0xResearch

In this episode, Blockworks Research analysts dive into Coinbase's Q3 earnings, Solana’s Breakpoint conference and strength, issues with Prisma points airdrop, Osmosis network struggles, and the state of Near and Jupiter protocols. The team also covers governance updates for Arbitrum, Ribbon, and Uniswap. To close out they analyze the upcoming Celestia airdrop and the current state of Cosmos As al...

In this week's interview, EigenLayer CEO and Founder Sreeram Kannan and Principal Researcher Soubhik join us to unpack how EigenLayer aims to become the coordination infrastructure of Web3. They discuss the vision for EigenLayer as a platform that allows developers to build and integrate specialized protocols through a shared security model backed by Ethereum staking. Kannan outlines the roles of...

This week's analyst table has Blockworks Research Analysts Dan, Sam, Ren, and Brick diving into Pepe's recent 6.9 trillion token burn and Thorchain's RUNE token burning through its new lending protocol. They also cover governance proposals for Arbitrum staking rewards and Curve DAO's potential distribution of protocol revenue in CRV USD. They also dissect LidoDAO's reaction to LayerZero's "unilate...

This week Dan and Sam are interviewing Akash Network CEO and Founder Greg Osuri to dive into how Akash is building an open, decentralized marketplace for cloud compute resources to serve web3 developers. They discuss the high utilization and demand on Akash, innovations like training AI models on the blockchain, and why the future of cloud computing infrastructure needs to be permissionless and de...

In this week's analyst table, Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks Research Analysts Ren and Pibblez to discuss Bitcoin's recent dominance and price gains, upcoming Polkadot token unlocks, Scroll's mainnet launch, and Circle's Gas Station product launch. They also cover governance changes like Atom's inflation rate proposal, Polygon's migration to POL, and debates around Uniswap's controversial in...

In this week's bonus interview, we are joined by Blocknative CEO and Co-founder Matt Cutler to dive into the world of MEV and order flow on Ethereum. They explore how the proof-of-stake transition has impacted block building, the economics and incentives faced by builders and relays, and the prevalence of private order flow. Matt shares his thoughts on protocol changes like MEV-Geth and burning an...

In this week's interview Frax Finance Founder Sam Kazemian joins us to dissect Frax and how he sees Frax becoming the future of onchain money. They dive into the shift to being fully collateralized, Frax's singular real world asset strategy of accessing Fed rates, and new products like sFRAX yielding near the IORB and FXB for creating an on-chain yield curve. Sam explains the mechanics ensuring th...

In this week's analyst table, Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks research analysts Matt and Brick to discuss the fake Bitcoin ETF news that briefly pumped BTC price 7% before plunging back down. They also analyze Lido's proposal to sunset Staked Sol, the Arbitrum incentive program results, and debate whether real world assets coming on-chain will be a long-term value proposition. The group also...

In this week's interview Dan and Sam are joined by Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan and research analyst Ryan Rasmussen to discuss the exciting launch of a 2 Ethereum futures ETFs. They also discuss the prospects for Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETF approval, Coinbase's low valuation and promising outlook, and promising use-cases for real-world adoption.  - - Follow Ryan Rasmussen: https://twitter.com/Rasterl...

In this week's analyst round table Dan and Sam are joined by analysts EffortCapital and Ren. To kick-off the team discusses Cosmos events, including Cosmoverse takeaways and potential mergers between Stride and the Cosmos Hub and potential AXL token inflation adjustments. They also dissect alleged illicit transactions moved through Thorswap and its operational shutdown. They then discuss Lido's gr...

In this week's interview Dan and Sam are joined by James Huntsaker, co-founder of Monad, a rising L1 project focused on optimizing and scaling the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The conversation delves deep into Monad's technical architecture, its challenges, and how it differentiates itself in an increasingly competitive L2 and L1 landscape. Find out how Monad utilizes hardware to its full poten...

In this week's analyst table Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks research analysts EffortCapital and Westie. In this week's news round-up the analysts cover Uniswap foundation's funding request of $62m, Arbitrum grants program "STIPs", and dYdX $20m incentives on V4. The team also covers this week's top mover MakerDAO and biggest loser $OX. To finish out today's show the team takes the gloves off...

In this week's interview Dan and Sam are joined by Nick Johnson, technical lead of ENS. The team breaks down ENS past present and future digging into its origins, the continued vision for a credibly neutral naming service, and scaling decisions in an L2 world. They also discuss key new features including the ENS Fairy and V3 name manager. They close out today's interview with a discussion on digit...

