Archebyte

Ash sits down with Archetype’s newest team member, Dmitriy Berenzon, for a wide ranging conversation. The two discuss the crypto ecosystems of NYC and SF, hardware becoming cool again, weird stuff at the intersection of AI and blockchain, and being both thesis and founder driven. Dmitriy is the newest Partner here at Archetype, and will be driving research, investments, portfolio support, and fund...

Another rollercoaster of a year in crypto has come and gone. To kick off 2024, we reached out to some founders and builders to get their takeaways from 2023 and perspectives on where crypto is headed in the new year.  Our guests for this episode are: Ash Egan, Founder of Archetype Asta Li, Co-founder of Privy Nick Johnson, Lead Developer of ENS Sheila Warren, CEO of Crypto Council for Innovation T...

On this episode of Archebyte, Katherine Wu and fellow Archetype team member, Nick Pai, are joined by the CEO and co-founder of Risk Labs, Hart Lambur, to talk bridges, L2s, and interoperability. Hart and Risk Labs are best known for creating UMA, an optimistic oracle, and Across Protocol, a crosschain bridge. In the multichain future that is quickly becoming the present, infrastructure like oracle...

On this episode of Archebyte, Ash Egan is joined by Lagrange’s founder and CEO, Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh to talk zero knowledge, storage proofs, and unlocking blockchain data. Today, blockchains have a difficult time leveraging data from other chains, but Ismael and Lagrange are working to fix that. Leveraging ZK and storage proofs, Lagrange enables blockchains to better utilize blockchain data it...

Until now, we have had almost no way of evaluating Ethereum validator performance. This lack of accessible data around nodes and their operators has been keeping users, builders, investors, and other validators in the dark about the very health of the Ethereum network. But Elias Simos and the Rated team have created a solution. Elias joins us today to shed light on the state of Ethereum infrastruc...

Welcome back to Archebyte! We’re kicking off Season 4 with a deep dive into the MEV supply chain, SAUVE, order flow auctions, and the future of programmable privacy with Shea Ketsdever from Flashbots ⚡🤖 There has been A LOT of excitement around the MEV world lately, and Flashbots is one of its biggest contributors. Shea demystifies the MEV supply chain, walks us through each of its steps and act...

On this episode of Archebyte we are joined by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce.  Prior to joining the SEC, Commissioner Peirce conducted research on the regulation of financial markets at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She was also a Senior Counsel on the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, where she advised Ranking Member Richard Shelby and other members o...

On this episode of Archebyte we are joined by Justin Melillo, co-founder and CEO of Mona. Mona is an infinite network of immersive experiences with a focus on openness, decentralization, and creator/developer ownership. A lifelong artist with a focus on computer animation, visual FX, and immersive content, Justin has worked at companies like DreamWorks and Magic Leap, designed tour sets for artist...

On this episode of Archebyte we are joined by Jonathan Kau, Co-founder of Satsuma, a blockchain indexing and query platform. We begin our conversation with Jonathan walking us through his founder journey and a 101 lesson on blockchain data. We discuss the unique challenges that web3 developers face and explore how Satsuma can ease some of those challenges.  We also touch on the challenges of selli...

On this episode of Archebyte we are joined by Aya Kantorovich, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Fractal, to discuss crypto’s history, what it’s like to be a founder in the industry, and the importance of building institutional grade crypto infrastructure. As a former founding member of FalconX and current Co-CEO of Fractal Clearing, Aya deeply understands the role that institutions play in the world of cr...

On this episode of Archebyte, we are joined by Collin Meyers, Founder of Obol Labs. The Obol Network is an ecosystem for trust minimized staking that enables people to create, test, run and coordinate distributed validators.  Collin kicks off the episode by laying some groundwork and explaining the history of staking infrastructure and how it has led us to where we are today, post Ethereum Merge....

On this episode of Archebyte , we are joined by TuongVy Le to discuss crypto regulation. Vy is currently a Partner at Bain Capital Crypto, Head of Regulatory & Policy at BCC, and previously worked in the enforcement division at the SEC. Vy starts off the conversation by giving listeners an overview of crypto regulation and policy as it stands today - an enforcement only approach with lack of guida...

