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EVM (Draft)

Classical, monolithic blockchains are inherently limited in their throughput due to their single-thread execution architecture. Modern VMs attempt to solve this issue through parallelisation being implemented from the get-go. Movement Labs employs the Move-VM to build a ZK L2 rollups on Ethereum, thus also deriving its security. Through parallel execution threads, Movement achieves a theoretical TPS of 160,000 while also ensuring sub-cent transaction fees.

We were joined by Rushi Manche, co-founder of Movement Labs, to discuss the rise of modern VMs and how Move-VM aims to offset Ethereum’s shortcomings through parallelisation.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Impressions from ETH Denver
- Rushi’s background
- Move vs. Solidity
- EVM compatibility
- Parallelisation vs. intent-based transactions
- Security and parallel state transitions
- Transitioning from EVM to newer VMs
- Berachain’s approach to EVM-compatibility
- Movement Labs’ tech stack
- Decentralising the sequencer
- Movement’s M1 and M2 chains
- Celestia DA and the Dencun upgrade
- Restaking
- Bitcoin L2s
- IBC-compatibility and USDC on Movement
- Ethereum x Cosmos convergence
- dApps on Move

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Rushi Manche on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3U7NiAz
- Movement Labs on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3TMmLsi
- Nebular Podcast 'Ethereum x Cosmos convergence':

Sponsors: 
- Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at gnosis.io - 
- Chorus1: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at chorus.one -

This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/542

#542 Rushi Manche: Movement Labs – Facebook's MOVE Will Bring Billions of Users to Crypto'

What started out as a plan to build prediction markets, Gnosis ended up building crucial Ethereum infrastructure and tooling. Safe is one of its many successes, which originated during the 2017 ICO mania, as a solution for managing the raised capital securely, via a multi-sig. Even back then, the multi-sig model was quickly adopted by the entire industry, as a gold standard for asset security. Smart accounts and ERC-4337 represent the next step towards mass-adoption, through achieving a Web2-like UX.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Lukas’ background and how Safe was founded
- Bitcoin vs. Ethereum multi-sigs
- Smart accounts & ERC-4337
- Safe’s design phylosohpy
- Safe CORE, SDK & API
- Safe wallet UX
- Expanding cross-chain support
- Safe account recovery
- OpSec
- Safe’s smart contract security
- Gnosis ecosystem evolution

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Lukas Schor on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3xRiDzC
- Safe on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3W4JJNT
- Gnosis DAO on Twitter: https://bit.ly/4aC3Yaf
- Gnosis Chain on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3xOKAbj
- Gnosis Pay on Twitter: https://bit.ly/4cYRw5Z

Sponsors: 
- Chorus1: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at chorus.one - 
- Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at gnosis.io -

This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/544

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#544 Lukas Schor: Safe – Securing $100 Billion of Crypto Assets

5 years, 20 Grants, 3715 projects crowd-funded and over $60M raised towards public goods funding, from 4.2M unique donations. Gitcoin’s headline numbers are indicative of the massive success their quadratic funding (QF) and public goods funding models (PGF) have seen over the years. With Gitcoin 2.0, crowd-funding is further decentralised, Allo Protocol being open-source and permissionless: any ecosystem treasury can create their own Gitcoin Grants program to help their community fund what matters to them.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Kevin’s background and Gitcoin’s journey so far
- The utility of Gitcoin Passport
- Gitcoin Grants sybil protection dilemma
- Public goods & capital allocation
- Quadratic funding (QF) & retroactive public goods funding (RPGF)
- New allocation models introduced by Gitcoin 2.0
- $GTC token utility & decentralising Allo Protocol
- The current landscape of DAOs

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Kevin Owocki on Twitter: https://bit.ly/4dwt24j
- Gitcoin on Twitter: https://bit.ly/4dtnU0Z
- Gitcoin governance forums: https://bit.ly/3yaX5yq

Sponsors: 
- Chorus1: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at chorus.one - 
- Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at gnosis.io -

This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/547

#547 Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin – Quadratic Funding and How Gitcoin Raised $60M for Public Goods

The Game Emotions Remix

We couldn’t miss EthCC 7, nor the chance to chat with Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum’s status quo as an L1 amidst the plethora of L2s competing for market share, and what challenges will most likely arise along the way (e.g. staking decentralisation).
Tune in for a captivating discussion on the importance of decentralisation as a last stand of human empowerment in the current geopolitical context and how it could positively impact AI's trajectory.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Types of Ethereum ‘hardnesses’ (sic)
- The L1 status quo
- Staking decentralisation & block building
- Non-financial crypto applications
- Account abstraction & interoperability
- Solana & Bitcoin ecosystems
- DeSci, biotech & longevity
- Geopolitics
- Ethereum nation state?
- The impact of AI
- Do not go gentle into that good night

