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Safe: Securing $100 Billion of Crypto Assets - Lucas Schor
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - April 18, 2024 14:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWhat started out as a plan to build prediction markets, Gnosis ended up building crucial Ethereum infrastructure and tooling. Safe is one of its many successes, which originated during the 2017 ICO mania, as a solution for managing the raised capital securely, via a multi-sig. Even back then, th...
Saga: 'Ethereum and Solana CAN NOT Scale. Our Chainlets Fix This!' - Rebecca Liao
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - April 11, 2024 14:21 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsOne of the most important hurdles to mass adoption is represented by blockchain scalability, which also hinders the real-life utility of its numerous applications. While there are different solutions being experimented with, one should not overlook the importance of security and decentralisation...
Movement Labs: 'Facebook's MOVE Will Bring Billions of Users to Crypto' - Rushi Manche
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - April 06, 2024 09:16 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsClassical, monolithic blockchains are inherently limited in their throughput due to their single-thread execution architecture. Modern VMs attempt to solve this issue through parallelisation being implemented from the get-go. Movement Labs employs the Move-VM to build a ZK L2 rollups on Ethereum...
Wintermute: 'Avoid These Trading Mistakes!' Secrets of a Market Maker - Yoann Turpin
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - March 30, 2024 09:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsMarket makers help create more efficient markets and liquid order books, by positioning themselves on the receiving end of a trade that other market participants are unwilling to fill. Quantitative analysis is crucial in determining their position and size. Wintermute defines itself as a tech-fi...
Gearbox Protocol: 'DeFi Is Boring, Let's Reinvent Credit' - Ivan & Mikael Lazarev
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - March 23, 2024 08:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsCredit is a widely used term, which could essentially be summarised as “more capital so you can do whatever you want”. In DeFi, there are numerous ways of getting exposure to an asset in a leveraged manner: from looping to perpetuals and margin trading, the possibilities are endless (especially ...
Humayun Sheikh: Fetch AI – Decentralising AI Economies
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - March 16, 2024 10:54 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWhile large language models (LLMs) are rather passive from an economic perspective on their own, AI agents offer a preview of what truly autonomous AI applications can achieve. Fetch.ai aims to create a platform for economic interactions in the AI economy, where participants can provide many dif...
Jasper De Goojier: SEDA – Intent-Based Modular Data Layer
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - March 09, 2024 10:52 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsAs technology progresses, infrastructure should be commoditised, especially in Web3, in order to avoid the creation of bottlenecks and gatekeepers. Blockchains are naturally oblivious to off-chain data, so they need oracles to fetch data. However, given their past technical limitations, oracles ...
Anish Mohammed: Panther Protocol – Zero-Knowledge Compliant Privacy in DeFi
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - March 02, 2024 09:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsBlockchains are, by default, public ledgers containing every transaction recorded by the network. While this ensures transparency, it also violates users’ privacy once an address is linked to an entity. Apart from creating additional risk for self-custody, institutions are also limited by what t...
Gil Binder & Yair Cleper: Lava Network – Decentralising RPC and Node Providers
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - February 23, 2024 20:43 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsThe monolithic blockchain era appears to be sunsetting. Among the first to contribute to this paradigm shift was Cosmos, which introduced the idea of specialized sovereign blockchains (appchains), made possible by the Cosmos SDK. Nowadays, the modular thesis employs external data availability an...
Zhiming Yang: Orbit Markets – Crypto Derivatives and Structured Products
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - February 17, 2024 10:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsProlonged range bound markets are a hallmark of bearmarkets and they usually end up chopping inexperienced or over leveraged traders. Customised structured products offer a solution for market participants that want to limit their downside, but also the upside, by introducing knock-outs at certa...
David Goldberg: Founders Pledge – Maximising Charity Efficiency & Impact
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - February 10, 2024 02:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsMeasuring the social impact of a charitable donation is, oftentimes, an impossible task. Founders Pledge is a non-profit organisation that aims to funnel and streamline donations from successful entrepreneurs in order to maximise their efficiency, based on data and research. Having built a netwo...
Lefteris Karapetsas: Rotki – From Ethereum Devcon 0 to Building Rotki
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - February 03, 2024 10:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWe are, arguably, still early in the crypto industry, but some people were really…really early. One of them is Lefteris Karapetsas, who joined EthDev in 2014 and contributed to building the Ethereum ecosystem, since before the genesis block. His crypto journey is one for the history books, as af...
David Minarsch: Autonolas – Autonomous AI Agents
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - January 27, 2024 09:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsThe Autonolas stack aims to address the ‘A’ in DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation), through its Open Autonomy framework, which enables the creation of autonomous, off-chain services for crypto applications. A key component for ensuring the proper operation of these off-chain autonomous e...
Andreas Tsamados & Vijay Krishnavanshi: Fileverse: A Trustless Stack to Decentralize Knowledge and Collaboration
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - January 19, 2024 16:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWeb2 file storage relies heavily on centralised entities, which have mostly outgrown their competitors, establishing a quasi-monopoly. The reasons for this are twofold: enormous operating costs and seamless user experience (e.g. social logins and account recovery), which, until recently, could o...
Andreas Tsamados & Vijay Krishnavanshi: Fileverse – Decentralised P2P File Sharing
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - January 19, 2024 16:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWeb2 file storage relies heavily on centralised entities, which have mostly outgrown their competitors, establishing a quasi-monopoly. The reasons for this are twofold: enormous operating costs and seamless user experience (e.g. social logins and account recovery), which, until recently, could o...
