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- Weekly Rollup, Oct 9: AI Threatens Crypto Security | Tom Lee Stops Buying ETH | Ethereum L2s Shut Down | Zcash ETFs · Bankless · 9.3k views
- TOKEN2049: Bunker Mode? feat. Balaji & Arthur Hayes Live - The Chopping Block · Unchained · 5.0k views
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chapters (10)
- 11:38ZK engineer origins at Taiko
- 15:32Technical solo founder, stuck shipping
- 19:43Distribution and the mid-curve
- 30:21Hiring: intelligence, agency, harness
- 35:42Model vibes: Opus, Fable, Codex
- 42:08Codebase ergonomics for clankers
- 57:33Why talk-to-your-wallet is still slow
- 1:03:15Kernel-style wallet permissions
- 1:24:37Pool of forks and simulation stack
- 1:36:13Back pressure turns dumb models smart
- TOKEN2049: Bunker Mode? feat. Balaji & Arthur Hayes Live - The Chopping Blockvideo · apps · 5.0k views · 1d ago
chapters (8)
- 0:00Cold open
- 0:31Live at TOKEN2049 with Balaji and Arthur Hayes
- 2:35Why Network School moved to Kazakhstan
- 6:55How to shop for a country
- 15:45OpenAI's math drop and crypto bunker mode
- 21:47What crypto does if the cryptography breaks
- 32:13Blockchains that hack themselves, and Arthur's Flop Network
- 34:28Blast, Abstract, and the L2 shutdowns
chapters (12)
- 0:29Introducing Mike Neuder, a PhD student at Princeton
- 3:47Glamsterdam testing updates
- 6:09How block proposals work today
- 10:27How ePBS changes things
- 17:41Why trusted payments were built into ePBS
- 19:20The role of relays in ePBS
- 25:21The role of MEV-Boost in ePBS
- 31:24Why the focus of ePBS shifted to scalability
- 34:57The free option problem in ePBS
- 55:08What core devs need to know about ePBS
- 56:46What MEV stakeholders need to know about ePBS
- 59:51Was ePBS worth its complexity?
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:51Yields, Oil & Bitcoin
- 9:32Tom Lee Stops Buying ETH
- 19:06AI Threatens Crypto Security
- 31:24Cryptographers Push Back
- 37:00Ethereum L2 Shutdowns
- 41:25Zcash ETF Momentum
- 44:57FinCEN Withdraws Wallet Rules
- 50:22Token2049 Takeaways
chapters (13)
- 1:57Why Justin Drake’s ‘don’t panic’ tweet has crypto eyeing its cryptography
- 6:12Taylor on the MetaMask staking incident and the 0.36 ETH that tipped it off
- 14:03Ben on why even a worst-case ECC break wouldn’t mean instant theft
- 20:04Why Ben thinks TradFi, not crypto, could be the worse place to hold money
- 25:02How AI models went from flubbing 2+2 to formalizing hard math
- 30:451inch: See how LPs can back multiple positions with one token balance at
- 31:49How the NEAR Intents hacker ended up sending the money back
- 37:07ZachXBT went undercover with a DPRK money launderer: what he found
- 51:25Why instant outrage is the tell for launderers and Sybil farmers
- 56:11From Gnosis’s 2017 ICO to Safe, the multisig securing $100B+
- 1:02:23The push for Swiss intervention at Safe and what it actually claims
- 1:08:12Ben on how regulatory fear warped DAOs and why value return matters now
- 1:17:12Blast and Abstract shut down: too many L2s, and never build a wallet
chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:30Is Bitcoin’s Bottom In?
- 10:15Are Crypto Treasury Trades Dying?
- 20:52Does ETH Staking Still Matter?
- 30:35Is Ethereum’s Liquidity Moat Eroding?
- 43:00The Bull Case For Ethereum
- 55:14Can Ethereum Capture More Value?
- 59:22CFTC Opens A New Crypto Path
chapters (10)
- 7:32From 3D printing to Web3
- 10:01Why naming was the missing piece
- 12:303D Hubs and unstoppable creative communities
- 19:54Ashley Book of Knots as a litmus test
- 23:00Companies as software, Ethereum as world computer
- 37:17ERC-8004, 8041, and the 721T adapter
- 40:57adapterscan and passport vs identity
- 48:46IdentityMD, Normies, Loopers, agnt.social
- 1:03:36Alignment is the real bottleneck
- 1:04:55RESTAP and standardizing on 721T in 2026
- Sergey Nazarov: Why Hundreds Of Trillions Of Dollars Are Coming Onchain (Tokenization Supercycle)video · world · 30k views · 7d ago
chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:25Chainlink's Best Sibos Booth Ever
- 4:19Chainlink Is The Interface For Swift Ledger
- 6:14More Chains Means More Chainlink Value
- 8:14DTCC Deeply Integrates Chainlink Data Feeds
- 10:26Chainlink Solves The Digital Twin Problem
- 14:55Tokenization Is Not About Tokens Themselves
- 18:14Laws Will Change Then All Settlement Goes Onchain
- 20:08Fragmentation Is Actually Chainlink's Tailwind
- 22:09Chainlink Solves Each Problem As It Appears
- 24:04Smart Contracts Defined By Sergey
chapters (8)
- 0:00Kain asks why the EF keeps coming back to 2030
- 1:02Why Kain calls Vitalik's essay the most bullish Ethereum read in years
- 3:37Taylor on why Ethereum's bottleneck was never talent
- 6:06Austin on AI implementing an EIP in a weekend after 2028
- 7:26Kain on why the cost of being wrong slows ambitious teams
- 11:05Taylor's case for building and testing instead of debating theory
- 13:46Pablo asks whether Ethereum's real challenge is commercial
- 15:32Why Taylor says apps skipped Ethereum, and why Kain expects them back
- Kalshi Cooked, Bitget Hacked + Agentic Bank Runs - The Chopping Blockvideo · world · 8.3k views · 8d ago
chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:42Bitget loses $387M to North Korea
- 7:08Should chains freeze hacked funds?
