Epicenter Podcast
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We interview founders, builders, and thought leaders in the blockchain & crypto-finance industry - Hosts @seb3point0 @crainbf @tw_tter
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🚀 NEW EPISODE 🚀 Scaling the Agentic Internet Friederike Ernst 🦉 chats with Bowen Wang, Head of Protocol @ Near One, about blockchain scaling, AI, and how NEAR Protocol sets the ground for AI-native apps & the agentic economy. ‘Attention Is All You Need’, co-wrote by Illia Polosukhin in 2017, laid the foundation for arguably one of the most consequential tech breakthroughs in our recent history. 1 year later, Illia founded Near AI, which later became NEAR Protocol. They were visionaries ahead of their time and, although AI took several more years before becoming a viable product, the experience of scaling databases would later prove valuable and applicable in blockchain world. As a result, NEAR Protocol is one of the first blockchains to implement execution layer sharding, asynchronous execution and stateless validation, bringing the finality time down to 1.2 seconds, with a block time of 0.6 seconds. Don't forget to RT & follow Epicenter Podcast! Topics discussed in this episode: 0:00 - Introduction 3:30 - Bowen’s background 4:47 - Near’s pivot from AI to blockchains 8:26 - The role of Near One 9:13 - Near’s tech stack upgrades 13:39 - Optimizing network architecture 17:08 - Stateless validation & block propagation 21:10 - Sharding & asynchronous execution 29:12 - Message passing between shards & shard ‘equality’ 35:51 - Challenges of implementing stateless validation 41:05 - Applications benefiting from Near’s finality speed 44:18 - Intent-based infrastructure 47:10 - AI use cases on Near 52:27 - Expanding Near’s ecosystem 54:43 - Development challenges 57:55 - Near’s vision and goals
Epicenter Podcast66,601 次观看 • 1 年前
New Episode: Inside Nansen's AI Trading Agent Platform Alex Svanevik 🐧, CEO of Nansen, joins Friederike Ernst 🦉 to discuss Nansen's massive evolution from an on-chain analytics platform to a full-stack AI trading powerhouse. Alex explains why raw blockchain data is now a commodity and how Nansen maintains its edge through deterministic and inferred address labeling. They dive into why vanilla LLMs break on crypto data, the upcoming launch of predictive Smart Money 2.0, and how Nansen Gym allows AI agents to backtest trading strategies by time-traveling through historical on-chain events. Topics 00:00 Nansen's Pivot to Agentic Trading 04:15 On-Chain Data Processing 10:30 Inferred Address Labeling 16:00 Immutable Nature of ENS 24:45 Ultimate On-Chain Trading OS 33:20 Why LLMs Fail at Blockchain 42:15 Smart Money 2.0 51:40 Nansen Gym 58:30 The Open Source AI Boom Episode Links👇
Epicenter Podcast28,677 次观看 • 5 个月前
New Episode: Bringing All Your Assets to Crypto? Chris Yin, CEO of Plume Network, joins seb3point0 to argue that the first wave of RWAs failed because it tried to bring blockchain to TradFi instead of bringing the real world to crypto. He discusses how Plume is building an L1 specifically for RWA composability, turning illiquid assets into yield-bearing DeFi. Finally, they tackle how to build a global market that maintains "ball control" for crypto natives as the institutions arrive. Topics 00:00 The RWA Buzzword 05:15 From VC to Founder 10:30 Why Most RWAs are Worse On-Chain 16:00 Stablecoin as the North Star 24:45 Why Build a Custom L1? 33:20 Tokenizing Brazilian Credit & Oil 42:15 The "Serial Ape" vs. The Institutional Era 51:40 Why TradFi Assets Aren't Loopable. 58:30 Preserving Crypto Principles in a Regulated World Episode Links👇
Epicenter Podcast20,806 次观看 • 6 个月前
New Episode: Inside The Anatomy of Ethereum Kubi Mensah, CEO of Gattaca (Titan Builder), joins Friederike Ernst 🦉 to pull back the curtain on Ethereum’s most secretive and competitive sector: Block Building. Kubi explains how Titan captures nearly 50% of Ethereum’s block production and why the industry naturally gravitates toward a builder oligopoly. The conversation dives into the "fair exchange" problem, the dark forest of private mempools, and why the upcoming FOCIL upgrade is crucial for preserving Ethereum’s censorship resistance by breaking the builder monopoly on transaction inclusion. 00:00 Gattaca’s Origin in Proprietary Trading 05:15 Reality of Block Building 10:30 Public vs. Private Mempools 16:00 Why 50%+ of Transactions are Private 24:45 Anatomy of an Ethereum Block 33:20 Why Block Building Naturally Centralizes 42:15 Trust & Private Order Flow 51:40 Builder-Solver Convergence 58:30 ePBS, FOCIL, and the Future of Ethereum Episode Links👇
Epicenter Podcast13,182 次观看 • 4 个月前
New Episode: How Will Stablecoins Replace Traditional Banking Zach Abrams, CEO Bridge, joins Friederike Ernst 🦉 to discuss why stablecoins are the first "economically rational" winner in payments over the last decade. He explores how Bridge (now acquired by Stripe) is building the bridge (no pun intended) to turn stablecoins into the primary global payment infrastructure and move it beyond mere trading and into core financial services. Notably, they dive into why the current stablecoin duopoly (USDC/USDT) hinders adoption via high fees and why the next phase of fintech will see wallets replace traditional bank accounts entirely. Episode Links 👇
Epicenter Podcast11,733 次观看 • 7 个月前
Ep 621: Is Blockchain Still a Revolution or Becoming Another Upgrade? Friederike Ernst 🦉 chats with polar (Paul Dylan-Ennis, crypto philosopher) and Nick Almond (Dr. Nick Almond, Jito's Head of Governance) about how blockchain started as a rebel tool for the power of the people. Now it's mostly helping old-school giants get faster, pushing out the original cypherpunk vibe. Back in 2015-2017, we had smart ideas like anti-spam voting. Today? It's all secret Telegram chats, whale bosses, and fake "votes" decided behind closed doors. Governance is the soul of crypto, designed to distribute power evenly. But ignored, it lets insiders and scammers take over. Ads and data tricks can flip loyalties, so big money could hire non-rebels to slowly kill the culture. Fight back with "polycentric" setups: Spread decisions across teams, nodes, and global believers. Tools like prediction markets spot viral BS early, beating censorship. polar suggests reminding newbies about cypherpunk roots at conferences; Nick Almond urges real-world apps for "normies" to spark hope and break echo chambers. Don't forget to RT & follow Epicenter Podcast Topics discussed in this episode: 0:00 - Introduction 1:32 - Nick's journey: Physics to DAOs 3:59 - Paul's path: Philosophy to crypto counterculture 5:54 - Crypto's shift from niche to incumbent tool 7:37 - Governance as crypto's "soul" 10:54 - Early DAOs vs. today's backroom reality 11:45 - Diluted ideas & human workarounds 1:03:44 - Elevating better leaders & social consensus tools 1:05:05 - Hacking minds: Post-ideological vs. cypherpunk 1:07:21 - Polycentric defenses & full node bedrock 1:10:50 - Advice: Evangelize at events & outreach to normies Gnosis: Gnosis has built a 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 This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst.
Epicenter Podcast12,588 次观看 • 10 个月前
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