Jun 30, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Bankless’ new “Top Signal” comedy w/ 1st ep featuring guests Anthony, Kevin Owocki & DeFi Dad (00:09) DiversiFi: $DVF token sale 8th July via novel “DLM” token sale mechanism similar to liquidity-mining (01:28) Ryan Watkins from Messari on Tether steadily losing stablecoin market dominance (04:01) Nethermind is close to running London & EIP-1559 on Goerli after Ropsten stress-test performs well (10:25) Hermez Network zkrollup solution for scaling payments release iOS & Android wallet app (11:49) Frank Chaparro from The Block on Anthony Scaramucci’s plans for Ethereum ETF (13:43) Loopring nearing $2b traded on their DEX (17:59) Brantley from ENS looking for skilled person to lead effort to standardise “Sign-In w/ Ethereum” (19:59) @TheFutureIsDao1’s map of The Bankless Nation (23:31)
Jun 29, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Shout-out re. Bankless’ ‘Bull-case for ETH’ ep. w/ Anthony (00:09) Gitcoin Grants: 3 days left, almost 700k crowdfunded (01:12) EIP-1559 ticking along nicely, as displayed by Etherscan (02:51) Vitalik’s impromptu r/Ethereum AMA on Verkle trees statelessness, & state expiry (04:20) @Coopahtroop’s graphic of the DAO Landscape (11:22) Nansen blockchain analytics company raise $12m Series A round led by a16z (15:20) Token Terminal: Crypto protocols sorted based on past 90-day total revenue w/ Ethereum #1 (17:39) Polygon announce “Avail” - a data-availability focused blockchain (24:00) Compound Labs announce “Treasury” designed for business & financial institutions to earn 4% APY on USD (27:47) Alchemix update on returned ETH, re-launch of $alETH, beginning of V2 auditing (32:11) Raul Jordan: Prysmatic Labs dropping “Eth2.0” term from their client & documentation [bc its all Ethereum] (32:53)
Jun 28, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Anthony: ‘How to get involved in crypto? Join a community, contribute to open source software, aboard devs, create/translate educational content’ (00:10) Greg Isenberg: ‘Gutenberg launched the printing press when 96% of Europe was illiterate. Crypto feels similar to that now’ (07:03) Infura supporting Optimism eta July/August; Uniswap also launching on Optimism (11:36) Polygon’s new teaster video (14:29) Anthony: “induced demand” will neccesitate more than one L2 solution (15:58) Alchemix: over 1/2 of alETH leaked due to bug in the protocol has already been returned (20:11) Kane (Synthetix) blogs about spending too much time advising other projects & needing to return to protocol as a “soft lead” (20:58) Element Finance fixed rate protocol will deploy to Ethereum mainnet June 30, initially supporting Liquity Protocol LUSD (24:34) Jake Chervinsky: ‘FATF was expected to finalise its (quite bad) draft guidance on AML regs,. but delayed until Oct due to volume of feedback (from our community) which is a good start’ (25:53) Bankless Weekly Roll-up on lFriday w/ Anthony filling-in for Ryan (30:18)
Jun 25, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) AMA w/ Anthony on TDG Discord Channel tomorrow 1pm UTC (00:10) Jordan from Uniswap: “You’re ready to go fast on Arbitrum”; ~ 1-2 weeks? (Anthony) (00:52) DCInvestor on how dramatically POW aligns incentives with developers compared to mining (05:37) Peter from Geth on progress of EIP-1559 / London on Ropsten testnet; users invited to keep tying to break it (09:39) James Hancock mockup of how wallet UIs might look for EIP-1559 (12:52) @jimmyjames198 argues perceived problems like high fees, MEV, ledger transparency etc are features (16:00) MakerDAO announce their Growth Core Initiate, dedicated to business & development (21:58) EPNS collaborate with Aave (24:10)
