On this special episode, we welcome back Sam Kazemian, co-founder of Frax, to dive into the Fraxtal Vision Roadmap. A plan set in 3 phases, introducing token upgrades, AIVM, and becoming the microstrategy of ETH with Frax’s Crypto Strategic Reserve.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction & Background

03:05 State of Crypto Post-Elections

08:10 Convos w/ Legislators + Staffers in DC

11:48 Reflections on Fraxtal and the L2 Playbook

15:36 Running a Protocol vs an L2

17:23 The Vision Roadmap: Sovereign Assets and AI Integrations

18:37 Phase 1: Tokenomic upgrades, The Future of FRAX.

36:43 Proof of Inference and AI Agents Onchain

49:18 Retaking on Fraxtal Securing Different VMs

53:30 Frax: The MicroStrategy of ETH

1:01:55 The Crypto Strategic Reserve

1:04:37 Key Takeaways of The Vision Roadmap

1:06:31 Post-Game

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This week, we hosted Lord Pemberton Squigglebop, founder and chief Yeetard of Yeet, an innovative suite of products and games making DeFi more Yeetard-friendly.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction & Background

04:36 What is Yeet + Game Mechanics

08:20 Yeet Economics: Prize Pool and Taxes

13:45 Staking and Unstaking Mechanics

15:45 The Liquidity Trifecta: The Yeetwheel

23:20 Yeetard NFTs and Burning Culture

25:50 Making DeFi Yeetard Friendly + Yeet Bonds

28:40 Yeet’s Master Plan

34:10 Exploring Proof of Liquidity

36:50 Building Social Welfare and Resilience in DeFi

40:36 Yeeting on Berachain vs Other Chains

42:51 Building Community on Berachain

45:46 Yeet’s GTM Strategy

50:35 TG Bot & Group Yeeting

54:21 Post-Game Show

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This week, the legend himself Jani to dive into the role of Cybernetics in crypto and what it takes to create a meaningful, long-lasting cult(ure).

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction & Background

06:00 Understanding Cults in a Crypto Context

08:30 Maintaining Fresh Perspectives

15:50 Cybernetics, Feedback Loops, and its Role in Crypto

21:19 Improving Airdrops and Incentivizing High-Value Behaviour

24:08 Going All In and Leveraging Bong Bears

32:39 Building The Honey Jar

36:28 Honeycombs, Integrators and Community Engagement

40:00 Developing a Cybernetic Culture w/ Honeycombs

45:00 Cybernetic Culture of Berachain vs Other L1s/L2s

48:40 The Rise of Honeycomb and Community Dynamics

50:53 Personas and Social Interactions in Different Spheres

55:20 A New Definition for Cults

1:03:05 Sustainably Prioritizing Communities

1:08:30 Cults As Cybernetic Organizations

1:10:46 The Key to Long-Lasting Cults

1:25:42 Post-Game Show

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This week, we brought on Chunda McCain to learn more about Nucleus which introduces “Yield by Default” and the financialization of infrastructure risk.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction & Background

03:44 What was Ion and its evolution into Nucleus

08:48 Financializing Infrastructure Risks

11:00 Yield by Default

15:23 Engaging User Incentives and Infra Revenue Sharing

19:37 App Chains and Ecosystem-Specific Rollups

26:09 Are AVS’s Bottlenecks in Restaking?

30:35 Scaling ETH vs The Rollup-Centric Roadmap

36:52 Ethereum's Identity and EIP-1559

39:23 Narratives from Precious Metals to Crypto

42:15 Nucleus Architecture and User Journey

46:08 Yield Generation Strategies and Risk Management

54:38 Default Yield in all Ecosystems

1:05:05 What Sets Nucleus Apart?

1:10:50 Post-Game Show

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This week, we hosted Thad, co-founder of El Dorado, to discuss the upcoming election and its implications on Crypto and DeFi.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction & Background

04:00 US Election: Candidates and Their Stance on Crypto

08:56 The Current Political Landscape

12:33 Economic Issues: Inflation, Immigration

18:30 Bull Case for Crypto and The US

30:00 Crypto Under Different Political Outcomes

34:00 Political Implications in The Worst-Case Scenario

43:03 The US Identity Crisis Post-Cold War

46:30 What is El Dorado and its Vision

50:00 The Membership Model and Dorito Utility

1:03:03 Understanding Thorchain and Its Innovations

1:10:00 Single-Sided Bitcoin Yield w/ El Dorado

1:14:45 Post-Game Show

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This week we hosted Ryan Park, co-founder of Exponents, the first liquidation-free, oracle-less perp dex and explored how Exponents is reimagining market efficiency with its novel mathematical mechanisms.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction & Background

