🎙️ METACAST: Top Crypto Podcasts of October 2020

Here is a quick overview of what we’ve been listening to this month!

• Designing Ethereum with Vitalik Buterin.
• ETH 2.0 AMA with Danny Ryan on ‘Bankless’.
• SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on BitMEX, DeFi and a Token Safe Harbor on ‘Unchained’ podcast.
• Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks on Crypto Banks.
• David Kavazi — Co-Founder and CSO of Paradigm, caught up with Zaki Manian — Head of the Development at Cosmos Network, former Director at Tendermint, Co-Founder of the Iqlusion and CEO of PeggyJV.
• ‘Can Solana Seize Marketshare From Ethereum With Serum?’ with Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX and Alameda Research, and Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs.
• ‘Slaying Moloch’ with Ameen Soleimani & Kevin Owocki.
• ‘What’s Next For Aave?’ with Stani Kulechov on ‘Blockcrunch’.
• Tor Bair of Secret Network on ‘Chain Reaction’.
• Marek Olszewski, co-founder of Celo on ‘The Erica Show’
• In the latest ‘Zero Knowledge’ episode, guest host Tarun Chitra and Anna chat with Alex Svanevik, CEO & cofounder of Nansen.
• Non-Fungible-Tokens talk with Alex Salnikov, co-founder & chief product officer at Rarible.
• John Adler, co-founder of Lazy Ledger and Fuel Labs, compares Optimistic Rollups and ZK Rollups as well as discuss how Ethereum, specifically Eth1, could look over the next few years.
• dYdX founder Antonio Juliano on ‘CryptoTesters’.
• ‘Coinbase in Turmoil: Why Employees Walked Out’ with Frank Chaparro, director of news at The Block.
• CK and David discuss hot stories in Bitcoin, Ethereum and DeFi on ‘POV Crypto’.
• Freelance reporter and audio producer Chris Harland-Dunaway speaks about his long investigative story on Tron founder Justin Sun after his acquisition of BitTorrent on ‘Unconfirmed’.
• And much more!

Unchained/Unconfirmed

Unchained:

• Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks on Crypto Banks
• SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on BitMEX, DeFi and a Token Safe Harbor

• How This DOJ Strike Force Hunts Down Cryptocurrency Criminals with Magistrate judge Zia Faruqui, and Jessi Brooks, assistant U.S. attorney in the national security section at the United States Attorney’s Office
• Can Solana Seize Marketshare From Ethereum With Serum? with Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX and Alameda Research, and Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs

Unconfirmed:

• Willy Woo on Why It’s ‘an Extremely Great Time to Buy Bitcoin’
• What You Need to Know About the DOJ’s Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework with Jessie Liu, partner at Skadden and the former US attorney for the District of Columbia
• Abuse and Ethical Lapses: What Happened When Justin Sun Acquired BitTorrent: Freelance reporter and audio producer Chris Harland-Dunaway speaks about his long investigative story on Tron founder Justin Sun after his acquisition of BitTorrent.
• Coinbase in Turmoil: Why Employees Walked Out with Frank Chaparro, director of news at The Block

Bankless

• Designing Ethereum | Vitalik Buterin

• ETH 2.0 AMA with Danny Ryan

• Weekly Rollups — 2ND WEEK OF OCTOBER
• ROLLUP: 3rd Week of October
• AMA — Felix Feng, CEO of Set Protocol ($INDEX Cooperative, DeFi Pulse partnership)
• SotN#17: RETREATING! w/ Jake Chervinsky (BitMEX REKT, SEC Action, is DeFi safe?)
• The Ownership Economy | Jesse Walden
• Slaying Moloch | Ameen Soleimani & Kevin Owocki
• SotN#19: HARDENING! with Demian Brener from Open Zeppelin
• SotN#19: DRUMROLLING! w/ Jacob Cantele from Metamask, Q3 Token Report, Gradually then Suddenly
• SotN#18: ANTICIPATING! w/ Tim Beiko (EIP1559, ETH 2.0, Elections, market crossroads)