- 15:35Chains as laboratories of democracy
- 21:44The hidden premium on janky chains
- 27:13Consensys hacked: is staking still risk-free?
- 30:53Pricing and hedging validator risk
- 40:24Kalshi's perps volume
- 44:17How Kalshi's rebates went awry
- 53:07Apollo's agentic bank runs
- 56:04A banking system built on consumer laziness
- 1:02:46SVB-style runs at agent speed
chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:09Bitcoin Breaks Bearish Structure
- 6:35Bond Yields, Liquidity & Macro Risk
- 22:06Robinhood Goes All-In
- 33:19BitGet Hack & NEAR Permissionless Debate
- 44:23Prediction Markets Head to Court
- 48:29Ethereum’s Cryptographic World Computer
- 56:14AI Agents & Bank Runs
- Is It Time to Buy ENA? Ethena Pay, The Equity Basis Trade, and The Token Cleanupvideo · apps · 3.2k views · 8d ago
chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:33Lito’s background in DeFi
- 10:45What is Ethena Pay?
- 14:14Ethena Pay’s edge as a neobank and stablecoin issuer
- 19:45The mobile app breakthrough for DeFi
- 25:05Competing in the DeFi neobank sector
- 29:41What is Ethena’s new equity basis trade?
- 34:18What other strategies underpin sUSDe yield?
- 36:56ENA token cleanup: buyouts, equity, buybacks, unlocks
- 40:23StablecoinX, the ENA DAT
- 42:47What’s next at Ethena?
- 45:23Ethena Pay's key features and expected launch in US
- 50:26Closing
- Variational Wants to Build the Robinhood of Onchain Tradingvideo · apps · 9.5k views · 10d ago
chapters (15)
- 0:00Broker, Not Exchange
- 5:07Why Brokerage Wins for Retail
- 8:22What Is a Swap?
- 9:58The Real Cost of Trading
- 11:43Bringing TradFi Liquidity Onchain
- 14:44Building Variational
- 23:14From Crypto Traders to Everyone
- 26:42The Next User Base
- 30:35What Actually Happens Onchain?
- 34:00Inside OLP
- 37:03Arbitrum and User Funds
- 39:44The VAR Token and 32% Airdrop
- 42:34Funding the Token Model
- 44:11The 2027 Roadmap
- 47:44Protocol or Platform?
- Joseph Chalom: Ethereum Is The Toll Road To Everything (Larry Fink's Words)video · world · 35k views · 11d ago
chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:11ETH Stuck In The Middle Of Two Theses
- 4:12Ethereum Is The Trust Commodity For Finance
- 6:13ETH Has 50% Of All Stablecoin Activity
- 8:14Agents Will Run Where The Liquidity Is
- 10:33Selling ETH At $1,530
- 12:44Ethereum Is The Internet With Ownership
- 16:00Robinhood Chain Revenue Up 10x ETH Flat
- 18:14Larry Fink on ETH As The Toll Road
- 20:43Internet Had No Token Ethereum Does
- 22:57Regulation Helps Markets Thriv
- 26:32Dot Com Bubble Parallel
- 30:16Only The Internet Compares To Ethereum
- Tom Lee Buys More ETH? Pump Next Leg Up? Vitalik's "World Computer"video · world · 2.6k views · 12d ago
chapters (5)
- 0:00Intro
- 5:00Welcome to The Rollup
- 14:31DIGITAL ASSETS MARKET
- 51:03MARKO JURINA, CEO OF JUMPER
- 1:23:00ROBERTO "RJ" CATALÁN, CO-FOUNDER OF ALIGNED
chapters (22)
- 0:00Opening Weekend Montage
- 2:00Closing Ceremony Introduction
- 2:42Event Participation and Community Stats
- 3:31Workshops, Partners, and Prize Pool
- 4:25Submission Records and Project Trends
- 6:15Continuity Projects and Top Categories
- 9:12Eight Finalist Teams
- 10:41Public Project Showcase
- 11:12Kura Tokenized Trading Card Vault
- 16:49Takarabako Cash-to-Stablecoin Kiosk
- 27:06Omamorei Agent Payment Firewall
- 36:25Patio Station Mempool Media Streaming
- 42:51Yohaku Human-in-the-Loop Agent Market
- 49:40Watermark DAO Treasury Automation
- 56:04Economy ZK Proof of Presence
- 1:06:03Oddsflow Prediction Market Aggregator
- 1:10:56Eight Finalist Demo Recap
- 1:11:22Finalist Benefits and Rewards
- 1:13:02Partner Prize Announcements
- 1:19:35Winner Verification and Payout Timeline
- 1:20:58Thanking the Event Community
- 1:22:19Mumbai and ETHConf 2027 Preview
chapters (30)
- 0:00Introduction and ETHGlobal Mission
- 1:38Nine Years of ETHGlobal Events
- 3:55Returning to Tokyo in 2026
- 4:11Hacker Community and Event Stats
- 5:38Partners and $75,000 Prize Pool
- 6:14Hacking Begins and Team Rules
- 7:51Responsible AI Coding Tools
- 9:29Why AI Should Not Choose Your Idea
- 10:38Continuity Track Overview
- 11:30New and Existing Project Options
- 12:18Private Projects and Open Source Modules
- 13:18Track-Specific Prize Eligibility
- 14:16Venue Access and Attendee Rules
- 15:07Internet and Hotspot Guidance
- 16:08Schedule, Website, and Discord Support
- 17:43Floors, Stages, and Judging Areas
- 18:24Meals, Snacks, and Swag
- 19:13Pragma Access for Hackers
- 20:35Spotlight Alumni Projects
- 21:14Submission Deadline and Judging Tracks
- 22:24Finalist Track and Benefits
- 24:08Deployment and Finalist Requirements
- 25:24Demo Flow and Judging Format
- 27:23Building a Strong Submission
- 28:50Mentors, Support, and Code of Conduct
- 30:04Project IP and Ownership
- 30:571inch Aqua Prize Bounties
- 33:11World ID Prize Bounties
- 34:57Partner Prizes and Technical Resources
- 36:01Team Formation and Happy Hacking
chapters (5)
- 1:20Glamsterdam and Hegota updates
- 9:51Nixo’s stance on issuance
- 19:53Arguments against issuance changes
- 29:53Why EIP-8363 most likely won’t get included in Hegota
- 35:33Christine’s stance on social consensus
- Weekly Rollup, Sep 25: The Bull Market is On? | Zcash & Near | Kalshi Wash Trading | BlackRock Goes Onchainpodcast · 29k views · 15d ago
chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:28Early Bull Confirmed
- 13:23New Bull Market Leaders
- 33:18Rising Yields & the Debasement Trade
- 42:29Kalshi Wash Trading Drama
- 47:57Vitalik Backs Trueo
- 54:37New Tokens & Institutional Crypto Expansion
chapters (32)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:17Meet Kevin Krone and ENSv2
- 0:40What Is Ethereum Name Service?