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Vitalik Buterin on Twitter: https://bit.ly/4bH6knS
- EthCC on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3S11MSb
- Ethereum on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3zQyVtB

Sponsors: 
- Chorus1: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at chorus.one - 
- Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at gnosis.io -

This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Brian Fabian Crain. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/556

#556 Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum – Ethereum at a Crossroads

The saying goes that knowledge is power, and this perfectly applies to blockchains due to their innate transparency and immutability. However, raw data could seem, at first, unusable. This is where analytics companies, such as Nansen, play a major role in demystifying blockchain data by labelling it. In turn, curated data holds value as it can give an edge to traders, by tracking ‘smart money’ wallets. In the age of AI, most of the heavy lifting of data analysis is performed by LLMs, but human input is equally valuable for discerning nuances and fine tuning the process.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Alex’s background, from AI to crypto
- Nansen’s values
- Querying blockchain data
- Supported chains
- Ensuring data accuracy
- Generating wallet labels
- The role of LLMs and AI
- Data privacy and monetisation
- On-chain transparency, privacy and ethics
- Roadmap and further enhancements

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Alex Svanevik on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3YCtsku
- Nansen on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3WE2JBB

Sponsors: 
- Chorus1: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at chorus.one - 
- Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at gnosis.io -

This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/560

#560 Alex Svanevik: Nansen – AI & Blockchain Analytics

Self-custodial wallets often represent the first point of contact for crypto users that venture away from centralised exchanges. As a result, their security and user experience should be paramount. This often explained Metamask’s first mover advantage and the users’ reluctance to change. However, as infrastructure evolves, new wallets are equipped from the get-go with features that are designed for normie adoption, such as: account abstraction, gas fee abstraction, easier on- and off-ramp, etc. Zeal was envisioned as a day-to-day wallet solution, allowing users true freedom to transact, both on-chain, as well as off-chain (i.e. real world spendings).

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Hannes’ background
- Existing wallet solutions and Zeal’s userbase
- Wallet UX, account abstraction and passkeys
- Security assumptions and passkey recovery
- Smart contract interactions
- Zeal’s mobile-first focus
- IBAN & Gnosis Pay integrations
- Capturing market share
- Banking the unbanked
- Gas fees
- Cross-chain interoperability
- DeFi & staking
- Monetisation
- Privacy
- Zeal’s backend
- Growth & business scaling in Web3
- Zealot recruitment

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Hannes Graah on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3YVhjY2
- Zeal on Twitter: https://bit.ly/4dRSjoU

Sponsors: 
- Chorus1: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at chorus.one - 
- Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at gnosis.io -

This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/562

#562 Hannes Graah: Zeal – The Day-to-Day Crypto Wallet for EVM Chains

Prediction markets were one of the first use cases of smart contracts, yet their popularity only recently spiked, following Polymarket’s social media spread. However, while prediction markets are generally zero-sum games, the rise of AI models trained on large datasets led to AI-powered prediction feeds and hedge funds. Crypto offers a unique array of use cases as it allows data scientists to not only share their data sets and models with complete privacy, but also access decentralised computing and model training. While Predictoor employs Ocean’s data infrastructure to run AI-powered prediction bots on lower timeframes, Numerai developed its own AI hedge fund for stocks, that recently also expanded to crypto (Numerai does not trade cryptocurrencies, and Numerai’s Hedge Fund(s) have no relation to Numerai Crypto).

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Predictoor & Numerai overview
- Prediction markets
- Prediction feeds
- Prediction markets in TradFi and other use cases
- Implementation of Ocean’s tech in Predictoor
- Predictions vs. Futures
- Market participants
- Numerai hedge fund
- Numerai’s trust assumptions
- The role of AI
- The evolution of AI and how it might solve market inefficiencies
- Numerai crypto and how it differs from Predictoor
- Predictoor x Numerai collaborations
- The future of prediction markets

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Trent McConaghy on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Zzx6My
- Richard Craib on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3ZwN363
- Predictoor on Twitter: https://bit.ly/4dfH6h6
- Numerai on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3MPJvEJ
- Ocean Protocol on Twitter: https://bit.ly/47BI5qE
- Oasis Protocol on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3zr9MpC

Sponsors: 
- Chorus1: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at chorus.one - 
- Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at gnosis.io -

This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/566

#566 Richard Craib & Trent McConaghy: – How AI Changed Crypto Prediction Markets

ElkNet Beyond Boundaries

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