Jun 30, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Gray Glacier goes through smoothly (00:10) Nethermind update (01:25) EthereumPools_info breaks down rewards post Merge (01:44) Prysmatic Labs community update (05:22) Vitalik on different approaches to capping validator size (06:09) Arbitrum Odyssey paused after unprecedented demand (11:15) Polygon Avail testnet live (20:40) Consensus partner with Starknet for Infura & Metamask (24:34) Compound Labs multi-chain update (26:14) EU imposing more regulations on self-hosted wallets (29:14) ImmutableX $IMX staking live (34:31) Sassal talk with Stani on SSV network (34:59)
Jun 29, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Note re yesterday’s lack of TDG (00:10) Sassal’s upcoming interview w/ Ben Edgington (00:56) Gray Glacier countdown less than 24h (02:24) ETH New York Finalists (05:00) Rocket Pool ‘Redstone’ release (06:47) Obol distributed validators ‘Charon’ v0.7 release (10:02) L2Beat’s new gov. forum (13:41) ETH TVL and fees v other chains (17:09) Henri explains Data Availability (22:10) Pintail on Data Availability Sampling (22:36) Chun on Gitcoin Grants 2.0 (23:18) Argent on Account Abstraction (25:21) Pmcgoohan - zeromev_org frontrunning explorer (25:55) Pseudotheos on RU cost advantage vs app chain (27:14) Joseph on astaria_xyz (30:01) Lyra introduce ’Avalon’ release (30:48)
Jun 27, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Sassal on portfolio risk management (00:10) Sepolia merge testnet July 6th (13:18) AllCoreDevs on mainnet shadow fork 7 (14:53) Vitalik’s Road to Account Abstraction (17:37) Bartek on RU sequencers (22:14) Protocol Guild video explainer (25:10) Coinbase Polygon Coinbase support (25:55) Basche42.eth on Rainbow L2 swap (27:38)
Jun 24, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Sassal bullish on the bear-market (00:10) Sassal on centralised co. compliance requirements (08:28) UPDATE to Gray Glacier (12:18) EFDevcon 2023 location suggestions (13:39) Coinbase send/receiving on Polygon (16:01) Norway government adopting public Ethereum (17:56) Joseph’s joke about DAOs on Discord (19:19) EulerDAO now live (24:22) Fuel Lab’s L2 SwaySwap devnet (26:13) ZigZag token distribution breakdown 🤡 (27:31) Etherscan ERC-721 & ERC-1155 transfer tracking (30:59)
Jun 23, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) dYdX v4 move to Cosmos (00:10) Sassal story from 2020 on Compound Chain proposal (02:20) Swagtimus.eth’s critique of standalone dApp chains (03:53) Henry’s argument on downsides of building on ETH (08:38) Polynya on 2 advantages v. 1 big problem w/ standalone L1s (17:18) Sassal’s criticism of community DAO voting (18:03) Sassal on Ethereum’s ambitiousness & possibility of becoming “next internet” (21:08) L2Beat’s rollup explorer for dYdX (23:38) Galleon launch Basis Yield ETH Index on Optimism (24:30) zkSync’s new features coming in V2 (25:51) Polygon ID is live (26:39)
Jun 22, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Sassal’s msg of appreciation to TDG community (00:09) Ropsten, Rinkeby & Kiln testnet deprecation (02:16) Peter’s praise for latest Geth - Full Sync mode (03:00) MetaMask rolling out Fiat to L2 feature (05:25) Arbitrum Odyssey campaign live (08:18) Odyssey’s Bridge Week stats (09:41) Uniswap Labs acquire Genie NFT aggregator (11:18) Voyager fund’s exposure to 3AC (14:17) eBay acquire KnownOrigin NFT marketplace (17:12) Tether launch British Pound stablecoin (18:34) Swell Network testnet launch (20:04) Lido Node Operator Set growth (21:02) Sassal on other L1s adopting Ethereum features (26:28)
Jun 21, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Sassal on dotcom bubble & crypto 2022 (00:10) Fred Ehrsam – ‘it can take decades for this tech to go mainstream’ (04:13) Sepolia Beacon chain live (10:37) Superphiz – cheap ETH is chance for more solo stakers (11:57) EF looking for proposals to build staking node docs (14:39) EF Fellowship Program cohort open (15:41) Trent on Gitcoin ETH infra matching pool (16:05) Timeless Finance yield protocol launch (17:03) Astaria $8M raise (18:29) Bancor disabled withdrawals - update (20:16) Solend drama & PoS misinformation (25:45) BlockFi bailed out by FTX (29:55) Sassal & Stani on the Merge, Twitter Spaces series (31:54)
