Into the Ether

Arjun Bhuptani, founder of Connext, joins Into the Ether to discuss building out payment solutions on Ethereum. Connext is a layer 2 scaling solution built on Ethereum using payment channels. The team's ultimate goal is to replace legacy payment solutions with instant and extremely cheap payments built using their technology. Their first step at launching into the mainstream comes with the Dai Card. We talk about their technology, progress and vision. Get on the email list at

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss the EthHub community forum and call effort, Eth 2.0 testnets launching, Bithumb hacked again, What's new in Eth 2.0, Gitcoin experimenting with a platform fee, Multi-Collateral Dai update, trading stocks as ERC20s, active addresses on the rise and the EIP process. Get on the email list at

Rune Christensen, founder and CEO of Maker, joins Into the Ether to discuss the Maker system and more specifically Dai. Dai is a decentralized stablecoin built on Ethereum that is backed by ETH collateral locked in CDPs. We discuss the logistics of Dai, how the MKR token comes into play and plans for the Dai Savings Rate and Multi Collateral Dai. Get on the email list at ethhub.substack.com

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss being on the Gitcoin community livestream, Square hiring crypto devs, Mist browser discontinued, Counterfactual generalized state channels playground released, StarkWare DEx showing promising results, Compound announcing v2 of the platform, Dai stability and using dapps inside tweets. Get on the email list at

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss the launch of Moloch DAO, recent comments from the SEC about Ether not being a security, Tether not being backed by fiat, Mt. Gox case closes, Dai Card and Cryptostaw L2 solutions, Gitcoin CLR matching round 2, node stats and Dai stability. Get on the email list at

Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, joins Into the Ether to discuss the past, present and future of Ethereum. We discuss a wide range of topics including his current leadership role with Ethereum, what he envisioned Ethereum would look like 4 years in, Ethereum's governance process, funding the platform’s development, Ethereum 1.x and state rent, and then onto Ethereum 2.0 where he's been focusing most of his time in getting sharding and proof of stake off the ground. Get o

Alexey Akhunov, an independent Ethereum researcher, joins Into the Ether to discuss Eth 1.x, an effort to ensure the future sustainability of Ethereum. We talk about the many different efforts included in Eth 1.x and especially state rent. We discuss Ethereum node sizes, what is state, how we can manage this and what it will look like. We then venture into stateless clients and the impact they could have on this effort. Get on the email list at

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss EthHub bounties going live, Fidelity's custody solution for crypto launches without Ether, Maker raises stability fee to fix peg, BlockFi offers centralized 6% interest on Bitcoin, Opera Browser launches iOS Ethereum wallet, EIP-1559 and how we can fix the fee market, DeFi activity down some and Ethereum is winning the developer race. Get on th

Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin, joins Into the Ether. We take a deep dive into Gitcoin's core mission which is to grow open source software. Their core product, bounties, allows people to post bounties paid in crypto for issues on a Github repo. This is used by many of the top applications in the Ethereum ecosystem. In addition to bounties, they've recently launched Gitcoin Grants which gives the Ethereum community a way to fund projects that are vital to the future su

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss Constantinople finally going live, EthHub bounties coming soon, matching via the Gitcoin Torch, Facebook coin coming soon, #deletecoinbase movement, new Set tokens for strategies, exciting new Daicard product from Connext, 0x governance vote, DeFi pulse launches, Maker stability votes and it would be #dopefi if... Get on the email list at

Max Brody and Cameron Hejazi of Cent join Into the Ether to talk about their income generating social network. Cent allows users to ask for answers or help from other people on the social network by posting crypto bounties with their posts. These are paid out to users with the best responses. Cent also enables content creators to be "seeded" by people who discover and like their content. We discuss all the possibilities a platform of this kind enables and their pla

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss the Gitcoin Torch, crypto wallet on the Samsung Galaxy S10, MyEtherWallet update and KYC-less fiat gateway, EF Grants Wave 5 and general EF transparency, investing in commercial real estate with Dai, how to socially scale Ethereum and its community and using the Raiden Network. Get on the email list at

Mark Beylin and Simona Pop join Into the Ether to discuss the Bounties Network. The Bounties Network empowers anyone to create a bounty to pay others for work they would like done. The team has worked with Gitcoin to enable the bounties seen on that platform and has very big plans for the network in the future. They also envision bounties opening up a wide range of use cases including using them for public good, such as their recent project of using it to pay those who cl

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. This week we discuss JPMorgan building on Ethereum, Poloniex helping fund the Grin dev team, changes to the Beacon Chain withdrawal mechanism, Dharma Lever design overhaul, ECF v2, current Ethereum issuance rate, Uniswap volume spike and the drama surrounding the Ethereum developer community.

Nadav Hollander, Founder and CEO of Dharma, joins Into the Ether to talk about lending and open finance on Ethereum. If open finance interests you, this is an episode you will not want to miss. Nadav discusses the current state of the product and their vision for the future. We talk about what makes up the protocol including debtors, creditors, relayers and underwriters. This leads to a discussion about their new product called Dharma Lever which enables peer to peer crypto lending.