Best Global IP Solutions Podcasts (2025)

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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, The [LAST] Steward of Decentralisation 39:19

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The tradition of Epicenter x Vitalik Buterin continued this year as well at EthCC[8], where we got the chance of picking his brain about recent research, interests and Ethereum Foundation’s direction going forward. Join us for a fascinating discussion on biotech and how Vitalik’s Shiba ended up funding it, the utility of blockchains in nowadays soc…

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Stripe: The Stablecoin (R)Evolution - John Egan 1:05:36

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Stripe has established itself as a leading payment solution for both enterprises as well as startups and individual sellers. By abstracting away all the complexities of traditional payment rails through simple plug-and-play APIs, Stripe created a facile route for cross-border payments, simplifying e-commerce. Similarly, Stripe’s recent integration …

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t1 Protocol: Unifying Ethereum's L2 Liquidity Through Real-Time Proving - Can Kisagun 1:01:41

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While L2 rollups did help scale Ethereum, they also created siloed ecosystems, all fighting over the same liquidity, users and devs. t1 Protocol is building layer-2 infrastructure to achieve seamless cross-rollup interoperability through real-time proving, powered by TEEs. t1's low-latency with 1-second block times provides faster preconfirmations,…

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The Way to Your Marketplace: Protection & Monetization of Automation Solutions | Hannover Messe 2025 45:19

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At Hannover Messe 2025, Stefan Bamberg, Wibu-Systems' Director Sales and KAM, delivers a deep dive masterclass on building secure, flexible online marketplaces for automation vendors. Covering real world architectures and hands on best practices, you’ll learn how to: Implement end to end protection for embedded and edge devices Design licensing fra…

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DappCon 25: The Ticker Is $ETH - Jerome de Tychey, Joshua Dávila & Nixorokish 1:12:32

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As the summer tour of European crypto conferences landed in Berlin, one of crypto’s cradles, we couldn’t miss DappCon 25, where we got to sit with Jerome de Tychey, Nixorokish & Joshua Dávila to discuss Ethereum’s restructure and whether its culture is still relevant to the wider crypto community. Join us for a fascinating discussion on the impact …

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Lombard: Unlocking Bitcoin DeFi Through Liquid, Yield-Bearing LBTC - Jacob Phillips 1:11:09

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Bitcoin remains an untapped source of net-new liquidity that could be injected into DeFi. This would completely reshape Bitcoin’s utilization from a mere store of value to a liquid asset that can be ported cross-chain and traded like a liquid staking derivative. Lombard’s LBTC builds upon Babylon’s Bitcoin staking primitive and aims to unlock new y…

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Staking Rewards: Is Crypto Staking Killing Decentralisation? - Mirko Schmiedl & Tobias Jung 54:55

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Apart from incentivising market participants to secure the network through inflationary rewards, many consider staking as an equivalent of stock dividend yield. As a result, although Bitcoin is regarded as digital gold, protocols are looking for ways to increase its utilisation in DeFi and, ultimately, generate yield. Nowadays, while newer networks…

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ETHPrague: ETH Renaissance - Austin Griffith, Brenda Loya, Joseph Schweitzer, Marek Olszewski 1:00:25

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After a decade of existence, Ethereum has gone a long way from its initial whitepaper, yet many efforts in scaling and finding product-market-fit have been severely criticized for falling short of their promise. However, despite numerous other ‘Ethereum killers’ being launched over the years, none has managed to attract so many developers and liqui…

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The Multi-Chain Avalanche - Emin Gün Sirer 31:52

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We couldn’t miss the Avalanche Summit where we sat down with Emin Gün Sirer, co-founder & CEO of Ava Labs, to discuss the evolution of Avalanche’s ecosystem and how HyperSDK ushers in a scalable, interoperable, multi-chain future. Join us for a fascinating discussion on Avalanche’s approach to decentralisation, scalability & interoperability, and l…

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Initia: Incentively Aligned Appchains - Ezaan Mangalji, Anil Lulla & Jose Maria Macedo 1:02:08

