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The Rollup
Where digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world. Website: https://therollup.co/
Episodes
The RollupWhy ZK is Perfect for Offchain Computation with Brevis
Welcome to episode #2 of EigenLayer Unlocked, for a dive into a technical exploration of something that’s set to quietly improve how developers build smarter…
The RollupThe Role of Operators, Slashing, and Liquid Restaking with EigenExplorer
Welcome to the 1st episode of EigenLayer Unlocked. This episode is meant to be a primer into how restaking fundamentally works, the key players in the…
The RollupEthereum's ZK & Formal Verification Endgame with Alexander Hicks
The Ethereum Foundation has been very active in the public discourse, notably with Vitalik's return back to X and engaging in the technical debates about the…
The RollupWhy Purpose-Built L1s?
Find out why purpose-built L1s with Jason from StoryProtocol, Luigi from Avax and Zmanian from IQ. 𝗪𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱…
The RollupAre Based Rollups Really Based?
Are Based Rollups Really Based with Bread and Ceciliaz from Gwnyenth Taiko, and Sam Battenally from Rise Chain. Website: https://therollup.co/ Spotify…
The RollupWhy Solver Rebalancing is An Untapped Market For The Intent-Centric Future
We've been really honing in on the intent-centric future with regards to chain abstraction in recent podcasts, as its something we are particularly excited for…
The RollupApp-Specific Sequencing (ASS) & LVR Technical Debate with Yuki Yuminaga & Alex Nezbolin
Another technical debate served up for you guys around the redistribution of MEV to apps, the tradeoffs of sequencing for apps, composability, LVR and more. We…
The RollupEigenlayer Token Unlock: Everything You Need to Know
The world's first intersubjective token is now officially transferable and live, enabling the next era of the Eigenlayer ecosystem. The core breakthrough of…
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Why AI Is A Tool For Advancing Humanity With Emad Mostaque
At the DeAI summit, held by Polychain Capital and OpenLedger, Andy had the pleasure to chat with @EMostaque, a mathematician and former CEO of Stability AI…
The RollupHow Safe Sequencing Will Power the Appchain Future with Firewall
If we want the institutions to come onchain, the current security measures are ripe for an improvement. The state of exploits and sequencing for L2s, in their…
The RollupSolving The Extensibility Problem with Griffin Dunaif of Halliday
In today’s piece, we’re taking a closer look at Halliday, a project that’s working to simplify and automate one of the most crucial yet complex aspects of…
The RollupWhy The Intent-Centric Future Is Extremely Promising with Anoma
Our first interview with Adrian was probably in 2020 or 2021 at a conference, so it was a pleasure to catch up with him again. This time, we are diving into a…
The RollupAppchains Vs. L1s: What is Crypto's Endgame? With Illia Polosukhin
One of our favorite pods as we were able to tackle two birds with one stone, the appchains vs. sharded L1s debate as well as key insights into the state of AI…
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Why Blockchains Are Crucial For The Evolution of AI with Sreeram Kannan
In Singapore, Andy sat down with Sreeram Kannan to learn why he believes the crossover of AI and crypto is extremely important, and how he sees this trend…
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Why Treasure Left Arbitrum To Build Their New Chain on ZK Sync
While in Singapore this week, Andy found time to interview Karel Vuong about the "public breakup" of TreasureDAO with Arbitrum. What grants did ZK Sync offer?…
The RollupWhy Liquid Funds Have An Edge over VCs
Today's episode with Zaheer from Split Capital, we dive into the nuanced strategies of running a liquid fund in this ever-evolving crypto market. With the…
The RollupZKVMs vs. ZK Circuits: A Spicy Debate
Today, we get to moderate a debate that’s been brewing in the ZK-space: ZKVMs or custom ZK circuits? ZKVMs have been pivotal in getting projects up and running…
The RollupThe Future of Bitcoin with Jeff Garzik
After working with Satoshi in the early years, and almost 15 years of crypto experience, legend Jeff Garzik shares his story in this exclusive interview…
The RollupThe Based Rollup Stack with Spire Labs
Today, we're unraveling the concept of "based rollups" with The Based Stack from Spire Labs. Spire's framework for building "based appchains" is designed to…
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Decentralized AI Panel
Decentralized AI Panel with: Nick Emmons from Allora Labs Ram from Open Ledger Nav from Ungate AI Vargs from 0G Labs Igor from Rivalz Network Website…
The RollupThe Celestia Roadmap with Nick White
1GB blocks are coming. Since November last year, 20 rollups have launched according to Celenium, the Celestia block explorer and those rollups have since…
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Where Is The Best Place To Deploy Apps Today?
