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TBW - Matthew Edelen (Spire Labs): "Based Rollups are the solution for increasing the value of ETH"
"Based Rollups are the solution for increasing the value of ETH"
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TBW - Joseph Lubin (ConsenSys): "I always thought that companies and governments would adopt cryptos"
"I always thought companies and governments would embrace cryptos"
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TBW - Lukas Schor (Safe): "We want to create a decentralised equivalent of Visa"
"We want to create a decentralised equivalent of Visa".
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TBW - Eliézer Ndinga (21Shares): "Family offices have never been so active in cryptos"
"Family offices have never been so active in cryptos"
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TBW - Yorick de Mombynes: "Trump is contributing to the rise of Bitcoin but is sawing off the branch he's sitting on"
The Big Whale: The political debates around Bitcoin in the US are attracting a lot of attention. What's your take on it? Yorick de Mombynes: What's happening in the US at the moment is, to my mind, encouraging. There is certainly an element of opportunism, which
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TBW - VIDEO - Stani Kulechov (Aave): "Traditional financial institutions will continue to flock to DeFi"
Spearheading innovation during the previous bull run, the major decentralised finance protocols (DeFi) have spent the last few months structuring themselves to better meet institutional demand. This week, The Big Whale takes a look at the key developments in this sector since it took off in 2020. In this context,
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TBW - VIDEO - Vaibhav Chellani (Socket): "Crypto won't achieve mass adoption without chain abstraction".
As part of our "season" on blockchain abstraction, a term that refers to hiding the technical complexities involved in using blockchain, we chose to talk to Vaibhav Chellani, one of the co-founders of Socket. This start-up, launching in 2021, allows developers to build chain abstracted protocols that can
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TBW - VIDEO - Pendle: Everything you need to know about its future V3
It's the surprise of recent months in decentralised finance (DeFi). Deployed on Ethereum in June 2021, Pendle has found success by riding the wave of point-based airdrops (EtherFi, EigenLayer, Mode, etc.) Its total embedded value (TVL) rose from around $250 million to $6.7 billion at its peak
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TBW - VIDEO - Sankha Banerjee (Babylon): "Offering bitcoin holders a new source of return".
On the occasion of our "Season" dedicated this week to Bitcoin, we chose to talk to Sankha Banerjee, Chief Protocol Economist at Babylon, who proposes to introduce staking as well as restaking on Bitcoin. Read - Staking: opportunities and future innovations (Report) The value proposition is similar to
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TBW - VIDEO - Nicolas Consigny (Ethereum Foundation): "No other Layer 1 will be able to catch up with Ethereum".
Every week, The Big Whale publishes a "Season" on a protocol or ecosystem. For this new Season, we've decided to take a look at one of the biggest protocols since it's Ethereum!! Launched just over ten years ago, Ethereum is now the leading programmable
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TBW - VIDEO - Ledger Flex, Ledger's new digital wallet
We're not idle on the Ledger front. A month after starting to deliver its first Stax - with more than a year's delay, the world leader in digital asset custody has just presented a brand new product this Friday at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville (USA)
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TBW - VIDEO - Marc Tillement (Pyth Network): "Data transmission will be key to the development of interoperability".
As The Big Whale devotes its "season" this week to interoperability, we chose to talk to Marc Tillement, director of the Pyth Data Association, a central entity in the development of the Pyth network, which specialises in on-chain data management. "Beyond the transmission of tokens from one