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The Rollup
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The RollupWhy We Should Care About Ethereum's Future
Ethereum's early marketing was focused on building an infinite garden. An open space, for experimentation and innovation of any kind. No walled gardens. No…
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Chain Abstraction Ecosystem Discussion
Chain abstraction is pivotal in shaping the blockchain ecosystem, akin to the early internet's revolutionary HTTP. We explore its role in enhancing…
The RollupThe Importance of Chain Signatures & Atomicity
Just a few days after we dropped the chain abstraction market map, we come to you with an in-depth podcast about NEAR's chain signatures, which they recently…
The RollupWhat Are Epheremal Rollups?
Welcome back to another technical deep dive, this time about ephemeral rollups. This idea was originally presented to us a few months back with an idea of…
The RollupHow To Unify The Ethereum Community
Ethereum is as divided and fragmented as it has ever been. Between rollups, MEV debates, and the lack of performance at the base layer, we are seeing a lot of…
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Improving UX in The Modular Ecosystem
Exploring the next steps for creating a better user experience for the rollup-centric roadmap and modular ecosystem. 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗥: 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺…
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Modular Ecosystem Roadmap 2024-2025
In this livestream we dive into the evolution of the modular blockchain ecosystem, focusing on data availability sampling, high TPS chains, and the rise of…
The RollupThe New Era of Bitcoin Powered By Starknet
Starknet is coming to Bitcoin with one of the biggest breakthroughs in Bitcoin scaling: STARK verifiers natively on Bitcoin. In a recent conversation with Eli…
The RollupHow Prediction Markets Have Become Crypto's Killer App
"Prediction markets are part of phase two of crypto product adoption" - Andrew Young, in today's podcast. If you’ve been following the evolution of DeFi, you…
The RollupOne Rollup or A Million Rollups?
There's been an ongoing debate about whether or not we need more L2s. Without getting into too much of where *we* stand, the idea of new, EVM general purpose…
The RollupLava Network Mainnet: A Fair Launch?
Today is the day for Lava Network mainnet, bringing their incentive system of RPC providers to the modular ecosystem. There's been some question marks about…
The RollupHow Caldera is Becoming The Distribution Channel for Modular Infra
After an epic announcement of a series A raise as well as a rebrand yesterday, Caldera is positioning itself as the go-to modular vending machine for launching…
The RollupThe Next Evolution of Onchain Apps
We've heard all the complaints at ETHCC about no applications and "all infra" in crypto. Where are the apps? To us, this is a bit silly seeing as we have a…
The RollupA Holistic View of Ethereum and The Modular Ecosystem
We've been of the opinion that the Cosmos Hub and Ethereum rollup-centric roadmap are converging. Both of the scaling methodologies are somewhat opposites…
The RollupZK Proof Generation & Verification Explained
If you've been listening in for a while you understand the idea behind ZKVMs and where we see them fitting into the modular stack. ZKVMs, from what we…
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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…