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  • On this special episode, we welcome back Sam Kazemian, co-founder of Frax, to dive into the Fraxtal Vision Roadmap. A plan set in 3 phases, introducing token upgrades, AIVM, and becoming the microstrategy of ETH with Frax’s Crypto Strategic Reserve.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction & Background

    03:05 State of Crypto Post-Elections

    08:10 Convos w/ Legislators + Staffers in DC

    11:48 Reflections on Fraxtal and the L2 Playbook

    15:36 Running a Protocol vs an L2

    17:23 The Vision Roadmap: Sovereign Assets and AI Integrations

    18:37 Phase 1: Tokenomic upgrades, The Future of FRAX.

    36:43 Proof of Inference and AI Agents Onchain

    49:18 Retaking on Fraxtal Securing Different VMs

    53:30 Frax: The MicroStrategy of ETH

    1:01:55 The Crypto Strategic Reserve

    1:04:37 Key Takeaways of The Vision Roadmap

    1:06:31 Post-Game

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  • This week, we hosted Lord Pemberton Squigglebop, founder and chief Yeetard of Yeet, an innovative suite of products and games making DeFi more Yeetard-friendly.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction & Background

    04:36 What is Yeet + Game Mechanics

    08:20 Yeet Economics: Prize Pool and Taxes

    13:45 Staking and Unstaking Mechanics

    15:45 The Liquidity Trifecta: The Yeetwheel

    23:20 Yeetard NFTs and Burning Culture

    25:50 Making DeFi Yeetard Friendly + Yeet Bonds

    28:40 Yeet’s Master Plan

    34:10 Exploring Proof of Liquidity

    36:50 Building Social Welfare and Resilience in DeFi

    40:36 Yeeting on Berachain vs Other Chains

    42:51 Building Community on Berachain

    45:46 Yeet’s GTM Strategy

    50:35 TG Bot & Group Yeeting

    54:21 Post-Game Show

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  • This week, the legend himself Jani to dive into the role of Cybernetics in crypto and what it takes to create a meaningful, long-lasting cult(ure).

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction & Background

    06:00 Understanding Cults in a Crypto Context

    08:30 Maintaining Fresh Perspectives

    15:50 Cybernetics, Feedback Loops, and its Role in Crypto

    21:19 Improving Airdrops and Incentivizing High-Value Behaviour

    24:08 Going All In and Leveraging Bong Bears

    32:39 Building The Honey Jar

    36:28 Honeycombs, Integrators and Community Engagement

    40:00 Developing a Cybernetic Culture w/ Honeycombs

    45:00 Cybernetic Culture of Berachain vs Other L1s/L2s

    48:40 The Rise of Honeycomb and Community Dynamics

    50:53 Personas and Social Interactions in Different Spheres

    55:20 A New Definition for Cults

    1:03:05 Sustainably Prioritizing Communities

    1:08:30 Cults As Cybernetic Organizations

    1:10:46 The Key to Long-Lasting Cults

    1:25:42 Post-Game Show

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  • This week, we brought on Chunda McCain to learn more about Nucleus which introduces “Yield by Default” and the financialization of infrastructure risk.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction & Background

    03:44 What was Ion and its evolution into Nucleus

    08:48 Financializing Infrastructure Risks

    11:00 Yield by Default

    15:23 Engaging User Incentives and Infra Revenue Sharing

    19:37 App Chains and Ecosystem-Specific Rollups

    26:09 Are AVS’s Bottlenecks in Restaking?

    30:35 Scaling ETH vs The Rollup-Centric Roadmap

    36:52 Ethereum's Identity and EIP-1559

    39:23 Narratives from Precious Metals to Crypto

    42:15 Nucleus Architecture and User Journey

    46:08 Yield Generation Strategies and Risk Management

    54:38 Default Yield in all Ecosystems

    1:05:05 What Sets Nucleus Apart?

