Rehashed Podcast

In this episode of Rehashed, we’re speaking with JB Rubinovitz, founder of Tenfold, about their perspective on decentralized social platforms, particularly Warpcast, and the future of decentralized identity and reputation.  We discuss the developer-centric focus of Warpcast, the challenges of onboarding users to decentralized platforms, and JB's journey in building Tenfold to empower builder...

Role Call is a miniseries on DAOs, produced by Rehashed and co-hosted by Hats Protocol.  In our second episode of Role Call, we're joined by special guest host, Amy Jung (Eigen Foundation), to talk to Rafa (Governance Lead at ZK Sync Association) about the future of DAO governance and the implications of the end of the era of airdrops.  We talk about the challenges in designing sustainab...

In this episode of Rehashed, we’re speaking with Naomi Metzger, an 11-time British triple jump champion, about her use of Web3 to fund her journey to the 2028 Olympics.  Naomi shares her story of overcoming injuries that kept her from competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics and how she became the first athlete to document her recovery journey onchain.  She also shares about her passion for...

In this episode of Rehashed, Dr. Laurence E. Day, founder of Wildcat Finance and creator of the infamous West Ham group chat, joins us to clear up rumors about his alleged crypto hacks and share more about what he’s working on at Wildcat Finance, which aims to facilitate under-collateralized borrowing on the Ethereum blockchain.  Laurence also shares his thoughts on protocol security, the imp...

In this episode of Rehashed, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce joins us to talk about legal compliance and innovation in the crypto space.  Known for her pro-innovation stance, Commissioner Peirce discusses her critiques of the SEC's stringent regulatory approach toward crypto and her hopes for clearer guidelines.  The conversation covers the balance between fostering innovation and protect...

In this episode, we’re speaking with Dr. Nick Almond, a physicist turned DAO enthusiast and now CEO of Factory Labs, about cybernetic governance frameworks in DAOs, the current state and challenges of DAOs, and the potential of decentralized AI in governance.  We also talk about issues of privacy and surveillance, Dr. Nick shares his critical views on WorldCoin (now World), and we wrap up wit...

In this episode, we’re speaking with Amanda Tuminelli, Chief Legal Officer at DeFi Education Fund, about the latest in crypto policy and what she’s expecting to see leading up to the election next week. We start out by recapping some of the lawsuits Amanda has helped file against the SEC through DeFi Education Fund and her testimony at the first congressional hearing on DeFi last month, and then w...

Minihash is a condensed episode of Rehashed, where we do a deep dive into one focused topic with a past guest. On this Minihash episode, Peter Pan, Partner at 1kx, joins us for a deep dive on what autonomous worlds are.  TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 1:15 What are autonomous worlds? 6:12 Do blockchains uniquely enable autonomous worlds to exist? 15:07 Democratizing participation and generating immers...

In our final episode of Season 1, we’re speaking with Jill Gunter, Chief Strategy Officer at Espresso Systems, the coordination layer that unites chains, rollups, and applications. We start off with a hot topic nowadays which is whether we should be focusing more on building infrastructure or apps. You might assume you know where Jill stands on this topic as someone who’s working on a middleware s...

In this episode, we’re speaking with Gloria Kimbwala, Head of Events at Sei Foundation, about crypto events and crypto in the global south. Gloria has been working in the crypto space since 2017, primarily within builder communities and more recently as the events lead at Sei Foundation. She has attended and organized countless events, both in crypto and outside of crypto, and she shares her knowl...

In this episode, we’re speaking with Toby Shorin, Laura Lotti, and Sam Hart from Other Internet about their most recent article on crypto’s three body problem, clarifying some common misconceptions about headless brands, and getting their take on the current state of onchain culture. The idea for this collaboration or interview came about when we had Jon Wu on the podcast last season in S8 E4 whic...

In this episode, we’re speaking with 0xdesigner about all things design, anonymity, and UX/UI in web3. This is the longest episode in Rehash history, but we had so much to talk about and 0xdesigner graciously gave us almost two hours of his time to share his thoughts on all things consumer crypto, UX improvements, and the design space. 0xdesigner is primarily a product designer who has been puttin...

In this episode, we’re speaking with Sophia Dew, DevRel Engineering Lead at Celo, about all things onchain funding and what goes into launching a layer 2 blockchain. Sophia joined Celo about a month ago, and prior to that she was working on Public Goods Network, or PGN, a layer 2 blockchain focused on public goods. PGN ended up running out of money and winding down but Sophia learned tons of lesso...

In this episode, we’re speaking with Rene Lubov, software engineer at Celestia, about data availability (DA), or what Rene prefers to call data publishing. Rene is one of the founding engineers at Celestia and breaks down for us everything we need to know about DA and how it’s implemented at Celestia. We also talk about modularity in blockchains, light nodes, and other technical concepts that you...