Jun 20, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Sassal on buying ETH in triple digits (00:10) Solend app on Solana freeze accounts (08:33) Bancor pause impermanent loss protection (13:30) BlockFi struggle to raise cash (19:27) South Korean exit-ban on Terra employees (20:58) EIP-4844 notes and video (23:24) Sepolia Beacon chain launch (25:08) Gray Glacier upgrade in ~ 9 days (25:37) Antiprosynth – you can’t build robust protocol on frail, centralised BC (26:10) Arbitrum Odyssey begins June 21st, 1700 UTC (28:00) Immutable X launch $500M developer & Venture Fund (28:26) themerge.eth – Synthetix doing $100M+ daily volume (30:22) Uniswap Crypto Fees revenue explainer (31:56)
Jun 17, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) New DailyGwei_TV account on twitter (00:10) Euro Coin announced by Circle (01:44) Official Gray Glacier hard fork blog post (07:47) BIS talking about MEV (09:28) 3ac liquidated by big CEXs (14:17) Immutable X teaser video (20:56) rETH now on Maker as collateral (28:54) Pseudotheos on layer 3's (30:13) New project called Starksheet revealed (30:32) David Hoffman's on projects he's bullish on in the bear market (31:30)
Jun 16, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) 3AC liquidation update (00:10) Blocknative 3AC wallets tracker (06:26) Gray Glacier difficulty 💣 delayed, merge on track (06:46) Peter on the power of constructive criticism within ⟠ (09:23) Nethermind Warp 2.0 release (12:36) Linda’s 3rd and most optimistic bear market (13:22) Polynya - multiple RU sequences to shared state & proof (17:15) Polynya - 99% silicon saving in PoS (20:02) Tribe / Rari drama with DAO lacking co-ordindation (22:02) StarkWare partner w/ OnlyDust_xyz (29:36) Immutable X’s ‘Arch’ NFT bridging protocol (30:01)
Jun 15, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) The crypto markets humble all (00:10) Three Arrows Capital blowing up (01:02) VC firms with lots of cash are in a good position (10:41) Sepolia testnet config now live (12:42) Mainnet shadow fork 7 coming soon (14:28) Merge Readiness Checklist for solo stakers (15:14) Opensea moves to the Seaport protocol (16:57) Updates to the Simple Optimism Node setup (18:46) Superfluid now cross-chain (20:06) zkRollup Directory v2.0 now live (21:45) Polygon teasing zk-Rollup (23:19) Polygon hiring for number of roles (25:00) Some notes on bull and bear markets (26:30)
Jun 14, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) The Merge instructional series (00:10) Sassal’s health/podcast routine in the last bear market (01:42) Coinbase reduce team by 18% (09:41) Ethereum_Org updates (17:10) Oisin on The Modular Ethereum stack (19:15) zkSync’s major testnet update (21:10) Bert on MEV extracted from recent Ξ65k Maker payment (22:01) Sassal on how ‘the real DeFi 1.0’ is still working well (24:05) Interest Protocol live (27:42) Jasper on voting to get rETH on Maker (28:55) Scroll introduce themselves (30:02)
Jun 13, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) US inflation numbers & market meltdown (00:10) Celcius pausing transfers, may be insolvent (10:32) Sassal’s thesis in 2017 vs now is the same (16:46) Sassal on not playing with leverage (18:16) Someone sold Ξ65k to pay down Maker pos. (18:23) Tim on delaying diff. 💣, merge still on track (20:16) Punk#4156 on benefits of blockchains over databases (24:24) Most $OP returned by hacker (27:55) 400k active validators on beacon chain staking Ξ12.8M (29:44) Gitcoin R14 still ongoing (31:13)
Jun 10, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Danny Ryan's Ropsten merge recap (00:10) Finding the highest signal in crypto (03:43) stETH secondary market antics (08:10) Aztec Connect delayed due to bugs (14:29) Miga Labs consensus layer client analysis (16:04) Hop token launches (17:25) First OP governance update (26:36) A thread on StarkWare gaming (28:05) Charles Hoskinson fuds Ethereum (29:01)
