BlockTalk | Web3 | Crypto | DeFi

Rhys was already living the startup life, working in marketing for Y Combinator when he received an invitation to go down the Web3 rabbit hole with a former boss. Intrigued, he joined the Commonwealth team, an all-in-one DAO governance platform. They offer Ethereum snapshot voting and a user interface for on-chain proposals, voting and funding new projects. Currently, they are partnered with dYdX, Stargate, Cosmos, Mfers, Axie Infinity, and more!

Time Stamps
00:00 to 05:05 - Who’s Rhys
05:05 to 13:04 - Commonwealth
13:04 to 15:45 - Token-Gated Townhall
15:45 to 20:12 - Partners
20:12 to 24:02 - Proposal Templates
24:02 to 30:12 - DAO and Content Creators
30:12 to 33:42 - Next Steps
33:42 to 40:07 - Prevention Mechanisms
40:07 to 42:56 - Making Governance Easier
42:56 to 48:12 - Social DAOs
48:12 to 49:14 - DAOs Collabing
49:14 to 53:42 - Digital Identity
53:42 to 57:58 - Rounding Off
Guest Socials
Website: https://commonwealth.im/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hicommonwealth
Rhys Twitter: https://twitter.com/RhysFH
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/t9XscHdZrG

Useful Links Based On Conversation
Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/
Alloy Automation: https://runalloy.com/
Console: https://console.xyz/
dYdX: https://dydx.exchange/
Stargate: https://stargate.finance/
Cosmos: https://cosmos.network
Uniswap: https://uniswap.org/
LinksDAO: https://linksdao.io/
Glossary

DAO: A decentralized autonomous organization, which operates through rules encoded on a blockchain to execute transparent and democratic decision-making processes.
EVM: Ethereum Virtual Machine is a runtime environment for smart contracts in Ethereum that provides a sandbox for executing code in a deterministic and secure manner.
Cosmos: A decentralized network of independent blockchains that can interact and exchange data with each other, creating an internet of blockchains.

Podcast Host: Bunzy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xBunzy
BlockTalk || Pineapple Workshop
Website: https://pineappleworkshop.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/poweredby_pw
Discord: https://discord.gg/geNCbMYsZY

Chaim started learning about blockchain in his early university years, where his curiosity and vision led to opportunities from internships to academic discussions. The combination of economics and tech opened doors to work with banks. After seeing the DeFi summer and recognizing some of its pain points, he had the idea of bringing credit and investments to a sustainable and impactful level by using overcollateralized real-world assets, and with a stable yield.

Time Stamps
00:00 - 05:18: Who’s Chaim
05:19 - 08:48: Aha Moment
08:49 - 16:13: Credix Finance
16:14 - 18:13: Brazil and World
18:14 - 24:17: Dealing with Traditional Companies
24:18 - 26:38: USDC
26:39 - 28:36: What’s Next?
28:37 - 30:12: Focused On
30:13 - 32:18: Is the World Ready?
32:19 - 35:08: Keeping Track of the Loan
35:09 - 36:57: Its everything going to be on-chain?
36:58 - 38:29: Crypto Community on Brazil
38:30 - 42:35: Rounding Off

Guest Socials

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaim_fes
Credix Twitter: https://twitter.com/credix_finance
Website: https://credix.finance/

Glossary

KYC: KYC stands for Know Your Customer, which refers to the process of verifying the identity of customers to prevent money laundering, fraud, and other financial crimes.

DeFi: DeFi stands for Decentralized Finance, which refers to a system of financial applications built on blockchain technology that aims to provide open and permissionless access to financial services, such as lending, borrowing, and trading, without intermediaries like banks or other traditional financial institutions.

APY: APY stands for Annual Percentage Yield, which is a measure of the return on investment over a year, taking into account compound interest.

Podcast Host: Bunzy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xBunzy
BlockTalk || Pineapple Workshop
Website: https://pineappleworkshop.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/poweredby_pw
Discord: https://discord.gg/geNCbMYsZY

Trevor is a successful entrepreneur who has educated, taught, and coached several major companies in the traditional industry. Although he had contact with Bitcoin before, it was only after reaching out to Stacks and starting to build and invest in their ecosystem that he went full-on crypto, becoming one of the key public figures to speak daily about the Ordinals protocol and its importance to Bitcoin.
Time Stamps

00:00 to 14:00 - Who's Trevor?
14:00 to 19:55 - Ordinal's Front Seat
19:55 to 22:35 - Plural Stands
22:35 to 26:34 - Entering Ordinals Ecosystem
26:34 to 31:35 - Ninja Alerts
31:35 to 32:25 - Mobile
32:25 to 35:12 - Bitcoin Miami
42:03 to 52:23 - Where Are We Heading?
52:23 to 57:21 - Rounding Off
Guest Links
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TO
The Ordinal Show: https://twitter.com/TheOrdinalShow
Ninja Alerts: https://www.ninjalerts.com/
Useful Links Based On Conversation
Stacks: https://www.stacks.co/
Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/
Omnisats: https://www.omnisat.io/
Leonidas: https://twitter.com/LeonidasNFT
Counter Party: https://counterparty.io/
Domo: https://twitter.com/domodata
Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/
OCM: https://onchainmonkey.com/