Jun 24, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) AMA w/ Anthony on Discord Sat June 26 UTC 1pm (00:10) r/ethfinance summarising EF’s Research Team AMA (01:03) EIP-1559 / London upgrade live on Ropsten testnet; follow Watch the Burn site (03:21) Tobby Kitty: PoW vs PoS stats & how the later is assoc. w/ deflationary ETH (06:23) Kris Kay: PayPal settles $936b payments in ’20; Ethereum settles same no in 17 days (10:28) a16z largest / $2.2b crypto venture fund ever (15:27) mStable teases new pools offerings some of the highest yields in DeFi (17:47) Anywsap partner w/ Arbitrum; Anthony on L2 diversity leading to handful of winners over time (21:29) Reddit selling 3 Ethereum NFTs featuring its Snoo mascot (23:39) Yield fixed-rate lending protocol close $10m Series A fund led by Paradigm Capital (26:58) POAP mobile app live on iOS (& Android?) (27:54) Arthur0x announces Defiance Capital’s new Jobs Board w/ many roles available (29:48)
Jun 23, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) @sassal0x’s summary of what Ethereum ecosystem is going to look like in 12-18 months (00:11) Santiago R Santos: “When the dust settles a bit, Ethereum will emerge as the market leader” (08:38) Argent: “This summer anyone, anywhere, will get access to low gas, high speeds, DeFi & all w/ Ethereum’s finality & security” (16:25) Ali’s EIP-1559 explainer graphic (17:31) Banteg compares Yearn w/ three wealth managers on revenue per employee basis w/ Yearn outperforming by ≿5x (20:05) Georgios & MyCrypto’s summary of EIP-3074 inc. sponsored & batch transactions (24:00) Alchemy team up with Optimism; July launch of 𝝣⭕️ still in-play (25:43) Jim Bianco: ETH adoption far outpacing BTC due to DeFi & smart contracts (26:29) Tim Beiko recaps the all-core dev meeting: London Ropsten happening today, tentative date re “Shanghai” update (27:47) Seb from ZapperFi - which has had more than 2.2m unique addresses earning XP in Zapper’s quests (28:47) Aave announce “Aave news” detailing growth, info re $RAI and grants info (30:07)
Jun 22, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) ‘Who knows why market’s & how long for. Less concerning for long term investors but still scary for newer entrants. When crypto markets melt down as they are want to do, investors’ job’s to survive’ (Anthony) (00:10) Alchemix’s efforts to return exploited funds is well on the way to being fully refunded (10:00) Zack (Coinbase): “USDC just crossed $25b in market cap, Tether FUD again but will take a lot more to dethrone. Decentralised stable-coins with higher caps are nonetheless eeded (Anthony) (11:52) Tim Beiko: watch the countdown to London testate next week online (16:22) Watch The Burn website (18:22) Ethereum Foundation research ANA at 1pm UTC June 23 (19:45) StarkWare are building new a full node, code-named “Fermion”. Come work with them. (21:06) Nimbus “Fluffy” ultra-light client for Ethereum that can be run on a smartphone (23:18) Looping: remind of their 4K TPS & 0.1% fees compared to Ethereum L1 (at the moment in particular) (24:31)
Jun 21, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Gitcoin Grants: over 200k for & 55k+ contributions; zksync payments ‘v.smooth’ (Anthony) (00:10) Short-term outlook: ‘Who knows where priceis going? Most bearish case a retest of previous ATH of $1.4k before rebounding’ (Anthony) (03:34) Long-term outlook: 1 yr ago the Beacon Chain launched w/o hitch, DeFi exploded, L2 began rolling-out; in the year ahead EIP1559, L2 maturity, The Merge, improved privacy (04:06) @sassal0x: “Number of of addresses holding 10,000+ ETH just hit a new all time high”. Generally bullish but one metric ≠ a pattern (Anthony + follows) (09:15) Time Beiko posts London HF testnet dates; mainnet est. late Jul-Aug (14:49) Futureswap: V3 deploying on Arbitrum; later L2 arriving in days not wooks™ (16:37) Ben Edgington: latest “What’s New in Eth2” out; best NL of its kind (Anthony) (18:39) Sam McPhearson: Flash Minting/Loans coming to Maker (19:51) Matic propose 1559 for Polygon sending base fee to public goods; Anthony’s reservations (22:56) Cyber Hokie’s Ethereum governance flow-chart - demonstrably de-centralised (25:19) The Graph will (also) support Optimism (27:01)
