Aug 31, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Arbitrum: Arbitrum One goes live in the hours following this recording (00:10) The Block: Arbitrum raises $120m in Series B funding (00:42) SynthaMan: Kwenta perpetual futures on Optimism in days not weeks (04:14) zkSync: 2.0 update (05:22) @litocoen: fees likely won't improve until majority of projects move to L2 (08:27) Polygon introduces "Bridges Week" education program (16:12) Eric Conner on the bumps on the road to decentralisation: "Ethereum's values will always give Ethereum Value" (16:50) Ryan Sean Adams: ETH issuance chart - falling off a cliff since EIP 1559 (19:25) Hats Finance, a decentralised cybersecurity network, raise $3.5m (20:33) Scoopy Trooples, Alchemix: V2 nearly ready (23:24) POAP: for the first time today over 200k accounts hold POAPs (24:42) @mikethreezy: "I paid for access to this public toilet with ETH just now" (26:38)
Aug 30, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) @mhswende & Kelvin Fincher summarise chain split on Ethereum mainnet (00:10) @sassal0x: 'this week in crypto is going to be v. fun bc $ rise?, Arbitrum live' (11:54) Arbitrum: Arbiscan is now live (12:38) @sassal0x: Coinbase is hiring to support more Ethereum scaling solutions (16:01) @sassal0x: thread listing all L2s, bridges, more scaling solutions (20:00) Richard Chen: Hop Protocol doing ≊ volume as ThorChain bf Thor's hack (20:41) Dune Analytics: OpenSea August Volume of $3b/10x increase in a month (23:11) Hsiao-Wei Wang (HF): post & great image describing The Merge (25:43) Danny Ryan's "When Merge" NFT for funding regenerate public goods (27:28) Justin Drake: ETH monetary premium 🤝 ETH economic utility (29:04) Seb Audet (ZapperFi) teasing mobile wallet (31:36) @sassal0x: "the digital renaissance is well and truly upon us" (32:09) @sassal0x: ~52.3% of ETH from NFT sales staying within the ecosystem (33:32) @ultrasoundmoney: 2 days of POS issuance burned in 1 hour (35:21)
Aug 27, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) ENS announces DNS support (00:10) Nova - Trustless communication between L1 & L2s (03:41) L2BeatCom site update includes 'risk view' assoc. w/ different L2s (11:39) Optimism enable arbitrary token bridging (14:26) @litocoin's demo of Polygon to Optimism via Hop Exchange (16:22) Connext Network: "Aribitrum to Polygon testnet in 70 seconds" (18:23) Blocknative's guide on how to calculate EIP-1559 fees (19:52) @bantg's chart contrasting SegWit vs EIP-1559 adoption (22:52) Parsec Finance's "NFT Firehouse, for optimal jpeg tape reading" (24:30) @ultrasoundmoney on another ETH burn record (26:13) @kyttenjanae: Foundation app now have a newsletter (27:47)
Aug 26, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) @sassal: Ξ100k ETH burned since EIP-1559; so why the 🦀 market? (00:10) Danny Ryan: Finalized #28 - The Road to Altair edition (08:40) Justin Drake: MEV research breakthrough w/ 'consensus stability, trustless MEV oracles & potential for MEV burn' (10:49) Uri Kolodny: StarkEx pass $10B culm. trading on dydx & diversify w/ NFTs leading the way (11:50) Uri Kolodny: StakrEx settled 106k txs in one day on dydx using a fraction of the gas (13:07) Immutable X announce $IMX token sale on Sep 8th on CoinList (14:13) Loopring reach $2b in trading volume (17:07) Alexey Sharp on psychological impact of the Erigon & EGL token Twitter spat (20:11) HopProtocol: Optimism now on Hop.Exchange's bridge to & between Ethereum L1 & L2s (23:39) Pete Kim's screen-shot sending USD from Optimism to Polygon (23:47) Barnbridge announce SMART Alpha product facilitating hedging of risk for traders (26:00)
