Best Brian Weis Podcasts (2025)

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#268 - Brian Weis, Todd McInerney 1:06:31

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10d ago1:06:31

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Todd talks Brian about his new pro skate with Standard Skate Co, filming for his promo edit, how he got into rollerblading, and so much more! Guests: Brian Weis, Todd McInerneyBy Todd McInerney

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DevConnect 2025: Inside The Biggest Ethereum Event in History 44:43

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“DevConnect 2025 was about touching and feeling Ethereum IRL”Nathan Sexer, lead of the DevConnect 2025 and Events team at the Ethereum Foundation, gives a peek into the largest iteration of Devconnect ever, with 20,000 attendees, and why the team pivoted to a "World's Fair" format, creating tangible districts for DeFi and Privacy to let attendees t…

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210. Esther Dyson 1:10:03

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In the more than 200 episodes I’ve done for this podcast, never has the designation “legend” been more appropriate. Esther Dyson is a legend of modern technology, having been present for so many key moments from the early PC era through to the AI era. She’s advised, interviewed and mentored basically every major tech figure over the last several de…

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Why is the SEC Concerned about Privacy now? 1:02:58

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At DevConnect 2025, Sebastian and Friederike speak with Peter Van Valkenburgh about the rapidly evolving battle for digital rights. Peter challenges the industry's comfort with transparency, arguing that "transparency will destroy neutrality." He uses the history of SWIFT to illustrate how a once-neutral messaging system was captured by geopolitica…

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209. Henry Blodget, Founder Of Business Insider 1:05:34

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Henry Blodget shares his journey from a history major to a prominent figure in finance and journalism, discussing the rise of the internet, the dot-com bubble, and the lessons learned from that era. He reflects on his career, including his famous $400 price target Amazon prediction, the evolution of media with the launch of Business Insider, and th…

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Cosmos: The Linux of Blockchains? 55:06

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Captured live at Cosmoverse 2025, this episode brings host Sebastian in conversation with Michael (better known as Cryptocito, Cosmos investor via Cito Ventures) and Magnus (@0xMagmar, Co-CEO Cosmos Labs). Against a backdrop of institutional gravitas, central banks mingling alongside Revolut executives, the conversation traces Cosmos' arc across fi…

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E28: Experiencing God as Beautiful with Brian Chung 46:50

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Influenced by years of Christian community and Bible study on campus, InterVarsity alumnus and co-founder of Alabaster, Brian Chung, has a powerful vision for his work: "for all of humanity to experience God as beautiful." In 2016, Brian and Alabaster set out to accomplish this vision through the pairing of God's Word with stunning artwork. From Ge…

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208. Clément Delangue Of Hugging Face 53:59

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Hugging Face Founder Clément Delangue discusses his journey to founding Hugging Face, emphasizing the importance of community, collaboration, and open-source technology in the AI landscape. He reflects on the evolution of AI technology, the significance of user feedback, and the need for a diverse range of AI models. Takeaways Clem's first compute…

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Yield Basis: Disrupting Defi & Bitcoin Yield 1:00:05

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Brian Fabian Crain and Michael Egorov, Curve Finance founder, discuss Curve's origins: solving inefficient DAI/USDC swaps after MakerDAO borrows by creating a DeFi AMM for stablecoins and LSTs. It hit 1M TVL with a bonding curve concentrating liquidity at 1:1, more effective for pegged assets than Uniswap. Features grew to include BTC wrappers, stE…

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207. John Borthwick Of Betaworks 56:53

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John Borthwick shares his journey from a tech-savvy youth to a prominent figure in the New York tech scene. He discusses his early experiences with computers, the transformative impact of the World Wide Web, and the vibrant tech culture of the 90s. Borthwick reflects on his role in creating Total New York, the lessons learned from the AOL acquisiti…

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Lamina1: Building The Future of The Creator Economy 59:47

