The CLG Podcast

By Zach Rynes

What's The CLG Podcast about?

Join Zach Rynes (ChainLinkGod) and The_Crypto_Oracle as they explore crypto from first principles and talk with founders, industry leaders, and domain experts from across the crypto industry. Opinions of the cohosts and guests are their own.

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The CLG Podcast episodes:

06.11.2024
Crypto in 2024: Memecoin Lottery Tickets vs Everything Else
Crypto today is split between Bitcoin, the speculative memecoin casino, and everything else aiming to generate real value for society. In this podcast, Zach Rynes (ChainLinkGod) and The_Crypto_Oracle discuss the rise of rise of memecoin gambling and provide insights into...
04.26.2024
2024 Crypto Market Trends With Daniel Shapiro
2024 saw the introduction of spot Bitcoin ETFs and the explosion of memecoins, creating a unique crypto market cycle of the likes we haven't seen before. In this podcast, Zach Rynes (ChainLinkGod) talks with Daniel Shapiro, founder of Abstraction Capital,...
09.27.2023
Crypto in 2023: The Institutions Are Coming
The recent collaboration between Swift, Chainlink, and 12+ of the largest financial institutions in the world on using CCIP for cross-chain interoperability has captured the attention of both the crypto and TradFi worlds. In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle discuss...
03.14.2023
Sergey Nazarov On Chainlink's Evolution
Chainlink is the industry-standard Web3 services platform connecting the people, businesses, and data of today with the Web3 world of tomorrow. In this episode, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle talk with Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov and discuss a wide range of topics...
02.16.2023
Bringing Trillions Onchain With Ondo's Nathan Allman
There are trillions of dollars worth of real world assets (RWAs) in the existing financial ecosystem ready to be tokenized and brought on-chain. In this episode, ChainLinkGod talks to Nathan Allman, founder and CEO of Ondo Finance—a project focused on...
12.01.2022
Crypto Contagion 2022: Run It Back Turbo
When Celsius, Terra, Three Arrows Capital, BlockFi, Voyager, etc collapsed in early 2022, most people assumed that was the contagion event of the year. Now with the collapse of FTX and a missing $10B of customer assets, crypto is getting...
10.13.2022
Chainlink Economics 2.0: A New Era of Value Capture
Economics 2.0 is a new era of sustainable growth, cryptoeconomic security, and deeper value capture in the Chainlink Network. In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore Economics 2.0 and how the LINK token is evolving to become a productive asset....
08.16.2022
Nick Almond on the Benefits and Trade-offs of DAOs
Have DAOs solved governance once and for all or are there major roadblocks still to overcome? In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle talk with Factory DAO co-founder Nick Almond about the nuances around Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. We discuss the core...
08.02.2022
The Modular Blockchain Thesis with Celestia's Mustafa Al-Bassam
Blockchain scalability is the primary bottleneck preventing the crypto ecosystem from reaching global level and serving the 99% of society. In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle talk to Mustafa Al-Bassam, Co-founder and CEO of Celestia Labs. We discuss the modular...
07.20.2022
Teej Ragsdale on MakerDAO Tokenizing $100M in RWAs
Bringing Real-World Assets (RWAs) onto the blockchain is the next major step required for DeFi to scale to a global level. In this episode, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle talk to Teej Ragsdale, General Partner at Lupine Capital and Real World Finance...
06.23.2022
The Unwinding of Crypto Ponzinomics
The crypto industry is feeling the pain as token valuations are down 80-90% from all-time-highs. Is the Federal Reserve raising interest rates solely to blame or are we witnessing what happens to token economics that only work when number goes...
05.05.2022
All Things Truflation With Stefan Rust
In this episode, ChainLinkGod talks with Stefan Rust, the founder of Truflation, to discuss how his project is producing unbiased inflation rate datasets, how this information is brought on-chain via Chainlink, and the many use cases that are enabled as...
04.18.2022
Current State of the Crypto Ecosystem and Beyond
Has the cryptocurrency ecosystem achieved the goal of creating a more fair, transparent, and trust-minimized society or is it just a digital casino that exists to print new money in the form of tokens? In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle...
12.28.2021
Off-Chain Computation: How Oracles Go beyond Data Delivery
In this episode, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore the concept of trust-minimized off-chain computation in decentralized oracle networks and how it extends the capabilities of blockchains. Additionally, we dive into the spectrum of computation ranging from traditional centralized servers to blockchain...
11.17.2021
A Deep Dive Into Chainlink Price Feeds
In this episode, ChainLinkGod explores Chainlink Price Feeds, the most widely adopted price oracle solution across the blockchain ecosystem, which actively help secure tens of billions of dollars in value across hundreds of smart contract applications. Chainlink Price Feeds: https://chain.link/data-feeds Follow ChainLinkGod:...
07.05.2021
How Pmcgoohan Discovered the MEV Problem
In this episode, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle talk with Pmcgoohan, the analyst who first discovered the Miner Extractable Value (MEV) problem in Ethereum pre-genesis in 2014. We define what MEV is, the various types of activity that do and don't fall...
06.17.2021
Cryptoeconomic Security: Chainlink Edition (LINK)
In this episode, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore how the widely used Chainlink oracle network generates cryptoeconomic security through direct rewards and penalties. This includes implicit incentives with financial exposure to a native token, explicit super-linear staking with slashing, on-chain reputation...
06.15.2021
Cryptoeconomic Security: Blockchain Edition (BTC vs ETH)
In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore the concept of cryptoeconomic security in decentralized computation networks, how it is applied to the Bitcoin Proof of Work (PoW) and Ethereum 2.0 Proof of Stake (PoS) networks, and the various technical nuances...
06.01.2021
Chainlink Oracle Services: A Comprehensive Overview
In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore the wide range of oracle services provided by Chainlink, the industry-leading decentralized oracle network. This includes Price Feeds (real-time financial market data), Proof of Reserves (on-chain audits of tokens backed by off-chain collateral),...
05.22.2021
The Purpose of Blockchains, Oracles, and Smart Contracts
In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore a wide range of topics including defining trust in society, the purpose of contractual agreements, how blockchains provide a decentralized trust network, the need for decentralized oracle networks, why oracles need to be...
04.18.2021
Exploring the Chainlink 2.0 Whitepaper With ChainLinkGod
In this podcast, ChainLinkGod explores the core innovations presented in the Chainlink 2.0 Whitepaper. This includes the underlying components that make up Decentralized Oracle Networks (DONs), Fair Sequencing Services (FSS) to solve the Miner Extractable Value (MEV) problem, the Transaction...