Aug 25, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) David Hoffman/Bankless launch "Layer Zero" podcast focusing on ⟠ personalities (00:10) Gitcoin Grants Round 11 begins Sep 8th, 2021 (02:14) @cyounessi1: "one of the best investing abilities is to recognise trends ahead of time" (03:00) Patrick McCorry: what matters w/ side chains/roll-ups is the bridge back to Ethereum (11:42) Piers Kicks: augmented reality meets art gallery video (16:34) @j1mmyeth: NFTs creating communities somewhat removed from bull & bear markets (17:50) Visa sets CryptoPunk as their Twitter profile pic (20:26) @bantg announces $315 million NFT airdrop (21:07) @takenstheorem: OpenSea about to break into Top 100 sites on the web (22:49) @dGenNetwork: Budweiser pays 30 ETH for beer.eth (24:19) Lyra Finance options protocol officially live on Optimism mainnet (25:52) Loopring bringing NFTs to their platform (27:26) Michael Bentley announces Euler permissionless lending protocol soon (29:16)
Aug 24, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) EF: 7 orgs donate $250k each to support Ethereum client teams - promoting diverse 'execution layer' (00:10) Go Ethereum's new version of Geth (04:26) Tim Beiko on controversy surrounding $EGL token/project (04:40) Trent Van Eps on why tokens like EGL for on-chain gov. of issues like gas limits are bad idea (09:36) Antonio Juliano: dYdX daily trading vol. over $400m since their native token launch (14:01) US House of Rep. Soto: "We're seeking to offer a crypto amendment to the budget measure" (19:47) @sassal's picture of green candles bursting out of a house (20:40) @sassal: 'the amount of opportunities to make $ in Ethereum now too numerous to follow' (20:52) @sassal: "..all this NFT activity is burning truck loads of ETH" (24:28) Ribbon Finance announce V2: improves on current vaults whilst adding many new features (27:28) Kevin Owoki, Gitcoin announces their new "MoonshotBots" project (28:38) Nifty Island's Nifty Blade NFT+physical item airdropped to early adopters (30:06)
Aug 23, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Recording of last Saturday's The Daily Gwei Discord AMA w/ Anthony now online (00:08) @sassal: Visa just bought a CryptoPunk (00:54) DCInvestor: NFTs will cement ETH's dominance (08:02) Emilie Choi, Coinbase: from Sep, USDC reserves will be held in cash & treasury bonds (11:56) @kyoronut: EIP-1559 tx now ~50% (14:00) Loopring tease Layer 2 NFT support (16:53) Huobi exchange will support direct deposits & withdrawals on Arbitrum One (17:34) Glass protocol reintroduce their web 3 video platform and design philosophy (19:06) Ryan Wyatt, Head of YouTube Gaming: "I'm bullish on NFTs. I believe play-to-earn is the next major gaming model" (21:18) Brendan from Dharma: USD (real fiat dollars) to ETH on Dharma is about to be better pricing than Coinbase. Who wants to try our our @OxPolygon Beta?" (24:07) Ben Edgington: Beacon Chain had ~4% validators not attesting to blocks over weekend due to problems w/ one of the big staking providers (25:19)
Aug 20, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) The Daily Gwei AMA w/ Anthony Sat 21st August UTC 13.00 (00:00) Brian Armstrong: Coinbase treasury adding $500m in crypto; investing 10% profits to crypto (00:42) Frank Chaparro delves into the details of Coinbase's announcement (05:57) Frank Chaparro: 'Big Week for crypto', citing the above plus: multi-mil. hedge funds yields, Bloomberg DeFi index w/Galaxy, Garry Gensler firing us all up [again]' (06:09) Boba network add to the list of new Ethereum Scaling solution (07:17) Optimism open up community whitelist for mainnet onboarding (09:11) Polygon announce ecosystem DAO (12:29) Fractional NFT protocol raise $7.9m raise, led by Paradigm; Full disclosure: Anthony is *not* an investor in this project (14:32) Aave submit application grant to build their mobile dapp (16:26) Balancer DAO also accepting grant applications (18:32) @sassal: there is now ~7m ETH being staked on the Beacon Chain (23:13)
