Bell Curve

Meow, co-founder of Jupiter, joins to discuss building crypto's leading aggregator on Solana. Topics include Jupiter's success, the switch to Solana from Ethereum, the future of Jupiter, airdrop philosophy, trading across multiple markets, user experience, and potential advancements in payment systems, gaming, and social networks.

Blockchain fee market expert, Pranav Garimidi, and blockchain fee market analyst, Sam Hart, join Mike to discuss the challenges of balancing spam prevention with positive user experience. They dive into fee structures in major chains like Solana, unpack the "fee market fallacy," explore fee burning debates, and analyze the use of credits to shape user behaviors. They also discuss the origins of fee markets in Bitcoin, innovations in Ethereum's EIP-1559, and the future of pricing scarce resources in blockchains.

The podcast covers predictions and outlooks for major cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos. They discuss the evolution of crypto, key players, and top investors. The speakers also share their biggest winners and flops of 2023. Topics include ZK EVMs, bitcoin's institutionalization, the future of blockchain technology, and the rise of a certain cryptocurrency. They explore NFTs in 2024, predict a big comeback year, and discuss market flops, winners, and predictions for 2024.

In this season finale, the hosts discuss key themes such as the impact of blocktimes on MEV, innovations in fee market structures, and rethinking metrics like TVL. They also explore the role of passive liquidity providers, the potential of decentralized exchanges, and the challenges they face. The podcast ends with a discussion on Uniswap V4 and the importance of getting experiences right.

The podcast episode explores the Data Availability (DA) wars and strategies for enhancing Ethereum Roll-ups. They discuss Solana fee markets and economically enticing applications. The implications of the recent FOMC meeting on asset prices in the crypto markets are also mentioned.

In this episode, the Bell Curve team returns to explore the recent launch of JTO token airdrop and discuss a Bitcoin NFT hot take. They dive into Jito's future, business model, and link to MEV and liquid staking. The conversation then shifts to Bitcoin NFTs and how they are rapidly gaining attention. Finally, they also talk about a wealth transfer effect in the upcoming years, the role of millennials, and how they are looking for more advantageous ways of creating wealth, including crypto.- -Follow Mike: https://twitter.com/MikeIppolito_Follow Michael: https://twitter.com/im_mandersonFollow Vance: https://twitter.com/pythianismSubscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3R1D1D9Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3pQTfmDSubscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3cpKZXHGet top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/- -Join us at DAS (Digital Asset Summit) in London this March! DAS is the #1 institutional conference in crypto, hosted by Blockworks. Use the link below to learn more, and use BELL20 to get 20% off your ticket! Sign up now because the price goes up every month. See you there!https://blockworks.co/event/digital-asset-summit-2024-london/home- -Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(2:25) Jito Token Airdrop(17:28) The Bitcoin NFT Hot Take(20:51) DAS London Ad(22:00) Is Retail Back?(27:26) Indicators of Market Cycle Shift(32:47) Synthetix Burn Mechanism & Generating Revenue(39:13) Crypto: Generational Wealth Transfer?- -Disclaimer: Nothing said on Bell Curve is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Mike, Jason, Michael, Vance and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.tt and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

Explore the world of decentralized derivatives trading with dYdX's founder and CEO. Learn about their journey from Ethereum to Layer 2 to their own blockchain. Discover designs enabled by app chains, social slashing approach to mitigating MEV, off-chain components, and challenges of building perpetual exchanges.

In this podcast, Sam Hart, the head of product and strategy at Skip Protocol, joins the hosts to discuss the forking of the Cosmos hub, the controversial launch of BLAST L2, and Binance CEO CZ stepping down. They also touch on institutional rally odds, Blur market dominance, USDT redemptions, the Bitcoin block size wars, Cosmos Prop 848, and Elon Musk's fight against advertisers.

Qiao Wang from Alliance DAO (a web3 accelerator) joins us to discuss the applications and protocols that are primed to dominate crypto's next cycle. Qiao reviews thousands of crypto startups every year, has an uncanny ability to predict future narratives and is one of my favorite thinkers in the space! In this episode, we discuss why RWAs and payments are crypto's massive opportunity, how speculation is crypto's killer feature, Solana's comeback vs Ethereum's headstart, Coinbase's giant opportunity, where the developers are building and more!- -Join us at DAS (Digital Asset Summit) in London this March! DAS is the #1 institutional conference in crypto, hosted by Blockworks. Use the link below to learn more, and use LIGHTSPEED20 to get 20% off your ticket! Sign up now because the price goes up every month. See you there!Learn more + get your ticket here: https://blockworks.co/event/digital-asset-summit-2024-london/home- -Timestamps00:00 Introduction00:45 Two Massive Opportunities: RWAs + Payments18:40 Why DePIN Works21:01 Speculation is Utility24:28 DAS LDN Plug25:26 Where Are Developers Building?28:57 Why Price Leads Everything32:13 DeFi Apps and Horizontal Integration34:53 The SuperApp Thesis39:32 Coinbase and Onchain Identity46:56 Cosmos’ Problem49:46 L2 Competition and Fragmentation57:29 What it Takes to Be a Great Crypto Founder- -Follow Qiao: https://twitter.com/QwQiaoFollow Mert: https://twitter.com/0xMert_Follow Garrett: https://twitter.com/GarrettHarper_Follow Lightspeed: https://twitter.com/LightspeedpodhqSubscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/43o3SykSubscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3OhiXgVSubscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3OkF7PDGet top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ - -ResourcesGood Game podcasthttps://spoti.fi/3MKMLRQAlliance DAOhttps://alliance.xyz/https://twitter.com/alliancedaoWhat does it take to be a good crypto founder?https://medium.com/alliancedao/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-good-crypto-founder-6c2600a99770- - Disclaimers:Lightspeed was kickstarted by a grant from the Solana Foundation.Nothing said on Lightspeed is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Mert, Garrett and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

This podcast episode explores the emerging world of liquid restaking and its implications for crypto native treasuries. The speakers discuss the inner workings of depositing staked ETH into protocols like Eigenlayer, competitive dynamics between these protocols, and the potential for ETH to become a crypto native treasury. They also touch on the DAS London conference and strategic considerations for launching a liquid restaking token provider.