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Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies
Epicenter brings you in-depth conversations about the technical, economic and social implications of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. Every week, we interview business leaders, engineers academics and entrepreneurs, and bring you a diverse spectrum of opinions and points of view. Epic...
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Noble: Solving Crypto's Liquidity Problem, One Chain at a Time - Jelena Djuric
In this episode, Sebastien is joined by Jelena Djuric, co-founder of Noble, a generic asset issuance chain built for the Cosmos ecosystem. Jelena shar...
Benjamin Sarquis Peillard: Cap Labs – Insured Yield & the Future of Stablecoins
In this episode, Sebastien Couture is joined by Benjamin, the founder of CAP, a stablecoin protocol designed to provide insured yield. The protocol fe...
Mento: Onchain FX Markets - Decentralising World Currencies - Markus Franke
TradFi FX markets are slow, expensive and often lack liquidity for direct swaps between different world currencies, having to route through USD pairs....
f(x) Protocol: Decentralized Yield-Bearing Stablecoin & 0-Liquidation Perp - Cyrille Brière
Without a doubt, the introduction of stablecoins has vastly increased overall crypto liquidity, adoption and real-world use cases as they offered a sa...
Euler: The DeFi Super App - Michael Bentley
Euler is a DeFi lending protocol built around the idea of permissionless modularity, enabling users to lend and borrow almost any crypto asset with fl...
Zama: FHE - the Holy Grail of Blockchain Privacy - Rand Hindi
Blockchains operate as a public ledger, ‘disclosing’ the entire transaction history and associated data to everyone. While verifiability and traceabil...
Pareto: Customizable On-Chain Private Credit Marketplace - Matteo Pandolfi
Built primarily for institutional-grade clients, Pareto delivers customizable on-chain credit markets designed to expand DeFi liquidity and TradFi to...
Lagrange: ZK-Proving AI Alignment - Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh
In an age when AI models are becoming exponentially more sophisticated and powerful, how does one ensure that proper results are being generated and t...
Zorp: Nockchain's ZK Proof-of-Useful-Work Consensus - Logan Allen
Inspired by Urbit’s minimal assembly language, Nockchain fuses Urbit’s vision of sovereign computing with a novel proof-of-useful-work consensus mecha...
UMA & Across: Optimistic Oracles & Intent-Based Bridges for Unifying Ethereum - Hart Lambur
Universal Market Access (UMA) was founded by 2 ex Goldman Sachs traders that wanted to make global markets universally accessible through financial sm...
Dragonfly: The Secrets of a Top-Tier Crypto VC - Haseeb Qureshi
Founded in 2018, Dragonfly has quickly become one of the most prestigious crypto VCs. Dragonfly was one of the first to adopt a global approach to bac...
Near One: Scaling the Agentic Internet. AI X Crypto - Bowen Wang
‘Attention Is All You Need’, co-wrote by Illia Polosukhin in 2017, laid the foundation for arguably one of the most consequential tech breakthroughs i...
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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, The [LAST] Steward of Decentralisation
The tradition of Epicenter x Vitalik Buterin continued this year as well at EthCC[8], where we got the chance of picking his brain about recent resear...
Stripe: The Stablecoin (R)Evolution - John Egan
Stripe has established itself as a leading payment solution for both enterprises as well as startups and individual sellers. By abstracting away all t...
t1 Protocol: Unifying Ethereum's L2 Liquidity Through Real-Time Proving - Can Kisagun
While L2 rollups did help scale Ethereum, they also created siloed ecosystems, all fighting over the same liquidity, users and devs. t1 Protocol is bu...
DappCon 25: The Ticker Is $ETH - Jerome de Tychey, Joshua Dávila & Nixorokish
As the summer tour of European crypto conferences landed in Berlin, one of crypto’s cradles, we couldn’t miss DappCon 25, where we got to sit with Jer...
Lombard: Unlocking Bitcoin DeFi Through Liquid, Yield-Bearing LBTC - Jacob Phillips
Bitcoin remains an untapped source of net-new liquidity that could be injected into DeFi. This would completely reshape Bitcoin’s utilization from a m...
Staking Rewards: Is Crypto Staking Killing Decentralisation? - Mirko Schmiedl & Tobias Jung
Apart from incentivising market participants to secure the network through inflationary rewards, many consider staking as an equivalent of stock divid...
ETHPrague: ETH Renaissance - Austin Griffith, Brenda Loya, Joseph Schweitzer, Marek Olszewski
After a decade of existence, Ethereum has gone a long way from its initial whitepaper, yet many efforts in scaling and finding product-market-fit have...