Guy Itzhaki & Guy Zyskind: Fhenix – FHE-powered End-to-End Encrypted Ethereum L2
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - January 12, 2024 13:15 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsFully homomorphic encryption, also known as the Holy Grail of cryptography, allows for computation to be performed on encrypted data, without the need for prior decryption. Its blockchain applications would enable programmable, institutional-grade, compliant privacy. With the addition of fhEVM l...
Illia Polosukhin: Near Protocol – From AI to High-Throughput Blockchain
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - January 06, 2024 16:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWhat 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 design was inspired by modern database architecture and large language model (LLM) training. Near Protocol aimed to solve the scalability trilemma, ...
Isidoros Passadis: Lido DAO – Staking Decentralisation for Ethereum and LSTs in DeFi
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - December 30, 2023 15:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsAs Ethereum ‘merged’ to its current proof-of-stake consensus model, the steep (for retail) minimum stake of 32 ETH created a serious risk of centralisation through staking delegation to centralised entities. Lido DAO was envisioned to preserve staking decentralisation, while also providing addit...
Epicenter - 10-Year Anniversary Livestream
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - December 23, 2023 20:36 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 143 ratings10 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 podcast scene. Among many applicants, Sebastien and Brian were the only 2 Europeans, so Adam suggested that they teamed up in order to record the pilot episo...
Aki Balogh: DLC Link – Self-Wrapped Bitcoin (dlcBTC)
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - December 16, 2023 09:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsgnosis.ioUnlike Ethereum ‘programmable money’, Bitcoin lacks native smart contracts by design. In an attempt to expand Bitcoin past its store of value narrative, wrapper contracts provided wBTC on other chains for DeFi applications. However, wBTC does not directly represent the native asset and ...
Yat Siu: Animoca Brands – From NFTs & Blockchain Gaming to the Open Metaverse
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - December 09, 2023 10:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWhen it comes to NFTs and blockchain gaming, very few companies can rival with Animoca Brands’ early conviction, investment thesis and time horizon. They understood early on that community building and network effects are the core pillars for a true paradigm shift in gaming. However, culture and...
Marek Olszewski & Rene Reinsberg: Celo – The Mobile-First High-Throughput Blockchain
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - December 01, 2023 11:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWith 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 those that need it the most. Celo’s vision of ensuring equal access is reflected through their mobile-first design, aiming to disrupt legacy TradFi....
Rand Hindi: Zama - Fully Homomorphic Encryption in Blockchain Applications & Privacy
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - November 24, 2023 12:15 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsHomo- (Greek prefix meaning ‘same’); -morphic (Greek suffix meaning ‘having a specific shape/form’) Intuitively, one could deduct that homomorphic encryption indicates that the initial data and the encrypted result (cipher) could share the same form. Based on this property, it can be inferred th...
Ye Zhang: Scroll - EVM-compatible ZK rollup
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - November 18, 2023 10:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratings"The advancements of zero knowledge proving technology, hardware acceleration and proof recursion have significantly increased the efficiency of EVM-compatible zk provers. As a result, the former tradeoff in efficiency implied by EVM-compatibility is gradually improving. Translating Ethereum’s v...
Charles d'Haussy: dYdX V4 - Decentralised Perpetual Exchange on a Cosmos Appchain
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - November 10, 2023 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsLeading decentralised perpetual exchange, dYdX V4 recently migrated to Cosmos to build its own sovereign appchain, in order to provide its users a much better trading experience, while continuing to deliver DeFi innovations (e.g. permisionless markets). By having full control over the appchain’s...
Nick Johnson: ENS - Multichain ENS Domains and Decentralised Identities
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - November 04, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsThe very nature of Ethereum addresses, expressed as random hexadecimal character strings, represents a big hurdle for mass adoption, as they are not human-readable. ENS domains were envisioned to not only solve this and provide a seamless UX, but to also be the cornerstone of on-chain identities...
Simon Harman: Chainflip - Native cross-chain AMM
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - October 27, 2023 22:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsWhile competition fosters innovation, the proliferation of different blockchains has resulted in the fragmentation and isolation of liquidity within each ecosystem. Early attempts to address this issue primarily involved bridges and wrapped assets. Unfortunately, these solutions were often vulne...
Guy Young: Ethena - USDe Synthetic Dollar via Delta-Neutral Staked Ethereum Hedging
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - October 20, 2023 19:16 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsStablecoins represent a safe haven against crypto’s volatility, allowing participants to remain in the market, without off-ramping to fiat. While the major stablecoins are centrally issued (e.g. USDT, USDC, BUSD), there is a pressing need for an algorithmic variant or a synthetic dollar asset. (...
Evgeny Yurtaev: Zerion - Web3 Wallet UX 2.0
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - October 13, 2023 19:44 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsOne of the best known memes in crypto is: 'Not your keys, not your coins'. This usually resurfaces whenever a (custodial) centralised exchange is hacked or goes bust altogether. Although Web3 provides the infrastructure for self custody, this often shares the fate of Pandora. Self-custody requir...
Niklas Kunkel: Chronicle – Ethereum's First-Ever Oracle
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies - October 06, 2023 16:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsBack 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. The backbone of DeFi is represented by stable coins, and MakerDAO quickly understood this: they set out to build a decentralised stable coin, $DAI ...
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