Aug 30, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) The Merge updates (00:10) Merge data challenge (05:48) Arbitrum Nitro goes live tomorrow (14:23) Facebook and Instagram NFTs live on Polygon (15:45) StarkWare-powered Myria detailed (18:19) Fixed borrowing live on Voltz (22:10) Phi live on testnet (22:57) Justin Drake on Bankless (26:12)
Aug 29, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Ben's last 'What's New in Eth2' newsletter (00:10) Danny Ryan's latest Finalized (02:00) A discussion on cloud node hosting (02:48) One-click EL/CL running tool (09:42) Why was Solidity invented? (10:35) Update on mainnet merge call (13:32) New layer 2 called Specular unveiled (15:53) Abitrum Nitro is coming (20:40) Rocket Pool Redstone upgrade now live (21:31) A point-of-sale terminal handling crypto payments (23:34) Spruce introduces TreeLDR (25:25) Podcast with Hal Press (26:06) The failed "barbell strategy" (26:35)
Aug 26, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Coin Center's Tornado Cash explainer (00:10) David's nomadic staking setup (03:21) Kain putting up 100k SNX bounty for EIP-4844 (08:41) Obol releases Charon v0.10 (14:40) Beacon Chain decentralization data (17:40) a16z donates $300k to Gitcoin (18:56) Compound III now live (22:05) Arbitrum Nitro whitepaper published (25:45)
Aug 25, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Official mainnet merge blog post live (00:10) Rocket Pool Smartnode stack v1.6.0 released (03:31) Update on arrested Tornado Cash dev (03:55) Vitalik on crypto payments (07:59) Coinbase announces cbETH token (13:37) Tether on Tornado Cash addresses (19:24) Otterscan detailed (21:22) Spectral Finance raises $23mil (23:47) Fresh DEX dashboard (25:15) Happy 1st birthday to Bankless Brasil (26:05)
Aug 24, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Geth v1.1.23 released to fix critical bug (00:10) Somer Esat's new merge-ready guides (05:21) Staking from home trend (07:07) Rocket Pool MEV-Boost update (10:55) An update on Connext's Amarok Upgrade (12:45) Optimism Summer update (18:37) Tom Emmer's letter to Secretary Yellen (20:59) Shout out to antiprosynthesis (23:52)
Aug 23, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Eric Wall's case for social slashing (00:10) Resources to support arrested Tornado Cash dev (06:00) Matthew Green republishes Tornado Cash code (08:58) Banteg's graphic on mining/staking distribution (11:04) Vitalik on what to build next in Ethereum (16:36) ETH flywheel effect (18:55) Arbitrum Nitro coming in 9 days (21:28) Maker teaming up with Huntingdon Valley Bank (22:38) Gitcoin Grants round 15 reminder (26:50) Swell Network guarded launch live on Ethereum mainnet (27:27) Some info on the mainnet merge call (28:40) Final twitter spaces with SSV network (30:10)
Aug 22, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Merge client releases coming out (00:10) New DAppNode multiclient features (01:06) Brian Armstrong shares a regulatory tracker chart (02:34) Protest in Amsterdam over arrested Tornado Cash dev (06:32) Alex Van de Sande on recent OFAC news (08:22) Polynya's unpopular opinion on censorship (11:31) BitMEX's blog post on technical nuances in Ethereum PoS (17:12) Banteg's graphic on Lido validator distribution (18:50) Without privacy, we're building dystopia (21:22) Aztec on recent issues with privacy tools (23:57) Mallows graphic on state of Ethereum decentralization (27:56) Layer 1 and layer 1 metrics chat (29:07) Orbiter Finance's tweet on rollup growth (30:40) Astaria's thread on the Astaria three actor model (31:30)
Aug 19, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) AllCoreDevs call recap (00:10) Hal Press on the ACD call (10:02) Jake Chervinsky on the arrested Tornado Cash developer (10:54) Suzuha's thoughts on arrested Tornado Cash dev (12:17) Pineapple browser extension to check if you're blocked or not on frontends (15:46) Run your own Aave interface locally (16:24) On fake news in crypto (17:59) Aztec and Balance partner up (21:49) Gnosis Safe token distribution proposal now live (24:10) GitPOAP announces $4.3 million seed round (25:40) Ultra Sound Poap being teased (27:11)
