If you spent Thanksgiving 2021 preaching about crypto to your entire family, and how you’d all be sailing off into the sunset on a boat made of gold by Christmas next year, you probably have a lot of explaining to do by now.
2022 has undoubtedly been a clusterf*ck of a year for many of us, for many reasons, so without further ado, let’s figure out how the F***TX we ended up here.
Today we are joined by the man, the myth, the legend behind ENS - the Ethereum Name Service. Since we last chatted with Nick in 2021, he has made ENS a household name across the crypto industry and beyond. Nick and I get into the details behind the ENS roadmap, including the latest V3 announcement, what it was like for Nick to go from Google to the Ethereum Foundation to founding ENS and inside scoop on last year's drama with Brantly and the current culture at ENS and so much more. But first, Nick is going to tell us the founding story of ENS and how he managed to go from Google to Ethereum to founding ENS.
00:00 Intro
00:38 Founding Story
01:55 Early Days at the Ethereum Foundation
07:33 The Token Economics of ENS
15:26 The Importance of Setting Clear Rules and Principles in Building a Community
19:52 Exploring the Principle of 'Code is Law'
24:07 ENS Name Wrapper
31:27 ENS Layer 2 Strategy
39:19 ENS v3 and A Sneak Peek at the Exciting Roadmap
45:10 Navigating the Competitive Landscape
50:08 ENS By The Numbers
52:44 Handling Controversy and Cancel Culture
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Tether has faced accusations from many in the digital asset industry that it is a form of privately-issued fiat currency, backed not by “real” dollars in any meaningful way but minted in ever-increasing quantities to buy (and inflate the price of) assets like BTC. To unfold this scandal, we're exploring the following 9 questions:
3:05 What is Tether?
3:55 Should we be concerned about Tether?
5:09 What is the source of the FUD around Tether?
7:09 What is Tether actually backed by?
11:07 Who’s providing Tether's banking services?
13:46 What is happening with the OAG investigation?
16:22 How is the Tether team responding?
19:21 Why did it all need to be so complicated?
20:49 Wen ...?
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Today we're shaking things up a bit because, as they say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party. Joining me is the brilliant onchain clown, a self-proclaimed 'wagec*ck' Ivan from LobsterDAO. Together we're gearing up to bring you a program where we get close and personal with the biggest thinkers, doers, and creators in our crypto sphere.
Our special guest today is none other than Fiskantes, a renowned anon trader and the co-founder of Zee Prime Capital. In today's conversation, we're diving into a myriad of topics: exploring anticipations post-Bitcoin ETF, dissecting key industry narratives, exploring Fisks' perspective on the flourishing Layer 1 scene, particularly focusing on his bullish outlook for Polkadot, and wrapping things up with insightful predictions for the bull market in 2024. But first, we begin with an introduction to Fiskantes.
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2:07 Who is Fiskantes
6:33 Poker instincts
10:16 Evolution of narratives
21:22 Zee Prime Capital
28:00 Solana
41:44 Trends after Bitcoin ETFs
45:00 GameFi
47:00 Decentralized Trading
47:21 AI
47:54 DeSci
51:10 RWA
53:36 Friend.Tech
1:00:35 DeFi
1:11:32 EigenLayer
1:15:51 Privacy
1:19:11 Ethereum
1:26:05 Avalanche
1:26:50 Cosmos
1:30:12 Expectations on 2024 bull market
1:34:48 Fiskantes pumping BTC
1:35: 29 The Rule of Crypto
1:36:58 Wisdom from Fiskantes
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The internet of money is being built with blockchain technology and without banks. We call it DeFi, short for Decentralized Finance, and this is where you can hear the builders and users of this cutting edge world tell their stories first hand. Hosted by Camila Russo.
In this week’s epidose I speak with Bette Chen and Ruitao Su, who are building DeFi on Polkadot. While most of DeFi is being built on Etheruem, here is the team creating an entire new financial infrastructure on the decentralized network built by the Web3 Foundations and Parity Technologies —which was founded by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood. Their project called Acala, has been mostly known for its stablecoin, but they’re also building staking derivatives —a token that’s a derivative of staked DOT tokens and can be used in DeFi— and a DEX. Each one of these pieces is a huge undertaking on their own, but this ambitious team is making all of them at the same time.
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It’s been a typically dicey week in DeFi and particularly traumatic for anyone suffering from gephyrophobia - the pathological fear of bridges. I am of course referring to the Nomad hack that saw around 180 million bucks worth of ERC20s filched in a just few hours by a frenzied mob of REKT crypto investors.
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Zeneca is an NFT investor and content creator who grew his collection of non-fungible tokens from 0 to about 3,000 pieces worth millions in less than a year. He comes on the podcast to talk about how he went from professional poker player to full-time NFT trader, and what lessons from poker he has brought over to crypto.Zeneca believes the NFT market has hit a downturn amid rising crypto prices because it has become saturated with the same types of projects. He believes avatars will take a back seat to projects where NFTs have utility beyond displaying the art itself and being part of a community. That’s why gaming is setting up to be the next big movement in NFTs, he says. Still, he doesn’t believe we’ve seen a true bull and bear market yet — that will come when NFTs better integrate with DeFi and leverage comes into play. Thanking our sponsors:
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$YFI launched in 2020 as one of the most memorable DeFi protocols ever with its fair launch, tiny token supply and reluctant anti-hero Andre Cronje as a pivotal figure in just doing things differently.
Since then $YFI has suffered hacks, merged, purged, grown, shrunk but above all endured as a genuinely decentralized home for those with ideas and energy to burn. It's about as close as we can hope to get to a truly decentralized finance behemoth. But despite its success, the roots remain grounded. In this episode we pay tribute to the way of the blue pill.
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