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SSV Labs - Next Generation Re/Staking Aug 11, 2024

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Alon Muroch is the Founder of SSV Labs, a globally distributed team of developers, researchers, and ETH enthusiasts working to ensure Ethereum becomes fail-proof for many years to come. SSV.network is a decentralized, open-source ETH staking network, based on Secret Shared Validator (SSV) technology.

Why you should listen

SSV is also known as DVT, or Distributed Validator Technology, as it provides an open and simple infrastructure for splitting and distributing a validator key into multiple KeyShares, for the purpose of running an Ethereum validator across multiple non-trusting nodes.

Running an Ethereum validator on ssv.network achieves active-active redundancy, introduces new levels of validator key security, and benefits the Ethereum network, staking pools, staking services and solo stakers.

Independent operators, located all over the world, provide the infrastructure for ssv.network and are responsible for maintaining its overall health. Each operator is free to choose the validator client(s) software they will run and their hardware infrastructure, while stakers are free to choose the independent operators that will run their validator(s). This increases the overall health of the Ethereum blockchain and further eliminates single points of failure and risk for stakers by allowing validators to run on multiple clients.

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Stardust - The Platform for Devs to launch Web3 games Aug 08, 2024

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Stardust is a $35M funded web3 gaming infrastructure and user acquisition service provider's Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) product and provides game development tools to build and scale blockchain games. Stardust's Wallets-as-a-service (WaaS) is used by more than 90 active game studios.

Why you should listen

Stardust's platform offers game developers easy access to the most scalable, secure, and compliant infrastructure for invisible player wallets while empowering them with user acquisition and attribution resources necessary to accomplish their revenue and player retention goals.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Stardust supports major gaming studios like Midnight Society, Shrapnel, Habbo, Tilting Point, Stillfront, and more.

Stardust recently announced the Starbase, a consumer-facing unified rewards and social gaming platform. Partnering with game titles like Nifty Island, Shrapnel, BloodLoop, Habbo Hotel, Cap'n'Company, and more, Starbase features missions and challenges that allow players to earn Gems while they play their favourite games. Gems are a part of a larger rewards system that aligns incentives between players, games, and advertisers through a broader network called Starnet. The company will be unveiling partners on a weekly basis and has already onboarded over 20 of the top web3 games to the Starbase missions platform.

Stardust recently announced a strategic partnership with Shrapnel, a highly-anticipated AAA first-person extraction shooter. The partnership plans to provide scalability to take the first-person shooter to the next level - with the potential to bring tens of millions of players into the blockchain gaming space. WaaS product enabled Shrapnel to offer invisible, custodial wallets to players, providing a seamless game experience while leveraging the underlying Shrapnel subnet.

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PepeCoin - The OG Meme Coin Aug 06, 2024

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Brian Fanzo is a digital futuirst who is helping out the dev team from PepeCoin, the OG meme coin community working to unlock utility and innovation to grow Web3 adoption. There is much, much more to Pepecoin than a fun meme, listen and learn.

Why you should listen

Pepecoin was originally launched in 2016 by a group of crypto OGs. Originally it was launched using its own proof-of-work blockchain network. Due to controversy surrounding the Pepe the Frog meme after the 2016 presidential election, a handful of exchanges forcefully renamed the Pepecoin project with the ticker "MEMETIC" on their platforms to be politically correct. At the time, the project was the only other memecoin except for Dogecoin and it quickly grew in popularity. In 2017, it even attracted the attention of Vitalik Buterin himself. After several years of operating its own blockchain network, the Pepecoin project decided to migrate to the Ethereum blockchain to take advantage of EVM smart contracts and DEX platforms where their ticker could not be arbitrarily changed.

A group of opportunistic individuals saw the Pepecoin migration announcements and frontran it by deploying the $PEPE token that many of you know today - even going as far as to steal the original Pepecoin logo, until they were forced to remove it due to copyright. The OG $PEPECOIN contributors were fortunately no strangers to injustice. After all, they are battle-hardened crypto OGs who survived the great meme war of 2016. So rather than wallowing in their sorrows, they embarked on a journey to reclaim what is rightfully theirs by devving their way to the top.

