Into the Ether

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss the arrest of Virgil Griffith, upgrading your nodes for Istanbul, Upbit is hacked and loses $50,000,000 worth of ETH, Muir Glacier hard fork is announced, Fidelity is rewarding employees in crypto, the nice tooling that is popping up for DeFi and the Ethereum Foundation's blog post on eth2. Support our show by donating funds to ethhub.eth! Buy EthHub Merch

ETHWaterloo was an Ethereum hackathon put on by ETHGlobal that took place in Waterloo, Canada from November 8-10, 2019. Eric was at the event and in Part 2 talks with the five winning teams from the event. We talk through what they built, why they built it and future plans for the products. The teams include Sheetcoin, Wallet Notify, Eth P2P VOIP, DeFi Custody Wallet and Connexion.

Guy Zyskind, CEO and co-founder of Enigma joins the podcast to talk about the privacy solution his team is building for Ethereum. Guy explains how Enigma can bring privacy to Ethereum via a layer 2 solution. He talks about the testnet coming in the coming weeks and what that means for people looking to participate in the network. Their Salad coin-mixing tool will also be going live at that time.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss a plethora of Ethereum 2.0 updates, China drama between The Block and Binance, Gods Unchained marketplace goes live, ERC20 wrapper Chai on Dai Savings Rate, Joseph Delong on reasons DeFi can change the world and Vitalik Buterin's blog post on progress. Support our show by donating funds to ethhub.eth! Buy EthHub Merch

Will Villanueva, currently working on research and development for Ethereum 2.0 Phase 2 at ConsenSys, as part of the Quilt team, joins the podcast. Will explains what the Quilt team has been up to and discusses the progress in research and development around Ethereum 2.0. He does a great job at breaking down complex and important concepts such as cross-shard communication, execution environments, stateless clients and much more. For anyone curious about the progress of Ethereum 2.0, this is a must listen.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss the impending Istanbul hard fork, Eric’s “Ultimate Guide to ENS Names”, RBC is rumored to be launched a crypto exchange, Maker’s Multi-Collateral Dai launches, Compound raises $25mn in Series A round, UMA develops an actual shitcoin in SF and Chris Burniske’s th

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss Eric’s trip to ETHWaterloo, the popularity of the ENS, RealT integrating Uniswap, Dai ceiling is raised, Ethereum marketing DAO launches, Maria Paula’s thread on being saved by crypto when bank account was frozen and a great Ethereum

ETHWaterloo was an Ethereum hackathon put on by ETHGlobal that took place in Waterloo, Canada from November 8-10, 2019. Eric was at the event and in Part 1 of the recap talked to 7 different Ethereum developers and community members. The guests include Josh Stark (ETHGlobal), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum founder), Austin Griffith (Burner Wallet), Kevin Owocki (Gitcoin), Evan Van Ness (Week in Ethereum News), Brantly Millegan (Ethereum N

Zak Cole, founder and CEO of Whiteblock joins the podcast to talk about what his team is up to and the developments around Eth2. We start with Zak’s background and how it led him to creating Whiteblock Genesis which is a network testing tool which can be used to test things like Ethereum EIPs, contracts and protocol changes. Whiteblock has been vital in Ethereum 2.0 research and development and recently received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation. He explains how this will be used and shares his thought

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss the launch of the new EthHub merch shop, Austin Griffith brings the Burner Wallet to a large non-crypto conference, BitMEX has an email leak, Maple Finance is introduced, Vitalik writes “skinny EIP-1559”, DeFiZap is announced, Uniswap celebrates its birthday with a

Stefan George, co-founder and CTO of Gnosis, joins the podcast to discuss smart contract wallets. We start with a background on Gnosis and then immediately dive into the origins of smart contract wallet development. The initial idea of the Gnosis multi-sig has taken on a new form in the Gnosis Safe. We discuss what features the Safe and smart contract wallets in general enable for users on Ethereum. The most important ones highlighted are around security and improved user experience. Get on the em

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss our time at DevCon 5, CFTC chairman says ETH is a commodity, Bermuda accepts USDC for taxes, China starts to embrace blockchain, Vitalik writes a lot of eth2 research posts, Maker gives multi-collateral Dai a launch date, Uniswap and Plasma Group team up, Istanbul fork on December 4th and Chris Burniske’s

This week, Tom Pocock and Zac Williamson of AZTEC protocol join the podcast to discuss how they are bringing privacy to the Ethereum main chain. AZTEC is an on chain privacy protocol for Ethereum which enables efficient zero knowledge transactions. The protocol is just weeks away from a launch on mainnet which will start to enable users to have zero-knowledge (private) tokens such as Dai as well as enable dapp developers to create private applications. Privacy is

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss Gitcoin grants CLR matching round 3, plans for DevCon, drama around Kik and their Kin token, Istanbul testnets going online for the upcoming network upgrade, the ridiculousness that is the “crypto ratings council”, Gods Unchained raises $15mn for Ethereum game, an NBA player is tokenizing his contract and Er

Ryan Sean Adams, founder of the Bankless program and Mythos Capital joins the podcast. Ryan is a big believer and advocate for the open finance movement and has recently launched his Bankless program in order to help educate the masses. We dive into what he’s trying to create with Bankless and he shares his thoughts on some general open finance topics. We then discuss why Ether (the native asset of Ethereum) is money