Aug 19, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Dune: UNI gov. proposal to let Flipside crypto manage $25m of treasury passes (00:09) DCInvestor: this growing precedent of using UNI treasury for large cash grabs is bad (03:06) Metamask: EIP-1559 now rolling out to all users (06:04) @sassal: the crypto wallet landscape is going to look completely different 6-12 months (07:50) Matt Luongo calls out MetaMask's move 1y ago from free, open source licensing; offers Tally add-on as an alternative coming soon (12:01) @terrencechain: Pyrmont hard forking to Altair a success. Onto Hard Forking Prater (14:18) @sassal: "If the projects are truly decentralised then yes, they are immune [to regulation] - that's the whole point" in response to Gary Gensler (17:17) Garry Gensler's comments to the contrary, quoted by @lawmaster (21:23) DiversiFi have moved to StarkEx v2 & now share zero-knowledge proofs w/ Sorare (21:54) The Graph: integration w/ Optimism is complete (22:56) Lido: proposal by Shard Labs to bring $Matic liquid staking to Polygon in collab. w/ Polygon & Lido (23:56) Esteban Miño: RainbowMe's Rainbow Button, leveraging power of WalletConnect to onboard new users (24:31) ZapperFi: custom wallet avatar now live on app (25:37) Larva Labs: The Crypto Punks are now fully on chain, stored in contract so even if front-end goes offline the images will remain (26:26)
Aug 18, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) DeFi's biggest ever White Hat hack, w/ Samczun (Paradigm) saving $250m from Sushi's MISO (00:10) Samczun's blog posts w/ full details of the vulnerability (01:04) @sassal: "The irony of Paradigm saving SushiSwap is why I love this industry" (04:14) Index Coop'sproposal to gain greater autonomy from Set Labs (07:38) Index Coop: proposed "Formation of a Protocol Ownership Kick-Off Group" (11:27) Stani Kulechov: proposal to list $DPI on Aave, currently receiving overwhleming support (20:08) Nethermind introduce "Warp" - an EVM to Cairo / StarkNet transpiler (21:27) @protolambda: 'why not have Execution-Consensus API for the Merge & rollups too?' (24:44) ChainSafe's official Eth2 light-client (27:15) Bartek Kiepuszewski: L2beatcom's series of Qs. they hope each Rollup provider can answer (29:25) Rainbow enabling users of their wallet to interact w/ Optimism, Polygon & Arbitrum (31:10) Alchemy is now supporting Optimism (31:54) SuperRare issues native token $RARE airdropping a percentage of these to users (32:17)
Aug 17, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) kiwi.eth's pic of near empty room w/ NFT picture on wall encapsulates crypto now (Anthony) (00:09) @sassal: "I believe crypto is the most disruptive force since the internet" (09:17) Zero Knowledge Validator introduces ZK Open Legal Working Group (17:30) Dune Analytics' chart of OpenSea's parabolic growth (18:23) Alex Atallah: "Open Sea has now passed Etsy in vol., w/ $1b so far in August" (18:28) Taylor Zhang: 'Maskbook have almost everything to bring Web 3 to Web 2' (21:34) Hasu charts BTC's downtrend in fee revenue contrasted w/ ETH's growth (23:42) ultrasound money features dashboard that can be toggled to simulate The Merge (27:44) Stani Kulechov: "well designed web 3 protocol does not solve everything, instead leaves room for the community to invent and build the rest of the features" (29:28)
