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.

From 0xPARC To Base's Venmo W/ Daimo

Oct 12th, 2023 49m 23s

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 (look

Holding Lido Publicly Accountable W/ Ben Edgington

Oct 6th, 2023 38m 40s

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! I

Gas Is Bad W/ @PopPunkOnChain

Sep 30th, 2023 53m 51s

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

SBF’s Dad Big Bet, Truffle Axed, Everyone’s Leaving Twitter and Bullish or Bearish?

Sep 26th, 2023 23m 24s

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

Lido Is A Systemic Risk W/ Danny Ryan

Sep 20th, 2023 1h 1m

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 listen

Can Onchain Options Flip CEXs? Rysk Finance’s Dan Ugolini

Sep 18th, 2023 1h 20m

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 bui

Vitalik Buterin On Travel Hacks, Pandemic Prevention, Longevity and Ethereum's Roadmap: Part II

Sep 12th, 2023 57m 29s

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 ge

Evan vs. Everybody, MakerDAO’s Solana Pivot and Fixing Bitcoin’s Security Budget

Sep 8th, 2023 28m 2s

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 touc

Vitalik Buterin On Twitter, Crypto's 'Main Characters,' and Making Ethereum Apps Censorship Resistant: Part 1

Sep 7th, 2023 31m 50s

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

Stanford Blockchain Conf, More Drivechains, Greyscale’s ETF, Gensler’s Identical Twin, Uniswap Court and Yes! Friend.Tech

Sep 1st, 2023 39m 48s

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 o

White House vs. Crypto, Bitcoin Has a Heartbeat? Optimism Pays Coinbase To Fork, Friend.Tech Summer, and Lido Prods Ethereum Community

Aug 26th, 2023 45m 26s

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

Tornado Devs Jailed for Writing Code? With Ameen Soleimani

Aug 25th, 2023 40m 2s

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

Bye Bye Tether On Bitcoin, Danksharding, Rollup Semantic Wars, Gitcoin vs. Everybody and Friend.Tech

Aug 18th, 2023 47m 42s

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’r

SBF’s Bail Revoked, Bitcoin Maxis, MakerDAOs Makerover and Sim Swaps!

Aug 12th, 2023 43m 19s

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 bei

Stealing Web2's Developers With Austin Griffith

Aug 11th, 2023 57m 55s

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 Ameri

Curve Hack, Tether Subtweets Binance and Polygon’s Big Beef With ZkSync

Aug 5th, 2023 42m 45s

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 go