Jun 18, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) “The State of the Market” podcast & recency bias where ppl focus too much on short term charts (00:10) MyCrypto: fake Ledger devices being mailed to ppl on customer data leak. Don’t use! (12:00) L2Beat.com tracking stats on layer 2 (14:05) Geth “Voyager Cluster” London HF enabled for testnets (16:58) Polygon extends rewards period but tapers liquidity mining reward (17:26) Cyres wants to see Maker, Compound & Aave communities get more proactive in countries like El Salvador / regions like Latin America; reach out to Anthony if you can help (18:58) Yam Finance Synths community testing live (22:09) Gitcoin & the importance of doing trusts verification to maximise your matching amount (22:47)
Jun 17, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Gitcoin Grants Round 10 now live (00:10) Iron Financei rug-pull as algo table coin goes to zero in likely ponzi scheme (04:01) Alchemix,also exploited in same period, but handled in fundamentally superior way w/ users protected (10:21) Polygon: the flack they unfairly receive as a side-chain, & their commitment to research re future roll-ups (16:41) DiversiFi now supported by ZapperFi via Vailidum (23:07) Vitalik posts 3 blogs on: Verkle trees; state expiry; statelessness w/ Tim Beiiko’s & Justin Theroux’s TLDRs (24:55) InstaDapp gov token controversy as $INST apparently only airdropped to recent users (28:35) USDC now live on Arbitrum (30:51)
Jun 16, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Coinbase list $SHIB - which WOULDN’T have qualified under their original Digital Listing Asset Framework (01:24) dYdX’s $65m series C fundraise inc the likes of Paradigm (08:19) Alchemix alETH farm now live; drama with Curve using heavy tactics re Alchemix’s adoption of Saddle (11:23) Mohamed Mansour & Mario’s portal to visualise ETH burn on testnet (14:10) Aave’s first round of grants announced (16:11) Paul Brody: Ernst & Young blockchain suit now integrated w/ Polygon = more enterprise adoption (18:19) Alexander Botzed, champion chess player, launches beginner friendly “ByteSizedEth” podcast w/ Topher Benson as expert (20:20) Trent Van Epps: resources for EIP 1559 (22:20) Philippe Castonguay’s Poll on ‘Main Benefits of 1559’: Anthony votes for “better tx inclusion”, almost everyone else votes for “Reducing ETH Supply” = ‘narrative wins out over truth’ (22:52)
Jun 15, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) ETH Global extends “Hack Money” Hackathon rego until Jun 17th (00:11) Michael Saylor: ‘US dollar will move on Bitcoin rails’; Anthony: wat? (01:15) Index Coop vs competitors chart, volatility drift & FLI index (09:26) Bankless “BED” index product (BTC, ETH & DPI) approved (11:52) Lyra Finance: complete options AMM announce themselves (19:40) Nader: sign-on w/ Ethereum DID proof-of-concept the future of Web 3 (21:50) Metamask referring to “Secret Recovery Phrase” rather than “Seed Phrase” (24:04) Zapper discover & hack a vulnerability in old Polygon bridge contract (26:35)
Jun 14, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Anthony’s never sell ETH strategy (00:10) Fiskantes’ “vALuelLEss gOVeRnaNCe tOkEn’ meme & how Anthony values these (05:10) Tim Beiko: London HF dates inc testnets in June & mainnet ~ late July (13:15) StarkWare launch “Planets” - the first step to mainnet release (14:44) Mark Cuban’s post on ‘the brilliance of defi yield farming and liquidity mining’ (16:15) Ethereum % of supply in smart contracts now same as Jun ’16 (Anthony via Glassnode) (17:22) Alchemix launches alETH for depositing ETH and borrowing against it (20:54) Pet3r Pan’s diagram of the Index Coop community (22:25) Anton (Yearn) teases Yearn 2.0 interface w/ UI/UX improvements (23:30) InstaDapp raise $30m (24:22) Alpha Finance release Alpha Launchpad Incubator to for devs / projects (25:45) Bobby Ong’s (CoinGecko) thread on how to stay safe in crypto (27:30)
