Memecoins have been the most profitable investment of the year, and these traders believe they still have a lot of potential. 

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In this episode of Unchained, memecoin traders Ansem and Kelxyz unpack everything about memecoins, discussing what makes them valuable and how they evaluate their investment potential. They also address the criticisms and controversies surrounding them, including racism and sexism. (They have a surprising reaction to the latter.) Ansem and Kel argue that memecoins have substance and value, largely due to their popularity and the attention they receive on the internet. 

They also discuss the importance of distribution and virality in the success of a memecoin, how the chain any coin is on affects its value, and give their opinions on Runes vs. BRC-20s vs. Solana and Ethereum. 

Plus, they talk about their wildest memecoin stories (think: Dogwifhat) and provide their insights on what they think memecoins will become in the future.

Show highlights:

• Ansem’s and Kel’s investment thesis around memecoins 
• How Ansem and Kel got into trading memecoins and how they evaluate their potential
• Why the coin distribution matters and whether tokenomics is important with memecoins
• How to discern between memecoins with genuine vs. fake interest 
• How memecoins differ across blockchains such as Solana Ethereum and Bitcoin
• Ansem and Kel’s responses to the criticisms of memecoins
• Whether and how memecoins could become safer for users 
• Kel and Ansem’s surprising reaction to racist and sexist memecoins 
• Ansem's story on WIF and how a female friend of his fueled its popularity 
• Whether Bitcoin is “the original memecoin" and how they define memecoin
• The future of memecoins and how they believe all memes will become coins

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• Polkadot
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Guests: Ansem. Kelxyz

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Culture:

• What else could memecoins be? by Vitalik Buterin
• How bad policy favors memes over matter by Chris Dixon 
• Cointelegraph: Meme coins: Betrayal of crypto’s ideals… or its true purpose?
• CoinDesk: The Memecoin Grift and How It Threatens Ethereum Culture 

Investment:

• CoinGecko: Top Crypto Narratives Gained 39% to 1313% in Q1 2024 
• Messari: Navigating Memecoin Mania
• Kelxyz investment strategy
• Decrypt: Crypto Influencer Ansem Explains His Meme Coin Thesis and Why He’s Bullish on Bitcoin Runes 
• Unchained: What Is Dogwifhat (WIF) and Why Is It Up so Much? 

Safer memecoins

• Unchained: Half of Solana Presale Tokens Rolled Out Between November and February Were Malicious: Blockaid Study
• Cointelegraph: 1 in 6 new Base meme coins are scams, 91% have vulnerabilities
• Andre Conje’s proposal

Racist memecoins

• Unchained: Offensive Memecoins Proliferate on Solana, Sparking Debate
• Crypto news: Ethereum's Buterin slams Solana's racist meme coins, urges better projects

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Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry from Binance CEO calling on the Nigerian government to release detained executive, to Web3 platform Galaxis' new funds raised.

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"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, as Binance CEO Richard Teng called on the Nigerian government to release Tigran Gambaryan, who flew to the country in February for talks on regulatory supervision. Plus, a research report from KBW says Robinhood would likely win a court case with the SEC given its conservative approach to digital asset listings. And, Singapore-based Web3 platform Galaxis raised $10 million ahead of its token launch.

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The latest price moves and insights on AI tokens with Jennifer Sanasie.

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AI-related tokens have led the crypto market recovery in recent days, while shares of Nasdaq-listed chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) also rallied. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the surge in RNDR, AGIX and FET tokens on "Markets Daily." Plus, what investors should know before doubling down on the AI tokens riding the Nvidia hype.

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Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd joins The Mining Pod to discuss mining pool centralization threat vectors, MEV on Bitcoin, JPEGS, and hidden attacks to Bitcoin.

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We headed down to Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas last week to discuss all things Bitcoin development, and it turns out mining is a big part of that!

We sat down with Peter Todd, a Bitcoin core developer with extensive work on decentralizing Bitcoin’s tech stack. We dig into pool centralization threats, the what and if of miner extractable value on Bitcoin and what he thinks of JPEGs on Bitcoin!

Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 Start

00:02:35 Open Timestamps does election fraud

00:07:19 Timestamp the internet?

00:08:19 Peter Todd Intro

00:10:45 Antpool block template use

00:16:33 Does Stratum V2 solve pool control?

00:17:18 Ocean Pool

00:18:19 Developers Incentivisation

00:20:19 Mining Testnet

00:21:30 Resetting Testnet

00:21:56 Ordinal Streisand Effect

00:24:16 OP_RETURN

00:24:58 1MB Runes incoming w/ Libra Relay?

00:28:23 MEV is dangerous

00:30:35 RBF transactions

00:31:20 MEV types

00:32:53 Libra Relay vs Core filters

00:34:50 Libra Relay is a political project

00:36:10 Suggestions for miners

00:37:36 OP_CAT

00:42:40 OP Code prediction

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In this episode, the Co-Founder of Mercedes' Web3 arm 0xNXT shares insights on their multi-year roadmap to reach both crypto natives and loyal customers.