Into the Ether

• EthHub Weekly #136: CFTC Chairman bullish on Ethereum, eth2 deposit contract is close, CirclesUBI launches, BarnBridges attempts to tokenize risk in DeFi, Layer 2 bonanza and a discussion on Ethereum Enhancers

• EthHub Weekly #135: eth2 Zinken is live, John McAfee arrested on tax evasion, EIP-1559 progress, MetaMask has 1mn MAUs, Curve implements zkSync and Index Coop is announced
• EthHub Weekly #134: Rollup centric Ethereum, BitMEX founders charged in US, Eminence exploited by flash loan, POAP launches on xDai chain, RAC’s personal token and George Hotz helping Optimism

Zero Knowledge

• Episode 152: Blockchain analytics with Alex Svanevik from Nansen: In this episode, guest host Tarun Chitra and Anna chat with Alex Svanevik, CEO & cofounder of Nansen. They cover crypto analytics, DeFi analytics as well as discuss the push and pull between a need for privacy and the need for blockchain transparency and data.
• Episode 151: John Adler on Optimistic vs ZK Rollup and the data availability problem: In this episode, the hosts chat with John Adler — co-founder of Lazy Ledger and Fuel Labs. They compare Optimistic Rollups and ZK Rollups as well as discuss how Ethereum, specifically Eth1, could look over the next few years. They also talk about the data availability challenge in blockchains and how Lazy Ledger aims to solve this.
• Episode 150: NFTs & Rarible with Alex Salnikov: Anna continues to dig into the topic of NFTs — That is Non-Fungible-Tokens or unique digital items — with Alex Salnikov, co-founder & chief product officer at Rarible. They talk about the project, the link between NFTs and DeFi concepts, how the NFT space is developing, novel use cases and more.

Epicenter

• Adan — Unraveling MiCA and the New Regulations Threatening Crypto in Europe with Simon Polrot.

• Multicoin Capital — The Thesis-Driven Cryptoasset Investment Firm with Kyle Samani.
• Sögur — The Digital Coin Changing Global Currency for the Better with Ido Sadeh Man.
• Hidden Forces — Uncovering the Hidden Forces of Today’s Society with Demetri Kofinas.

POV Crypto

• Drumrolling the Decaying Dollar (+ an ETH 2.0 chaser): David and Christian discuss how some long-time Bitcoiner thesis have manifest into reality from the COVID pandemic.

• Fight Night — The Rise and Fall of the Dollar: CK and David discuss hot stories in Bitcoin, Ethereum and DeFi.
• Worlds Colide: Dollar vs BitMex; DeFi tokens vs Centralization, Trump vs COVID
• The Rise of Bitcoin Finance w/ Atomic Finance: CK and David host Matthew Black and Tony Cai of Atomic Finance discuss their move from building on BTC and ETH to focusing on BTC only.

Blockcrunch

• Will DeFi Scale on Layer 1 or 2? — Sam Bankman-Fried, Kain Warwick, Ep. 117
• What’s Next For Aave? — Stani Kulechov, Ep. 116

Chain Reaction

• Eric Chen: Injective, The Decentralized Derivatives Exchange Protocol
• Tor Bair: Secret Contracts Go Way Beyond Privacy Coins
• SBF: Arbitrage, A Quant Fund, And Serum’s Ascent
• Richard Kim: Running the World’s Largest Gaming & Interactive Media Fund — Metaverse Musings Ep 06
• Charlie Silver: A Serial Entrepreneur’s Goal To Give Users Control Over Their Data
• Marguerite deCourcelle: Building Towards A Neon Future

The Erica Show

• The Erica Show EP7 — Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX
• The Erica Show EP6 — Marek Olszewski, co-founder of Celo
• The Erica Show EP5 — Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana
• The Erica Show EP4 — Andre Cronje, Architect of Yearn

MISC

• Interview with Zaki Manian — Head of the Development at Cosmos Network:

• DyDx Founder Antonio Juliano on Creating a Decentralized Bitmex — CryptoTesters.
• Multis, Crypto-First Business Banking on Abel’s Abstracts.

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