99. What is Ethereum for? w/ Paul Dylan Ennis
Paul Dylan Ennis is an author and professor. We talk the history of the cypherpunk movement, how Ethereum culture has evolved, and answering...
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20 of 100 episodes98. The convergence of crypto and AI w/ Niraj Pant
Niraj is the co-founder of Ritual. We talk the convergence of crypto and AI, how onchain apps can leverage AI, why compute needs to be decen...
97. Maybe bots aren’t so bad w/ Brian Flynn
Brian Flynn is the founder of Boost (formerly RabbitHole). We talk hyperfinancialization, crypto as a universal language, how AI agents migh...
96. Onchain distribution networks w/ Dan Romero and Jesse Pollak
Dan Romero is a co-founder of Farcaster and Jesse Pollak is the leader behind Base. We talk frames, the power of distribution networks, cont...
95. New mental models for wallets w/ Nitya Subramanian
Nitya is the founder of Capsule. We talk embedded wallets and how they might dovetail into account abstraction, whether BYOW (bring your own...
94. Minting as a medium w/ Dee Goens
Dee is the co-founder of Zora. We talk minting as a medium, why the economics of the internet should mirror human behavior, the limits of mo...
93. Composability + the paradox of choice
This is a special episode, drawing on ChatGPT's knowledge. We talk the paradox of choice, composability as a double-edged sword, when choice...
92. Building for crypto-natives vs. normies w/ Mike Demarais
Mike is a co-founder at Rainbow. We talk building for newbies vs. crypto natives, why crypto has primarily been desktop-first, WeChat-style...
91. Intents as protocol moats w/ Andrew Hong
Andrew is the Headmaster at Dune Analytics. We talk the modular stack ‒ Andrew gives an accessible overview of account abstraction and inten...
90. The next wave of consumer crypto w/ Seed Club
Long time friends of the pod — Jess and Josh from Seed Club — join to talk Seed Club Cohort 6, trends in consumer crypto, why onchain experi...
89. Unpacking the Nouns fork w/ Noun 40
Noun 40 shares unpacks the different camps within Nouns governance, the creation of the fork mechanism, why the treasury isn't the most impo...
88. Collective ownership as a competitive advantage w/ Sirsu
Sirsu is a co-founder of BLVKHVND, an onchain esports organization. We talk how BLVKHVND is changing the game for esports, reducing the deci...
87. Maximize ownership, minimize governance w/ Jesse Walden
Jesse is a co-founder and GP at Variant. We talk why building onchain is more like building hardware than software, decoupling governance an...
86. Journey of a transaction w/ Jill Gunter
Jill is a co-founder of Espresso Systems. On this episode, we do an accessible deep dive into what happens after you submit a transaction. J...
85. Bringing a billion users onchain w/ Jesse Pollak
Jesse is spearheading Base ‒ the L2 incubated by Coinbase. We talk the superchain thesis, the rise of onchain consumer applications, the rol...
84. Navigating values trade-offs w/ Kevin Owocki
Kevin is a co-founder of Gitcoin. We talk about his book Stuff Crypto OGs Know, how to think about values trade-offs, whether crypto will ev...
83. Onchain media w/ Steph Alinsug (CRYPTOHUN3Y)
Steph is the founder of Vessel. We talk onchain media, how interfaces make luxury media legible, aspirational identity, curation, and how sh...
82. Post-token worlds w/ Sean McCaffery
Sean is a co-founder of Jokerace. We talk limitations of tokens, how onchain activity can be used to gate end-user experiences, and why L2s...
81. Hypercultures w/ LGHT
LGHT is a crypto artist exploring the intersections of crypto, creativity, and culture. We talk LGHT's thesis on hypercultures, timeless co-...
80. Special episode: does user ownership matter?
This is a special episode! I bring on a normie friend to talk whether users actually want to own the platforms we exist on, why ownership mi...