Into the Ether

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. On this episode we talk about buying stocks with crypto on Abra, Zcash inflation bug and a discussion on Layer 1 privacy, the State of Ethereum 2.0, an update from Rocket Pool, Twitter TCR party, Uniswap sees explosive growth, record amount of Dai issued and Danny Ryan's thoughts on Ethereum leadership.

Taylor Monahan, CEO of MyCrypto, joins the podcast to discuss one of the most popular wallets in the entire cryptocurrency space. We talk about how the wallet got started and what the original needs of the community were. Then we dive into the features of MyCrypto and what it offers today. Next, Taylor describes where she sees wallet UX headed in the near future. This is a great conversation about users will interact with the blockchain going forward.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. On this episode we talk about new exchange hacks, credit cards on Binance, more ETF filings, the launch of Graph Explorer, WBTC launched and what it means, DEx aggregators, zkERC20, Augur market resolutions, 2 million ETH in MakerDAO and why price matters.

Robert Lesher, CEO of Compound, joins Into the Ether to discuss compound.finance, the open finance solution for money markets. We discuss how Compound came to be and the challenges faced up until now. Robert discusses open finance and where he sees Compound fitting in for the long haul. We also discuss future plans for the protocol and news ways they are looking to improve.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. On this episode we cover news from 1/21/19 to 1/27/19. This week we discuss Messari's report on XRP which shaves down its marketcap, Ethereum wallets coming to the Samsung Galaxy S10 natively, another Bitcoin ETF rejection, tokenizing Reddit karma on /r/ethtrader, a new Eth 2.0 client, Eth 2.0 researchers team AMA, and we discuss the viability of Bitcoin's 21mn supply cap.

Martin Köppelmann, co-founder and CEO of Gnosis joins Into the Ether to discuss the current and future state of the company. Gnosis’ core business is their prediction market built on Ethereum and we discuss the status of an eventual full release. Martin then walks us through their new decentralized exchange using a dutch auction mechanism called DutchX and the DAO they are releasing to manage it. We wrap up talking about their smart contract controlled wallet, Gnosis Safe and what it can enable.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. On this episode we cover news from 1/14/19 to 1/20/19. This week we discuss the Cryptopia exchange hack, Planet Digital security token offering, Constantinople delay, Maker sunsetting Oasis DEx, Parity Feather beta wallet, Ben Edgington's Eth 2.0 newsletter, large CDP movement on chain, 0x volume dropping and a discussion on the future of Eth 2.0.

Scott Lewis, project lead on Settle and co-founder of Concourse Open Community, joins Into the Ether to discuss open finance and Settle. First we dive into the emergence and importance of open finance built on top of Ethereum. We then discuss Scott's project Settle which is a web-native operating system for open finance. Settle is a great and free way for users to track their crypto portfolio and easily interact with the open finance ecosystem through apps built on top of the platform.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. On this episode we cover news from 1/7/19 to 1/13/19: dx.exchange issues, Ethereum Classic 51% attacked, Shapeshift layoffs, Veil launch imminent for Augur, CryptoKitties and Gods Unchained partnership, Parity gets a large grant from the EF, will Vanity CDPs be a thing?, Dai and ETHs future.

On this episode, Nick Johnson joins the podcast. Nick is the lead developer for the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) which offers a secure and decentralized way to address resources both on and off the blockchain using simple, human-readable names. We discuss the current state of the ENS and the big plans for it in 2019 including a new registrar, rent based model and release of domains under 7 characters long. We also discuss ProgPOW, a proposed change to Ethereum's hashing algo to fork out ASICs.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. On this episode we cover news from 12/24/18 to 1/6/19: EthHub.io launches, dx.exchange launches stock trading on Ethereum, ConsenSys partners with AMD, Gitcoin grants launches, Austin Griffith's burner wallets using xDai, Balance.io update, forking out ASICs with ProgPOW, upcoming Constantinople fork, and decentralized oracles on MakerDAO.

For the final episode of our five part series on scaling, StarkWare Industries co-founders Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny join the podcast. We discuss StarkWare's plans for helping to scale Ethereum through a layer 2 solution using special zero-knowledge proof technology called zk-STARKs. Eli and Uri explain what STARKs are and how they are planning to show their power through an alpha implementation on a decentralized exchange in early 2019.

This is episode four in our five part series on Ethereum scaling. On today's episode, Georgios Konstantopoulos, who works on Plasma R&D for Loom Network, talks about Plasma as a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. We discuss the history of Plasma, what it means for the Ethereum network and how it will work from both the technical side and for the end user. If you ever wanted a quick, yet detailed deep dive into Plasma, this is the episode for you.

This is the third episode in our five part series on Ethereum scaling. On today's episode, Liam Horne of L4 Ventures joins to talk about a layer 2 scaling solution called state channels. L4 Ventures has an open source project called Counterfactual which is dedicated to building out generalized state channels. We talk about what state channels are, what they can enable, and the work being done to make this a reality on Ethereum.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. On this episode we cover: EthHub's community response to the CFTC, Basis stablecoin project shutting down, Mark Karpeles legal issues, DDEX forks 0x to remove ZRX, MKR holders vote to lower stability fee, Coindesk highlights Eth 2.0 teams and is price diverging from strong fundamentals?