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00:50:03

How To Connect Ethereum's Rollup Clusters

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2024/08/16

Following yesterday's podcast detailing the "Why" we should care about building a connected future for Ethereum, we decided to follow it up with a detailed, technical video on the "How" it will be accomplished. Rollup clusters offer a promising way forward, and in this piece, we’re breaking down exactly how they work and which interoperability solutions are best suited for different jobs. One of our favorite sayings from the modular ecosystem is to "pick the best tool

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00:54:25

Why We Should Care About Ethereum's Future

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2024/08/15

Ethereum's early marketing was focused on building an infinite garden. An open space, for experimentation and innovation of any kind. No walled gardens. No closed systems. No incentive misalignment. That has changed, and its time to talk about how we can adjust our course as a community. Ethereum’s shift towards a rollup-centric roadmap has been imperative for scaling. It’s led to the emergence of rollup clusters like Optimism’s Superchain and Arbitrum Orbit, each creating their own ecosystems

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01:47:37

Chain Abstraction Ecosystem Discussion

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2024/08/14

Chain abstraction is pivotal in shaping the blockchain ecosystem, akin to the early internet's revolutionary HTTP. We explore its role in enhancing interoperability and UX, discussing components like messaging protocols, solvers, and netting processes. We also highlight the potential for seamless coexistence among thousands of blockchains, driven by robust incentives and efficient coordination. Join us as we uncover how chain abstraction could catalyze a new era of decentralized

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00:53:51

The Importance of Chain Signatures & Atomicity

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2024/08/13

Just a few days after we dropped the chain abstraction market map, we come to you with an in-depth podcast about NEAR's chain signatures, which they recently announced as well.As the crypto space continues to grow, so does the need for better ways to connect different blockchains. Proximity, a project born from the NEAR ecosystem, has been working on a solution that could help simplify these connections. Their latest development, Chain Signatures, offers a way for smart contracts to sign

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00:41:22

What Are Epheremal Rollups?

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2024/08/12

Welcome back to another technical deep dive, this time about ephemeral rollups. This idea was originally presented to us a few months back with an idea of "building a chain, launching it, then shutting it down when you're done with it", which was pretty interesting. These 'ephemeral rollups' are designed to be temporary, existing just long enough to handle specific tasks before they are shut down. In this episode, we're spotlighting how MagicBlock is harnessing ephemeral

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00:57:40

How To Unify The Ethereum Community

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2024/08/07

Ethereum is as divided and fragmented as it has ever been. Between rollups, MEV debates, and the lack of performance at the base layer, we are seeing a lot of discourse around abrupt changes.However, is this really something the community can't rally around and form a solution? We think it is. So, in today's pod we dive into an often-overlooked aspect of Ethereum—its marketing and community building from the top down. We were joined by Emmanuel Awosika to discuss how Ethereum's

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00:57:21

Improving UX in The Modular Ecosystem

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2024/08/07

Exploring the next steps for creating a better user experience for the rollup-centric roadmap and modular ecosystem. 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗥: 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘍𝘪 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬, 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳, 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. 𝘈𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘢

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00:51:31

Modular Ecosystem Roadmap 2024-2025

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2024/08/07

In this livestream we dive into the evolution of the modular blockchain ecosystem, focusing on data availability sampling, high TPS chains, and the rise of Celestia. The discussion explores the future of the modular stack, the push for gigabyte blocks, and the need for better user experience and infrastructure. It also highlights the potential of chain abstraction, rollup clusters, and the critical role of trustless, secure interoperability in driving the next wave of innovation. Finally, the

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00:38:29

The New Era of Bitcoin Powered By Starknet

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2024/08/06

Starknet is coming to Bitcoin with one of the biggest breakthroughs in Bitcoin scaling: STARK verifiers natively on Bitcoin.In a recent conversation with Eli Ben-Sasson from StarkWare, we got a closer look at how they’re working to bring STARK verifiers to Bitcoin, something that hasn’t been possible until now. Our discussion was centered around giving the Bitcoin network new capabilities, thanks to the potential reintroduction of OP__CAT, a simple but powerful opcode that will enable advanced

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00:59:56

How Prediction Markets Have Become Crypto's Killer App

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2024/08/01

"Prediction markets are part of phase two of crypto product adoption" - Andrew Young, in today's podcast.If you’ve been following the evolution of DeFi, you know that prediction markets were one of the earliest use cases envisioned for blockchain. But only now, with more robust infrastructure and a larger pool of onchain users, are we beginning to see the full potential of this usecase unfold. Today, we discussed the idea of sports betting as a much larger and more sustainable

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00:52:15

One Rollup or A Million Rollups?