    1:10:50 Post-Game Show

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  • This week, we hosted Thad, co-founder of El Dorado, to discuss the upcoming election and its implications on Crypto and DeFi.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction & Background

    04:00 US Election: Candidates and Their Stance on Crypto

    08:56 The Current Political Landscape

    12:33 Economic Issues: Inflation, Immigration

    18:30 Bull Case for Crypto and The US

    30:00 Crypto Under Different Political Outcomes

    34:00 Political Implications in The Worst-Case Scenario

    43:03 The US Identity Crisis Post-Cold War

    46:30 What is El Dorado and its Vision

    50:00 The Membership Model and Dorito Utility

    1:03:03 Understanding Thorchain and Its Innovations

    1:10:00 Single-Sided Bitcoin Yield w/ El Dorado

    1:14:45 Post-Game Show

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  • This week we hosted Ryan Park, co-founder of Exponents, the first liquidation-free, oracle-less perp dex and explored how Exponents is reimagining market efficiency with its novel mathematical mechanisms.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction & Background

    10:48 Lessons from Anchor

    13:50 What Lido Did Right

    16:46 Distribution + Growth in Terra and Anchor

    19:27 “The End User is Capital”

    22:30 Transitioning from Anchor to Exponents

    28:54 The Liquidation Free, Oracle-less Perp Dex

    34:04 “Spot Arbitrage”, The Lifecycle of a Position

    41:49 Synthetic Positions and Collateralization Mechanism

    50:40 How Does Exponents Work

    1:01:23 Institutional Perspectives on DeFi & Crypto

    1:07:43 The Future of DeFi and Its Value Prop

    1:13:34 Incentivizing Speculation in Crypto Markets

    1:23:15 Building in the Bera Eco

    1:29:29 Post-Game Show

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  • This week, we had on Jordan Prince, an OG Solana dev and co-founder of Metaplex who shared his thoughts on the evolution of the Solana ecosystem and why he believes it could overtake Ethereum's position.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction & Background

    15:25 How L2s have impacted Ethereum

    25:37 The Future of Solana: Flipping ETH?

    30:23 The Hacker House Phenomenon

    41:58 The Birth of Metaplex and Solana NFT Standards

    51:09 EIPs vs Solana Standards

    55:30 The Flaws of DAOs and the Need for Representative Governance

    1:03:35 B&J Studios and Its Role in Innovation

    1:08:50 Memecoins & Market Dynamics

    1:18:41 Solana PVP & Ethereum MEV

    1:23:38 The Solution to L2s: A New Ethereum

    1:26:44 Are New L1s A Threat to Solana?

    1:34:09 The Real Threat to Crypto

    1:42:48 Post-Game Show

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  • This week, Pierre Person is a former French Politician and current founder of the stablecoin protocol Usual Money. He discusses Usual’s novel mechanisms and how it aims to be a fully on-chain Tether.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction & Background

    06:19 Working In French Politics

    9:24 From Politics to Stablecoins

    14:14 What is Usual Money

    20:00 Stablecoin Lifecycle in Usual (Minting USD0)

    22:48 Usual Governance Token Model

    28:12 GTM Strategy (0 to 100 Real Quick)

    33:40 Bridging the Gap Between DeFi and CeFi

    37:50 USD0++ and Speculative Yield

    41:54 Usual’s Mechanism Against Dilution

    44:11 Base Interest Guarantee

    45:45 Withdrawing USD0 from USD0++

    51:35 Token Emissions and Protocol Revenue

    55:45 Regulation and MICA

    1:06:07 Post-Game Show

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  • This week, Charlie Curran dives into how Memecoins are an avant-garde art form and what his experiences in the trenches has been like since the launch of pump(dot)fun.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction & Background

    07:19 From Fashion and Film to Crypto

    10:40 Finding Pump(dot)fun

    13:20 Memecoins vs Culture coins

    15:35 $P*SSYINBIO Lore

    20:55 Community and Cult Formation

    24:00 Cultural Shifts and CT Blindspots

    30:49 Avant-Garde Art and Crypto Culture

    37:10 The Rise of Ball Up Top

    42:46 Ball Up Top Community vs P*SSYINBIO

    47:28 Trying To Fork Culture

    50:30 Ethereum vs Solana

    54:54 Future of Culturecoins & Memecoins

    1:02:07 Celebrities & Memecoins

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  • This week we hosted Kyle Chayka, author of Filterworld. We dive into his key findings on how algorithms flatten culture, impact the crypto industry and more.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction and Background

    03:47 Writing Filterworld

    05:55 Stuck Culture: The Rise of Mainstream Social Internet

    08:00 Understanding How Algorithms Work

    11:35 Different Flavours of Algorithms

    14:47 Flattening

    16:20 TikTok’s Optimized Algorithm

    21:45 The Homogenization of Culture

    22:40 Taste or Algorithmic Recommendations?

