The blocmates Podcast

Grant was joined by MXM and BowTiedBart from Beradrome on the second episode of the Beramates series. Beradrome is a restaking and liquidity marketplace on Berachain. These guys initially started out as a velodrome fork, but once they saw the DEX space was becoming increasingly crowded they decided to pivot to a unique take on restaking using the Berachain governance token BGT. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant was joined by the EthereansOS team to discuss their full suite of no-code products on top of Ethereum. The Ethereans guys came up during the explosion of ERC404s as they had in fact, built a similar product in early 2019. In this episode, you will learn about the pros and cons of ERC404 vs "Items" which is the token standard in question.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Vladimir from Algebra Protocol joins the podcast to discuss the liquidity DEX engine you've never heard of but probably used daily as it powers a number of popular DEXes. We discuss the comparison against UniSwap, why it's a threat, and how Algebra Plug-Ins differ and compete against UniSwap V4 Hooks.We also dig deep into Integral.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Today Jedi sits down with API3 DAO member, Ugur Merin to discuss the great blockchain-API unlock. Ugur explains the potential for API3, getting buy-in from Web2 clients, business developments, API3 Perp DEX integration, and much more! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Dive into the Berachain ecosystem with discussions on bespoke design principles, tri-token model, liquidity mechanics, and future ecosystem expectations. Learn about the balance of playfulness and quality in product development, Bear Chain's innovative liquidity focus, Bara token model, and strategies for boosting token liquidity. Explore challenges and improvements in scaling high-demand test projects.

Jedi had the opportunity to meet with Dion, the CEO of Term Labs to discuss the importance of having fixed interest rates on loans in DeFi. Term is a decentralized non-custodial lending protocol where users can borrow or lend on a fixed rate basis by participating in weekly (Term) auctions.Potential borrowers submit their bids and potential lenders submit their ask prices to Term, and then the Term auction contract determines some interest rate that clears the market (the clearing rate). All the lenders who asked less than the clearing rate lend and all borrowers who bid more than the clearing rate borrower at the clearing rate.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant sat down with Andy from The RollUp to chat about his thoughts on the modular blockchain thesis, interesting layer2s and rollups that are coming to the market plus some additional crypto infrastructure plays you might want to keep an eye on. In this episode, we will cover the expansion of modular blockchains and their use of data availability solutions such as Celestia, EigenDA and Avail. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

This clip was taken from our recent live stream, which solely covered ERC404 projects. In this clip, you will learn about the new ERC404 token standard that has taken the crypto industry by storm this week. You will also learn what the top ERC404 projects are, how to buy them and what to do with your ERC404 NFTs. Full episode - https://youtube.com/live/F5XO8SyMBnI --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Rich Rines joins Jedi to discuss Core as a layer 1 blockchain that utilizes and supports Bitcoin miners on an EVM-compatible chain to potentially finally solve the blockchain trilemma. This is all made possible thanks to their unique two-way consensus mechanism dubbed ‘Satoshi Plus’. They dive into all the challenges and benefits of how Bitcoin security can be combined with smart contract capability. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

The podcast discusses top new crypto projects of Q1 2024, focusing on their narrative perspective and upcoming launches. Topics include the importance of intent in the crypto space, addressing security vulnerabilities in smart contracts, decentralization of AI models, risks of re-staking crypto projects, VAM design, and real estate token and Blueberry Protocol.