For the final episode of season 2, I’m changing things up a bit! To close out a year that has been very eventful, and a bit chaotic, I went to some of my favorite crypto founders for their words of wisdom. I asked everyone three questions and compiled all of their answers here to help everyone decompress from the craziness of 2022 and start getting on track for 2023: Give me one or two reasons to...

We kickoff the episode by broadly discussing how Pooja thinks about the future of work and she shares how the future of work could look different in web2 and web3 settings. We analyze these topics from the perspectives of both workers and organizations, and examine how web3 offers each of them new and exciting possibilities. Pooja predicts that the future of work will be small teams tackling big p...

On this episode of Cross-Chain Examination, we’re joined by Devin Walsh , Executive Director of the Uniswap Foundation . UF was founded this year with the goal of supporting the decentralized growth and sustainability of the Uniswap protocol and its ecosystem.  Devin and Ken Ng submitted the initial proposal to found the Uniswap Foundation during the summer of 2022. Uniswap token holders voted ove...

On this episode of Cross-Chain Examination, we’re joined by our good friends and supporters, Anton and Ethan from Talos ! Talos is an institutional trading platform for digital assets that was built to support the entire trade lifecycle.  With backgrounds in the institutional finance space, and a very robust crypto platform under their belts, Anton and Ethan are the perfect guests to help us sort...

This week on Cross-Chain Examination, we’re taking a break from our usual deep-dives and turning our attention to current events in the industry with Ash and Danny from the Archetype team. Over the course of the past week, we have watched FTX collapse, sending the entire crypto market into freefall.  At the time of this recording (11/11/22), much of the situation is still unfolding. We do our best...

Sreeram Kannan is the founder of EigenLayer , an Ethereum staking collective leveraging trust, hyperscaling blockchains, and unleashing open innovation.  In this highly technical episode, we dive deep into proof of work vs. proof of stake, staking, restaking, Ethereum throughput, and permissionless innovation.   Sreeram kicks off the episode by introducing and explaining fragmented trust networks....

Eleni Steinman is the Co-Founder of Loop , a tool enabling autopay in crypto. In this episode we dive into how Loop came to be, how Loop works, and what to expect from Loop in the future.  Loop was designed with all users in mind - not only does it have the ability to integrate with complex crypto protocols but it's also simple and easy enough for crypto novices to understand. With its B2B2C busin...

Jon is the Co-Founder of VectorDAO - a collective of designers, artists & developers contributing to web3. After working as a designer at Coinbase for several years, Jon decided to take a leap of faith, quit his job, and he began working for himself as a freelance designer. After realizing that the work he was doing was highly integral to the success of his clients, Jon began to feel that taking a...

Dan is the Co-Founder of Farcaster , a protocol for sufficiently decentralized social networking.  Instead of whipping up a traditional social network, Dan decided to create Farcaster as a protocol in order to give users a more direct relationship with their audience., as well as give developers direct access to the underlying data and APIs of the ecosystem they are building in. The result is the...

Rebecca Rettig is the General Council at the Aave companies, which build open source, blockchain based software for the web3 world. She’s a respected lawyer and longtime friend of our host, Katherine Wu.  We dive right into the episode with Rebecca answering the question that’s on all of our minds - why is regulation so difficult? We discuss the negative narrative that mainstream media portrays ab...

Welcome to Cross-Chain Examination, an inclusive and friendly place for your 102-level crypto/Web3 content. In this episode of the podcast, host Katherine Wu   and Espresso Systems' Jill Gunter about what tornado cash is + the use cases + reactions to tornado cash sanctions, the issues when it comes to privacy in Web3 and how crypto users should have various options when it comes to privacy.  🎧 H...

Welcome to Cross-Chain Examination, an inclusive and friendly place for your 102-level crypto/Web3 content. In this episode of the podcast, host Katherine Wu   and Crypto Council For Innovation's (CCI) Sheila Warren chat about why crypto regulation is so difficult, what a day in the life looks like for Sheila when she's working on the Hill and her thoughts on the best practices for founders lookin...

Welcome to Cross-Chain Examination, an inclusive and friendly place for your 102-level crypto/Web3 content. In this episode of the podcast, host Katherine Wu and Gitcoin's Annika Lewis about how crypto fits in as a public good, what Annika's excited about in crypto right now and whether all companies should become a DAO. 🎧 Hear it wherever you get your podcasts! 🐦 Follow the show on Twitter . 💻...