The Ethereal Podcast
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -The Ethereal Podcast is brought to you by the team behind the Ethereal Summit, a global series of conferences focused on connecting leading developers, companies, and influencers shaping the future of blockchain and Ethereum. In the podcast, we interview the movers and shakers featured on the Ethereal stage. We discuss what they're building and scaling on Ethereum, why it matters, and insights on how you and others can benefit from the technological revolution behind it all. The Ethereal Podcast is hosted by our Ethereal core teammate DeFi Dad, a super-user of all apps, products, and services built on Ethereum.
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Episodes
Episode 10 - Empowering the Creators of Scarce Digital Assets with Mintbase
August 04, 2020 21:22 - 27 minutes - 49.6 MBIn Episode 10 of the Ethereal Podcast, DeFi Dad interviews the CoFounders of Mintbase, Nate Geier and Carolin Wend. Mintbase is an NFT factory for the new virtual economy. One can mint non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using Mintbase, which represent scarce digital goods like artwork. Artists using Mintbase, especially in virtual NFT worlds like Cryptovoxels, can issue traceable, limited edition digital art, as well as other items such as tickets for virtual events. While DeFi has been at the foref...
Episode 9 - Building Unstoppable Atomic Swaps for Bitcoin and Ethereum with Simon Lapscher
July 27, 2020 07:19 - 1 hour - 152 MBIn Episode 9 of the Ethereal Podcast, DeFi Dad interviews the CoFounder of Liquality, Simon Lapscher. The Liquality team built a protocol for enabling trustless cross-chain swaps between Bitcoin and Ethereum. You can use Liquality's swap at https://liquality.io/swap/ to trade BTC for ETH, DAI, USDC or go the other direction to trade back to BTC. Liquality also recently released Liquality Wallet which includes this swap feature, but as in a browser extension wallet, similar to MetaMask but ca...
Episode 8 - How the First Decentralized Perpetual Swap for BTC Launched on Ethereum with Zhuoxun Yin
June 08, 2020 22:36 - 1 hour - 119 MBIn Episode 8 of the Ethereal Podcast, DeFi Dad interviews Head of Strategy and Business Operations at dYdX, Zhuoxun Yin. The dYdX team has been a leader in building the most dominant decentralized margin trading platform on Ethereum. In May 2020, they launched the first decentralized perpetual swap with 10X leverage for BTC-USDC on Ethereum. We discuss with Zhuoxun how dYdX has made it their mission to build more performant products to attract traders to DEXs and how they made the decision t...
Episode 7 - The Future of Bitcoin as an Ethereum Token with Loong Wang
May 28, 2020 18:54 - 1 hour - 120 MBIn Episode 7 of the Ethereal Podcast, DeFi Dad interviews Ren Protocol CoFounder and CTO, Loong Wang. The RenVM aims to provide access to inter-blockchain liquidity for all decentralized applications. It has gained lots of attention from the Ethereum DeFi community for enabling a trustless swap of BTC to renBTC, which is an ERC20 token you can then utilize in Ethereum applications like Uniswap, 1inch.exchange, and Curve Finance, along with the promise of future direct deposits of BTC into le...
Episode 6 - New Protection for DeFi Assets Through Trustless Options Built on Ethereum with Alexis Gauba
April 23, 2020 10:19 - 48 minutes - 89.8 MBIn Episode 6 of the Ethereal Podcast, DeFi Dad interviews CoFounder of Opyn, Alexis Gauba. Alexis and her team launched the first DeFi platform on Ethereum for buying and selling put options for DeFi assets like DAI lent on Compound as well as the first on-chain put options for ETH. It's been a huge leap forward for the Ethereum and DeFi community to be able to essentially use these on-chain put options as insurance against technical (smart contract bugs) and financial risks while also hedgi...
Episode 5 - Why Difficult Conversations in DeFi Now Can Make Us Stronger Later with Chris Blec
April 03, 2020 12:21 - 1 hour - 173 MBIn Episode 5 of the Ethereal Podcast, DeFi Dad interviews Chris Blec, described as DeFi's best friend and toughest critic. Chris has built a reputation as a trusted DeFi (decentralized finance) educator and content creator thanks to a journeyed career as a master storyteller, leading marketing and growth teams at the UFC, TheStreet (cofounded by Jim Cramer of CNBC's Mad Money), and popular politics talkshows. Chris now devotes himself full time to educating others about how to use DeFi thro...
Episode 4 - How VeriLedger Found B2B Product-Market Fit Beyond the Crypto Hype with Megan Knab
March 28, 2020 01:57 - 31 minutes - 58.4 MBIn Episode 4 of the Ethereal Podcast, DeFi Dad interviews the Founder/CEO of VeriLedger, Megan Knab.While Megan was working in the Swallow Cafe in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, she fell down the crypto rabbit hole after her friends mentioned "there's a cryptocurrency company working in this building," which led her to be introduced to the team at ConsenSys. She quit business school, went to her first Devcon in Shanghai, and started working full-time on an Ethereum startup. With her a...
Episode 3 - How Nexus Mutual Built The 1st Successful DeFi Insurance with Hugh Karp
March 19, 2020 18:31 - 59 minutes - 137 MBIn our third episode of the Ethereal Podcast, DeFi Dad interviews the Founder of Nexus Mutual, Hugh Karp. Hugh built Ethereum's first platform for "discretionary cover" to give DeFi users an opportunity to protect their holdings against smart contract risk. After building Nexus throughout the bear market, Nexus Mutual launched in July 2019 and as of March 2020, has had as much as 25,000 ETH worth of Active Coverage, over 22 Claims submitted for smart contract bugs, and 3 successful payouts ...
Episode 2 - How to Scale Ethereum dApps with SKALE's Christine Perry
March 07, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 88.3 MBIn our second episode of the Ethereal Podcast, we interview the VP of Engineering at SKALE Labs, Christine Perry. Christine has an inspiring journey finding her way onto a leading team to bring speed and configurability to Ethereum with SKALE Network. She breaks down how SKALE allows Ethereum developers to build powerful dApps in a decentralized modular cloud, configured to your requirements. We talk about the widely anticipated network launch on Activate, where users will be able to purchase...
Episode 1 - Why MakerDAO's Head of Smart Contracts Dogfoods DAI (feat. Mariano Conti)
March 05, 2020 17:00 - 55 minutes - 126 MBIn our first episode of the Ethereal Podcast, we interview the Head of Smart Contracts at MakerDAO, Mariano Conti. Mariano discusses his humble beginnings as a developer at Maker, before he came to represent one of the most respected community members in Ethereum on the leading team that kicked off the DeFi movement. What's most interesting about Mariano isn't his resume – it's how he practices what he preaches living off of DAI. For years, he has been paid in the DAI, the first decentralize...