Aug 16, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) @sassal: Crypto in a time of Covid (00:09) @sassal: Ξ50k now been burned; gas increasingly valuable commodity (06:10) @takenstheorem's charts shows less gas price volatility post-EIP1559 (08:01) Token Terminal chart: recognition still trailing fundamentals (08:33) Hayden Adams: OmiseGo turned declined my to work for $2M in OMG (12:28) Immutable req. to modify IMX drop to US citizens bc of regulations (16:01) ImmutableX site displaying all the dapps coming to their platform (17:58) POAP's new taxonomy of collectible, reward & recognition POAPs (18:37) @sassal: Polygon merges w/ Hermez to incorporate true L2 scaling (21:24) Uri Kolodny (Starkware): StarkEx settled 617k tx last week (27:27) ChopChop (NFTX): discord could integrate Ethereum for hybrid soc. media (29:18) Ben Edgington's 75th "What's new in Eth2" NL focusing on client diversity (31:29) @ChainLinkGod on all the things ETH competitors need to just catch up (31:55) @0xmons: NFT-Lottery now live (33:13) @jacksondame/dame.eth promotes rainbow_me educational resources (34:15) Slingshot: you can now trade fractional pudgy penguin's on their Dex (35:31)
Aug 13, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Anthony: shout-out to CryptoWife for her artful Sassal Profile Penguin (00:09) Stani on Aave's plans for decentralised social media platform (01:32) @sassal on integrating Lightning & Ethereum wallet & letting users decide (09:29) DCInvestor: 'Jack's opposition will be 1 of the biggest miscalculations in web history' (10:28) Dmitry Buterin: dynamism of Ethereum more suitable for ever-changing internet (10:57) Mike from Rainbow mocks-ups up a front-end/UI along these lines (12:35) Coindesk: Chainlink Oracles now on Arbitrum One network (13:28) Zapper no longer plan to add fees in response to community feed-back (14:41) @CL207: crypto isn't just building alternative financial system; more like an alternative reality (17:18) Dune Analytics raise $8m Series A to expand to the different layers (19:24) Alex Svanevik: EIP-1559 adoption ~20%, up from last week's 5% (20:56) Grid+ Lattice1 the first wallet to fully support Metamask EIP-1559 txs (21:43) Blocknative chart on the increase of L2 transactions (22:37) @l_udens on the potential of Ethereum on-chain games bringing competition to Axie (23:47) @platocrat: job openings at Optimism (25:37)
Aug 12, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) High Drama: Jack RTing accounts that troll Ethereum (00:09) @sassal: the amount of BS Ethereum's had to deal w/ over the years - and yet it's still here! (03:13) Joseph Delong implies Optimism is favouring UniSwap over Sushi (06:56) @sassal: "disappointed to see wall-gardens" (comment Anthony now regrets); "I'm only long-term bullish on credibly neutral permissionless platforms" (which Anthony still stands by) (10:29) @sassal: Anthony's Mea Culpa for Tweeting w/o due consideration of this debate (12:42) Optimism describes their whitelist & first-in-first-out process (14:57) Arbitrum webpage showing the apps deploying on their platform (19:19) Frank Chaparro (The Block): Institutional demand for ETH has surged, forcing reshuffling of BTC offerings (22:22) @sassal: "Doesn't pay to be a BTC-Maxi shop" (22:56) antiprosynthesis: Eth2 deposit contract overtakes WETH; staking is proving preferrable to Yield Farming (Anthony) (24:23) mStable introduce their GrantsDAO (26:47) Zapper product update: adding fees for zapping in & out of LP positions (27:59) Token Terminal shows steady 70-80% of ETH being burned (31:51) Mariano Conti's a "illiquid jpeg enthusiast looking for a tiny bit more innovation at the smart contract level" (32:30) @sassal is 'a sucker for NFT art like Redlioneye Gazzette's work' (33:39) Justin Drake: Satoshi first commit was for a decentralised p2p marketplace (35:50) @sassal: "Ethereum will finish what Satoshi started" (36:12)
