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Making Sense of Crypto

Author: Mark Lurie

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Making Sense of Crypto invites bright minds in the crypto and de-fi space to break down topics like pseudonymity, liquidity pools, regulation and more. Host Mark Lurie peels back the layers of major issues in the crypto universe to understand how it affects you and your portfolio. 

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We sit down with John Reynolds, a Product Manager at privacy-focused developer platform Aleo, to discuss leveraging zero-knowledge cryptographic solutions to help secure information while also providing privacy. John explains how his experiences at the Air Force Academy first got him invested in personal information and privacy concepts, how ZK proofs work, how CBDCs relate to privacy, and more.  
In this episode, Reserve Protocol Co-founder, Nevin Freeman joins us to discuss algorithmic stablecoins. Reserve is a permissionless platform for launching and governing 1:1 asset-backed stable currencies. Nevin explains the initial idea behind algorithmic stablecoins and goes into why the flaws in the Terra stablecoin’s design, leading to its crash, should have been obvious from the design stage. We also discuss the future of the dollar and why designing a sound stablecoin requires some compromise. 
Perspective on DEXs

Perspective on DEXs

2023-05-1032:09

In this episode, Balancer Co-founder & CEO, Fernando Martinelli joins us to talk DEXs! Mark and Fernando discuss DEX aggregators from a DEX builders’ perspective, liquidity migration from L1s to L2s, how the new risk-free rate for Ethereum might affect DEX liquidity, and why Fernando believes in the future most of the TVL for AMMs will be on L2s. 
In this episode, Sanjay Raghavan from Roofstock onChain joins us to discuss bringing real-world assets (RWAs) onto the blockchain. Sanjay explains how Roofstock enables buying and selling of tokenized houses (real ones, not digital), discusses the legal considerations of bringing real estate, and other RWAs, on-chain, and digs into the securities debate surrounding cryptoassets. 
In this episode, Kevin Owocki, Founder of Web3 crowdfunding platform Gitcoin (and now supermodular) joins us to discuss regenerative finance and regenerative funding. Kevin explains what regenerative finance is, why being a degen isn't all that, and why he believes the future of crypto and Web3 lies in "regen" projects (things where resource capacity goes up over time). We also discuss quadratic funding and why it matters, the idea of retroactive public goods funding, and other potentially exciting novel funding mechanisms. 
Another episode recorded live from ETHDenver! In this episode, we’re joined by Yitong and Charlie from Agora, a project that works with organizations like Nouns DAO and Optimism to build public governance tooling and infrastructure. Governance is so important to crypto, which is why we’re discussing it today. How does distributed/community governance actually happen? To what degree is it happening? And what do all these governance tokens that have experienced a “Cambrian explosion” actually do? Yitong and Charlie fill us in. 
Recorded live from ETHDenver, we're joined by Raleon's Head of Product, Jay Jenkins. Raleon is a Web3 marketing analytics and engagement platform. Mark and Jay discuss how marketing automation works in crypto, why performance marketing doesn't work in Web3, and why incorporating hard data in Web3 marketing tends to be harder. Mark and Jay also chat about the conference and how much reach having a booth at a conference really gets you. ‍
In this episode, we’re joined by Megan Knab, CEO of Franklin Payroll–a crypto-native full service payroll company. Megan and Mark discuss the gap in the market for crypto-native payroll solutions, the upsides and downsides of getting paid in crypto, and how more web3 workers opting for compensation in crypto will affect the crypto/web3 economy. Megan also discusses compliance and tax considerations for getting paid in crypto, why stablecoins are a popular choice, and the infrastructure needed for wider adoption. ‍
The Evolution of DAOs

The Evolution of DAOs

2023-01-0424:41

We've talked a lot about DAOs on this podcast, but we regularly receive questions about what they are and why they matter. So today's episode is a bit of a different format. It's a talk I recently gave at a conference about the importance of DAOs in the context of the history of human organization. In a hundred years, historians may look back on DAOs, rather than money, as the most game-changing innovation to come out of blockchain.But DAOs probably won't evolve in the way most people think today. So let's jump in.
How to Incorporate a DAO

