Welcome back, this week Lucas and Anita break down the chaotic rollout of Ethereum’s biggest drop yet — a virtual land sale for the Bored Apes metaverse. The startup behind it banked more than $400 million in the sale, but the auction of land tiles called Otherdeeds brought the Ethereum blockchain to a crashing halt, leaving users paying exorbitant transaction fees worth thousands and tens of thousands of dollars just to buy themselves some monkey land.
Beyond that, they discuss Wikipedia’s abandonment of crypto donations after a vote from the Wikimedia Foundation’s editors and how the SEC is bulking up its crypto crime division with a few new hires that are tasked with the daunting challenge of policing web3.
In their interview this week, Lucas and Anita chat with Jill Gunter. Jill is a crypto VC at Slow Ventures and the co-founder of Espresso Systems — a startup building a privacy-centric blockchain. Listen along as they get her take on why there are so many blockchains out there and whether we’re headed towards a future where one blockchain rules them all.
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Space and Time wants to help LLMs and AI agents get on-chain (w/ Scott Dykstra)
Whoever rules the data rules the world (w/ Tegan Kline)
Blockchain tech is working to combat AI-based deepfakes (w/ Melody Hildebrandt and Mike Blank)
Blockchain could be the answer to getting AI artists paid (w/ Dee Goens)
Looking back on the NFT marketplace Magic Eden (w/ Jack Lu)
Starbucks Odyssey’s community lead expects NFT brand building to expand this year (w/ Steve Kaczynski)
Web3 brands and NFTs are on a global race for adoption (w/ Yat Siu)
OpenSea’s CEO sees greater opportunity for NFT use cases to grow (w/ Devin Finzer)
SEC Commissioner sees a need for a new Token Safe Harbor Proposal (w/ Hester Peirce)
Read Write Own this episode with a16z’s crypto partner (w/ Chris Dixon)
Bonus Episode: Worldcoin is going on a race to billions of users “as fast” as it can (w/ Alex Blania)
Solana Mobile is just getting started (w/ Anatoly Yakovenko)
Ripple president talks XRP Ledger, SEC suits, and 2024 plans (w/ Monica Long)
Bitcoin spot ETFs has been approved in the U.S. (w/ Michael Sonnenshein)
All roads seem to be leading to a U.S. spot bitcoin ETF approval soon (w/ Fred Thiel)
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Algorand foundation CEO sees tokenization as key sector to scale crypto (w/ Staci Warden)
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Crypto VC space may be on the cusp of recovery (w/ David Pakman)
Optimism is optimistic for the future of Ethereum (w/ Jing Wang and Ryan Wyatt)
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