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Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 670

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. Epicenter is hosted by Sebastien Couture, Brian Fabian Crain, Friederike Ernst, Meher Roy and Felix Lutsch. Since 2014, our episodes have been downloaded over 8 million times.

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Konstantin Lomashuk: '#bitcoin is like a #memecoin' - cyber·Fund

Episode 568

Monday, October 7, 2024 • Duration 01:06:57

Outside of BTC’s cypherpunk movement, the early days of crypto were more or less barren in terms of innovation. However, this presented a huge opportunity for visionaries and angel investors to either launch or back bold projects, recognizing the potential of crypto stretching far beyond than just payments. One of them was Konstantin Lomashuk, co-founder of cyber•Fund which was a key actor in bootstrapping the cybernetic economy. Apart from early investments in Ethereum, Polkadot, Cosmos, Solana and many others, Konstantin recognized the potential threats to the core ethos of decentralisation and also co-founded Lido DAO in order to stave off Ethereum’s centralization risks.

Topics covered in this episode:

Konstantin’s background
cyber·Fund & cybernetic economy
Entrepreneurship vs. angel investing
Delegating tasks and scaling businesses
Lido’s origin story
Lido DAO proposals and improvements
Solana vs. Ethereum
The evolution of Ethereum’s economy
Konstantin’s other areas of interest
AI’s risk of centralization
The impact of AI on crypto
How CyberFund invests in new narratives

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Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.io
Chorus1: Chorus1 is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at - chorus.one

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain.

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Celestia: 1Gb Blocks, Rollup Interoperability & Lazy Bridging. Ismail Khoffi & Mustafa Al-Bassam

Episode 567

Monday, September 30, 2024 • Duration 01:03:48

As Ethereum’s roadmap shifted to a rollup-centric approach, a plethora of rollups have been launched, to the point where L3s have been conceptualized. Celestia sits at the forefront of modularity as it aims to replace the monolithic blockchain architecture with specialized layers that are more suited for scalability and customization. As a result, Celestia strictly focuses on data availability to accommodate the recent rollup expansion, as data storage represents the largest portion of fees on L2s. The Lemongrass upgrade lays the foundation for further use cases being enabled through Celestia, mainly revolving around interoperability and zk proof enabled ‘lazy bridging’.

Topics covered in this episode:

The vision behind Celestia
Rollup architecture
Centralised sequencers and the role of fraud proofs
Celestia’s market share
Rollkit & sovereign rollups
Governance & light clients
The importance of decentralisation: L1s vs. rollups
Celestia’s data availability capacity
Latency & Celestia block times
Interoperability & ‘lazy bridging’
The Lemongrass upgrade
On-chain economics & value accrual
Interchain accounts on Celestia
Crypto’s mainstream adoption
Future roadmap

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Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.io
Chorus1: Chorus1 is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at -

Mel Project: Is Web3 Truly Decentralised? - Eric Tung

Episode 558

Friday, July 26, 2024 • Duration 01:18:06

Web3’s decentralisation is currently limited to smart contracts as they can be verified on-chain. However, until scalability and UX become on par with that of Web2, the only realistic way for crypto to reach mass adoption is threw off-chain dApps. This creates the premise for a security bottleneck in the form of centralised APIs used for on-chain querying. Mel Project aims to expand on-chain security and decentralisation (consensus) to off-chain apps, basically achieving off-chain composability through trustless light clients. Earendil, the backbone of their ecosystem, designed to resist ISP-level censorship, is a decentralized anonymous communication and payment network that enables autonomous applications and true P2P protocols.

Topics covered in this episode:

Eric’s background and founding Mel Project
Why Ethereum came short
Is Infura a security bottleneck?
Liberating markets (and the Internet)
Light clients and how Mel Project tackles them
Use cases
Smart contracts on Mel Project
Scaling the ‘world computer’
Mel Project’s consensus: Streamlet
Why Mel Project chose an UTXO model
Earendil & ISP-level censorship resistance
Roadmap
The Geph VPN
Mel Project’s low volatility (stable) coin
$SYM: PoS token
Misc.