In this week's analyst table Dan and Sam are joined by Blockworks research analysts EffortCapital and 0xPibblez. They dive into the Base TVL growth, Frax V3s recent successful audit, Cosmos hub 36x return on investment, and the rise of Eclipse SVM L2. The team also dives into a round of top governance updates including, Arbitrum DAO incentives program, Maker RWA vault debt ceiling raising, and the...

In today's episode of 0xResearch, hosts Dan and Sam are joined by analysts Matt and Ren to recap the Permissionless conference. They discuss institutions entering crypto, shared sequencers and account abstraction, uncertainties around gaming, and the need for better data. They also reflect on the big Layer0 and Google Cloud oracle service integration and the implications it may have on decentraliz...

In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by Uri Klarman, Co-Founder and CEO of BloXroute Labs. Uri and the guys first take stock of MEV boost transaction life cycles, Searcher/Builder integrations, and builder relays. Uri unpacks blockchain distribution networks and how BloXroute is the first ultra-fast BDN. Uri then shares his MEV end-state thesis, the Base Layer vs L2 conflict as a result, and...

In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by Jim, founder of Catalyst AMM. Jim unpacks the Catalyst's unique "Units of Liquidity" system, a novel approach that promises to facilitate genuine cross-chain liquidity in the crypto sphere. Delve deeper as Jim explores the vast MEV opportunities unlocked by this distinctive AMM design and the protocol's agnostic stance on cross-chain messaging. Learn al...

In today's episode we are joined by Chad Barraford, technical lead of THORChain, to chat about how the protocol works with layer-one assets, disrupting the traditional "island-like" view of blockchains as separate ecosystems. The protocol offers decentralized lending specifically for non-EVM chains like Bitcoin and Litecoin, aiming to always maintain liquidity. Key mechanisms are discussed to safe...

In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by CowSwap Technical Lead Felix. CoWSwap allows you to buy and sell tokens using gasless while providing MEV protection. They explore the economic concept of "coincidence of wants" and its application in CoWSwap, the unique batch auctions that differentiate it from traditional DEXs like Uniswap, and the protocol's unique approach to optimizing gas fees and...

In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by Vertex Protocol Co-founders Darius & Alwin. They explore Vertex's journey since the Multicurrency version of Anchor on Terra to now a leading onchain trading platform powered by Arbitrum. They explore Vertex's risk management, visions for decentralization, token airdrop, and endgame strategy. This week's analyst segment is a special 3 blockworks analyst...

In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by Ethena Labs team. Guy Young, Co-founder, and Conor Ryder, head of research, dive into the Ethena's aim to enable the internet bond and transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin. They dive into Ethena's revenue model, staking yield, depeg risk, bitcoin as collateral, and much more! As usual the team is also joined by two bl...

In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by Elipsis Labs Co-Founder Eugene. Today they dive into the DEX & AMM innovation in DeFi & Phoenix's unique approach in the Solana Ecosystem. They also discuss the MEV differences in Solana & Ethereum and bringing price discovery on-chain. As usual the team is also joined by two blockworks research analysts, Westie & Ren. Today they cover the Curve exploit...

In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by host of Bell Curve Podcast & Blockworks Co-Founder Michael and Blockworks research analyst Matt. The team dives into their key takeaways of the EthCC and converse on zkEVM problems, the bull case for centralization, scaling solutions, interoperability, and much more! - - Follow Michael: https://twitter.com/MikeIppolito_ Follow Sam: https://twitter.com/s...

This is an episode from Blockworks' new podcast Lightspeed! Lightspeed focuses on crypto projects that are pushing the limits of hardware and software to build first-class products. I'm dropping this Solana DeFi Panel episode here as I bet you'll want to add Lightspeed to your podcast lineup! Subscribe to Lightspeed by using the links below: Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/43o3Syk Subscribe o...

Bryan Pellegrino, Co-founder & CEO of LayerZero Labs, joins us this week to dive into LayerZero. Dan and Sam explore the LayerZero model, value accrual, Stargate v2 alpha, omni-chain fungible tokens, and much more! And as usual, we start the episode with our analyst bullpen joined by Blockworks researchers Ren and EffortCapital to discuss Alt EVMs, XRP security status, direction of Web3 Social pla...