The Multi-Chain Avalanche - Emin Gün Sirer
We couldn’t miss the Avalanche Summit where we sat down with Emin Gün Sirer, co-founder & CEO of Ava Labs, to discuss the evolution of Avalanche’s eco...
Initia: Incentively Aligned Appchains - Ezaan Mangalji, Anil Lulla & Jose Maria Macedo
Blockchain architecture is constantly being forced to adapt to new technologies, as well as to meet new demands from users and builders. While the ide...
Ethereum Foundation: Humanity’s Shared World Computer - Hsiao-Wei Wang & Tomasz Stańczak
As society evolves, so do its values and principles, but is that desirable for technology that seeks to build the most reliable, trustless and censors...
Taiko: Scaling Ethereum in a Decentralised Manner - Joaquin Mendes
Taiko is a decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent (type I) rollup scaling solution which uses ZK technology. Taiko's goal is to scale Ethereum efficiently...
Mysten Labs: How Sui Leverages Move to Build the Composable Web3nternet - Adeniyi Abiodun
Founded by former Meta Diem team members, Sui is a high-performance, layer-1 blockchain designed for horizontal scaling and low-latency transactions....
Maple Finance: On-Chain Institutional Yield & Lending Markets - Sidney Powell
With an extensive experience in traditional money markets, Maple Finance was envisioned as an institutional capital marketplace which combines the tra...
Tally: The Software Layer for Tokenized Organizations - Dennison Bertram
Tally is a software platform designed to support tokenized organizations, particularly Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and crypto commun...
ENS V2 Cross-Chain Domains & Namechain - Nick Johnson
Namechain is an L2 developed by ENS Labs, to enhance the scalability and efficiency of managing decentralized identities on Ethereum. It is designed t...
Lido V3: Ushering in Institutional Staking Through stVaults - Hasu
Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake created a unique set of conditions (i.e. lack of protocol-level delegation, 32 ETH requirem...
Ronin: How Axie Infinity Kickstarted the Blockchain Gaming Revolution - Jeff Zirlin
While DeFi’s ultimate goal is to provide an alternative for TradFi, blockchain gaming caters to retail masses, onboarding millions of users to crypto...
Solana: From On-Chain Nasdaq to the Pump Fun Craze - Anatoly Yakovenko
Solana needs no introduction. Ever since its inception, it pushed throughput scaling on a single chain, without the need of sharding or rollups. Despi...
Build on Bitcoin: Combining Bitcoin's Security With Ethereum's Versatility - Alexei Zamyatin
Bitcoin’s security and reliability as a store of value are undeniable. However, its liquidity remained untapped for too long due to a lack of trustles...
Puja Ohlhaver: Why Community Currencies Are Crucial for Governance in DeSoc
In the digital networked age, people’s attention often overlooks local problems in favour of global ones, which don’t necessarily impact them in their...
Nevermined: Payment System for the AI Agentic Economy - Don Gossen
Even though current LLM providers usually charge flat rates regardless if the subscriber is a ‘power user’ or not, as AI agents become the workhorses...
Turtle Club: Helping Web3 Users Monetize Their On-Chain Activity - Esfandiar Lagevardi
As more and more protocols compete for marketshare, user acquisition represents one of the most important elements of the GTM strategy. Web3 projects,...
Story Protocol: Tokenizing Intelligence Into Programmable IP Assets - Jason Zhao
As online content becomes predominantly AI-driven, intellectual property (IP) rights should not be neglected as (human) creators will heavily rely on...
Balancer: Custom AMMs and Liquidity Solutions - Fernando Martinelli
While AMMs (automated market makers) represent a DeFi innovation in themselves, research and experimentation have pushed the possibilities well beyond...
Kiln: Democratising Value Creation in Digital Assets - Laszlo Szabo
Kiln operates as a staking-as-a-service platform, primarily focused on Ethereum, enabling users to stake assets programmatically, managing validators,...
Babylon: Self-Custodial Bitcoin Native Staking & Bitcoin-Secured Networks - David Tse
Throughout the years, there were many attempts of tapping into Bitcoin’s liquidity and security, but almost all of them came with different caveats. M...
RedStone: The Oracle Pioneering the Future of DeFi - Marcin Kaźmierczak
The DeFi landscape has significantly evolved since 2018 when Chainlink was launched. Recent developments such as L2 rollups, liquid staking, restaking...
Privado ID & Quark ID: On-Chain ZK-Powered Unified ID - Diego Fernandez & Evin McMullen
Traditional KYC and AML regulations have often forced companies to comply, without having the right tools to do so. Simply storing users’ personal inf...