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Blockchain architecture is constantly being forced to adapt to new technologies, as well as to meet new demands from users and builders. While the idea of apps building their own chains was first explored by Cosmos, it lacked the support and tooling to see it succeed. Later on, rollups also took the centerstage of Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, but du…

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Replay ~ Part 2 - Pocketed Story with Co-Founders Brianna Blaney and Aria Hahn 23:03

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Segment 2 continues ~ A candid convo with Pocketed Co-Founders Brianna Blaney and Aria Hahn from British Colombia, Canada. We are talking about the key ingredients which they implement to build Pocketed company culture as well as how to use the Pocketed platform to generate a list of grant funding opportunities. There is definitely a golden nugget …

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Replay ~ Pocketed Story with Entrepreneurs: Brianna Blaney and Aria Hahn 34:19

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Welcome to season three of the Canadian Side Hustle and Business Podcast! This week’s interview is with Brianna Blaney and Aria Hahn, the Co-Founders of Pocketed - a technology platform which will generate where the grant money is in Canada and much more. Brianna and Aria will share with you how the idea for Pocketed was seeded and how they validat…

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Ethereum Foundation: Humanity’s Shared World Computer - Hsiao-Wei Wang & Tomasz Stańczak 1:10:21

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As society evolves, so do its values and principles, but is that desirable for technology that seeks to build the most reliable, trustless and censorship resistant global settlement layer? Ever since the rise in popularity of Solana with its inflow of retail capital in a memecoin gold rush, Ethereum became even more criticized for sticking true to …

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Taiko: Scaling Ethereum in a Decentralised Manner - Joaquin Mendes 1:08:05

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Taiko is a decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent (type I) rollup scaling solution which uses ZK technology. Taiko's goal is to scale Ethereum efficiently while maintaining security and decentralization. Being a type I zkEVM, Taiko retains full Ethereum equivalence, which creates a seamless DevEx, although this comes at the expense of UX as slower proo…

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Mysten Labs: How Sui Leverages Move to Build the Composable Web3nternet - Adeniyi Abiodun 1:03:09

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Founded by former Meta Diem team members, Sui is a high-performance, layer-1 blockchain designed for horizontal scaling and low-latency transactions. It uses an object-centric data model and the Move programming language to enable transaction parallelization which can handle >200,000 txs/s. Sui’s goal is to combine the benefits of blockchains with …

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Maple Finance: On-Chain Institutional Yield & Lending Markets - Sidney Powell 54:49

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With an extensive experience in traditional money markets, Maple Finance was envisioned as an institutional capital marketplace which combines the transparency & capital efficiency of blockchains with the regulatory framework of TradFi. Unlike many DeFi protocols that require over-collateralized loans (e.g. Aave), Maple also specializes in under-co…

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Building Picketa Systems From Scratch w/Founder Xavier Hébert-Couturier 32:42

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Great to be in conversation with Picketa Systems Founder Xavier Hébert-Couturier living in New Brunswick, Canada. Xavier comes with a background of deep farming roots and he is currently in growth mode for Picketa Systems, a new innovative agricultural technology company which is changing the way leaf testing is being conducted in the Agricultural …

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Tally: The Software Layer for Tokenized Organizations - Dennison Bertram 1:01:21

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Tally is a software platform designed to support tokenized organizations, particularly Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and crypto communities. It provides tools for launching tokens, governing protocols, and enabling staking to foster community participation and growth. Tally facilitates onchain governance, allowing transparent and de…

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ENS V2 Cross-Chain Domains & Namechain - Nick Johnson 48:42

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Namechain is an L2 developed by ENS Labs, to enhance the scalability and efficiency of managing decentralized identities on Ethereum. It is designed to work in tandem with ENS V2, which introduced a hierarchical registry system for more efficient subdomain management and custom resolvers. A key vision for Namechain is to unify multi-chain user iden…

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Lido V3: Ushering in Institutional Staking Through stVaults - Hasu 1:19:32

