The Bean Pod

To start season off season two, Rex is joined by special guest Perchy:  an artist whose work has become closely associated with the Bankless DAO, has recently sold NFTs of his work called Goblin Town, the newest item in his Locations series. 

Rex, Mod and Publius talk with Steven Walbroehl from Halborn about audits in Web3, ethical hacking and cybersecurity.

Rex and Mod talk with Nick Fett CTO of Tellor, a decentralized oracle protocol. 

Rex, Publius and Mod, chat with Brice from Liquity about their newest project: a self-bootstrapping liquidity mechanism called Chicken Bonds

Rex and Publius talk to Nick Mudge about modularity and EIP-2535: Diamonds, Multi-Facet Proxy standard

Rex and Dumpling talk to Jonathan Wu from Aztec Network where they discuss: user privacy, NFTs, Zero-knowledge (ZK) proof, and more   Topics:  0:00 Intro  2:55 Aztec intro  5:10 Zero knowledge proofs and their place in Aztec  12:05 Aztec progress  16:30 The Merge affect on Aztec  21:43 Connecting to Aztec  28:44 How does Aztec make money?  34:08 Challenges faced by Aztec  37:43 Potential Aztec partnerships  39:36 Privacy puzzle  46:55 Passwordless future  49:05 How can Beanstalk be supportive of Aztec?

Rex talks with TBIQ, community member and Beanstalk's resident Dune expert. Topics include: working with Beanstalk's data, data analytics and machine learning. Topics: 0:00 Intro 1:33 TBIQ intro 7:12 Integrating community feedback 12:10 Subgraph discussion 20:47 Interesting data in Beanstalk 27:42 Yield curve in the Pod marketplace 30:10 Machine learning in crypto 42:00 Useful data 46:05 Data work after Beanstalk Replant 49:55 Outro

Rex and Dumpling chat with Larry the Cucumber from Pickle Finance - an automatic yield aggregating service. Topics: 0:00 Intro 1:55 Pickle Finance intro 2:50 What's the advantage of a system that auto-compounds? 5:35 Pickle terminology and process 9:17 How long before a user sees a benefit to Pickle's aggregation service? 10:48 Farming analogies 13:50 Founding of Pickle 18:32 Post-exploit Beanstalk 21:52 Barn Raise 34:55 What is the community sentiment on Terra? 40:00 Terra collapse effect on Pickle 42:50 Cross-chain Pickle 51:00 Beanstalk contributors 52:40 Outro

In this episode, Rex and Publius talk about Soil: Beanstalk's willingness to issue debt, demand for Soil and its importance to the protocol's peg maintenance and debt level.

Publius discusses the recent depegging of Terra, and how Beanstalk might perform differently in comparable circumstances.

Explore the mechanisms behind Beanstalk's debt issuance, from the Field to Pods and Soil.

Take a tour of the farm's most important components, including the Bean stablecoin and its utility.

Rex and Publius discuss Beanstalk’s thriving community, which has seen steady, organic growth over the course of 7 months.

Publius, the pseudonymous founders of Beanstalk, walk through how they prepared Beanstalk for its initial launch and answer the fundamental question: Why Beanstalk?

On this inaugural episode of The Bean Pod, host Rex talks with Publius, the pseudonymous founders of Beanstalk, about what led them to develop the protocol and other guiding philosophies.

On part 1 of this Mayflower Update mini series, Rex talks with two of Beanstalk's developers Brean and Chaikitty about the Sunrise Improvements.

On this special episode, Rex and Ceazor talk more broadly about the crypto space, news and current events. 

Rex is joined by Allay head of Community at Hats Finance, a decentralized smart bug bounty marketplace to discuss incentive realignment and Beanstalk's past governance exploit in April 2022. 

 Rex chats with Kirari, one of Paradox’s founders, about how they got into this space and how all of Paradox’s unique features come together.

There are few people who understand the history of finance and how it relates to moder DeFi better than Manny Rincon-Cruz. Manny is a financial historian by trade and a key part of The Buttonwood Foundation, a collection of tools and primitives that are helping developers build components of the decentralized finance stack. Manny joined us in the studio the other day to discuss his background and how Buttonwood will help drive future defi projects.