Public Key

Future of Ethereum: Scalability, Stablecoins and Innovation


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How does someone who has been through multiple bear and bull markets in crypto, cope with such a volatile industry?

Keep Building. 

In this “Live from Links” episode, Caitlin Barnett, Director of Regulation & Compliance at Chainalysis) reconnects with her former Gemini co-worker, Ira Auerbach (Head of Tandem, Offchain Labs) as they go deep on the scalability and innovation challenges and successes on the Ethereum blockchain. 

Ira shares the initiatives at NASDAQ and Gemini that bridged traditional finance products to the crypto market and how his focus has shifted at Offchain Labs, where they are fostering blockchain innovation, solving complex computational challenges and emphasizing stablecoins' impact on market dynamics.

A great episode for founders, investors and compliance folks in the crypto industry. 

Minute-by-minute episode breakdown

2 | Lessons from many crypto bull and bear markets

4 | Focus on institutional solutions and stablecoins

6 | Offchain Labs and Arbitrum improve scalability and usability on Ethereum

8 | Blockchain gaming, decentralized sequencers and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)

10 | Tandem's partner studio and venture capital Approach

12 | Current crypto investment landscape

14 | Camelot and the industry’s shift to DeFi after centralized collapses

16 |Future of investing in blockchain and AI

18 | Thoughts on stablecoin infrastructure players in the industry

Related resources

Check out more resources provided by Chainalysis that perfectly complement this episode of the Public Key.

  • Website: Offchain Labs: Scaling Ethereum Without Compromise
  • Blog: Bringing Interoperability to Arbitrum and Ethereum
  • Announcement: Tandem by OCL Invests in Camelot, the Largest Native DEX on Arbitrum
  • Blog: OFAC Sanctions Funnull Technology Inc. for Supporting Pig Butchering Scams
  • Blog: Bitcoin Strategic Reserves: Behind the Changing Architecture of Sovereign Finance
  • Blog: AI-Powered Crypto Scams: How Artificial Intelligence is Being Used for Fraud
  • YouTube: Chainalysis YouTube page
  • Twitter: Chainalysis Twitter: Building trust in blockchain
  • Speakers on today’s episode
    • Caitlin Barnett *host* (Director of Regulation & Compliance, Chainalysis)
    • Ira Auerbach (Head of Tandem, Offchain Labs)
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