- 1:03Human-Readable Wallet Addresses
- 1:58ENS as an Onchain Profile
- 2:52ENS Integration Examples
- 4:03Replace Hex Addresses With ENS Names
- 4:22Forward Resolution Across Chains
- 5:12Reverse Resolution and Primary Names
- 5:36Why ENSv2 Redesigns the Protocol
- 6:26From a Flat Registry to a Hierarchy
- 7:13Registry Contracts and Name Labels
- 8:00Moving Subtrees Across the Hierarchy
- 8:13ENSv2 Resolvers and Subname Registries
- 8:35Deploying Custom Resolver Contracts
- 9:35Tokenizing Subnames With Registries
- 10:11Creating Data-Only Subnames
- 11:18When Subname Tokenization Makes Sense
- 11:33Roles and Granular Permissions
- 12:09Soulbound and Transferable Subnames
- 13:40Mutable ERC-1155 Token IDs
- 14:13Protecting Buyers When Permissions Change
- 15:30Why Builders Should Use ENSv2
- 16:10ENSv2 Documentation and Code Examples
- 16:25Permissioned Records for AI Agents
- 17:36Aliasing and Shared Records
- 18:10ENS Namespaces for Agents
- 18:32Building Wallets, Social Apps, and Websites
- 19:14Hackathon Prize Tracks
- 20:04Continuity Track and Sepolia Integration
- 21:14Audits, Migration, and Mainnet Readiness
- 21:39Closing and Final Questions
chapters (26)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:20Meet Jeff Wentworth and Curvegrid
- 1:37How AI Changed Hackathon Development
- 2:14Curvegrid Products and MultiBaas
- 2:54Blockchain Consulting Services
- 3:19NEO Digital Asset Treasury Preview
- 4:16Building for the Tokyo Hackathon
- 4:30A Stablecoin Matsuri Concept
- 5:16Festival Vouchers for Food and Games
- 5:55Sample App Architecture
- 6:47Deploying on the Mizuhiki Testnet
- 7:27Live Stablecoin Voucher Demo
- 8:20Builder Paths and MultiBaas Options
- 9:10Wallet and Smart Contract Model
- 10:29Replacing Clicks With an AI Agent
- 11:16New Chat and Voice Interfaces
- 12:05Keep Private Keys Out of Agents
- 12:26Why Prompts Are Not Security Policies
- 12:57Preserving Human Accountability
- 13:15Policy Engines and Secure Signers
- 14:33Curvegrid Hackathon Prize Tracks
- 15:37Agentic Voucher Purchase Example
- 16:25Separating Prototypes From Security
- 16:45Custody, Authentication, Policy, and Audit
- 17:23Ethereum Settles Value, AI Creates Intent
- 17:37Repositories, Prizes, and Closing
chapters (31)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:31Uniswap Scale and Protocol Activity
- 1:07Overview of the Uniswap Stack
- 1:50How the Uniswap Protocol Evolved
- 2:01Concentrated Liquidity in Uniswap v3
- 2:52Four Generations of Uniswap
- 3:09Uniswap v4 Singleton and Hooks
- 4:01When Hooks Execute
- 4:46Hook Permissions and Lifecycle Flags
- 5:11Starting From the v4 Template
- 5:25Official and Community Hook Libraries
- 5:48Permissioned Pools and Stable Pair Hooks
- 6:21Finding Hooks in the Interface
- 7:15Exploring Available Hook Designs
- 7:53Intent-Based Trading With UniswapX
- 8:18RFQ and Private Market Makers
- 9:00Exclusive Filler Network
- 9:36Continuous Clearing Auctions
- 10:01Transparent Auction Price Formation
- 10:56CCA Launch Examples
- 11:14Using the Uniswap API
- 11:51Permit2 Token Approvals
- 12:28Swap and Cross-Chain Endpoints
- 12:50Liquidity Provisioning Endpoints
- 13:30Utilities, Chains, and Pool State
- 14:12Documentation and Deployments
- 14:54Free API Keys and AI Skills
- 15:48ETHGlobal Tokyo Bounty
- 17:07FEEDBACK.md Submission Requirement
- 18:03Resources and Closing
- 18:45Builder Questions
chapters (38)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:24Workshop Agenda
- 0:49How a Classic Liquidity Pool Works
- 1:20A Trader Swaps Against the Pool
- 1:45Liquidity Fragmentation Across DEXes
- 1:57How Aggregators Improve Trader UX
- 2:29Why Fragmentation Keeps Growing
- 3:10The LP Experience Today
- 3:35Opportunity Cost and Governance
- 4:02High Friction for Moving Funds
- 4:46Incentives That Increase Fragmentation
- 4:59Introducing 1inch Aqua
- 5:25Liquidity Stays in the Wallet
- 6:06Aqua Architecture and Router
- 6:42Applications Built on Aqua
- 7:00Liquidity Strategies
- 7:22Aqua Trade Walkthrough
- 7:43Approvals, Permits, and Aqua Ship
- 8:00Indexing Available Liquidity
- 8:16Quoting a Trade
- 8:31Atomic Settlement From the LP Wallet
- 8:56Benefits for Liquidity Providers
- 9:31Reusing Tokens Across Strategies
- 10:13Handling Simultaneous Traders
- 10:34Oversubscription and Indexer Protection
- 11:06Multiple Applications on Aqua
- 11:19Why 1inch Built SwapVM
- 11:44SwapVM Building Blocks
- 12:07Solidity and Bytecode Comparison
- 13:08External Calls and Oracle Data
- 13:27Custom Opcodes
- 13:54Beyond Automated Market Makers
- 14:17Flash Loan Application Flow
- 14:59Running Strategies in Parallel
- 15:19Benefits for LPs, Users, and Builders
- 15:491inch Aqua Hackathon Bounties
- 16:28Builder Questions
- 17:44Custom Opcode Questions
