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The Rollup
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Is the future of AI and crypto dystopian?
The future of AI is a divergent path. On one hand, we have the use of AI for the benefit of all and advancement of our society. On the other, there’s a world…
The RollupAngel Investing, Incentive Designs, And Modularity with Ajit Tripathi
As we wrap up Modular March, we had one of the early believers in modularity and early angel investor in prominent projects (EigenDA, Avail, and others) to…
The RollupModular March EP 19: The Power of Fuel Network's Rollup OS
Another episode with an Ethereum scaling OG, Nick Dodson, who pioneered the original idea of optimistic rollups before they were the norm. Nick is actually…
The RollupModular March EP 18: Unveiling Blobstream and Celestia's Node Architecture
The core innovation of data availability in the modular landscape revolves around minimalism. Due to the minimal smart contract execution capabilities of altDA…
The RollupModular March EP 17: Modularity is a Meme with Scroll
Not sure we need to write too much about this one! We mostly laughed and had a good time while understanding the definitions of some key terms in the space…
The RollupWormhole Token Launch: Everything You Need to Know
Finally! Wormhole $W token is here. After a three year journey of shipping filled of ups and downs, Wormhole has announced they are taking the path to…
The RollupModular March EP 16: Where Eclipse & SVM Fit in The Modular Thesis
Typically, you wouldn’t think of Solana having a strong footing in the modular thesis. After all, the design choices they have elegantly pioneered (credit…
The RollupModular March EP 15: Where Espresso Fits In The Modular Thesis
We really enjoyed this presentation. While we’ve had multiple shared sequencers talks on Modular March, each one has been far different. Today’s deep dive is…
The RollupThe Avail Unification Vision Unpacked
We’ve heard of the fragmentation problem many times in Modular March, and we’ve came to learn of a variety of solutions like shared sequencing, intents-based…
The RollupMonolithic Vs. Modular Short Debate with Aptos Co-Founder Avery Ching
If you are modular-pilled this will be a refreshing short chat. If you want to understand the counterargument to building in a modularized fashion, you’ll…
The RollupModular March EP 14: Conversatism in The Modular Ecosystem with Lumio
What an interesting conversation this was. Going way back to the core ethos of cryptoeconomic systems, we took a bit of a journey through PoW, PoS, and now…
The RollupModular March EP 13: Where Across Fits In The Modular Thesis
Again, we find ourselves returning to the interoperability and fragmentation problem of the modular expansion. We’ll keep it real, there is nothing innovative…
The RollupModular March EP 12: The Business Logic Of RaaS & Shared Sequencers
After our episode with Tarun Chitra about value accrual in the modular stack, as well as thinking about it deeper we’ve came to our own conclusions. Josh…
The RollupModular March EP 11: Permissionless Interoperability for the Modular Future
The checkered cross-chain past is something you just had to live through to understand. We tend to think the best have survived and the unfortunate events of…
The RollupModular March EP 10: Endless Modular Application Possibilities with Lagrange
A core fundamental primitive of blockchain is the unlocking of usecases which are not possibly in any other type of system. We’ve heard a lot of this and we…
The RollupWhere Routescan Fits in The Modular Thesis
One of the core issues we heard about awhile back on our podcast with Jon Kol from Hyperlane was the ‘indexing’ problem of the modular expansion. Essentially…
The RollupWhere Lava Network Fits in The Modular Thesis
Wow. What a day yesterday. Our modular market map absolutely blew up on X. Including in this map, under data tooling, is Lava Network. Lava is modular RPC data…
The RollupModular March Episode 9: Dymension Embraces Modularity with RollApp Deployments
Dymension was the second massive modular launch following Celestia. Yesterday, the first RollApp on Dymension, NIM Network announced their genesis rolldrop to…
The RollupModular March Episode 8: Modular Appchains-As-Service With Gelato
The explosion of modular appchains is happening. Head over to Celenium, Celestia’s main block explorer, to see the chains using Celestia for modular DA. These…
The RollupModular March Episode 7: Chain Abstraction for The Modular Future with Near
In a world of 1000s of rollups and chains, the problem to tackle is unification of these otherwise isolated execution environments. In today’s Modular March…
The RollupModular March Episode 6: Modular Security with Movement Labs
We were speaking to a liquid fund in Denver who just wouldn’t deploy capital into DeFi products on EVM because of the risk of re-entrancy bugs and other…
The RollupModular March EP 5: Value Accrual in The Modular Thesis with Tarun Chitra
