
Can a KYC'ed L2 Chain Unlock the Next Wave of Crypto Adoption? | Ramon Recuero, Kinto Co-Founder
On today's episode Jason and Santi are joined by Ramon, co-founder and CEO of Memori Labs. The trio dive into Kinto - a secure layer 2 built on Arbitrum Nitro that provides KYC at the chain level to e...
13 Feb 202452min

The Convo: Unpacking the Solana Outage, Crypto & AI, and Blast Vision
In today's episode of the convo, Ryan, Tommy, and Santi debate the biggest topics and narratives across crypto. They dig into the the recent Solana outage, Ethereum's scalability roadmap, the intersec...
9 Feb 20241h 30min

Are Farcaster and Airdrops Worth the Hype? | Roundup
In this week's roundup Jason and Santi discuss Farcaster's recent surge in adoption, analyzing features like channels and programmable posts, and how it could transform distribution and customer acqui...
9 Feb 20241h 2min

The Rise of Frames, Farcaster, and Headless Marketplaces | Jesse Walden & Antonio Martínez
In today's episode we dive into the emergence of decentralized social networks and how they enable new forms of distribution and business models. Farcaster, a decentralized social network built on E...
6 Feb 20241h 6min

Chain Abstraction is NEAR | Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder
On today's episode we dive into Near Protocol with Co-founder and Near Foundation CEO Illia Polosukhin. Illia details key innovations, like account aggregation, sharding, and chain abstraction, that a...
2 Feb 20241h 20min

Debating non-EVM Chains | Haseeb (Dragonfly) vs. Avichal (Electric)
On today's episode of Empire Haseeb and Avichal return to Empire to discuss crypto in 2024. They debate whether we're entering a bull market and analyze key indicators like retail engagement, institut...
30 Jan 20241h 46min

How Parallelized State Execution Unlocks Transactional Throughput at Scale | Logan Jastremski
In today's episode Jason and Santi are joined by Logan Jastremski, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Frictionless Capital. He shares his thesis on why high-throughput blockchains are essential for cr...
26 Jan 20241h 27min

Debating the DePIN Flywheel: Token Incentives, Business Models, and Mainstream Adoption | Kyle Samani & Dmitriy Berenzon
In today's episode Jason is joined by Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital and Dmitriy Berenzon of Archetype for an in-depth debate on the emerging decentralized physical infrastructure industry. They ana...
23 Jan 20241h 5min




