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Sci-fi titan Neal Stephenson, whose Snow Crash coined the term 'metaverse' and Cryptonomicon, which foreshadowed crypto in 1999, joins Friederike to discuss his "hard sci-fi" method: building immersive, consistent worlds, not prophecy. He's now co-founder of Lamina1, aiming to restore Web1's ethos and give creators IP sovereignty with direct microp…

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206. Jimmy Wales, Founder Of Wikipedia 1:14:32

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Welcome BACK to the Internet History Podcast. After essentially a 5 year hiatus, the Internet History Podcast is back, fully back, a whole slate of episodes coming to you, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to have our relaunch episode be with Jimmy Wales. What can I tell you? He’s the founder of Wikipedia. We get deep into the history of all that but…

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205. Margit Wennmachers Of a16z 1:04:38

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People know that a16z changed tech by turning VCs and founders into rock stars. You know the names. But there’s one name you might not know, that real heads, deep inside the industry have known very well over the years. The legend, Margit Vennmachers. You know all those a16z names because of Margit, because of how she helped Marc Andreessen and Ben…

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204. Fred Wilson, Of Union Square Ventures 1:03:03

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For my entire career in tech and startups, Fred Wilson has been like the god-level VC in the New York City ecosystem. Fred got his start investing before the dotcom bubble, rode the bubble investing in the earliest internet companies to great success, and then turned Union Square Ventures into the premier venture capital firm on the east coast. Hea…

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Is Blockchain Still a Revolution or Becoming Another Upgrade? Ep.621 1:15:34

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As blockchain tech gets co-opted by legacy players for efficiency gains, has the revolution lost its edge? Crypto philosopher Paul Dylan-Ennis and Jito's Head of Governance, Dr. Nick Almond, join Friederike to probe this shift from 2017's visionary DAOs to today's Telegram-negotiated votes and whale capture. Rooted in philosophy and complex systems…

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Brave: Building the Private User-Friendly Internet - Kyle Den Hartog 1:07:04

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Brave has spent a decade building a privacy-first browser that empowers users with tools like ad-blocking and fingerprinting protection, now serving 100 million monthly active users. Security engineer Kyle Den Hartog joins Friederike to unpack the centralization traps in digital identity from email's spam-driven dominance to one-size-fits-all DeFi …

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Noble: Solving Crypto's Liquidity Problem, One Chain at a Time - Jelena Djuric 41:26

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In this episode, Sebastien is joined by Jelena Djuric, co-founder of Noble, a generic asset issuance chain built for the Cosmos ecosystem. Jelena shares her journey into crypto, which began with an interest in political science, leading her to discover Bitcoin's potential. She describes the origins of Noble, created to solve a critical need within …

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E27: Promoting Hope for the Hurting On Chicago's South Side with Janelle Goodwill, PhD 42:01

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InterVarsity alumna Dr. Janelle Goodwill is committed to hope; not just as a virtue, but as a fundamental component of human thriving. In her research at the University of Chicago, Dr. Goodwill is pursuing a deeper understanding of hope, joy, and meaning and their impact on suicide prevention. In particular, she is piloting interventions in local s…

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Benjamin Sarquis Peillard: Cap Labs – Insured Yield & the Future of Stablecoins 58:02

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In this episode, Sebastien Couture is joined by Benjamin, the founder of CAP, a stablecoin protocol designed to provide insured yield. The protocol features two main products: CUSD, a digital dollar, and stCUSD, its staked, yield-bearing version. Yield is generated through an "allocation engine" where third-party operators borrow from the protocol'…

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Mento: Onchain FX Markets - Decentralising World Currencies - Markus Franke 1:06:14

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TradFi FX markets are slow, expensive and often lack liquidity for direct swaps between different world currencies, having to route through USD pairs. While crypto could technically solve pairing through AMM pools, those needed to be arbitraged in order to reflect TradFi rates. With 15 fully-backed stablecoins, Mento is building the largest FX infr…

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f(x) Protocol: Decentralized Yield-Bearing Stablecoin & 0-Liquidation Perp - Cyrille Brière 1:00:22

