Jun 1, 2022
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🎙️ METACAST: Top Crypto Podcasts of May 2022
Here is a quick overview of what we’ve been listening to last month!
- Vitalik Buterin, Dankrad Feist, and Protolambda join Tim Beiko on Bankless to discuss all things Danksharding and Proto-Danksharding.
- Jon Charbonneau, research analyst at Delphi Digital talks about his recent essay titled, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ethereum.”
- Coy Garrison, former counsel to SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce and partner at Steptoe & Johnson, discusses the role of regulation in the crypto industry and what the SEC could be doing to make crypto a better space.
- Cobie, co-founder of Lido and UpOnlyTv, and Chris Burniske, partner at Placeholder Ventures, talk about surviving a crypto bear market, the Terra collapse, lessons they’ve learned from their mistakes, and much more.
- Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon of a16z featured on the Bankless podcast.
- Nic Carter, general partner at Castle Island Venture, Eric Wall, former Chief Investment Officer of Arcane Assets, and Erik Voorhees, founder of ShapeShift, discuss what happened with the TerraUSD (UST) and LUNA fiasco.
- Tascha Che, a founder of Tascha Labs, unpacks the Terra/Luna debacle and reveals what she believes are the five main takeaways from its collapse.
- Jon Wu, head of growth at Aztec Network, recaps a historically chaotic week in the Terra ecosystem.
- Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, and Ben Jones, cofounder and chief scientist at Optimism Foundation, discuss the current state of Ethereum Layer 2s, Optimism’s new governance structure, and why Synthetix chose to build on Optimism.
- The Eternal Optimist with Karl Floersch, the co-founder of Optimism, the Ethereum rollup scaling solution, as well as one of the primary advocates in the space for public goods funding.
- A dive into the Polkadot world with Rob Habermeier from Parity. He covers XCM — the Cross-Consensus Messaging format — and how XCM allows parachains to speak to one another, passing messages through the validators on the relay chain via XCMP Cross-Chain Message Passing.
- In this week’s episode, Anna of Zero Knowledge and co-host Kobi Gurkan chat with Mary Maller, a ZK Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation.
- Julien Niset, co-founder of Argent explores the history of wallet design, the interfaces we use for the decentralized web, the importance of account abstraction, smart contract wallets, and Argent’s bet on ZK rollups.
- Sunny Aggarwal, a co-founder of Osmosis Labs, talks about how Osmosis is being built, the innovations that are coming, the reasons to use app chains, and much more.
- Why Bankless is wrong with Ethan Buchman of Cosmos.
- Robinhood’s Co-Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev announced some major news at Permissionless last month. Robinhood is diving deep into crypto and web3! How so? When’s the big roll-out? Hear all about it and so much more in the interview.
- Jason Han, Founder of GroundX and Klaytn, describes his crypto journey, what attracted him to crypto and founding GroundX.
- Polygon is enabling Instagram to bring NFTs to 2.9B people. And they’re also working with Stripe to allow USDC payments via Polygon. Hear how exactly they plan on doing this, what they plan on building next, how they’re thinking about the bear market, and so much more.
- André Allen Anjos, who is better known as the crypto-friendly artist RAC, and David Greenstein, co-founder of Sound.xyz, a web3 music platform, analyze the current state of the web3 music scene and discuss how artists can leverage web3 tools to get paid at fair market value for their art.
- The Unstoppable Podcast hosts talk to Arthur Camara, one of the founding team members at Dapper Labs and Head of Product — NBA Top Shot, a blockchain-based trading card system.
- Eric Golden, the owner of BAYC #7560 and host of Web3 Breakdowns, discusses the Otherdeed NFT drop that stalled Ethereum and burned over $150 million worth of ether.
- The Unstoppable Podcast hosts are talking to Zhuoxun Yin, Co-Founder and COO of Magic Eden, the leading NFT marketplace on Solana.
- Camila Russo, a founder of The Defiant, is bringing Ethereum to Hollywood with the feature film adaptation of her book “The Infinite Machine.” She joins Bankless to answer some questions about it.
- The Defiant hosts interviewed Yoni Assia, the founder and CEO of Etoro, one of the most successful crypto and stock buying apps on the market with over 27 million users in over 100 countries at the time of recording.
