to-peer decentralization, one could easily identify various social and political obstacles. Howe...

Nick Dodson: Fuel Labs – Modular Execution Blockchains

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As crypto adoption increases, so does the pressing need for blockchain scalability. Monolithic blockchains provide data availability, consensus and ex...

Epicenter Hosts – The Bear Is Back: Recollections From 2022

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This year has been quite a rollercoaster for the crypto industry. From the long-awaited success of the Ethereum Merge to the spectacular collapse of F...

Fredrik Haga: Dune Analytics – The Open Data Platform

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dune Analytics is a platform aggregating blockchain data, making data easier to query and understand for the larger public. Over the past years, Dune ...

Ben Fielding & Harry Grieve: Gensyn – The Deep Learning Compute Protocol

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Artificial Intelligence is a fascinating field that has made tremendous development over the past few years. From GPT-3 to Dall-e and Stable Diffusion...

Sreeram Kannan: EigenLayer – The Ethereum Restaking Protocol

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

EigenLayer is a 'programmable slashing' layer2 protocol built on Ethereum which leverages security through the method of restaking. This is a bootstra...

Anastasiya Belyaeva & Luis Cuende: Nation3 – Creating a Sovereign Cloud Nation

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For centuries, we have been led to believe that nation states are the only way to organize humankind at scale. But governments all around the world ar...

Dev Bharel: Wormhole – The Cross Chain Messaging Protocol

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Wormhole is a decentralized cross chain messaging protocol powering the transfer of value and information across high value chains. A network of Guard...

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum – State of Affairs After the Merge

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With the long awaited Ethereum Merge successfully executed last month, we caught up with Vitalik at DevCon in Bogota to talk shop: How does he see the...

Ethan Buchman & Zaki Manian: ATOM 2.0 – Deep Dive

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Since its announcement a few weeks ago at Cosmoverse in Medellin, Atom 2.0 has sparked intense debate in the Cosmos community and throughout the block...

Anett Rolikova, David Hoffmann, Joseph Schweitzer & Nick Johnson: Devcon 6 Recap – Live From Bogota

22 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After a 2 year hiatus, Devcon was back for its 6th and best year so far, this time in Bogota, Colombia. As things wrapped up we grabbed a few of the E...

Devcon Panel – Censorship Resistance and Credible Neutrality

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bonus Episode: At a side event at Devcon in Bogota Colombia, Friederike moderated a panel discussion on censorship resistance and credible neutrality ...

Cryptocito: Cosmoverse – Where Cosmonauts Unite

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We caught up with Cosmoverse co-founder and YouTuber Cryptocito, for a chat from this year's event in Medellin. We look back on the 2nd edition of the...

Sebastian Bürgel: HOPR – The Peer to Peer Network Changing Data Privacy

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

HOPR is a decentralized and incentivized peer-to-peer mixnet open to anyone who wants to join and run a node. The network allows people, companies, an...

Hyung Lee: Crescent Network – The Hybrid AMM/Orderbook Decentralized Exchange

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Crescent is an AMM/Orderbook Hybrid Decentralized Exchange that allows trading inter-chain assets in a cost-efficient manner. Crescent is a sovereign ...

Dappcon – Roundtable: The Ethereum Merge

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the countdown to the merge, Sebastien and Friederike teamed up with Eduardo Antuña, Co-founder of DappNode, at this year's Dappcon which is back a...

Ameen Soleimani: RAI – A Low Volatility Trust-Minimized Stablecoin

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Decentralized stablecoins have long been regarded as a fundamental building block for the decentralized web. The first ground-breaking project in this...

Preethi Kasireddy: DappCamp – Becoming a Web3 Developer

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DappCamp is a 21-day cohort-based course for Web2 developers making the shift to Web3. It offers hands-on experience on how to architect, develop, and...

Peter Van Valkenburgh: Coin Center – The Sanction on Tornado Cash

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On August 8, 2022, the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Cash, citing allegations it helped N...

Ethan Frey: CosmWasm – The Smart Contracting Platform for Cosmos

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

CosmWasm is a smart contracting platform built for the Cosmos ecosystem. It's the Cosmos (Cosm) way of using WebAssembly (Wasm). CosmWasm is written a...

Brett Scott: Cloudmoney – The Future of Cash

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A cashless society - one where paper and coin currency is no longer used and instead replaced with electronic transactions. Many countries are already...

Stephane Gosselin & Vasiliy Shapovalov: MEV-Boost – Preparing for the Merge

06 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Flashbots has pioneered the work around MEV which has become one of the most important topics in crypto today. MEV-Boost is an implementation of propo...

Epicenter Hosts – Is the Ethereum Roadmap the Right Path for Eth Holders?

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An interesting question that has sparked debate in the Twittersphere and amongst our hosts. Hear as Meher, Friederike and Brian discuss scaling vision...