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Without a doubt, the introduction of stablecoins has vastly increased overall crypto liquidity, adoption and real-world use cases as they offered a safe haven against the industry’s volatility, especially during bearmarkets. However, despite being extremely efficient, the main stablecoin actors (i.e. Circle & Tether) are centralised entities. Many …

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Euler: The DeFi Super App - Michael Bentley 1:00:01

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Euler is a DeFi lending protocol built around the idea of permissionless modularity, enabling users to lend and borrow almost any crypto asset with flexible, permissionless pools, tailored to individual risk profiles. Moreover, Euler Vault Kit (EVK) and Ethereum Vault Connector (EVC) enable the creation of custom lending vaults which, in turn, can …

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E26: Speaking Up for the Poor with Troy Anderson 56:18

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On this episode of InterVarsity World Changers, we're joined by Troy Anderson, founder and International Director of Speak Up for the Poor. And Troy and his colleagues are changing the world as they work among impoverished communities in Bangladesh. Their mission: to offer quality education and safe housing to young girls in an effort to keep them …

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Zama: FHE and The Holy Grail of Blockchain Privacy 56:12

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Blockchains operate as a public ledger, ‘disclosing’ the entire transaction history and associated data to everyone. While verifiability and traceability are key traits, as blockchains gain global adoption, those very features hinder the process. Self custody, on-chain identities, corporate strategies, transaction history, private deals, all repres…

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Pareto: Customizable On-Chain Private Credit Marketplace - Matteo Pandolfi 1:08:21

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Built primarily for institutional-grade clients, Pareto delivers customizable on-chain credit markets designed to expand DeFi liquidity and TradFi tokenization through structured yield strategies tailored to diverse risk profiles. Pareto allows its users to construct individualized credit lines in specific risk-ajusted tranches, with custom: intere…

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Lagrange: ZK-Proving AI Alignment - Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh 56:51

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In an age when AI models are becoming exponentially more sophisticated and powerful, how does one ensure that proper results are being generated and that the AI model functions in desired parameters? This pressing concern of AI alignment could be solved through cryptographic verification, using zero knowledge proofs. ZKPs not only allow for verifyi…

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E25: When the Food Network Calls with Jessie Thomas 41:59

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InterVarsity Alumna Jessie Thomas had no idea that her love for food and hospitality would open so many doors: personal chef, cooking on local television, hanging out with Cookie Monster (to name a few). But nothing compared to her experience as a crew member on the Food Network's reality cooking series Chopped. During their marathon recording sess…

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Zorp: Nockchain's ZK Proof-of-Useful-Work Consensus - Logan Allen 1:12:47

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Inspired by Urbit’s minimal assembly language, Nockchain fuses Urbit’s vision of sovereign computing with a novel proof-of-useful-work consensus mechanism, creating a blockchain where every computation fuels progress and scaling. The crypto-economics behind Nockchain’s zkVM incentivise competition between zero knowledge provers, ultimately bootstra…

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UMA & Across: Optimistic Oracles & Intent-Based Bridges for Unifying Ethereum - Hart Lambur 1:11:16

4M ago1:11:16

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Universal Market Access (UMA) was founded by 2 ex Goldman Sachs traders that wanted to make global markets universally accessible through financial smart contracts that used synthetic assets on Ethereum. However, this was taking place long before the massive boom of DeFi summer of 2020. As a result, UMA shifted to building an optimistic oracle to p…

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Dragonfly: The Secrets of a Top-Tier Crypto VC - Haseeb Qureshi 1:29:13

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Founded in 2018, Dragonfly has quickly become one of the most prestigious crypto VCs. Dragonfly was one of the first to adopt a global approach to backing founders and disruptive tech, all while building a strong brand that allowed them to secure top-tier deals. Join us for a fascinating discussion with Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly…

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Near One: Scaling the Agentic Internet. AI X Crypto - Bowen Wang 1:01:40

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‘Attention Is All You Need’, co-wrote by Illia Polosukhin in 2017, laid the foundation for arguably one of the most consequential tech breakthroughs in our recent history. 1 year later, Illia founded Near AI, which later became Near Protocol. They were visionaries ahead of their time and, although AI took several more years before becoming a viable…