    24:37 Platform-Based Cultures

    30:45 Ineffable Taste vs Data-driven Recommendations

    34:00 Sandcastle Platforms & Non-Algo Platforms

    36:17 Better Regulation for Social Networks

    45:00 AI Further Flattening Culture and Creativity

    53:13 Balancing Novelty and Taste in Content Consumption

    56:35 Post-Game Show

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  • This week we invited Reffo, the co-founder of Puffpaw, the only vape-to-earn crypto project with a unique gamified twist.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction and Background

    07:25 Choosing to build on Berachain

    12:12 Vaping-to-quit Tokenomics

    15:00 The Encrypted ‘Smart Vape’

    16:55 3 Core Game Factors

    17:40 What Happens When You Quit?

    20:46 Cutting Out The Middle Men

    22:57 How Vapes Really Work

    28:32 In-House Vape Production

    32:00 GTM and Web3 Onboarding

    36:30 Pitching Vape-to-earn

    40:20 Target Market/Consumer

    41:56 PuffPaw Business Model

    48:59 Berachain Eco

    57:29 Post-Game Show

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  • This week we dive into Initia, a permissionless interwoven system of rollups that aims to support the next generation of appchains.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction and Background

    07:30 The Initia Idea

    10:47 Building a Permissionless Interwoven Ecosystem

    12:15 Initia’s Apple Design Influence

    15:53 The 3 Pillars of Initia

    19:54 Enshrined Liquidity, initUSDC Pool and Fees

    24:48 Rollbacks and Fraud-proofs

    26:16 Instant Bridging w/ MinitiaSwap

    31:35 Building on the L1 vs L2

    34:28 Attracting and Incubating Appchains

    43:00 Aligned Interwoven Projects and Users

    46:39 The Origin of “Interwoven”

    49:37 Community Alignment and Long-Term Success

    51:54 Initia’s Comprehensive Product Suite 55:05

    VIP Program: Rewarding Engagement and Loyalty

    1:08:06 Memetic and Communication Strategy 1:13:24 Post-Game Show

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  • In this week’s episode, Stuti from Kraken Ventures shares her journey into crypto and what winning GTM strategies for stablecoins looks like.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction and Background

    10:00 Go-to-Market Strategies for Stablecoins

    13:00 The Signal Waterfall

    19:09 DeFi Builders and Apps

    21:00 The Brain Surgeons of DeFi

    22:04 Crypto Institutions

    26:19 The Degens

    32:46 General Consumers

    38:25 How to “Stay in The Market”; Long-Term Success

    41:40 Scaling and Competing with Established Stablecoins

    43:14 The Success Metrics of Stablecoin Projects

    51:07 What Does Success Mean?

    54:04 Exploring Potential Angles to Take Market Share

    1:03:04 Post-Game Show

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  • This week we hosted Joey Roth, the founder of Dyad, “The first capital efficient overcollateralized stablecoin”. We dive into Joey’s journey in building DYAD througout the bear and its unique stablecoin design. We dive into the the Kerosene flywheel, building a user friendly platform, how DYAD plans to scale in the future.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction

    03:00 Building Dyad in the Bear Market

    13:30 Introducing DYAD: Enhancing Capital Efficiency

    22:27 The Liquidation Process for Undercollateralized Positions

    29:42 Understanding Notes as NFTs

    33:01 XP Boosts

    36:00 The Secondary Market for Notes

    43:17 The Kerosene Flywheel 45:00 Airdrops

    48:45 Raising the Right Amount of Funding

    49:30 DYAD GTM

    52:33 What a DYAD Anchor would look like

    1:00:18 Solving The Stablecoin Trilemma

    1:06:09 Buying Bananas at The Supermarket w/ DYAD

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  • This week we hosted Anon of Apollo DAO. He shares his origin story, his involvement in the Cosmos ecosystem, and much more. He discusses the challenges he faced during the fall of Terra his spot-on predictions of the collapse of FTX, and what he is up to now in the land of Cosmos.

    Timeline:

    00:00 Introduction and Background

    02:59 Into the Cosmos and Apollo DAO

    10:00 Challenges and Decisions During the Collapse of Terra

    15:00 Navigating Crisis and Rebuilding

    18:07 Skepticism Towards FTX Before Their Collapse

    25:27 Challenges in the Cosmos Ecosystem

    28:35 What Are Conflict of Interests

    30:56 The Need for Transparency and Competition

    36:15 Customizability and Interesting Tech in Cosmos

    45:30 Promising Projects in the Cosmos Ecosystem

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  • In this week’s episode Sam Williams, founder of Arweave & AO, dives into the the concept of permanent storage on blockchains and the importance of user rights in cyberspace. Sam explains how Arweave was built to provide decentralized replication of data sets that can't be easily censored. In addition, Sam shares some spicy takes on Ethereum and restaking.

