Uncommon Core 2.0

Uncommon Core 2.0

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Uncommon Core 2.0 episodes

  • Defi 101 - with Su Zhu and Hasu
    In this episode, Su and Hasu talk about decentralized finance (DeFi).
    Topics covered:
    - What DeFi means to Su
    - Why use DeFi over CeFi?
    - Is the current demand organic or subsidized by VC money?
    - Where users will allocate on the trust spectrum
    - The delicate dance between regulatory arbitrage & attracting talent and capital
    - The path to decentralization
    - Most important DeFi use cases today and in the future
    - How AMMs work and can be improved
    - The core building blocks of DeFi
    - Incentive mechanisms
    - Tokenized balances
    - Atomic transactions
    - Will a boom in DeFi translate to ether?
    Su Zhu is the CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital.
    Hasu is a cryptocurrency researcher and writer.
    Together, they publish on Deribit Insights and uncommoncore.co.
    1 hr 14 min
  • EIP-1559 - with Su Zhu and Hasu
    In this episode, Su and Hasu talk about blockspace market mechanisms and EIP-1559. Read Hasu's analysis of EIP-1559 (w/ Georgios Konstantopoulos) 
    Topics covered:
    - what EIP-1559 is and the problems it solves
    - negative-sum vs zero-sum vs positive-sum proposals
    - reasons against EIP-1559
    - what, if anything, can Bitcoin learn from EIP-1559
    - impact on long-term security
    - how realistic perpetual issuance is in Bitcoin
    - elastic blocksize proposals in Bitcoin
    - lessons from the scaling debate
    - how parasitic L2s can threaten baselayer security
    - how dApps benefit from EIP-1559
    - building dApps on appchains vs Ethereum
    - why every chain incl. Ethereum specializes over time
    - first-price auction vs fixed-price sale
    - EIP-1559 as an oracle for on-chain congestion
    - moving the Overton window for changes to Bitcoin
    Su Zhu is the CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital. 
    Hasu is a cryptocurrency researcher and writer. 
    Together, they publish on Deribit Insights and uncommoncore.co.
    49 min

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Uncommon Core 2.0 is a crypto research podcast. This show goes beyond speculation and investing, looking deeper. We explore the fundamental technology and incentives that make public blockchains work…