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Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake created a unique set of conditions (i.e. lack of protocol-level delegation, 32 ETH requirement, long exit queues, etc.) that led to Lido’s liquid staking model to gain huge traction, significantly eclipsing other LSD providers on native PoS chains. stETH added on-demand liquidity, bypassing…

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Ronin: How Axie Infinity Kickstarted the Blockchain Gaming Revolution - Jeff Zirlin 54:34

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While DeFi’s ultimate goal is to provide an alternative for TradFi, blockchain gaming caters to retail masses, onboarding millions of users to crypto through incentives and fun gameplay. The greatest success story in Web3 gaming thus far has been, without a doubt, Axie Infinity. Apart from creating an engaged community whose early adopters also exp…

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Solana: From On-Chain Nasdaq to the Pump Fun Craze - Anatoly Yakovenko 1:18:28

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Solana needs no introduction. Ever since its inception, it pushed throughput scaling on a single chain, without the need of sharding or rollups. Despite its ups and downs that culminated at the bottom of the bear market after the FTX crash, it managed to not only survive, but build a vibrant community around crypto's (arguably) most prominent PMF (…

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Revolutionizing Licensing in Industry 4.0: Desoutter & Wibu-Systems on Unit Values 6:16

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Wibu-Systems presents Conversations with Customers - Our Talk with Desoutter Industrial Tools Join us for an in-depth interview with representatives from Desoutter and Wibu-Systems as they reveal how the innovative Unit Values (UVs) model from Desoutter powered with Wibu-Sytems' CodeMeter technology is transforming licensing in the automotive and a…

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Build on Bitcoin: Combining Bitcoin's Security With Ethereum's Versatility - Alexei Zamyatin 1:10:10

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Bitcoin’s security and reliability as a store of value are undeniable. However, its liquidity remained untapped for too long due to a lack of trustless bridges and native smart contract capabilities. As BTC is only native to Bitcoin’s L1, any attempt to include it in DeFi relies on the trust assumptions of third party custodians that wrap it. Build…

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CodeMeter & MVTec: How Licensing & Security Drive Machine Vision Innovation 5:15

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Wibu-Systems presents Conversations with Customers - Our talk with MVTec Software How does CodeMeter ensure secure, flexible, and long-term licensing for MVTec’s machine vision software? In this insightful discussion, we explore how Wibu-Systems' cutting-edge licensing and security solutions support MVTec’s HALCON and MERLIC products across diverse…

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Puja Ohlhaver: Why Community Currencies Are Crucial for Governance in DeSoc 1:04:42

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In the digital networked age, people’s attention often overlooks local problems in favour of global ones, which don’t necessarily impact them in their daily lives, or over which they don’t have a say due to the skewed Pareto distribution of power in modern day societies. Puja Ohlhaver, in her recent research paper ‘Community currencies’, proposes a…

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How Tetra Pak Leverages CodeMeter for Secure IP Protection & Monetization 5:23

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Wibu-Systems presents Conversations with Customers: Our Talk with Tetra Pak Discover how Tetra Pak integrated Wibu-Systems' CodeMeter technology into its technician support portal to enhance security, streamline user experience, and enable software and hardware monetization. Pravin Karthick Murugesan, Automation Engineer at Tetra Pak, and Stefan Ba…

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Nevermined: Payment System for the AI Agentic Economy - Don Gossen 1:04:38

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Even though current LLM providers usually charge flat rates regardless if the subscriber is a ‘power user’ or not, as AI agents become the workhorses of the online economy, a dynamic AI-to-AI payments infrastructure would prove crucial for proper remuneration. Nevermined proposes a blockchain-agnostic, AI-agnostic credit system, that each builder c…

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Transforming Industrial App Deployment: Insights from Hilscher and Wibu-Systems 8:23

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Wibu-Systems presents Conversations with Solution Partners: Our talk with HILSCHER How can industrial app marketplaces enhance efficiency, security, and integration for industrial users? In this exclusive interview, we explore the Flagship Store for the OI4 Community and its impact on industrial IoT, licensing models, and software protection. Disco…