The value accrual model in the modular stack is akin to that of the rise of the early internet. According to Tarun, founder of Gauntlet and a prominent angel…
The RollupModular March EP 4: Modular Appchain Design Choices with Cartesi
One of the biggest things we are leaning into is the design choices behind the certain builders decisions. We really want to understand why projects are…
The RollupModular March EP 3: The Next Modular DA Launch and Avail Trinity
As you may know, this year in the modular space has been characterized by the rise of modular DA solutions bringing in extremely low costs to txs on rollups…
The RollupModular March EP 2: Are Shared Sequencers Just Another L1? With NodeKit
In today’s Modular March presentation, we’re diving into a topic brought to light by Ethereum foundation researcher, Justin Drake. Interoperability has long…
The RollupModular March EP 1: Unifying the Modular Ecosystem with Union Build
Welcome to the first episode of the series of Modular March Presentations. Today, we delve into the zk side of things with Karel, founder of Union Build, a…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP129: Everything You Need to Know About Zircuit zkEVM
In today’s podcast, we’re taking a closer look at Zircuit's zkEVM, an innovative L2 focused on going to market in 2024. Zircuit’s leverages zero-knowledge…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP128: Cross-Chain Perps, Blast L2, And Deep Onchain Liquidity
This was a really fun episode. Alwin is a good character and has some very interesting takes. We talked about Blast a fair bit, as we are particularly…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP127: The State of Crypto Investing in 2024
If you have been here since day 1, you know we did a podcast with Qiao Wang in 2020 shortly after DeFi summer. What a time to be alive. In todays podcast, we…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP126: Restaking and Liquid Staking in the Cosmos Ecosystem Unpacked
Restaking has grown significantly in the EVM land mindshare, yet people don't realize Cosmos has had restaking for a very long time. Liquid staking has also…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP125: Onchain MEV in DeFi Lending Markets Explained
There is > $100M of value being extracted every single year from lending markets by MEV. This value is shared with Ethereum validators, yet makes a small…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP 124: Where Fluent Fits in the Modular Thesis
The future is Modular. With the rise of specialized solutions in the blockchain development landscape, we will see more onboarding of devs and better UX for…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP123: Data Availability in The Modular Stack Explained
As you know, we've become quite the modular blockchain activists and have been focusing on modular rollups quite a bit recently. Today's podcast is a deep dive…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP 122: The Importance of Shared Sequencing in The Modular Thesis
Change is coming. The era of centralized rollup sequencers is coming to an abrupt halt as builders realize the importance of a shared, decentralized sequencer…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP121: Why We Are Excited About Berachain
Berachain is real. With takeaways from this podcast such as "your community is actually like a set of offchain validators" and unpacking what "proof of…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP120: Sei Network Explained
Today, we're diving into the world of SEI Network and its role in the parallelization narrative. SEI Network is a solution that's quietly changing the way we…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP119: The Rise of altVMs in The Modular Stack
Today, we're diving into the fascinating world of alternative virtual machines (altVMs) and their role in shaping the future of the modular blcokchain future…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP118: The Future Is Bright For Arbitrum DAO
Today, we're shining a spotlight on the Arbitrum DAO, with Steven Goldfeder, the co-founder of Offchain Labs. Offchain Labs has been instrumental in empowering…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP117: Why Data Availability Is The Missing Piece To The Modular Blockchain Scaling Puzzle
Today, we're diving into the world of Avail with co-founder Prabal Banarjee, a 'modular stack' project that's all about user verifiability and data…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP116: The Resurgence of Cosmos with Sunny Agarwal, Founder of Osmosis
Osmosis has a chance to solidify the position of the dominant DeFi hub for Cosmos Hub & IBC-based blockchains in the coming year. Seriously. If Sunny can…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP115: Permissionless Interop For The Modular Future with Hyperlane