Jun 9, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Ropsten merge goes smoothly (00:10) Vitalik needs a better microphone (01:30) Parithosh’s summary of Ropsten merge (01:55) Reminder of testnets shutting down (08:11) The fallacy that Ethereum is hotswapping to something new (08:43) Wintermute lose their OP tokens (11:15) Legal wrappers for DAOs (16:17) Morpho-Compound lending (19:27) Electricity comparisons for world, Ethereum, Bitcoin (20:31) Benchmarks for latest tokenomics (24:25) Gitcoin Grants R14 now live (30:19)
Jun 8, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Sassal on Ropsten, Sepolia, Görli. mainnet merges (00:10) Merge livestream link (02:01) Korpi’s bull-case on the merge (03:46) Jake’s breaksdown of Sen. Lummis’ & Sen. Gillibrand’s bill (05:49) db – PayPal withdrawals to personal wallets on the blockchain (08:51) Euler Finance’s $32M funding round (13:11) DiversiFi launch cross-chain to all DeFi (15:44) Litocoen – how to add sites to Metamask Phishing Detection (17:57) Hilldobby’s Dune dashboard tracking Optimism DEX vol. (20:14) Benjamin’s ‘Understanding the EVM – Simplified’ (22:05) Hasu on ‘MEV boost’ (22:54) Obol Network hiring numerous roles (25:09) Obol video explainer (26:20)
Jun 7, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Responsible Financial Innovation Act (00:10) Sassal’s highlights of the bill (01:14) db’s list of other provisions in the bill (02:00) Sassal on $BNB as a security (03:17) Sassal – Rospten merge in ~48h (07:40) Lightclients on solo staking & “at home” MEV (10:09) Patrick’s mental model to compare L1 & L2 systems (11:40) Pseudotheos – what will BC landscape look like in 5y (17:58) Gitcoin Grants R14 starts in 2 days (21:30) Devcon Bogota update (23:25)
Jun 6, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Sassal on crypto’s image problem to the outside world (00:10) Ropsten Merge update (17:35) Trent’s updated graphic on Merge timeline (18:21) Eric – ETH likely to reach 0% net issuance before BTC (19:28) Sassal - L2 among Top 4 ETH burners (23:36) UltraSoundMoney – OpenSea burned over $1B in ETH (25:21) Sassal – games like Diablo are why gamers hate NFTs (26:09) ZackXBT on how the bigger grifters get away with it (29:36) Anthony on StakeBorgDAO interview (34:19)
Jun 3, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) LSD for solo validators (00:09) Record gas used to settle ⟠L2 txs (08:18) Litcoen: stop posting gov. forum screenshots! (12:20) Hasu & Vitalik: why $OP for tx fees proposal ngmi (13:49) Sassal: most start-ups fail in first 5 yrs -- inc. crypto (17:15) Pseudotheos: everything on ⟠ that’s not priced-in (19:53) Balancer live on Optimism (23:13) Bartek explains how L2s derive security from ⟠L1 (23:53) Anthony on putting mental health ahead of markets (24:15)
Jun 2, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Cobie on proposal to blacklist $OP sellers (00:10) Sassal on EVM dominance (10:00) Nate from OpenSea charged w/ Insider trading (17:17) Peter on ⟠ devs building new systems to offer choice (22:18) Voltz Protocol live alpha (24:10) EF grantee roundup (26:26) Coinbase Cloud commit $1M toward public goods (26:57) ENS’s recording breaking stats in May (28:11) Interest Protocol details (29:04) ImmutableX trading rewards campaign (30:55) Shout-out to Michael Sproul’s staking box photo (31:44)
Jun 1, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Optimisms’ $OP airdrop claim live (00:10) Hildobby’s Dune dashboard for $OP (04:10) Sassal - $OP turning degens to regens (08:08) David on Optimism fees 1.6% of Ethereum network (11:14) Polynya asks why Optimism’s launch was buggy (12:23) Sassal on RPC vs chains going off line (13:32) Sassal – scaling doesn’t matter if we aren’t building (15:15) Sassal on GPU’s hitting market post Merge (21:43) Swell Network for liquid ETH staking (23:50) Coinbase Cloud’s work re. client diversity (27:18) Sassal on PoS FUD shifting from ‘not happening’ to ‘plutocracy’ (28:35) DeFi Saver live on Optimism & Arbitrum (30:38)