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Turtle Club: Helping Web3 Users Monetize Their On-Chain Activity - Esfandiar Lagevardi 1:09:25

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As more and more protocols compete for marketshare, user acquisition represents one of the most important elements of the GTM strategy. Web3 projects, through their governance tokens, can incentivise users directly to participate in meaningful activities for each protocol, subsidising their revenue generation through vested upside in the project. T…

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Effortless SAP Integration with CodeMeter License Central: Scenarios, Benefits, and Key Features 6:19

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Wibu-Systems presents Conversations with Solution Partners: Our talk with INFORMATICS In this interview, experts Ruediger Kuegler, VP Professional Services at WIBU-SYSTEMS AG, and Henry Ritzlmayr, CTO at INFORMATICS Holding GmbH, discuss how SAP integrates with CodeMeter License Central to streamline licensing and subscription models. Discover: The…

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Story Protocol: Tokenizing Intelligence Into Programmable IP Assets - Jason Zhao 58:54

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As online content becomes predominantly AI-driven, intellectual property (IP) rights should not be neglected as (human) creators will heavily rely on them. While the main use cases for blockchains revolve around financial applications, one could argue that our everyday lives constantly intersect IPs in different forms. Although the legal framework …

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Balancer: Custom AMMs and Liquidity Solutions - Fernando Martinelli 1:04:35

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While AMMs (automated market makers) represent a DeFi innovation in themselves, research and experimentation have pushed the possibilities well beyond the limitations of the classic x*y=k constant product formula originally used by LPs. One of the main innovators in this field remains Balancer - from multi-token pools with different weights replica…

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Kiln: Democratising Value Creation in Digital Assets - Laszlo Szabo 59:58

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Kiln operates as a staking-as-a-service platform, primarily focused on Ethereum, enabling users to stake assets programmatically, managing validators, rewards, and commissions through an API-first approach. In addition, it offers white-label solutions that allow institutional clients to integrate staking functionalities into their own offerings, wi…

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Babylon: Self-Custodial Bitcoin Native Staking & Bitcoin-Secured Networks - David Tse 49:43

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Throughout the years, there were many attempts of tapping into Bitcoin’s liquidity and security, but almost all of them came with different caveats. Most notably, wrapped BTC (wBTC) depended on the wrapper contract security. However, the recent surge in research and development for native solutions has led to breakthroughs previously thought imposs…

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RedStone: The Oracle Pioneering the Future of DeFi - Marcin Kaźmierczak 1:04:40

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The DeFi landscape has significantly evolved since 2018 when Chainlink was launched. Recent developments such as L2 rollups, liquid staking, restaking and the rise of BTC DeFi have created huge demand for more customizable, modular oracles that would be able to provide accurate data for countless use cases, crosschain. RedStone set out to do exactl…

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Privado ID & Quark ID: On-Chain ZK-Powered Unified ID - Diego Fernandez & Evin McMullen 1:06:49

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Traditional KYC and AML regulations have often forced companies to comply, without having the right tools to do so. Simply storing users’ personal information led to the creation of security honeypots which haven’t gone unnoticed by hackers. Web3 solutions like Privado ID aim to cryptographically prove certain traits from a user’s personal data, wi…

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Abundance: The First 1 Gigagas/second Stack for Sovereign Rollups - Hilmar Orth 1:09:00

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One of the most limited blockchain resources is blockspace. From Bitcoin’s Blocksize Wars to Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, a common denominator seems to have emerged in the form of rollups. Advancements in zero knowledge proofs have enabled trustless bridges, which are a cornerstone to onboarding liquidity to any blockchain. Furthermore, Celestia’s m…

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Monad: The EVM-Compatible 10,000 TPS L1 Blockchain - Keone Hon 1:10:54

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The status quo for developers choosing an ecosystem for their blockchain usually revolves around trade-offs: do they go for Ethereum’s network effect, liquidity and decentralisation, or sacrifice some features in favour of a higher throughput. Monad aims to combine the best of both worlds, while not being limited by excessive hardware requirements.…

