State of the Nation

A collection of 266 posts

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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.

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Is friend.tech Good or Evil?

Friend.tech has dominated the crypto landscape as of late and it’s now breaking out into multiple mainstream non-crypto audiences. Should we pat ourselves on the back? Or do we need to more carefully reflect on the consequences of this new financialized social application? Ryan and David give their

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Vance Spencer: The FAANG of DeFi (S.M.E.L.L)

The FAANG of Crypto? Introducing SMELL.

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Tim Beiko & Justin Drake: The Sci-fi Roadmap to Ethereum

Justin Drake and Tim Beiko help us explore Ethereum's uncharted roadmap.

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Is SOL Money? with Austin Federa, Head of Strategy at the Solana Foundation

David is joined by Austin Federa is Head of Strategy at the Solana Foundation to debate ETH vs. SOL

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Arbitrum's BOLD New Bet with Ed Felten & Raul Jordan

Ed Felten & Raul Jordan share all on Arbitrum's recently announced, "BOLD" release

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The New DeFi Meta with Paradigm’s Head of Research, Dan Robinson

A deep dive on how DeFi is changing

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Polygon’s Endgame: Polygon 2.0 with Sandeep Nailwal & Mihailo Bjelic

Today on the show we welcome back Sandeep and Mihalo, the Co-Founders of Polygon to talk about Polygon 2.0

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UniswapX Revealed: A Game-Changer for DeFi

Hayden Adams reveals the ins and outs of UniswapX

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How Ripple's Win Reshapes Crypto with Paul Grewal & Mike Selig

A U.S court has ruled that XRP is not a security, and if XRP is a security then what implications does this have for other tokens?

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Expert's Take: Is a Bitcoin ETF Really Possible? with James Seyffart

Today we're joined by James Seyffart, a research analyst at Bloomberg who's the perfect person to answer our questions regarding the convergence of crypto and ETFs.

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Can We Fire Gary Gensler? with Rep. Warren Davidson

US Congressman Warren Davidson has some hot takes. Can we really fire Gary Gensler?

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Restaking Alignment with Vitalik, Sreeram, Tim Beiko, Justin Drake, Dankrad & Jessy

What are the implications of restaking?

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$30k BTC & Beyond? BlackRock Bitcoin ETF with Austin Campbell

What will a Bitcoin ETF do to the price of Bitcoin?

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Zora Announces The Zora Network

We're joined by Jacob from Zora who is here to announce the Zora Network!

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$100M Fight for Crypto in D.C. with Ryan Selkis

Today we're joined by Ryan Selkis, the Founder and CEO of Messari and an outspoken political advocate for the crypto industry.

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SEC vs. Coinbase with Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer, Paul Grewal

We brought on Coinbases's Legal Officer, Paul Grewal to hear how Coinbase plans to fight, how you, Bankless listener, can join the fight, and what's next for the crypto industry. Should we be optimistic?

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The SEC is Suing Coinbase & Binance | Ryan & David

Today Gary Gensler and the SEC officially filed lawsuits against crypto exchanges Binance and Coinbase.

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How to Fix DeFi with Dan Elitzer

Back to basics with Dan who answers some fundamental questions about DeFi and what it means to actually be a decentralized protocol.

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ETH to $50k by 2030?! VanEck's Bull Case

Can the price of Ethereum really reach $50,000 by the end of the decade?

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The Future of Bitcoin with Nic Carter, Eric Wall, & Udi Wertheimer

We bring on the brightest minds and trolliest personalities in Bitcoin to discuss Taproot

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Did Ethereum Break? with Preston Van Loon & Terence Tsao

We brought on Preston Van Loon & Terence Tsao, two Ethereum Protocol Developers, to help us answer that question.