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The Ultimate Guide to Crypto Finance. DeFi, NFTs, and cryptocurrencies. Level up. Go bankless.

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ROLLUP: SBF 25 Years | Coinbase vs. SEC | Blobs Demand | Blast Controversy

March 29, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 95.4 MB

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Can Crypto's Broken Moral Compass Be Fixed? | RSA+DH

March 27, 2024 09:30 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

On today's episode of Bankless Takes we're exploring the current state of crypto's social layer. Are we in this for the right reasons, or has crypto lost the plot? ------ 🖼️ Borrow ETH or USDC with an NFT on NFTFi https://bankless.cc/NFTFi_pod  ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24  https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠  🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://b...

BLAST: The L2 with Native Yield | Pacman

March 25, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 166 MB

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-pacman-blast-l2   ------ Pacman is one of the most interesting builders in crypto right now. After creating Blur, a disruptive NFT exchange, the crypto wonder kid is targeting the L2 space with his new yield bearing L2 called Blast. In this episode, we cover Pacman’s story, how he built Blur, how he pioneered Points and finally, we get into Blast, the already third largest L2 in TVL. ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PR...

ROLLUP: Memecoin Mania | Solana ATH? | Blackrock Ethereum Fund

March 22, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour - 66.3 MB

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Is Crypto a Scam? with Crypto Skeptic Patrick McKenzie

March 21, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 177 MB

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-patrick-mckenzie ------ Why do banks have holidays? Should we redesign the banking system? Is there a future for crypto? Today we’re joined by Patrick McKenzie, an advisor at Stripe who writes about the modern financial system helps us answer these exact questions. First, we talk about the inner workings of the existing banking system. Then we get into crypto, where Patrick shares his reasons for skeptic...

The 7 Most Bullish Crypto Narratives of 2024

March 20, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MB

The crypto bull market is here and nothing drives price like a good ol' narrative. On the show today we walk you through the top 7 that we're most excited about to watch unfold during this bull run.  Can you guess which one is our favorite? ------ ➡️ Apply to the Cartesi Grants Program here:  https://bankless.cc/Cartesi  ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24  https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHA...

Memecoins: Good or Evil with Ledger & Stephen Cesaro

March 19, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 88.5 MB

Today on the show we have two guests debating the merits and costs of crypto memecoins. Ledger (Brian Krogsgard) from the UpOnly podcast thinks that memecoins are financial nihilism that creates room for bad actors and grifters. Stephen Cesaro, from the Alfalfa Podcast, thinks memecoins are something to appreciate and celebrate. Which side are you on? ------ 🥩PRIMESTAKED | MINT primeETH NOW https://bankless.cc/Origin-pod   ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24  htt...

214 - L2 Tokens: Bullish or Bearish? with Sassal, Jordi, & Ippolito

March 18, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 168 MB

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-l2-tokens/ ------ Are Layer2 Tokens bullish or are they just worthless governance tokens? We’ve brought a team of expert panelists to help us answer that exact question. Mike Ippolito, Jordi Alexander and Anthony Sassano explore Layer2 business models, where value is accrued and how to capture that upside. ------ 🥩PRIMESTAKED | MINT primeETH NOW https://bankless.cc/Origin-pod  ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREM...

ROLLUP: Blobs Arrive | BTC New High | ETH ETF? | Bankless 4th Birthday

March 15, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 108 MB

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Dencun 101: Tim Beiko Explains Ethereum’s Upgrade and Beyond

March 13, 2024 09:30 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MB

Ethereum's next hard fork is here and we're joined by Tim Beiko from the Ethereum foundation to walk us through and explain what it all means. He shares a comprehensive guide on each and every EIP along with what comes next, Dencun, Pectra, and beyond. If you want to be up to date with the state of all things Ethereum this is the episode for you. ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/...

