At Ethereal, I spoke with Austin Griffiths, director of research at Gitcoin and founder of Burner Wallet, and Arjun Bhuptani, cofounder of Connext Network, about how they think about getting[…]
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Parity’s Jutta Steiner and Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Substrate and the Frozen Funds
Jutta Steiner, CEO of Parity, and Gavin Wood, who goes by the title “chief white space officer,” describe the network Parity plans to launch later this year, Polkadot, how it[…]
Vitalik Buterin on Whether or Not Ethereum Is ‘Blowing It’
At the first Unchained Live, Vitalik explained why he thought it was “inevitable” Ethereum would lose some of its lead, when he would be upset if Ethereum were overtaken by[…]
Why Ethereum 2.0 Could Fail and How It Could Be Fixed
Delphi Digital recently released a report on Ethereum’s short- and long-term prospects. It showed why there’s been such high selling pressure on Ethereum, plus dived deeply into the economics of[…]
MolochDAO: Could This Decentralized Autonomous Organization Help Ethereum Scale Faster?
Ameen Soleimani, CEO of Spankchain, comes on the show to discuss his latest effort to fund Ethereum development through the decentralized autonomous organization MolochDAO. He describes how it works, plus[…]
How Uniswap Quickly Became One of the Most Popular Dexes
Hayden Adams, founder of the new decentralized exchange Uniswap, discusses how Uniswap differs from a traditional exchange based on order books, how market the contract determines the price of the[…]
How to Earn Money on Collateral in DeFi — and Why That’s Risky
Dan Elitzer, investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, describes a concept he describes as superfluid collateral made possible in the decentralized finance space. We talk about which DeFi projects make this[…]
How Melon Could Make Asset Management Easier
Mona El-Isa, the cofounder and CEO of Melonport, explains how Melon, the asset management protocol which recently launched on Ethereum, makes launching a fund easier and less expensive, plus gives[…]
Why ConsenSys Is ‘Shifting From Experimentation to Excellence’ – Ep.050
ConsenSys’s Andrew Keys talks about the company’s recent pivot, called “ConsenSys 2.0,” toward greater efficiency, accountability and focus on revenue, why it laid off about 150 people, and what areas[…]
How ConsenSys Got So Big But Accomplished So Little – Ep.049
Despite having Joe Lubin’s billions at its back, and despite having 1,200 employees to build apparently anything they wanted in the Ethereum ecosystem, ConsenSys has accomplished very little and has[…]