Jun 11, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Heads-up on the Beacon Book community giveaway (00:10) Anthony’s AMA on the Daily Gwei discord channel tomorrow at 1PM UTC (01:15) StarkWare looking to hire ppl w/ zk tech skills amongst other things; DM Uri (01:50) Aztec open sourcing all their code under Apache 2.0 license; Anthony on the ethics of open source (02:24) Polygon ramps-up Polygon Advocates Program; also partner with 0x (05:26) cyres.ismoney.eth tweet likening El Salvador hypothetically buying & burning 1/3 of its GDP in Bitcoin to EIP-1559 - which does same for the ETH nation (08:38) 0xMaki teases upcoming SushiSwap development (16:12) Banteg (Yearn) teases a “Wrapped Ultra Sound Money” ETH vault (17:31) Jonathan Nash’s”Bored Ape vs Meebit fighting game” NFT proof of concept (20:48) Index Coop’s treasury report / March-May figures showing some chunky revenue (23:13) FundOSS (Open Source Collective) & Gitcoin team up (25:20)
Jun 10, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Curve V2 live on mainnet and Polygon (00:13) Tweet from Walter Bloomberg - stablecoin regulation (09:47) ETH Cat Herders - Updates on July London Upgrade, EIP 1559 and four other EIP’s (16:45) Tweet from Sigma Prime - New Lighthouse release - nodes use less ram and Eth1 calls (21:20) Tweet from Garry Tan - “ETH to $10k” and “Buffet/Munger wrong about crypto” (21:49) Tweet from Matcha - DEX Aggregator Live on Polygon (23:02) Tweet from OKEx - exchange integrates with Polygon and Arbitrum (23:57) Tweet from ObadiaAlex - New Flashbot research - MEV in ETH2 (25:03)
Jun 9, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) El Salvador adopts BTC as legal tender - overall bullish for crypto (00:09) Index Coop looking for feedback on internship program - lots of DAOs hiring now (09:48) Polygonscan Explorer live, looks very like Etherscan (12:09) Polygon promoting Hop Protocol to get in and out in 1m30sec (13:54) Kayvon’s (Foundation) thread on splits where artists can unlock royalties from NFTs (15:53) Anthony @sassal0x: “There more time you spend in the Ethereum ecosystem the less you care about what the market is doing” (20:00) Brantley.eth (ENS Domains): “The Ethereum community has accidentally solved a major problem of the internet: Single Sign-On” (23:49) Banteg (Yearn): protocol earnings and growth in May (26:18) Justin (GridPlus): /r/Ethereum hits one million builders (28:23) PoolTogether announce grants for specified products (29:37) Q: What’s the future of ETH beyond the merge? A: the stateless ethereum initiative; true randomness for blockchains; Correct by Construction proposal; sharding as data availability and execution (30:39)
Jun 8, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Ethereum Fear & Greed Index ranging in neutral to fearful territory (00:09) Trent Van Epps (EF) on the job opportunities for ppl like him in Ethereum w/ 0 dev experience (09:57) Alchemix: ALCX farming rewards back on for ETH/ALCX; allETH coming soon (13:23) Samuel Shadrach (Rari Capital): introducing Grants Station, prioritising privacy & user built front ends (14:30) Ali Atiia: Rollups are the parachain (eg Polkadot) killer (16:01) litocoen.eth: How HotProtocol’s near-instant cross L2 txs are made possible (21:15) Arbitrum partner with Graph Protocol to offer sub-graphs on their L2 (24:17) ENS donate 180 ETH to Gitcoin grants (25:15) Ethereum Push Notification System tease they will be on Aave & Polygon (26:05) Pooja Ranjan’s video on Altair Beacon Chain upgrade inc deets on penality parameter, inactivity score etc (27:13)
Jun 7, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Eth Global “Hack Money” hackathon, Jun 18th, apply now (00:09) Uniswap deployed to Arbitrum mainnet; Arbitrum public launch in weeks not months (01:12) Why L2 is still needed (Anthony) (01:53) Why Uniswap on L2 will be a game-changer (Anthony) (05:00) Why ETH is still in a macro bull market (Anthony) (05:48) Zeus @ohmazeus: ‘Unpopular opinion: Bitcoin falling for #1 would be one the most bullish things to ever happen to crypto” (09:26) Trent Can Epps Q. ‘What teams building on Ethereum have interns?’ A: Nethermind have 20 (13:38) Anthony @sassal0x: ‘Bull markets give people a false sense of security. The real building happens in bear markets’ (16:16) Nader Dabit @dabit3: 16 resources for building full stack apps with Solidity, React & Ethereum (in two months from scratch in the case of the author) (20:39) Michael Bouhanna: “Sotheby’s in Decentraland” as aution house opens doors to the Metaverse / NFTs (21:32) Joe Weisenthal (Bloomberg) article on Ethereum: “There is a hot new vision for crypto, And its Wildly Different from Bitcoin” (24:07) Anthony @sassal0x: “Ethereum is freedom” - the thesis (25:37)
