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How Blockchain Tech Advances Benefit Other Industries

In this special 50th episode, we discuss how work in the blockchains/ crypto space has led to advances in several important technologies — which can be used by many other industries well beyond crypto. We cover everything from AMMs to credible auctions to DAOs, to macroeconomic experiments and FHE to TEEs to zero knowledge and much more -- offering useful explanations along the way.

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  Government... By Lottery?

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  AI Bots & Memecoins

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  State of Crypto 2024: Builder Energy, U.S. Election, Stablecoins, AI, More

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  Bridges: Out of the Mess, Into the Meshnet (with LayerZero)

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  Games as Reality (with EVE Online)

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  Governance Attack!?

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  Token Do's and Don'ts

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  Where Innovation Happens

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  What, How, and Why We're Reading

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  On Finding Product Market Fit — and Meaning

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  Governing democracy, the internet, and boardrooms

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  Pricing Strategy

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  Open Sourcing the Superchain (with Optimism)

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  Layer 2, Rollups, and Building Onchain (with Base)

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  Theory to Code: Building the Breakthrough zkVM Jolt