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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:49Is ETH Digital Gold?
- 10:19Bitcoin's Quantum Problem
- 14:01The Case for Zcash
- 19:22The EF Seppuku Lawsuit
- 28:39Jensen and the Alleged Spy
- 37:21Who Gets Honeypotted?
- 44:01Trump on World Liberty
- 48:02McHenry Blames Coinbase
chapters (8)
- 1:50Drew’s background in Ethereum
- 9:50Why Drew gravitated to Ethereum core protocol development
- 16:53Overview of Commit-Boost
- 23:31Concerns about ePBS’ impact on builder centralization
- 33:57How MPBC addresses builder centralization
- 37:25The role of exclusive order flow in builder centralization
- 53:04The drawbacks of MPBC
- 1:01:21The end game for Ethereum’s blockspace market
chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:57Blue Wave: Democrats Sweep Congress
- 3:33$2 Trillion Erased: AI Bubble Popping?
- 7:41Bitcoin Holds the 50-Week: Early Bull Intact?
- 10:59NEAR AI Red
- 11:44Will the Dems Come for Crypto?
- 21:11Binance Hack: The $6B Heist, 7 Days Later
- 27:26THORChain & the Laundering Fight
- 32:49North Korea: Too Close to the Sun?
- 35:45Polygon's Hard Fork & the Validator Bribe
- 38:25How to Rob a Bank: Crypto Was the Getaway Car
- 48:37DevCon 8: Ethereum Post-Quantum by 2028
- 51:17The Ethereum Economic Zone
- 52:57L2Beat Becomes ETHBeat
- 54:08Vitalik's Keynote Controversy
- 58:58Coinbase Earnings & Armstrong's Sell Plan
- 1:02:53STRC Back at $100
chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:22Unchained Survey: complete the listener survey at
- 1:17Bits + Bips: search Bits + Bips and subscribe to our weekly crypto and macro show at
- 1:49The $6B Binance hack and how Tether and Circle froze funds in minutes
- 10:16How the Binance hacker routed $60M in USDT through Aave to borrow ETH
- 14:16Should anyone be able to deposit $1B and borrow all the ETH in one block?
- 23:18Nexo: Generate daily interest on your crypto or borrow funds against your assets at
- 24:00Why Kain ranks the Binance response among crypto's best anti-heist efforts
- 27:51Aave's guardians, risk stewards, and the race against AI exploit agents
- 31:40Why Kain thinks adding complexity is the most dangerous move for Aave
- 37:23Who decides the price? Oracles, tokenized stocks, and Chainlink CRE
- 44:57How an AI model found Synthetix a way to recover 9M stolen SNX
- 54:42How a one-block Ethereum reorg made THORChain double spend mid-hack
- 1:00:41Why Taylor fears the FBI callout could send Thor node operators to prison
- 1:07:24A French bank heist, ZachXBT, and the $30M that couldn't be frozen
chapters (25)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:53From ETHDenver to Ethereum mainnet
- 1:28What is Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC)?
- 1:47Two fields, one idea: is decentralization a cost?
- 4:52Why the blockchain trilemma doesn’t hold for data propagation
- 6:58The validator “paperwork” problem
- 8:38Mainnet results: ~2x faster, ~8x less jitter
- 9:53Why testnet showed 6x and mainnet 2x
- 10:30Who measures performance? A/B tests with validators
- 11:24A sidecar, not a replacement: no consensus changes
- 12:152.4M+ ETH already running Optimum
- 13:21How faster propagation boosts validator APY
- 14:50Biggest users: Everstake, P2P.org and more
- 15:41Speed is money: latency onchain
- 16:23What it means for end users: congestion and gas fees
- 19:17Free for validators, same service for all
- 19:53Business model: products for traders
- 21:41What the trading products will offer
- 22:19Beyond Ethereum: a universal data acceleration layer
- 23:14Decentralization and flex nodes
- 25:28More improvements ahead: “the only limit is the speed of light”
- 25:56The unlock: treating data as numbers
- 27:38From dense papers to real products
- 28:26Is there an Optimum token?
- 29:09Where to learn more
chapters (12)
- 9:00Welcome & Opening Remarks
- 9:30Agent Identity Standards | Prem Makeig
- 10:00The Token Is Standardised. The Institution Isn't: Where Should Ethereum Standards Stop? | Dhruvang Choudhari
- 10:30ERC-8009 & Clear-Signing | Daniel Nagy
- 11:00Verify, authorise, execute: ERC-8126, ERC-8196 and the road to ERC-8004 Final | Leigh Cronian
- 11:30EIP-7702 in Practice for Dapps | Thirumurugan Sivalingam
- 12:10Building Trustless Systems, Together | Simona Serban
- 13:00Lunch & Networking
- 14:00Why Titled Assets Need More Than a Token Standard | Taran Dhillon
- 15:00White Paper Reading: ERC-7930 (Fishbowl) | Rongxin, QZ & Prem Makeig
- 16:00EIP Signal Quiz Game: Applications & ERC Standards
- 17:00EIP Hub Daily Wrap-Up