In this episode of Empire's Weekly Roundup, Jason is joined by two of Blockworks' top research analysts, Dan Smith and Sam Martin, to discuss this week’s biggest stories.

Highlights include:

-- Is Sudoswap a zero to one moment for NFTs?

-- Is Ethereum's censorship resistance compromised?

-- Will anyone use ETH PoW post-merge?

Tune in to find out!

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Timecodes:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:32) Ethereum's censorship risk, 3 potential outcomes

(11:40) Will the ETH PoW chain have value?

(15:42) FlashBots is open sourcing their relayer software

(19:19) Crypto's reliance on centralized cloud providers

(21:24) Avalanche Ad

(22:52) Sudoswap, a zero to one moment for NFTs?

(33:17) OpenSea vs Sudo

(35:48) Should NFTs have creator royalty fees?

(39:12) Canto, a weird crypto experiment (NFA)

(47:26) Canada enforces new crypto regulation

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Referenced in the show:

Blockworks Research

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