chapters (36)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:14Meet Mateo Sauton and Aurelien Brezun
- 0:44Why Bots Challenge Online Trust
- 1:38Why Applications Need Proof of Human
- 1:51Privacy-Preserving Unique Human Proof
- 2:33Deepfakes, Sybil Attacks, and Abuse
- 3:13World App and Verification Scale
- 3:40World ID and Zero Knowledge Proofs
- 4:24Orb Verification and Assurance
- 4:47Passport and Identity Credentials
- 5:40Selfie Check for Lower Friction
- 6:09Integrating World ID With IDKit
- 6:37Face Auth and Credential Tiers
- 7:47World ID App and World Money
- 8:29Introducing World ID for Agents
- 8:50Delegating Actions With Agent Kit
- 9:06Human Continuity in the Agentic Economy
- 9:17OIDC Federation and Step-Up Authentication
- 10:25MCP Servers and Human Verification
- 11:18Monad Credits for Verified Humans
- 12:01Developer Documentation and Resources
- 12:34Restaurant Reservation Demo
- 12:53Booking Through an MCP Agent
- 13:15Codex Starts the Reservation
- 14:18World ID Authentication Challenge
- 15:07Stable IDs and Account Deduplication
- 15:39Completing the Booking Flow
- 16:13IDP Access, Sessions, and Agents
- 16:43Testing With Sandbox Identities
- 17:10Primary Login or Step-Up Authentication
- 18:05Builder Questions
- 20:04Preventing Duplicate Email Accounts
- 21:02Supabase Federation
- 21:34OAuth and Sign-In With Ethereum
- 22:00Using World ID Without Names or Emails
- 22:32Pairwise Identifiers Protect Privacy
chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:15How Does Onchain Reinsurance Work?
- 9:43Why Is Reinsurance Yield Different?
- 14:38Where Does The Yield Come From?
- 20:47Turning Reinsurance Into DeFi Collateral
- 26:47What Could Wipe Out Your Yield?
- 34:35Can AI Improve Insurance Underwriting?
- 37:53Does DeFi Leverage Add New Risks?
- 42:45How Big Can Onchain Reinsurance Get?
- 46:28Scaling Beyond Solana
- 50:57Which RWAs Actually Belong Onchain?
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- 6:42Vibe coding vs slop
- 10:22Deterministic AI and comparisons
- 13:15Codex, Claude, and desktop apps
- 19:18American Gladiators for LLM evals
- 23:37Talking to your computer
- 28:14Meta-harnesses and PAI
- 35:49Deploying a live multisig
- 44:49MetaMask, Foundry, and agent signing
- 58:56ENS v2 registries and aliasing
- 1:14:35Hackathons in the AI era
- Guy Young: Why This Is The Biggest Opportunity In Stablecoins Yet (Full Thesis)video · apps · 4.4k views · 19d ago
chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:40Three Years Of Four-Sigma Events
- 2:44Why Build A Neobank
- 4:23Is USDe More Resilient Now
- 7:10Are Stablecoins A National Priority
- 9:47The Dirty VC Coin Problem
- 12:23Buying Out Every Selling Investor
- 13:55Why He Disagrees On Buybacks
- 16:59The Bifurcated Business Model
- Circle CEO: The Entire Financial System Is Coming Onchain (We’re Still Early)video · apps · 7.6k views · 21d ago
chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:10Arc As A New Primitive
- 4:31Jeremy’s Vision
- 6:4415 Years Of Progress
- 8:54Circle Is The Internet Platform For Finance
- 11:01Arc Is Agentic Finance
- 13:04DTCC On Arc
- 15:01$100 Trillion In USDC Transfer Volume
- Weekly Rollup, Sep 18: The Bull Market Test | Clarity Dies | SEC Opens the Door | Hyperliquid Comes Onshorepodcast · 19k views · 22d ago
chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:26Bull Market Signals: BTC, Zcash & Altcoins
- 8:39Macro: Tom Lee, Bonds & the Fed Hike
- 23:43Clarity Act Falls Apart
- 26:27Regulators Fill the Gap: SEC & Tokenized Stocks
- 42:31The Crypto Options Race
- 45:46Hyperliquid Comes Onshore
- 48:38Arc Chain Launches
- 50:50OpenZeppelin Joins S&P Global
- Clarity Failed, Many Stablecoins Debate, Circle Launches Arc & Meta's AI Edge | Weekly Roundupvideo · world · 4.1k views · 22d ago
chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:50Corporate Stablecoin Debate
- 13:03Why The CLARITY Act Failed
- 16:58The SEC Opens Tokenized Markets
- 22:43Who Wins Tokenized Markets?
- 29:06S&P Moves Deeper Into Crypto
- 37:40Can Circle Make Arc Work?
- 46:14Can AI Startups Survive Meta?
- 51:26Polymarket’s War For Talent
- 57:15Content Of The Week
- Clarity Died in the Senate. Does Crypto Even Need a Law Now?video · world · 1.4k views · 22d ago
chapters (10)
- 1:18Why the Clarity Act's cloture vote failed: 'politics beat policy'
- 2:38Scoring Trump's corruption against Nixon and Suharto fuels the ethics fight
- 6:51Election pressure: a lame duck vote and crypto PAC money's next targets
- 11:57Why Cody blames the banks' stablecoin rewards fight for killing Clarity
- 14:351inch Aqua: See how LPs back multiple positions with one token balance at
- 15:23The SEC's new innovation exemption for tokenized stock venues
- 18:28Could 2 years of SEC and CFTC rulemaking replace a crypto law?
