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The Rollup
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Economic Security within the Initia Ecosystem with JB from MilkyWay at Interwoven Day 2024
Economic Security within the Initia Ecosystem with JB from MilkyWay at Interwoven Day 2024 hosted by Initia.
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A Discussion About Breaking Walled Gardens At Interwoven Day 2024
A Discussion About Breaking Walled Gardens At Interwoven Day 2024
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The landscape of Chain Abstraction with Dean Tribble from Agoric
Debating the user-centric approach to Chain Abstraction with DeanTribble from Agoric.
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Standards for intra-blockchain communication with Bryan Pellegrino from LayerZero Labs
sync or async? Bryan Pellegrino founder of Layer Zero Labs weighs in on the standards for intra-blockchain communication. Listen here:
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The Cross-Chain Intents Landscape with Catalyst
A problem we've been fiddling with in the interoperability landscape is this idea behind achieving maximum extensibility with regards to the creation of…
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Where Lumio Fits in The Modular Thesis
There's quite a bit of conversation ongoing in the zeitgest of the modular research community. We tend to lean into technical topics more than the flavor of…
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The C.A.K.E Framework, Credible Accounts, and Resource Locks
The C.A.K.E framework established that chain abstraction is a collaborative effort, and not a one winner takes all situation. This idea for how the intents and…
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Where Aligned Layer Fits in The Modular Thesis
The acceleration of ZK is happening at a rapid pace. Last week we covered the collaboration between Succinct and AggLayer on the proof generation side using…
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Taiko's Based Rollup Is Live, Now What?
There's been a lot going on in the zeitgest with regards to based rollups, pre-confirmations, MEV, and whether or not based rollups are going to make it in the…
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ZK Acceleration: Pessimistic Proofs with AggLayer and Succinct
Is ZK real? Unironically, this was the first question Robbie asked our guests Uma Roy, founder of Succinct & Brendan Farmer, co-founder of Polygon. If you've…
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Where Everclear Fits in The Modular Thesis
Everclear, formerly known as Connext, recently launched with a fresh focus as the Clearing Layer aiming to solve the ever-present modular fragmentation…
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Is sharding the path to achieving maximum scale?
Sovereignty or interoperability. Your choice, anon. In the recent zeitgest of crypto builders has been the idea of achieving sovereignty while also keeping…
The RollupWhy Chain Abstraction is Inevitable
As large believers and proponents of the modular thesis, we (along with other voices in the space) have identified fragmentation as a kink in the armor of…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP12: Taproot Wizards, CatVM, and OP-CAT
For the final episode of our Bitcoin and Beyond series, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Taproot Wizards sorcerer and Bitcoin OG, Tyler Whittle. We…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP11: Is economic security a meme?
Cryptoeconomic security has been an extremely hot topic as of recent. With the rise of restaking and the general concept of "extending economic security" to…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP10: Programmable Native Bitcoin On Cosmos
As we wrap up our Bitcoin and Beyond series this week, we had a chance to sit down with Robert Zaremba of BitCosm. BitCosm is building a Cosmos SDK based…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP9: Rollux's Merged Mining, Data Availability, and Bridging
We've been diving heads first into the technical design structure of Bitcoin L2s over the last two weeks with the goal of uncovering what is really happening…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP8: Alpen Labs' Modular Rollup Layer via ZK on Bitcoin
Alpen Labs is a project that is making significant strides in the world of ZK rollups. In our conversation with David Seroy, we explore the evolution of…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP7: Zero Trust Protocols with dWallet Network
We're sure you've heard of zero knowledge proofs through our various pieces with industry leaders, but have you heard of zero trust protocols? From what we…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP6: How Stacks Is Scaling Bitcoin with Muneeb Ali
No one better to discuss the bull case for Bitcoin L2s than long-time Bitcoin advocate and Stacks founder, Muneeb Ali. In today's video, we explore the…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP5: BitVM, OPCAT, and The Evolution of Bitcoin
The Bitcoin ecosystem is leapfrogging the development trajectory put forth by the Ethereum community Today's piece focuses on how potential upgrades to the…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP4: CoreDAO's Native Bitcoin Staking Architecture
Welcome to episode 4 of Bitcoin and Beyond. We all know Bitcoin as the original Proof of Work chain, so how does staking come into play? In today's episode we…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP3: Molecule is Bringing SVM To Bitcoin Scaling
One of the best parts about our modular thesis is that it also applies to Bitcoin. We are seeing the same ideas of bringing next-gen VMs to Bitcoin scaling in…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP2: Build on Bitcoin's Hybrid Rollup Architecture
The trajectory to achieving a "full rollup" on Bitcoin is a gradual process, similar to that of Ethereum rollups gradually implementing fraud proofs/zk…
The RollupBitcoin and Beyond EP1: Citrea's ZK Technical Design Explained
Welcome to the first episode of our Bitcoin and Beyond presentation series. We aim to provide you with technical knowledge about the state of different Bitcoin…
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The Future of Modular Execution Layers
If you've been following along for sometime, you've likely heard of Fluent as part of our Modular March campaign or in a previous episode. We first met Dino…
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Does the integrated thesis have legs?