Bettina Boon Falleur, Griff Green & Jerome de Tychey: EthCC 5 – A Recap of This Year's Event

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

EthCC is over for another year and what a week it was! 6 stages, 2,000 attendees, over 200 speakers, 40 hours of talks and content, 40 sponsors, and 1...

Mona El Isa: Enzyme – The Future of Asset Management

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Enzyme Finance, previously named Melon, is a decentralized protocol built on Ethereum (ETH) that allows users to create, manage and invest in custom c...

Tim Beiko: Ethereum Foundation – The Ethereum Merge

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The hotly anticipated Ethereum merge due later this year, will see the joining of the existing execution layer of Ethereum (the Mainnet we use today) ...

Josh Lehman: Urbit – The Peer-to-Peer Network Re-Decentralizing the Internet

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Urbit is an exciting new operating system and peer-to-peer network that’s simple by design, built to last forever, and 100% owned by its users. Unde...

Jamal Raees & Yanni Giannaros: Wyre – Using Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Wyre is a leading fiat-to-cryptocurrency and payment infrastructure company for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. In blockchain time, Wyre has been around...

Ed Felten: Arbitrum – The Layer 2 Scaling Solution Increasing Speed and Reducing Fees

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arbitrum is a Layer 2 scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain which helps reduce high transaction gas fees. Arbitrum uses a multi-round optimisti...

Arjun Bhuptani: Connext – Speeding Up Secure Bridges Between Chains

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Connext is a crosschain liquidity network that speeds up fully-noncustodial transfers between EVM-compatible crosschains (xapps) and L2 systems. Conne...

Dan Finlay: MetaMask – The ETH Based Wallet for Swaps and dApps

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

MetaMask is the de-facto standard self-custodial wallet for Ethereum. It started off as a web browser extension on chromium. More recently, it also la...

Nick Johnson: ENS – An Update on the Global Naming System for Ethereum

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) allows users to register .eth domain names, which can be used natively in some browsers and all Ethereum wallets. It p...

Stani Kulechov: Aave – 3.0

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aave is an open-source moneymarket protocol. An Ethereum native, it's deployed on Avalanche and Polygon, with more than $1 billion deposited on each. ...

Chun Wang: stakefish – From Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chun Wang started mining Bitcoin in 2011 and later created F2Pool, one of the leading Proof-of-Work mining pools. Despite his deep involvement in Proo...

Florian Glatz: The European Crypto Initiative – Why Europe Needs a Regulatory Shift to Avoid Crypto Irrelevance

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Florian Glatz, blockchain.lawyer, is one of the most knowledgeable OG's at the intersection of crypto and law. He was last on the show 6 years ago whe...

Kyle Samani & Tushar Jain: Multicoin Capital – An Update From the Thesis-Driven Investment Firm

29 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in the crypto space. They manage a hedge fund and a venture fund, investing across b...

Gregory Landua: Regen Network – The Blockchain for Planetary Regeneration

22 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Regen Network is a blockchain focused on ecological regeneration and reversing climate change. Their aim is to reinvent the economics of agriculture s...

Felix Lutsch: Chorus One – On Proof-of-Stake, Interoperability & Crypto Markets

15 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brian was joined by Felix Lutsch, CCO of Chorus One, for a discussion of what is going on in crypto today. The discussion included the evolving Proof-...

Adrian Brink & Christopher Goes: Anoma – The Blockchain 'Undefining Money'

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anoma is a set of protocols that puts privacy front and center. It aims to facilitate “Self-Sovereign Communities” by providing tools that grant i...

Federico Kunze Küllmer: Evmos – The Ethereum Virtual Machine on Cosmos

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Leveraging the Cosmos SDK, Evmos is the first IBC-compatible EVM-based blockchain, bringing composability, interoperability, and fast finality to Ethe...

Laura Shin: The Cryptopians – Uncovering the Secrets of Early Ethereum

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After more than three years in the making, Laura Shin has just released her first book, The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the ...

Alex Blania: Worldcoin – The Eye Catching Crypto Coin

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Worldcoin is a start-up trying to engineer widespread adoption for its cryptocurrency by giving away tokens. Sound too good to be true? Depends how yo...

Amir Haleem: Helium – The People's Wireless Network

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Helium is a global, distributed network of long-range wireless coverage hotspots for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, powered by the Helium blockchai...

Sergey Gorbunov: Axelar – The Blockchain Interoperability Network

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Axelar is a highly scalable, decentralized blockchain that aims to connect all existing blockchains. The proof of stake network, built on the Cosmos-S...

Gabriel Shipton & Stellar Magnet: AssangeDAO – The NFT Funding the Julian Assange Case

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's been just short of 2 years since we had Julian Assange's father John, and Harry Halpin, on the show to chat about his imprisonment and the impact...