Web3 Builders

Welcome back! We're joined by Pablo Villalba from Diva to talk about the dynamics of its vampire attack on Lido. We discuss the motivation, how it works and the technical details of its staking protocol.

We got ourselves another builder interview! We’re joined by Daimo, a payments startup building a stablecoin app on top of Base, the L2 from Coinbase. We talk about 0xPARC, the TAM for a consumer focused stablecoin app, the infra behind it (looking at your ERC-4337) and what its like to build a crypto app for mobile. Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Ev...

Howdy! Today we talk with Ben Edgington, principal product manager at Consensus for the Teku client. We discuss his book and newsletter before jumping in and going through the recent back and forth over staking DAO Lido. Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will, send us an email at web3builders@protonmail.com . Produced by @ssailsbury.

We talk with Harrison AKA @PopPunkOnChain about building in Web3: From how he became an auditor, who sucks at auditing in the space and what its like to run an audit firm (hint: he's really busy). Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will, send us an email at web3builders@protonmail.com . Produced by @ssailsbury.

Welcome back to the show! We’re back in the saddle for a news update. Today we cover SBF’s Dad buying the picto-top of Solana, Consensus shutting down Truffle and Ganache, what it means that all the Ethereum ‘high priests’ have left Twitter and if we’re bullish or bearish on markets. Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will, send us an email at...

Welcome back to the show! We’re joined today by the Ethereum Foundation’s Danny Ryan to discuss the rise and rise of Liquid Staking Token DAO Lido. Danny has some strong opinions on the risk Lido poses to the Ethereum network. Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will, send us an email at web3builders@protonmail.com . Produced by @ssailsbury.

Welcome back! We’re joined by Dan Ugolini of Rysk Finance to discuss the promise of onchain derivatives. Dan walks us through how these options are built, how and why capital efficiency is needed to combat CEX volumes and his perspective on building DeFi products in the US. Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will, send us an email at web3builde...

Welcome back! In part II of our Vitalik Buterin episode, we talk about Vitalik’s latest travel hacks, how to invest in biotech after the pandemic, longevity research and the future roadmap of Ethereum. Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will, send us an email at web3builders@protonmail.com .

Welcome back! This week we’re talking about Evan fighting Bankless and Lido, why Rune thinks Maker should move to Solana’s codebase and the newest drama on Bitcoin Twitter: the security budget! Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will, send us an email at web3builders@protonmail.com .

Welcome back to the show! We are joined by Vitalik to talk about a lot of things. On this first half, we're talking about Twitter and alternatives, Crypto's main characters last cycle, what projects are honorable versus dishonorable and how to make Ethereum apps more censorship resistant. Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will, send us...

We’re talking about the Stanford Blockchain Conf, Drivechains causing chaos on Bitcoin twitter, Greyscale’s ACTUAL chances of getting an ETF, Uniswap beating a very silly lawsuit and Friend. Tech’s weird week on Twitter and Starkware balancing out user accounts. Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will, send us an email at web3builders@protonmai...

Today we talk about the podcast with Ameen from MolochDAO concerning Tornado Cash, the IRS' proposal on crypto brokers,  what Lukedashjr working on Drivchains means for Bitcoin, why Optimism gave Coinbase a lot of tokens and what’s gonna happen to Lido if it keeps pushing past the 30% staking barrier. Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will...

Today we are joined by Ameen Soleimani of MolochDAO to discuss the fallout of Roman Semenov and Roman Storm’s indictment by the US Department of Justice. Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will, send us an email at web3builders@protonmail.com .

We got a lot of news this week: Tether is ending support for USDT on Omni, EIP-4844, otherwise known as “Proto-Danksharding,” is gaining steam, every L2 hates each other online, Gitcoin got hosed by a Twitter mob and Friend. Tech reminds us we’re in it for the friends (money?).

Welcome back to the Web3 Builder’s show. We talk about SBF going to jail for revealing his ex-girlfriend’s diary, tribalism in crypto, MakerDAO’s 5 part ‘Endgame,’ Coinbase’s BASE launch, DeGods moving to Ethereum and why so many people are being Sim Swapped. Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Evan and Will, send us an email at web3builders@protonmail.c...

Evan and Will sit down with Austin Griffith, Ethereum’s ‘Chief Onboarding Officer. Austin walks us through where he first heard about Ethereum (10:18), why MetaMask sucks and even the developers know it (33:42), building in Gary Gensler’s America (00:50:18), and how to onboard the next wave of developers (1:06:04). Thanks for listening! If you’d like to get in touch, drop feedback or chat with Eva...

Welcome to the Web3 Builder's show. We're talking about the Curve Finance hack–the latest whodunnit in DeFi–Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino's Twitter swipe at Binance, zkSync and Polygon's online beef over open source citation and why we're bearish going into September.