Into the Ether

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss new EthHub pages and bounties, NBA player Spencer Dinwiddie tokenizing his contract on Ethereum, Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 spec is ready for audit, Aztec protocol completes ignition scenario and is ready for mainnet, Aave protocol launches and a summary of good eth2 blog posts.

Paul Hauner of Sigma Prime joins the podcast to talk about Ethereum 2.0. Sigma Prime is building the Lighthouse client which is an eth2 client built in Rust. We spend most of the time focused on phase 0. Paul talks about the testnet they have been running with 16,000 validators and shares good info on the hardware requirements for stakers. He gives an update on what is left before launch and we talk about what the user experience will be like for those wanting to stake ETH.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss our holiday breaks, Muir Glacier fork being activated, Gitcoin grants matching round 4 is live, Maker vote to raise Dai Savings Rate to 6%, DeFiZap launches leveraged liquidity pools, Avado releases RYO-cloud and a discussion on ETH price as a design principle.

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In celebration of Into the Ether's 100th episode, we hoped on a livestream with some great Ethereum community members. We talked about DeFi, Eth 1.x, Eth2, narratives, the community and much more.

The live stream included: Eric Conner, Anthony Sassano, Vitalik Buterin, Danny Ryan, DCInvestor, Ryan Sean Adams and David Hoffman.

Maker Foundation team members Mariano Conti, head of smart contracts, and Cyrus Younessi, head of risk, join the podcast to discuss multi-collateral Dai. We talk about the recent transition from single-collateral Dai to multi-collateral Dai and how they think it's gone. They then give an overview of all the new features that come with MCD including the Dai Savings Rate. We then discuss how the system can now add different collateral types and would handle black swan events.

James Young, co-founder of Abridged and MolochDAO joins the podcast. James has been in the Ethereum space for many years and has insightful views on a wide range of topics. We talk about what they are building at Abridged in a hope to onboard new Ethereum users through the concept of incremental decentralization. We also talk the state of layer 2 solutions as well as the rise of DAOs. This is a really fun conversation about Ethereum.

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On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss the Istanbul fork being activated, Etherscan be blocked by China’s firewall, introduction of the Open Finance Index, Sigma Prime launches their Lighthouse eth2 testnet, EY gives Nightfall an update and the top crypto innovations by year.

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Steven McKie, general partner at Amentum Capital and host of Blockchannel podcast joins the show to talk about Ethereum. Steven has been in the blockchain space for many years and has a good perspective on where Ethereum has been and where it's going. We talk about the future gig economy, the state of Layer 2 solutions, governance, the emergence of DAOs, the current state of DeFi and the narrative wars between Bitcoin and Ethereum.

On the EthHub Weekly Recap we cover topics from the EthHub Weekly Newsletter. In this episode we discuss the arrest of Virgil Griffith, upgrading your nodes for Istanbul, Upbit is hacked and loses $50,000,000 worth of ETH, Muir Glacier hard fork is announced, Fidelity is rewarding employees in crypto, the nice tooling that is popping up for DeFi and the Ethereum Foundation's blog post on eth2.

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ETHWaterloo was an Ethereum hackathon put on by ETHGlobal that took place in Waterloo, Canada from November 8-10, 2019. Eric was at the event and in Part 2 talks with the five winning teams from the event. We talk through what they built, why they built it and future plans for the products. The teams include Sheetcoin, Wallet Notify, Eth P2P VOIP, DeFi Custody Wallet and Connexion.