Aug 18, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Coinbase staking would shut down if forced to censored (00:10) Ethereum’s credible neutrality & censorship resistance non-negotiable (07:15) Flashbots open source their relay due to OFAC action (12:39) How to block ‘narcware’ in dapp UIs w/ Brave filters (14:22) Merge Mainnet Readiness checklist all checked (16:45) EthereumDotOrg docs for nodes & clients updated (18:44) Geth AMA on Reddit (19:20) ’ls Is the Merge priced in?’ article (19:54) Coinbase Wallet integrates Polygon bridge (24:39) Canada regulators limit non-ETH/BTC/LTC/BCH purchases to $30k a person (25:22)
Aug 17, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) A Ethereum UASF to oppose OFAC censorship (00:09) Impossible to reach global consensus if following OFAC (07:21) All Ethereum addresses would be blocked under TRM (09:19) How to run your own front-end (11:20) Grounds for optimism re privacy on Ethereum (12:19) Aztec Nucelo for private multisigs on Ethereum (14:18) Consensus Client diversity & Ethereum’s strong social consensus (15:16) Tradeoffs in a post EIP-4844 world (20:22) Aave signals full commitment to PoS (21:00) ultrasound_money as ‘ultra-Swiss knife for ETH monetary status’ (21:44) ENS crosses 2m names created (22:56) Uniswap GIF of liquidity vs ETH price over time (23:45) Connext bridge supports Arbitrum Nova chain (25:39) Sassal’s shyte post on 'how to scale Ethereum to $100 trillion' (26:27)
Aug 16, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Ethereum community likely to resist permanent base-layer censorship (00:09) Coin Centre believes OFAC action is unconstitutional (03:56) Poll shows overwhelming support to slash any validator choosing to censor (07:48) Ethereans will always ask the hard questions (12:22) Tornado Cash isn’t even good at money laundering (16:02) EFF release statement strongly opposing OFAC action (17:32) Proposal for EF to cease funding any dapp that censors (18:17) Pull request to enable Merge (19:43) Confirming TTD of Merge & probable time (20:19) Buenos Aires to run Ethereum nodes in 2023 (23:12) Gitcoin Grants R15 details (25:03) zkSync 2.0 details (26:32) Galleon introduce Portfolios feature (27:13)
Aug 15, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Why Ethereum is more of a threat to Nation-State than Bitcoin (00:08) Front-end censorship on Aave & other dapps (05:12) Flashbots incorporates OFAC address blacklist too (07:18) Many front-ends conforming to OFAC without having to (08:42) VB’s two solutions to such censorship including PBS & crList (12:38) A Shutterised Beacon Chain as another censorship resistance solution (15:35) Baselayer privacy as a broader solution to censorship (16:00) The question of Coinbase validator censorship following OFAC (19:28) Six-degrees of separation from Tornado Cash wallets (23:09) Post-mortem on Görli Merge inc. why validators were offline (26:00) Finalized NL no. 36 (29:45) Latest What’s New in Eth2 NL (30:06) Rainbow Wallet customised profile pics (30:23) Aztec privacy protocol update (31:10)
Aug 12, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Ethereum mainnet merge date set (00:10) Bellatrix fork time (04:49) Saving money by doing the merge earlier (05:21) Mainnet merge nfts (08:56) Tornado Cash developer arrested (09:33) L2Beat's dydx escape hatch tool (16:06) Lodestar's post on Light Clients (20:10) Li.fi's bridge stack blog post (20:58) Recursive proving live on StarkNet (21:48) Orbiter Finance L2 tracking tools (23:06)
Aug 11, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Tim - Görli testnet merged (00:08) Marius - so far “quite good” bar a few validators (01:00) Superphiz.eth - sources for interpreting the outcome of this merge (06:51) Seth’s on the legal implications of sanctioning a piece of (Tornado Cash) code (08:25) Casey’s visualisation of Ethereum’s historical gas consumption (15:56) DeFiSaver for Aave v3 on Arbitrum now live (21:07) Optimism explained in the simplest terms (22:43) Polynomial’s next gen. Earn Vaults on Optimism (23:54) CowSwap MEV resistant aggregator break new records (26:07)