Jun 4, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Bobby Goodlatte @rsg: ‘Ethereum’s energy use reducing by 99.5% at PoS. Why isn’t Elon tweeting about this?’; Anthony: ‘bc Elon’s probably a megalomaniacal troll who doesn’t get crypto / isn’t playing 5D chess’ (00:09) Umbra privacy protocol live on beta main-net; scaling & privacy the key things to mainstream adoption (08:21) MonteCarloDEX live on Arbitrum, ready for end users soon (10:54) Tracer Finance: Learn Arbitrum in under 10 min (mainly for devs) (11:58) Stani Kulechov teasing NFTs as collateral on Aave (12:31) Token Terminal shows daily trading vol. on DEXs going thru the roof (13:45) Matcha 2.0: biggest update ever, inc: Polygon & multi-chain trading, MoonPay onramp, OTC & more (15:44) Okcoin integrates Polygon (16:50) Mihailo Bjelic on two new unicorns (ie 1B locked) on Polygon in SushiSwap and QuickSwap, added to Aave = 3 (18:49) Anthony on the five main players on Layer 2 & likely power law distribution resulting in two or three big winners w/ others providing niche solutions (19:41) Documenting Ethereum @documentingEther: “Stablecoin value settled on Ethereum has flipped BTC value settled on Bitcoin” (24:01) dYdX: pubic dashboard of various dYdX L2 metrics (25:58)
Jun 3, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Google now enabling crypto ads us (00:09) Wall Street Journal’s (mostly piece) on DeFi & Ethereum (03:28) Justin Drake’s ETH price appreciation flow-chart (08:59) AlchemyPlatform support for Arbitrum live (15:10) Deribit Exchange chart showing ETH volume catching up to BTC (17:53) Gitcoin Grants Round 10 June 16 + hackathon (19:21) DEX volume on Ethereum $173b last month, 150x in 12 months (21:24) Gnosis join forces w/ Erigon & depreciating Open Ethereum codebase (28:08) Can M&A happen in this industry? Anthony answers the questions (30:36)
Jun 2, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Market structure via @pentosh1 & @lars0x: BTC led the crash but ETH is showing more strength on variety of indicators (00:09) Vance Spencer: diversity of L2 solutions is a positive / bullish for development, specialisation, protocol-scaling fit (07:50) Trent Van Epps: EF received ~400 applications for Core Dev apprenticeship program (14:37) Eric Conner: 3 most exciting things in Ethereum’s history happening in ’21 inc. EIP-1559, L2 launch/adoption, PoS (16:47) dydx reach $2b in total vol on L2 perpetuals since April launch (22:33) Eric Stone’s Uniswap v3 fee calculator for liquidity providers is up (24:08) PodsFinance options protocol launch demo on Polygon (26:04) @whale-alert: dominant address w/ 310 BTC activated after 9.7 years (27:30)
Jun 1, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Arbitrum team looking for marketing/community ppl, DM Anthony (00:09) zkSync 2.0 alpha test-net live including zkEVM (huge) & zkPorter (02:31) Ethereum Treasuries site shows ETH on balance sheets of institutions (08:56) Bitfly: today marks six months since beaconchain launch; stats (10:44) Jeff Lau (ENS): why the merge is important to Ethereum & why sharding has been prioritised (12:16) Ryan Watkins (Messari): ‘the most exciting attributes of BCs are about how we design internet institutions’ (13:12) 0x API live on Polygon (18:17) @ChainLinkGod: ‘future likely multi-chain but will concentrate to specific environments & mostly be Ethereum L2s’ (18:50) Zapper “welcome to the Zapperverse” gamification of learning w/ NFT rewards (23:40) Index Coop on what you can do with your DPI (25:21)