Aug 11, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Jake Chervinksy: infra. bill passes w/o crypto amendment; next stop the house or court; markets DGAF (00:10) @sassal: Poly Network, a SEA based cross-chain bridge, hacked but funds being returned bc amateur hr (02:42) Frank Chaparro (The Block): Coinbase confirms it's been working w/ Elon Musk, SpaceX, and Tesla (08:40) Jon Geenty: First time ETH % of trading greater than BTC % (09:07) @sassal: ^ is just another flippening under ETH's belt (09:29) ultrasound money now shows: 1 hour burn leaderboard, fee burn time-ranges; also a new burn record (11:43) Alex Svanevik: Around half of all newly issued ETH since EIP-1559 was rolled out has been burned (13:03) @sassal: Ethereum burned ~$80 million ETH in fee revenue in 6 days vs $3.6m BTC in the same time (14:11) @AlphaLemonade: In 2021, Index Coop's unincentivised TVL has grown from $11m to $257m (17:15) HopProtocol: you can now withdraw MATIC from Polygon to Ethereum instantly, instead of waiting 7 days (19:19) Biconomy releases Hyphen - another instant cross-chain transfers b/t Polygon & Ethereum (21:54) PaperclipDAO trying to trade themselves into being a rare NFT (see: "paperclip to house' urban legend) (24:45) SuperRare teasing token; every project will end up with one (Anthony) (27:08) ETHGlobal: Get ready for our biggest event of the year from Sep 17-Oct 15, 2021 (29:15)
Aug 10, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) @sassal: "ETH pumping on news that everyone is stuck in illiquid jpegs" (00:09) Eric Conner: Ethereum 'improving' art like DeFi improved finance (07:00) Jake Chervinksy: amendment to infrastructure bill looks dead (10:20) Jerry Brito: we now aim for whole new amendment in The House (13:09) watchtheburn.com updated with novel new features (15:58) Altair upgrade for Pyrmont testnet scheduled 19th August (17:08) GearBox Protocol for generalised leverage trading comes out of stealth (19:35) DiversiFi: "Ethereum's layer 2 ecosystem is going parabolic" (21:56) StarkWare proposal for adding Maker on their platform (24:10) dYdX's new highs since launching their 'governance token'; these have become a necessary feature for decentralised protocols (Anthony) (26:13) Circle turning itself into a digital currency bank; this is a perfect opportunity for 'banks' to work *with* Ethereum (Anthony) (28:48)
Aug 9, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) 7th The Daily Gwei Discord AMA link (00:09) Anthony: Infrastructure bill: overreaction to it + the attention it's giving crypto a big deal (00:38) @sassal: ETH's key value accrual pillars have now been locked in (09:29) @sassal: These EIPs aren't being priced in before they go live (16:00) Eric Conner: EIP-1559 cuts ETH's yearly inflation to 2.6%, the merge will make it negative (16:27) @Krugman25: the float greater than burn will be the most impactful factor re. price (17:17) Justin Drake: updated projections re EIP-1559 impact (18:52) @sassal: "Thanks to whatever Space Poggers is for burning 569 ETH today" (20:25) Token Terminal's graph depicting ETH burn vs miner revenue percentages (21:12) @sassal: steady growth of Optimism encouraging to see (21:48) Arbitrum: over 400 projects have now been deployed to the L2 (22:40) Seb Audet: NFT *only* as your Zapper profile pic coming soon (24:56) Christie's: No Time Like The Present auction featuring first NFT sale in Asia (26:00) Prysm v2 changes & Altair HF details summarised (26:55) Colfax Selby: steps to increasing beacon chain client diversity (28:08) DC Investor: What gives art / NFTs their value (30:21) Dharma using Polygon for zero cost (USA) bank purchases to crypto purchases (33:05) Connext: introducing simpler NXTP cross-chain transfer protocol (33:51) StarkWare announce trestles side chain secured by Ethereum (34:51)