Where Is The Best Place To Deploy Apps Today with: Arjun from LiFi Protocol Terry from Eclipse Max Power from LayerZero Jim from Catalyst Website…
The RollupCan IBC Become The Interoperability Standard For L2s? With Polymer
For our final chain abstraction focused podcast in NYC, we are talking about IBC. IBC is well known as the interoperability standard for the Cosmos ecosystem…
The RollupWhy Solving Is The Biggest Onchain Opportunity In Crypto with Catalyst
This was probably the most alpha packed episode of the entire NYC content series. Jim literally spilled a massive, yet completely unknown opportunity in the…
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Based Rollups AMA with Ceciliaz of Gwyneth Taiko and mteam of Spire Labs.
Based Rollups AMA with Ceciliaz of Gwyneth Taiko and mteam of Spire Labs.
The RollupHow Monad is Breaking The Barriers Of Scaling Blockchains
Monad is one of the projects which teams look at now and wonder how they did such an impeccable job of growing their community, pre-product. The different…
The RollupThe Interwoven Appchain Thesis with Initia
If you've been here on the channel for sometime, you know we have been large proponents of the application specific designs. We have been vocal about the…
The RollupThe Ethereum Roadmap w Justin Drake
The future of Ethereum is in our hands. Undeniably, the community has a major decisions to make which will shape the endgame of Ethereum. Today’s piece dives…
The RollupWhy No One Wants To Be A Shared Sequencer Anymore
A few weeks back, Andy put out a tweet saying "no one wants to be branded as a shared sequencer anymore" and it triggered quite a few people. The "loss of…
The RollupIs AggLayer The Solution To The Modular Fragmentation Problem?
In today’s piece, we’re taking a close look at one of the latest innovations in the modular ecosystem: AggLayer, the new interoperability layer stemming from…
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What Are The Ideological & Product Implications of A Chain Abstracted Future?
Joins us for a discussion about the Ideological & product implications of a chain abstracted future with: Asad Ahmed from Okto Dave from Particle Network Arjun…
The RollupHow MegaETH enables real-time apps on Ethereum
One of the core ideas that we shared in this podcast and throughout the NYC sessions was creating more optimizations for Ethereum L2s which currently don't…
The RollupAre Based Rollups The Solution To Ethereum's Long-Term Value Capture?
Based rollups are a really interesting design because they offer MEV to the L1 (which acts as the sequencer) rather than accruing the value to the rollup…
The RollupHow To Build A Cult-Like Community in Crypto with XION
This was one of the wildest interviews we've ever done. From the attire of our guest, to the level of entertainment, technical detail, and insights on…
The RollupWhere Is The Demand for Data Availability? With EigenDA
Today, we’re diving into a topic that's crucial for the future of Ethereum and the broader modular ecosystem: Data Availability. Recently, there's been chatter…
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ZKVMs and Proof Verification
Join us for a discussion about ZKVMs and Proof Verification with ZKVProtocol, RiscZero, ProjectZKM and Aligned Layer. Website: https://therollup.co/ Spotify…
The RollupWhy SolverFi Is The Next Big Trend In Crypto
We've been studying the chain abstraction stack pretty heavily recently. Over the last few months, we've developed a thesis that our optimal outcome in the…
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What is a ZK coprocessor and what onchain apps do they enable?
Join us for a discussion about ZK coprocessor and what onchain apps do they enable. Participants: Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh from Lagrange Mo from Brevis Felipe…
The RollupHow To Navigate The Volatile Crypto Markets
A bit of a different vibe from our typical technical content as we dive into the perspective of one of the most well known crypto funds, built by Arthur Hayes…
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DeFi on High TPS Modular Appchains
Join us for a discussion about DeFi on High TPS Modular Appchains with Simon Jones of Reya and Cedo Salah of StorkOracle. Website: https://therollup.co/…
The RollupA Friendly Debate About Bitcoin Scaling
When we originally drew this piece up, we were thinking to make it solely about Bitcoin blockspace (as shown in the thumbnail), but this debate stretched a…
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Data In The Modular Stack
Join us for an indepth discussion about Data In The Modular Stack with: Ganesh Swami from Covalent Kimura Yu from Sunrise Ram from Openledger Kenny from Manta…
The RollupWhy Galxe Is Launching Their Own Chain
We've been discussing chain abstraction as the next logical step for the modular ecosystem for some time now. Today, Gravity, the new chain launched by Galxe…
The RollupWTF is MEV? Pre-Confs & MEV Commit Explained
MEV is how some VCs value Layer 1 blockchains, its how "sandwich attacks" happen onchain, and its sometimes toxic. Although, we've found that "toxic flow" is…
The RollupHow To Connect Ethereum's Rollup Clusters
Following yesterday's podcast detailing the "Why" we should care about building a connected future for Ethereum, we decided to follow it up with a detailed…
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…