- Chris Winfrey from Hop Protocol tells us all about the launch of the Hop Protocol DAO.
- Practical pluralism with Auryn Macmillan.
- Permissionless 2022 videos have been published.
- Humanode Conference videos are out.
- And much more!
Unchained
- Hester Peirce’s Former Counsel on Terra 2.0, XRP, and a Bitcoin Spot ETF: Coy Garrison, former counsel to SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce and partner at Steptoe & Johnson, discusses the role of regulation in the crypto industry and what the SEC could be doing to make crypto a better space.
- Cobie and Chris Burniske on How to Navigate a Crypto Bear Market: Cobie, co-founder of Lido and UpOnlyTv, and Chris Burniske, partner at Placeholder Ventures, talk about surviving a crypto bear market, the Terra collapse, lessons they’ve learned from their mistakes, and much more.
- The 5 Biggest Lessons From Terra/Luna’s Collapse, According to Tascha Che: Tascha Che, founder of Tascha Labs, unpacks the Terra/Luna debacle and reveals what she believes are the five main takeaways from its collapse.
- Why Terra Collapsed and Whether an Algo Stablecoin Can Ever Succeed: Nic Carter, general partner at Castle Island Venture, Eric Wall, former Chief Investment Officer of Arcane Assets, and Erik Voorhees, founder of ShapeShift, discuss what happened with the TerraUSD (UST) and LUNA fiasco, Do Kwon’s responsibility, the impact on the crypto ecosystem, and much more.
- Did Someone Deliberately Attack Terra/Luna to Kick off a Death Spiral?: Jon Wu, head of growth at Aztec Network, recaps a historically chaotic week in the Terra ecosystem that saw $UST depeg, Anchor depositors flee, and $LUNA fall 99%.
- How Osmosis Is Trying to Improve the Crypto User Experience: Sunny Aggarwal, co-founder of Osmosis Labs, talks about how Osmosis is being built, the innovations that are coming, the reasons to use app chains, and much more.
- Will Optimism’s OP Token Draw People Back to Layer 2s on Ethereum?: Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, and Ben Jones, cofounder and chief scientist at Optimism Foundation, discuss the current state of Ethereum Layer 2s, Optimism’s new governance structure, why Synthetix chose to build on Optimism, and more.
- Should Yuga Labs Have Charged More For Its Otherside NFTs?: Eric Golden, the owner of BAYC #7560 and host of Web3 Breakdowns, discusses the Otherdeed NFT drop that stalled Ethereum and burned over $150 million worth of ether.
- RAC and David Greenstein on Why Music NFTs Are Better Than Spotify: André Allen Anjos, who is better known as the crypto-friendly artist RAC, and David Greenstein, co-founder of Sound.xyz, a web3 music platform, analyze the current state of the web3 music scene and discuss how artists can leverage web3 tools to get paid at fair market value for their art.
The Chopping Block:
- The Chopping Block: Kevin Zhou on Why He Knew Terra Would Crash: Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. On this episode, Kevin Zhou, the CEO of Galois Capital and long-time critic of UST, also joined the conversation.
- The Chopping Block: Did Andre Cronje Pull an Epic Crypto Rug Pull?: Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Robert Leshner, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. On this episode, Andre Cronje, the recently retired (sort of) DeFi developer, also joined the conversation.
Bankless
- Dive into Danksharding | Vitalik, Dankrad, Protolambda, Moderated by Tim Beiko: Vitalik Buterin, Dankrad Feist, and Protolambda join Tim Beiko to discuss all things Danksharding and Proto-Danksharding.
- Guide to the Ethereum Roadmap | Jon Charbonneau of Delphi Digital: Jon Charbonneau, Research Analyst at Delphi Digital joins David to talk about his recent essay titled, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ethereum.”
- Betting the Fund on the Merge | Hal Press, North Rock Digital: What happens when a guy becomes so convicted on ETH that he bets his entire fund on the Ethereum Proof-of-Stake merge? How much alpha is there in the All Core Devs calls? How should YOU play the merge?
- Ethereum’s Hollywood Moment | Camila Russo: Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant, is bringing Ethereum to Hollywood with the feature film adaptation of her fantastic book “The Infinite Machine.” This is the first project of its kind and is gaining speed, recently attaching Scott Free Productions (Ridley Scott’s company) to produce.