Aug 6, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) EIP-1559 is now live: Anthony's brief recap (00:09) Tim Beiko: miner drama w/ some mining pools not increasing gas limit to 30m (02:01) Vitalik: block production on mainnet similar to results from earlier simulation (04:02) Ultra Sound Money: current staking, defi, & burn numbers (05:39) Ultra Sound Money: we are currently burning 4x PoS issuance (07:30) Paradigm's collation of research on EIP-1559 / prediction there would be no fork (08:31) Kain Warwick: 'EIP-1559 demonstrates the continued success of rough consensus' (10:53) Trent Van Epps explainer on why base fees are currently still high (14:06) Jeff Stein: Yellen lobbying against crypto advocates' amendment to infrastructure bill (16:26) Jake Chervinksy: 'This bill still has to get through the house & if it does we will take it to court' (22:08) Zora: Partybid wins zombie-punk, fractionalising & distributing these NFT shards to all parties (23:50) Kayvon from Foundation: 'big tech & other chains are trying to co-opt the term "Metaverse"' (27:24) Token Terminal: a lot of activity on index coop governance forum (29:54)
Aug 5, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Nader explains EIP-1559 in 5 mins (00:09) Scott Moore looks back at the EIP-1559 Gitcoin grant (02:18) Barnabe Monnot on what's exciting about EIP-1559 *other* than the burn (02:58) Tim Beiko thread on London upgrade misconceptions (03:35) The Treeverse: a self-described "Runescape of blockchain" (06:37) Jerry Brito on amendment introduced to infrastructure bill explicitly excluding validators, wallet makers & protocol devs from the tax reporting (10:03) Jake Chervinksy: 'it is time to call your senators [about the infrastructure bill]. Here are some instructions' (11:51) Zora's Punks.House: a permissionless auction house for Cryptopunks (13:14) PartyDAO's PartyBId, where you can band together to buy NFTs collectively (13:26) Mean Finance: enabling automatic dollar-cost average purchases (18:17) Krystal, from Kyber: offering one platform for all of DeFi, raise $6.6M (21:45) Anthony's final note on EIP-1559 and the evolution of Ethereum in this context (24:02)
Aug 4, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) EIP-1559 goes live Thu 5th: things to look forward to (00:09) dYdX gov. token & airdrop but US citizens excluded bc regulatory capture (03:28) Hashflow dex, purportedly offering 0 slippage & MEV, launch open alpha (15:49) DiversiFi launch L2 bridge to Polygon (17:27) Sense Finance, splitting principle & yield, raise $5.2m in seed round (21:23) Alchemix raise $alETH cap to 3k making 1k available (23:13) A few words on recent DeFi exploits & Anthony's musts re personal opsec (25:07)
Aug 3, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Bankless London livestream w/ Anthony & other guests, Aug 5th 12.00 UTC (00:09) Electronic Frontier Foundation: 6 reasons we hate the Infrastructure bill (01:41) Stable Coins Market Cap chart & thoughts on dominance of USDC & USDT (06:59) Hayden Adams recreates "The French Dispatch" meme w/DeFi project leads (15:27) Ben DiFrancesco: "the EVM stack is locked in" (19:05) Risk Harbour's automated hack simulator, allowing est. of a future payout (22:00) Agent L2 waitlist: signup & be in running to win share of $270K sweepstake (24:19)
Aug 2, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) The Daily Gwei AMA w/ Daniel from @jobsincrypto: full transcript now available on TDG site (00:09) StatefulWorks: 100 physical Beacon Book auction finishes Aug 3rd 1600 UTC (01:24) @sassal on ETH fee burn after EIP-1559 and how "We invented bullish selling" (02:15) Michael Tant: Three Arrows Capital purchase Cryptopunks 12 & 88, now hold 100 such NFTs (10:52) Devin Finzer: In 2020 OpenSea did ~$21m in total tx volume. In the last 2 days it did $95m (16:08) L2Beat.com's update includes risk view / centralisation vector data (20:20) Rocker Pool launch official "Prater" testnet for 'trustless, decentralised liquid staking' (22:51) Jake Chervinksy on attempt to sneak unworkable crypto regulations within infrastructure bill (24:18) Ben Edgington's latest bumper "What's New in ETH2" blog edition (28:33) @sassano outlines the defining characteristics of different L2 solutions on Ethereum (29:21)
