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All Episodes

Expansion — 79 episodes

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1

Crypto’s Big Week: Jito’s BAM, Zora & The CLARITY Act | Roundup

2

The Mechanics Behind The Pump ICO With Austin Adams | Roundup

3

Crypto’s Walled Garden Moment | Unpacking Robinhood + Arbitrum | Roundup

4

Debate: Can Everything Fit On 1 Computer? | Permissionless IV Panel | Bonus Episode

5

Block Space Talks From Brooklyn | Roundup

6

The CLOB Wars, Ethereum’s New Direction & The SEC’s Regulatory Shift | Roundup

7

Introducing The Token Transparency Framework | Empire

8

The US Crypto Landscape In 2025 | Roundup

9

Privacy, Security & Social Media In A Decentralized World | RoundUp

10

Ethereum’s Real-Time Proving Breakthrough | Roundup

11

Funding Models, Coinbase’s Data Leaks, and How Blockchains Fix Journalism | Roundup

12

Lightspeed Cross-Post: The Future Of Solana, DoubleZero & The Firedancer Impact | Austin Federa

13

Initia’s Launch, Worldcoin’s Next Step, and Crypto’s Bright Future | Roundup

14

Is Crypto Headed Towards A Closed-Source Future? | Roundup

15

0xResearch Cross-Post: Crypto Meets TradFi: The New Convergence | Round Table

16

Taking the Sovereign Rollup Pill | Roundup

17

Arbitrum’s Future as a Digital Sovereign Nation | AJ Warner

18

The Cost of Complacency in Crypto | Roundup

19

Hyperliquid Drama, Stablecoin Growth, and Ethereum’s North Star | Roundup

20

Live From DAS: TradFi and DeFi Collide | Roundup

21

Decentralized AI, Diverging L2 Stacks, and Onchain Governance Struggles | Roundup

22

Celestia’s Tokenomics: What Needs to Change? | Dean Eigenmann & Marko Baricevic

23

Base’s Flashblocks, Politicizing Crypto, and L1 Revenue Streams | Roundup

24

ETHDenver Vibe Check: The End of the Beginning? | Roundup

25

Crypto’s Momentum Shift, Kaito’s Token Launch, and Bridging UX | Roundup

26

Unichain, Succinct’s Prover Network, and Crypto’s Trust Crisis | Roundup

27

Ethereum Interop, L2 Pain Points, and Celestia’s Inflation | Roundup

28

Are Apps Parasitic to L1s? Debating Crypto's Value Capture | Roundup

29

Crypto's Speculative Phase & Ethereum's Mass Reform | Roundup

30

Inside Coinbase's Bitcoin-Backed Loans | Paul Frambot, Morpho Labs

31

USDT0's Impact, Base-Ink L2 Divide, and The Return of ICOs | Roundup

32

Bitcoin's L2 Opportunity and Evolving Crypto Beyond Asset Ledgers | Roundup

33

L1 Scaling Failures, Growth of Rehypothecation & Mass Stablecoin Adoption | 2025 Predictions

34

Inside the Cosmos Hub's Great Reset | Zaki Manian & Barry Plunkett

35

The Case for Application Specific Sequencing | Ben Livshits & Terry Chung

36

Exploring the Hidden Costs of Decentralization and Bitcoin's ZK Revival | Roundup

37

Gelato's Vision for Abundant Blockspace & Sovereign Rollups | Luis Schliesske

38

The Value of Verification and Rethinking Bitcoin's Block Size War | Mustafa Al-Bassam, Celestia

39

Finding Crypto's Infra Limits and a Builder's Conviction Dilemma | Roundup

40

Why Base Layer Wars are Ending & The Race Against Ossification | Josh Bowen and Jon Charbonneau

41

Crypto's US Return, Rise of Purpose-Built Infra, and Rethinking Rollups | Nick White & Ezaan "Zon" Mangalji

42

L1 Valuations and the Rise of Apps | Chris Burniske & Ryan Watkins

43

Does Crypto Still have a Blockspace Problem? | Roundup

44

How Celestia's Gigabyte Block Vision Changes Crypto | John Adler & Evan Forbes

45

The Death of Rollup Costs | Matt Katz, Caldera

46

Why Data Sovereignty Changes Everything | Nick White, Celestia

47

Saving Crypto from the Hidden Costs of Rollups | Roundup

48

Where is the Killer Payment App of Crypto? | Sid Gandhi & Nick White

49

Why Apps Are Going Modular & Fixing Token Launches | Roundup

50

L1 & L2 Token Value Capture | Jon Charbonneau

51

Saving Open Source, Snowden's Solana Take, and Death of Optimistic Rollups | Roundup

52

The Hidden Flaw in Encrypted Messaging | Jacob Arluck & Ryan Ford

53

Who's Winning Interop, Death of Chain Loyalty, and Stablecoin Centralization | Roundup

54

Is DA a Commodity? Celestia's Contrarian Bet on Sovereign, Abundant Blockspace

55

SEC Fear Mongering, Adoption of Intent-Based Systems, and the Death of Airdrops | Roundup

56

Rethinking Ethereum's Block Building: CommitBoost, Inclusion Lists, and Pre-Confirmations | Drew Van der Werff

57

Is Low Data Demand Crypto's Biggest Blind Spot? | Roundup (Ft. Sunny Aggarwal)

58

Why All Blockchains Are Converging on Sharding | Avi Zurlo, Nil Foundation

59

Is Crypto Twitter's Degradation an Existential Crisis? | Roundup

60

Are L1s and L2s Converging? Eclipse & Astria on Crypto's Scaling Future | Terry & Josh

61

What Goes Wrong with Crypto Rebrands & Who Will Win Crypto Scaling | Roundup

62

Are We Building the Wrong Blockchains? Debating Crypto's True Purpose | Logan Jastremski

63

Memecoin Trenches, Sovereignty Dreams, and Crypto's App Chain Tradeoff | Roundup

64

When Apps Become Chains | Zorayr Khalapyan & Josie Leung

65

Airdrops Are Dead. What's Next for Token Distribution? | Roundup

66

The Death of Shared Sequencing: The Aftermath

67

Unpacking Crypto's Decentralization Illusion | Roundup

68

Why Offchain Data Needs Blockchain Trust | Joe Coll, Witness Protocol

69

Beyond VMs: Will zkVMs Dominate Crypto? | Roundup

70

Safeguarding Creativity in an AI Future | Jason Zhao & Daniel Shorr

71

The Unasked Questions of Blockchain Interop | Jon Kol

72

Is Crypto Really Just Financial Infrastructure? | David Hoffman & Michael Ippolito

73

Blockchain's Race to $0 Fees | Kyle Samani

74

Is the EVM Holding Crypto Back? | Dino, Rushi & Jarry

75

Inside the Modular Mullet Era of Crypto Scaling | Olaf Carlson-Wee & Nick White

76

What It Will Take to Bring the World Onchain | Jesse Pollak

77

How ZK Accounts Expand dApp Limits | John, Uma, & Zaki

78

The Modular Integration Spectrum | Keone & Zon

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