- 23:20Why regulators are staying silent on synthetic stock tokens
- 26:46What's left to negotiate: developer liability and stablecoin yield
- 31:14Is the lame duck Clarity's last shot, or could agency rules become permanent?
- John Gillen: Why Ethereum Is Positioned Better Than Bitcoin Right Now (ETH/BTC Setup)video · world · 9.8k views · 22d ago
chapters (4)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:04Not All Digital Assets Are Created Equal
- 3:28Revolut Tokenized Euro Lands On Ethereum
- 5:00Sector By Sector Rules Are Coming
chapters (5)
- 0:00Why Guy built a neobank after DeFi's TVL never beat its 2021 peak
- 5:49Why Guy doesn't see Tether-backed Plasma as a competitor
- 7:21Why 25% of Ethena's headcount now works on Ethena Pay alone
- 8:47Why crypto neobank users are worth 10 times a normal fintech user
- 10:47Why Guy says the crypto user is not that loyal at all
chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:57Can Crypto Break The Holding Pattern?
- 4:54Will The Clarity Act Pass?
- 8:51Is Robinhood Chain Already Cooling?
- 11:58Is The Meme-Equity Meta Here To Stay?
- 17:03Ads (Token 2049)
- 17:57Is Uniswap Robinhood’s Biggest Winner?
- 25:15Who Wins Robinhood’s Lending Race?
- 35:38Can Onchain Perps Compete?
- 43:22The Hidden Tokenized Equity Trade
- 48:58Do Stablecoin Chains Need To Exist?
- 58:07Closing Thoughts
- House Crypto Chair Bryan Steil On Why He Thinks Clarity Passes the Senatevideo · world · 2.0k views · 25d ago
chapters (9)
- 0:00Can the CLARITY Act Get 60 Senate Votes?
- 1:58Is This Crypto’s Dodd-Frank Moment?
- 3:13Could a Change in Congress Threaten Crypto Rules?
- 4:24Why Crypto Could Face a Congressional “Logjam”
- 5:30What Comes After the CLARITY Act?
- 5:49The Bitcoin Strategic Reserve
- 6:14Implementing Stablecoin Regulation
- 6:31Congress Turns Its Attention to AI
- 6:50How the Crypto Industry Should Engage Washington
- Private DeFi Is Coming: Why Privacy Is Ethereum's Next Frontier | Lean Ethereumvideo · protocol · 3.6k views · 25d ago
chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:31Why Ethereum?
- 5:11What is broken with privacy today?
- 6:52What should be private in DeFi?
- 11:50The call for privacy runs deep in Ethereum
- 15:05How Ethereum gets native private transactions by next year
- 20:53The importance of FOCIL for Ethereum
- 26:51When will private DeFi be ready on Ethereum?
- 30:58Network-based privacy vs protocol-based vs wallet-based privacy
- 35:04What is unique about Aztec’s approach to privacy on Ethereum?
- 38:14How will private DeFi on Ethereum compare to Zcash?
- 41:22What will privacy mean for institutional investors?
- 43:36The challenge with network meta data and privacy
- 45:44Lack of privacy today vs future private UX on Ethereum
- 51:22Closing
chapters (9)
- 7:15First job in Ethereum
- 9:32Facebook horse racing and Lyrical Labs
- 15:18The instant wallet and ATECC608
- 17:40BuidlGuidl origins with Mr. D
- 26:50EF, Albert, and Scaffold-ETH
- 35:15The Claude plus Codex harness
- 38:34Blood wallet and meta transactions
- 44:49Live multisig with ClawdBot
- 1:16:17MACI, private voting, and cypherpunk apps
- Sam Kazemian & Raagulan Pathy: Why Neo Banks Are Quietly Selling Themselves (Full Interview)video · apps · 1.2k views · 27d ago
chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:07Stablecoins Growing Independent Of Price
- 4:14Banking Is Being Unbundled Now
- 6:13Stablecoins Eating Traditional Banking Share
- 8:18The World Wants A US Bank Account
- 10:25Genius Act Stablecoin Explosion Chart
- 12:27Robinhood Chain And Tokenized Equity Access
- 14:38Sam Announces New Platform Feature
- 16:39Global KYC Identity Layer Explained
- 18:42One Login Infinite Financial Products
- 20:54Collaboration Not Competition Strategy
- 22:57Genius Act Was The First Domino
- 25:09Everyone Wants Access To US Capital Markets
- 27:11Economies Of Scale Is The Real Moat
- 29:13Neo Banks Throwing Hands Up Daily
- 31:21Neo Bank Wave Now Shaking Out
- 33:22Onboarding Friction Killed Most Neo Banks
- 34:48Trust And Customer Service Build The Moat
chapters (12)
- 9:05Repeat guest, new models burning subs
- 12:17Astra, Fable, and finding real vulns
- 16:04Open source and letting agents rip on security
- 24:22Work as a video game: AI managing humans
- 33:37Lights-off coding and prove-it loops
- 41:58Smithers pattern library
- 50:03Prime Agent and harnesses that write code
- 1:03:26Smithers pivot: JSX eaten by the model
- 1:14:32Ethereum is perfect for AI development
- 1:27:01Agentic L2s and every agent as a node
- 1:31:38Lightning round: speed over quality
- 1:47:11Post-IPO speculative cycle and market structure
chapters (6)
- 1:15Nixo’s career before crypto
- 3:47How to prepare for Glamsterdam
- 6:48Glamsterdam mainnet ETA
- 15:49The Hegota fork scoping process
- 23:14The status of Frame Txs in Hegota
- 33:39Client team funding impacts on Hegota
chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:03Altcoin Season & Degen Debasement Trade
- 16:00Treasury vs. The Bond Market
- 27:31Robinhood Chain & AMC’s Tokenized Stock War
- 40:12OpenAI Math & Privacy Controversy
- 52:30Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP Memecoin
- 55:00MetaMask Split & Ethereum’s Smart Wallet Future
- 1:03:24Clarity Act’s Do-or-Die Vote
chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction to the Stamp App
- 0:20Email Login, Wallets, and NFT Minting
- 0:52How Embedded Wallets Work
- 1:12Submitting a Gasless Transaction
- 1:33Verifying the NFT Mint
- 2:40Connecting Privy to the Starter App
- 3:18Creating a Privy Application
- 3:35Getting the Privy App ID
- 4:04Adding Environment Variables
- 4:34Testing Email Authentication
- 4:50Creating the Embedded Wallet
- 5:28Privy Provider and Workshop Hook
- 6:02Configuring Login Methods
- 6:17Automatic Embedded Wallet Creation
- 6:32Reading Authentication and Wallet State
- 7:11Viewing Wallets in the Dashboard
- 7:38Connecting the Mint Transaction
- 8:07Enabling Gas Sponsorship
- 8:54Allowing Base Sepolia Transactions
- 9:32Using the Transaction Hook
- 10:00The Gas Sponsorship Flag
- 10:40Workshop Recap and Closing
chapters (10)
- 9:05Building a house between agent runs
- 13:02Solo builders and the new social work
- 15:48Juicebox, Revnets, and walking away
- 19:28The AI-hardened V6 sprint and whitehat rescue
- 22:19Same protocol, disposable frontends
- 31:54Codex, Claude, and cord-pulling with Astra
- 38:39Hardware wallets from Amazon parts
- 44:44Varieties of AI psychosis
- 1:05:34Retailism vs UBI and the marketplace of isms
- 1:22:53Claude bot lightning round and Banny studio
- Could Derive V3 Be "The Lighter" of Ethereum's Onchain Options? | DeFi Frontiervideo · apps · 4.3k views · 31d ago
chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:29Derive's building blocks for onchain options
- 7:56How big is the TAM for onchain options?