Since then, they have released:

PepeOS: A web application inspired by vintage operating systems
Pepe Paint: A unique draw-to-NFT platform and marketplace that empowers artists to create & monetize their talent
Kek Bot: An advanced AI trading engine that converts natural language into automated trades & rewards users for training it
BasedAI: A custom layer 1 blockchain network for ZK-LLMs and smart contracts
Pepe Messenger: A vintage MSN Messenger themed chat application for decentralized, E2E encrypted, wallet-to-wallet instant messaging with much more on the way!

Pepecoin is throwing a wrench in the well-oiled influencer shitcoin factory that churns out copypasta tokens to dump on unsuspecting average Joes. Instead, they are demonstrating that meme coins can and should be coupled with innovation and meaningful utility. You can either support the status quo by keeping the influencer assembly line running, or you can be part of history by joining the journey to becoming the first meme coin to be simultaneously considered a top-5 network. The #Pepening is inevitable

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Binance - The Mega Exchange Expands Down Under Aug 05, 2024

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Ben Rose is the General Manager of Binance Australia and New Zealand. Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange platform by volume and has been instrumental in shaping the global crypto landscape since its inception in 2017. Ben joined Binance in 2022.

Why you should listen

Binance has close to 200 million users globally and trades around $138 billion USD each day. The mega exchange is continuing to expand around the world, so Ben joins Andy to discuss Binance down under, New Zealand and Australia's role in the global crypto space, and what crypto adoption looks like down under.

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Credbull - reDeFining Private Credit Aug 01, 2024

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Jason Dehni is CEO and co-founder at Credbull, the first licensed on-chain private credit fund. Through its on-chain fund, Credbull allocates capital to established Lending Originators offering loans to creditworthy small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) such as working capital, trade receivables, and invoice factoring. In return, the Fund's liquidity providers gain access to the best performing asset class on an absolute and risk adjusted basis. Credbull provides universal access to 10% Fixed Yield on USDC regardless of market cycles, as well as the option to participate in up to 30% in the Fund's performance.

Why you should listen

Credbull is a DeFi platform offered High Fixed Yield Structured Products. It has a licensed on-chain private credit fund. The platform is a blend of traditional finance (TradFi) and DeFi features, delivering high transparency, accessibility, and security in private credit investments. Credbull's integration of blockchain technology allows for real-time transparency and decentralized governance over its fund operations, which includes everything from strategy formulation to risk management and performance evaluation.

The core products of Credbull are tailored to offer competitive fixed yields with lock-up periods designed to balance liquidity and return. These products are part of a broader strategy to attract a wide range of investors by breaking down barriers to access traditionally exclusive asset classes like private credit. Credbull is making private credit accessible to a broader audience, traditionally dominated by institutional investors and high net-worth individuals. This has the potential to democratize an asset class that has been out of reach for many investors.

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Kwenta - Decentralized Derivatives Trading Jul 31, 2024

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Burt Rock is the marketing lead at Kwenta, a derivatives marketplace with multiple integrations, meaning you can trade multiple DeFi venues from the Kwenta platform.

Why you should listen

Kwenta is a decentralized derivatives trading platform leveraging the Synthetix protocol, optimized for trading perpetual futures on the Optimism layer. It's designed to provide traders with access to a range of on-chain and real-world assets without taking custody of user assets, emphasizing security and user autonomy.

The platform operates entirely on-chain, supported by decentralized Chainlink oracles for accurate price feeds, and does not utilize traditional order books. Instead, trades are executed using the liquidity from the Synthetix debt pool, ensuring traders can execute trades at any price level due to the liquidity and stability provided by sUSD, a stablecoin used within the system.

Kwenta offers features like trading with up to 25x leverage and low transaction fees due to its construction on the Optimism layer 2 solution, which significantly reduces gas costs and trading fees compared to mainnet Ethereum. This system benefits from the security and consensus mechanisms of Ethereum while allowing faster and cheaper transactions.

In terms of community incentives, Kwenta rewards users who stake their KWENTA tokens and engage in trading. Stakers are eligible for a share of inflationary rewards generated from trading fees. The staking system is integrated into the Kwenta dashboard, allowing users to manage their stakes and claim rewards seamlessly.

