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Expert Mara Schmiedt discusses institutional liquid staking in crypto, focusing on Ethereum's staking landscape, risks, restaking opportunities, and Alluvial's ultrasound infrastructure. The episode explores staking dynamics, regulatory challenges, LS-Eath product stack, ETF impact, and the importance of validator distribution for decentralization in blockchain technology.

Kevin Owocki, Co-founder of Gitcoin, discusses quadratic funding and public goods funding models in Gitcoin, including the utility of Gitcoin Passport, sybil protection dilemma, capital allocation, GTC token utility, and decentralizing Allo Protocol. The episode covers new allocation models introduced by Gitcoin 2.0, the current landscape of DAOs, and the success of Gitcoin in raising over $60M towards public goods funding.

Blockchain experts Illia Polosukhin and Alex Skidanov discuss sharding technology and scalability in Near Protocol. Topics include challenges of building a sharded blockchain, stateless validation, shard security, and comparing shards vs. rollups. The podcast explores how Near Protocol improves leaderless chunk production and chain abstraction for efficiency in blockchain networks.

Paolo Ardoino discusses Tether's resilience post-Luna collapse, shift to T-bills reserves, and Bitfinex recovery. Topics: USDT adoption in emerging markets, stablecoin wars, P2P renaissance. Delves into entrepreneurship, decentralized stablecoins, and diversifying physical backing. Explores Tether's cross-chain support and long-term vision.

Lucas Schor, a key figure in Ethereum infrastructure, discusses the creation of Safe during the 2017 ICO frenzy to secure raised capital. They delve into the importance of multi-sig models for asset security, Smart accounts, and ERC-4337 for mass-adoption. Safe's design philosophy, OpSec, smart contract security, and expansion into cross-chain support are highlighted, showcasing its evolution within the Gnosis ecosystem.

Blockchain scalability expert, Rebecca Liao, discusses Saga's solution to Ethereum and Solana's scalability issues using chainlets. Saga focuses on building a Web3 gaming ecosystem with customizable parameters for developers. Topics include chainlets, validators, fee models, and SAGA token launch. The podcast explores the challenges and opportunities in the blockchain gaming space.

Rushi Manche discusses implementing Move-VM for high blockchain throughput. Topics include Move vs. Solidity, EVM compatibility, parallelization, security, transitioning to new VMs, Berachain's approach, Movement Labs' tech stack, decentralized sequencer, M1 and M2 chains, Bitcoin L2s, IBC-compatibility, USDC on Movement, Ethereum x Cosmos convergence, and dApps on Move.

Yoann Turpin, co-founder of Wintermute, discusses trading mistakes, market making strategies, and the evolving crypto landscape. Topics include the importance of quantitative analysis, on-chain trading vs. CEX trading, Wintermute's success, and the impact of AI on trading. He also shares insights on language learning challenges and the memory palace technique for memorizing kanji characters.

Credit is a widely used term, which could essentially be summarised as “more capital so you can do whatever you want”. In DeFi, there are numerous ways of getting exposure to an asset in a leveraged manner: from looping to perpetuals and margin trading, the possibilities are endless (especially when you also account for synthetic versions). Gearbox Protocol aims to create a universal, composable, on-chain ‘credit layer’, through credit account abstraction. This approach simultaneously addresses three concerns: liquidity, security and, ultimately, user experience (UX).Topics covered in this episode:Mikael’s and Ivan’s backgroundsComposable leverage explainedLeveraged stakingGearbox credit accountManaging smart contract riskQuotas and rate limitsLeveraged restakingGovernance and safety parametersScaling GearboxFee structureEpisode links:Mikael Lazarev on TwitterIvan on TwitterGearbox Protocol on TwitterSponsors:Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.ioChorus One: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at - chorus.oneThis episode is hosted by Meher Roy.

In this podcast, Humayun Sheikh discusses creating a platform for economic interactions in the AI economy through Fetch.ai. They cover topics like multi-agent systems, autonomous economic agents, Cosmos based blockchain, ML integration, scalability, use cases, partnerships, AI x crypto projects, incentivizing developers, and the future of ML & LLMs.