Avalanche: What are Subnets and What's Wrong With Appchains | Kevin Sekniqi & Patrick O'Grady

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12/19/23 • 77 min

In today's episode of Empire, Kevin Sekniqi, Co-Founder of Avalanche, and Patrick O'Grady, VP of Engineering at Avalanche, join the show to discuss the past, present, and future of Avalanche. They start by explaining the core thesis behind Avalanche - that the future will consist of thousands of highly optimized, specialized blockchains rather than one chain to rule them all. Kevin and Patrick provide an overview of Avalanche's architecture, clarifying common misconceptions around P-Chain, C-Chain, and subnets. They then do a deep dive into the rationale and economics behind subnets, contrasting them to solutions like rollups and how Warp and Hyper SDK fit in the overall strategy. For all of this and much more stay tuned!

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Timestamps:

(00:59) Why does Avalanche exist?

(09:38) Creating Optimized Chains

(16:30) Economics of Subnets

(25:56) Endgame Vision of Subnets

(34:05) DAS 2024

(35:10) Toku Ad

(36:40) Next Gen L1s

(40:20) Warp: Cross Subnet Messages

(48:02) HyperSDK: Launch your own Blockchain

(51:37) Dev Adoption & dApp Layer Innovation

(01:03:06) Future of Value Accrual to AVAX

(01:12:57) Decentralization & Performance for Blockchains

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Timestamps:

(00:59) Why does Avalanche exist?

(09:38) Creating Optimized Chains

(16:30) Economics of Subnets

(25:56) Endgame Vision of Subnets

(34:05) DAS 2024

(35:10) Toku Ad

(36:40) Next Gen L1s

(40:20) Warp: Cross Subnet Messages

(48:02) HyperSDK: Launch your own Blockchain

(51:37) Dev Adoption & dApp Layer Innovation

(01:03:06) Future of Value Accrual to AVAX

(01:12:57) Decentralization & Performance for Blockchains

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Timestamps

(00:02) Introduction

(06:26) FASB Confirms 'Fair Value' Approach

(14:37) Ledger Connect Kit Exploit

(31:27) Point System Hate

(41:38) Layer0 Launch Video

(45:26) 2024 Predictions

(55:06) Are OG DeFi Protocols Investments?

Resources

Layer0 Research Report & Video

https://app.blockworksresearch.com/research/layer-zero-v2-the-decoupling-of-security-and-execution

https://x.com/LayerZero_Labs/status/1735317463032893946

Ledger Exploit

https://blockworks.co/news/ledger-statement-on-phishing-hack

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(7:19) Meme Coins

(13:26) The Bitcoin ETF

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