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2024/07/31

There's been an ongoing debate about whether or not we need more L2s. Without getting into too much of where *we* stand, the idea of new, EVM general purpose L2s is certainly in oversupply.But, what about altVM L2s? Like Eclipse and their SVM design? Originally, Eclipse was a strong proponent of modular scaling, advocating for multiple rollups to expand the ecosystem horizontally. But as their research deepened, they’ve seemingly changed messaging towards a different approach—one that

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00:21:00

Lava Network Mainnet: A Fair Launch?

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2024/07/30

Today is the day for Lava Network mainnet, bringing their incentive system of RPC providers to the modular ecosystem. There's been some question marks about the launch strategy, as it was quite different than what the community is used to. We are entering into a new era of token launches and expecting more and more experimentation at the the launch stage. In today's video, we sit down with Yair Cleper to explore the mainnet launch, highlighting how Lava’s unique approach to data access

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00:56:07

How Caldera is Becoming The Distribution Channel for...

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2024/07/25

After an epic announcement of a series A raise as well as a rebrand yesterday, Caldera is positioning itself as the go-to modular vending machine for launching new chains.Does that sound funny? Well, we came up with this analogy minutes before the show and are starting to lean into it. Vending machines allow you to pick any snack to cure your hunger. RaaS providers similarly allow you to pick from a variety of modular infra to build a new chain. Developers can access everything needed to build

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00:45:04

The Next Evolution of Onchain Apps

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2024/07/24

We've heard all the complaints at ETHCC about no applications and "all infra" in crypto. Where are the apps?To us, this is a bit silly seeing as we have a fully fledged onchain DeFi and NFT ecosystems as well as DAOs operating. The apps are here. The usecase is money. But, whats somewhat problematic to us is the lack of innovation on the DeFi rails since 2021-2022. So, we sat down with Bob Baxley to discuss this and more. Bob takes us through the latest in Maverick V2, introducing

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00:55:33

A Holistic View of Ethereum and The Modular Ecosystem

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2024/07/19

We've been of the opinion that the Cosmos Hub and Ethereum rollup-centric roadmap are converging. Both of the scaling methodologies are somewhat opposites (appchains at first vs. baselayer L1 then building vertically), however they seem to be converging.The convergence of roadmaps is particularly interesting because of the challenges faced by Cosmos Zones and the need for upgrades via forking the chain. In today's episode, Andy hosted Ganesh Swamy, founder of Covalent, to discuss this

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00:58:49

ZK Proof Generation & Verification Explained

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2024/07/18

If you've been listening in for a while you understand the idea behind ZKVMs and where we see them fitting into the modular stack. ZKVMs, from what we understand, are mostly focused on proof generation. However, a lesser known part of the ZK "magic" is directly verifying ZK proofs. We're interested in teams lowering the cost and time to verify. So, we sat down with Rob and John of zkVerify to discuss their dedicated blockchain for verifying ZK proofs, significantly reducing the

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00:05:27

Economic Security within the Initia Ecosystem with JB...

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2024/07/16

Economic Security within the Initia Ecosystem with JB from MilkyWay at Interwoven Day 2024 hosted by Initia.

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00:07:02

A Discussion About Breaking Walled Gardens At...

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2024/07/15

A Discussion About Breaking Walled Gardens At Interwoven Day 2024 with

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00:10:25

The landscape of Chain Abstraction with Dean Tribble...

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2024/07/14

Debating the user-centric approach to Chain Abstraction with DeanTribble from Agoric.

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00:03:28

Standards for intra-blockchain communication with...

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2024/07/11

sync or async?Bryan Pellegrino founder of Layer Zero Labs weighs in on the standards for intra-blockchain communication. Listen here:

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