
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies
Epicenter brings you in-depth conversations about the technical, economic and social implications of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. Every week, we interview business leaders, engineers academics and entrepreneurs, and bring you a diverse spectrum of opinions and points of view. Epicenter is hosted by Sebastien Couture, Brian Fabian Crain, Friederike Ernst, Meher Roy and Felix Lutsch. Since 2014, our episodes have been downloaded over 8 million times.
Episodes
Rand Hindi: Zama - Fully Homomorphic Encryption in Blockchain Applications & Privacy
Ye Zhang: Scroll - EVM-compatible ZK rollup
Charles d'Haussy: dYdX V4 - Decentralised Perpetual Exchange on a Cosmos Appchain
Nick Johnson: ENS - Multichain ENS Domains and Decentralised Identities
This podcast episode features Nick Johnson, founder of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), discussing the growth and vision of ENS as the most widely used decentralized naming service and the largest decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) on the Ethereum blockchain. The episode explores the importance of a unified na...
Simon Harman: Chainflip - Native cross-chain AMM
Guy Young: Ethena - USDe Synthetic Dollar via Delta-Neutral Staked Ethereum Hedging
Evgeny Yurtaev: Zerion - Web3 Wallet UX 2.0
Niklas Kunkel: Chronicle – Ethereum's First-Ever Oracle
Elias Simos: Rated Network - Reputation for Machines = Transparent Blockchain Infrastructure
Misha Komarov: =nil; Foundation – The Marketplace for ZK Proof Generation
Robbie Ferguson: Immutable - The Web3 Gaming one-stop-shop
Stani Kulechov: Lens Protocol – Decentralised Social Media Primitive
Stephane Gosselin: Frontier Research - Solving Ethereum's MEV Problem
Marko Baricevic: Cosmos SDK - The Internet of Appchains
Sandeep Nailwal: Polygon 2.0 - The New Value Layer of the Internet?
Stephen Young & Storm: NFTFi – P2P NFT Lending Protocol: From PFPs & Art to RWA
Alex Gluchowski: zkSync - A new Era for EVM-compatible zk rollups
Patrick O'Grady: Avalanche – Building High Performance VMs With HyperSDK

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum - MEV, Staking Derivatives and Privacy (EthCC 6)
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin reflects on the ecosystem's evolution since 2021, highlighting the successful transition to proof-of-stake and the emergence of ZK-EVMs and decentralized social media. The conversation centers on the risks of staking centralization, particularly regarding MEV and liquid staking deriv...
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