ETH's Shapella Upgrade: Bull vs Bear | Roundup
In today's episode, Jason and Santiago discuss the bull vs bear case for ETH's Shapella upgrade. Since December 2021, ETH staking was one way. You could stake your ETH, but it was locked until the Sha...
14 Huhti 202347min
What DeFi Get’s Wrong About RWAs | Robert Leshner
In this episode of Empire, Robert Leshner - founder of Compound Labs - joins us to discuss how DeFi will evolve in the wake of Operation Choke Point 2.0 and the coordinated effort to debank crypto. We...
11 Huhti 20231h
ETH L2s Have The Same Flaws As Alt L1s | Roundup
In today's episode, we debate Mike's tweet that Eth L2s have every feature Alt L1s are criticized for: centralized, downtime, opaque resource allocation and wild valuations. To get close to the metal,...
7 Huhti 20231h 14min
The Cosmos SDK of Rollups | Preston Evans, Sovereign Labs
Today's episode is a bonus episode from our podcast 0xResearch, produced by the Blockworks Research team. This is one of my favorite episodes they've done, a deep dive into the future of rollups, scal...
5 Huhti 20231h 2min
Centralized Insanity: Kain Warwick, Synthetix
In this episode of Empire, we are joined by Kain Warwick, founder of Synthethix and crypto OG. Kain explains the concept of centralized insanity and how crypto is finally ready for the next bull cycle...
4 Huhti 20231h 21min
The Day DeFi Almost Died | Ben Forman
Today we are joined by Ben Forman, one of the most prolific investors in crypto, to discuss the day DeFi almost died: Black Thursday. The industry was a few liquidations away from an extinction event....
31 Maalis 20231h 25min
Celo: An L1 Focused On Real World Use Cases | Marek Olszewski, Rene Reinsberg
In this episode of Empire, I'm joined by Marek Olszewski and Rene Reinsberg to discuss how Celo is building an L1 focused on a mobile-first user experience and real-world use cases. We start with the ...
28 Maalis 202345min
Morgan Stanley: Could A Banking Crisis Drive Adoption?
In this episode of Empire, we are joined by Amy Oldenburg and Andrew Peel from Morgan Stanley to discuss how the banking crises will impact crypto's adoption. We start by exploring how far the banking...
27 Maalis 20231h 6min