- Why Bankless Is Wrong | Ethan Buchman — Cosmos: Ethan Buchman is a fantastic human being, an Internet Biophysicist, Monetary Localist, and Co-Founder at Cosmos. In addition, he is President of the Interchain Foundation.
- Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon of a16z | Reinventing the Internet: Marc Andreessen was a key player in the genesis of the internet. Chris Dixon is the master of Web3 mental models.
- Immutable Live Reveal: Scaling NFTs to a Billion Players with L2/L3: Co-Founder & President, Robbie Ferguson and Co-Founder & CTO, Alex Connolly join the showto reveal something very important: the next chapter of Immutable. Tune in to find out what it is and what it means for the NFT space.
- Instagram Bringing NFTs to 2.9B People | Sandeep & Mihailo, Polygon: Sandeep Nailwal and Mihailo Bjelic are the Co-Founders of Polygon. Polygon is enabling Instagram to bring NFTs to 2.9B people. And that’s not all! They’re also working with Stripe to allow USDC payments via Polygon. Hear how exactly they plan on doing this, what they plan on building next, how they’re thinking about the bear market, and so much more!
- Robinhood’s Crypto Pivot with Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder, CEO: Robinhood’s Co-Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev announced some major news at Permissionless last month. Robinhood is diving deep into crypto and web3! How so? When’s the big roll-out? Hear all about it and so much more in the interview.
- Alpha Leak | The Bull Case for Lyra: Mike Spain is the Co-Founder of Lyra, an options trading protocol accessing the scalability of Layer 2 Ethereum to provide a robust, lightning-fast, and reliable trading experience. David and Mike chat about how Lyra got started, the impact of on-chain options, Lyra’s newest launch — Avalon — and so much more.
- Raoul Pal | Should We Be Scared Right Now?: The current outlook in the markets is… shaky at best. War in Europe. Inflation and political instability in the USA. On top of that, Terra (UST) began its historic plummet — right in the middle of recording this episode.
- Anthony Sassano & Eric Conner | Luna Demise, Bear Survival, Bullish ETH Merge: Anthony, Eric, and David dive into the downfall of Luna, takeaways from the week, bear market survival, and why they’re bullish on the ETH merge.
- UST Luna — The Biggest COLLAPSE in Crypto History: The sketchy outlook in the markets has triggered a run on the UST stablecoin, which began destabilizing in the last several weeks.
- Timeless Wisdom for Crypto Investors | Jim O’Shaughnessy: Jim O’Shaughnessy is a Wall Street legend and the Founder, Chairman, and Co-CIO of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, which has over $6 billion in assets under management.
- The 10k ENS Club with 713.eth & 562.eth | Alpha Leak: Something weird is happening in ENS land. Low-digit ENS numbers are MOONING and people are playing the numbers game! A new org has emerged with ###.ETH ENS names! Tune in to be in the know of what’s happening with the 10k ENS Club, how to get involved, and the bullish plans they have for the future.
- Hop Protocol DAO Launch: Chris Winfrey from Hop Protocol tells us all about the launch of the Hop Protocol DAO.
- The Trillion Dollar L2 Opportunity | Part One: This is part one of a two-part Ryan and David masterclass on the trillion dollar L2 opportunity. L2 summer is right around the corner. Start preparing now.
- The Trillion Dollar L2 Opportunity | Part Two: This is part two of a two part Ryan and David masterclass on the trillion dollar L2 opportunity. A paradigm shift unlike any other is unfolding at this very moment. Countless crypto newcomers wish they started experimenting with parts of space sooner vs. later.
Green Pill:
- Practical Pluralism with Auryn Macmillan:
Layer Zero:
- The Eternal Optimist with Karl Floersch | Layer Zero: Karl Floersch is the co-founder of Optimism, the Ethereum rollup scaling solution, as well as one of the primary advocates in the space for public goods funding.
- Fiskantes Predicts the Next Meta | Layer Zero: With clean takes and tasteful anime, Fiskantes has one of the best degen anon accounts on crypto Twitter. In this episode, they explore the many metagames of crypto and investing like Bitcoin, NFTs, Meme Stocks, and Poker.