Tokenizing Real World Assets | Robert Leshner

March 12, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 136 MB

Can we Tokenize the World? Robert Leshner, creator of Compound and one of the forefathers of DeFi, is on a mission to do so. With his new company Superstate, new product, tokenized t-bills and new location, New York city. Robert is trying to bring $300 trillion in TradFI assets on-chain. ------ ➡️ Apply to the Cartesi Grants Program here:  https://bankless.cc/Cartesi  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/Podcast  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: ...

213 - Justin Sun: On Tron, Vitalik, and Becoming Humble

March 11, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 155 MB

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-justin-sun  ------ Justin Sun, the Controversial Founder of TRON has finally entered the chat. This episode is packed with hot takes. Expect to learn why Justin is still in Crypto, why  he should’ve copied Ethereum 100% and not just 95%, why he views Vitalik as a goldmine and much more. ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Playe...

ROLLUP: All Time High Debate | New ETF Record | Wormhole Airdrop

March 08, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 61.9 MB

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The RFK Interview

March 07, 2024 10:30 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MB

An in person interview with presidential candidate RFK Jr. who shares his takes and policies on the state of crypto in the United States. To learn more, visit https://www.kennedy24.com/  ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/Podcast  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2     ⁠  🦄UNISWAP | SWAP SMARTER https://bank...

AI Memecoins & Lessons for Narrative Investing

March 06, 2024 11:30 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MB

Ryan and David share another Bankless Takes episode where they discuss their AI memecoin analysis, why AI crypto tokens are a big deal, how to speculate on narratives like AI memecoins (lessons and guidance for “narrative investing”, and what are the next big narratives this cycle.  ------ 🌐 CARTESI | MODULAR EXECUTION ON LINUX  https://bit.ly/3SYkjzF  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/Podcast  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRU...

212 - Tether CEO on Their $100B Stablecoin ($USDT)

March 04, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 184 MB

Paolo Ardoino is the CEO of Tether, the $100 Billion stablecoin company that owns more U.S. Treasuries than most countries. We explore why Tether is winning, how it’s helping people in emerging markets and what really backs a $USDT. We also cover the state of the stablecoin regulation and even market competitors. Tether has been and it’s still a target of Fud in the Crypto industry. Paolo is here to refute that Fud and much more. ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc...

ROLLUP: Bitcoin ATH's In Sight | Coinbase Crashes | Blast Mainnet Live

March 01, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 69.7 MB

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Ethereum and The Trillion Dollar Internet Bond | Chris Perkins

February 29, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 87.2 MB

Chris Perkins has a fascinating background as a marine who was shot at in Iraq, was at Lehman bros when it all came crashing down, was a Citigroup trying to pick up the piece of the financial crisis where he first ran across Gary Gensler, and now he’s in crypto. We talk about all that, but that’s not even the main event. The Main Event is Ether the asset and a new reference rate he’s building on top of it. This sounds in the weeds but it’s actually actually key to unlocking trillions in ne...

Justin Drake & Ben Fisch: The United Rollups of Ethereum

February 28, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 140 MB

In today’s episode, we do a shared sequencing deep dive with repeat guest, Mr. Moonmath himself, the Blockchain Brainiac, and the Ethereum Evangelist– Justin "The Juggernaut" Drake. Justin is joined by The Sultan of Sequencing, the Espresso Emperor, the Cross-Rollup Connoisseur himself, Ben, the Blockchain Barista Fisch.   Where the fragments of Ethereum threaten to turn the digital ecosystem into a maze of confusion, these two men stand tall, illuminating the way, to come and save us from...

Nic Carter: The Second Bitcoin Civil War

February 27, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 97.9 MB

Nic Carter rejoins the podcast to discuss Bitcoin’s second civil war. When did it begin? Where are the party lines drawn? How will it end? Possible solutions? David and Nic dig into all of these questions and much more.  ------ 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/SUI-podcast  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/Podcast  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠  🔗...