Max Orgeldinger, Co-Founder of Mercedes-Benz's Web3 initiative 0xNXT, joins the show to discuss the luxury automaker's approach to entering the NFT space. He shares insights into their multi-year plan for releasing NFT collections targeting different audiences, from crypto natives to their most loyal customers. We also discuss how Mercedes is exploring emerging technologies like AI and decentralized social platforms for their Web3 strategy.

Links mentioned from the podcast: 

• Instagram Creator Update
• TikTok Tells Advertisers: ‘We Are Not Backing Down’
• Mercedes NXT Website
• Mercedes NXT Twitter

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• CoinDesk

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Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry from Robinhood's Wells Notice from the SEC to a new group led by cybersecurity veteran Justine Bone that aims to guard crypto from hacks.

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"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, as Robinhood (HOOD) shares fell about 2.5% in premarket trading after its crypto arm received a Wells Notice from the SEC. Plus, new findings from Visa and data platform Allium Labs show that more than 90% of stablecoin transaction volumes aren’t coming from genuine users. And, cybersecurity veteran Justine Bone is leading a group dedicated to guarding crypto from hacks.

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The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie and Kraken Head of Strategy Thomas Perfumo.

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On "Markets Daily," Kraken Head of Strategy Thomas Perfumo weighs in on overall performance across the crypto market and potential approval of spot Ether ETFs in the U.S. Plus, insights on growth in the DeFi space.

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MoonPay co-founder and CEO Ivan Soto-Wright discusses their partnership with PayPal.

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MoonPay co-founder and CEO Ivan Soto-Wright joins "First Mover" to discuss MoonPay's recent partnership with PayPal. Plus, the significance of a smooth user experience for mainstream adoption of digital assets.

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Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry from Coinbase's blowout first quarter to Kraken indices provider's prediction on Hong Kong ETFs.

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"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, including the blowout first quarter of Coinbase where the crypto exchange reported net income of $1.2 billion. Plus, Kraken's indices provider predicts that spot ETF products in Hong Kong will reach $1 billion in AUM by the end of 2024. And, Jack Dorsey's Block doubles down on bitcoin.

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Celestia’s co-founder and its COO talk about how their modular blockchain makes it easier for blockchains to scale. 

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Celestia, a data availability layer for blockchains, was launched last October to much fanfare. The platform takes a modular approach to blockchains, allowing developers to post data onto it without the need for smart contracts or execution. This makes it extremely useful for scaling roll-ups and other layer two technologies. 

Celestia co-founder Mustafa Al-Bassam and COO Nick White join Unchained to discuss what Celestia is and how it works, how data availability sampling allows for more scalability, how Celestia compares with other data availability layers, whether Celestia could become a data availability layer for Bitcoin, and comparisons between Celestia and Solana. 

Show Highlights:

• Mustafa’s background and how his project called LazyLedger ended up becoming Celestia
• Nick’s vision for modular blockchains
• Why Mustafa believes in the “10,000 rollup” endgame
• Why Mustafa thinks that gaming and NFT chains work better on a modular blockchain
• What Celestia is and how it resembles the publication of an article in a newspaper
• What data availability sampling (DAS) is and how it works to ensure that the data is available and accurate for validators
• How DAS allows for more scalability
• What types of applications can be built with this type of modular architecture
• Mustafa’s explanation of the concept of Blob stream and blob space
• How a rollup can be an independent or sovereign layer, not just a layer 2 to a layer 1
• How Celestia competes with other DA layers, like the future EigenDA
• The role of the TIA token in the Celestia ecosystem 
• How Mufasa hacked the CIA when he was 16 years old and how he transitioned into crypto
• Whether Celestia could become a DA layer for Bitcoin layer 2 rollups
• Whether Solana could end up becoming an Ethereum layer 2 using Celestia for data availability 
• The proposal to extend the functionality of Celestia without smart contracts in the base layer 

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Guests | 

Nick White, COO at Celestia Labs

Previous appearances on Unchained: Three Crypto Pioneers on Crypto’s Monolithic vs. Modular Debate

Mustafa Al-Bassam, cofounder and CEO at Celestia Labs

Links | 

Modular vs. Monolithic

Alchemy: Modular vs. Monolithic Blockchains

Visa: Monolithic vs. modular blockchain

Chris Burniske’s tMonolithic vs. modular blockchain | Visaweet on modular vs monolithic

“The horrific inefficiencies of monolithic blockchains” by polynya

Blockworks: A spicy salvo launched in the monolithic vs modular debate

Unchained: What Is the Blockchain Trilemma?

Celestia

Celestia’s explanation of modular blockchains

Data availability

Data availability sampling

An introduction to sovereign rollups

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