Bryce Patrick and Steve Dakh from the Ethereum Attestation Service discuss the potential of attestation for decentralized identity and crypto. They explore the importance of attestations as a primitive and its role in defining identity. They explain the Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) as a token-free, permissionless public good. They also discuss use cases, growth goals, and the significance of attestations in Web3. The chapter covers privacy, decentralized reputation, and the funding of EAS. They compare EAS with other identity solutions and highlight the limitations of soulbound tokens.

Exploring the parallels between crypto and Burning Man, discussing tools and platforms for cryptocurrency traders, diving into the history and organization of Burning Man, and examining the concept of Burning Man as a commons and its connection to the crypto movement.

Topics include MakerDAO's plan for a native blockchain on Solana, Visa settling USDC on Solana, Solana's layer 2 halt, Uniswap's court win, Justin Bieber's NFT drop, Aave V2 and V3 migration, Coinbase vs Uniswap, Arbitrum's stylists, and MakerDAO's plan for Newchain and its connection to Ethereum.

Mike Ippolito, co-founder at Blockworks, discusses the Blockchain trilemma and how Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos chains attempt to solve it. Topics include scalability, decentralization, validators, liquid staking, and the concept of an 'invisible hand' in decentralized systems.

The podcast covers Grayscale's win against the SEC, Ethereum's Layer 2 scaling solutions, frustration with US regulations, the arrest of Roman Storm, LIDO's increasing staked percentage, improved Multi-Sig UX, scalability and differentiation in blockchain chains, and the risks of investing in cryptocurrency.

Brian Retford, CEO of RiscZero, and Justin Drake discuss the creation of zkEVM for Ethereum with low compute requirements, potential implications for Ethereum's future, snarks and data availability sampling to remove computation bottleneck, RISC-V as an instruction set architecture, performance optimization of zkEVM, and risks and security considerations in the ZK roll-up space.

Jesse Pollock, Co-Founder of Optimism and Creator of Base, and Ben Jones, repeat Bankless guest, discuss the Base chain built on Optimism's tech stack. They dive into the Superchain and its potential to bring 1 billion people onchain. They explore the challenges of chain hopping, decentralization, and the future of interconnected systems.

The podcast covers topics such as the arrest of a US developer of Tornado Cash, the upcoming Bankless permissionless conference and Bitcoin's market performance, the recent market action of Ether and the profitability of roll-ups, Lido's staking of 40,000 Ether, the arrest of Tornado Cash founders, the US government's actions against privacy technology developers, the legal case against Tornado Cash and implications of smart contracts, the battle for free speech and digital currency control, layer two solutions, airdrops, EIP 4844, Circle and Coinbase deal, Dankoon test net progress, and Uniswap's potential moat.

The podcast discusses the rise of friend.tech and its impact on mainstream audiences, while exploring the controversy surrounding its financialization of social relationships. They also delve into the value of art versus digital assets, the future of friend.tech, and criticisms and concerns within the crypto industry.

Is crypto entering its last market cycle? The podcast explores the signs of crypto maturing, tools and platforms in the bull market, swapping and MEV protection, Web3 protocols and the next bull market, and the potential of Web3 and Ethereum's evolution.