How to Incorporate a DAO

2022-12-2101:01:30

We've talked a lot about DAOs on this podcast, but we still regularly receive questions about what they are and why they matter. In this episode, Mark shares a talk he recently gave on the importance of DAOs, why they’re likely the most game-changing innovation to come out of blockchain, and why they probably won't evolve in the way most people are expecting.
In this episode, we’re joined by Chainlink Labs’ Chief Ecosystem Growth Officer, Adelyn Zhou. Adelyn helps demystify developer marketing and advises on how projects can grow their ecosystems and attract developers, and other parts of the Web3 stack, to their communities. Along the way, we discuss what defines an ecosystem, the best metrics for judging an ecosystem's health, and projects with particularly impressive developer ecosystems + why. 
In this episode, we chat with Matt Deible, Research & Product Lead at Semiotic Labs, about DEX Aggregators. Over a trillion dollars have been traded through DEXs this year alone. The FTX catastrophe served as a reminder of the important role DEXs play as many experienced firsthand the old adage: not your keys, not your crypto. Join us as we take a deep dive into what traders need to know to stay safe and informed.
Today I'm talking Matthew Leising about the role the media plays in crypto. And the sole that sources and incentives play in the stories told in the media.Matthew Leising worked for Bloomberg News for 17 years and started covering crypto in 2015. In 2020, he published “Out of the Ether,” a history of Ethereum and the people who created it. Earlier this year he co-founded DeCential Media which is dedicated to telling stories of the founders, builders and visionaries of the new decentralized world.
In this episode I chat with Angie Malltezi about Decentralized Exchanges (better known as DEXs) and how traders can get the most out of them. 
Today we're talking about usability and access control. One of the most important issues in crypto is usability and its affect on crypto's long term value.
Today we're talking about derivatives with Barney Mannerings of Vega Protocol. Trading volume for derivatives in the traditional markets are an order of magnitude more than trading everyday spot prices.  But in crypto, derivatives trading volume are an order of magnitude LESS than spot volume for any given asset.That's really a big difference. And in this episode, I want to find out what's holding it back.
Fractionalizing NFTs

Fractionalizing NFTs

2022-09-0745:33

Today we're talking about fractionalizing NFTs with Andy Chorlian.Consider this:  1040 artists have sold a hundred thousand dollars of more or more of NFTs. That's an amazing number and  it's important because traders don't just want to trade projects and tokens, they also want to trade and collect NFTs. But in the traditional art market, the most reliable returns come from blue chip artists--which are so expensive that only the wealthiest collectors can buy in.In this episode, we look at the dynamics going on here. 
Today we're talking about bringing real world assets on chain. This is really important for traders and crypto holders because whereas the crypto market is $1.2 trillion today, the largest market in the world is actually the mortgage market which is $13 trillion in the U.S. alone.For comparison,  the U.S. stock market is $95 trillion so the assets in the world dwarf the crypto market cap.But real world assets have been surprisingly slow in coming on chain.  I'd love to understand why.
Today, we're talking about the mempool and MEV with Matt Cutler of Blocknative.Matt told me that any given block has 150 to 250 transactions. For context, block times range from,  a few  seconds on Ethereum to 10 minutes on Bitcoin. At any time, there's actually 80,000 to 250,000 pending transactions to get into that block with only about 200. That is insane competition for block space. How does this actually work? How does it affect the gas prices? Which tax every trade? What does MEV mean? And how does it affect traders today? We're gonna find out.And if you want to learn even more about MEV and how it will be impacted by the upcoming Ethereum Merge? Check out Blocknative's blog.
Today, we're talking about stablecoins with Patrick Murk. Stablecoins are one of the most popular crypto utilities in terms of use cases. Today, the two largest stablecoins account for over a hundred billion dollars of market cap.That's a really big amount. They're both part of the top five coins and in a lot of ways, stablecoins might fulfill a lot of the promise that Bitcoin was initially proposed, which is payments.We'll start by establishing the lay of the land and identifying the approaches for stablecoins today. 
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