Into the Ether

Leighton Cusack, CEO of PoolTogether joins the show to talk about their no-loss savings game built on Ethereum. PoolTogether is a fascinating concept which allows people to join a daily or weekly prize pool with crypto without ever losing their initial investment or capital. Leighton walks us through how this works and explains that when users buy tickets, their crypto is sent to Compound to earn interest. The interest earned during the prize period is then awarded to the winner.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss efforts to market Ethereum and ETH, CFTC Chairman hints at ETH futures on the horizon, privacy protocol Aztec goes live on mainnet, Maple introduces undercollateralized loans, 0x launches a liquidity aggregator, ETH miners seem to be accumulating ETH and Vitalik’s review of Gitcoin CLR Round 4.

Talking DeFi with Camila Russo, Kain Warwick and Justin Leroux

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss new content being added to EthHub, Ray Dalio’s bearish comments on Bitcoin, the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract being formally verified, Set launches social trading, Bounties Network deciding to sunset their products, Ethereum.org get another update, a tweet thread about the energy behind the Ethereum movement and a great recap of 2019 for Ethereum.

Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave, joins the podcast to talk about the recent launch of their new DeFi protocol. Aave is an open source and non-custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits & borrow assets. We talk about how Aave differs from other DeFi products such as Compound and Maker. Stani explains how Aave brings new features to DeFi such as flash loans and aDai which both have the goal of utilizing more of the lending pools. Flash loans seem like a revolutionary money lego.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss Gitcoin Grants wrapping up, CFTC Chairman explores a digital dollar projects, Eth2 update 7 from Danny Ryan, Plasma Group is now Optimism and raises funds, rTrees launched by the rDai team #DonateWithDeFi, Whiteblock’s Genesis goes live, a thread on educating investors about ETH and the need for economic bandwidth on Ethereum.

Hasu, an independent cryptocurrency researcher, joins the podcast to discuss Bitcoin and Ethereum. Hasu has very good insights into the crypto community and he shares those on this episode. We discuss the current state of both the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities and where their current narrative journeys have landed them. We also dive deep into the topics of monetary policy, PoW vs PoS, development funds and much more. This is a great conversion about the differences in the two communities.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss new EthHub pages and bounties, NBA player Spencer Dinwiddie tokenizing his contract on Ethereum, Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 spec is ready for audit, Aztec protocol completes ignition scenario and is ready for mainnet, Aave protocol launches and a summary of good eth2 blog posts.

Paul Hauner of Sigma Prime joins the podcast to talk about Ethereum 2.0. Sigma Prime is building the Lighthouse client which is an eth2 client built in Rust. We spend most of the time focused on phase 0. Paul talks about the testnet they have been running with 16,000 validators and shares good info on the hardware requirements for stakers. He gives an update on what is left before launch and we talk about what the user experience will be like for those wanting to stake ETH.

EthHub Weekly Recap #95: Holiday recap, Muir Glacier activated, Gitcoin matching, Maker DSR to 6%, DeFiZap liquidity pools, Avado RYO-cloud and ETH price as a design principle.

In celebration of Into the Ether's 100th episode, we hoped on a livestream with some great Ethereum community members. We talked about DeFi, Eth 1.x, Eth2, narratives, the community and much more. The live stream included: Eric Conner, Anthony Sassano, Vitalik Buterin, Danny Ryan, DCInvestor, Ryan Sean Adams and David Hoffman.

Maker Foundation team members Mariano Conti, head of smart contracts, and Cyrus Younessi, head of risk, join the podcast to discuss multi-collateral Dai. We talk about the recent transition from single-collateral Dai to multi-collateral Dai and how they think it's gone. They then give an overview of all the new features that come with MCD including the Dai Savings Rate. We then discuss how the system can now add different collateral types and would handle black swan events.

James Young, co-founder of Abridged and MolochDAO joins the podcast. James has been in the Ethereum space for many years and has insightful views on a wide range of topics. We talk about what they are building at Abridged in a hope to onboard new Ethereum users through the concept of incremental decentralization. We also talk the state of layer 2 solutions as well as the rise of DAOs. This is a really fun conversation about Ethereum. Support our show by donating funds to ethhub.eth!

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss the Istanbul fork being activated, Etherscan be blocked by China’s firewall, introduction of the Open Finance Index, Sigma Prime launches their Lighthouse eth2 testnet, EY gives Nightfall an update and the top crypto innovations by year. Support our show by donating funds to ethhub.eth! Buy EthHub Merch

Steven McKie, general partner at Amentum Capital and host of Blockchannel podcast joins the show to talk about Ethereum. Steven has been in the blockchain space for many years and has a good perspective on where Ethereum has been and where it's going. We talk about the future gig economy, the state of Layer 2 solutions, governance, the emergence of DAOs, the current state of DeFi and the narrative wars between Bitcoin and Ethereum.