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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, The [LAST] Steward of Decentralisation 39:19

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The tradition of Epicenter x Vitalik Buterin continued this year as well at EthCC[8], where we got the chance of picking his brain about recent research, interests and Ethereum Foundation’s direction going forward. Join us for a fascinating discussion on biotech and how Vitalik’s Shiba ended up funding it, the utility of blockchains in nowadays soc…

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E24: Delivering Spiritual Wei Mei During COVID Lockdown with "Harvest" 52:50

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As a student with InterVarsity, "Harvest" (name changed for our guest's safety) knew she was called to overseas missions work. Twenty years later, "Harvest" found herself carrying out creative underground ministry strategies during an unprecedented season: COVID lockdown in China. Along with her community, "Harvest" developed a unique approach to d…

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Stripe: The Stablecoin (R)Evolution - John Egan 1:05:36

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Stripe has established itself as a leading payment solution for both enterprises as well as startups and individual sellers. By abstracting away all the complexities of traditional payment rails through simple plug-and-play APIs, Stripe created a facile route for cross-border payments, simplifying e-commerce. Similarly, Stripe’s recent integration …

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t1 Protocol: Unifying Ethereum's L2 Liquidity Through Real-Time Proving - Can Kisagun 1:01:41

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While L2 rollups did help scale Ethereum, they also created siloed ecosystems, all fighting over the same liquidity, users and devs. t1 Protocol is building layer-2 infrastructure to achieve seamless cross-rollup interoperability through real-time proving, powered by TEEs. t1's low-latency with 1-second block times provides faster preconfirmations,…

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DappCon 25: The Ticker Is $ETH - Jerome de Tychey, Joshua Dávila & Nixorokish 1:12:32

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As the summer tour of European crypto conferences landed in Berlin, one of crypto’s cradles, we couldn’t miss DappCon 25, where we got to sit with Jerome de Tychey, Nixorokish & Joshua Dávila to discuss Ethereum’s restructure and whether its culture is still relevant to the wider crypto community. Join us for a fascinating discussion on the impact …

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Lombard: Unlocking Bitcoin DeFi Through Liquid, Yield-Bearing LBTC - Jacob Phillips 1:11:09

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Bitcoin remains an untapped source of net-new liquidity that could be injected into DeFi. This would completely reshape Bitcoin’s utilization from a mere store of value to a liquid asset that can be ported cross-chain and traded like a liquid staking derivative. Lombard’s LBTC builds upon Babylon’s Bitcoin staking primitive and aims to unlock new y…

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E23: When 100 Greek Students Say "YES!" to Jesus with Kristen Dalton 1:06:44

6M ago1:06:44

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In April of 2025, at an all-Greek gathering, Kristen Dalton watched more than 100 Indiana University sorority and fraternity students say "Yes!' to an invitation to follow Jesus. In this episode of InterVarsity World Changers, we chat with Kristen about this amazing moment along with the larger work of revival and renewal that God has been doing in…

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Staking Rewards: Is Crypto Staking Killing Decentralisation? - Mirko Schmiedl & Tobias Jung 54:55

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Apart from incentivising market participants to secure the network through inflationary rewards, many consider staking as an equivalent of stock dividend yield. As a result, although Bitcoin is regarded as digital gold, protocols are looking for ways to increase its utilisation in DeFi and, ultimately, generate yield. Nowadays, while newer networks…

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ETHPrague: ETH Renaissance - Austin Griffith, Brenda Loya, Joseph Schweitzer, Marek Olszewski 1:00:25

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After a decade of existence, Ethereum has gone a long way from its initial whitepaper, yet many efforts in scaling and finding product-market-fit have been severely criticized for falling short of their promise. However, despite numerous other ‘Ethereum killers’ being launched over the years, none has managed to attract so many developers and liqui…

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The Multi-Chain Avalanche - Emin Gün Sirer 31:52