- The Astrological Crypto Maven with Maren Altman | Layer Zero: Crypto is a multidisciplinary field. Whether it’s finance, sociology, history, or philosophy — the list goes on. However, what about astrology? Can crypto be predicted using it? Maren makes the case for why. And she’s got the track record to prove it.
- The Alfalfa Podcast | Layer Zero: The Alfalfa Podcast — comprised of Arman Assadi, Nick Urbani, Stephen Cesaro, and Eric Johanson — is the shared mindspace of “four radically moderate internet and finance entrepreneurs.”
Rollups:
- ROLLUP: Build the Dip | GameStop Wallet | Terra Relaunch | PoolTogether Lawsuit — Mint a Pooly
- ROLLUP: 1st In-Person WRU | Permissionless 2022 | Web3 Social | Staking & Wallet Wars
- ROLLUP: Crypto Bear Market? UST Luna Collapse. Instagram NFTs. Coinbase Bankruptcy? Bankless Youtube Ban.
- Is Crypto Dead? Fed Crashes Markets. Bored Ape Land Mint. Hop Airdrop. Solana Down.
Zero Knowledge
- Episode 232: Cutting Edge ZK Research with Mary Maller: In this week’s episode, Anna and co-host Kobi Gurkan chat with Mary Maller, a ZK Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. They cover Mary’s journey into cryptography, her work on trusted setups, universal SNARKs, Plookup tables, the work she and Kobi did on aggregatable DKGs, her work at the EF and more.
- Episode 231: Argent’s Smart Contract Wallet Design with Julien Niset: In this episode, Anna chats with Julien Niset, co-founder of Argent, about crypto wallets. They explore the history of wallet design, the interfaces we use for the decentralized web, the importance of account abstraction, smart contract wallets and Argent’s bet on ZK rollups.
- Episode 230: Designing Optimistic Interoperability with Nomad: Anna catches up with Anna Caroll and James Prestwich from Nomad. Together they explore the Nomad optimistic interoperability solution, how it first was developed, what lessons it takes from previous attempts at interoperability and cross-chain bridging, how the system works and more.
- Episode 229: Going Cross-Chain with Polkadot’s XCM: Anna dives back into the Polkadot world with a friend and occasional co-host Rob Habermeier from Parity. They cover XCM — the Cross-Consensus Messaging format — and how XCM allows parachains to speak to one another, passing messages through the validators on the relay chain via XCMP Cross-Chain Message Passing.
- Episode 228: Catch-up at DevConnect AMS with Tarun, Guillermo and Brendan: Anna catches up with Tarun, Guillermo and Brendan at DevConnect Amsterdam to cover a range of interesting and random topics like how blockchain and AI thinking differs, where it could intersect and how ZK tech could be implemented, how science could benefit from more adversarial testing, why peer review is broken, math theory, takeaways from DevConnect and more!
Blockcrunch
- VBA: The NBA Of The Metaverse With Virtual Basketball Players: Basketball is a sport with 2.2 billion fans worldwide — and the Virtual Basketball Association (VBA) wants to bring them all into crypto. Charles, founder of VBA shares with us: How does VBA compare to other basketball-based video games? Is VBA Play-To-Earn? What can users expect in upcoming & future launches?
- Wassieverse: How a Meme Mobilized Crypto Twitter — 0xbags, Wassieverse, Ep. 198: Every crypto-native must have seen a small green creature appear on their Twitter timeline when others tag @Inversebrah on a Twitter thread. A group of wassie-lovers banded together to bring the green creature to life via a 3D NFT project, Wassieverse.
- The Crypto Big Short: How I Predicted the $50B Luna Collapse — Kevin Zhou, Galois Capital, Ep. 197: $60B in value was wiped from crypto in a few days. Not many saw the collapse of Luna coming — even fewer had the guts to bet on it. Since the start of the year, Galois Capital has been openly calling out for the impending fall of Luna and endured the barrage of hate comments until 8th May 2022 — the day that Luna started death spiraling. Kevin Zhou from Galois Capital shares with us: Why he was convinced LUNA would implode; How he timed his short trade; The 4 high conviction trades Galois has taken; How Terra Luna can recover — and why its current plan doesn’t work.