Podcast Host: Bunzy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xBunzy
BlockTalk || Pineapple Workshop
Website: https://pineappleworkshop.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/poweredby_pw
Discord: https://discord.gg/geNCbMYsZY

It all started for Elena when she attended a dining event where the only topic was ETH. As an experienced engineer, not knowing what was being discussed got her interested, which led to her first ETH hackathon where she had her first contact with some big names broadening her horizons. From then on, being a blockchain evangelist, her interest in privacy and zkRollups led her to found Iron Fish, an encrypted end-to-end decentralized open-source L1.
Time Stamps
00:00 to 10:17 - Who’s Elena
10:17 to 16:30 - Privacy
16:30 to 23:02 - Can we still have privacy?
23:02 to 31:05 - Privacy Ownership
31:05 to 32:40 - zkProofs
32:40 to 35:40 - Ironfish
35:40 to 39:32 - PoW
39:32 to 42:57 - Incentivization
42:57 to 45:58 - VC’s
45:58 to 56:10 - Tokens
56:10 to 60:15 - Interacting and Use Cases
60:15 to 61:36 - Token-Gated Cryptography
61:36 to 68:48 - Compliance
68:48 to 73:10 - Rounding Off
Guest Links
Website: https://ironfish.network/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ironfishcrypto
Elena Twitter: https://twitter.com/leanthebean
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/EkQkEcm8DH

Useful Links Based On Conversation
Protocol Labs: https://protocol.ai/
MakerDAO: https://makerdao.com/en/
Livepeer: https://livepeer.org/
Monero: https://www.getmonero.org/
Flux: https://runonflux.io/
Helium: https://www.helium.com/
Glossary
zK-Proofs: Zero-Knowledge Proofs, a cryptographic method that allows one party to prove to another that a statement is true without revealing any information beyond the statement itself.
Miners: nodes on a blockchain network that perform the computational work required to validate and confirm transactions and add new blocks to the blockchain.
Validators: nodes on a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain network that are responsible for validating and verifying transactions and adding new blocks to the blockchain.
Nodes: individual computers or devices that participate in a blockchain network and maintain a copy of the blockchain ledger.

Podcast Host: Bunzy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xBunzy
BlockTalk || Pineapple Workshop
Website: https://pineappleworkshop.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/poweredby_pw
Discord: https://discord.gg/geNCbMYsZY

Michael is a die-hard enthusiast of the crypto space. With a background in traditional finance and communications, he dove headfirst into the industry by connecting the dots for companies and projects. From educating and hosting his podcast to organizing speaker for large events such as NFT LA (now Outer Edge), his passion has led him to become the Chief Communications Officer for zKHoldem - the first fully on-chain decentralized poker product coming out on Arbitrum.
Time Stamps
00:00 to 03:06 - Who’s Michael and zKHoldem
03:06 to 06:40 - Arbitrum
06:40 to 14:16 - zK-Proof
14:16 to 24:37 - Privacy x Transparency
24:37 to 27:37 - Other Products
27:37 to 33:00 - NFTs Conferences
33:00 to 35:40 - Where blockchain events are heading?
35:40 to 37:50 - Projects
37:50 to 41:00 - NFTs communities
41:00 to 45:25 - Checks
45:25 to 48:09 - Rounding Off
Guest Links
Website: https://zkholdem.xyz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zkholdem
Michel’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelRippe
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/KqNHyrtyMe

Useful Links Based On Conversation
Jack Butcher: https://twitter.com/jackbutcher
Consensus: https://consensus.coindesk.com/
NFT LA / Outer Edge: https://www.outeredge.live/
Afterbuzz TV: https://www.afterbuzztv.com/
Glossary

Arbitrum: Arbitrum is a layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, which uses Optimistic Rollups to achieve faster and cheaper transactions without sacrificing security. It enables smart contracts to be executed off-chain and then validated on-chain, resulting in faster and more efficient transactions.

L2: Layer 2 refers to a secondary framework built on top of an existing blockchain to increase its transaction capacity, improve scalability, and reduce costs. It allows for faster and cheaper transactions by processing them off the main chain while still retaining the security benefits of the underlying blockchain.

zkProofs: Zero-knowledge proofs are cryptographic protocols that enable one party to prove knowledge of certain information to another party without revealing any information beyond the proof itself.

DAO: A decentralized autonomous organization, which operates through rules encoded on a blockchain to execute transparent and democratic decision-making processes.

Podcast Host: Bunzy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xBunzy
BlockTalk || Pineapple Workshop
Website: https://pineappleworkshop.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/poweredby_pw
Discord: https://discord.gg/geNCbMYsZY