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We couldn’t miss the Avalanche Summit where we sat down with Emin Gün Sirer, co-founder & CEO of Ava Labs, to discuss the evolution of Avalanche’s ecosystem and how HyperSDK ushers in a scalable, interoperable, multi-chain future. Join us for a fascinating discussion on Avalanche’s approach to decentralisation, scalability & interoperability, and l…

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Initia: Incentively Aligned Appchains - Ezaan Mangalji, Anil Lulla & Jose Maria Macedo 1:02:08

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Blockchain architecture is constantly being forced to adapt to new technologies, as well as to meet new demands from users and builders. While the idea of apps building their own chains was first explored by Cosmos, it lacked the support and tooling to see it succeed. Later on, rollups also took the centerstage of Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, but du…

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E22: From Every Corner of Campus to Every City and Workplace with Mac Pier and Roy Tinklenberg 56:01

7M ago56:01

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From South Dakota to Urbana to the world and the workplace. That's what partnering with God in his world-changing work looks like for InterVarsity Alumni Mac Pier and Roy Tinklenberg. After becoming friends through InterVarsity at the University of South Dakota, Mac and Roy's vision for God's Kingdom was forever transformed at Urbana '79 by speaker…

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Ethereum Foundation: Humanity’s Shared World Computer - Hsiao-Wei Wang & Tomasz Stańczak 1:10:22

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As society evolves, so do its values and principles, but is that desirable for technology that seeks to build the most reliable, trustless and censorship resistant global settlement layer? Ever since the rise in popularity of Solana with its inflow of retail capital in a memecoin gold rush, Ethereum became even more criticized for sticking true to …

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Taiko: Scaling Ethereum in a Decentralised Manner - Joaquin Mendes 1:08:05

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Taiko is a decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent (type I) rollup scaling solution which uses ZK technology. Taiko's goal is to scale Ethereum efficiently while maintaining security and decentralization. Being a type I zkEVM, Taiko retains full Ethereum equivalence, which creates a seamless DevEx, although this comes at the expense of UX as slower proo…

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Mysten Labs: How Sui Leverages Move to Build the Composable Web3nternet - Adeniyi Abiodun 1:03:09

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Founded by former Meta Diem team members, Sui is a high-performance, layer-1 blockchain designed for horizontal scaling and low-latency transactions. It uses an object-centric data model and the Move programming language to enable transaction parallelization which can handle >200,000 txs/s. Sui’s goal is to combine the benefits of blockchains with …

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Maple Finance: On-Chain Institutional Yield & Lending Markets - Sidney Powell 54:49

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With an extensive experience in traditional money markets, Maple Finance was envisioned as an institutional capital marketplace which combines the transparency & capital efficiency of blockchains with the regulatory framework of TradFi. Unlike many DeFi protocols that require over-collateralized loans (e.g. Aave), Maple also specializes in under-co…

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Tally: The Software Layer for Tokenized Organizations - Dennison Bertram 1:01:21

8M ago1:01:21

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Tally is a software platform designed to support tokenized organizations, particularly Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and crypto communities. It provides tools for launching tokens, governing protocols, and enabling staking to foster community participation and growth. Tally facilitates onchain governance, allowing transparent and de…

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ENS V2 Cross-Chain Domains & Namechain - Nick Johnson 48:42

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Namechain is an L2 developed by ENS Labs, to enhance the scalability and efficiency of managing decentralized identities on Ethereum. It is designed to work in tandem with ENS V2, which introduced a hierarchical registry system for more efficient subdomain management and custom resolvers. A key vision for Namechain is to unify multi-chain user iden…

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E21: Ann Hall: Seeing Miracles in the Operating Room 51:38

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On this episode of InterVarsity World Changers, we’re talking with Ann Hall. Ann is a Drake University alumna and a Physician Assistant in cardiac and vascular surgery in Omaha, Nebraska. She’s caring for people inside and outside of the operating room who find themselves in very serious medical situations. And whether it’s praying for (and experie…