- NFT trading reimagined? How to trade NFTs using AMM pools — 0xmons, Sudoswap, Ep. 196: Opensea facilitated $14 billion transactions in 2021 and is the largest NFT trading platform. However, users often face platform liveness, high fees and collection censorship issues. What if there was a decentralized alternative that could disrupt Opensea, just like Uniswap did to centralized trading exchanges?
- Everything You Need to Know About Cross-chain Bridges in 2022 — Pranay Mohan, Nomad, Ep. 195: Bridges are critical to an omni-chain future, but the recent bridge hacks totaling $1 billion lost in funds have struck fear in users and many are worried about the security of bridges. Can Nomad’s security-focused bridge be the answer? Founder Pranay shares with us: Is there a difference between bridges and interoperability protocols? What is the interoperability trilemma? What are the different types of bridges available Why is Nomad potentially the safest?
The Unstoppable Podcast
- Building the Largest NFT Marketplace on Solana with Zhuoxun Yin at Magic Eden: In this episode of The Unstoppable Podcast, the hosts are talking to Zhuoxun Yin, Co-Founder and COO of Magic Eden, the leading NFT marketplace on Solana. Zhuoxun is here to talk about NFTs, Solana, and building marketplaces.
- Building NBA Top Shot with Arthur Camara at Dapper Labs: In this episode of The Unstoppable Podcast, the hosts are talking to Arthur Camara. Arthur is one of the founding team members at Dapper Labs and Head of Product — NBA Top Shot, a blockchain-based trading card system.
- Building an NFT Community with Pablo Stanley of Robotos: In this episode of The Unstoppable Podcast, the hosts are talking to Pablo Stanley, a designer, NFT artist, and Founder of Robotos, one of the original NFT collections.
- Elon Musk, Free Speech, and Reputation with Mathew Gould from Unstoppable Domains: In this episode of The Unstoppable Podcast, Unstoppable Domains Founder and CEO Matt Gould talks all about free speech, misinformation, Elon Musk, and how it all comes together in the Web2 and Web3 worlds.
The Defiant
- Yoni Assia on the Rise of Active Trading in a Blockchain-Based World and Building a 27M-User App: A few weeks ago before the crypto world caught fire, the Defiant hosts interviewed Yoni Assia. Yoni is the founder and CEO of Etoro, one of the most successful crypto and stock buying apps on the market with over 27 million users in over 100 countries at the time of recording. Originally founded in 2007, it was one of the pioneering companies to incorporate crypto into its platform as early as 2013. What led Yoni to be so early and where did the idea for Etoro stem from?
- Terra Post Mortem and Future with Kevin Zhou, One of the Few Investors Who Predicted the Crash: Kevin Zhou is the founder of crypto quant fund, Galois Capital and former head of trading at Kraken. It’s been a wild few days in crypto and Kevin is here to help us get our heads around what the hell just happened. We saw Terra, one of the most prominent ecosystems in crypto, effectively disintegrate over less than a week. Its native token Luna had over $40 B in market cap at its peak, and nearly all of it was wiped out while UST, which was supposed to be a stablecoin worth $1 crashed to. It was a historical moment in crypto as never before had a project that big, crash so hard, so quickly. Kevin was one of the few who saw it coming and predicted the fall just a couple of months ago. What were some of the red flags that helped him spot the fallout?
- Crypto Tax Payments and How Web3 Will Revolutionize Democracy with Buenos Aires Innovation Chief: Camila Russo speaks to the Secretary of innovation and digital transformation for the city of Buenos Aires Diego Fernandez. It was announced that all citizens of Buenos Aires will now be eligible to make tax payments via crypto, an initiative that Diego was front and center of. So what does this mean for residents of the city and how will it work in practice? The interview was recorded before Argentina’s central bank effectively banned banks from offering crypto in response to pressure from the IMF.
MISC
- The Erica Show EP49: Jason Han, Founder of GroundX and Klaytn: Jason Han, Founder of GroundX and Klaytn, describes his crypto journey, what attracted him to crypto and in founding GroundX. He also shares challenges on the way, as well as what GroundX/Klaytn was able to achieve throughout the years. He also describes the NFT boom in the Klaytn ecosystem, and why Korean companies wish to mint NFTs on Klaytn. Lastly, Jason explains his personal passions and what’s next for him now that he is officially out of the GroundX CEO role.
- Permissionless 2022 videos are here.
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