- 11:28What is Derive V3? A new ZK application
- 16:48Where will V3 launch and why Ethereum seems most likely
- 22:12Could Derive V3 be a zkRollup like Lighter?
- 26:37What is the advantage of onchain options over TradFi?
- 31:47New era of tokenized stocks and RWA markets
- 35:50Onchain options still in the early innings
- 42:16V2 settled billions, V3 is about trillions
- 46:06Closing
chapters (4)
- 9:33Red-teaming Infinex with hundreds of agents
- 20:04Auditing 4,000 old Synthetix contracts
- 33:14Inside the Zobrist harness
- 56:44Managers, message bus, and fan-out
chapters (7)
- 0:00Boner Corner: A meme coin turned into a tokenized-stock pump
- 1:34Why every "BONER" buy routes through a Uniswap V4 pool
- 5:14The $1 billion call that forced Robinhood's original meme-stock halt
- 10:44Austin's shout-out to FOMO's dead-simple buy-and-sell UX
- 13:23Cash in, cash out: why FOMO skipped any-to-any swaps entirely
- 14:46Taylor on FOMO's centralized trade-offs, and why the UX still wins
- 18:58Where Kain and Austin draw the line on custody
chapters (5)
- 3:36Introducing Nixo
- 7:23Introducing Murch
- 10:26Why tune in for Season 2?
- 26:12What topics will be discussed on this season
- 32:21Bitcoin and Ethereum development resources
- Weekly Rollup, Sep 4: Robinhood’s Meme Economy | Solana Cuts Issuance | Saylor’s Comeback | AI Alarmpodcast · 15k views · 36d ago
chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:32Macro Bounce & Treasury-Fed Tug-of-War
- 12:41Saylor’s Bitcoin Comeback
- 17:35Robinhood Meme & Stock Token Mania
- 31:41Ethereum, Solana & the Issuance Vote
- 46:5221 Banks Chase Stablecoins
- 50:44KYC Breach Fallout
- 56:56Astra Raises AI Alarms
- Robinhood Is Proving Distribution Captures Crypto’s Value | Weekly Roundupvideo · world · 5.5k views · 36d ago
chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:46Robinhood Chain’s Billion-Dollar Run Rate
- 5:26Can Memecoins Move Stocks?
- 14:14Why 24/7 Stocks Don’t Scale
- 20:53Who Captures Crypto’s Value?
- 22:01Ads (Token2049, Avalanche Summit)
- 23:41Who Captures Crypto’s Value?
- 28:12Ethena’s Neobank Push
- 32:46Can Crypto Neobanks Actually Scale?
- 38:18Remittances Fight To Own Deposits
- 47:34Hyperliquid’s Path Into America
- 53:41Prediction Markets And Bitcoin
- 58:14Distribution Is Still Crypto’s Moat
- 1:01:01Who Brings Stocks Onchain?
- 1:06:31Content Of The Week
- Can RobinHood Chain Take This Boom? w/ ARB's Steven Goldfedervideo · apps · 1.1k views · 37d ago
chapters (39)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:10Welcome to the Hackathon
- 0:37Meet Angela and the Goal
- 0:56Uniswap by the Numbers
- 1:11More Than the Interface
- 1:52The AMM
- 2:17Uniswap X
- 2:42CCA, the API, and Uniswap AI
- 3:11The Four Protocol Versions
- 3:31Concentrated Liquidity in V3
- 3:56The Singleton Architecture and Hooks
- 4:19How Hooks Work
- 5:09The Before and After Flags
- 5:37Hooks Live on Robinhood Chain
- 6:05The Hook List Repo
- 6:25Permissioned Pools and Dual Pool
- 7:34A Closer Look at Uniswap X
- 8:39The Permissionless Filler Network
- 9:11The CCA Liquidity Launchpad
- 9:46The Uniswap API
- 10:07Permit-Based Approvals
- 10:49The API Endpoints
- 11:14The Improved Error System
- 11:57Token Lists and Pool Info
- 12:00The Deployments JSON
- 12:31Uniswap AI Skills
- 13:25The ETHOnline Open Bounty
- 14:28Resources and Discord
- 14:47Q&A: What Projects to Expect
- 15:56Q&A: Getting Pool Data From the API
- 16:43Q&A: Hooks and Chain Availability
- 17:04Q&A: Arc and Forking for Testing
- 18:18Q&A: Do You Need a Front End
- 19:19Q&A: Where to Find Deployments
- 19:44Q&A: Pool State and Substreams
- 20:35Q&A: Arc Availability
- 21:02Where to Reach the Team
- 21:34Why Not to Delegate Your Idea
- 21:53Closing
chapters (13)
- 0:00What Is Fake World Assets?
