Galaxy Brains

On this week’s episode of Galaxy Brains, Alex talks markets with Beimnet Abebe, details the blow-up of FTX, and talks Washington politics and crypto policy with Galaxy’s head of public policy Tyler Williams.This episode was recorded on Wednesday, November 10, 2022.++Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/

This week, Alex and Christine dive deep on the state of zero-knowledge rollups, and specifically the "zkEVM," which many believe will be the "holy grail" of Ethereum scaling (and Bitcoin?). We also talk markets with Beimnet, Elon's takeover of Twitter, and Ethereum's forthcoming Shanghai upgrade.During the conversation on ZKRs, we reference this paper by John Light: www.bitcoinrollups.org This episode was recorded on Wednesday, November 2, 2022.++Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/

In this episode, we talk markets with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) and discuss several NFT-related topics with Sal Qadir (Galaxy Research) including the surge in popularity for Reddit NFTs and the ongoing controversy around NFT royalties. Also, we discuss the MEV landscape on Ethereum post-Merge with Christine Kim (Galaxy Research) and the impact of increase censorship through the Flashbots relay on network block production.This episode was recorded on Wednesday, October 16, 2022.++Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/ 

In this episode, we talk markets with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Digital Trading) and discuss several topics with Trey Aslanian and Walt Smith (Galaxy Digital Trading) in a roundtable. Specifically, we cover the troubling launch of Aptos, a new blockchain spun out of Facebook’s Libra project, whether we expect blockspace to be abundant or scarce in the future, and an embarrassing security situation for BSV, a fork of a fork of Bitcoin.This episode was recorded on Wednesday, October 19, 2022.++Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/

In this episode, we are joined by Galaxy's Head of Public Policy Tyler Williams to discuss crypto regulation and the federal reserve. Christine reports on DevCon from Bogota, Colombia, and we talk with Beimnet Abebe from Galaxy Digital Trading about markets.This episode was recorded on Wednesday, October 12, 2022.++Follow us on Twitter, and read our research at www.galaxydigital.io/research/to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer here:https://adobe.ly/3yX2Pdn

In this episode, we talk markets with Beimnet Abebe from Galaxy Digital Trading and are joined by Tim Grant, Head of EMEA, to talk about crypto around the world. Alex and Christine also discuss new developments in Elon Musk's ongoing saga to purchase Twitter.This episode was recorded on Wednesday, October 5th, 2022.++Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/

Galaxy Brains is a weekly podcast providing insights and analysis on trends and events taking place across the cryptocurrency ecosystem, hosted by Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy Digital. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, September 28th, 2022.++Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/

Galaxy Brains is a weekly podcast providing insights and analysis on trends and events taking place across the cryptocurrency ecosystem, hosted by Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy Digital. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, September 21st, 2022.++Follow us on Twitter (@glxyresearch), and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer here: https://www.galaxy.com/podcast-disclaimer/

Galaxy Brains is a weekly podcast providing insights and analysis on trends and events taking place across the cryptocurrency ecosystem, hosted by Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy Digital. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, September 14th, 2022.++Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/

Galaxy Brains is a weekly podcast providing insights and analysis on trends and events taking place across the cryptocurrency ecosystem, hosted by Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy Digital. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, September 7th, 2022.++Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/