Aug 10, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Tornado Cash user sending protest/trolling txs to prominent wallets (00:09) Goerli Merge happening today w/ Bankless livestream (03:29) Tether and Circle announce support for PoS only (05:03) New Blocknative feature re block building (06:09) DeFi Pulse interview w/ Justin Drake on Merge (06:57) Arbitrum Nova launched (08:51) L2Beat project page on Arbitrum Nova (12:19) L2Beat major site upgrade (12:39) Introducing Ingonyama zkp project (13:57) Scroll overview of their Roller Network (16:58) Metamask UX/UI updates re permissions (18:52) Gamestop Wallet fully integrated w/ ImmutableX (20:33) Pseudotheos thread on crypto’s inherently political nature (21:11) Sassal on the beginning of the war between crypto and nations states (23:39)
Aug 9, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Catchup from yesterday; Tornado Cash sanctioning (00:09) Tornado Cash dev’s Github accounts suspended (01:27) Reza lists all the legal ways Tornado Cash could be used for (02:58) Sassal, by way of Eric, vindicated for previous tweet on USDC blacklisting (08:22) Sassal - ‘this won’t prevent criminals when they can just use banks!’ (14:13) Coincenter runs through the legal aspects (14:41) Vitalik on using Stealth Addresses (14:50) Tim on Görli/Prater merge scheduled later this week (18:09) Parithosh on Görli merge requirements (18:46) Trent on last upcoming merge community call (20:34) EtherWorld recap of Shadow Forks (21:07) TheProtocolGuild’s recent milestones (22:10) Takenstheorem’s RT visualising decline of MEV post EIP-1559 (22:56) Takenstheorem’s image of how EIP-1558 smoothed gas fees (24:41) Polynya draft proposal to pause funding on Optimism (25:22) Alex’s ground-up guide to zkRoll-Ups and zkEVMS (28:03) Kelvin on mirroring NFTs (proving provenance) (29:24) Sandeep on Indian state issuing 100k+ digital diplomas on Polygon (31:21) Anthony on Show Me the Crypto’s “Understanding the Merge” podcast (34:11) Anthony live on Collective Shift podcast (34:48)
Aug 5, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) EIP-1559 1st anniversary, 2.1% ETH burned since (00:09) Prater/Görli upgraded to Bellatrix (03:45) Akula Ethereum execution client released (05:47) Scroll seeking GPUs post merge (06:55) Coinbase partner w/ BlackRock (10:38) Jon’s complete (86 page) guide to RUs (16:00) A Universal Verification Equation for Data availability Sampling by ASN (18:52) Arbitrum Nitro launching August 31st (20:47) Uniswap Foundation proposed (24:57) GitPoap holders eligible to mint Lens profiles (28:04)
Aug 4, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Official TDG merch (00:09) Sepolia post-merge housekeeping (01:03) Goldman Sachs cover The Merge (01:43) Bankless educational on The Merge (04:57) Finmatics.eth video on The Merge (05:50) Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) explained (07:32) Vitalik on different types of zkEVMs (08:51) Vitalik discusses compression on RUs (09:53) Superphiz.eth on the multitude of Ethereum clients (12:50) Analysis of the 44M+ contracts deployed to Ethereum (17:16) “L2H2” Synthetix update (22:29) Voyager explorer released for Starknet (23:25) OnlyDust Beta live on testnet (24:36) Anthony on disconnect between the tech & market (26:07)
Aug 3, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) CFTC legislation to codify BTC & ETH as commodities (00:09) Why dataalways.eth is bullish on The Merge (06:04) Optimism Bedrock - more details (15:42) Scroll protocol deep-drive (20:14) Transmission11 disputing FUD regarding RUs (21:18) Anthony’s SSV interview recording (27:03)
Aug 2, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) The Merge trolling (00:10) Nomad bridge hack (05:00) Gitcoin Grants R15 Sep 7-22 (11:48) Coinbase Prime institutional staking (12:48) Rainbow Optimism NFT (15:36) ENS - another record month (16:42) Aspect NFT marketplace on StarkNet (19:34) Flashstake yield protocol “Flash Month” (21:37) Anthony & Mudit Gupta on SSV network show (23:46) Anthony on the future of smart contact security (24:47)
Aug 1, 2022
Introductory song (00:00) Ethereum’s 7th birthday (00:10) Track the Görli merge at bordel_wtf (04:59) Thread on Optimism Bedrock zkRU client (14:24) Vitalik’s idea of Optimistic + ZK RUs (20:05) Scroll architecture overview (22:50) The Merge core devs NFT benefit sale (24:14) Anthony on predictability of market cycles (25:20)