What's The CLG Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The CLG Podcast episodes:

Crypto in 2024: Memecoin Lottery Tickets vs Everything Else

2024 Crypto Market Trends With Daniel Shapiro

Crypto in 2023: The Institutions Are Coming

Sergey Nazarov On Chainlink's Evolution

Bringing Trillions Onchain With Ondo's Nathan Allman

Crypto Contagion 2022: Run It Back Turbo

Chainlink Economics 2.0: A New Era of Value Capture

Nick Almond on the Benefits and Trade-offs of DAOs

The Modular Blockchain Thesis with Celestia's Mustafa Al-Bassam

Teej Ragsdale on MakerDAO Tokenizing $100M in RWAs

The Unwinding of Crypto Ponzinomics

All Things Truflation With Stefan Rust

Current State of the Crypto Ecosystem and Beyond

Off-Chain Computation: How Oracles Go beyond Data Delivery

A Deep Dive Into Chainlink Price Feeds

How Pmcgoohan Discovered the MEV Problem

Cryptoeconomic Security: Chainlink Edition (LINK)

Cryptoeconomic Security: Blockchain Edition (BTC vs ETH)

Chainlink Oracle Services: A Comprehensive Overview

The Purpose of Blockchains, Oracles, and Smart Contracts

Exploring the Chainlink 2.0 Whitepaper With ChainLinkGod

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