State of the Nation

A collection of 287 posts

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Jito's Impact on Solana with CEO Lucas Bruder

This is an exploration of Jito, the Solana validator client, the staked Solana token JITOSOL, and MEV optimization engine.

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Ryan Selkis Shares His 2024 Crypto Predictions

Joining us today is Ryan Selkis, who is here to walk us through his crypto thesis for 2024.

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Kraken's CEO on Their Battle Against The SEC

Kraken is one of the two most important exchanges in the US right now, it's also an essential bridge across many other jurisdictions. Recently Kraken has come under fire by the SEC for the second time this year.

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VanEck’s 2024 Crypto Predictions with Matthew Sigel

What will happen in 2024?

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What is Celestia ($TIA)? Unpacking Modular Blockchains

The bull case for Celestia

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Immutable and Merit Circle Join Forces

Merit Circle is migrating from Avalanche to Immutable, bringing along their gaming ecosystem, DAO, and sizable treasury.

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Do We Hate Solana?

The truth on how we feel about Solana.

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The Power Of Property Rights With Hernando De Soto

The first think you need to know about crypto is, "what is money?"  The second is, "what is property?" and that is our topic for today.

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Addressing BanklessDAO Drama

Did we deserve the backlash?

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Is THORChain (RUNE) Undervalued? with Erik Voorhees and Chad Barraford

What is THORChain? Join David as we explore the liquidity protocol that allows swapping between BTC, ETH, and more without intermediaries.

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RSA Take: Are They Trying to Kill Crypto?

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Vivek Ramaswamy’s Presidential Platform for Crypto

Vivek shares his thoughts on crypto, U.S. regulation, & more

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Solana is Winning Right Now | Anatoly & Austin

Breakpoint 2023

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Bitcoin ETFs: Bullish or Bearish? with Alex Thorn

The impact of the BTC ETF explained

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The Bull Case for $LINK (Chainlink)

Is Chainlink next?

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Is the Crypto Bull Market Back? with Up Only's Ledger

On the show today is Ledger! Ledger is no stranger to market cycles and is here to answer the question... Are we back? Join us as we walk through charts, discuss market catalysts and get a full break down on how ledger is navigating these market conditions.

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The US Government is Trying to Kill Crypto | Miller Whitehouse-Levine and Jason Schwartz

How you can save DeFi in less than 5 minutes

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Scroll zkEVM Mainnet Launch with Sandy & Toghrul

Wen token?

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What the ETH Futures Approvals Mean for Crypto with Eric Balchunas

How bullish are ETH ETFs?

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Most Important Macro & Crypto Trends in 2023 & Beyond with David Duong

Joining us today is the Head of Research at Coinbase, David Doung, and macro is on the menu. We’re talking yield curves, election fears, US equities, and if macro economics is even real. And finally, David walks us through the recession. Is it delayed, is it cancelled, is it already here?

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Synthetix: A New Hope with Kain Warwick

“Synthetix, A New Hope,” is a recent blog post Kain wrote and is a main focus for today’s episode.

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SVM L2 on Ethereum: Bullish or Bearish SOL? with Neel Somani, Founder, Eclipse

Is Solana done?

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Why MetaMask Snaps is a Big Deal with Co-Founder, Dan FinIay

We welcome creator and Co-Founder of MetaMask, Dan Finlay on the show to help us explore all of these questions and much more.

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Surveillance Finance 101 with Seth Hertlein and Michael Mosier

Seth Hertlein, VP Global Head of Policy at Ledger, and Michael Mosier, Co-Fouder of legal boutique Arktourous, Build Exante - FinCEN, Treasury, and Chief Technical Counsel at Chainalysis join us on today’s show to explain the modern financial surveillance apparatus. FATF, FinCEN, AML/KYC, OFAC...the blacklists, the greylists.

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Scaling Ethereum To The Next Level with zkEVM

The world's first type one zkEVM.