Today, we're diving into the realm of Hyperlane, a cutting-edge solution designed to change the way we think about blockchain interoperability and messaging…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP114: DeFi Dark Horse Curvance Unpacked
Today our focus is on Curvance, a platform that soon to be making waves in the crypto space. Curvance is all about providing practical solutions for handling…
The RollupDevconnect Convos: Security Mechanisms & Cryptography with OG Web3Auth Founder Zhen Yu Yong
Let's talk more about the world of cryptography, particularly secure key generation in the realm of DeFi and crypto. Web3Auth is paving the way for a…
The RollupDevconnect Convos: Stay Early to Onchain Trends with Flipside's Data Analysis Tech
If you're a onchain user, you NEED to be using data tracking and onchain tracking services to improve your results. Full stop. In the dark forest, where data…
The RollupDevconnect Convos: Testnets Reimagined with Tenderly
Tenderly, the goto platform for onchain simulations, has just rolled out a really cool set of features for builders wanting to test in a better capacity. It…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP113: Integrating Web3 Finance Data into Google Cloud's BigQuery w/ Injective
Welcome to the next EP of DeFi by Design! Today, we have an exciting episode for you on a leading blockchain platform, which has recently integrated Web3 and…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP 112: Improving the Checkered Cross-Chain Past with CatalystAMM
Today, we're exploring CatalystAMM, a project led by Jim, aimed at tackling cross-chain transaction issues and past security flaws. Their goal? To create a…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP111: Understanding Liquid Staking Derivatives & Validators
Today, we invite you to embark on a journey of unraveling the intricacies behind Liquid Staking Derivatives and the pivotal role of Validators. In a world…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP110: Onboarding The Next 10,000,000 Users w/Luca Netz
Discover the captivating world of Pudgy Penguins, where crypto meets collectibles. With 8,888 unique digital penguins stored securely on the Ethereum…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP109: One Click Rollup Deployment with Caldera
What are the pros & cons of having a centralized vs decentralized sequencer? How about a shared sequencer? You may have seen some of the recent posts from Andy…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP108: MEV, Restaking, & Rollups with Matt Cutler From BlockNative
Matt Cutler, the MEV wizard, is back on the rollup. After learning the ins and outs of block building on Ethereum, Matt and the team at Blocknative face…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP 107: How Celo Plans to Dominate the Rollup Wars
Happy Friday! Hope you had a fantastic week on your crypto journey with Ethereum futures ETFs being approved, things are looking to be heating up. Maybe we see…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP106: Exploring the SportsFi Vertical
If you're a Sports + DeFi chad you need to know about this SNX affiliate and how you can take advantage of it 👀 Overtime Markets, maintained by Thales, is a…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP105: Unleashing Hyperchains & zkRollups
Hope you're all ready to roll up the latest in the L2 universe! Today, we have an electrifying podcast episode lined up featuring the founder of zkSync, one of…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP104: The Rise of ETH Liquid Staking w/ Daniel from Swell Network
Well, ETH is alive and deflationary. 922,267 ETH burned and 617,739 ETH issued since the Merge. Over 300,000 ETH taken out of circulation and we are just…
The RollupETHCC Convos: Abstracting Away DeFi Complexities To Make a 10x Better UX with Connext
A concept we’ve been hearing a ton about (and I’m sure you have too) is Account Abstraction. Basically, instead of using metamask for your wallet you’ll have a…
The RollupETHCC Convos: Mantle Mainnet Is LIVE! How To Take Advantage
We are “The Rollup” so were supposed to talk about rollups, right? Well, I must say it hasn’t been very difficult to find talking points from ETHCC. It truly…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP103: Fintech Mega Goliath on Brand Trust and Consumer Behaviour in Web3 w/ Worldpay Head of Growth
Most of our network consists of builders and degens who are numb to bear markets after surviving for so long. This conversation was a first of its kind…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP102: The Most Capital Efficient Leverage Layer in DeFi
We love speaking with projects that have been building since the early days in DeFi. Often times the ones who have survived have achieved a solid PMF, have a…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP101: How LayerZero Plans To Takeover The Digital World with Bryan Pellegrino
Imagine if there was a technology stack that could underpin everything from decentralized finance to social media networks, instant messaging, and more. Now……