211 - Is DA a Good Business Model? - Neel Somani & Jon Charbonneau

February 26, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 170 MB

What’s Data Availability (DA) and what’s its Business Model? In this episode we’re welcomed by Jon Charbonneau, researcher-investor at DBA and Neel Somani, CEO of Eclipse. We unpack everything Data Availability from what it unlocks to its economics. We also get into the DA Market covering participants like Celestia and EigenDA. ------ 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/sui-basecamp  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/Podcast  ...

ROLLUP: $ETH 3k! | TradFi Stonks ATHs | $STRK Now Live | Yuga Acquires PROOF

February 23, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 97 MB

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The LRT Episode

February 22, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 87.3 MB

Welcome to the LRT episode, covering the entire playing field of liquid restaking projects and what makes each one unique and special.  On the show we have representatives from Ion, Ether.fi, Puffer, Kelp, Swell and Renzo making this your one stop to go from zero to expert on the restaking landscape. ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠  🔗CELO ...

Are Bitcoin L2s Real? with David Seroy (Bitcoin Dave)

February 21, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 91.2 MB

On today’s episode we have Bitcoin wizard, David Seroy on the show! He’s an armchair researcher in the Bitcoin rollup ecosystem. He really likes Bitcoin, and he really likes projects that are building on Bitcoin.  We’ve got a lot of questions on Bitcoin today, especially those that revolve around Bitcoin L2s. Are they real? David’s got answers. ------ 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/sui-basecamp  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankles...

210 - Endgame 2.0: A Guide to Vitalik’s Ethereum Roadmap with Mike & Dom

February 19, 2024 11:30 - 2 hours - 200 MB

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-endgame-vitalik-ethereum-roadmap ------ Welcome to Part 2 of Vitalik’s Endgame, where Vitalik’s nominees and Ethereum Foundation Researchers, Mike Neuder & Domothy walk us through the updated Ethereum Roadmap. This roadmap is composed of 6 urges: - The Merge: Proof of Stake  - The Surge: Improve throughput and DA - The Scourge: MEV - The Verge: Running validator anywhere with Verkle Trees - The Purge...

The Culture of Starknet with Abdel Bakhta

February 18, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 118 MB

Today, we have a classic LayerZero style episode with nonother than Abdel Bakhta. Abdel is the Head of Ecosystem at Starkware and is onboarding new species to  the Least Aligned L2, Starknet. We cover the origins of Starkware and how its culture has evolved, there’s also a ton of Starkware Project Alpha on this episode so stay tuned. ---- 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/sui-basecamp  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/Podca...

A Conversation with Michael Ippolito

February 17, 2024 21:02 - 1 hour - 69.6 MB

David livestreams with Blockworks's Mike Ippolito in a freestyle conversation covering all things crypto. ------ 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/sui-basecamp  ------ 🎧Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/Podcast  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2  ⁠  🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo    🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION https://bankless.cc/toku ...

ROLLUP: BTC $1T Market Cap | More ETH ETF Filings | $STRK Airdrop Pushback?

February 16, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 89.8 MB

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The Pudgy Penguins Comeback Story with Luca Netz

February 15, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 71 MB

Today on the show we're joined by Luca Netz, the new owner of Pudgy Penguins.  Luca walks us through his story of how he got here, from a less than ideal childhood, to a full blown NFT empire.  In addition to a massive new deal with Walmart, he also lays out the case for why he thinks the bright future for Pudgy Penguins has only just begun. ------ ❎ Visit dydx.exchange to learn about dYdX Chain https://dydx.zone/3SfJTP7  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://ba...

Starknet Token Launch Is Here! ($STRK)

February 14, 2024 11:50 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MB

The Stark token is here! After waiting for almost 6 years we're thrilled to share that one of the earliest and most promising layer 2's has just released official details on their token, STRK. They are provisioning it to users of Starknet, to stakers in the Ethereum ecosystem, open source developers and so many more. A total of 1.3 Million wallets are eligible to receive the $STRK token, are you one of them? Joining us today is Starkware founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, and Starknet CEO D...