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Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.io

Dev Bharel: Wormhole – The Cross Chain Messaging Protocol

Episode 468

Thursday, November 3, 2022 • Duration 55:09

Wormhole is a decentralized cross chain messaging protocol powering the transfer of value and information across high value chains. A network of Guardian nodes secure the protocol by observing and attesting to events and data on its connected chains. These attestations are gossiped around the open Wormhole peer-to-peer network, allowing anyone connected to the network to observe the flow of information. Portal is a bridging app built on top of Wormhole where users can seamlessly bridge tokens and NFTs across supported chains and easily enter the network’s ecosystem.

We were joined by Dev Bharel, Developer Relations for Wormhole. He gave us great insight into how the protocol works, security assumptions and incidents, the concept of generalized messaging passaging, and the Portal Bridge as a first adopter of the Wormhole protocol. We also chatted about what else is being built on Wormhole, and how you can get involved.

Topics covered in this episode:

Dev's background and how he got into crypto
An overview of Wormhole
The different network ecosystems in Wormhole and challenges with adding new networks
The Wormhole guardian network and its plans for expansion
The user experience on Portal Bridge
Relayers on the network
Using Wormhole bridge assets directly with non-native tokens
The Wormhole hack and the changes that have been made
Using zero knowledge proof on bridges

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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum – State of Affairs After the Merge

Episode 467

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 • Duration 01:03:08

With the long awaited Ethereum Merge successfully executed last month, we caught up with Vitalik at DevCon in Bogota to talk shop: How does he see the state of the network, does he think looming centralization is a threat. Was Ethereum's danksharding plus third party layer 2s a good architecture decision? How much of an issue is MEV?

Topics covered in this episode:

The state of the network and credible neutrality
Should validators have agency?
How much of a problem is MEV
The Ethereum Surge
The road to Danksharding
Decentralizing the sequencer
The future of the space
The one most important thing we need to get right in the coming year for the ecosystem to succeed

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Tally Ho: Tally Ho is a new wallet for Web3 and DeFi that sees the wallet as a public good. Think of it like a community-owned alternative to MetaMask. - https://epicenter.rocks/tallycash

This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/467

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Ethan Buchman & Zaki Manian: ATOM 2.0 – Deep Dive

Episode 466

Monday, October 24, 2022 • Duration 01:15:41

Since its announcement a few weeks ago at Cosmoverse in Medellin, Atom 2.0 has sparked intense debate in the Cosmos community and throughout the blockchain ecosystem. It proposes three pillars for the Cosmos Hub: Interchain Security, the Interchain Allocator, and the Interchain Scheduler. However, parts of the paper have been contested and debated over fears of token holder dilution, potential treasury mismanagement, and even the collapse of the Hub. We chat with Ethan Buchman and Zaki Manian to dive deep into Atom 2.0 and its vision for Cosmos moving forward.

Topics covered in this episode:

The ATOM 2.0 announcement and follow up
The goal of the whitepaper
Interchain Security and its role in Cosmos' future
Interchain Security vs. Mesh Security
Cosmos scalability
Liquid staking in the Cosmos ecosystem
Distributing funds through the Allocator
Atom issuance model
The motivation behind the Interchain Scheduler
The governance process - voting on the whitepaper
Next steps to community adoption

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Tally Ho: Tally Ho is a new wallet for Web3 and DeFi that sees the wallet as a public good. Think of it like a community-owned alternative to MetaMask. - https://epicenter.rocks/tallycash

This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Brian Fabian Crain. Show notes and listening options:

Anett Rolikova, David Hoffmann, Joseph Schweitzer & Nick Johnson: Devcon 6 Recap – Live From Bogota

Episode 465

Saturday, October 22, 2022 • Duration 44:44

After a 2 year hiatus, Devcon was back for its 6th and best year so far, this time in Bogota, Colombia. As things wrapped up we grabbed a few of the Ethereum community's most prominent names for a recap on the conference. Hear as we chat to Nick Johnson from ENS, Anett Rolikova from Nethermind, David Hoffmann from Bankless, and Joseph Schweitzer from the Ethereum Foundation, about their particular standouts of the event, the LatAm and wider Ethereum community, and what they see coming next for Devcon 7 and beyond.

