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.
664 episodes transcribedNB: Since the recording of this podcast LazyLedger changed their name to Celestia.Celestia is a scalable general-purpose data availability layer for d...
Camila Russo is a financial journalist, starting her career writing for Chile's largest national newspaper. She then spent 8 years at Bloomberg coveri...
NuCypher is a decentralized threshold cryptography network offering interfaces and runtimes for secrets management and dynamic access control. It prov...
Gauntlet is a simulation platform for building financial models of blockchain protocols and applications. Their platform uses machine learning methods...
Celo has a clear mission - to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity, for everyone. The Celo Foundation is a non-profit o...
Republic is an investment platform that allows anyone pretty much anywhere in the world, of any income and net worth, to invest in some of the best pr...
Republic is an investment platform that allows anyone pretty much anywhere in the world, of any income and net worth, to invest in some of the best pr...
SKALE Network's modular protocol is one of the first of its kind to allow developers to build application specific blockchains. These are interoperabl...
Ampleforth is a cryptocurrency attempting to become an essential building block to an alternative financial ecosystem. The protocol’s native token, AM...
Balancer is a generalized automated market maker (AMM) protocol built on Ethereum. It allows anyone to create or add liquidity to customizable pools a...
UMA, or Universal Market Access, is an open source financial contracts protocol for building synthetic assets. It allows any two counterparties to des...
Numerai, the "hardest data science tournament on the planet". It's a hedge fund with its own distributed research platform designed specifically for A...
Polkadot is a unique protocol connecting multiple purpose-built blockchains into one scalable network. It's using blockchain technology to make way fo...
Just like all software, smart contracts on the blockchain are subject to serious security vulnerabilities and coding errors. The fact however that sma...
Nexus Mutual provides an alternative decentralized insurance solution for Ethereum. The protocol is built on the public chain and operates under a dis...
Opyn is a smart contract-based insurance platform built on a generalized (supports both put and call) options protocol called Convexity. It is intende...
In late 2017, Gabriel Jimenez was approached by the Venezuelan presidency and asked to create a national digital currency, the Petro. Although very mu...
We've heard it over and over again, Covid-19 has plunged us into a crisis like none other we’ve experienced in our lifetime. Although it is primarily...
In this inaugural post-interview chat, Friederike and Sebastien discuss their recent interview with Arweave Co-founder and CEO, Sam Williams.Moving fo...
The internet was originally created as a platform to communicate freely, but it soon became a place where people could be monitored, controlled, and c...