Hasu & Hart on Oval & The Recapturing of Billions in DeFi Liquidations

February 13, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 97.5 MB

Today on the show, we’re talking about Oval, a new DeFi primitive that Hart Lambur from UMA is introducing to the world of DeFi’s biggest lending markets. Billions of dollars have been liquidated from protocols like Aave, Compound, and MakerDAO over the years, and these liquidations have been extremely inefficiently priced, due to reasons! Reasons that we will discuss here on the show today.  Hasu also joins us on this conversation today to discuss the way that MEV share from Flashbots is ...

209 - Why e/acc Is Right with Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon)

February 12, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 196 MB

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan and David unpacking the episode: https://bankless.com/debrief-e-acc-beff-jezos   One guest, two identities. Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon) is a founding father of the e/acc movement, a physicist, a quantum researcher, and the founder of an AI startup called Extropic. Beff thinks AI doomers are not only wrong, but they’re taking humanity in the worst possible direction. Growth. Acceleration. Progress. These are the core pillars of the e/acc movement. Instead of slowing down...

ROLLUP: Solana Outage | Restaking Wars | Dencun Mainnet Date

February 09, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 115 MB

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Restaking Summer & What it Means For Ethereum

February 08, 2024 11:30 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MB

In this episode of Bankless Takes, Ryan and David discuss the incredibly valuable investing wisdom from Chris Burniske, restaking summer…what’s the impact to ETH, and Vitalik’s end of my childhood post. ------ 🏹 dYdX | STAKING https://bankless.cc/dYdX-staking-podcast   ------ 🎧Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player  https://bankless.cc/Podcast    ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠  🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON ...

Farcaster's Big Moment with Founder Dan Romero

February 07, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 84.9 MB

Farcaster is a twitter-like crypto social media app that just launched what could prove to be a killer new feature. They’re called frames. We’re calling it now and we’re calling it early - we think Farcaster frames could be a breakout use-case for crypto this year and a way to onboard the masses in the months to come and we're here with founder, Dan Romero, to explain why. ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Pla...

$1.5T Franklin Templeton's Massive Bet on Crypto with SVP Sandy Kaul

February 06, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 174 MB

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan and David unpacking the episode: https://bankless.com/debrief-franklin-templeton  Franklin Templeton Has Entered the Chat. More broadly TradFi has entered the chat. Franklin Templeton is a TradFi company with $1.5 trillion in assets. We brought on their SVP Sandy Kaul, who is a turbo crypto bull.  What’s Franklin Templeton? It’s an investment management company (think mutual funds, ETFs) that manages over $1.5 Trillion in assets. This is what we in crypto affectionately...

208 - Fixing Fragmentation with Justin Drake

February 05, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 105 MB

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan and David unpacking the episode: https://bankless.com/debrief-fragmentation  ------ The Ethereum Ecosystem is going through Fragmentation, can we make it more Composable?  We brought on Ethereum researcher Justin Drake to explore this question in detail. We cover deep topics like Universal Synchronous Composability, Shared Sequencing and Based Rollups. Justin explores the solution for which might be Ethereum’s Hardest Challenge and its roadmap. ------ Listen On Yo...

Eigenlayer Q&A with Founder Sreeram Kannan

February 03, 2024 10:35 - 1 hour - 65.7 MB

What are the biggest questions that people have about Eigenlayer?  David sourced these questions from Crypto-Twitter, and will be asking Sreeram LIVE! ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/Podcast  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2  ⁠ 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo  🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYM...

The $JUP Airdrop with Jupiter founder Meow

February 02, 2024 16:30 - 1 hour - 72.5 MB

$JUP has landed, at a shattering $7b valuation.  How did it get to $7B?  Where did it come from?  What does the future have in store for Jupiter?  How will the decentralization of Jupiter begin?  All these questions, and more, with the founder of Jupiter.  ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player:  https://bankless.cc/Podcast  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ...

