DeFi by Design EP129: Everything You Need to Know About Zircuit zkEVM
In todayโs podcast, weโre taking a closer look at Zircuit's zkEVM, an innovative L2 focused on going to market in 2024. Zircuitโs leverages zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), a groundbreaking approach that...
1 Mar 20241h 3min
DeFi 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 interested in the total degen culture going on ov...
22 Feb 20241h 9min
DeFi 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 cover a variety of topics, including cross...
20 Feb 202453min
DeFi 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 grown significantly in Cosmos thanks to hel...
15 Feb 202459min
DeFi 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 difference in the staking yield... In todayโs ...
13 Feb 20241h 8min
DeFi 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 users. In today's podcast we talk with Dino...
8 Feb 20241h 6min
DeFi 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 into how Celestia's Data Availability Sa...
1 Feb 20241h 16min
DeFi 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 network to power their censorship-resista...
30 Jan 20241h 7min