10:48 Lessons from Anchor

13:50 What Lido Did Right

16:46 Distribution + Growth in Terra and Anchor

19:27 “The End User is Capital”

22:30 Transitioning from Anchor to Exponents

28:54 The Liquidation Free, Oracle-less Perp Dex

34:04 “Spot Arbitrage”, The Lifecycle of a Position

41:49 Synthetic Positions and Collateralization Mechanism

50:40 How Does Exponents Work

1:01:23 Institutional Perspectives on DeFi & Crypto

1:07:43 The Future of DeFi and Its Value Prop

1:13:34 Incentivizing Speculation in Crypto Markets

1:23:15 Building in the Bera Eco

1:29:29 Post-Game Show

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This week, we had on Jordan Prince, an OG Solana dev and co-founder of Metaplex who shared his thoughts on the evolution of the Solana ecosystem and why he believes it could overtake Ethereum's position.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction & Background

15:25 How L2s have impacted Ethereum

25:37 The Future of Solana: Flipping ETH?

30:23 The Hacker House Phenomenon

41:58 The Birth of Metaplex and Solana NFT Standards

51:09 EIPs vs Solana Standards

55:30 The Flaws of DAOs and the Need for Representative Governance

1:03:35 B&J Studios and Its Role in Innovation

1:08:50 Memecoins & Market Dynamics

1:18:41 Solana PVP & Ethereum MEV

1:23:38 The Solution to L2s: A New Ethereum

1:26:44 Are New L1s A Threat to Solana?

1:34:09 The Real Threat to Crypto

1:42:48 Post-Game Show

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This week, Pierre Person is a former French Politician and current founder of the stablecoin protocol Usual Money. He discusses Usual’s novel mechanisms and how it aims to be a fully on-chain Tether.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction & Background

06:19 Working In French Politics

9:24 From Politics to Stablecoins

14:14 What is Usual Money

20:00 Stablecoin Lifecycle in Usual (Minting USD0)

22:48 Usual Governance Token Model

28:12 GTM Strategy (0 to 100 Real Quick)

33:40 Bridging the Gap Between DeFi and CeFi

37:50 USD0++ and Speculative Yield

41:54 Usual’s Mechanism Against Dilution

44:11 Base Interest Guarantee

45:45 Withdrawing USD0 from USD0++

51:35 Token Emissions and Protocol Revenue

55:45 Regulation and MICA

1:06:07 Post-Game Show

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This week, Charlie Curran dives into how Memecoins are an avant-garde art form and what his experiences in the trenches has been like since the launch of pump(dot)fun.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction & Background

07:19 From Fashion and Film to Crypto

10:40 Finding Pump(dot)fun

13:20 Memecoins vs Culture coins

15:35 $P*SSYINBIO Lore

20:55 Community and Cult Formation

24:00 Cultural Shifts and CT Blindspots

30:49 Avant-Garde Art and Crypto Culture

37:10 The Rise of Ball Up Top

42:46 Ball Up Top Community vs P*SSYINBIO

47:28 Trying To Fork Culture

50:30 Ethereum vs Solana

54:54 Future of Culturecoins & Memecoins

1:02:07 Celebrities & Memecoins

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This week we hosted Kyle Chayka, author of Filterworld. We dive into his key findings on how algorithms flatten culture, impact the crypto industry and more.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction and Background

03:47 Writing Filterworld

05:55 Stuck Culture: The Rise of Mainstream Social Internet

08:00 Understanding How Algorithms Work

11:35 Different Flavours of Algorithms

14:47 Flattening

16:20 TikTok’s Optimized Algorithm

21:45 The Homogenization of Culture

22:40 Taste or Algorithmic Recommendations?

24:37 Platform-Based Cultures

30:45 Ineffable Taste vs Data-driven Recommendations

34:00 Sandcastle Platforms & Non-Algo Platforms

36:17 Better Regulation for Social Networks

45:00 AI Further Flattening Culture and Creativity

53:13 Balancing Novelty and Taste in Content Consumption

56:35 Post-Game Show

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