ROLLUP: 4 Year Cycles | $JUP Airdrop | ETH ETF Rumors

February 02, 2024 11:30 - 53 minutes - 99.9 MB

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What's The Point Of Points? The Next Phase of Airdrops

January 31, 2024 10:30 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MB

What's the point of points?? Why are all the projects developing a points program? How did we find ourselves here? Will they actually turn into tokens? What will the regulators say about it? All of these questions and more are answered on todays episode of Bankless Takes, hopefully you'll get the point. ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙...

207 - Read. Write. Own. | Chris Dixon

January 29, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 80 MB

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/read-write-own-debrief  ------ Chris Dixon of a16z returns to the podcast today to discuss the new book he authored to explain his mental model for understand crypto: Read. Write. Own. Chris is one of the most articulate people we know at explaining crypto - particularly from the lens of crypto as an evolution of the internet. ------ Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast  -----...

ROLLUP: Bitcoin Top? Ethereum's Existential Risk | Restaking Summer Updates | Tornado Cash Trial

January 26, 2024 10:30 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MB

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Tensor - Solana's NFT Marketplace | Ilja & Richard Wu

January 24, 2024 11:30 - 53 minutes - 74 MB

In today’s episode, David is joined by Co-Founder and CEO of Tensor, Ilja Moisejevs and CTO of Tensor, Richard Wu.  The three cover: How the different properties and foundation of Solana impact the product decisions that Richard and Ilja have made at Tensor? What are the first things that someone would notice that's different about Tensor, versus the NFT marketplaces on Ethereum? How did the $JITO airdrop impact the Tensor ecosystem? What about the Tensorians, the native PFP NFT of Tensor…...

206 - Decentralized Science | Brian Armstrong & Patrick Joyce

January 22, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 72.7 MB

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-research-hub  ------ Science is a consensus technology. So is crypto. How can we use crypto to fix science?   We have Brian Armstrong on today to talk about this. Yes, the Brian Amstrong from Coinbase. He’s joined by his co-founder for Research Hub and scientist Patrick Joyce. In this episode, we explore the history of science, the pitfalls of TradFi, and how we can use crypto technology to build bette...

ROLLUP: Bitcoin ETF Updates | Larry Fink Crypto Pilled | Ethereum Roadmap | Airdrops Incoming

January 19, 2024 10:30 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MB

Bankless Weekly Rollup 3rd Week of January, 2024 ----- 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:   🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2  ⁠ 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle  🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo   🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION https://bankless.cc/Toku    ------ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Start 03:40 Markets https://twitter....

Why We're Bullish L2s

January 17, 2024 11:30 - 51 minutes - 70.3 MB

Are L2 tokens worthless governance coins? Will they accrue value? Are L2 tokens bullish? Ryan and David dive into the details in this week’s episode of Bankless Takes.  ----- 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2     ⁠ 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle  ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum   🔗CELO | CEL...

205 - The State Of Ethereum L2s

January 15, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 69.4 MB

We're thrilled to be joined today by Paradigm CTO, Georgios Konstantopoulos and founder of Conduit, Andrew Huang who are on the show today to deliver a masterclass on the state of Ethereum Layer 2s, how they're going, and where they're headed. There's nobody better to take us through this technical and very educational episode on the state of L2s. ----- 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:   🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EX...

ROLLUP: Bitcoin ETF Approved | ETH Moves | EigenLayer Cosmos

January 12, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 129 MB

Bankless Weekly Rollup 2nd Week of 2024  ----- 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2   ⁠ 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle  ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum   🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo   🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION https://bankless.cc/Toku  ------ TIMESTAMPS ...

BTC ETF Approval with Eric Balchunas

January 11, 2024 18:17 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MB

The Bitcoin ETF was just approved. What happens next? How does this change everything? Which ETF can crypto expect next? When? Answers to these questions and so much more!  ----- 🏹 Airdrop Hunter is HERE, join your first HUNT today https://bankless.cc/JoinYourFirstHUNT  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2    ⁠ 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle  ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://ba...

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