- 1:38Making NFTs Fun Again
- 3:55How the FWA Pool Works
- 8:42Why Eric Is Bullish on FWA
- 13:20A Liquidity Layer for NFTs
- 16:00From NFTs to Real-World Assets
- 20:13Pricing, Buybacks and Incentives
- 28:36Custom Pools and New NFT Markets
- 31:57The FWA Token
- 39:06FWAR and a New Way to Launch NFTs
- 48:47What Comes Next for FWA
- 50:12Multichain FWA and the Bigger Vision
- 54:46Closing Thoughts
chapters (9)
- 9:00Intro and background
- 16:34From ConsenSys to Optimism
- 21:32Take the plunge, skip the VC
- 27:57Avoiding harness-maxing
- 32:49Codex over Claude
- 40:20AI psychosis and the Skinner box
- 44:10Cloaked demo: stealth addresses and ENS
- 56:43Browser extension and private dapp connect
- 1:08:05Privacy vs secrecy, and rage-quitting
chapters (10)
- 9:36How Kassandra found crypto via poker bots
- 14:01AI lowering the cypherpunk on-ramp
- 17:10Introducing the Kohaku Initiative and CLI
- 22:39Bag-of-EOAs UX and shielded balances
- 30:07Local nodes, Tor, and private RPCs
- 37:10Live demo: wallet, ENS, stealth meta-address
- 51:05Sending to a stealth address
- 59:51Atomic unshield, Aave loop, reshield
- 1:10:41Wallet of last resort
- 1:15:18Let your agent rip on kohaku-cli
- SharpLink & Lido: Ethereum Doesn't Need To Change Issuance (Here's Why)video · protocol · 11k views · 40d ago
chapters (3)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:11Revenue Meta And Token Holders
- 6:36Is This Focus Overextended
chapters (3)
- 0:00Why Cutler says DeFi composability already beats Interactive Brokers' 77% margin
- 2:13Spot pools vs. perpetual markets: where tokenized stocks actually trade
- 2:59How Arcadia, Bitwise, and others are building on tokenized-stock composability
- Superstate CEO: How Stablecoins Are Setting Up The Biggest Tokenization Boom Yet (Here's Why)video · world · 1.6k views · 42d ago
chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:02Banks Rushing Into Stablecoins?
- 7:20A Hundred Approaches To Tokenization
- 12:25Compliant Tokens That Do DeFi Well
- 16:56From Wild West DeFi To Compliance
- 23:39Why He Left Compound To Start Superstate
- 26:21100% Market Share, Then Some For Tokenized Assets
chapters (9)
- 0:00Acquittal or delay: Roman Storm's retrial slides to April 2027
- 1:39The 'frying pan' theory prosecutors used for money transmission
- 3:17The Berman Amendments: why sanctions can't gag speech
- 5:30Comparing Tornado Cash to the Samurai Wallet prosecution
- 10:21Why Van Valkenburgh calls this a misallocation of resources
- 13:15Hero, not villain: the case for Roman Storm
- 13:40The chilling effect on developers, two years later
- 16:00Kain remembers meeting the Tornado Cash team pre-launch
- 20:51Closing thoughts: wishing for a better path forward
- How Tokenized Stocks Could Undercut Interactive Brokers' 77% Profit Marginvideo · apps · 1.9k views · 43d ago
chapters (6)
- 1:15How Cutler splits tokenized stocks: real backing vs synthetic wrappers
- 4:44Cutler's launch numbers: 25% of AMM volume, $80M traded, 5,000 wallets
- 13:101inch Aqua: back multiple liquidity positions with one wallet balance at
- 13:59Why composability across 9 DeFi protocols is Dromos' biggest draw
- 19:11Cutler on 24/5 oracle risk: weekend price gaps are a feature, not a bug
- 24:23Cutler on the SEC exemption bid and Armstrong's 10%-of-GDP vision
chapters (8)
- 1:26Bessent brands Iran sanctions 'economic D-Day', DeFi not exempt
- 11:15Van Valkenburgh explains the freeze-and-seize rules coming for stablecoins
- 15:18Bessent claims a $1B Iranian crypto rug, but the receipts don't add up
- 25:081inch Aqua: back multiple liquidity positions with one wallet balance at
- 25:50Roman Storm's retrial slips to April as an acquittal motion looms
- 38:24Why Van Valkenburgh calls Tornado Cash's developer a hero, not a villain
- 47:22SEC's 'Reg Crypto' plan opens two new paths to raise ICO-like capital
- 58:07Trump name-drops Hyperliquid, raising hard questions for the CFTC
chapters (11)
- 0:00ETH Systems
- 1:34The Founders
- 5:28Institutional Privacy
- 12:43Real-World Use Cases
- 21:19From Bespoke to Scalable
- 30:22Building the Product
- 33:40Institutions Are Coming
- 35:40The Future of Institutional DeFi
- 40:24Privacy vs Transparency
- 46:51What Ethereum Can Do?
- 49:54Cypherpunks and Institutions
- Aerodrome Co-Founder: What Coinbase Just Did Changes Everything (Here's Why)video · apps · 2.5k views · 45d ago
chapters (6)
- 0:00Intro
- 9:22Coinbase's Wrapped Bitcoin Playbook
- 13:43The Revenue Meta Thesis
- 17:2110% Of Global GDP Onchain
- 24:03Real Ownership Vs Synthetic Tokens
- 26:04Coinbase's Leapfrog Moment Explained
chapters (10)
- 9:42Landing on the show and being in the weights
- 13:35Sabbatical and slopperating
- 17:37Linux, NixOS, and hardware observability
- 30:25Open weights and running models locally
- 32:59GPU economics and compute markets
- 40:18Shelterwood: actors and supervision trees
- 50:40Object capabilities for agent security
- 1:01:23Institutional agents and the open Claude problem
- 1:05:58Decentralized agent swarms and meaning of work
- 1:20:03Stepping back from the EF and AI-written clients
- Will Ethereum Be Quantum Safe? This EF Lead Researcher Says Yes | Lean Ethereumvideo · protocol · 2.7k views · 46d ago
chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:40Background and why focus on Ethereum
- 6:51What is Lean Ethereum?
