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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): the

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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

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TBW - VIDEO - Mike Silagadze (EtherFi): "Our long-term goal is to build the equivalent of a bank".

Following on from our season devoted to restaking (read our survey), we chose to talk to one of the most important entrepreneurs in this niche. In the space of just a few months, EtherFi has managed to attract more than $6 billion in value tied up in its protocol, which

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TBW - What is a good memecoin (with Rusk0f)

Often treated with disdain, memecoins have nonetheless been an unavoidable trend in the crypto ecosystem for some months now. Some very serious asset managers, such as Franklin Templeton or VanEck, have even ventured to publish a note on the subject for their investors. Not really based on solid fundamentals, apart

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TBW - William Bailey (Bolero): "Web3 has really become a way of changing an industry".

The Big Whale: Behind every project, there are entrepreneurs and a story. What is the story behind Bolero? William Bailey: This will probably make you laugh, but before I worked in Web3, I worked in artificial intelligence. This was before the success of ChatGPT and the madness that followed! I

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TBW - Valentin Demé (Cryptoast): "The aim of Cube3 is to finance and structure Web3 projects".

The Big Whale: You've just announced the launch of Cube3. How did the project come about? Valentin Demé: The idea dates back a little over a year and to discussions we had with the team and members of the ecosystem. We thought it would be a good idea

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TBW - Éric Larchevêque: "It's when you face the abyss that you see who you are".

Since 2019 and your departure from Ledger's operational management, we've seen a bit less of you. What are you up to? A lot of things! I support entrepreneurs as a business angel and I also have more personal activities. I look after my estate in Vierzon,

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TBW - Yat Siu (Animoca Brands): "There will be as many metavers as there are cities".

‍ Better than ever (laughs)! Once again, there are the much-talked-about markets that are the surface, and then there are all the projects that are being built and developed beneath that surface 🐳. It's the latter that we're betting on. In the last three months alone,

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TBW - Web3, Bitcoin... Meet Argentina's "crypto-MP

The Big Whale: Argentina is one of the countries with the most dynamic crypto ecosystem. How do you explain this? Camila Crescimbeni: We have very well-known developers, so there are a lot of crypto projects being created in Argentina. The ecosystem is dynamic. But you have to bear in