Additionally, Kwenta supports delegated trading, allowing users to manage trading permissions within their wallets securely. This feature is critical for users who wish to allow others to trade on their behalf without giving permission to withdraw funds, ensuring that control over funds remains secure while still enabling active trading strategies.

Kwenta aims to push the boundaries of decentralized finance by providing a robust platform for trading derivatives on blockchain, backed by advanced security features and a community-driven governance model.

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Pixels - Web3 Social Gaming on the Ronin Network Jul 29, 2024

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Luke Barwikowski is the founder and CEO of Pixels, the largest web3 game by DAU. With over 2.5M total players, Pixels is a social, casual web3 game powered by the Ronin Network, focusing on farming, exploration, and creation in an open world.

Why you should listen

Pixels is a Web3 social gaming platform on the Ronin Network, blending farming, exploration, and community building in an open-world universe. Emphasizing a community-focused approach, Pixels builds alongside its users and is on a mission to become the biggest casual games company. In the rapidly evolving world of blockchain gaming, Pixels is setting the stage to redefine player engagement and ownership through its unique integration of gaming and blockchain technology. Pixels is an open-ended world where players can farm, explore, and build one pixel at a time, offering a rich blend of resource management, skill advancement, and relationship building, all underpinned by an immersive narrative and quests.

The game leverages blockchain technology to record player progress and achievements, thereby marrying digital ownership with game advancement. This feature is aimed at enhancing the gaming experience by providing players with tangible ownership of their in-game assets and progress.

The developers of Pixels have expressed their mission to create a fun, accessible blockchain-backed game that serves as an entry point for millions into the web3 space. The game was initially cultivated around a core group of dedicated enthusiasts and has since expanded its community outreach, attracting a broader audience through strategic sharing and community building.

As Pixels moves into its next development phase, the focus is on pushing the boundaries of web3 gaming by experimenting with and iterating on its core components. The development team is particularly interested in exploring features unique to web3 gaming, such as play-to-earn models, guild systems, on-chain reputation, player personas, social-fi, and interoperability among different platforms.

The ambition behind Pixels is not only to innovate within the web3 framework but also to discover and implement features that have yet to be fully explored in the gaming industry. This ongoing exploration is expected to significantly impact the next generation of gaming, making Pixels a potential pioneer in the space.

The game's approach and the technology backing it suggest a promising shift towards more interactive and ownership-driven gaming experiences, setting a new standard for what is possible in the world of web3 gaming.

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PlaysOut - Bring Game-changing Games to the World Jul 23, 2024

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Jassem Osseiran, the founder of PlaysOut, discusses bringing Web3 to the gaming industry. PlaysOut is an SDK and standalone app that allows game developers to transition from traditional gaming to the Web3 space.

Why you should listen

PlaysOut aims to solve the problem of monetizing global audiences and integrating with Web3 ecosystems. PlaysOut has partnered with Tencent to bring casual gaming to the WeChat ecosystem and expand to global audiences. They have plans to integrate with other super apps like Telegram. PlaysOut's platform and SDK solution tackles the profitability challenges faced by game developers and traffic providers worldwide, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to earn rewards for their effort and engagement with games. The profitability of games serves as support for PlaysOut, upon which web3 empowerment is built, amplifying the value of excellent products.

PlaysOut is poised to revolutionize web3 gaming by fostering a thriving community through innovative developer and gamer tools. This focus on a healthy ecosystem will attract high-quality games and players while also engaging better with the existing audience. By setting a new standard for transitioning web2 games and building a unified platform, PlaysOut is on track to become a central force in the future of gaming, where the best of both worlds collide.

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DeXe - Launch a DAO on any Chain Jul 14, 2024

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Serhii Kravchenko is the CEO at DeXe, the solution for creating and governing DAOs, projects, tokens, and NFTs through a seamless, no-code interface.

Why you should listen

DAOs can remove human error by automatically executing the community's decisions. DAOs also make distributing roles, voting power, treasury funds, and more quicker, simpler, and cheaper than in traditional hierarchical organizations. The DeXe DAO management platform allows you to build a DAO for no cost. Creating your DAO via the DeXe DAO protocol is as simple as clicking through a guided menu and selecting the best options for your needs.

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