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Base Layer Episode 253: Rene Reinsberg, Co-Founder of Celo on being a mobile first, sustainably focused blockchain Jan 24, 2024

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Rene, the co-founder of Celo joins me for a great conversation about all the happenings there. Recently, Celo has moved to become an L2, so we talk about the why and what that entails. We also discuss their partnership with Opera, a browser touting 500M monthly active users. With this partnership, we also discuss MiniPay, a new initiative to bring web3 tools like DeFi and mobile payments to the masses. Do you to better understand real-world cases and usage? Listen to this episode.

Base Layer Episode 252: Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo, Ava Labs on becoming the port of call for Gaming & Finance into blockchains Jan 19, 2024

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I had such a great conversation with Luigi, who heads up business development & ecosystem at Ava Labs. We discussed everything from the initial design of Avalanche to the growth of Evergreen subnets, which could lead to companies like JP Morgan, Citi, and others directly connecting on the blockchain. We also discussed their work in Gaming, with upcoming releases from Gunzilla and Off the Grid, an AAA game that is due to be available on PS5, Xbox, and other consoles. So much good stuff in here; check it out!

Base Layer Episode 251: Illia Polosukhin, CEO Near Foundation on Chain Abstraction: simplifying the user experience Jan 17, 2024

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What a show! Illia, co-founder of Near and CEO of Near Foundation joins us to talk about massive shifts in the way we think about blockchains. From their new Blockchain Operating System to FastAuth and more, we discuss in-depth about the new user experience coming to digital assets - taking away the backend complexities of blockchains from the everyday user to give them amazing, frictionless experiences.

You can learn more about Near here: https://near.org/

More about Blockchain Operating System here.

Base Layer Episode 250: Asta Li from Privy on helping the Web3 industry build delightful products Jan 12, 2024

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Asta Li, co-founder at Privy, joins me for a fantastic talk about the movement happening in digital assets, focused on building delightful consumer-centric products.

Privy is the easiest way for developers to onboard all users to web3, regardless of whether they already have a wallet, across mobile and desktop. At Privy, the team spends a lot of time obsessing over how to help developers unlock better UX in web3 without sacrificing the ownership primitives that make the space special. Ownership is at the root of web3, but to this day, it has been reserved for only the most technical users. For web3 to go mainstream, the industry must make it easy to bake self-custody into products: web2-caliber UX with web3 ownership and consent.

More on Privy here.

Base Layer Episode 249: Jack O'Holleran, CEO of Skale Labs on their plan to win the Web3 Gaming sector Jan 10, 2024

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SKALE is a limitlessly scalable, fast, on-demand blockchain network with zero gas fees, allowing quick deployment of interoperable EVM-compatible chains without compromising security or decentralization. SKALE is a fully decentralized, open-source, community-owned network. Listen to CEO Jack O'Holleran talk about their work and their 2024 vision to win the gaming sector.

Base Layer Episode 248: Marc Boiron, CEO Polygon Labs on attempting to build a blockchain empire Jan 04, 2024

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What a show! Marc, the CEO of Polygon Labs, joins me to break down all the new elements of Polygon 2.0 and how they aim to build an empire in the blockchain industry. You'll learn about many new pieces to the puzzle, including CDK, zkEVM, Miden, validiums, and much more.

Here, you can learn about Polygon 2.0, from vision to design.

Base Layer Episode 247: Robbie Ferguson from Immutable on Web3 Gaming's 2024 Breakout Year Dec 29, 2023

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Immutable is a global leader in gaming on a mission to bring digital ownership to every player by making it safe and easy to build great web3 games. The Immutable Group consists of the Immutable Platform, the preferred developer platform for building & scaling web3 games on Ethereum, and Immutable Games, a global leader in web3 game development and publishing with leading titles Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians. Robbie Ferguson, co-founder of Immutable, joins us to talk about 2024's breakout year for Gaming.

More on Immutable here.

Base Layer Episode 246: Lucas from CatX; Insurance meets Digital Assets for coffee... Dec 11, 2023

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In 2022, storms worldwide caused more than 130 billion U.S. dollars in damage. Cybercrime is predicted to cost the world USD 8 trillion in 2023. We are starting to see demand for insurance against these events outpace supply. The reinsurance market was valued at $560 billion as of 2022. A solution is needed to meet these new demands with new sources of supply and CatX has been building for that, leveraging the tools of AI and digital assets. Learn from their founder today on this great show. You can also earn more about CatX.

Base Layer Episode 245: Evan Cheng, Co-Founder of Mysten Labs. Can Sui + Move create the optimal digital ownership economy? Jun 21, 2023

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What an episode! Evan Cheng, formerly working on Meta's Diem and digital asset infrastructure, is now Co-Founder of Mysten Labs, which has brought to the market Sui, an L1 blockchain. Evan sheds light on key differences in the architecture and design of Sui vs. Ethereum and other blockchains. What is an account vs. an object? Why is that important when discussing smart contracts? Can your ETH-based NFT really be dynamic and evolve in a game? Can NFTs using Sui and its native language, Move, create optimal, adaptable NFTs? Much more on this, feel free to learn more here.

Base Layer Episode 244: Sreeram Kannan, Founder of Eigenlayer on Restaking plus Founder Insights for future entrepreuers Jun 16, 2023

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Sreeran Kannan, Founder of Eigenlayer, is an assistant professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he runs the information theory lab focussing on information theory and its applications in communication networks, machine learning, and blockchain systems. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting postdoc at Stanford University between 2012-2014, before which he received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

His team has built EigenLayer, a protocol built on Ethereum that introduces restaking, a new primitive in cryptoeconomic security. This primitive enables the reuse of ETH on the consensus layer. SUsers that stake ETH natively or with a liquid staking token (LST) can opt-in to EigenLayer smart contracts to restake their ETH or LST and extend cryptoeconomic security to additional applications on the network to earn additional rewards.

Join us to learn more about Eigenlayer and new systems being built in digital assets.

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