Topics covered in this episode:

Introductions and a look back over the conference
The LatAm Ethereum community
Favourite talks from the conference
Having a booth at Devcon
What's in store for Devcon7 next year
The future vision for the event

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Omni: Access all of Web3 in one easy-to-use wallet! Earn and manage assets at once with Omni's built-in staking, yield vaults, bridges, swaps and NFT support.
https://omni.app/

This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/465

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Devcon Panel – Censorship Resistance and Credible Neutrality

Friday, October 14, 2022 • Duration 50:03

Bonus Episode: At a side event at Devcon in Bogota Colombia, Friederike moderated a panel discussion on censorship resistance and credible neutrality with Phil from Flashbots, Patrick from Infura, Sebastian from HOPR, Martin from Gnosis, and Sreeram from EigenLayer. We dove deep into what credible neutrality constitutes, whether it needs defending, and if so how we should go about it.

Topics covered in this episode:

Introduction to the panel
What is censorship resistance and credible neutrality?
When has Ethereum been or not been crediably neutral, and where is it today
Recent cencorship instances in the space
The roadmaps for more credible neutrality

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Devcon

This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/B007

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Cryptocito: Cosmoverse – Where Cosmonauts Unite

Episode 464

Wednesday, October 5, 2022 • Duration 56:07

We caught up with Cosmoverse co-founder and YouTuber Cryptocito, for a chat from this year's event in Medellin. We look back on the 2nd edition of the conference and how the ecosystem has grown since last year. We also dive into some of the announcements, notably, ATOM 2.0.

Topics covered in this episode:

Cosmoverse in Medellin
Cryptocito's background and how Cosmoverse was born
Highlights from the conference
Mesh security systems
Cosmos community growth
Thoughts on Interchain Foundation (ICF)
ATOM 2.0

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Omni: Access all of Web3 in one easy-to-use wallet! Earn and manage assets at once with Omni's built-in staking, yield vaults, bridges, swaps and NFT support.
https://omni.app/ -

This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Sunny Aggarwal. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/464

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Sebastian Bürgel: HOPR – The Peer to Peer Network Changing Data Privacy

Episode 463

Wednesday, September 28, 2022 • Duration 01:14:45

HOPR is a decentralized and incentivized peer-to-peer mixnet open to anyone who wants to join and run a node. The network allows people, companies, and devices to exchange information online with its metadata stripped. People who communicate and transact using HOPR — or apps and services which run on top of the platform — can be sure that no-one can find out what data is being shared, who is sending or receiving it, or even how much data is being sent. HOPR gets its name from the fact that it provides metadata privacy by sending data packets through multiple nodes - or “hops” – in the network. Decentralization ensures that the network is fully independent and there is no entity that can control it or intercept the traffic.

We were joined by HOPR founder Sebastian Bürgel, who chatted about the need for a platform such as this in the space, how it works by sending packets through nodes, the HOPR token, and The DecenGov DAO.

Topics covered in this episode:

Sebastian's background
An overview of HOPR
Mixnet vs onion routing
Who is the HOPR user?
How packets move through the network
The distribution requirements for HOPR nodes
The costs involved
The HOPR token
The DecenGov DAO
Why privacy systems in crypto have such a hard time finding traction

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Tally Ho: Tally Ho is a new wallet for Web3 and DeFi that sees the wallet as a public good. Think of it like a community-owned alternative to MetaMask. - https://epicenter.rocks/tallycash

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