- 13:58What is the quantum risk to blockchains like Ethereum?
- 17:18How real is the quantum threat? How soon?
- 21:52What resources does a quantum attack actually require?
- 27:01Will users need to migrate to quantum-safe Ethereum?
- 32:51Will Glamsterdam or Hegota help post-quantum Ethereum?
- 34:49Tradeoffs in upgrading to quantum resistance
- 41:56The quantum research team at EF
- 46:28Can AI accelerate this research and the EF strawmap?
- 50:22Is Ethereum on track to be quantum-safe?
- 53:29Closing
chapters (9)
- 0:00Coinbase Brings Tokenized Stocks to Base
- 5:17Permissionless Stocks and the First Assets Going Live
- 10:11Plugging Stocks Into Base DeFi
- 17:52From Tokenized Stocks to Neo Brokerages
- 23:32Crypto as a Global Financial System
- 27:20What Builders Can Create With Onchain Stocks
- 32:04Bringing Every Currency Onchain
- 42:47Jesse’s Role at Base and the Everything Exchange
- 49:50Tokenized Stocks Beyond Base
chapters (17)
- 0:00BitMine’s Rapid March Toward 5% of ETH
- 3:36More Than 60 Consecutive Weeks of ETH Purchases
- 5:29Where BitMine’s Capital Comes From
- 8:27What Happens When BitMine Reaches 5%?
- 13:47Would BitMine Ever Sell Its ETH?
- 15:29Maven and BitMine’s Evolution Beyond a Treasury Company
- 16:52Ethereum’s Next Narrative
- 23:06Does Ethereum Actually Capture Value?
- 29:13Is ETH a Store of Value or a Cash-Flowing Asset?
- 35:19What BitMine Has Learned From Michael Saylor
- 37:42Why BitMine Issued BMNP
- 42:13The Proposal That Could Reduce Staking Yield to Zero
- 47:54Funding Ethereum Foundation Spinouts
- 53:23BitMine’s Role in Ethereum’s Future
- 1:02:14Is AI Crowding Crypto Out of the Market?
- 1:05:11Has the Crypto Market Already Bottomed?
- 1:06:18Tom Lee’s ETH Price Outlook
- SharpLink & Lido: This Changes Everything For ETH Holders (Here's Why)video · protocol · 4.8k views · 47d ago
chapters (4)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:49Permanent Capital Vs Mercenary Capital
- 6:17A Third Of ETH Stays Onchain
- 9:18Institutions Would Flee To Solana
- Post-Quantum Signatures for Blockchains (Dan Boneh)video · protocol · 4.2k views · 49d ago
chapters (15)
- 0:00Why blockchains need to prepare for quantum computers
- 3:05Why Bitcoin may bet on hash-based signatures
- 6:25The “big footgun” in stateful signatures
- 8:58A quantum-safe signature that takes one billion hashes
- 14:13Inside SLH-DSA’s virtual tree
- 20:30How Bitcoin and Ethereum could make the switch
- 23:48What happens when a wallet loses its state?
- 32:47Can threshold signing survive the quantum transition?
- 36:39How to hide lattice cryptography from the blockchain
- 38:49Why threshold one-time signatures seem impossible
- 45:36How context prevents forged signatures
- 49:37The forgotten idea behind Winternitz signatures
- 54:50Turning one-time signatures into threshold signatures
- 1:04:27Will quantum-safe signatures require bigger Bitcoin blocks?
- 1:06:26Abandoned bitcoin and Satoshi’s recovery problem
chapters (13)
- 9:59Meeting the shitposter-builder
- 13:18Vibe coding bad ideas fast
- 18:47Why an order book onchain
- 20:31Deep emissions and market maker incentives
- 26:08Breaking the mold vs base forks
- 32:06Adding SPY, Tesla, SpaceX markets
- 35:34Fast governance and immutable contracts
- 37:24Infra stack: Ponder, Redis, Codex
- 49:47Building the radix tree with AI
- 1:00:05Colossus stablecoin credit cards
- 1:06:49ISO 8583 to EVM translation
- 1:12:51Luck, environment, and earning the cycle
- 1:17:42Ethereum as settlement, app-specific L2s
chapters (11)
- 0:00Why Ethereum Needs Stake Targeting
- 4:27What Actually Breaks With More ETH Staked?
- 9:54The 50% Social Backstop
- 18:24Ethereum’s Protocol vs. Its DeFi Economy
- 21:30Is Staking Crowding Out DeFi?
- 26:19Dilution, Subsidies, and ETH Price
- 35:46Would Lower Rewards Hurt or Help DeFi?
- 49:48What About Tom Lee and Institutional ETH Holders?
- 57:02Does This Hurt Solo Stakers?
- 1:09:01Why EIP-8363 Is So Contentious
- 1:18:10The Final Case for Changing Issuance
chapters (10)
- 8:46Welcome and ETHDenver flashback
- 11:17From AWS and Google to early Uniswap
- 14:36EIP-1559 hot take
- 18:20Building Ekubo on Starknet
- 21:21Why build an agent-first wallet now
- 24:07AI auditors and the cost of security
- 28:55Installing MCP and first agent swap
- 37:20Stateless policies and let-it-rip mode
- 1:10:29Adding liquidity via natural language
- 1:25:05Distribution, AI psychosis, and outro
chapters (9)
- 9:50Bankr origins on Farcaster
- 13:06Hand-writing the first agent
- 13:54Farcaster PMF and coin mania
- 17:53Natural language swaps and safety
- 24:01Agents as the answer to wallet UX
- 33:03DRB and the Grok exploit
- 49:15Self-sovereign money management
- 55:12Deployer's coding stack
- 1:05:30Skills, files, and x402 endpoints