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AI is here to stay, but at what cost? Connor Leahy is the CEO of Conjecture, a mission-driven organization that’s trying to make the future of AI go as well as it possibly can. He is also a Co-Founder of EleutherAI, an open-source AI research non-profit lab. In today’s episode, Connor and David cover:  1) The intuitive arguments behind the AI Safety debate 2) The two defining categories of ways AI...

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Austin Campbell is the managing partner of Zero Knowledge Consulting, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, and used to work at Paxos in both Portfolio Management and Chief Risk Officer. He also was Co-Head of Digital Assets in Global Rates at CitiBank at JP Morgan for a decade.  Austin knows a thing or two about the TradWorld and we brought him on to help us navigate all of the TradNe...

Today’s guest is Jacob from Zora who is here to announce the Zora Network! A layer 2 solution that allows creators of any kind the ability to mint their ideas in a much more scalable way. Tune in as Jacob walks us through everything new and improved with Zora. ------ 🚀 Unlock $3,000+ in Perks with Bankless Citizenship 🚀 https://bankless.cc/GetThePerks   ------ 📣 CYFRIN | Smart Contract Audits &...

Today’s guest is Brendan Malone. He currently works at Paradigm’s Policy Department. But before that, he focused on crypto policy issues at no other than the Federal Reserve. In this episode, we get deep into answering one, if not the most Bankless questions. What is Money? And what does the answer look like in the Digital Age? ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/de...

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Hayden Adams joins us to announce the release of Uniswap V4! He walks us through innovations new to Uniswap like hooks and singleton contracts in addition to a new upgrade that can lower gas costs up to 90%. To launch V4 we need your help, the community, to contribute your opinions and decide the fate of this new protocol. ------ 📣 ASYMETRIX PROTOCOL https://bankless.cc/asymetrix   ------ 🚀 Unlo...

Can we go Bankless using PayPal? We brought on Jose Fernandez da Ponte, the Senior Vice President of Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies at PayPal and Venmo to help us answer that question. Jose is responsible for driving PayPal’s efforts to bring the utility of crypto-assets and crypto-networks to their hundreds of millions of global consumers.  He also knows a thing or two about how the b...

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Joining us today are the best in the biz Chervinsky & Amanda Tuminelli who are here to answer all our questions about the SEC and it's assault on the crypto industry as a whole.  ------ 📣 ASYMETRIX | STAKE stETH NOW https://bankless.cc/asymetrix-pod   ------ 🚀 Airdrop Alpha is waiting for you on Bankless.com  https://bankless.cc/Alpha    ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:  🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CR...

Today we're joined by Ryan Selkis, the Founder and CEO of Messari and an outspoken political advocate for the crypto industry. We explore the current state of Crypto Regulation and how Ryan plans to fight in Washington with the Digital Freedom Alliance. ------ 📣 ASYMETRIX PROTOCOL https://bankless.cc/asymetrix   ------ 🚀 Airdrop Alpha is waiting for you on Bankless.com  https://bankless.cc/Alpha...

The SEC is showing all of its cards. Gary Gensler doesn't want the crypto industry to exist at all. After yesterday's Binance suit, the SEC is going after Coinbase too. We brought on Coinbases's Legal Officer, Paul Grewal to hear how Coinbase plans to fight, how you, Bankless listener, can join the fight, and what's next for the crypto industry. Should we be optimistic?  ------ 📣 ASYMETRIX | STAK...

Today Gary Gensler and the SEC officially filed lawsuits against crypto exchanges Binance and Coinbase. We break it all down and share some hot takes on what this means for the crypto industry as a whole. ------ 📣 ASYMETRIX | STAKE stETH NOW https://bankless.cc/asymetrix-pod   ------ 🚀 Airdrop Alpha is waiting for you on Bankless.com  https://bankless.cc/Alpha    ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: ...

Is re-staking the biggest thing to happen to Ethereum since MEV?  We’re joined by Sreeram Kannan who walks us through Eigenlayer. The re-staking protocol that is set to change the trajectory of Ethereum forever. It may even be launching pretty soon… ------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode:  https://www.bankless.com/debrief-sreeram-kannan   ------ 🪂Airdrop Alpha is waiting for you on Bankless 🪂...

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We get back to basics on the show with Dan who answers some fundamental questions about DeFi and what it means to actually be a decentralized protocol. What are the threats to DeFi and how can we build a great decentralized future. ------ 📣 CONSENSYS | DILIGENCE FUZZING https://bankless.cc/diligence-fuzzing-pod   ------ 🚀 Airdrop Alpha is waiting for you on Bankless.com https://bankless.cc/Alpha...

We welcome back Founder and CEO of Binance, CZ for his second appearance on Bankless. Last time CZ was on, Terra Luna hadn’t collapsed yet and FTX was still competing with Binance. A lot has changed.  In today’s episode, we cover it all. Here were some of the questions we discussed: 1) How can we tell what’s real vs. FUD with Binance? 2) What Happened with FTX from CZ’s perspective?  3) The differ...

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Can the price of Ethereum really reach $30,000 by the end of the decade? On the show we go on a journey through VanEck’s new report detailing how exactly Ethereum can get there. ------ 📣 CONSENSYS | DILIGENCE FUZZING https://bankless.cc/diligence-fuzzing ------ 🚀 Airdrop Alpha is waiting for you on Bankless.com  https://bankless.cc/Alpha    ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:  🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED...

Taproot was the trojan horse that opened the door to a new wave of Bitcoin innovation and culture. At the forefront of this culture are Udi, Eric, and Nic, the taproot wizards causing a shift in the world of Bitcoin. ------ 📣 CONSENSYS | DILIGENCE FUZZING https://bankless.cc/diligence-fuzzing-pod ------ 🚀 Airdrop Alpha is waiting for you on Bankless.com  https://bankless.cc/Alpha   ------ BANKLE...

Rohan Grey is an assistant professor at Willamette University College of Law and has been involved in the world of politics and government as it relates to our public money systems.  You might remember him as the guy behind the STABLE Act (Stablecoin And Bank Licensing Enforcement) which turned into an episode we did with him in December of 2020.  The topic of CBDC and the politicization of our mo...

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Did Ethereum break or what actually happened?  We brought on Preston Van Loon & Terence Tsao, two Ethereum Protocol Developers, to help us answer that question.   ------ 📣 CONSENSYS | DILIGENCE FUZZING https://bankless.cc/diligence-fuzzing-pod   ------ 🚀 Airdrop Alpha is waiting for you on Bankless.com  https://bankless.cc/Alpha    ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:  🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO E...

Ledger has been the center of attention since the announcement of their new “Recover” feature which has brought into question how secure our Ledger devices actually are.  Charles joins us to walk through how exactly this recover feature functions, breaking down how a Ledger actually functions, and possible paths moving forward. ------ 📣 CONSENSYS | DILIGENCE FUZZING https://bankless.cc/diligence-...

Edward Chancellor is a financial historian, journalist, and author of, "Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation" and his latest, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest” The two books link together the history of money and finance, and human culture.  In today’s episode we explore the ways in which money and finance is embedded deeper in our lives than we may have previo...