We are huge proponents of the modular thesis as our entire brand is centered around this. We often challenge ideas which we have a shared thesis with as part…
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Introducing Forma: Celestia's Culture Hub
The modular ecosystem is still in its infancy stages. We are at the cusp of an acceleration of sovereign rollups built with Celestia underneath. This idea…
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Programmable IP in the Age of AI
The core properties of blockchains (immutability, transparency, trustlessness) are extremely well suited for intellectual property. Intellectual property is…
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What is a declarative blockchain?
Blockchains, as we know them today, are imperative. This means, we interact with every application needed to achieve a certain outcome onchain…we care about…
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Where RiscZero Fits in The Modular Thesis
We believe in a future of verifiable computation. The modular future cannot exist without zk. After last weeks video asking "Will ZK eat the modular stack?"…
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The VC Investment Thesis for Modularity
VCs have been getting a lot of hate recently. The era of high FDV, low float launches may be coming to an end soon...or will it? In today's conversation we sat…
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Modular Execution & VM Landscape 2024
A big part of our modular thesis this year is the need for extremely high TPS blockchains which create a far better user experience, as well as a better dev…
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Will zk eat the modular stack?
Will zk eat the modular stack? Isn’t zk an enhancer for the stack as a whole? Which parts of the stack will be disrupted by zk, and how? Today, we're diving…
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The Evolution of Crypto Incentives
One of our core beliefs is the acceleration of experimentation in crypto. We believe that continuously testing novel incentive designs will lead to better…
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Where Frax Fits In The Modular Thesis
The modular thesis is growing week by week. We are seeing the rise of new L2s and appchains happening at a rapidly accelerating pace now. Our second podcast as…
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How Celestine Sloths Became The Modular Community Mascot
LM 💤 🥱 Did you know that Celestia was originally called LazyLedger? The idea behind this laziness stems from Celestia's minimalistic properties. By solely…
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Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling Debate
Horizontal or vertical scaling...which way, western man? In today's discussion, we're taking a closer look at Nil's strategic approach to blockchain…
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Where Sovereign Labs Fits In The Modular Thesis
The general idea and thesis we share is that we will see 1000s of appchains and the frameworks which are building for that future are in a good spot. In…
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Is Ethereum alignment a meme?
At what point does ideological alignment affect your technological decision making? The essence of Ethereum alignment involves a commitment to its core…
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We Need To Talk About Fraud Proofs with Gabriel Coutinho of Cartesi
Rollups as we know them today are more centralized than we'd like. Basically, rollups operate using a secure multi-sig and centralized sequencer for…
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Safe Token Launch, EIP 3074, and Technical Updates with co-founder Richard Meissner
Today marks a very special day for many DeFi founders, builders, and power users. Today is the launch of the transferable $SAFE token, for the safe multisig…
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Celestine Sloths, Alloyed Assets, And Hyperbitcoinization with Sunny Aggarwal
The evolution of the modular thesis doesn't go without saying Osmosis and the Cosmos ecosystem. Being the hub of liquidity for the modular ecosystem assets…
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The Decentralized AI War with Talus Network
The convergence of AI and crypto is particularly interesting to us. We've been doing research and are really coming around to the idea that AI might be the…
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How Lava Network Aims to Solve The RPC Problem For 10,000 Rollups
The spotlight on modularity continues. After Modular March, its been obvious to us to stay heads down building with a strong focus on modular blockchains and…
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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…