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Succinct: Every Rollup Will Be a ZK Rollup! - Uma Roy 49:28

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Polynomials are quintessential in machine learning for establishing relationships between outputs and inputs. However, there is also a field in cryptography which could not be made possible without polynomials - zero-knowledge technology. In zero-knowledge proof systems, computations are often represented as arithmetic circuits, and these circuits …

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Bitcoin OS: Bitcoin Block 853626 Changed Everything For BTC Smart Contracts - Edan Yago 1:10:20

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Bitcoin’s Taproot update paved the way for a new & exciting era for Bitcoin, as it expanded its use case far beyond that of an immutable ledger. However, Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens and, more recently, Runes, have limited functionality compared to what DeFi is capable of, on other smart contract blockchains. BitcoinOS envisions a revolutionary Bitcoin …

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Symbiotic: Scaling Shared Security Through Restaking - Misha Putiatin 1:05:36

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Bootstrapping and maintaining a validator set can be a challenging endeavour, especially for projects that are in search of a product market fit. However, this does not mean one should abandon the ethos of decentralisation in favour of a more streamlined centralised approach. The notion of shared security had been previously explored in the Cosmos …

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Ari Juels: Can AI Weaponize Blockchain Smart Contracts? - Chainlink 1:04:05

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A smart contract’s rigid rule system represents a double-edged sword. ‘The Code is Law’, but what happens when rogue large language models or AI agents bend the Law? Can smart contracts be weaponised to serve a criminal agenda? In his ‘Oracle’ novel, Ari Juels explores this thesis and issues an eery warning regarding the blockchain x AI intersectio…

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Citrea: Modular Rollup Framework on Bitcoin - Orkun Mahir Kilic 44:15

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Bitcoin’s lack of native programmability, coupled with advancements in zero knowledge cryptography, has led to rollups being explored as a substitute for an execution layer. Citrea’s approach involves using Bitcoin as a data availability & settlement layer for their zero knowledge rollup. These rollups not only lower transaction costs, but they als…

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Anoma: Solving Cross-Chain Interoperability Through Intents - Adrian Brink 1:05:02

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Inspired by Cosmos’ IBC ethos, Anoma takes interoperability a step further, from VM (virtual machine) to IM (intent machine). While traditional dApps that run on virtual machines require step-by-step instructions to achieve a desired outcome, Anoma’s universal intent machine design allows users to simply define their end-results which are then aggr…

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Dappnode: Plug-n-Play Decentralization - Eduardo Antuña, Pol Lanski 1:18:46

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In a world where everyone chases every basis point of marginal return, core values are often overlooked. The emergence of liquid staking protocols made stake delegation a norm rather than an exception. The hassles of running their own node and dealing with slashing risks were often too much of a burden for regular users. Dappnode offers both hardwa…

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Dan Held: Bitcoin DeFi Will Change Everything! - Asymmetric 58:07

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One of the best known educators in the space and OG Bitcoin maxi, Dan Held joined us to discuss his crypto journey from entrepreneur to marketing & growth specialist and why he decided to start the Asymmetric Bitcoin DeFi Fund. Although initially a contentious topic, the emergence of Ordinals revealed Bitcoin’s untapped potential, sparking tremendo…

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Blockworks: The Future of Crypto = AI, Memecoins and DePIN - Jason Yanowitz Live @Permissionless 59:58

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From a cross-platform media company, to launching their own conference and, more recently, an advisory branch, Blockworks has seen and done it all. We couldn’t miss Permissionless III, one of the largest crypto conferences in the US, where we sat down with Jason Yanowitz to discuss emerging trends in the industry and where the attention might shift…

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Konstantin Lomashuk: '#bitcoin is like a #memecoin' - cyber·Fund 1:06:57

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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-f…

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Celestia: 1Gb Blocks, Rollup Interoperability & Lazy Bridging. Ismail Khoffi & Mustafa Al-Bassam 1:03:48

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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, …