    Timeline

    00:00 Introduction to Arweave and Permanent Storage

    06:49 The Philosophy of User Rights in Cyberspace 10:45 Ethereum Hot Take

    21:30 The Future of Arweave

    25:36 Introduction to AO and its Approach

    38:02 Building with Purpose and Passion

    41:30 The Technical Details of AO

    49:21 Security and Scalability in AO

    54:34 Payment Options and Conclusion

    56:18 Token Mint Model for Incentivizing Growth

    01:11:35 Rapid Growth in TVL

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  • In this week's episode, Cindy shares her journey from prop trader to builder and all the trials and tribulations that come with being a founder. She goes into what Drift is, how it works, and the future roadmap they have in store.

    Timeline

    00:00 Introduction to Drift and Solana DeFi

    03:04 Building on Solana and the Challenges Faced

    07:21 Early Days of Building on Solana

    09:54 Navigating the Bear Market and Building Through the Dark Times

    18:12 Positioning Drift in the Meme Coin Craze

    21:14 The Inflection Point and Grounded Organic Interest

    26:04 Drift's Vision and Capturing the Entire Asset Lifecycle

    31:11 The Role of Smaller Market Makers in Solana's Liquidity

    33:13 The Liquidity Trifecta 35:42 The Backstop AMM for Less Liquid Markets

    37:27 Just-in-Time Liquidity for Market Orders

    40:32 Lessons Learned from LP Pool Marketing

    43:41 Exploring the Architecture of Drift v3

    46:39 The Ideal Future for Drift's Execution Environment

    53:15 Dealing with the Influx of Airdrop Farmers

    55:32 Drift's Metrics and Future Goals

    58:54 Recommended Guest: FP from Sanctum

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  • In this week's episode, 0xSami reveals the first major news in Redacted's metamorphosis into Dinero with ipxETH, a first-of-its-kind income fund from Nomura's Digital Asset Unit, Laser Digital Group. 0xSami reveals how the collaboration was forged and emphasizes the importance of distribution for DeFi.

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    Timestamps

    02:28 DeFi Growing Up and Recognizing the Market

    05:22 Introducing ipxETH: An Institutional Staked ETH Income Fund

    08:54 Going the Institutional Route to Scale and Onboard Capital

    16:03 How ipxETH is Structured

    25:34 Building the Rails for Institutional Capital

    33:38 DINERO Token Migration

    43:17 Separate Tokens and Distribution of Yield

    48:37 Distribution Strategy for Dinero

    51:46 Vision for Dinero

    54:00 Berachain Updates

  • Watch the full EP to dive into how Ostium is bringing the “perpification” of RWAs to the masses 🥇

    Timestamps

    00:00 Introduction and Background

    15:08 Tokenization vs. Purpification

    21:12 Focus on FX, Commodities, and Indices

    26:12 The Role of Oracles

    28:35 Building Ostium’s Oracles

    35:09 Consensus and Verification

    38:33 Settlement in Ostium

    45:41 Challenges in Scaling RWA Perp Dex’s

    54:16 Integrating Interest-Bearing Assets

    56:01 Starting with the Basics and Adding Complexity

    58:30 Building a Trustless and Decentralized System

    01:06:16 Upcoming Launch and Partnerships

    01:09:43 Go-to-Market Strategy

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  • Jay from Royco discusses the background and motivation behind the creation of Royco. He shares his journey in the DeFi space and how it led to the development of Rari Capital and eventually Royco which aims to bring efficiency to liquidity on-chain by creating a two-sided marketplace for liquidity providers and seekers. Royco is set to launch soon, and the team is focused on finalizing the protocol.

    Timeline

    00:00 Introduction and Background

    06:25 Creating Efficiency in On-Chain Liquidity

    10:21 The Order Book for Yielding Opportunities

    21:41 Expanding Use Cases for Royco

    28:51 The Developer Ecosystem and Future Opportunities

    32:19 Liquid Staked Bribe Tokens and Efficiency

    35:12 Segmentation of Liquidity Profiles

    36:24 The Open Liquidity Graph

    37:52 The Value of Royco Integration for Protocols

    39:29 Worrying about Demand on the Liquidity Provider Side

    41:09 Bringing Back DeFi Summer with Royco

    46:18 Abstracting Negotiation with Royco

    47:46 The Role of Institutions in DeFi

    49:02 Capturing the Internet Economy

    53:27 Expanding DeFi from Within

    56:01 The Importance of Focusing on the Internet

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